Brad Montague | Becoming Better Grownups

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  Imagine spending a summer having a blast, being creative, making videos with one of your favorite people, then watching those videos go out into the world and become this massive global phenomenon that would lead to audiences with everyone from Beyonce to Tom Hanks and even Obama.

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  That was the experience of today's guest, Brad Montague, who, along with his brother in law Robbie, created the viral phenomenon known as kid president.

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  Brad never saw it coming, though.

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  And in today's conversation, we take a step back in time to explore his passions, his interests and experiences leading up to that moment.

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  What it was supposed to be when they started out versus what it became.

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  How, along with all the amazingness, was also a lot of struggle, and how when it ended, it also left Brad in a bit of a dark place that he had to figure out a way out of.

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  And we also dive into how at the same time, he became a dad and how that really changed him and his lens on life and what he wanted to do.

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  How he reclaimed a new sense of purpose and identity, lifting himself back into a joyful and curious and creative place by sitting in classrooms around the country and listening to young kids share what life was like and what they most wanted from teachers and adults.

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  That journey not only brought him back to a place of creativity and curiosity and vibrance, it led to a book called Becoming Better Grownups.

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  We dive into this entire miraculous, fun and heartfelt journey today.

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  So excited to share this conversation with you.

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  I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.

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  So I grew up on a farm, and you just go in your, go out the back door and you have this just open fields to run in.

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  And there were no limitations.

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  It was just wide open and quiet.

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  And I think that I really believe that small town life, and especially small southern life, breeds a certain type of weird that you see, because people are able to create their own worlds.

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  And there's a certain idea, too, you get, of how communities work and how important we are to each other because we're so small.

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  We band together.

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  It's not just solitude and I'm alone.

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  It's also, you know, I know my postman's name.

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