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Podcast: The Mindset Experience®
Episode: Akeem Shannon: From College Drop Out to Shark Tank Success
Description: Akeem Shannon's story demonstrates how a fear of failure means a fear of trying and less effort means missed opportunities. Despite earning a full tuition scholarship to Howard University to earn a chemical engineering degree, his mindset of fear caused him to lose his scholarship, drop out and go into a really dark place. Bathing in his failure, he faced his high achieving parents and was surprised to learn their disappointment was not in his setback but rather in his inability to ask for help. This "rock bottom" experience motivated Akeem to redefine his relationship with failure...