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What school won't
teach your kids.

A free YouTube series about the skills that actually matter — business thinking, financial literacy, resilience, and navigating an AI-transformed world. For parents who think about this stuff.

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My five kids are growing up in a world that looks nothing like the one I entered. Three-person teams now ship what thirty-person teams did two years ago. The cost of producing knowledge work is collapsing. The skills that will matter most — thinking in systems, understanding money, communicating persuasively, evaluating risk, building things people want — aren't on any school curriculum I can find.

So I started making the thing I wished existed. Twenty episodes exploring what our teenagers actually need to know — and eventually, courses that teach it to them directly.


The Wake-Up Call

01The Job Market Your Kid Is Walking Into
02Why Your Teenager's Degree Might Be Worthless
03The Seven Skills Schools Don't Teach
04AI Won't Take Your Kid's Job — But Someone Using AI Will
05The Real Reason Some Kids Thrive (It's Not Intelligence)

The Skills That Matter

06Teaching Your Kid to Think in Systems
07Financial Literacy Before 18
08How to Raise a Kid Who Can Sell (Without Being Sleazy)
09Energy, Food, and Money: The Real Economy
10The Specification Mindset
11Risk, Failure, and Why Your Kid Needs More of Both
12Why Your Kid Should Start a Business Before They Finish School

The Parent's Role

13The Dinner Table MBA
14How to Talk to Your Teenager About Money
15Screen Time, AI Tools, and What They Should Be Doing Online
16Raising Kids Who Can Handle Pressure
17Character, Integrity, and the Skills No Algorithm Can Replace

The Bigger Picture

18The Economy Your Kids Will Inherit (And Why I'm Optimistic)
19A Letter to My Teenager (And Maybe Yours)
20What We're Building (And How You Can Be Part of It)

The series is the start. Behind it, we're building courses for ages 10–14 — gamified, animated, and designed to teach the things we keep saying school should but doesn't.

Still early. If you want to follow along as it takes shape, the email list is the place.

Business Thinking

Junior MBA

Entrepreneurship, marketing, finance, and leadership. Your kid's first real business education.

Mental Toughness

Resilient Mindset

Emotional intelligence, growth mindset, and performing under pressure. The skills behind the skills.

Systems Thinking

Value-Chain Thinking

How business really works — supply chains, bottlenecks, first principles. See the whole system.

Big Picture Economics

Macro Foundations

Money, inflation, trade, and markets. Economics as it actually works, not as textbooks pretend.

Financial Literacy

Investing Basics

Compound growth, risk and reward, markets, and the psychology of money. Start at 12, retire at 40.

Physics of the Economy

Energy Economics

Energy density, power grids, and why the physical economy runs everything. Reality, not ideology.


I'm Theo — father of five, based in Adelaide, Australia. I've spent twenty years building businesses across wine, coffee, hospitality, and technology.

I started this because I kept asking the same question: if my kids are inheriting a world transformed by AI and automation, what should they actually know? I couldn't find a good answer in any curriculum. So I'm building one, and sharing the thinking along the way.

Interested? Leave your email.

You'll hear from us when new episodes are out and when the courses are ready to try. Nothing else.

You're in. We'll be in touch when the first episode drops.