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471: The Futurepreneur Blueprint - How Krystal Popov Is Replacing the Employee Mindset One Kid at a Time
This week's Misfit Entrepreneur is Krystal Popov. Krystal spent years climbing the corporate ladder in engineering before making the bold decision to walk away and bet on herself. Since then, she's built four businesses, including a seven-figure coworking and flex retail space in Tucson, Arizona. As a mother of three, she knows firsthand what it takes to balance building a business with building a family — and she's done both at an elite level. But what really sets Krystal apart is what she's doing for the next generation. She founded Futurepreneur to fill a massive gap in education — teaching kids and teens the real skills that actually matter in life: creativity, financial planning, marketing, leadership, and sales — through hands-on Business Startup Challenges. At a time when youth depression is rising, college debt is out of control, and screen addiction is stealing our kids' potential, Krystal is on a mission to replace the employee mindset with an entrepreneurial one — one kid at a time. Show Sponsors: GET YOUR FREE COPY OF THE MISFIT CODE - 21 UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS FROM 450+ WORLD CLASS ENTREPRENEURS! After interviewing 450+ founders, CEOs, and operators, one thing became clear: the people who win don't follow the traditional playbook — they operate by a different set of rules. Here is what you will learn in The Misfit Code: ✔ The patterns that show up over and over — no matter the industry ✔ The execution behaviors that separate builders from talkers ✔ How top performers make decisions when certainty doesn't exist ✔ The truth about momentum, discipline, and follow-through ✔ Why most advice sounds good — but fails in the real world WWW.MISFITENTREPRENEUR.COM/TRUTHS Entrepreneurs, what if there was a way to know you were hiring the best salespeople to drive your business? How much would that help your success? Well, with SalesDrive's DriveTest, you can! Drive is composed of three non-teachable traits shared by all top producers: Need for Achievement, Competitiveness, and Optimism. You can get a FREE DriveTest assessment to help you in your hiring efforts at www.MisfitEntrepreneur.com/SalesDrive