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23rd Feb 2022

From High School Dropout to Harvard Grad | Guest: Todd Rose (End of Average)

Bestseller “End of Average” author Todd Rose dropped out of high school with a 0.9 GPA, struggled to pay the bills, and ended up on welfare before going to Harvard and changing the course of his life forever. On the inaugural episode of “Read, White and Blue,” Speaker Sprowls dives into Rose’s story and how his theories on how individualism in education ending “average” results helped inspire some of the Speaker’s landmark workforce revamp legislation for Florida.

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Read, White & Blue
Chris Sprowls, Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
From policy briefs and white papers as Speaker of the Florida House, to court cases and brutal police records as a former prosecutor, reading has always been a central part of Chris Sprowls’ mission to defend American values. This interest has expanded beyond his work and into a personal passion for reading books. Getting to know the authors behind the ideas on the page is one of his favorite pastimes. On Read, White, & Blue, hear fascinating interviews with some of the Speakers’ favorite authors and gain insight into the literary works that have shaped his world view, and sometimes, public policy, too.