Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Edvin Davoodian. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Edvin, appreciate you joining us today. Parents can play a significant role in affecting how our lives and careers turn out – and so we think it’s important to look back and have conversations about what our parents did that affected us positive (or negatively) so that we can learn from the billions of experiences in each generation. What’s something you feel your parents did right that impacted you positively.

Well, I’d honestly say everything. They were always the ones I’d go to for opinions on anything from school to work. Even if they were things that I didn’t agree with at the time, my experiences with them are what made me who I am today, and I’m forever grateful for that.

Edvin, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I run a nonprofit called The New Frontier Foundation, and we cater to several different causes. Mainly, providing aid to the homeless, empowering youth health & fitness, promoting environmental conservation, and protecting animal welfare are what we are focused on. We partner with various shelters and youth groups to provide avenues for our work to be completed. I’m extremely proud that we are able to help as manny lives as we can. Instead of being dedicated to one group or cause only (which is also a great approach), we prefer to expand our impact as much as possible and creating stronger communities within California.

Are there any books, videos, essays or other resources that have significantly impacted your management and entrepreneurial thinking and philosophy?

“Extreme Ownership” by former Navy Seal Commander Jocko Willink was extremely impactful for my mindset today. It’s essentially all about accepting responsibility for something that you could have prevented from happening one way or another. Getting rid of excuses. As long as there’s an excuse to be made, there’s no accountability to be had and thus, no improvement being achieved.

How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?

I was in my senior year of high school in 2020 when the lockdowns were first implemented. All of us students had. To really pivot into an online learning environment which was so foreign to us. We all had to change the way we learned interested, and communicated with each other and it is definitely an experience I’ll never forget.

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