#82 A Modern Golden Age, Effective Online Education & Being a Bilingual Creator with João Mateus

Angie Creates

Our guest today is João Mateus! João is a Portuguese educator and thinker. He has a degree in jazz guitar and developed his entrepreneurial mindset while a teenager, being an active musician. After a wrist injury, he co-founded a training company and worked with thousands of people and hundreds of companies as a Trainer, Coach, and Designer of Learning experiences. He co-founded an NGO focused on teaching soft and meta-skills and became a Pedagogical Coordinator in Entrepreneurial Gym.

We chatted about:
Online Education

• Why did he start a training company after your music career?
• How to build effective educational experiences for online courses that target adults? What are the evaluation metrics?
• Could you name some big mistakes you’ve seen in adult education and how to avoid them?
• What are the differences between coaching, teaching, and training?

Being a Bilingual Creator

• Why do we want to create in English? What were some concerns we had when we made the decision?
• What are the differences between creating in English and our native language (Portuguese and Chinese)?
• What have we learned from creating online in English?

Follow Us!

• João's Newsletter-Métis https://joaolmateus.substack.com/
• João's The Modern Golden Age Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-modern-golden-age-podcast/id1499551009
• João's Twitter https://twitter.com/joaolmateus
• Angie's newsletter https://angiecreates.substack.com/