Maverick School Podcast

"Traditional careers education doesn't work anymore."

It's a bold statement—but is it true?

Young people are entering one of the most challenging job markets in a generation.

Youth unemployment has reached 16.2% nationally, and almost one in four young people in London are unemployed. Meanwhile, Alan Milburn's recent NEETs report warns that more than one million young people are currently out of education, employment or train...

"Society has created such a narrow definition of success that many people spend their lives chasing goals they never chose."

In this thought-provoking episode of the Maverick School Podcast, host Karl explores the psychology of modern life with Daniel Alves, a Cambridge-educated psychotherapist and content creator.

At a time when young people are navigating economic uncertainty, AI disruption, social comparison, and a growing menta...

What if we've been teaching young people to navigate the modern economy using a map from a different century?

For generations, success followed a relatively simple formula:

Work hard. Get good grades. Pick a career. Climb the ladder.

But what if there is no ladder anymore?

What if the modern economy looks less like a career path... and more like an open-world game?

This week on the Maverick School Podcast, Karl explores one of...

"The system is not designed to develop everything you need.

And you have to take ownership of that."

Karl’s second interview was with Adrian McClean. Executive leader. Character education specialist. Absolute powerhouse.

Let’s be blunt here.

Our current education system is making less and less sense as the days go by. AI is already taking massive chunks out of the jobs market. Our young people (and many adults) need...

“If the education system is the Titanic… then maybe we’ve already seen the iceberg.”

This week on the Maverick School Podcast, Karl heads to the Schools & Academies Show at London Excel — one of the biggest education conferences in Europe — to ask a deceptively simple question:

Is the education system still preparing young people for the world they’re actually walking into?

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In this special episode, Karl interviews Eric Odotei, MBA, the esteemed Global Regulatory Head of an award-winning global trading company, about how technology has changed his industry and how it will soon change everyone else's.

In the first-ever Maverick School Podcast interview, Eric breaks down the key challenges that emerging AI technology presents to young people starting out and how they can navigate these perilous times.

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Nobody wants to be seen as a ‘weirdo.’

But in the digital age, it might be the greatest asset you got.

AI has supercharged conformity.

Cover letters, CVs and social media posts are now a dime a dozen thanks to ChatGPT and Claude.

HR and hiring companies now use algorithms to fish out candidates with machine-like precision.

If you add increasing layoffs, economic uncertainty, and world leaders acting like DuShane a...

The world is in crisis.

Following on from last week's episode, Karl continues to lay out how technology, geopolitical tensions and unprecedented events have made the world more unpredictable than ever and what that means for our young people.

But ever the optimist, Karl switches gears and offers practical advice on how our young people can take advantage of this turmoil to build themselves better futures, including:

• Why the tr...

We’re living in interesting times.

The rules that shaped work, education, and society for the last hundred years are shifting. Political tensions are rising, the global economy feels uncertain, and technology is moving faster than most institutions can keep up.

At the same time, artificial intelligence and the information economy are transforming how we learn, work, and create opportunity.

2020 marked the end of the Industria...