Can Entrepreneurship Education Be An Adventure? A Conversation with Marina Schmitz

Marina sees teaching as navigating a ship through uncertain waters—but uncertainty doesn't mean danger, it means adventure. As an activist-educator, she's moved away from cognitive-only teaching toward fostering curiosity, futures literacy, and imagination in her students. In this episode, Marina shares how she uses theater-based methods and arts-based approaches to help students question dominant narratives like Silicon Valley's "unicorn" culture, and why she believes the counter-narrative of "zebras"—businesses that are both profitable and purpose-driven—offers a more regenerative path forward. She challenges us to embrace uncertainty not as something to minimize, but as the very space where transformation happens.Key themes: Futures literacy, activism in education, alternative narratives, embracing uncertainty