Cory shares his personal experience with ADHD and neurodivergence and how learning to manage task initiation, emotional regulation, organization, and prioritization ultimately shaped the work he does today. What started with his own journey into behavioral psychology and education eventually led to building Swoon Learning — a company focused on helping students become more accountable in both their academic work and their lives.

This conversation also dives into a bigger problem in education: students often aren't identified as struggling until they have already fallen behind. Cory explains how Swoon Learning is working to intervene earlier, connect students with academic coaches, and give schools better tools to identify challenges before they become bigger problems.

In this episode, we discuss:

⮞ How Cory's experience with ADHD shaped his approach to education and entrepreneurship

⮞ Why task initiation, emotional regulation, organization, and prioritization can have a major impact on student success

⮞ How visual systems and Kanban-style processes can help students become more organized and accountable

⮞ Why Swoon Learning goes beyond traditional tutoring by combining academic coaching with accountability and life skills

⮞ How Swoon Front Office is designed to help schools identify students who are beginning to struggle

⮞ Why tutoring is often treated as a reactive solution instead of an early intervention

⮞ The challenges teachers face when classrooms are overcrowded and students need more individual support

⮞ Why parents can sometimes blame teachers or schools when the real issue requires support across multiple areas

⮞ The role of student athletes and the unique academic challenges that can come with balancing athletics and school

⮞ How Swoon Learning connects students with vetted academic coaches

⮞ Cory's vision for making Front Office an accountability and homework-tracking tool for schools

⮞ The future of Swoon Learning, including institutional growth, summer learning programs, and international education

ABOUT TREV WARNKE

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Trev Warnke is the host of Brotherhood Beyond Business, a local war-room mastermind community for driven male entrepreneurs focused on accountability, leadership, faith, health, and building businesses that support the life they actually want to live.

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ABOUT SWOON LEARNING

Swoon Learning

Swoon Learning provides academic coaching and tutoring designed to help students become more accountable, organized, and successful in their academic and everyday lives. The company combines human academic coaching with software designed to help students, parents, coaches, and schools better manage learning, organization, and accountability.

Swoon Learning also offers Swoon Front Office, an accountability-focused platform designed to help schools identify students who are beginning to struggle and connect them with additional academic support.

ABOUT CORY BORMAN

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Cory Borman is an entrepreneur, product-focused business builder, and co-founder of Swoon Learning. His background includes education, software, hospitality, behavioral psychology, and entrepreneurship. His personal experience with ADHD and his work with students helped shape his focus on accountability, organization, task initiation, and helping students build skills that transfer beyond academics.

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