Episode #45
Cory Borman on ADHD, Accountability, and Building Smarter Student Tools
In this episode of Brotherhood Beyond Business, host Trev Warnke sits down with Cory Borman to unpack how his own ADHD diagnosis turned into the foundation for a business built on accountability, systems, and catching students before they fall through the cracks. This conversation goes beyond tutoring and dives into executive function, mission-driven entrepreneurship, and why the right system can change how a person, or a company, operates. Too many entrepreneurs run on scattered focus and reactive fixes instead of real systems. Cory shares how a Kanban board helped him manage his own ADHD, how that same framework helped scale a prior company to $65-70M in ARR before it sold, and how he's now applying it to fix a real gap in how schools support struggling students. In this episode, we discuss: ⮞ How ADHD and executive function struggles shaped Cory's approach to building a company ⮞ Why Kanban and Trello became the operating system behind a business that scaled to $65-70M in ARR ⮞ Why schools often catch struggling students too late, and what earlier intervention looks like ⮞ The blame game between parents, teachers, and students, and why it misses the real issue ⮞ How Swoon Learning built two verticals: one-on-one academic coaching and school accountability software ⮞ Why "eating your own dog food" matters when you're building a product you want people to trust Trev Warnke is the founder of Brotherhood Beyond Business and a business owner committed to helping entrepreneurial men sharpen themselves through leadership, health, accountability, and brotherhood. Learn More About Trev on ⮞ Instagram: https://instagram.com/trev.warnke ⮞ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorwarnke/ ⮞ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trevor.warnke ⮞ Profile: https://brotherhoodbeyondbusiness.com/trev ⮞ Personal Website: https://trevwarnke.com/about Cory Borman is the founder of Swoon Learning , a Prescott-based tutoring and edtech company. Through one-on-one academic coaching and Front Office, its school-facing accountability platform, Cory helps students build the organizational and executive function skills they need to succeed, while giving schools earlier insight into when a student is starting to struggle. Learn More About Cory on ⮞ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swoonlearning/ ⮞ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coryborman/ ⮞ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/swoonlearning ⮞ Profile: https://brotherhoodbeyondbusiness.com/post/cory-borman Learn More About Swoon Learning ⮞ Website: https://www.swoonlearning.com/ Brotherhood Beyond Business is a local war-room mastermind community for driven male entrepreneurs focused on accountability, leadership, faith, health, and building businesses that support the life you actually want to live. If this conversation challenged you, share it with another business owner and take one action this week to build more accountability into how you operate. Download our Your Circle is Your Ceiling eBook Get our weekly Build the Business, Build the Man., Build the Edge, playbook to get one actionable task to implement into your business and life each week: Get the Weekly Play The Brotherhood Beyond Business Podcast is where driven male entrepreneurs gather for real conversations about business, leadership, faith, health, and accountability. Hosts Trev Warnke , Joe Rouse , Nathan Johnson , Danny Mullen and meet with local area guests share hard-earned lessons, challenges, and strategies for building profitable businesses without sacrificing the life that matters most.
