Podcasts about Global Citizen Year

Our returning guest today is Erin Lewellen, CEO of Tilting Futures, a nonprofit that creates immersive programs to prepare young people for careers that might impact global issues. The organization -- which was once known as Global Citizen Year -- has found ways to thrive, despite major challenges, like COVID. Recently, Tilting Futures expanded its efforts to help Gen Z students develop skills, build optimism and get ready to change the world. Erin will talk about how her team evolved, including by gathering great data and building new partnerships. And she will describe some of the lessons they've learned through their 2000+ alumni. Finally, we'll talk about how new experiences, and curiosity about other people, can change your life, wherever you are in your career. For more see: https://tiltingfutures.org

Today we explore ways to help young people prepare for careers that are meaningful. Our guest, Erin Lewellen, had an opportunity as a college student to live in Cape Town, interning at a center for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. There, Erin says, she learned in a new way, and transformed how she viewed the world. Now Erin is CEO of Global Citizen Year, a nonprofit that creates experiences to help college students develop the emotional and intellectual toolkit to impact global issues. In this show, Erin shares thoughts about how Generation Z is focused on overcoming huge societal challenges. We discuss what Gen Z looks like as it enters the workforce, and talk about ways this young crowd is unlike other generations. Erin offers suggestions about what employers might consider as they bring Gen Z-ers on board. And she shares thoughts about how you – or your kids – might structure an enriching international learning experience. For more, see: https://www.globalcitizenyear.org and https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinlewellen/

Today we hear two interviews about youth in the limelight. First an interview with the CEO of Global Citizen Year, Erin Lewellen. She grew up in rural Oregon as the daughter of a logger and schoolteacher and now heads a nonprofit that sends high school graduates around the world on a global gap year to help solve specific problems in the world. This semester is in Cape Town, South Africa where students will work with human rights protection and activism. We'll talk about Erin's early life, GCY's programs, and the public education system. In the second half of the podcast we hear from the authors of the new cookbook, Cooking With My Dad, The Chef which was published in association with America's Test Kitchen. Although the authors, Ken and his daughter Verveine Oringer, live in Boston, they are connected to the rest of the world through Ken's restaurants. Ken is a James Beard Award winning cook and when Verveine was diagnosed with Celiac disease, they decided to write a cookbook for kids that explains how to make everything from pasta to waffles without flour. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsnerds/message

The following is a conversation between Erin Lewellen, CEO of Global Citizen Year, and Denver Frederick, the Host of The Business of Giving. One of the most innovative and forward-thinking nonprofit organizations to come into existence over the past 15 years is Global Citizen Year. It's also an organization that is continually reinventing itself in response to our changing world. And here to discuss that with us is Erin Lewellen, the CEO of Global Citizen Year.

Who are my teachers when they're not assigned to me? What is the curriculum I choose to follow when it's not in the book? These were the questions that Abby Falik challenged high school graduates to answer when she founded Global Citizen Year, a non-profit that supported students in taking a "gap year" after high school. Abby was a decade into Global Citizen Year when the pandemic ground everything to a halt. Abby realized that this had never happened before, this collective, shared pause in life as we knew it. She made a conscious effort to find the power in that pause. In 2022 she joined the Emerson Collective as an Entrepreneur in Residence to incubate new models to transform how young people learn, launch and lead. Part of that mandate meant examining the default, assumed pathways not just for students, but for us all - and, Abby realized, for her. She and her husband had always dreamed of traveling the world with their children, so they packed up and took off for their own pause, and a return to her own fundamental questions about how we choose to learn, and live. In this episode of “Your New Life Blend,” Abby dials in from Nepal to talk to host Shoshanna Hecht about tuning out “the noise of everybody else's expectations" and finding your own path, because if the road is comfortable, you're on somebody else's road. 

Erin Lewellen is the CEO of Global Citizen Year, a non-profit that is addressing our current global challenges by changing the composition, operating system, and impact of the next generation of changemakers. She joins host Mike Palmer in a conversation about how transformative experiences abroad can shape the pathways and perspectives of rising leaders. Erin tells of her origins in the logging culture of rural Oregon that led into her time as an undergraduate at the University of Oregon where she studied abroad for a year in Capetown, South Africa. From there, we hear what's happening at Global Citizen Year coming off a successful pivot to a virtual program during the pandemic years. We learn how she's come full-circle with the launch of the Take Action Lab program Global Citizen Year is running in Capetown this year. Erin describes how surprising insights from recent research has led to new directions for the program and how much of that has been driven by student voice. We hear why she is inspired working with the rising generation and how important it is to both challenge students and provide the right supports to ensure we are truly developing global citizens. It's a thought-provoking exploration of what it takes to foster a meaningful passage into adult life through global awareness, a sense of purpose, and local connections with the community. Don't miss it! Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more sharp takes on the future of education.

Abby Falik is an award-winning social entrepreneur committed to launching the generation of leaders our world needs now. In 2010 she founded Global Citizen Year, a non-profit that uses the transition after high school to teach the REAL 21st century skills: resilience, empathy, agency and leadership. As CEO, she raised and deployed over $65M in scholarships and equipped thousands of diverse, emerging leaders to change the world — for good. In 2022 she joined the Emerson Collective as an Entrepreneur in Residence to incubate new models to transform how young people learn, launch and lead. Using Global Citizen Year as a blueprint, she is on a mission to reinvent the “gap” year as an accessible, purposeful and transformative rite of passage. A recognized expert on social innovation, leadership, and the changing landscape of education, Abby has been profiled by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Abby is a frequent speaker and has been featured at forums including the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Obama Foundation Summit, the Fast Company Innovation Festival, PopTech, and The Nantucket Project. In 2018, Abby was named one of America's Top 25 Philanthropy Speakers by The Business of Giving. Fast Company named her one of the Most Creative People in Business, and Goldman Sachs has selected her as one of the 100 “Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs” four times. For her achievements as a social entrepreneur she has been recognized as an Ashoka Fellow, a MindTrust Fellow, and a Draper Richards Kaplan Entrepreneur. She currently serves on the Advisory Boards of World Learning, Teach for All, and Harvard Business School, as well as on Fast Company's Impact Council. Abby received a B.A. in International Relations and an M.A. in International Comparative Education from Stanford University. She received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. She lives in Oakland, Ca. with her husband Joel Segre and their two young sons. Social Links LinkedIn: @abbyfalik Twitter: @abbyfalik Instagram: @abbyfalik

In this episode, we're exploring uncertainty, transitions, and moving forward in ambiguity – something most of us probably feel like we're getting pretty used to having lived the past several years amid a global pandemic.We'll be exploring how these things show up in organizations, and in one organization in particular – San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. And we'll discuss how they're approaching this in their evolving work.To learn more about their Head of External Relations search, visit: https://www.workshouldntsuck.co/ybca-er.SARA FENSKE BAHAT is a connector, most at-home when bridging the creative arts, economics, and equitable design to shape our social and political landscape. As Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) CEO, Sara works collaboratively with the YBCA team to advance the organization as a dynamic home for artists, arts and culture, and social justice movement building. Prior to becoming CEO, Sara served as YBCA's Board Chair. Under her leadership, YBCA navigated COVID-19 pandemic challenges (which resulted in the longest mass closure of cultural venues since World War II), received support from leading innovators for groundbreaking work at the intersection of arts and movement building, and launched the nation's first dedicated guaranteed income program for artists.Most recently, Sara served as chair of the California College of the Arts (CCA) MBA in Design Strategy, a groundbreaking, multidisciplinary degree rooted in systems theory, foresight, and innovation.Sara has a community finance and economic development background. Before becoming an educator, she worked for New York City's economic development agency and in banking, where she championed local government support for community banks, improved banking and savings products for immigrant households, and multi-state consumer protection settlements.Raised in a Milwaukee family steeped in advocacy for human, civil, and LGBTQ+ rights, Sara quickly developed a commitment to activism and social justice. A dedicated political fundraiser and mobilizer, she is passionate about driving civic engagement and hosted the Democratic National Committee's first-ever Zoom fundraiser at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.Sara is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the London School of Economics. She is a 2022 Presidential Leadership Scholar, exploring the meaning of culture and cohesion in a country increasingly divided across wealth, ideology, and acknowledgment of historic and present inequity.Sara lives in San Francisco and loves a good dance party.RENUKA KHER has supported entrepreneurial efforts in under-resourced communities for her entire career. She has spent 16 years in various roles in philanthropy and managed and directed over $150M. Her professional experience spans the public, private, philanthropic and non-profit sectors. She has served on the board of and as an advisor to many of the nation's leading social change organizations including, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Beyond 12, Year Up, Global Citizen Year and Revolution Foods.Most recently, she served on the executive team of Tipping Point Community a nonprofit grant-making organization that fights poverty in the Bay Area. During her six year tenure at Tipping Point she helped lead the growth of the organization as its Chief Operating Officer and also founded T Lab, Tipping Point's R+D engine.Before joining Tipping Point, Renuka served as a Principal at NewSchools Venture Fund whose work is focused on education and prior to that she was a Senior Program Officer at the Robin Hood Foundation where her work included developing and implementing a strategy for a $65 million relief fund, one of the nation's largest, created to respond to the terrorist attacks of September 11th.Her work has been featured in The San Francisco...

HBS grad Abby Falik founded Global Citizen Year to cultivate young leaders through a gap year of cultural immersion and community projects in developing countries. She's looking to promote HR practices and credentials that recognize the value of such experiences and the skills and competencies they produce. 

If you're not an avid listener of the We Are for Good Podcast, you will be today after this episode! I have been so fortunate to become close friends with Jon McCoy and Becky Endicott over the past two years. With 35 combined years of experience in nonprofit development and marketing, they launched the We Are for Good brand and podcast in 2020. Ever since, their community has taken off like wildfire and they have quickly scaled to a top 1% “bingeable” podcast with more than 300 episodes and 250,000 downloads! Jon, Becky, and I talk about the power of community (including the magic of one-on-one interactions), the importance of cultural moments and using them as an invitation to spark conversation with your advocates and donors, and how they use their podcast as a springboard to fuel more content.Episode Partner: This episode is presented by Givebutter and MemoryFox.Nonprofits use Givebutter to replace multiple tools so they can launch fundraising campaigns, events, and auctions, communicate with their donors through email and free text blasts, update their websites' donate buttons and collection forms, and access a built-in CRM—all in one place. P.S. They just launched a free game-changing auction platform you'll want to check out! Create your FREE account here!Click HERE to watch our webinar replay!MemoryFox makes it easy to collect Community Generated Content through a secure, guided and custom-branded platform. You'll be able to share authentic and relatable content, reach more people, and grow your impact. Set up a demo with one of their storytelling experts at memoryfox.io/dana, plus get 10% off!Resources & LinksIf you want to make this Giving Tuesday even butter than last year, catch the replay of my free webinar with Floyd Jones, How To Set Up Your GivingTuesday Campaign in 1 Hour Without Pulling Your Hair Out! Go to positiveequation.com/givebutter to watch it and find out how your organization can qualify for $50,000!Connect with Jon and Becky on LinkedIn or via email: jon@weareforgood.com and becky@weareforgood.com. Tune in to the We Are for Good Podcast and learn more about Jon and Becky's incredible vision that serves the social impact sector. To continue the important conversations they're having, join their free community on Mighty Networks.Becky's favorite episode of their podcast is Episode 33, The Story of Gaining Ground Literacy with Lisa Shotts and Kirby Mackenzie. Jon's favorite is Episode 261, Solving the Leadership Crisis + The Mission of Global Citizen Year with Abby Falik.Want to make Missions to Movements even better? Take a screenshot of this episode and share it on Instagram. Be sure to tag @positivequation so I can connect with you. 

Today's guest, Abby Falik, is an expert on the value of pausing during our busy lives. Abby has degrees from Stanford University and Harvard Business School, and she's widely known as an innovative thinker, a higher education futurist, and an award-winning social entrepreneur. Abby was the founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year, which creates meaningful pre-college bridge years for high school grads. She explains why taking a purposeful gap year after high school can make a huge difference in a student's leadership skills and ultimate success. She also describes some ideas related to leadership and learning that she will explore in her new role as Entrepreneur in Residence at the Emerson Collective, created by Laurene Powell Jobs. For more, see: abbyfalik.com

Erin Lewellen, CEO of Global Citizen Year, discusses the positive impact taking a gap year between high school and college can have on students.  Hosts: Tim Stenovec and Kriti Gupta. Producer: Sara Livezey.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Erin Lewellen, CEO of Global Citizen Year, discusses the positive impact taking a gap year between high school and college can have on students.  Hosts: Tim Stenovec and Kriti Gupta. Producer: Sara Livezey.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

➡️ Like The Podcast? Leave A Rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/successstory   ➡️ About The Guest⁣ Abby Falik is an award-winning social entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO of Global Citizen Year — a nonprofit using the power of a global immersion between high school and college to unlock curiosity, conviction, and courage in our next-generation leaders.  A recognized expert on social innovation, leadership, and the changing landscape of education, Abby has been profiled by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.   Abby is a frequent speaker and has been featured at forums including the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Obama Foundation Summit, the Fast Company Innovation Festival, PopTech, and The Nantucket Project.   In 2018, Abby was named one of America's Top 25 Philanthropy Speakers by The Business of Giving. In 2019 she was named one of Goldman Sachs' Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs for the third consecutive year, and in 2016 Fast Company named her one of the Most Creative People in Business. For her achievements as a social entrepreneur, she has been recognized as an Ashoka Fellow, a MindTrust Fellow, and a Draper Richards Kaplan Entrepreneur.  ➡️ Show Links https://twitter.com/abbyfalik/    https://www.instagram.com/abbyfalik/  https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbyfalik/  ➡️ Podcast Sponsors HUBSPOT - https://hubspot.com/ SWAG - https://swag.com/success (Promo Code: Success10) ➡️ Talking Points⁣ 00:00 - Intro 03:44 - Abby Falik's origin story  05:05 - What was the first thing that Abby Falik did that gives a positive impact on social media? 06:40 - What was the concept behind Global Citizen Year? 10:13 - What is Abby Falik's opinion on the current education system? 13:38 - How does Abby Falik teach entrepreneurship? 15:20 - What is social entrepreneurship? 17:48 - How does Abby Falik measure the impact of social entrepreneurship? 18:49 - How does Abby Falik convince the investors? 20:10 - How do we get that level of investors to follow the framework that Abby Falik has made? 23:32 - What is Abby Falik's advice for somebody who is about to start a company? 26:45 - What does the quote "how can we change the world from inside out" mean? 28:15 - What are the leadership lessons of Abby Falik for getting people on board with what she thinks? 37:09 - What are Abby Falik's thoughts about leadership and who can be a leader? 39:59 - Where do people connect with Abby Falik and what are some of her career insights? 42:05 - What was the biggest challenge Abby Falik had and how did she overcome it? 43:30 - Who is the mentor of Abby Falik? 44:21 - A book or a podcast recommendation of Abby Falik  44:55 - What would Abby Falik tell her 20-year-old self? 45:03 - What does success mean to Abby Falik? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mike Palmer returns with virtual CoHost Nancy to run through highlights from recent episodes of Trending in Ed before sharing clips from a couple of upcoming episodes to pique your interest. We begin by sharing Mike's conversation with Sunil Gunderia from Age of Learning where Sunil talks about building learner identity and the fact that learning is intrinsically rewarding in its own right. From there, we hear from Abby Falik, the Founder/CEO of Global Citizen Year, as she shares her thoughts on the future of a traditional 4-year or 2-year degree. GSY is a fascinating program that recently made news by receiving funding from the Mackenzie Scott Foundation. Then we share sound from our episode with Dr. David Lenihan from Tiber Health as he imagines how emerging technology will likely impact both medical education and the delivery of medical care. Then we hear some fun facts from Frances Valintine about the Kiwi, the national bird for her native New Zealand. Fun stuff! We conclude with clips from upcoming episodes with Tony Wan from Reach Capital and with Larry Cuban, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University and author of a new book, Confessions of a School Reformer. Mike also shares some news about what else we've got cooking here at Palmer Media. Thanks to everyone for listening. Subscribe wherever you pod. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more amazing content!

Abby Falik is the Founder & CEO of Global Citizen Year, an award-winning social entrepreneur, and an expert on the changing landscape of education.    She is a frequent speaker and writer, and has been featured in prominent forums and news outlets including the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Fast Company Innovation Festival, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and NPR.    Join us for this reevaluation of the transition into adulthood, developing power skills, and becoming global citizens, change-makers, and leaders.   IN THIS EPISODE, WE COVER: How Abby combined her experience with travel, education, and non-profits to create and build Global Citizen Year Re-imagining the transition into adulthood How GCY reduces barriers to travel for students A globally oriented generation and what that means for international experiences REAL power skills for the 21st century The importance of students knowing their why and forging their own paths What is the purpose of education and why education and school are not the same thing The Peace Corps, how outdated it is, and what a parallel call to action might look like today   RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Connect with Abby on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter and learn more about her here Visit globalcitizenyear.org to learn more about their re-imagining of the transition to adulthood Learn more about Rebel Educator, explore our professional development opportunities for educators and students, sign up for a webinar and check out our project library Visit us at UP Academy to learn more about our personalized and inclusive learning environment Connect with Tanya and UP Academy on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram and learn more about her journey here   We'd love it if you could take a few minutes to fill out this survey to let us know how we can bring you the best possible content:  https://forms.gle/JcKHf9DHTZnYUmQr6    Enjoying the show? Leave us a rating and review and help more people find us! https://bit.ly/RebelEducatorApplePodcasts    Interested in being on the Rebel Educator podcast? Fill out this form and we'll reach out to you if we think you'd be a great fit for an upcoming episode. https://forms.gle/zXR2KGPK3WEmbrRZ6    Want to learn more about opening your own UP Academy? Check out the Rebel Educator Accelerator: https://www.rebeleducator.com/courses/the-accelerator   MORE ABOUT THE REBEL EDUCATOR PODCAST: In each episode of the Rebel Educator podcast, I deconstruct world-class educators, students, and thought leaders in education to extract the tactics, tools, and routines that you can use as teachers and parents. Join me as we discuss how to shift the classroom, the learning environment, the mindset, and the pedagogy, to resist tradition, reignite wonder, and re-imagine the future of education. This podcast is dedicated to all of the educators who work thankless hours to make our next generation the best it can be.  It was designed to begin conversations on how we can redesign education for the future of work and the success of our students.  It is meant for teachers, students, administrators, homeschoolers and anyone who interacts with and teaches youth.

Meet Abby. She's a social entrepreneur and founder of Global Citizen Year, an organization reimagining the transition into adulthood by facilitating a yearlong immersion experience abroad for high school graduates. By equipping young leaders with empathy, agency & a global perspective, they're changing the inputs into higher education in order to dramatically improve the outcomes of the world. Our minds were officially blown (in a great way!)

Abby Falik is the founder and leader of Global Citizen Year, an organization dedicated to helping the leaders of tomorrow find their purpose. She discusses her own journey towards her calling, the emergence of vision, and what modern leadership really consists of. I was buzzing for days after doing this interview. Abby will inspire you to wake up to the playful genius that was always lurking within.   For more on Abby's work, check out: https://www.globalcitizenyear.org/   Please let us know what you think by emailing info@10kh.show, or hitting us up on twitter @10000HeroesPod

I'm excited to welcome you to a special episode of the Mother's Quest Podcast that I am extremely grateful for, just in time for Thanksgiving, featuring the amazing Julie Lythcott-Haims and my 17-year-old son Ryan Neale. Julie is an incredible mother to two, a former Stanford Dean and New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult, which gave rise to a TED Talk that has more than 5 million views. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. I'm so fortunate to have had the opportunity to interview Julie for the podcast several years ago when that book was first released. When I heard about Julie's new book Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, I knew I wanted to invite her back to the podcast again. And, I hoped that my son Ryan, on the threshold of adulthood himself, would join us in the conversation. The stars aligned and Ryan was available the day of the interview, enabling Julie, Ryan, and I to explore the concepts of her book, about navigating adulthood and embracing our differences, especially our neurodiversity, in deeply personal and relevant ways.  In this episode, I'm also excited to share a dedication from Deborah Reber, former podcast guest, fellow mother on a quest, and host of the TiLT Parenting Podcast.Deborah's heart-felt dedication honors Julie and other mothers raising neurodivergent children. I could not agree more with Deborah's assessment about what an exceptional human Julie is, about the power of Julie's commitment to put the stories of a diverse group of young people with different identities on the pages of her book, and about the impact of Julie's work for normalizing and honoring differences.  As you hear our conversation unfold, I know you'll be as struck as I was by Julie's wisdom and humility as she talks with Ryan, helping him to understand that he deserves to be cherished for who he is, that he can approach things like writing in ways that work for his differently-wired mind, and that he can seek out environments, like college, that enables him to play to his strengths and allow him to thrive. Since our conversation, Ryan was able to take Julie's advice to heart, using voice to text without shame to write his personal statement for college applications and sharing his personal insights on a panel at the recent Stanford Neurodiversity Summit. You can follow the link in the show notes to listen.Finally, this conversation is a demonstration that there is no destination to becoming an adult, but an ongoing journey of learning and discovery, that parents and their children can support one another in reciprocity with curiosity, and that we can all benefit from asking ourselves the question from Mary Oliver's famous poem, that Julie gives us as our challenge, “What is it that we want to do with our one wild and precious life?”As we approach Thanksgiving, the five-year birthday of the launch of Mother's Quest, and my 50th birthday, I can say there is nothing I'd rather do than hold space for a conversation like this one and share it with you.   About Julie: Julie Lythcott-Haims believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult which gave rise to a TED Talk that has more than 5 million views. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. A third book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, is out now. Julie is a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean, and she holds a BA from Stanford, a JD from Harvard, and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. She serves on the board of Common Sense Media, and on the advisory board of LeanIn.Org, and she is a former board member at Foundation for a College Education, Global Citizen Year, The Writers Grotto, and Challenge Success. She volunteers with the hospital program No One Dies Alone. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner of over thirty years, their itinerant young adults, and her mother.    Connect with Julie:  Website  Twitter Instagram LinkedIn   About RyanRyan Neale is a neurodivergent 12th Grader from San Mateo, California. His parents discovered he was differently wired when he was 18 months old but he has been in fully mainstream education for his academic career, with most people around him not knowing about some of the struggles that he faces. His experiences publicly masking his neuro differences have given him a unique perspective on many of the struggles neurodiverse people face, such as public stigma, ableism, and the ever-present desire to fit in. As he has begun advocating more for his needs, he has high hopes to use his perspective and communication skills to increase public understanding of neurodiversity, and hopefully create a more inclusive society for everyone. In his free time, he enjoys playing varsity basketball for his high school team, coaching youth sports, roughhousing with his little brother, and diving headfirst into his many fantasy special interests. He is thrilled to have participated in this fall's Stanford Neurodiversity Summit on a K-12 student panel. You can listen to the panel here. Connect with Ryan:  Instagram   Topics Discussed in this Episode: How Julie's experience listening to students as a Stanford Dean and raising her own children led her to write a book about young adults The painful admission Julie shared about overlooking her own son Sawyer's challenges with ADHD and anxiety and the poignant moment when her son acknowledged Julie's shift in understanding him  The ways that Ryan identifies as neurodivergent, how he has adapted, and the pain he has experienced trying to fit in a neurotypical world  Julie's advice to Ryan about embracing who he is Her recommendation of the book Normal Sucks by Jonathan Mooney  The revelations parents can take from Julie's book How to help young adults figure out what next steps to take on their path to becoming an adult  The lessons Julie has personally gained from writing her books Julie's words of wisdom for Ryan on how to move through his resistance of writing by trying methods that might work better for his differences and strengths  The biggest takeaway that Julie learned in her research and in her own journey writing the book about how to be vulnerable and connected and open to the support of others so that you don't have to feel alone Julie's challenge for all of us that can help us live our best lives as adults   Resources and Topics Mentioned: Ep 52: Third Chapters, Raising Adults, and Loving Ourselves with Julie Lythcott-Haims  Normal Sucks by Jonathan Mooney  Julie's books Julie's Ted talk    This Episode's Challenge: Ask yourself the question from Mary Oliver's famous poem, “what do I want to do with this one wild and precious life?” Explore what would you do if it was only up to you...if nobody else's opinion really mattered. Go to a quiet place, a shower, out in nature, or on a hammock and ask yourself "What is the work that brings me joy? What are the places and spaces where I feel valued and seen?" This Episode is dedicated by Deborah Reber Debbie Reber is a parenting activist, New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and speaker who moved her career in a more personal direction in 2016 when she founded TiLT Parenting, a top resource for parents like her who are raising differently wired children. The TiLT Parenting Podcast has grown to be a top podcast in Kids & Family, with more than 3 million downloads and a slate of guests that includes high-profile thought leaders across the parenting and education space. A certified Positive Discipline trainer and a regular contributor to Psychology Today and ADDitude Magazine, Debbie's newest book is Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World. In November 2018, she spoke at TEDxAmsterdam, delivering a talk entitled Why the Future Will Be Differently Wired. In the summer of 2020, she co-created the Parenting in Place Masterclass series. Prior to launching TiLT, Debbie spent more than fifteen years writing inspiring books for women and teens, including Doable: The Girls' Guide to Accomplishing Just About Anything, Language of Love, Chill: Stress-Reducing Techniques for a More Balanced, Peaceful You, In Their Shoes: Extraordinary Women Describe Their Amazing Careers, and more than a dozen preschool books based on the series Blue's Clues. In 2008, she had the privilege of creating and editing the first-ever series of teen-authored memoirs, Louder Than Words. Before becoming a solopreneur, Debbie worked in TV and video production, producing documentaries and PSAs for CARE and UNICEF, working on Blue's Clues, and developing original series for Cartoon Network. She has an MA in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research and a BA in Communications from Pennsylvania State University. In 2019, her husband, and 17-year-old twice-exceptional son relocated to Brooklyn, NY after living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands for five years.    Connect with Deborah: https://tiltparenting.com https://instagram.com/tiltparenting https://facebook.com/groups/tilttogether https://twitter.com/tiltparenting   You can also check out my conversation with Debbie on the Mother's Quest Podcast about embracing differences here! Announcement:   Special Q & A Brunch with Julie Lythcott-Haims Join Mother's Quest and Happy Women Dinners for a special opportunity to receive Julie's new book, get it personally signed, and enjoy brunch and a Q & A with Julie at Julie Neale's private home in the SF Peninsula. Cost is $125 and includes brunch and a copy of the signed book. Email jill@happywomendinners.com to secure your spot ASAP. Tickets are sold out with the exception of a small number for Mother's Quest listeners and members.    Mother's Quest is Turning Five - Celebrate With Us! On December 1st, Mother's Quest will be celebrating it's 5th birthday. To honor this milestone, we are having a virtual celebration with poetry, music, toasts and more.  If you've been impacted by Mother's Quest and have wishes to share for our next chapter, I'd love for you to join us. Email hello@Mothersquest.com to get all the details and RSVP.    Mother's Quest is a podcast for moms who are ready to live a truly E.P.I.C. life. Join in for intimate conversations with a diverse group of inspiring mothers as they share how they are living an E.P.I.C. life, Engaging mindfully with their children (E), Passionately and Purposefully making a difference beyond their family (P), Investing in themselves (I), and Connecting to a strong support network (C). 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Julie Lythcott-Haims believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult which gave rise to a TED Talk that has more than 5 million views. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. A third book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, is out now.Julie is a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean, and she holds a BA from Stanford, a JD from Harvard, and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. She serves on the board of Common Sense Media, and on the advisory board of LeanIn.Org, and she is a former board member at Foundation for a College Education, Global Citizen Year, The Writers Grotto, and Challenge Success. She volunteers with the hospital program No One Dies Alone.She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner of over thirty years, their itinerant young adults, and her mother.Support the show (https://pod.fan/the-dude-therapist)

Find Juliehttps://www.julielythcotthaims.comhttp://www.facebook.com/jlythcotthaims http://www.twitter.com/jlythcotthaimshttp://instagram.com/jlythcotthaims About Julie:WRITER. SPEAKER. HUMAN.  Julie Lythcott-Haims believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult which gave rise to a TED Talk that has more than 5 million views. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. A third book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, is out now.Julie is a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean, and she holds a BA from Stanford, a JD from Harvard, and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. She serves on the board of Common Sense Media, and on the advisory board of LeanIn.Org, and she is a former board member at Foundation for a College Education, Global Citizen Year, The Writers Grotto, and Challenge Success. She volunteers with the hospital program No One Dies Alone.She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner of over thirty years, their itinerant young adults, and her mother. Support the show (Http://Www.patreon.com/speakforchangepodcast)

In this week's episode, I sit down with Julie Lythcott-Haims, the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult which gave rise to a TED Talk that has more than 5 million views.    Julie believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way.    Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. A third book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, is out now.    Listen in as we talk about: The boundary between letting your kids do things for themselves and you doing it for them The four-step method to teaching any child any skill Why we over-parent and why it's detrimental to our kids' success How to step outside of your comfort zone and live on purpose   Julie is a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean, and she holds a BA from Stanford, a JD from Harvard, and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. She serves on the board of Common Sense Media, and on the advisory board of LeanIn.Org, and she is a former board member at Foundation for a College Education, Global Citizen Year, The Writers Grotto, and Challenge Success. She volunteers with the hospital program No One Dies Alone.   She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner of over thirty years, their itinerant young adults, and her mother.    Resources mentioned in the episode: Chasing Childhood Documentary Order Your Turn: How to Be an Adult here   Connect with Julie On Instagram On Twitter On Facebook www.julielythcotthaims.com    Connect with Natalie Tysdal On Instagram On YouTube On Facebook Website

WRITER. SPEAKER. HUMAN. Julie Lythcott-Haims believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult which gave rise to a TED Talk that has more than 5 million views. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. A third book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, is out now. Julie is a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean, and she holds a BA from Stanford, a JD from Harvard, and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. She serves on the board of Common Sense Media, and on the advisory board of LeanIn.Org, and she is a former board member at Foundation for a College Education, Global Citizen Year, The Writers Grotto, and Challenge Success. She volunteers with the hospital program No One Dies Alone. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner of over thirty years, their itinerant young adults, and her mother. In this episode, we discuss why she got into each of her three careers (7:12), the values her parents taught her as a kid as she felt “otherized” in society (11:35), naming blackness but not whiteness (17:00), the idea of the “other” (24:19), how she figures out when to be curious and when to be convicted (28:10), what changed between her two Ted Talks (31:58), if she's experienced any imposter syndrome and how she's handled it (35:27), what she misses about being Dean (39:16), inspiration (42:15), her identity (43:38), writing (47:03), if she prefers writing poetry or not (51:46), where the line is as a parent between commitment and over commitment (54:35), fostering independence in your children (1:01:16), adulting (1:03:44), and what she intentionally does to make sure she feels alive (1:07:00). You can check out Julie on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Additionally, when posting about her new book, make sure to use the hashtag #YourTurnToAdult. You can visit Julie's website here and can purchase her new book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, here! Thank you so much to Julie for coming on the podcast! I wrote a book called “Shift Your Mind” that was released in October of 2020, and you can order it on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Additionally, I have launched a company called Strong Skills, and I encourage you to check out our new website https://www.strongskills.co/. If you liked this episode and/or any others, please follow me on Twitter: @brianlevenson or Instagram: @Intentional_Performers. Thanks for listening. -Brian

This week we are joined by Abby Falik, who is the Founder & CEO of Global Citizen Year — a nonprofit that enables the power of global immersion to unlock curiosity, conviction, and courage in next generation leaders. Abby discusses why charting your own path is critically important, and why taking a gap year before college can help you discover your purpose. Follow us on Instagram @paths2purposepod, Twitter @paths2purpose, TikTok @paths2purposepod, or contact us at paths2purposepod@gmail.com. This episode was made possible by our Producer, Jac Boothe, and our Brand Strategist, Mikey Lullo. For more resources to help find your purpose, follow us on Instagram and TikTok @paths2purposepod If you have questions for us or want to say hi, feel free to email us too at paths2purposepod@gmail.com

In the age of content, people can learn almost anything on YouTube. Thanks to COVID-19, more people are getting used to online learning. So why should you spend money on a leadership program when there are free ones? With our two guests Sade and Ulviya, we explore what's the difference between taking a free online course and signing up for the Academy, Global Citizen Year's gap year program. A Program aimed to develop youth leadership. If you like the topic around gap year, don't miss out on our final episode for our mini-series next Wednesday. Together with our guests, we dive deep into the topic gap year. //

What is up everyone and welcome back to my podcast—You're Doing A Good Job.My intention with this podcast is to dive deep and explore what it looks like to expand our lives—consciously. Because when we expand our lives—consciously, we become more emotionally aware, present and connected people and when we become more emotionally aware, present and connected—we win.Our relationships win. Our self-worth wins. Our sense of purpose wins. And most importantly, our mental health and emotional wellness, win.Now if you follow me on social media or if you know anything about my story, then you'll know that mental health and emotional wellness are a big part of my journey. I often talk about how I did reach my dreams of playing in the NFL but I lost myself in the process. And after years of healing and redefining that season of my life it is a passion of mine to share a message and help facilitate brave conversations around how we can begin to integrate our mental fortitude, and determination to expand our lives with the power of vulnerability and emotional skills.Because when we live more consciously aware and integrated, we unlock our lives—physically, emotionally, financially and relationally.Just recently, I had the chance to read How To Raise An Adult, by Julie Lythcott-Haims and as I was reading this book, I was overwhelmed in the best of ways. Truthfully, up until reading this book, I never directly correlated the mental health challenges that I experienced as a young adult to the direct effects of being over-parented as a child. It was eye opening to me in so many ways.Not only that, but as I was reading this book I could feel it deep in my bones that I would naturally want to over-parent, despite knowing the damaging long term effects it could have on a child and that's when I knew I had to have Julie on my podcast to talk more about her research on over-parenting and her book.This podcast episode with Julie is full of deep wisdom but make no mistake, it will challenge you. So if you're ready to lean into your edges of growth as a person and as a parent, you're going to love this episode.On this episode of You're Doing A Good Job, we dive deep into:What is over parenting and how and when did it originateWe also talk about what's really going on behind the need to over-parent and what you should do about itWe talk about my story around being over-parented and how it impacted my lifeWe talk about the importance of redefining success as a parent and where to draw the line between making decisions for your children and giving them the space to forge their own paths in life.I promise you, you're going to walk away with so much from this episode. Julie is one of a kind and not only does she know what she's talking about, but she's full compassion and empathy.-About Julie Lythcott-Haims:Julie believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult which gave rise to a TED Talk that has more than 5 million views. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. A third book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, is out now.Julie is a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean, and she holds a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford, a JD degree from Harvard, and a Master of Fine Arts, MFA, in Writing from California College of the Arts. She serves on the board of Common Sense Media, and on the advisory board of LeanIn.Org, and she is a former board member at Foundation for a College Education, Global Citizen Year, The Writers Grotto, and Challenge Success. She volunteers with the hospital program No One Dies Alone.She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner of over thirty years, their itinerant young adults, and her mother.Lastly, before we dive into this podcast, can I ask a big favor? If you find this episode useful in any way, it would mean the world to me if you left a review on my podcast as well as share this episode with one friend that you might think would benefit from it. That would be so so helpful.Connect with Julie on Instagram, here.Connect with Caleb on Instagram, here.Also, a BIG thanks to Jeff Orlowski and the cover art for this podcast. Find his work, here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this brief episode we talk to our two guests Sade and Ulviya from Global Citizen Year about why people choose to take a gap year. Specifically, why should high school students take a gap year before going to university? Our gap year mini-series focuses on our interview with Global Citizen Year. It will be released every Wednesday for the next 2 weeks. Together with our guests we dive deep into the topic gap year. //

Hooray! You've decided to take a gap year. You are determined to make the best year EVER, but now that it's really here, you are not sure what to do...Welcome to our very first mini-series of the podcast. As the graduation season approaches we are bringing you more content on gap year in case you are the “odd one” out. In this mini-series, we interview two guests from Global Citizen Year. A company that's dedicated to helping youth make the best out of their gap year! Our guests Sade and Ulviya will be introducing their leadership program called The Academy. This is a leadership program that you can join and learn with youth around the world. If you loved our previous episode on gap year, be sure to tune in every Wednesday for the next 3 weeks for more content on this topic. //

COVID put a wrench in the college admissions process that forced students, educators, parents, and the like, to reimagine their future. My latest guest on Next with Novo, Global Citizen Year's Abby Falik, is one of the country's top experts on kids transitioning from high school to college or taking a year off before. Abby's organization rethinks the concept of a gap year with a program that takes seniors and prepares them for what's to come through a unique recruitment process and a variety of programs that help shape their trajectories by focusing on leadership and values. My conversation with Abby outlines the difficult transformation of the college admission process due to COVID, the inequalities and pressures that have built up over time, and what Global Citizen Year is doing to build a new path for students. Abby also shares a ton of insight and advice for students on how to capitalize on this time in the best way possible. As a father whose own kids have gone through this process, this episode was particularly relevant to many of my own experiences. Hope you enjoy. Make sure to subscribe to my YouTube and Apple Podcasts channels so you don't miss out on future episodes, and follow me: Twitter: https://twitter.com/novogratz YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/mikenovo/ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3sdPneD Next with Novo is the go-to resource for what's new and what's next. In this series, Mike Novogratz, influential investor, Wall Street Veteran, and CEO at Galaxy Digital, invites viewers to learn with him from the brightest minds behind disruptive businesses, prolific social movements, and technologies powering permissionless innovation. This podcast was recorded on April 12, 2021. The Next with Novo podcast is for informational purposes only. Nothing in this podcast constitutes an offer to buy or sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell, any securities. The information in the podcast does not constitute investment, legal, or tax advice. The host is an affiliate of Galaxy Digital (host and Galaxy Digital together, the “Parties”), and the podcast represents the opinions of the host and/or guest and not necessarily that of Galaxy Digital. The Parties do not make any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy or completeness of any of the information therein. Each of the Parties expressly disclaims any and all liability relating to or resulting from the use of this information. Certain information in the podcast may have been obtained from published and non-published sources and has not been independently verified. The Parties may buy, sell or hold investments in some of the companies, digital assets or protocols discussed in this podcast. Except where otherwise indicated, the information in this video is based on matters as they exist as of the date of preparation and will not be updated.

Best selling author and amazing human Julie Lythcott-Haims has done it again with her new book, YOUR TURN: How to be an Adult. She offers the guidance, empathy, and sound wisdom young adults need to hear. Listen in on our chat about YOUR TURN in this episode of the podcast. About Julie WRITER. SPEAKER. HUMAN. Julie Lythcott-Haims believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult which gave rise to a TED Talk that has more than 5 million views. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. A third book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, will be out in April 2021. Julie is a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean, and she holds a BA from Stanford, a JD from Harvard, and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. She serves on the board of Common Sense Media, and on the advisory board of LeanIn.Org, and she is a former board member at Foundation for a College Education, Global Citizen Year, The Writers Grotto, and Challenge Success. She volunteers with the hospital program No One Dies Alone. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner of over thirty years, their itinerant young adults, and her mother. Links & Related Julie's website Ep. 170: Adulting with Emma Liberman How Camp Helps Parents Raise Adults Ready for Adulthood Check-List for Kids

Today it’s great to chat with Julie Lythcott-Haims on the show. Julie believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. She is a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean. She serves on the board of Common Sense Media, and on the advisory board of LeanIn.Org, and she is a former board member at Foundation for a College Education, Global Citizen Year, The Writers Grotto, and Challenge Success. Julie is the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American. Her third book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, will be out in April 2021. Topics [1:32] How Julie defines “adulting” [3:07] How the way we define adulthood has changed over time [5:59] What is the “adult mindset”? [8:00] Why Julie challenges the “right track” concept of adulthood [15:07] Julie’s advice to those who want to take an unconventional path [18:57] Julie’s advice to those struggling with questions of identity [20:46] Julie’s encounters with racism and “othering” [26:21] Julie’s promise of inclusivity and how she overcame her struggles [29:40] Julie’s thoughts on self-acceptance and self-love [33:22] How Julie collected inspiring stories from people for her book [37:15] Julie’s advice to people who struggle to embrace outsiders [40:17] How Julie ended up interviewing her Lyft driver for her book [42:54] Julie’s reflections on intuition and her observational capacity [45:43] “Life’s beautiful F-words” --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

Too many adults are living lives where they feel like passive participants rather than the creators of their destiny. In this eye-opening discussion with Julie Lythcott-Haims about her new book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, we discuss the challenges many individuals face as they attempt to step into their adult life, the actions that caused a generational shift in how we view adulting, and what is possible when we step into the adult life we were meant to lead.   In this episode you'll learn: How the fundamental capacities of agency and resilience are underdeveloped in young adults who were over-parented as children How fear and learned helplessness can result as an adult for those who aren't given the opportunity to grow independently The questions we need to ask ourselves when trying to quiet the voice of what others think we should do and begin acting on what we want our path to be   About the Guest: Julie Lythcott-Haims believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult. Her TED Talk on the subject has more than 5 million views, and in 2020 she became a regular contributor with CBS This Morning on parenting. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. A third book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, will be out in April 2021.  Julie is a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean, and she holds a BA from Stanford, a JD from Harvard, and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. She serves on the board of Common Sense Media, and on the advisory board of LeanIn.Org, and she is a former board member at Foundation for a College Education, Global Citizen Year, The Writers Grotto, and Challenge Success. She volunteers with the hospital program No One Dies Alone. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner of over thirty years, their young adults, and her mother.    Learn more about Julie's work and her new book Your Turn: How to Be an Adult at: Buy the book: https://bookshop.org/books/your-turn-how-to-be-an-adult/9781250137777 Julie's website: julielythcotthaims.com Facebook: facebook.com/jlythcotthaims Twitter: twitter.com/jlythcotthaims Instagram: instagram.com/jlythcotthaims   About the Host Janice Scholl is passionate about illuminating the work-life struggle that causes working mothers to leave professional jobs to raise their families, with a special focus on helping mothers start businesses that allow them to be financially empowered and use their skills, while being fully present for their children. She is host of the Money, Career & Motherhood podcast and a frequent speaker on the topics of motherhood & money, career breaks, and business strategy. She is the founder of Strategic Sabbaticals, a program designed to amplify the growth and opportunity women find through a career break to ensure a successful a return to paid work.    Sign up for a FREE 30-minute Career Break strategy session with Janice here. Visit the Money, Career, & Motherhood website, Facebook page, Facebook group, or on Instagram.       Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. You can also subscribe from the podcast app on your mobile device. Leave us an iTunes review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on iTunes, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on iTunes.

The pandemic drove many incoming freshman students to defer their first year of college and take an unexpected 'gap year.' But what if this became the norm? Guest Abby Falik is a social entrepreneur and founder of Global Citizen Year, an organization that supports students between high school and college, helping them to approach higher ed with more intention and purpose. On the show Abby and Farnoosh discuss the benefits of slowing down the approach to college enrollment, how colleges and universities perceive the students that take a so-called "gap year" and why Abby thinks some colleges will be forced to close in the coming years. More about Abby: She is the Founder & CEO of Global Citizen Year, an award-winning social entrepreneur, and an expert on the changing landscape of education. She is a frequent speaker and writer, and has been featured in prominent forums and news outlets including the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Fast Company Innovation Festival, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and NPR.  Learn more: Global Citizen Year Website: globalcitizenyear.org Twitter: @GlobalCitizenYr Facebook: facebook.com/globalcitizenyear Instagram: instagram.com/globalcitizenyr Abby Falik Website: abbyfalik.com Twitter: @abbyfalik Facebook: facebook.com/abby.falik LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/abbyfalik Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Mentorships in Education, we welcome Julie Lythcott-Haims, New York Times best-selling author, contributor with CBS This Morning, Stanford Freshman Dean, Lawyer and so much more. Her TED Talk has over 5 million views. Join us as we explore how to find the "Silver Lining" during this time of Teaching in Covidland.Mentorships in Education is brought to you by Just Education, LLC and is hosted by Judith Epstein. Judi has a Master's degree in Education with a concentration in Language Acquisition. She is certified in special education with post-graduate coursework and professional development in Cognitive Behavior therapy (CBT), Social Thinking, Collaborative and Proactive Solutions (CPS), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Judi created Just Education, LLC and its podcast component, to compile a free resource library for mentors of students who struggle and address a wide variety of topics that are all related to education and student success.Julie's Contact InformationWebsiteFacebook TwitterInstagramPre-order Your Turn: How to Be an Adult About Julie Lythcott-HaimsJulie Lythcott-Haims believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult. Her TED Talk on the subject has more than 5 million views, and in 2020 she became a regular contributor with CBS This Morning on parenting. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. A third book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, will be out in April 2021.    Julie is a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean, and she holds a BA from Stanford, a JD from Harvard, and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. She serves on the board of Common Sense Media, and on the advisory board of LeanIn.Org, and she is a former board member at Foundation for a College Education, Global Citizen Year, The Writers Grotto, and Challenge Success. She volunteers with the hospital program No One Dies Alone.  She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner of over thirty years, their young adults, and her mother.  CONNECT WITH USConnect with Judi Our website and podcasts are available hereJudi on Linkedin

Built to Serve talks to acclaimed social entrepreneur Abby Falik about entrepreneurship, leadership, and Global Citizen Year, the nonprofit she founded, which she refers to as “the culmination of her life’s work.” Abby has been profiled by the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Goldman Sachs named her one of 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs, and Fast Company named her one of the 100 Most Creative People.

"People write life plans like they do business plans. When you think about your future, instead of asking: what do I want to do or have? Ask: how do I want to feel?" - Abby FalikListen to this week's guest, Abby Falik, an award-winning social entrepreneur, expert on the changing landscape of education and Founder & CEO of Global Citizen Year, talks about building pathways to an Education on Purpose in order to launch the leaders our world needs now.Learn more about Global Citizen year through their website.Abby Falik is also a frequent speaker and writer, and has been featured in prominent forums and news outlets including the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Fast Company Innovation Festival, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and NPR. You can follow and connect with Abby Falik here:Twitter: @GlobalCitizenYr and @abbyfalikFacebook: facebook.com/globalcitizenyear/ and facebook.com/abby.falikInstagram: instagram.com/globalcitizenyr/ and instagram.com/abbyfalik/LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/abbyfalik/Global Citizen Year siteAbby's personal site

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainMaria Cristina is currently working as a climate scientist at Winrock in Washington D.C.  She shares her journey in becoming a climate scientist later in life.As a tiny child, Maria Cristina lived with her grandparents on their farm in Ecuador.  This had a big impact on her life:  they taught her to love nature and to take care of it.  When she left school, she studied social development in Quito then did a whole series of jobs, including working with the children of prostitutes in the middle of Quito and teaching English to professionals.She left Ecuador soon after she graduated in order to avoid the social pressure of getting married and because she wanted to see the world.Her first job following graduation was with the children of Central American immigrants in San Francisco.  This opened her eyes to the harsh reality of their lives and set her on a search to discover why the world was so unfair.  She then did a Masters degree on Sustainable Development in Peace and Conflict Studies at the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica.  The contact with people from all over the world expanded her mind even further.  She also started comparing Costa Rica, where people and the environment were a priority, and Ecuador, where oil money had led to corruption and the concentration of wealth in a few hands.  She talks about her time in working with the US Peace Corps and Global Citizen Year, setting up volunteer programs for young US citizens to work with the indigenous people of Ecuador.  All these experiences convinced her to become a climate scientist. You will love listening to Maria-Cristina.  Her enthusiasm, curiosity, humour and overwhelming desire to serve are infectious. I am running a free webinar - "Women Empower Women" - on Tuesday 27 April.  Check it out here:  https://mailchi.mp/ac893611d578/gu7xgku6p7You can find me on my website, on Linkedin and on the Brave New Women Facebook page.Cecilia PoullainFounder of Brave New WomenCoach - Empowering Women to Find their VoiceMusic:  Stephen Marquis www.songsta.com.au Editing: Talal BourokiCecilia PoullainFounder of Brave New WomenCoach - Empowering Women to Find their Voice

We talk to Abby Falik, a Founder & CEO of Global Citizen Year (GCY), a non-profit organization for graduating high school seniors to participate in an immersion-based international bridge year before embarking on their college journeys. GCY Fellows go to countries like Ecuador, India, and Brazil and work in local apprenticeships and live with host families. Tune in to find out Mrs. Falik found and expanded GCY, and the organization's impact on graduating high school seniors.

Episode #23 Building the muscle of reliance in our childrenToday my guest is the brilliant Julie Lythcott-Haims. Julie  believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult. Her TED Talk on the subject has more than 5 million views, and in 2020 she became a regular contributor with CBS This Morning on parenting. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. A third book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, will be out in April 2021.  Julie is a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean, and she holds a BA from Stanford, a JD from Harvard, and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. She serves on the board of Common Sense Media , and on the advisory board of LeanIn.Org , and she is a former board member at Foundation for a College Education , Global Citizen Year , The Writers Grotto , and Challenge Success . She volunteers with the hospital program No One Dies Alone .She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner of over thirty years, their young adults, and her mother. Please follow her work on social media https://www.instagram.com/jlythcotthaims/On the web at https://www.julielythcotthaims.comClick here for the link to her Ted Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyElHdaqkjo I have so much gratitude for everyone who has been listening to the Joyfull Parenting Podcast and joining the community of supporters at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=40232525 !If you haven’t already,  please subscribe to the podcast. It’s also super helpful to me if you rate it, review it and share it with others! If you are looking  to work with me one-on-one as your parenting/caregivng coach you can do so  by clicking on this link with  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=40232525. You can also find me on   Facebook and IG @joyfullparenting.

What do you do when you run a program that has hundreds of young adults spread across the world for an intentional gap year, and a global pandemic strikes? The only thing you can do: stage an emergency evacuation to bring every kid that’s abroad back home, ASAP. And that’s exactly what Abby Falik, Founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year, did back in March. And then she swiftly shifted how this organization—dedicated to re-imagining the transition into adulthood by facilitating a yearlong immersion experience abroad for high school graduates—could still make a significant impact, despite their main program being on pause for the next school year. What emerged was a new virtual program, the Global Citizen Academy, a leadership experience that “equips determined young people worldwide with powerful skills for a lifetime of social impact.” And the incredible silver lining to all the chaos that ensued this year is that Abby and her team were able to dramatically scale their reach and impact at a lower cost and more sustainably. This episode is an absolute must-listen for any leader that wants to develop and grow their impact with their teams, their communities, and the world.Please Subscribe, Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts You can also listen to the show on: StitcherOvercast GoogleSpotify Resources:1:58 – On advice in business school: “The key piece of advice everyone wanted to leave us with was ‘Relationships are everything. People are everything.’ You cannot move forward in the world without centering the relationships in your life.”6:08 – “It’s really about creating a throughline, a consistent connection that persists, despite the waves. Everything around us is changing so fast, all the time. And there’s a steadiness that can come from knowing that I connect with myself in the morning [through meditation], I have other rituals in the evening that are just about closing out the day. I write down three things that brought me joy during the day. There have been plenty of days in the last six months where that’s been hard to find. But even if I can’t come up with something, it’s the reminder that, ‘Oh, I’ve got to try harder tomorrow. Open your eyes for what’s worth savoring, because there IS a lot here.’”7:42 – On Covid’s impact on history: “As a global community, we have walked through a doorway. One chapter of human history has closed. And we’re sitting in this liminal space before we know exactly what comes next. And as an entrepreneur, it’s been highly energizing to sit here and feel like, ‘Okay, what does the world need next, and how do we build it?’ Because we can’t just default to what the market solutions and the least common denominator might build on the other side.”12:29 – On their Global Citizen Academy: “ We experimented with a radical approach to pricing, that’s ‘Pay What You Can.’ To really demonstrate that this was not meant to be an elite or exclusive experience. And 60% of the students who are joining us from 50 countries are receiving full scholarship.” 13:12 – On the purpose of Global Citizen Academy: “The notion is to help them find their people, their purpose, and their power to make an impact. These are kids that didn’t want to sit on the sidelines as the world comes apart at the seams. That they want to figure out how to develop themselves in ways that the world needs now.”16:24 – “Our alumni get through college on average one year faster than the national average. And to me even more significantly they report feeling more fulfilled with the experience. They have more self awareness, more confidence, more resilience, more ease with ambiguity. And then they end up in jobs where they report 80% of them feel like they are highly engaged and making a difference in some way. And that’s compared to 30% when we benchmark against national stats. And so, you’re turned on. You’re an agent of your learning and of your life in a way that our traditional  educational paradigm is teaching and reinforcing the opposite behaviors.”20:54 – “We’re honoring the beginning of meetings with more of a commitment to connecting as people….so our Monday meeting is now all virtual, but we do a really intensive check-in before we get going. In fact we start every meeting with a moment or two of mindful reflection to cleanse the palate and be deliberate about that transition. So we ring a bell and everyone’s quiet. And then in our team meetings, we’re breaking into small groups and talking about a prompt that elicits a more human and personal conversation.”22:08 – On a meeting ritual: “There are other rituals we’ve kept [since before Covid], that have always shaped our meeting and time together. So, in our senior team meetings, we start with a check-in that we call The Stoplight. And everyone goes around and tells whether they are green, yellow or red. Which is an indicator of how present they are and how much attention they feel they are able to put on the meeting and the conversation. So green means ‘I’m all here,’ a yellow means, ‘I’m almost here, but a little distracted and pulled,’ and a red means, ‘I’ve just got fires burning in the back of my mind, and it’s hard for me to be present.’”25:17 – “I think there’s a power in there for leaders in finding the strength in vulnerability and the confidence and humility both to show up a little bit more whole.” Abby’s websiteGlobal Citizen YearErica’s websitePreorder Erica’s forthcoming book, Rituals RoadmapErica’s book, Bring Your Human to WorkText ‘human’ to 66866 to sign up for Erica’s newsletter where she shares how to honor relationships well and how to bring your human to work and life. Connect Abby:TwitterLinkedInFacebook Connect with Global Citizen Year:InstagramTwitterLinkedInFacebook Connect with Erica: InstagramTwitterLinkedInFacebook

Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a covid gap year student? Are you curious what you'd do on a virtual gap year program? Today we hear from current gap year student Anushka Goel, who is participating in Global Citizen Academy. Global Citizen Academy is the virtual offering from Global Citizen Year, an organization that aims to build the next generation of global leaders. Anushka tells us how she is building that skill set alongside her virtual internship with OXFAM. You can find Global Citizen Academy online at globalcitizenyear.org on Twitter and Instagram @globalcitizenyr. And you can find us here at Gap Year Radio on Instagram and Facebook @gapyearradio or online at gapyearradiopodcast.com. You can email us your gap year questions or comments at gapyearradio@gmail.com. And, something new we’re trying out… if you have gap year planning questions please email us a voice memo of your question and we may use it in an upcoming episode!

Production team:Host : Maria XenidouProducer: Julie-Roxane KrikorianIntroduction Voice: David Bourne  Contact us:impactlearningpodcast(at)gmail.com  Music credits:Like Lee performed by The Mini VandalsTransition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks Where to find more about Abby Falik and Global Citizen Year:LinkedInHer websiteMediaGlobal Citizen YearGlobal Citizen Academy Listen to this episode and explore: Childhood: travelling around the world with her family and developing an entrepreneurial mindset (4:10)University: self-designing her bachelor’s degree in International Development and taking a formative gap year during college (7:58)The most challenging part of her gap year (11:05)The road to founding Global Citizen Year: her early career and the decision to go to business school (12:56)Abby’s advice to find your purpose: follow your heartbreak (17:19)The mission of Global Citizen Year (20:21)What a Global Citizen Year looks like (22:47)The support students receive before, during and after their Global Citizen Year (27:54)The decision to launch the Global Citizen Academy in 2020 (30:56)How they built the Global Citizen Academy through partnerships (37:17)The financial model of the Global Citizen Academy: pay what you can (39:37)The essence of the Global Citizen Year: an apprenticeship for growth and reflection (40:30)The importance of peer-to-peer learning (42:28)How Abby sees Global Citizen Year evolve in the future (43:44)Working closely with Colleges and Universities to bring the change they want to see (44:57)What Abby wants to leave her mark on during her lifetime (47:48) 

Hey New Age Nomads! So excited to share this weeks episode with you all with the Founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year, Abby Falik! I am personally so inspired by abby's story and what she has created with Global Citizen Year and I hope you feel empowered and inspired by her journey as well! If you're interested in learning more about GCY or GC academy visit Global Citizen Year on Instagram or their website! And if you want to learn even more about GCY please feel free to reach out to me at gennomadic@gmail.com and I will be more than happy to direct you to past fellows or answer your questions myself!

Hey New Age Nomads and Welcome to Part 2 of the Global Citizen Year fellow interveiw! In this segment the fellows touch on different highlights and low lights on their GCY's and share lots of stories and lessons from the road. They also touch on how GCY prepares or doesn't prepare students for struggles and issues while abroad which leads into a conversation regarding race and sexual orientation or preference. Even if you havn't taken or aren't planning on taking a GCY, the information and advice they share in this episode will be helpful for any new age nomad thinking about a gap year or their next travel experience. Hope you enjoy the episode! PS If you want to get in touch with any of the fellows in the episode to ask questions here is where you can find them! Ruby (Senegal)- @frizzzyafro Alex (India)- @alextd15 Natalie (Brazil)- @nat.alieee.k Hunter (Ecuador)- @hcady__

Hey New Age Nomads! I'm so excited to share our first podcast episode with you all. In this episode I interviewed 4 Global Citizen Year fellows, one from each location, on their experiences and stories from their gap year. Alex spent her GCY in India, Hunter went to Ecuador, Ruby went to Senegal and Natalie went to Brazil. Even if you are not interested in a GCY or have not done one in the past, the advice and insight they had on gap years and living abroad will apply to most everyone who is interested in travel and/or gap years. I decided to split this episode up into 2 segments because they all had so much valuable information to share. This episode, Part 1, is mostly about the overview of there experiences with GCY, their home-stays, apprenticeships and challenges with language. Part 2 will be focusing more on lessons and challenges with their gap year experience, as well as advice future GCY fellows and gap year students. Thank you for listening and I hope you enjoy the show! PS If you want to get in touch with any of the fellows in the episode to ask questions here is where you can find them! Ruby (Senegal)- @frizzzyafro Alex (India)- @alextd15 Natalie (Brazil)- @nat.alieee.k Hunter (Ecuador)- @hcady__

  How often during your college years did you wonder - How are these classes going to help me? What will do I with the information I am learning? What if you had the chance to discover your “why” during a yearlong opportunity — before you kicked off your career? That’s exactly what Abby Falik has created for individuals during a gap year between high school graduation and college entrance with Global Citizen Year. Abby is the founder of the organization, which also helps students stretch themselves, learn about cultures and languages, gain experiences and memories.while staying with host families in Brazil, Ecuador, India and Senegal, and work as apprentices in local organizations. In our previous conversation from 2018 (episode #82), Abby shared the roots of her passion and what made her determined to make the gap year part of every student’s college experience. In our latest conversation, Abby shares the launch of Global Citizen Academy, a new program bringing together high school students worldwide for the opportunity to explore topics such as effective communication, systems thinking and ethical decision-making. Global Citizen Academy is seizing this historic moment to help high school graduates find ways they can help their communities within an organization that has proven leadership training.  Abby was once the type of student she hopes to inspire. She was attending college at Stanford when she realized that she was longing for more than simply listening to professors in lecture halls. Abby took a break and spent a year in Brazil working and traveling. After coming back to Stanford after this life-changing journey, she noticed she gained confidence and maturity, which she credits with altering the course of her life. But before Abby realized her vision, she worked in a nonprofit — managing, building and creating ideas — and then attended Harvard to obtain an MBA that would help her create Global Citizen Year. Listen to episode #82, where Abby shares her story. We also discuss the exciting trends in education and how our perceptions and expectations of higher education can (and should) change to adapt to how we live. We discuss what inspires Abby’s work and why she hopes the model of taking a “bridge year” will soon become the norm for most students in the United States. 

The following is a conversation between Abby Falik, Founder & CEO of Global Citizen Year, and Denver Frederick, the host of the Business of Giving. Many High School Seniors Opting for Alternatives Other Than College in 2020 Think of this as a Year On Purpose Thoughts on How Organization Will Pivot from Global Fellow Program This Year

Today the team is talking with Abby Falik, the founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year. Abby grew up with parents committed to traveling the world — and never the usual tourist traps. After high school, she wanted to get close to the issues that she really cared about but couldn’t get into the Peace Corps without a college degree. Abby quickly realized there just wasn’t a good option for high school graduates to learn and serve abroad, and soon, it became her life’s mission to fix that. Ten years ago, Abby started Global Citizen Year to expand access to life-changing global immersion experiences between high school and college. She knew these experiences were uniquely well suited to unlock courage, shape identity, and develop leadership. Every year, Global Citizen Year places about 150 learners in an international internship. They live with a local family and are a part of a regional cohort. The results are transformational and lifelong. We live in a world where there’s an urgent need for kids of all backgrounds to connect with themselves, their peers, and the context around the world to shape values, identity, and build the courage to change the world — and Global Citizen Year strives to assist in that goal. Listen in as Abby describes her journey, the program that has transformed a thousand lives, and all of the incredible opportunities that Global Citizen Year provides.   Key Takeaways: [:14] About today’s episode with Abby Falik! [1:14] Tom welcomes Abby to the podcast. [1:20] Abby speaks about her education. [7:18] Abby tells the story of Global Citizen Year. [9:47] The mission of Global Citizen Year. [11:35] How Global Citizen Year works and how to get involved! [14:21] How Global Citizen Year impacts learners’ language acquisition. [15:28] How much choice do the students have in choosing the place they would like to travel to and the type of learning experience they would like to have? [16:20] Do the fellows get the opportunity to travel freely in their host country? [17:33] Are fellows ever placed together? Or do they all get placed individually? [18:05] Abby highlights some of the important qualities fellows gain from this experience. [19:40] Abby speaks about the ever-increasing importance of the outcomes that Global Citizen Year provides for young people. [22:03] Abby’s thoughts on how to begin blending informal learning experiences (such as those that Global Citizen Year offers) with formal classroom learning. [26:55] How can colleges incorporate Global Citizen Year or programs like it? [29:44] Is Global Citizen Year seeking financial partners for the program? [30:44] How many students are there in Global Citizen Year’s upcoming cohort? [30:55] Where to learn more about Abby and Global Citizen Year online! [32:02] Tom thanks Abby for joining the Getting Smart Podcast!   Mentioned in This Episode: Peace Corps Global Citizen Year Rosetta Stone Duolingo   Get Involved: Check out the blog at GettingSmart.com. Find the Getting Smart Podcast on iTunes, leave a review and subscribe.   Is There Somebody You’ve Been Wanting to Learn From or a Topic You’d Like Covered? To get in contact: Email Editor@GettingSmart.com and include ‘Podcast’ in the subject line. The Getting Smart team will be sure to add them to their list!  

Episode 108 - Julie Lythcott-Haims Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Julie Lythcott-Haims. Julie's bio: "We humans need agency in order to make our way forward; I am deeply interested in what impedes us. My first book, the 2015 New York Times bestseller How to Raise an Adult, details how a parent can rob a child from developing agency by over-parenting. It emerged from my decade as Stanford University's Dean of Freshmen, where I was known for my fierce advocacy for young adults and my fierce critique of the growing trend of parental involvement in the day-to-day lives of college students which was becoming a nationwide trend. I received the university's Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for creating “the” atmosphere that defines the undergraduate experience, and toward the end of my tenure as dean I began speaking and writing widely on the harm of helicopter parenting. How to Raise an Adult has been published in over two dozen countries and gave rise to a TED talk that became one of the top TED Talks of 2016 with over 4 million views, as well as a forthcoming sequel on how to be an adult, for young adults. Two years later I published Real American: A Memoir, a critically-acclaimed and award-winning memoir which examines racism through my experience as a Black and biracial person. In it, I detail my personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color, and depict how microaggressions in addition to blunt-force insults can puncture a person's inner life with a thousand sharp cuts. Real American expresses also, through my path to self-acceptance, the healing power of community in overcoming the hurtful isolation of being incessantly considered “the other.” In addition to publishing two non-fiction books, my work has appeared throughout the media including in the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement of London, the Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, Parents, AsUs, the PBS News Hour, CBS This Morning, Good Morning America, The Today Show, National Public Radio and its affiliates, C-SPAN, the TD Jakes Show, and numerous podcasts and radio shows. I serve on the boards of Foundation for a College Education in East Palo Alto, CA, Global Citizen Year, in Oakland, CA, Common Sense Media, in San Francisco, and on the advisory board of Lean In in Menlo Park, CA. I am a member of the Peninsula chapter of Threshold Choir and I volunteer with the hospital program No One Dies Alone. I am a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean, and I hold a BA from Stanford, a JD from Harvard, and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area with my partner of over thirty years, our two teenagers, and my mother." Click here to visit her website: www.julielythcott-haims.com Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. Please visit our website for more information: thecuriosityhourpodcast.com The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! To donate, click here: thecuriosityhourpodcast.com/donate/ Please visit this page for information where you can listen to our podcast: thecuriosityhourpodcast.com/listen/ Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language.

Stanford Pathfinders with Howard Wolf: "Launching Students to Adulthood with guest Abby Falik" Global Citizen Year founder and CEO Abby Falik discusses the importance of taking a year off between college and high school to work on projects in a non-classroom environment. Many call it taking a gap year, but she explains why it should be called a launch year. Originally aired on SiriusXM on December 15, 2018. Recorded at Stanford Video.

Abby Falik, founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year, discusses the importance of taking a “gap year” between college and high school to work on projects in a nonclassroom environment—and why she calls it a “launch year” instead.

How often have you wondered: Why am I doing this? Why do I want this? Why am I experiencing this? What if you had the chance to discover your "why" during a yearlong opportunity — before you kicked off your career? That's exactly what Abby Falik has created for individuals during a gap year between high school graduation and college entrance with Global Citizen Year. She is the founder of the organization, which also helps students stretch themselves, learn about new cultures and languages, and also gain priceless experiences and memories. Students of Global Citizen Year stay with host families in Brazil, Ecuador, India and Senegal, and work as apprentices in local organizations.   Abby was once the type of student she hopes to inspire. She was attending college at Stanford when she realized that she was longing for more than the life that a traditional model of education provides. She wanted more out of her education that simply listening to professors in lecture halls. Taking action, Abby left traditional education behind and spent a year in Brazil working and traveling. After coming back to Stanford after this life-changing journey, she noticed she gained confidence and maturity, which she credits as an advantage that altered the course of her life. On this trip Abby had discovered her own "why" and her vision for her lifelong work was born. But before Abby realized her vision, she worked in a nonprofit — managing, building and creating ideas — and then attended Harvard to obtain an MBA that would help her create Global Citizen Year. In today's episode, we discuss the exciting trends in education and how our perceptions and expectations of higher education can (and should) change to create better accommodations for how we live. We also learn what inspires Abby's work and why she hopes the model of taking a "bridge year" will soon become the norm for most students in the United States. Then again, maybe we should all consider a bridge year — whether we're entering college or beginning year 15 of our careers.

Today's interview is with Abby Falik, the founder & CEO of Global Citizen Year, a for-purpose social venture on a mission to make it normal for kids to choose a bridge year after high school: an experience that builds self-awareness, global skills and grit – the foundations for success in college, and beyond. Their core program gives high school graduates from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to spend a “bridge year” living and working in a foreign country —learning a new language, navigating a new culture, asking big questions, clarifying their life purpose, and building real-world life skills — before jumping into college.If you’re curious about travel, social change, entrepreneurship, or just love stories about people who have figured out how to take big ideas and make them a reality, you will want to check out this episode. Resource Mentioned In The EpisodeGlobal Citizen Year: http://globalcitizenyear.org/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Abby Falik, founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year, talks with Elizabeth about three books that changed her perspective: A memoir by a classmate that altered her view on living and dying, a short tome that prescribes taking the time to be present in the moment, and a guilty pleasure book about a man that that rises from rural poverty to tycoon status and the toll it takes on his soul. 

  The British born essayist, Pico Lyer, once said, “We don’t travel to move, we travel to be moved.” There is a unique power in global experiences that takes us outside our comfort zones and shapes our empathy. Abby Falik is one of those individuals who have discovered this power. Abby is the Founder & CEO of Global Citizen Year, an innovative ‘for-purpose social venture’ on a mission to make it normal for kids to choose a ‘bridge year’ abroad after high school: an experience that builds self-awareness, global skills and grit. Abby is a recognized expert on social innovation and the changing landscape of education. She has been featured by Forbes, NPR, The Washington Post and The New York Times. In 2016, Fast Company named her one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. In this conversation, Branden and Abby go deep into the philosophy behind the importance of travel and the strength in pursuing a possibility that is not yet happening. More: http://soundsgoodpodcast.com/abby

While today’s topic might not be an issue in higher education generally, it could well be an issue in your own teenager’s higher education--and it’s an issue that you might want to think about quickly right now if you have a high school senior. It is the notion of having your teenager take a gap year between finishing high school this spring and starting college this fall. For those of you who have high school juniors at home, it’s not too early for you to be thinking about this option, too. For those of you wrestling with which college your teenager should attend when he or she has some options, let us remind you that, last year in April, we did a series of three episodes on how to think about that college decision--one for above-average students, one for average students, and one for below-average students--because we felt that their options and their reasons for choosing one college over another might be very different. You should go back and re-read the show notes or re-listen to Episodes 69, 70, and 71--or, at least, the one that best describes the academic standing of your own teenager. As we said last week when we highlighted some key points from those three episodes, we just can’t do any better now than we did then in pointing out the serious questions you should consider in making this all-important choice with your teenager. With all that said, we are guessing that there are some families that are not thrilled with the college options they have at the moment, and today’s episode might give those families something else to consider. Like everything, the notion of a gap year has pros and cons, though I have to say that there are a lot of fervent supporters--far more than I thought before I did this episode. Let’s get some background. 1. The Background Let me start by saying that I happened on an article from The Conversation from way back last May. The Conversation is, in its own words, “an independent source of news and views from the academic and research community.” The Conversation explains that its “team of professional editors work with university and research institute experts to unlock their knowledge for use by the wider public. Access to independent, high quality, authenticated, explanatory journalism underpins a functioning democracy. Our aim is to promote better understanding of current affairs and complex issues. And hopefully allow for a better quality of public discourse and conversation.” (quoted from the website) The Conversation, which was founded in Australia and now operates in the U.K. and U.S. as well, is a free resource, which addresses issues in arts, business, politics, the environment, health, technology, education, and more--so check it out. The discussion today comes from an article by Joe O’Shea, the Director of Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement at Florida State University, and Nina Hoe, the Study Director at the Institute for Survey Research at Temple University. In the interest of full disclosure, Mr. O’Shea is the president of the board of the American Gap Association, and Ms. Hoe is the Association’s Director of Research. My guess is that they might not be the most impartial chroniclers of the benefits of a gap year; nonetheless, they offer a lot of information on the topic in their article. Although gap years have been discussed--and taken--in the U.S. for many years, the notion of a gap year landed squarely on our collective radar when Malia Obama decided to take 2016–2017 as a gap year before attending Harvard this coming fall. Now, that probably had to do with the fact that her father was finishing up his presidency more than anything else, but perhaps she put gap years on the map for a lot of families that had never thought about them. The data show that about 11 percent of Australian students more than 10 years ago were taking gap years compared to no more than 3 percent of U.S. students today. What is a common topic of discussion and real alternative for educated families in the U.K. is rarely discussed here in the U.S., especially among middle-income and lower-income families. And yet, Mr. O’Shea and Ms. Hoe assert, in their article, that gap years are getting more popular in the U.S. So, let’s look at what the research shows. 2. The Research The authors present evidence that an alarmingly sizable percentage of students on college campuses are stressed severely enough--including to the point of being medically diagnosed with anxiety or depression--to cause them to seek counseling from on-campus health services. The authors also note that “faculty and staff are reporting that today’s students lack coping skills such as resilience and the ability to succeed independently despite adversity” (quoted from the article). It is a picture of too many college students who are burned out from intense high school years, over-anxious, and unable to handle the many demands of college academic and social life. Well, if that’s the problem, what does research say about the solution? Here is what the authors say: Research shows that a gap year . . . can provide students the opportunity to gain personal skills such as independence, resilience, confidence and focus. A combination of activities during this year that involve volunteering, interning or working, either domestically or internationally, can provide meaningful experiences that challenge students outside their comfort zones. These experience[s] can help students reevaluate how they understand themselves and the world. Several peer-reviewed studies focusing on students in the U.K. and Australia have shown that students who took a gap year experienced a host of personal benefits, such as higher levels of motivation and higher academic performance in college. A 2015 survey of over 700 former gap year participants found overwhelming personal, academic, career and civic engagement benefits associated with taking a gap year. Over 90 percent of all respondents indicated that their gap year provided important time for personal reflection, aided in personal development, increased maturity and self-confidence, and fostered the development of interpersonal communication skills. Specifically related to college, 73 percent of respondents reported that their gap year helped them increase their readiness for college, 59 percent said it increased their interest in attending college and 57 percent said it helped them figure out what they wanted to study in college. (quoted from the article) As loyal listeners of USACollegeChat know, we are all about getting kids outside their comfort zone, so that is an appealing aspect of a gap year. And I do think that what the research finds is entirely believable. I imagine that most adults would agree that a one-year dose of the real world—whether that is in a volunteer or paid setting, whether that is at home or far away, whether that is working with people like you or people not at all like you—is likely to help teenagers grow up and give them more life-coping skills than they had when they started. But what about their future academic life? What if they like the path they are on in their gap year so much that they decide not to go to college at all? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? And what happens when they do go to college after a gap year? Here is some research cited, with obvious approval, on the American Gap Association website: From Joe O’Shea’s book, Gap Year: How Delaying College Changes People in Ways the World Needs: “. . . In Australia and the United Kingdom, economic researchers found that high school students who deferred their admission to college to take a Gap Year went to college (after their Gap Year) at the same rate as those who accepted an offer and intended to go straight there (Birch and Miller 2007; Crawford and Cribb 2012). They also found that taking a Gap Year had a significant positive impact on students’ academic performance in college, with the strongest impact for students who had applied to college with grades on the lower end of the distribution (Birch and Miller 2007; Crawford and Cribb 2012).” In fact, in the United Kingdom and in the United States, students who had taken a Gap Year were more likely to graduate with higher grade point averages than observationally identical individuals who went straight to college, and this effect was seen even for Gap Year students with lower academic achievement in high school (Crawford and Cribb 2012, Clagett 2013). (quoted from the website) Well, now I am really interested--because I feared that kids who took a gap year might end up opting out of college (which would obviously not be my preference for them). It is also persuasive that gap-year kids with lower grades in high school graduated with higher college grades than similar students who went straight to college. Whether that finding is the result of academic knowledge actually gained during the gap year or of enhanced personal traits (like motivation and self-confidence) doesn’t really matter, I guess. So, there does not seem to be a personal or academic downside to a gap year--at least according to this research, these authors, and the American Gap Association. 3. The Design (and Expense) of a Worthwhile Gap Year How then do Mr. O’Shea and Ms. Hoe characterize an appropriate gap year experience? This is what they say: Gap years need to be properly designed so they can challenge students with new roles and perspectives that accelerate their growth as thinkers and citizens. Experiences that push students out of their comfort zones and allow them to explore new cultures and people from different backgrounds can create an impactful experience. They provide students an opportunity to reflect on a number of challenges and also allow for critical self-reflection that can root part of their identity in contributions to others. In an ideal gap year experience, students get to develop actual relationships with people who are different from them. And when that happens, students can begin to see the world from different perspectives and learn about the complexity of social challenges. (quoted from the article) Of course, that all sounds great. And if that can be done in the context of an internship near home or a volunteer slot in a nearby community, then I can get past one fear I have, which is that that gap years are just one more thing that benefit rich kids who can afford to fly off to some exotic locale or who can get a fascinating internship because of their parents’ connections.   Do you know, by the way, that there are companies that plan gap years for kids, including booking all of the travel? That can’t be cheap. Just like college admissions coaching, the notion of gap year experiences has spawned a whole industry. And that does worry me a bit. Perhaps the title of a New York Times article last May by Mike McPhate says it all: “Malia Obama’s ‘Gap Year’ Is Part of a Growing (and Expensive) Trend." His article notes that the price tag on an international gap year program could run as high as $35,000. But here are a couple of other ways to do it: [U]niversity administrators . . . note that gap-year plans come in a variety of forms, some of them at no cost. AmeriCorps’ City Year, for example, pays students stipends to teach. Another popular program, Global Citizen Year, provides financial support--more than $6 million since 2010--for students to pursue experiential learning. But those programs can be highly competitive. City Year, for example, says it selects only about one in four applicants. (quoted from the article) So, although these programs sound promising, it’s like trying to get into college all over again. I am not sure how that helps kids cope with burnout and stress. And, as we might have expected, colleges themselves are getting into the game, according to Mr. McPhate’s article: More universities have begun formal gap-year programs that take varying approaches to enrollment and the providing of aid, including Princeton, Tufts, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Elon University. At Princeton and North Carolina, for example, freshman-year enrollment is deferred and at least some financial help is provided, while Elon considers participants enrolled and charges its regular tuition. Another program offered by the New School in New York City also treats students as enrolled and offers up to a full year of academic credit. Florida State University is among the latest campuses to start offering scholarships to gap-year students. Late last year, the public institution said applicants could get up to $5,000, and sent an email to the entire incoming [freshman] class urging them to consider deferring their freshman year. (quoted from the article) Clearly, I am not understanding how a gap year turns into a year where tuition is charged and a full year of academic credit is given. That really makes it sound more like a study abroad program. And, in fact, there are already colleges (NYU is one) where freshmen can take their freshman year in another country--a real study abroad experience before you ever study at home. 4. So What? So, what is the purpose of a gap year and who should think about taking one? Well, I think that the vocal proponents of gap years think everyone should take one, given the positive results that the research seems to show. I am probably a bit more restrained in my enthusiasm, but I am willing to be persuaded. Parents, I am afraid that you are going to have to do some research of your own if you think your senior would benefit from a year of experiences--paid or unpaid, nearby or far away--before starting into his or her college career. Here are a few quotations from another New York Times article, written last year by Abigail Falik, who is the founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year (which we mentioned earlier) and who is, I am assuming, a bit partial to the notion of gap years.   What if college freshmen arrived on campus not burnt out from having been “excellent sheep” in high school, but instead refreshed, focused and prepared to take full advantage of the rich resources and opportunities colleges have to offer? The “gap year,” a common practice across Europe and Australia, has yet to take root in the United States. A primary barrier is the stigma we associate with the term--it conveys privilege and frivolity and is often viewed either as a luxury for a select few, or remediation for kids who didn’t get into the college of their choice. And yet, the research shows undeniable, positive impacts in terms of increased maturity, confidence and achievement. A recent Middlebury study showed that students who take a year off before arriving outperform their peers in their academic and extracurricular engagement on campus. . . . Given its known benefits, it’s time to rebrand the “gap year” as anything but a “gap.” When used intentionally, the year before college can be a bridge, a launch pad and a new rite of passage. It’s the students who find the courage to step off the treadmill--replacing textbooks with experience and achievement with exploration--who are best prepared for life after high school. And a growing number of colleges are taking notice. Bill Fitzsimmons, Harvard’s undergraduate admissions dean, wrote a manifesto about the need for students to take time off before college. Rick Shaw, Stanford’s undergraduate admissions dean, now speaks about the value of non-linear paths and the learning and growth that come from risk taking and failure, as opposed to perfect records. (quoted from the article) Well, if I had not been sure that the notion of a gap year was an issue in higher education when I started this episode, I am pretty sure now. Parents, start your research! Ask your questions or share your feedback by... Leaving a comment on the show notes for this episode at http://usacollegechat.org/episode115 Calling us at (516) 900-6922 to record a question on our USACollegeChat voicemail if you want us to answer your question live on our podcast Connect with us through... Subscribing to our podcast on Google Play Music, iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn Liking us on Facebook or following us on Twitter Reviewing parent materials we have available at www.policystudies.org Inquiring about our consulting services if you need individualized help Reading Regina's blog, Parent Chat with Regina

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