Finding Your Why: Empowering Youth
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Finding Your Why: Empowering Youth
This interview based podcast puts the spotlight on finding the WHY behind the motives of these ambitious individuals. Tune in to hear amazing stories from young people all over the nation! Youth organizers and young leaders are often dismissed by adults. It is both isolating, frustrating, and what...
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22 episodes
Restarting the Day
Deesha and Simone talks about how balancing school, work, and other extracurriculars can be quite challenging especially when there is no schedule. Th...
Conversation about Overworking and Burnout
Deesha and Simone sits down and discuss the reality of overworking and burnouts. With the combination of experiences in high school and college, we di...
Positioning Yourself With Authority
Today, we discussed how to have a growth mindset in order to be able to position ourselves as leaders. We learned how to set boundaries, develop core...
Taking Your First Step
Do you have an idea or something that you are really interested in, but don’t know where to start? Today, we will be talking about how to take your fi...
Building your Inner Circle
Your inner circle is an essential part of your life. Typically your inner circle includes your family, friends, and your partner. Deesha and Simone t...
Breaking Barriers
Gen Z are redefining beauty standards by celebrating human diversity in all forms, but yet still feel the pressures to conform to what is traditionall...
Redefining Success
Society hands us a definition of success that we strive after due to its false promises of a perfect life. When you tap into your “why,” it allows you...
The Journey of a Refugee
Rita Audi is an author of “My Grandmother Nadia: The Journey of a Refugee.” This memoir describes the heart-breaking and hopeful experiences of a refu...
Supporting Survivors
Abigail Jones co-founded “Our Future of Change,” the international youth-led chapter of “Her Future Coalition.” “Our Future of Change” raises awarenes...
Your Why v.s. Your What
An inspirational person of character, Princeton Parker, utilizes his words to help people see, believe, and pursue the best of themselves. In this epi...
|BLM Activist: Chewii| State of the Nation
Chewii is an artist that has dedicated her self-produced single in the memory of George Floyd called “State Of The Nation.” She stays authentic and sp...
Self-Actualization, the Key to Your Purpose
Our special guest today is J.Isaak! He is a artist that has a passion of helping juveniles through music therapy. The purpose of his art is to preach...
Passions, not Resumé Padding
In this special cross-over episode of the Admissions Uncovered podcast and the Finding Your Why podcast, Simone, Deesha, and Michael talk about a them...
|BLM Activist: Jacqueline LaBayne| Fighting for their Rights
Jacqueline LaBayne is a Policy Analyst Intern for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the co-founder of the Freedom Fighters DC. The Freedom Fight...
The Equal Rights Amendment
Our special guest today is Yasmina Mansour! Yasmina Mansour is the co-founder of Generation Ratify, a youth-led movement to ratify the Equal Rights Am...
|BLM Activist: Aurum Oro| The Collective Trauma in the Twin Cities
The Finding Your Why team fully supports the Black Lives Matter movement. We are starting a series that amplifies activist voices during these times.<...
The Pandemic State of Mind
This episode is dedicated to organizations that are helping us during this pandemic! Sophie Rose, a therapist and founder of Other Together, teaches u...
Unapologetically Myself
The last part of our interview with Luis Lageyre! He shares his experience in publishing his children’s book, a homage to his mother. In addition, he...
Team Teen
From a school project to a non-profit organization, Team Teen, helps empower teens in foster care and other disadvantaging circumstances. The non-prof...
Special Message to the DDA class of 2020
Luis Lageyre shares a very special message to the Disney Dreamers Academy class of 2020. Even though they missed some of the academy due to this pande...
Follow Your Dreams
Walt Disney once said, “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” Like this quote, Luis Lageyre runs the non-profit organ...
Spread Kindness Not The Virus
Can you believe that two high school students have the power to solve hunger and food insecurity? Shreyaa and Esha Venkat are the co-founders of the n...