Season 2, Episode 1: "What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up" Is the Wrong Question

That Social Work Lady

Season 2 of That Social Work Lady is live!!
That Social Work Lady Podcast began as a pandemic project. Like most projects that begin on a whim, the podcast began without a plan. It was just an idea to create a podcast that focused on exploring the ideas in Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s thesis 'the beloved community' through my eyes as a social worker.
Now in Season 2, I'm asking the question: What do I want That Social Work Lady to be when it grows up? And of course my answer shifted from what I want the podcast to be to how I want That Social Work Lady to contribute to my community.
Adults often ask kids that question as well. Kids when first asked the question, What do you want to be when you grow up, believe it is an open question with a world's worth of answers. They quickly learn however, that the question is asked with expectations making it a more loaded question. Soon kids begin answering the question in order to please the person who is asking the question versus answering it in their own truth and honesty.
In the first episode of season 2 for That Social Work Lady podcast, I am shifting the energy of that question. In the spirit of building the beloved community let's stop asking kids 'what they want to be when they grow up' and instead ask 'how do you want to contribute to your community.'
Now let's take it a step farther and start asking the question of yourself, your business endeavors, your family, and other aspects of your life. Ask not what you want it to be but ask instead how you want it to contribute.
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NF's song When I Grow Up.