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Empowering Emerging Leaders to Thrive in College and Life with Abby Falik
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Host : Maria Xenidou
Introduction Voice: David Bourne
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Music credits:
Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals
Transition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks
Where to find more about Abby Falik and Global Citizen Year:
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)
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