Empowering Emerging Leaders to Thrive in College and Life with Abby Falik

English - August 20, 2020 04:05 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratings
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Production team:

Introduction Voice: David Bourne

Music credits:

Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals

Transition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks

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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)