Topics Covered
- Jay Gosselin - Character-based career and leadership facilitator and coach
- Jay's background, education, and career journey
- How getting fired lead to working at the Olympics
- The key things employers are looking for
- Gathering skills and pursuing interests to uncover his mission
- Humility taught him how to learn and deliver education in a new way
- Why Discover Year is unique - one year career and leadership development certificate
- How vulnerability and honesty creates a supportive environment
- Irrational fears about taking a gap year
- Why it's important to support women specifically in making career changes
- Emotional risk vs financial risk
- Insights that can come from a gap year at any stage in your career
- The value in diversifying the people you interact with on a regular basis
- Listening, curiosity, and asking questions
- Human connection is paramount in all things
- The importance of purposeful education
- Harvard's gap year
- What would education look like if it were more purposeful
- Jim Collins - Author of Built to Last, From Good to Great "Get the right people on the bus and in the right seats"
