Preparing for a Career in Global Broadcast Journalism

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There are some people that make their
work just another thing they have to do,

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and there are those that make their
work something that they want to do.

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Welcome to Working on Purpose with your
host Elise Cortez. In our program,

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we provide guidance and inspiration from those
people who have found deeper meaning and

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personal connection to their work life.
It's beyond nine to five. It's working

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on purpose. Now Here is your
host, Elise Cortez. I'm your host,

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Elise Cortez, joining your Life from
Dallas, Texas, which is home

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base for me. This program is
all about helping people more meaningfully and productively

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connect with their work and equipping leaders
to cultivate meaning and purpose in the workplace,

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to elicit passion inspired contribution and persevering
performance within the organization. So I

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seek out and bring on guests to
a particular perspective, experience, or expertise

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that I think contributes to or expands
this conversation, and as a management consultant

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and social scientist, I draw them
meeting in work and identity research I've been

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doing over the last fifteen years,
as well as my experience consulting, speaking

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and developing workforces across the globe.
Last week. If you miss the live

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show, you can always catch a
via recorded podcast. We were on the

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air with gwyn Rich. She is
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accredited image stylist, small business owner, philanthropist, and Wall Street Journal best

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selling author of Stop Complaining, Make
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eight misdiagnoses, Gwynn was ultimately diagnosed
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Struggling to decide what to do with
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launched the gwyn Marine Collection Purses with
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to fulfill her mission of helping others. Her legacy on the go is the

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development of an online teaching community called
the Rich Solution. In our conversation,

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we talked about the history of breast
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it, and learned about these amazing
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With us this week is Kate Benedict, a member of Generation Z and

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a seventeen year old junior high school
student at Lake Hill Preparatory School here in

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Dallas. She spent years cultivating a
dedicated career in dance and is now excitedly

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preparing for another chapter in her life, college in a couple of years,

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and potentially a career in global broadcast
journalism. We'll talk about her early career

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in dance, her ongoing transformation as
a student venturing into global broadcast journalism,

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and how she plans to use her
strengths and talents in this career. She

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joins us today from my studio office
right here with me here in Dallas.

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Kate, welcome to Working on Purpose. Thank you so happy to be here.

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It's at it great. I'm so
happy to have you. I will

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share with our listeners. I've known
you for years and I've seen you blossom

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into this beautiful young woman that you
are, and I'm so impressed and happy

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to have you on the show.
I'm really excited to be here. Well,

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let's start by talking about you and
the other kids you know that you

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go to school with. In other
words, we'll call with the Generation Z.

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So that's anybody that's generally under age
twenty two at this point. So

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I know that you are certainly not
the typical high school youth for sure,

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But can you help us understand what
do people your age care about? Focus

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on what are they what are they
talking about? I feel like most people,

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well, first of all, I
don't want to speak upon behalf of

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other people because they have their own
opinions and their own voices, and I

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want them to share what they're doing
with their life and their time. But

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like, based on what I've seen
from my friends, I feel like it's

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all about making connections and really working
together to you know, increase social blade,

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I guess, and you know,
become you know, the highest ranking

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person in popularity and you know,
going out and doing things like going to

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concerts and parties. And I never
got to experience that. So obviously I'm

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a little bit behind in that aspect
of life when I'm ahead and many others.

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But they, you know, tend
to focus on a lot of social

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activities. Okay, I didn't either. When I was at age. I

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was also very focused on the world
of work, and I had two really

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great girlfriends that were important to me. But I was definitely zeroed in more

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on work like you have been too. Yeah, so I've always know new

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to be this incredibly razor focused young
person, and you really went after a

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year developing your challenge and dance.
So first how old were you when you

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got into dance? And why dance? So we moved to Dallas when I

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just turned six. We moved from
Naples, Florida, so it was a

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very different environment. It was,
you know, going from the nice sandy

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beaches to you know, a cold
Dallas winter. So my parents wanted me

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to you know, get into all
these activities. I actually joined my school's

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soccer team. My parents immediately knew
it was not the right fit for me,

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considering I was actually on the soccer
field running away from the team.

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The soccer players picking up dandelions and
skipping on the fields got the image.

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So they put me in dance classes
because you know, they figured I was

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more on the artistic side rather than
the more athletic like soccer, basketball,

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softball type. But yeah, I
mean I immediately blossomed. My parents.

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They remember my first show. It
was like, I think I was seven

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at the time, maybe because it
was the next Spring show, or maybe

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I was still six, but I
was in like this little cha cha costume

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with like red fringe all over it, and I just stood out on stage

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and I was a really shy kid, and my parents were watching me and

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they were like that's my daughter,
but like that's not my daughter. Like

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they were just like shocked and they
knew, like this, like she has

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to be on stage, she has
to do something like in front of an

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audience because it like really like you
know, shows who she really is lights

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you up. Yeah, it lit
my fire. That's so awesome. Well

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what is it about dance? Before
we talk more about to maybe rather interest,

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I want to really unders get acquainted
with What was that like for you

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to live in that world at dance? What did you love about it?

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Gosh, there's so many things I
loved about it. There's I wouldn't say

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the culture is necessarily the healthiest considering
there's so much competition and it is.

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It's really intense. You know.
I was training really intensely, and my

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dance friends were my closest friends because
they, you know, we all did

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the same thing. We all danced
at the same classes at the same rate.

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We were all you know, doing
the same thing. We're in the

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same pieces together. But in reality, they're your enemies. They're your competition

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because when it comes time to you
know, enroll in spots and companies and

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audition and place and companies, you
know, you're competing against them. So

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if your friend doesn't get the spot
and you do, it's like, oh,

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sorry about that. Like I'm gonna
go pursue my dream now, have

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like good luck, you know.
So it's wow, it's very it's so

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brutal. It's really difficult to make
friends, but it's very easy to lose

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friends. I can imagine. I
don't know if you answered a little about

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what you liked about it. Sorry, but that's okay. I want to

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I want to hear that and then
I want to get something else behind underneath

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that as well. Yeah, sorry
about that. What I like about it?

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I mean as a kid, I
never really like found my passion early.

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Like most people found their passion early. They found dance when they were

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like two or three. You know, they had soccer, base or not

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baseball, softball, basketball, They
had found their niche. And I didn't

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find my niche until a lot later, which I yeah, six put us

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into content three year difference. A
three year difference is I mean, it

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doesn't seem like a lot, but
it's kind of a lot. I mean

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it put me behind the dance curve. So when I really got to training,

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I really had to step it up
and work hard. But it really

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gave me a way to express myself. So when I couldn't put into words,

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I put into action and movement.
And like I would you know,

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have like the worst day at home, Like Ethan would make me mad because

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I don't, you know, he's
your brother's brother. It's like boy things,

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like you know, he just he's
a boy, so you know,

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he would make me mad. And
I would go into the studio and I

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would lock myself in the studio.
I would turn on my music and I

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would just forget about it and I
would like I would dance my struggles and

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my pains away and it was like
the most amazing thing. And I would

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like critique myself on the way.
I mean depend Like I would always you

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know, find out what dance I
wanted to do, so like whether it

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was ballet, like if I wanted
to feel more soft and like you know,

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really tense and up but like that
was my favorite field of dance,

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or if I wanted to do like
lyrical or contemporary, get like really like

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gritty and like earthy if that makes
sense. Yeah, I get like really

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into it, and like I would
just improv and I would like be like

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leaping across the floor, like I
would look crazy, But I had this

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I had this favorite studio and it's
in the very back of the whole complex,

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and there's this amazing view of like
lovers and in wood and it's just

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so pretty. And I would go
there either like late at night or like

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early ish in the morning, so
the sun would either still be rising or

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setting or would be completely dark,
and there's trees and like the natural light

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just like filters in and it's like
the most beautiful thing. And you just

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start dancing, and like once you
start, it's like so hard to stop

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because you're just going. And then
you know obviously see yourself in the mirror

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and you're like, okay, let
me fix that. But otherwise, like

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it was like the environment and like
feeling of being in that studio and being

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able to express myself in a way
that not a lot of other people could

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when I couldn't express myself. It
was like amazing. Wow, that was

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a beautiful narration. Thank you for
sharing. Thank you so much. And

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to help our listeners understand your commitment
to this just what you did in this

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space, help us understand like how
much time did you spend per week working

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at this well, probably on average
spend about depending on what time period I

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was dancing in. So I trained
with Paul Mahia, who's the former protege

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of George Balanchine back in his prime
up in Arlington, and I would spend

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twelve hours a day in the studio
at the actual complex, twelve hours a

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day, twelve hours a day,
so I would be there from about eight

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am to my last class ended at
eight pm, and I'd be dancing about

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five to six of those hours.
And then I had a pilates class.

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And obviously I did online school,
so I obviously procrastinated and didn't do a

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lot of work, so I would
go into the studio and dance rather than

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doing schoolwork. So but actually training
was probably like six hours. Okay,

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that's a very very intense effort.
I wanted to make sure their listeners understood

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just what you put into this craft
of your challenge. It's really serious.

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I mean the names I was training
with are like, you know, global

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names, Like I went to a
dance competition in Los Angeles and I'm like,

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I normally you didn't do competitions,
but this one, I put a

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contemporary piece in and it got the
finals, and Nigelithco, the host of

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So You Think You Can Dance,
was the judge. Wow, Nigel Eiko,

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and I'm like, I there's actually
a picture of me. Nigel Liithco

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is walking in the building and I'm
in the background and there's my face.

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Is just like, oh my god, he's right there, like he's right

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there in person. It's amazing.
But he was my actual judge for my

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piece, and I was like,
oh my gosh, like this is and

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I don't get nervous, but it
was very like this is like one of

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the biggest names in dance, Like
I have to do really well. That's

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gorgeous, such great experience, and
I want to see something really quick before

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I take you on to the next
thing I want to ask you about.

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But you said you were behind the
eight ball at age six. You do

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realize that there are people in their
forties and fifties who haven't figured out what

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they're going to be when they grow
up. Yes, okay, I just

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want to make sure the judge.
I mean just in my friend group,

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like everybody kind of figured it out
what they like, what their sport was,

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and they were like, you know, good at their school, Like

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you know, they like fit the
normal role of you know, elementary middle

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school kid and I did not,
So I felt kind of like, oh,

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I need to figure out like what
that is. But dance, you

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know, like filled that void and
I found my niche and it was incredibly

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far from normal, but like you
know, it fulfilled me in the way

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that the other kids in my grade
and they're you know, their activities fulfilled

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their void, and dance filled mine. Sounds gorgeous. So you know,

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the show is all about work,
It's all about this whole place, and

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I wanted to bring you on for
lots of reasons. One, I want

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to be able to help our listeners
across the globe understand a bit more about

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Generation Z. You know, I
don't think you're a perfect representation of that,

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because I think you're quite an extraordinary
human being. That's not to say

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that the rest of your generation isn't, yes, but I do like to

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be able to bring on voices from
different generations to help us understand how people

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see work and how they experience.
Said, so, for you, what

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does work mean to you? For
me, work should obviously be hard,

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it should be challenging. You should, you know, push yourself in your

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work. It should make you It
sounds weird, but it should make you

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uncomfortable. You should push yourself so
far that you're uncomfortable, and then once

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you get past that uncomfort, you
are comfortable, and then you just continue

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pushing. But even though work is
hard, that doesn't mean it should be

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fun. Like it needs to be. There needs to be entertainment and fun,

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and you need to enjoy what you
do. Like I'm not the account

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and type. I would just be
miserable doing accounting in numbers all the day,

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and that's hard for me. But
there are some people who love accounting

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and that's what they want to do
for the rest of their lives and it

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fulfills them. But for me,
like, I really want to push myself

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in what I do and I want
to push boundaries and I want to create

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new boundaries for myself. But I'm
still gonna have a good time doing it.

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Okay, So with the challenge piece
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you're going to continue to grow and
push yourself. You recognize it's not always

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going to be a party. That's
amazing, But I want to, I

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mean I want to for the most
part have a good time. Okay,

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yeah, okay, that's totally fair. Really quick, there's an author that

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I'm currently reading and I hope to
have on my show, Emilyfahani Smith.

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She's right. She's written a book
about meaning and she's she's talking about how

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important it is to find meaning in
our work and not look for happiness.

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Doesn't have to be happy, but
meaningful. And I think she's spot on

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right. Yes, So, you
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It seems very mature. I definitely
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I mean, they're not always going
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like at certain times they will cross
pass and they'll work together. Okay,

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I can live with that, entirely
work together, get it? Yeah,

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I got it. I just noticed
that I have. Of course, you

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did give in your strengths. But
we'll talk about here in a second,

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but before we do that, one
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here, I think that who we
associate with the life is really really important,

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and in fact, it can actually
determine really who you become in many

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ways. According to Robert Keagan,
who's as a social psychologist, Yeah,

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so who are the major influences in
your life and how they contribute to who

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you are today. I don't think
I can just all image that. Yeah,

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but I don't think I can just
limit the like it can't just be

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who's an influence. It has to
be what and when and where like certain

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times in certain places. So the
major ones, yeah, like major ones

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like mistakes, a mistake, Like
mistakes are like the biggest influence on me

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because without mistakes, like I can't
grow learning from my mistakes, like for

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example, and dancing, like I
would you know, my teacher would correct

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me on a mistake, or even
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okay, so I have to fix
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but it really benefit me because I
learned and I was like, okay,

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so now that I'm thinking about this
mistake, I'm not gonna make it

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anymore because you know, you have
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little hard when you're dancing because if
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you know your muscles are going to
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like really work hard to change it. But I think it's after a while,

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it's easier to fix. I mean
obviously my parents because they allow me

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to do so much. They you
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biggest decisions in my life. They
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who wanted, like really wanted this. I was like, I want to

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train in with Palmahia. I am
like begging you please let me because I

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got into book or T. I
got into book or T Washington, and

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I deny my acceptance like forty eight
hours before school started to go train with

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Palmahia. Wow, which is actually
the biggest choice I've made in my whole

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Life's actually I have never made a
bigger choice than that, And I don't

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like looking back, I don't regret
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would I be now if I didn't
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so different, so different. And
I recognized as the biggest decision like my

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parents when I was like really trying
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You know, I can't starve it
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wanted this, like more than anything
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my passion. I was like,
this is like New York City Ballet in

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the palm of this person's hand and
I am about to take it, like

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that's huge. And my parents were
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your life. You have like are
you sure? Are you one percent sure?

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I was fourteen, Like it's a
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let alone probably like forty you know, it's a big choice. And

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I made that choice. So and
they were the ones that allowed me to

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make that choice. So I'm really
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and my friends teach me so much. They really influence limits to me from

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like a culture sample, because each
person I know is different. I was

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actually talking with a friend of mine
today, but you know, each person

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has like a part of another person
in me, which is like amazing.

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Oh, I love the way you
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at the table in the library,
and he was like, the reason that

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we all hang out together is because
I have a piece of each and every

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person sitting at this table in me, and you have a piece of each

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and every single person in you.
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I was like, oh my gosh, that's beautiful. It's profound. Yeah,

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And on that note, let's take
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if you have more to say after
about about influences. After the break,

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we'll catch it now. I think
I hit the spot, but we can

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go ahead and take a break.
I'm good, Okay, cool, I'm

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your host, Alice Cortez. We've
round the air with Kate Benedict, a

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member of Generation Z and a seventeen
year old junior high school student at Lake

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Hill Preparatory School here in Dallas.
She spent years cultivating a dedicated career in

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dance and is now excitedly pursuing and
preparing for another chapter in her life college

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in a couple of years, and
potentially a career in global broadcast journalism.

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She joins it today from my studio
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been talking a bit about her early
career, her work ethic, and where

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she started from early on at age
six. After the break, we're going

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to get into this new focus on
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We'll be right back. Elise Cortez
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She designs and delivers professional development,
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Now back to working on purpose if
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Kate Benedict a seventeen year old junior
high school student at Lake Hill School here

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in Dallas. She spent years cultivating
her extensive talents and dance and celebrates this

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career with the pinnacle of training and
performing with the Boston Ballet in July and

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August twenty sixteen. She is now
excitedly preparing for another chapter in her life,

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college in a couple of years,
and potentially a career in global broadcast

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journalism. Okay, so from here, miss Kate, I want to now

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rivet our conversation on this new focus
that you have, kind of where that

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came from you? This is fairly
recent for you. So I want to

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understand first when did it show up
in your life as something that you're focused

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on, and where did your interest
in global broadcast journalism come from. Well,

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after I stopped dancing, I had
to find a different way to express

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myself. Like I said before,
dance with my way of putting my thoughts

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out there. And once I stopped
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So I was like, how do
how do I express how I feel?

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Because I'm feeling all these things I've
just stopped dancing. It was a

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very emotional time and I turned to
writing and that was really like it was

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just really good for me because I
could put my words down on a sheet

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of paper or on a computer and
I just I felt instantly better because everything

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just let go. So you know, relieving for me because I finally got

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it out and I could be poetic
about it and like really artistic and metaphorical

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and you know, bring nature time
into it. But it really helped me,

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you know, grow, and I
guess you know with traveling a lot,

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our family travels a lot. We
just went to Europe this summer.

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I went to Costa Rica by myself. This summer for a service trip.

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You're in Greece. Recently, Grace, we went on a sailing trip in

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Greece and I did a teen leadership
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in June. I mean we started
traveling and like really actually know we've traveled

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for like the longest time, but
international travel we've just got into recently,

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since you know, we're more mature
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But I just fell in love with
it. I've always loved traveling as a

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kid, traveling for like dance competitions
and performances. It was so much fun

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for me. And being able to
travel and not just experience dance, but

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experience like culture and actually living my
life and being like carefree and observing and

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like seeing all these new things that
I don't see back home was so amazing,

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and I was like, I need
to write all this down. This

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is like it's overwhelming, how how
much detail there is in different cultures that

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we don't see and even that we
do see. Ah, well, you

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know, I love to travel too, and I love the international piece of

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it as well. And so for
me, that's why I do cultivate my

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language skills because I want to be
able to connect with people, know the

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languages, I study their culture before
I ever go. So it's interesting to

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me that you have hit upon a
field that we'll talk. We'll get to

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in just a second here. That
does seem to really call out a lot

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of your beautiful talents. How you've
been able to transform your talents from dance

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and what you got from that into
now writing and then of course speaking.

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Yes, so, how do you
think this career suits you? Then?

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How do you what is it about
a career and broadcast journalism that you think

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will suit your talents well. With
dancing, I was always very comfortable on

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stage. I never got nervous in
front of a large crowd and never worried

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me at any point. And I
feel like with journalism and being you know,

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on air, like I am right
now, I feel comfortable. I

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feel at home, like at home
almost, which sounds very shade, but

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it feels homey. And I just
think it would be really great for me

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because I could express myself in writing
and language and be in front of an

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audience and connect with people because I
love meeting new people. It's like my

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favorite thing. It's it really like
fulfills me. It's so nice being able

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to make like a new connection with
someone. Well, as we talked about,

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we might as well just talk about
your strengths, not pies, because

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one of the things that was so
great about working with you on your strengths

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is when I first saw your results
come back, I got your top five

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back and your number one was which
stands for winning others over, I just

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let out a squeal of laughter.
It was so funny. I was like,

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Oh my gosh, that's exactly right. No one is safe in your

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presence, right, you can talk
to anyone anywhere, anytime. Yeah.

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Right, It's so great. It's
I mean, I just feel comfortable talking

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to everyone, and I know,
not everyone feels comfortable talking to me,

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because like I'm a very loud,
energetic person and I put out this really

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like confident person and I'm like,
I'm here, like talk to me or

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I'll come talk to you, you
know, but everybody's like, oh my

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gosh, she's so in ergetic.
And I mean, even going to Costa

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Rica, I was in a group
of seven other girls that I did not

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know. I was with complete strangers, and by the end of the week

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we were all like sisters. It
was so amazing because we all just connected,

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and I think a lot of us
all had the same strengths because you

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know, in order to you know, go on these trips, you you

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know, kind of have to be
a leader and you have to be confident.

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You're traveling by yourself internationally for the
first time, and you know you're

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all by yourself and you're very independent
but also very dependent on the people around

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you. I've already signed up for
another trip with the company. I'm going

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to Morocco this summer, which I'm
going in your back pocket. I'm so

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excited for Morocco. It's gonna be
really great. But it's just good to

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be able to connect with people,
and I feel like this job will really

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suit me and help we connect.
So I wanted to say, well first

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before I say this, just to
clarify, it's very likely that the people

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that you're on the on the trip
with don't have your same strengths. But

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somehow, you guys don't have my
same strengths, but they probably have like

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one or two in common. Yeah, maybe very I mean not like the

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exact same five. They're not going
to have woo communication all that, but

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I mean they might, but you're
unique and we each kind of come to

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this party differently, but you probably
are the one that's facilitating a lot of

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that conversation. Okay, so that's
kind of what I wanted to call out.

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I got to that airport and I
was like, what's up, guys?

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I was ready for Costa Rico.
Oh you know, like I was

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all I was all jazzed up,
like I was up early that day,

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but I was still so excited and
just ready to like go do something new.

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Well, it's great, and so
I think I think it's just as

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we talked about before. I think
this is a very good career path for

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you based on what I know.
So when you think about this, I

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mean, how do you what do
you imagine doing when you're working in this

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field? What do you imagine you're
going to be doing in this work like

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day to day day to day?
I guess, Oh gosh, it's so.

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I mean I don't want to like
predict my own future. I mean

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why I wanted to be spontaneous.
I want things to happen and just be

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like, Okay, you're gonna go
to like Australia like in a week and

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I'm gonna be like, all right, sounds good, you know, but

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I mean day to day, I'll
have, you know, my house or

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apartment as my little base when I'm
not traveling, and my job will hopefully

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give me the opportunity to travel a
lot and experience new people in new places

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and new things, which is like
what I love to do. And even

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if my job doesn't allow me to
do that, I'm still going to do

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it recreationally. I'm gonna travel as
much as I can because it's what I

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really love to do. I think
it would be brilliant to get paid to

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travel, So I always thought once
we lost Anthony Bourdain, I was like,

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00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:44.200
pick me, I'll be his replacement. Pick me, I'll do it.

410
00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:47.160
So I'm completely am with you.
And that's why I do a lot

411
00:27:47.160 --> 00:27:48.599
of speaking across the globe too,
because I love to connect with it,

412
00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:52.680
with the people, different cultures.
And I get that there's jobs that like

413
00:27:52.799 --> 00:27:56.720
let you stay in hotels. They
pay for you to go to these hotels,

414
00:27:56.720 --> 00:28:00.519
and like Fiji and Bora Bora,
and like just review the hotel.

415
00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:02.839
But yes, I don't want to
say in hotels my whole life. Well,

416
00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:06.720
the other thing about that job for
you is you wouldn't you do I

417
00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:08.599
don't think the interaction pieces, I'm
not using my strengths. Yeah, and

418
00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:12.440
also you wouldn't get to have as
much robust conversation as I think you would

419
00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:17.079
like in order to engage with people
that you meet and with the hotel stuff,

420
00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:19.559
I don't think, Oh yeah,
no way, Okay. So let's

421
00:28:19.559 --> 00:28:23.000
dive into how your strengths could actually
help you do this work. And it's

422
00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:26.400
important that we say that in terms
of strengths, I'm a certified Gallop strengths

423
00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:30.400
coach, and strengths are not anything
that really help us decide what we can

424
00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:33.759
do. It's more about how we
go about doing things. So they're not

425
00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:37.119
a way for you to decide what
you should be doing. Oh, I

426
00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:40.559
have analytical so I should go into
this job or whatever. So you have

427
00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:44.279
WU, which is winning others over
and we already talked about I can totally

428
00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:48.200
see that for you going into a
brand new country, meeting people you've never

429
00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:52.480
met before and being able to talk
with them, connect with them somehow,

430
00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:55.359
that is going to be incredibly useful
for you, for sure. So see

431
00:28:55.400 --> 00:28:59.720
a little bit about how you how
you imagine interacting and meeting brand new people

432
00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:03.039
to put an ease to talk to
you. I mean, even when I

433
00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:07.960
just transferred to Lake last year.
I my first day, I was obviously

434
00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:11.079
nervous. It's a new school,
it's a new environment. But I feel

435
00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:15.680
like I easily made a really solid
group of friends. I feel like everyone

436
00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:18.720
at that school is my friend.
There's not a single person that I generally

437
00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:22.000
dislike. I mean, there are
people that I don't hang out with us

438
00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:26.920
often, but they're that doesn't mean
they're not my friends. And I just

439
00:29:27.119 --> 00:29:30.839
I hang out with them all the
time. And I'm you know, really

440
00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:33.319
like from day three, I was
like, okay, guys, like let's

441
00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:37.920
have a philosophical talk. We were
talking about like pens and binders and like

442
00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:41.960
what they mean and what their names
mean. It's like the craziest conversation.

443
00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:47.039
But I feel like I'm really I
don't want to I want to like humble

444
00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:51.400
brag, but I'm really good at
connecting with people. I'm just really good

445
00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:56.079
at being able to see someone even
if they feel like even if they can

446
00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:59.759
tell by the way they look or
how they stand, like if they're standing

447
00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:02.960
and they're left out, or if
they're uncomfortable in a group of people and

448
00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:04.000
be like, hey, do you
want a talk, or like, hey,

449
00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:07.079
I like your shoes, and like
I'll just start a conversation and it'll

450
00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:11.599
just start rolling and rolling, and
I'll like, you know, find out

451
00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:15.359
that this person like lived and you
know, I don't know China before,

452
00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:18.960
I don't know, just random,
but like it'll start from like a simple

453
00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:22.119
compliment of like I like your shoes
or your hair is so pretty, to

454
00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:26.119
like, you know, really getting
to know the person. So two things

455
00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:29.519
to that, Kate. So One, I think that that your ability to

456
00:30:29.559 --> 00:30:33.000
do that, to notice somebody kind
of hanging out and being nervous or whatever,

457
00:30:33.160 --> 00:30:36.759
is probably absolutely related to your number
three strength with his empathy. Yes,

458
00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:40.680
so empathy is the strength that really
helps you be able to sense the

459
00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:44.880
emotions and feelings of other people,
and so you're very fast at that.

460
00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:48.240
So that is today week that translates
into emotional intelligence, which is really really

461
00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:52.000
important. So that's probably part of
what you're doing when you do that,

462
00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:55.440
for sure. The other thing I
want to say is I had a fantastic

463
00:30:55.480 --> 00:30:57.640
guest on my show a couple of
weeks ago named Kate White, and she

464
00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:03.599
was the editor in chief of Cosmopolitan
magazine has written twelve books, to which

465
00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:06.680
are Yeah, two of which are
on careers for women, and she says

466
00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:10.640
for us women to own our excellence. So now there's a way to do

467
00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:12.400
it so we don't come off brash
and you get it beautifully. But I

468
00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:15.400
really want to encourage you to own
your excellence. Yes, I don't want

469
00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:18.599
to seem like Hockey and be like
I'm such a good communicator, but like,

470
00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:22.720
at the same time, I still
want to be able to showcase my

471
00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:25.039
strengths. Yeah, it's a it's
a beautiful balance, and you did it

472
00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:26.839
gorgeously. So I just wanted to
make sure that you got that piece in

473
00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:30.960
there. Thank you, Kate White. As usual, you rock. Okay,

474
00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:34.559
so your your second strangest communication.
Yes. So one of the things

475
00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:38.599
I find interesting about you when we
talked about this together is you said,

476
00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:42.000
it's pretty easy for you to put
your thoughts into words, yes, and

477
00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:47.279
just speak it. I am rarely
at a loss for words. Sometimes every

478
00:31:47.319 --> 00:31:48.720
once in a while, it's very
rare, but I will you know,

479
00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:52.920
everyone's a while struggle to find the
right word to say something, but it

480
00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:59.079
happens very rarely. But I am
really good at like putting things together.

481
00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:02.480
Even in English day we're stating thesis
is about a certain poem that we read,

482
00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:06.839
and I immediately was like, okay, you can fix that and say

483
00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:08.960
that so that it's not too be
verb and you know something else I'll just

484
00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:14.799
like immediately like it's almost like anagramming
sentences, which sounds very random, but

485
00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:17.440
like if you have a normal sentence
and I can just like switch the words

486
00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:22.720
around to make it sound better and
even more like professional and you know,

487
00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:27.440
more mature. But it's very random, but I can just always like I'm

488
00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:30.799
always shuffling words in my head and
it always it's like a giant scrabble board

489
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:35.480
in here. I think that's gorgeous. And I'd say two things about that

490
00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:37.279
is one is you know, you're
in front of a camera, so not

491
00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:40.160
being able to not having a loss
for words would come in really handy,

492
00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:44.759
thank you very much. And too
But I know about people who have communication

493
00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:50.079
as a strength as oftentimes people who
have that strength need to talk. Yes,

494
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:53.559
I am not very good at being
quiet. I'm a very loud when

495
00:32:53.599 --> 00:32:59.119
we were stay in and I'm it's
very hard to keep me quiet. I'm

496
00:32:59.160 --> 00:33:02.200
always talking about something. I mean
everyone's so off. I'm like really tired

497
00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:07.119
or hungry or whatever. I'll you
know, I'll get in my little mood

498
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:08.359
and I'm boom and me like i
need food, and then I'll get my

499
00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:14.160
food and I'll just be like she's
back. It's like it's crazy, Like

500
00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:16.160
it's a crazy transformation. I'm like
out on my shell and I'm like I'm

501
00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:21.119
back, like ready to go,
you know. But I do really need

502
00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:23.319
to talk a lot. That's what
my friends are so great is because they

503
00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:25.599
know that I need to talk all
the time. And I'm always just like

504
00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:29.480
chatting, chatting, changing and they're
the same way. They're always chatting too.

505
00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:31.640
But you know it would be hard
for you to well maybe not to

506
00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:34.799
be around a quiet person, but
then you could always do more of the

507
00:33:34.839 --> 00:33:37.920
talking. Yes, if they're a
good listener, then that's a pro because

508
00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:42.200
like they're good at listening and I'm
good at talking, so like it kind

509
00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:44.839
of works in a hand. But
you know, I still want a friend

510
00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:46.440
that talks. Yeah. I think
that was a George and lower Bush combo.

511
00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:52.519
Okay, so number four for you
is futuristic. Yes, So people

512
00:33:52.519 --> 00:33:57.240
that have futuristic strength are people that
are really excited about the future. Yes,

513
00:33:57.519 --> 00:34:00.319
So how does futuristic do you think
play into what you might do as

514
00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:05.079
a global broadcast journalist. I'm always
thinking ahead, not too far ahead to

515
00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:08.719
where I'm planning what I want to
you know, where i want to live

516
00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:12.639
when I'm seventy. I'm not planning
that far ahead. But I'm always like

517
00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:14.880
planning where I want to go next, what I want to do, what

518
00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:17.000
I want to talk about, like
different discussion points that I want to bring

519
00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:22.199
up in a discussion and perfect it's
you know, I think that would really

520
00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:28.519
work with my you know, career
interests of broadcast journalism and you know,

521
00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:31.960
giving ideas, like sharing ideas and
be like, yo, we can talk

522
00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:36.719
about this, because that would come
in really handy with what's going on over

523
00:34:36.760 --> 00:34:39.760
here, you know, and like
bringing things together because I'm always you know,

524
00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:43.719
I'm always thinking, I'm always talking. There's words always going on,

525
00:34:43.840 --> 00:34:46.480
so it's easy to like, really, you know, pick something here and

526
00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:52.039
related to something in the future and
just you know, that's court altogether.

527
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:53.760
I'm very envious at that. I
don't have that. That's trick. That's

528
00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:57.679
not my That's why I have to
borrow you. Okay. The last wheever

529
00:34:57.800 --> 00:35:00.400
five I'm interestingly enough, it's adaptability, So people would have adaptability strength.

530
00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:04.519
They're really good at just gone with
the flow. Yes, So how does

531
00:35:04.519 --> 00:35:07.159
that show up for you and how
do you think you'll use that in this

532
00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:09.480
career? Well, I'm very spontaneous. I just like to go with a

533
00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:14.960
full of things. I never I
mean I according to my futuristic, I

534
00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:17.679
do like to plan, but I
don't like to plan like too intensely,

535
00:35:17.679 --> 00:35:22.159
where like at two forty four,
I'm gonna go down stairs. At two

536
00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:23.199
forty five, I gonna ground my
snack. Two forty six, I'm gonna

537
00:35:23.199 --> 00:35:27.119
be up at my desk. Like
I'm not that like you know, direct,

538
00:35:27.960 --> 00:35:31.199
but I still like to plan.
And with adaptability, I feel like

539
00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:35.559
I can really go with the flow. And even when I was dancing,

540
00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:38.960
our teachers would often change choreography a
very last minute, so I'd really have

541
00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:43.280
to adapt quickly and be like,
okay, so instead of doing this and

542
00:35:43.360 --> 00:35:45.320
me being on this side of the
stage, I'm gonna be on stage left

543
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:52.920
doing something completely different than I have
seen done during countless rehearsals but have not

544
00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:57.000
done myself. So it's you know, you really have to like be quickly.

545
00:35:57.119 --> 00:36:00.960
My brain is very fast and like
you know, ready to go,

546
00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:07.679
like very fiery and just quick.
So I think it kind of comes from

547
00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:12.559
dance. And now I'm not really
adapting that much now. I mean I

548
00:36:12.599 --> 00:36:16.840
am slowly adapting, but it's not
as quick, so I'm not necessarily using

549
00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:20.559
it as much now. But I
definitely think I want my future well,

550
00:36:20.559 --> 00:36:22.559
I think as a as a as
a global broadcast journalist, I can well

551
00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:27.320
imagine you in scenarios where you know, you get maybe somebody shows up on

552
00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:29.679
the scene you didn't expect at all, like you come over here, I'd

553
00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:30.920
love to talk to you, yes, and you wouldn't be derailed by that,

554
00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:32.440
like, oh, it's not part
of the scripts, not part of

555
00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:35.719
the plan. I don't get nervous
by any of that. I mean,

556
00:36:36.679 --> 00:36:40.360
if someone comes in like ready to
you know, perform, and they're ahead

557
00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:44.000
or they're behind, I'm like,
okay, well if they're behind, I'm

558
00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:46.000
going to stall for a while.
And you know, that's easy with my

559
00:36:46.039 --> 00:36:51.519
communication because I can just you know, talk talk talk talk talk while they're

560
00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:54.440
you know, while they're so getting
here and while I'm waiting. That's perfect.

561
00:36:54.599 --> 00:36:57.559
And you know, if they're ahead, I can, you know,

562
00:36:58.079 --> 00:37:00.920
bring them into something else. Gorgeous, Miss Kate. Well, let's take

563
00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:04.760
our final break. I'm Elise Cortes, your host who've been on the airy

564
00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:07.079
Kate Benedict. She's a member of
the Generation Z and a seventeen year old

565
00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:10.440
junior high school student at Lake Hill
School here in Dallas. She spent years

566
00:37:10.440 --> 00:37:15.480
cultivating a dedicated career in dance and
is now excitedly preparing for another chapter in

567
00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:19.480
her life college in a couple of
years, potentially a career in global broadcast

568
00:37:19.559 --> 00:37:22.880
journalism. Do you notice today from
my studio office here in Dallas with me,

569
00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:25.920
we've been talking a bit about how
she's transformed yourself from a focus on

570
00:37:27.039 --> 00:37:30.760
dance to now a new focus in
this broadcast journalism. After the break,

571
00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:34.360
we're going to talk a little bit
about how she can develop some of those

572
00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:37.519
journalism talents to get her started and
getting ready. Stay with us, We'll

573
00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:42.280
be right back. Elise Cortez as
a speaker and engagement and development catalyst,

574
00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:46.960
She designs and delivers professional development,
leadership and engagement workshops and can bring her

575
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expertise to your organization. She will
help ignite meaningful development within your workforce.

576
00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:57.719
That will increase employee engagement, performance
and retention. To learn more or to

577
00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:01.800
invite Elise to speak to your organization, please visit her at www dot Elise

578
00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:07.000
Cortez dot com. She would welcome
the opportunity to help get your employees working

579
00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:19.079
on purpose. This is working on
Purpose with Elise Cortez. To reach our

580
00:38:19.159 --> 00:38:24.880
program today, send an email to
Elise ali Se at Elise Cortez dot com.

581
00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:30.480
Now back to working on Purpose.
If you're just tuning in, My

582
00:38:30.519 --> 00:38:32.719
guest is Kate Benedict, a seventeen
year old junior high school student at Lake

583
00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:37.760
Hill School here in Dallas. She
spent years cultivating her extensive talents and dance

584
00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:40.880
and celebrates this career with the pinnacle
of training and performing with the Boston Ballet

585
00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:45.000
in July and August of twenty sixteen. She was now excitedly preparing for another

586
00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:49.519
chapter in her life college in a
couple of years that potentially a career in

587
00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:53.039
global broadcast journalism. I'm your host, Elise Cortez. So for this last

588
00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:55.360
segment here a bit of time that
we have left, kid, I kind

589
00:38:55.360 --> 00:39:00.760
of wanted to focus on really developing
these talents as you get started to make

590
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:05.679
your way from high school into college. Okay, so, so as a

591
00:39:05.800 --> 00:39:07.079
scene, you're you're a junior in
high school. Have you thought at all

592
00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:09.000
about where you want to go to
college? You have an idea of where

593
00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:13.480
you'd like to I recently just started
researching for college, actually, which is

594
00:39:13.519 --> 00:39:17.119
really great. I've always been drawn
to East Coast or West Coast. I

595
00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:21.400
don't want to be anywhere in the
middle. I just feel like it's not

596
00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:24.480
I don't want to be stuck.
And since obviously I grew up in Florida,

597
00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:27.280
I want to be by a beach, you know. I want to

598
00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:34.079
have access to water, and you
know, be close to water. I've

599
00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:37.119
thought of more liberal arts schools and
like cities. I really want a big

600
00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:43.079
city environment, but I want more
of a smaller school, you know,

601
00:39:43.079 --> 00:39:46.440
like Pepperdine. Pepperdine's like one of
my top ones. Ford. I'm actually

602
00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:51.199
I loved right there in the middle
of Lacoln Center, and I mean there's

603
00:39:51.320 --> 00:39:53.480
dance everywhere, so you know,
perfect If I still want to get back

604
00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:58.679
into dance, which recently I've actually
thought a lot about, it would be

605
00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:01.199
super easy to you know, vibe
that passion, which would be so great.

606
00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:06.800
But somewhere in a big city something, you know, liberal, So

607
00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:12.119
I can major in communications and I
can still take other arts and psychologies and

608
00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:16.079
study like what it means to be
a human being. Why did you stop

609
00:40:16.119 --> 00:40:20.360
all of your focus on dance?
I just got so burned out. I

610
00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:23.360
was so tired. I was training, you know, at least five hours

611
00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:28.039
a day, six to seven days
a week. I was exhausted. I

612
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was doing like that that amount of
intensity for about I want to say,

613
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four years. So it catches up
to you, like you get really tired.

614
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I totally get that. Okay,
cool. Well, yeah, if

615
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you find a way to incorporate all
of your interest in a full life,

616
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that's that's what I That's what I'm
looking for in schools and cities. I

617
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think that's great. Well, when
I teach at SMU, and I teach

618
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a lot of students about how to
go get and keep their first job,

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and I always tell my students that
work is very much a socialization process.

620
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Yes, so, and that means, you know, in terms of how

621
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you communicate to other people, how
you connect with other people. So do

622
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you have any idea you're what's your
plan to socialize your career? Interest in

623
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global broadcast. I think in broadcast
journalism and itself, I mean, it

624
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is a form of communication, but
it's just it's I mean, I wouldn't

625
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say the gateway, but I mean
it's right that it's handed to you being

626
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able to socialize and really work together
with your co workers. It's like in

627
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the palm of your hand when you
take up broadcast journalism, because it's like,

628
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Okay, you're going to be in
front of a camera, in front

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of a large audience like I am
right now, and you're just gonna have

630
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to talk and you're gonna have to
work with your co workers on what to

631
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say and what like. You're gonna
have to plan it all out. And

632
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I think, like I said,
with working, it's going to be difficult,

633
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but it's going to bring you and
your co workers coolster together. Yeah

634
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yeah and as and so when we
talk about socializing your career, going to

635
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need help to get this, to
pull this off right, You're going to

636
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need a lot of help or need
people who who see you, see your

637
00:42:05.880 --> 00:42:07.639
talents. When you're gonna enough to
go out and ask for what you want

638
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and ask for positions, ask for
an opportunity. And so I want to

639
00:42:13.519 --> 00:42:16.480
understand next, when you think about
getting yourself out there, what do you

640
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think would be useful? What would
be helpful to you? If our listeners

641
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are hearing this and then like,
I like who this young woman is,

642
00:42:22.280 --> 00:42:24.599
I like where she's going? I
can I know, I can see this,

643
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or I've done this, what would
be helpful to you to navigate this

644
00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:32.960
path forward? I mean using your
skills obviously in your strengths. That's really

645
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important because it's a gift, Like
it is. Finding out that my strengths

646
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were communication and wo and empathy and
futuristic and adaptability, not in that orders.

647
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It was amazing because I was like, there is so much I can

648
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do with this, and so much
that I've already done with this. So

649
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I feel like if you don't use
your gifts, it's wasting them. There's

650
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you know you've been given or yeah, you've been given this amazing gift of

651
00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:07.800
whether it's you know, adaptability or
I can't remember what your top strength is

652
00:43:08.039 --> 00:43:14.239
the mind's achiever, achiever, Like
you have to utilize what you've been given

653
00:43:14.320 --> 00:43:16.559
before you can go take other things. Yeah, and so one of the

654
00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:21.119
things you and I talked about in
a session we were in together is it's

655
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the opportunity in this is how to
point those strengths and like in a way

656
00:43:24.239 --> 00:43:28.480
that really brings you alive and brings
your best. You've got to find the

657
00:43:28.559 --> 00:43:30.679
right format for that, the right
playground for that. Yes, and so

658
00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:34.679
I do, I really do think
and can see and we'll see how this

659
00:43:34.719 --> 00:43:37.920
evolves for you. But I can
completely see you in a career in broadcast

660
00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:43.840
journalism scale vancing across the globe and
having meaningful, interesting conversation with people from

661
00:43:43.880 --> 00:43:46.719
all over and bringing them to life
and help them tell their story. Yes,

662
00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:50.599
gal vanting across the globe. I
love I like that. That's you.

663
00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:53.639
Yeah, it's totally you. But
you know, with your with your

664
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microphone and everything else. It's what
I get to do to a little bit

665
00:43:58.079 --> 00:44:00.599
of an extent with the radio,
except that I'm stationed area. But the

666
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:05.119
idea of going out to somebody and
sharing their story would be phenomenal And I

667
00:44:05.119 --> 00:44:07.639
can totally see you doing that.
Yeah, I'm like, I'm getting so

668
00:44:07.679 --> 00:44:12.039
excited thinking about it now, because
it's like it's you know, the future,

669
00:44:12.079 --> 00:44:14.920
it's here, but it's not here, but actually no, that's a

670
00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:17.320
lie. It's here. It could
be here. Everything is coming together all

671
00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:21.280
at once right now. It's the
perfect ironic moment. Like I said before,

672
00:44:21.679 --> 00:44:23.280
all the things are coming together at
once. Well. And the other

673
00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:27.800
thing about that, Kate, that's
so important is and is to be able

674
00:44:27.880 --> 00:44:30.679
to share what it is that we
want for you, to be able to

675
00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:34.920
paint that picture of your future that
you want for yourself. Because when you

676
00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:37.920
do that, what happens is you
invite others to come into that fold and

677
00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:43.320
help you because they find that energy
and your passion irresistance are yeah. Right.

678
00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:45.719
And so that's when I talk about
socializing this. To be able to

679
00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:49.760
share this is your direction where you
want to go. Along the way,

680
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what will happen is you'll meet people
who say, well, Kate, I

681
00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:53.800
know so and so. You should
have conversation with so and so he or

682
00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:58.199
she is at this station, or
if they might tell you more about what's

683
00:44:58.239 --> 00:45:00.280
going on over here, maybe they've
got move for an intern or whatever.

684
00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:04.760
Yeah, that's how you do it. But you got the great news for

685
00:45:04.800 --> 00:45:06.960
you is you got to open your
mouth, which will be hard for you,

686
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and you got to share that.
And along the way, what will

687
00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:13.599
happen is you will meet amazing people
who will help you continue to navigate that

688
00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:16.119
journey. Yeah, it's oh my
gosh, it's so great. I'm so

689
00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:20.199
like, I'm thinking about it now
and it's like make me so excited.

690
00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:22.480
Well and for me as somebody who
works in the space of trying to help

691
00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:27.119
and turn on more people across the
globe to with the possibility of how cool

692
00:45:27.159 --> 00:45:30.400
and what an adventure work really can
be. I love getting to tell your

693
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story because Gallup says that only fifteen
percent of the global workforce is fully engaged

694
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and excited about their work. Fifteen
one five. That's so small. It's

695
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very small. In the United States, it's about thirty four to forty percent,

696
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depending on which what numbers you look
at. Okay, but still a

697
00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:52.360
huge amount of opportunities. So if
we can showcase you as the possibility of

698
00:45:52.519 --> 00:45:53.599
what could be, that's a part
of the reason I wanted to have you

699
00:45:53.599 --> 00:45:59.880
in the showcase. Thank you Worthy
worth so great. It is really great.

700
00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:02.679
So in our last little bit of
time together, I mean, you

701
00:46:02.800 --> 00:46:06.320
know, you know what this show
is about. It's about how people more

702
00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:09.159
meaningfulame productively connect with their work and
find work that lights them up. Yes,

703
00:46:09.280 --> 00:46:13.519
because if we're dragging ourselves through Monday
through Friday to get to the weekend.

704
00:46:13.880 --> 00:46:16.440
I think that's a waste of a
precious life. Yes, So with

705
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that sort of being the focus of
the show and what you and I've been

706
00:46:20.079 --> 00:46:22.639
talking about, we've got just a
couple of minutes, maybe ninety seconds.

707
00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:27.519
What would you like to leave our
listeners with? Well, first you have

708
00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:30.639
to ask yourself or I feel like
for me, I had to ask myself

709
00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:32.960
once I stop dancing, what is
my purpose? What does it mean to

710
00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:36.960
be a human being right now in
this moment in time? And for me

711
00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:42.960
that is connecting and communicating and like
really pursuing my career. And it's you

712
00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:47.039
know, like with my commitment and
my strength and my passion and now that

713
00:46:47.119 --> 00:46:51.280
I have my purpose and I know
what I want to do, there is

714
00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:53.119
no stopping me. I'm like,
I'm a bullet train right now. Yep.

715
00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:57.239
And people just need to find out
what their purpose is, and they

716
00:46:57.320 --> 00:47:01.760
need to dig deep down into themselves
and find out what their purpose is,

717
00:47:01.920 --> 00:47:07.440
and they need to use their strengths
to help grow their purpose and to help

718
00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:13.760
spread their purpose and make connections.
Absolutely completely agree and probably couldn't have said

719
00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:17.199
it better myself. Amazing Well,
Kate, I have to tell you,

720
00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:21.920
it's really fun to have you on
the show. I've known you for I

721
00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:27.880
guess nine years, no eleven years, even years. It's been remarkable to

722
00:47:28.039 --> 00:47:30.159
watch you just transform and continue to
blossom. And I really thank you for

723
00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:34.440
sharing your heart your spirit with the
listeners across the globe. Thank you so

724
00:47:34.559 --> 00:47:37.559
much for having me. I'm so
excited. This is so great. It

725
00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:39.679
is exciting, it's just wonderful.
It's full of potential and promise. It's

726
00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:44.000
exactly the way life should be.
Potential. You need to unleash your inner

727
00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:46.760
potential. That's what the people must
do. Okay. I love it.

728
00:47:46.800 --> 00:47:50.440
Great way to finish, So,
listeners, if you want to get in

729
00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:52.679
touch with Kate in it, I
can't talk with her about her career,

730
00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:55.360
aspirations, or booking her as a
guest on your show or anywhere you want

731
00:47:55.400 --> 00:48:00.480
her to appear, send her an
email to Kate Addict at yahoo dot com

732
00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:05.280
so it's just your first name,
Kate, and then Benedict her last name

733
00:48:05.400 --> 00:48:08.639
at yahoo dot com. Or if
you can't find her, reach out to

734
00:48:08.679 --> 00:48:12.000
me at least at last Cortes dot
com and I'll connect the two of you.

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Join us next week when when we're
on the air with Cynthia Bryant.

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She's in an empowerment architect, author, speaker, TV radio personality, lifestyle

737
00:48:20.280 --> 00:48:23.880
professional, spokesperson, coach, philanthropist, and goddess gardner and love that last

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part. That's awesome. We'll be
talking about her numerous work outlets to empower

739
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and inspire students and adults everywhere to
live their best lives. See you there.

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Remember that work is at least one
third of a life, So let's

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work on purpose. We hope you've
enjoyed this week's program. Be sure to

742
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tune in to Working on Purpose,
featuring your host Alas Cortez, each week

743
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on the Voice America Empowerment Channel.
This week, find your life's purpose at work