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 Cortes. In our

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

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

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

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host at Last Cortes joining you live
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 perseonering
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
and work and identity research I've been doing

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

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developing workforces across the globe. Last
week, if you missed the live show,

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you can always catch it via recorded
podcast. We were on the air

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with Gwynn Rich. She is a
wife, mother of four, and a

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credited image stylist, small business owner, philanthropist, and Wall Street Journal best

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selling author of Stop Complaining, Make
Your Own Luck. After eight years and

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eight misdiagnoses, gwen was ultimately diagnosed
with incurable metastatic breast cancer in twenty twelve.

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Struggling to decide what to do with
the time she had left, she

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launched the Gwynn Marie Collection Pursues with
a Purpose in twenty fourteen. Gwinn continues

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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
cancer, what women can do to prevent

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it, and learned about these amazing
initiatives she's pouring yourself into despite her diagnosis.

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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. It is now

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excitedly 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

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career 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.

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She 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. I'm so happy

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to be here. It's Nick great. I'm so happy to have you.

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

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you blossom at this beautiful young woman
that you are, and I'm so impressed

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and happy to have you on the
show. I'm really excited to be here.

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Well, let's start out by talking
about you and the other kids you

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know that you go to school with. In other words, we'll call what

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

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

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sure, But can you help us
understand what did people your age care about

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focus on what are they talking about. I feel like most people, well,

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

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because they have their own opinions and
their own voices, and I want them

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to share what they're doing with their
life and their time. But like,

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

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

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guess, and you know, become
you know, the highest ranking person in

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popularity and you know, going out
and doing things like going to concerts and

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parties. And I never got to
experience that. So obviously I'm a little

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bit behind in that aspect of life, but I'm ahead and many others.

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But they, you know, tend
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Okay, I didn't either. When
I was that age. I was

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

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

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work like you have been too.
Yeah, so I've always known you to

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

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developing your challenge in 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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had just turned six. We moved
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a very different environment. It was, you know, going from the nice

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

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me to you know, get into
all these activities. I actually joined my

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school's soccer team. My parents immediately
knew it was not the right fit for

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me, considering I was actually on
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The soccer players picking up dandelions and
skipping run the field got damage.

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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 chatchaw costume with

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

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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.

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Like they were just like shocked,
and they knew, like this, like

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

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of an audience because it like really
like you know, shows who she really

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is. It lights you up.
Yeah, it like it lit my fire.

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That's so awesome. Well, what
is it about dance? Before we

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talk more about some movie rather interest, I want to really under get a

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quointed with what was that like for
you to live in that world dance?

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What did you love about it?
Gosh, there's so many things I loved

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about it. There's I wouldn't say
the culture is necessarily the healthiest, considering

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there's so much competition and it is. It's really intense. You know.

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I was training really intensely, and
my dance friends were my closest friends because

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they, you know, we all
did the same thing. We all dance

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at the same classes at the same
rate. We were all you know,

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doing the same thing. We're in
the same pieces together. But in reality,

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they're your enemies. They're your competition
because when it comes time to you

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know, enroll in spots and companies
and audition and place and companies. You

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know, you're competing against them.
So if your friend doesn't get the spot

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and you do, it's like,
oh, sorry about that. Like I'm

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gonna go pursue my dream now,
have good luck, you know. So

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it's wow, it's very it's so
brutal. It's really difficult to make friends,

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but it's very easy to lose friends. I can imagine. I don't

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know if you answered a little about
what you liked about it, Oh,

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sorry about That's okay, I want
to I want to hear that, and

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then I want to get something else
behind underneath that as well. Yeah,

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sorry about that. What I like
about it? I mean as a kid,

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I never really like found my passion
early. Like most people found their

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passion early. They found dance when
they were like two or three. You

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know, they had soccer, base
or not baseball, softball, basketball,

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They had found their niche. And
I didn't find my niche until a lot

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later, which I yeah, six
puts it a contract. A three year

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difference is I mean, it's doesn't
seem like a lot, but it's kind

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of a lot. I mean it
put me behind the dance curve. So

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when I really got to training,
I really had to step it up and

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work hard. But it really gave
me a way to express myself. So

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when I couldn't put into words,
I put into action and movement, and

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like I would you know, have
like the worst day at home, Like

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Ethan would make me mad because I
don't, you know, he's your brother,

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he's his brother. It's like boy
things, like you know, he

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just he's a boy, so you
know, he would make me mad.

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And I would go into the studio
and I would lock myself in the studio.

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I would turn on my music and
I would just forget about it and

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I would like I would dance my
struggles and my pains away, and it

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was like the most amazing thing.
And I would like critique myself on the

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way, I mean depend like I
would always you know, find out what

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dance I wanted to do, so
like whether it was ballet, like if

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I wanted to feel more soft and
like you know, really tense en up,

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but like that was my favorite field
of dance, or if I wanted

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to do like lyrical or contemporary and
get like really like gretty and like earthy

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if that makes sense, yeah,
and get like really into it, and

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like I would just improv and I
would like be like leaping across the floor,

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like I would look crazy. But
I had this I had this favorite

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studio and it's in the very back
of the whole complex, and there's this

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amazing view of like lovers and inwood
and it's just so pretty. And I

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would go there either like late at
night or like earlish in the morning,

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so the sun would either still be
rising or setting or would be completely dark,

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and there's trees and like the natural
light just like filters in and it's

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like the most beautiful thing. And
you just start dancing, and like once

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you start, it's like so hard
to stop because you're just going. And

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then you you know, obviously see
yourself in the mirror and you're like,

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okay, let me fix that.
But otherwise, like it was like the

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environment and like feeling of being in
that studio and being able to express myself

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in a way that not a lot
of other people could when I couldn't express

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myself. It was like amazing.
Wow, that was a beautiful narration.

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Thank you for sharing. Thank you
so much, And to help our listeners

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understand your commitment to this just what
you did in this space, help us

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understand, like, how much time
did you spend per week working at this

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Gosh? Well, probably on average
spend about depending on what time period I

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

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of George Balancin 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 yes challenge, It's really serious.

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

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

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

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piece in and it got the finals
and Nigel Lithco, the host of So

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You Think You Can Dance, was
the judge. Wow, Nigel Letko,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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gorgeous, such great experience. And
I want to say 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 that judge,
I mean just in my friend group,

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

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

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

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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 know,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 that

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

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

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work and how they experience said,
So, for you, what does work

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mean to you? For me?
Work should obviously be hard. It should

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

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

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

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past that uncomfort, you are comfortable, and then you just continue pushing.

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

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

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

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I would just be miserable doing accounting
in numbers all day and that's hard for

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me. But there are some people
who love accounting and that's what they want

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to do for the rest of their
lives and it fulfills them. But for

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me, like, I really want
to push myself in what I do and

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I want to push boundaries and I
want to create new boundaries for myself,

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but I'm still going to have a
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Okay. So with the challenge piece
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to continue to grow and push yourself. You recognize it's not always going to

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be a party. That's amazing,
but I want to, I mean I

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want to for the most part,
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okay, that's totally fair. Really
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currently reading and I hope to have
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She's right. She's written a book
about meaning and she's she's talking about

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how important it is to find meaning
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on right. Yes, So you
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It seems very mature. I definitely
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to. I mean, they're not
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feel like at certain times they will
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I can live with that, entirely
work together, get it? Yeah,

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I got it, I got it. I just noticed that I have.

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a second, but before we do
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on a break here. I think
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really really important, and in fact, it can actually determine really who you

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become in many ways. According to
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who are the major influences in your
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you are today? I don't think
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influence. It has to be what
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certain places. So the major ones, yeah, like major ones, like

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mistakes, Like mistakes are like the
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like I can't grow learning from my
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like I would, you know,
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or even I would correct myself and
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I have to fix this. And
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benefited me because I learned and I
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I'm thinking about this mistake, I'm
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you have just it's like muscle memory. It's a little hard when you're

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dancing because if you make a mistake
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are gonna get used to that and
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change it. But I think it's
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fix. I mean, obviously,
my parents, because they allow me to

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do so much, they you know, help me make the like the biggest

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decisions in my life. They really, I mean I was the one who

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wanted, like really wanted this.
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with Palmahea. I am like begging
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Booker T. I got into Booker
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since like forty eight hours before school
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which is actually the biggest choice I've
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I have never made a bigger choice
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looking back, I don't regret it, but I think sometimes like where would

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I be now if I didn't make
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different, so different, And I
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parents when I was like really trying
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wanted this, like more than anything
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my passion. I was like,
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the palm of this person's hand and
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that's huge. And my parents were
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your life you have Like are you
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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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My friends teach me so much.
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culture standpoint, because each person I
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with a friend of mine today,
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a part of another person in you, which is like amazing. Oh,

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I love the way you said that, Like if you're all sitting at the

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table the library, and he was
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out together is because I have a
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this table in me, and you
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person in you. Like it really
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oh my gosh, that's beautiful.
It's profound. Yeah, And on that

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note, let's take a quick take
a quick break, and if you have

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more to say after about influences after
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I think I hit the spot,
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break. I'm good, Okay,
cool, I'm your host, Alice Cortes.

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

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pursuing and preparing for another chapter in
her life life college in a couple of

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years, and potentially your career in
global broadcast journalism. She joins us today

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bit about her early career, her
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early on at age six. After
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this new focus on global broadcast journalism. Staying with us, We'll be right

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back. Alis Cortes is a speaker
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your organization. She will help ignite
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a lease Coortes dot com. Now back

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to working on purpose if you're just
joining us. My guest is Kate Benedict,

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

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

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with the pinnacle of training and performing
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of 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. You know, where

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that came from you? This is
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to understand first when did it show
up in your life as something that you're

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focused on, and where did your
interest in little broadcast journalism come from.

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

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express myself. Like I said before, dance was my way of you know,

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putting my thoughts out there. And
once I stopped that, I didn't

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know what to do. So I
was like, how do how do I

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express how I feel? Because I'm
feeling all these things I've just stopped dancing.

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It was a very emotional time and
I turned to writing and that was

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really like it was just really good
for me because I could put my words

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down on a sheet of paper or
on a computer and I just I felt

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instantly better because everything just let go. So you know, relieving for me

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because I finally got it out and
I could be poetic about it and like

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really artistic and metaphorical and you know, bring nature or time into it.

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But it really helped me, you
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you know with traveling a lot.
Our family travels a lot. We just

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went to Europe this summer I went
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a service trip. You're in Greece
recently Greece. We went on a sailing

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trip in Greece, and I did
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in Costa Rican June. I mean
we started traveling and like really, actually

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no, we've traveled for like the
longest time, but international travel we just

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gone into recently, since you know, we're more mature and we can really

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handle multiple cultures. But I just
fell in love with it. I've always

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loved traveling. As a kid,
traveling for like dance competitions and performances was

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so much fun for me. And
being able to travel and not just experience

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dance, but experience like culture and
actually living my life and being like care

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free and observing and like seeing all
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home was so amazing, and I
was like, I need to write all

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this down. This is like it's
overwhelming, how how much detail there is

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in different cultures that we don't see
and even that we do see. Ah,

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well, you know, I love
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the international piece of it as well, and so for me, that's why

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I do cultivate my language skills because
I want to be able to connect with

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people, know the languages, I
study their culture before I ever go.

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So it's interesting to me that you
have hit upon a field that we'll talk.

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We'll get to in just a second
here. That does seem to really

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call out a lot of your beautiful
talents. How you've been able to transform

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your talents from dance and what you
got from that into now writing and then

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of course speaking. Yes, So, how do you think this career suits

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you? Then? What is it
about a career in broadcast journalism that you

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think will suit your talents well?
With dancing, I was always very comfortable

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

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

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

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I feel at home, like at
home almost, which sounds very strange,

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

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for me because I could express myself
in writing and language and be in front

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of an audience and connect with people
because I love meeting new people. It's

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

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being able to make like a new
connection with someone. Well, as we

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talked about we might as well just
talk about your strengths. Not is 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 WOO, which stands for winning others over.

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

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was like, oh my gosh,
that's exactly right. No one is safe

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in your presence, right, You
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Yeah, right, It's so great. It's I mean, I just feel

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comfortable talking 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

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really like confident persona and I'm like, I'm here, like talk to me

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

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my gosh, she's so inner.
And I mean, even going to Costa

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Rica, I I was in a
group of seven other girls that I did

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not know. I was with complete
strangers, and by the end of the

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week. We were all like sisters. It was so amazing because we all

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just connected, and I think a
lot of us all had the same strengths

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

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

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be confident. You're traveling by yourself
internationally for the first time, and you

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know, you're all by yourself and
you're very independent but also very dependent on

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the people around you. I've already
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I'm going to Morocco this summer,
which I'm going in your back pocket.

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I'm so excited for Morocco. It's
gonna be really great. But it's

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just good to be able to connect
with people, and I feel like this

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job will really suit me and help
me connect. So I wanted to say,

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well first before I say this,
just just to clarify, it's very

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likely that the people that you were
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don't have your same strengths. But
somehow you guys don't have my same strengths,

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but they probably have like one or
two in common. Yeah, maybe

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very I mean not like the exact
same five. They're not gonna have wu

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communication all that, But I mean
they might, but you're unique and we

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each kind of come to this party
differently, but you probably are the one

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that's facilitating a lot of that conversation
for sure. Okay, so that's kind

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of what I wanted to call out. I got to that airport and I

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was like, what's up, guys? Who was ready for Costa Ricco?

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You know, like I was all
I was all jazzed up, like I

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was up early that day, but
I was still like so excited and just

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ready to like go do something new. Well, it's great, and so

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I think I think it's just as
we talked about before. I think this

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is a very good career path for
you based on what I know. So

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when you think about this, I
mean, how do you what do you

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imagine doing when you're working in this
field? What do you imagine you're going

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to be doing in this work?
Like day to day, day to day?

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I guess, oh gosh, it's
so. I mean I don't want

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to like predict my own future.
I mean why I want. I wanted

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to be spontaneous. I want things
to happen and just be like, Okay,

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you're gonna go to like Australia in
a week, and I'm gonna be

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like, all right, sounds good, you know, But I mean day

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

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little base when I'm not traveling,
and my job will hopefully give me the

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opportunity to travel a lot and experience
new people in new places and new things,

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which is like what I love to
do. And even if my job

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doesn't allow me to do that,
I'm still gonna do it recreationally. I'm

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gonna travel as much as I can
because it's what I really love to do.

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Mm hmm. I think it would
be brilliant to get paid to travel,

410
00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:41.200
So I always thought once we lost
Anthony Bourdain, I was like,

411
00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:44.920
pick me, I'll be a replacement
with me, I'll do it. So

412
00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:47.559
I completely am with you. And
that's why I do a lot of speaking

413
00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:49.400
across the globe too, because I
love to connect with it with people different

414
00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:53.720
cultures. And I get that there's
jobs that like let you stay in hotels.

415
00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:57.319
They pay for you to go to
these hotels in like Fiji and Bora

416
00:27:57.400 --> 00:28:00.440
Bora, and like just review the
hotel. But yes, I don't want

417
00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:03.640
to say in hotels my whole life. Well, the other thing about that

418
00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:07.480
job for you is you wouldn't I
don't think the interaction piece is I'm not

419
00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:11.200
using my strengths. Yeah, and
also you wouldn't get to have as much

420
00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:15.480
robust conversation as I think you would
like in order to engage with people that

421
00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:18.200
you meet and with the hotel staff. I don't think, Oh yeah,

422
00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:22.119
no way, okay, So let's
dive into how your strengths could actually help

423
00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:25.720
you do this work. And it's
important that we say that in terms of

424
00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:29.319
strengths, I'm a certified galloped strengths
coach, and strengths are not anything that

425
00:28:29.799 --> 00:28:33.599
really helps decide what we can do. It's more about how we go about

426
00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:36.279
doing things. So they're not a
way for you to decide what you should

427
00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:37.759
be doing. Oh, I have
analyticals, so I should go into this

428
00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:41.240
job or whatever. So you have
WU, which is winning others over and

429
00:28:41.240 --> 00:28:47.000
we already talked about I can totally
see that for you going into a brand

430
00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:51.359
new country, meeting people you've never
met before and being able to talk with

431
00:28:51.400 --> 00:28:53.319
them, connect with them somehow,
that is going to be incredibly useful for

432
00:28:53.359 --> 00:28:57.759
you, for sure. So say
a little bit about how you imagine interacting

433
00:28:57.799 --> 00:29:00.400
and meeting brand new people to put
even easy to talk to you. I

434
00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:06.920
mean, even when I just transferred
to LAKEL last year, I for my

435
00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:08.240
first day, I was obviously nervous. It's a new school, it's a

436
00:29:08.279 --> 00:29:14.599
new environment. But I feel like
I easily made a really solid group of

437
00:29:14.599 --> 00:29:17.160
friends. I feel like everyone at
that school is my friend. There's not

438
00:29:17.319 --> 00:29:22.079
a single person that I generally dislike. I mean, there are people that

439
00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:25.359
I don't hang out with as often, but they're that doesn't mean they're not

440
00:29:25.400 --> 00:29:29.599
my friends. And I just I
hang out with them all the time.

441
00:29:29.640 --> 00:29:33.000
And I, you know, really
like from day three, I was like,

442
00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:34.880
okay, guys, like let's have
a philosophical talk. We were talking

443
00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:40.240
about like pens and binders and like
what they mean and what their names mean.

444
00:29:40.319 --> 00:29:45.920
It's like the craziest conversation. But
I feel like I'm really I don't

445
00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:49.119
want to I want to like humble
brag, but I'm really good at connecting

446
00:29:49.160 --> 00:29:53.039
with people. I'm just really good
at being able to see someone even if

447
00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:56.880
they feel like even if they I
can tell by the way they look or

448
00:29:56.880 --> 00:30:00.279
how they stand, like if they're
standing and they're left out or if they're

449
00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:03.160
uncomfortable in a group of people and
be like, hey do you want to

450
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:06.440
talk, or like hey, I
like your shoes, and like I'll just

451
00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:10.400
start a conversation and it'll just start
rolling and rolling, and I'll like,

452
00:30:10.920 --> 00:30:12.680
you know, find out that this
person like lived and you know, I

453
00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:17.880
don't know China before, I don't
know, just random, but like it'll

454
00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:21.200
start from like a simple compliment of
like I like your shoes or your hair

455
00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:23.480
is so pretty, to like,
you know, really getting to know the

456
00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:27.119
person. So two things to that, Kate. So One, I think

457
00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:32.039
that that your ability to do that, to notice somebody kind of hanging out

458
00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:34.759
and being nervous or whatever is probably
absolutely related to your number three strength with

459
00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:38.640
his empathy. Yes, so empathy
is is the strength that really helps you

460
00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:42.960
be able to sense the emotions and
feelings of other people. And so you're

461
00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:48.400
very fast at that. So that
is today that translates into emotional intelligence,

462
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:51.519
which is really really important. So
that's probably part of what you're doing when

463
00:30:51.559 --> 00:30:53.319
you do that, for sure.
The other thing I want to say is

464
00:30:53.400 --> 00:30:56.359
I had a fantastic guest on my
show a couple of weeks ago named Kate

465
00:30:56.359 --> 00:31:02.319
White, and she was the editor
in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, has written

466
00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:06.079
twelve books, Yeah, two of
which are on careers for women, and

467
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:10.279
she says, for us women to
own our excellence. So now there's a

468
00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:11.359
way to do it so we don't
come off brash, and you get it

469
00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:15.960
beautifully. But I really want to
encourage you to own your excellence. Yes,

470
00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:18.640
I don't want to seem like cocky
and be like I'm such a good

471
00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:22.000
communicator, but like, at the
same time, I still want to be

472
00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:23.960
able to showcase my strengths. Yeah, it's a beautiful balance and you did

473
00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:26.759
it gorgeously, So I just wanted
to make sure that you got that piece

474
00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:30.599
in there. Thank you, Kate
White. As usual, you rock.

475
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:34.319
Okay, So your your second strink
is communication. Yes. So one of

476
00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:38.359
the things I find interesting about you
when we talked about this together is you

477
00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:41.920
said, it's pretty easy for you
to put your thoughts into words, yes,

478
00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:45.960
and just speak it. I am
rarely at a loss for words.

479
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:48.640
Sometimes every once in a while,
it's very rare, but I will you

480
00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:52.480
know, everyone's all struggle to find
the right word to say something, but

481
00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:59.119
it happens very rarely. But I
am really good at like putting things together.

482
00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:02.200
Even in English, we're stating thesis
is about a certain poem that we

483
00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:06.640
read, and I immediately was like, okay, you can fix that and

484
00:32:06.680 --> 00:32:08.680
say that so that it's not to
be verb and you know something else,

485
00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:14.720
I'll just like immediately like it's almost
like anagramming sentences, which sounds very random,

486
00:32:14.759 --> 00:32:17.039
but like if you have a normal
sentence and I can just like switch

487
00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:22.640
the words around to make it sound
better and even more like professional and you

488
00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:27.079
know, more mature. But it's
very random, but I can just always

489
00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:30.079
like I'm always shuffling words in my
head and it always it's like a giant

490
00:32:30.119 --> 00:32:35.039
scrabble board in here. I think
that's gorgeous. And I'd say two things

491
00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:37.799
about that is One is you know, you're in front of a camera,

492
00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:39.920
so not being able to not having
a loss for words would come in really

493
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:44.000
handy, thank you very much.
And two, what I know about people

494
00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:47.839
who have communication is to strength,
as oftentimes people who have that strength need

495
00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:52.319
to talk. Yes, I am
not very good at being quiet. I'm

496
00:32:52.359 --> 00:32:58.920
a very loud first in and I'm
it's very hard to keep me quiet.

497
00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:01.200
I'm always talking about something. I
mean, every once in a while,

498
00:33:01.279 --> 00:33:06.519
i'm like really tired or angry or
whatever. I'll you know, I'll get

499
00:33:06.559 --> 00:33:07.839
my little mood and I'll boom and
be like I need food, and then

500
00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:12.559
I'll get my food and I'll just
be like she's back. It's like it's

501
00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:15.319
crazy, Like it's a crazy transformation. I'm like out on my shell and

502
00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:20.480
I'm like I'm back, like ready
to go, you know. But I

503
00:33:20.519 --> 00:33:22.799
do really need to talk a lot. That's why my friends are so great.

504
00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:24.839
It is because they know that I
need to talk all the time and

505
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:28.480
I'm always just like chatting, chatting, changing and they're the same way.

506
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:30.720
They're always chatting too. But you
know, it would be hard for you

507
00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:34.079
to well maybe not to be abound
a quiet person, but then you could

508
00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:37.880
always do more of the talking.
Yes, if they're a good listener,

509
00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:40.480
then that's a pro because like they're
good at listening and I'm good at talking,

510
00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:43.799
so like it kind of works in
at hand. But you know,

511
00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:45.240
I still want a friend that talks. Yeah, I think that was a

512
00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:51.440
Georgia Laura Bush combo. Okay,
so number four for you is futuristic.

513
00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:55.240
Yes, So people that have futuristic
strength are people that are really excited about

514
00:33:55.279 --> 00:33:59.640
the future. Yes, So how
does futuristic do you think play into what

515
00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:04.160
you might do as a global broadcast
journalist. I'm always thinking ahead, not

516
00:34:04.279 --> 00:34:08.280
too far ahead to where I'm planning
what I want to you know, where

517
00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:10.519
i want to live when I'm seventy. I'm not planning that far ahead.

518
00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:14.559
But I'm always like planning where I
want to go next, what I want

519
00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:16.480
to do, what I want to
talk about, like different discussion points that

520
00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:22.440
I want to bring up in a
discussion and perfect it's you know, I

521
00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:27.239
think that would really work with my
you know, career interest of broadcast journalism

522
00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:31.400
and you know, giving ideas,
like sharing ideas and be like, yo,

523
00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:35.760
we can talk about this, because
that would come in really handy with

524
00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:38.840
what's going on over here, you
know, and like bringing things together because

525
00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:43.039
I'm always you know, I'm always
thinking, I'm always talking. There's words

526
00:34:43.079 --> 00:34:45.920
always going on, so it's easy
to like, really, you know,

527
00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:50.840
pick something here and relate it to
something in the future and just you know,

528
00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:52.760
that's cort all together. I'm very
envious of that. I don't have

529
00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:54.960
that that strink that's not mine.
That's why I have to borrow you,

530
00:34:55.639 --> 00:35:00.199
Okay, the last one number five. Interestingly enough, it's adaptability. People

531
00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:02.199
would have adaptability strength. They're really
good at just going with the flow.

532
00:35:02.719 --> 00:35:05.960
Yes, So how does that show
up for you and how do you think

533
00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:08.760
you'll use that in this career?
Well, I'm very spontaneous. I just

534
00:35:08.840 --> 00:35:14.159
like to go with the flow of
things. I never I mean I according

535
00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:16.079
to my futuristic, I do like
to plan, but I don't like to

536
00:35:16.119 --> 00:35:21.400
plan like too intensely, where like
at two forty four, I'm gonna go

537
00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:22.840
downstairs a two forty five, imna
ground my snack. Two forty six,

538
00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:25.280
I'm gonna be up at my desk
Like I'm not that like you know,

539
00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:31.159
direct, but I still like to
plan. And with adaptability, I feel

540
00:35:31.159 --> 00:35:35.559
like I can really go with the
flow. And even when I was dancing,

541
00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:38.880
our our teachers would often change choreography
very last minute, So I really

542
00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:43.159
have to adapt quickly and be like, okay, so instead of doing this

543
00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:45.639
and me being on this side of
the stage, I'm going to be on

544
00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:52.039
stage left doing something completely different that
I have seen done during callless rehearsals but

545
00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:55.000
have not done myself. So it's
you know, you really have to like

546
00:35:55.400 --> 00:36:00.960
be quickly my brain is very fast
and like you know, ready to go,

547
00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:07.519
like very fiery and just quick.
So I think it kind of comes

548
00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:12.320
from dance. And now I'm not
really adapting that much now. I mean

549
00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:16.599
I am slowly adapting, but it's
not as quick, so I'm not necessarily

550
00:36:16.679 --> 00:36:20.559
using it as much now. But
I definitely think I wont my future well,

551
00:36:20.599 --> 00:36:22.440
I think as a as a as
a global broadcast journalist, I can

552
00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:27.280
well imagine you in scenarios where you
know, you get maybe somebody shows up

553
00:36:27.320 --> 00:36:29.400
on the scene. You didn't expect
it all you like, you come over

554
00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:30.280
here, I'd love to talk to
you, yes, and you wouldn't be

555
00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:32.239
derailed by that, like oo,
it's not part of the scripts, not

556
00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:35.519
part of the plan. I don't
get nervous by any of that. I

557
00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:39.719
mean, if someone comes in like
ready to you know, perform, and

558
00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:43.880
they're ahead or they're behind, I'm
like, okay, well if they're behind,

559
00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:45.719
I'm going to stall for a while. And you know, that's easy

560
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:50.519
with my communication because I can just
you know, talk talk talk talk talk

561
00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:53.760
while they're you know, while they're
still getting here and while I'm waiting.

562
00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:57.440
That's perfect. And you know,
if they're ahead, I can, you

563
00:36:57.440 --> 00:37:00.760
know, bring them into something else
gorgeous, Miss Kate. Well, let's

564
00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:04.480
take our final break. I'm Elise
Cortes, your host, who've been on

565
00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:07.719
the Eric Kate Benedict. She's a
member of the Generation Zee and a seventeen

566
00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:09.800
year old junior high school student at
Lake Hills School here in Dallas. She

567
00:37:09.880 --> 00:37:15.079
spent years cultivating a dedicated career in
dance and is now excitedly preparing for another

568
00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:17.480
chapter in her life college in a
couple of years, but potentially a career

569
00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:22.239
in global broadcast journalism. Do you
noticed today from my studio office here in

570
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:25.400
Dallas with me, we've been talking
a bit about how she's transformed herself from

571
00:37:25.400 --> 00:37:30.360
a focus on dance to now a
new focus in this broadcast journalism. After

572
00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:32.960
the break, we're going to talk
a little bit about how she can develop

573
00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:37.199
some of those journalism talents to get
her started and getting ready. Stay with

574
00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:40.239
us, We'll be right back.
Alis Cortez is a speaker and engagement and

575
00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:46.320
development catalyst. She designs and delivers
professional development, leadership and engagement workshops and

576
00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:52.199
can bring her expertise to your organization. She will help ignite meaningful development within

577
00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:57.320
your workforce that will increase employee engagement, performance and retention. To learn more

578
00:37:57.559 --> 00:38:01.000
or to invite Elise to speak to
your organization, please visit her at www

579
00:38:01.159 --> 00:38:07.400
dot Elisecortes dot com. She would
welcome the opportunity to help get your employees

580
00:38:07.639 --> 00:38:17.960
working on purpose. This is working
on Purpose with Elise Cortes. To reach

581
00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:24.880
our program today, send an email
to a lease Alise at elisecortes dot com.

582
00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:30.519
Now back to working on Purpose.
If you're just tuning in, my

583
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:32.760
guest is Kate Benedict, a seventeen
year old junior high school student at Lake

584
00:38:32.800 --> 00:38:37.800
Hill School here in Dallas. She
spent years cultivating her extensive talents and dance

585
00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:40.880
and celebrates this career with the pinnacle
of training and performing with the Boston Ballet

586
00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:45.039
in July and August of twenty sixteen. She was now excitedly preparing for another

587
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:49.119
chapter in her life, college in
a couple of years, and potentially a

588
00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:52.480
career in global broadcast journalism. I'm
your host, Elise Cortes. So for

589
00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:55.159
this last segment here a bit of
time that we have left Kate, I

590
00:38:55.239 --> 00:39:00.480
kind of wanted to focus on really
developing these talents. As you get started

591
00:39:00.519 --> 00:39:05.599
to make your way from high school
into college. Okay, so so as

592
00:39:05.679 --> 00:39:07.119
a senior. You're a junior in
high school. Have you thought at all

593
00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:09.039
about where you want to go to
college. Do you have an idea where

594
00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:13.159
you'd like to go. I recently
just started researching for college, actually,

595
00:39:13.159 --> 00:39:16.960
which is really great. I've always
been drawn to East Coast or West Coast.

596
00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:20.039
I don't want to be anywhere in
the middle. I just feel like

597
00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:24.000
it's not I don't want to be
stuck. And since obviously I grew up

598
00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:27.079
in Florida, I want to be
by a beach, you know. I

599
00:39:27.079 --> 00:39:30.920
want to have access to water,
and you know, be close to water.

600
00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:37.840
I've thought of more liberal arts schools
and like cities. I really want

601
00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:43.000
a big city environment, but I
want more of a smaller school, you

602
00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:46.039
know, like Pepperdine. Pepperdine is
like one of my top ones. Fordham

603
00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:50.639
actually, I love Fordham right there
in the middle of Lincoln Center, and

604
00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:53.079
I mean there's dance everywhere, so
you know, perfect If I still want

605
00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:55.719
to get back into dance, which
recently I've actually thought a lot about,

606
00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:00.800
it would be super easy to you
know that passion, which would be so

607
00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:06.519
great. But somewhere in a big
city something, you know, liberal,

608
00:40:06.639 --> 00:40:12.000
So I can major in communications and
I can still take other arts and psychologies

609
00:40:12.039 --> 00:40:15.719
and study like what it means to
be a human being. Why did you

610
00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:20.199
stop all of your focus on dance? I just got so burned out.

611
00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:23.039
I was so tired. I was
training, you know, at least five

612
00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:27.920
hours a day, six to seven
days a week. I was exhausted,

613
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and I was doing like that that
amount of intensity for about I want to

614
00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:36.679
say, four years. So it
catches up to you, like you get

615
00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:38.760
really tired. I totally get that. Okay, cool. Well, yeah,

616
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if you find a way to incorporate
all of your interest in a full

617
00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:45.559
life, that's real. Spl that's
what I That's what I'm looking for in

618
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schools and cities. I think that's
great. Well, when I teach at

619
00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:53.599
SMU, and I teach a lot
of students about how to go get and

620
00:40:53.679 --> 00:40:57.639
keep their first job, and I
always tell my students that work is very

621
00:40:57.719 --> 00:41:00.519
much a socialization process. Yes,
so, and that means you know,

622
00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:04.280
in terms of how you communicate to
other people, how you connect with other

623
00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:07.440
people. So do you have any
idea your what's your plan to socialize your

624
00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:14.679
your career interest in global broadcast.
I think in broadcast journalism and itself,

625
00:41:14.920 --> 00:41:19.840
I mean, it is a form
of communication, but it's just it's I

626
00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:23.280
mean, I wouldn't say the gateway, but I mean it's right that it's

627
00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:30.159
handed to you being able to socialize
and really work together with your co workers.

628
00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:34.039
It's like in the palm of your
hand when you take a broadcast journalism,

629
00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:36.199
because it's like, Okay, you're
going to be in front of a

630
00:41:36.239 --> 00:41:40.719
camera, in front of a large
audience like I am right now, and

631
00:41:42.480 --> 00:41:45.159
you're just gonna have to talk and
you're gonna have to work with your coworkers

632
00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:47.360
on what to say and what like. You're gonna have to plant it all

633
00:41:47.400 --> 00:41:51.360
out. And I think, like
I said, with working, it's going

634
00:41:51.400 --> 00:41:53.639
to be difficult, but it's going
to bring you and your co workers closer

635
00:41:53.679 --> 00:41:58.960
together. Yeah, yeah, and
as and so when we talk about socializing

636
00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:00.679
your career, we're gonna need help
to get this. To pull this off,

637
00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:02.599
right, You're gonna need a lot
of help. You're going to need

638
00:42:02.639 --> 00:42:07.239
people who who see you, see
your talents. You're going to have to

639
00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:09.519
go out and ask for what you
want and ask for positions, ask for

640
00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:15.880
an opportunity and so I want to
understand next, when you think about getting

641
00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:17.760
yourself out there, what do you
think would be useful? What would be

642
00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:21.280
helpful to you? If our listeners
are hearing this and they're like, I

643
00:42:21.360 --> 00:42:23.719
like who this young woman is,
I like where she's going? I could

644
00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:27.079
I know, I can see this
or I've done this, what would be

645
00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:31.239
helpful to you to navigate this path
forward? I mean using your skills obviously,

646
00:42:31.320 --> 00:42:37.280
in your strengths. That's really important
because it's a gift, Like it

647
00:42:37.320 --> 00:42:43.079
is finding out that my strengths were
communication and wo and empathy and futuristic and

648
00:42:43.079 --> 00:42:49.079
adaptability, not in that Order's it
was amazing because I was like, there

649
00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:52.519
is so much I can do with
this, and so much that I've already

650
00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:54.199
done with this. So I feel
like if you don't use your gifts,

651
00:42:55.000 --> 00:43:01.039
it's wasting them. There's you know
you've been given or yeah, you've been

652
00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:07.880
given this amazing gift of whether it's
you know, adaptability or I can't remember

653
00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:13.360
what your top strength is mind's achiever, achiever, Like you have to utilize

654
00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:16.199
what you've been given before you can
go take other things. Yeah, and

655
00:43:16.239 --> 00:43:19.719
so one of the things you and
I talked about in a session we were

656
00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:23.239
in together. Is it's the opportunity
in this is how to point those strengths

657
00:43:23.239 --> 00:43:27.400
in life in a way that really
brings you alive and brings your best.

658
00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:30.840
You got to find the right format
for that, the right playground for that.

659
00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:34.000
Yes, and so I do,
I really do think and can see

660
00:43:34.039 --> 00:43:37.400
and we'll see how this evolves for
you. But I can completely see you

661
00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:40.679
in a career in broadcast journalism.
Yes, galivanting across the globe and having

662
00:43:40.880 --> 00:43:45.159
meaningful, interesting conversations with people from
all over and bringing them to life and

663
00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:49.880
help them tell their story. Yes, galivanting across the globe. I lovely

664
00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:53.000
like that. That's you. Yeah, it's totally you. But you know,

665
00:43:53.039 --> 00:43:57.000
with your with your microphone and everything
else. It's what I get to

666
00:43:57.079 --> 00:43:59.960
do to a little bit of extent
with the radio, except that I'm stationed

667
00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:04.159
area. But the idea of going
out to somebody and sharing their story would

668
00:44:04.199 --> 00:44:07.760
be phenomenal, And I can totally
see you doing that. Yeah, I'm

669
00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:09.719
like, I'm getting so excited thinking
about it now, because it's like it's

670
00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:13.880
you know, the future, it's
here, but it's not here, but

671
00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:15.599
actually no, that's a lie.
It's here. It could be here.

672
00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:20.320
Everything is coming together all at once
right now. It's the perfect ironic moment.

673
00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:22.559
Like I said before, all the
things are coming together at once.

674
00:44:22.760 --> 00:44:25.360
Well. And the other thing about
that, Kate, that's so important is

675
00:44:25.480 --> 00:44:30.079
and is to be able to share
what it is that we want for you,

676
00:44:30.119 --> 00:44:34.039
to be able to paint that picture
of your future that you want for

677
00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:37.280
yourself. Because when you do that, what happens is you invite others to

678
00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:40.719
come into that fold and help you
because they find that energy and your passion

679
00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:45.599
irresistance. Yeah right, And so
that's when I talk about socializing this.

680
00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:47.840
To be able to share this is
your direction where you want to go.

681
00:44:49.199 --> 00:44:51.800
Along the way, what will happen
is you'll meet people who say, well,

682
00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:52.960
Kate, I know so and so. You should have a conversation with

683
00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:57.119
so and so he or she is
at this station, or they might,

684
00:44:57.199 --> 00:44:59.639
you know, tell you more about
what's going on over here. Maybe they've

685
00:44:59.639 --> 00:45:02.400
got for an intern or whatever.
That's how you do it. But you

686
00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:06.239
got the great news for you is
you got to open your mouth, which

687
00:45:06.239 --> 00:45:08.159
will be hard with you, and
you got to share that. And along

688
00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:12.119
the way, what what happen is
you will meet amazing people who will help

689
00:45:12.159 --> 00:45:15.199
you continue to navigate that journey.
Yeah, it's oh my gosh, it's

690
00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:19.480
so great. I'm so like I'm
thinking about it now and it's like make

691
00:45:19.519 --> 00:45:22.679
me so excited. Well and for
me as somebody who works in this space

692
00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:25.599
of trying to help and turn on
more people across the globe to the possibility

693
00:45:25.599 --> 00:45:29.920
of how cool and what an adventure
work really can be. I love getting

694
00:45:29.960 --> 00:45:35.280
to tell your story because Gallup says
that only fifteen percent of the global workforce

695
00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:39.360
is fully engaged and excited about their
work. Fifteen one five. That's so

696
00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:43.679
small. It's very small. In
the United States, it's about thirty four

697
00:45:43.719 --> 00:45:46.599
to forty percent, depending on which
what numbers you look at, but still

698
00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:52.400
huge amount of opportunities. So if
we can showcase you as the possibility of

699
00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:53.679
what could be, that's part of
the reason I wanted to have you in

700
00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:59.679
the showcase. Thank you heart.
This is so great. It is really

701
00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:02.639
great. So in our last little
bit of time together, I mean,

702
00:46:02.639 --> 00:46:06.159
you know, you know what this
show is about. It's about how people

703
00:46:06.199 --> 00:46:08.920
more meaningfully and productively connect with their
work and find work that lights them up.

704
00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:13.079
Yes, because if we're dragging ourselves
through Monday through Friday to get to

705
00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:15.199
the weekend. I think that's a
waste of a precious life. Yes,

706
00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:19.760
So with that sort of being the
focus of the show and what you and

707
00:46:19.800 --> 00:46:22.360
I've been talking about, we've got
just a couple of minutes, maybe ninety

708
00:46:22.400 --> 00:46:27.360
seconds. What would you like to
leave our listeners with? Well, first

709
00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:30.079
you have to ask yourself or I
feel like for me, I had to

710
00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:32.760
ask myself once I stopped dancing,
what is my purpose? What does it

711
00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:36.719
mean to be a human being right
now in this moment in time? And

712
00:46:36.760 --> 00:46:40.800
for me that is connecting and communicating
and like really pursuing my career. And

713
00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:46.800
it's you know, like with my
commitment and my strength and my passion and

714
00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:50.039
now that I have my purpose and
I know what I want to do,

715
00:46:51.039 --> 00:46:52.719
there is no stopping me. I'm
like, I'm a bullet train right now.

716
00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:57.000
Yep. And people just need to
find out what their purpose is,

717
00:46:57.039 --> 00:47:01.679
and they need to dig deep down
into themselves and find out what their purpose

718
00:47:01.760 --> 00:47:07.199
is, and they need to use
their strengths to help grow their purpose and

719
00:47:07.239 --> 00:47:13.559
to help spread their purpose and make
connections. Absolutely completely agree and probably couldn't

720
00:47:13.559 --> 00:47:17.159
have said it better myself. Amazing
Well, Kate, I have to tell

721
00:47:17.199 --> 00:47:20.960
you, it's really fun to have
you on the show. I've known you

722
00:47:21.079 --> 00:47:24.679
for I guess nine years, no, eleven years, eleven eleven years now,

723
00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:29.840
that is crazy. It's been remarkable
to watch you just transform and continue

724
00:47:29.840 --> 00:47:31.800
to blossom. And I really thank
you for sharing your heart your spirit with

725
00:47:31.840 --> 00:47:35.519
the listeners across the globe. Thank
you so much for having me. I'm

726
00:47:35.519 --> 00:47:37.599
like, so excited. This is
so great. It is exciting. It's

727
00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:40.480
just wonderful. It's full of potential
and promise. It's just exact the way

728
00:47:40.480 --> 00:47:45.719
life should be. Potential. You
need to unleash your inner potential. That's

729
00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:47.239
what the people must do. Okay, I love it. Great way to

730
00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:51.039
finish, So, listeners, if
you want to get in touch with Kate

731
00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:53.559
Bennett and talk with her about her
career, aspirations, or booking her as

732
00:47:53.599 --> 00:47:58.079
a guest on your show or anywhere
you want her to appear, send her

733
00:47:58.119 --> 00:48:01.800
an email to Kate at yahoo dot
com so it's just your first name,

734
00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:07.039
Kate, and then Benedict her last
name at yahoo dot com. Or if

735
00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:10.159
you can't find her, reach out
to me at least leiscortest dot com and

736
00:48:10.199 --> 00:48:14.800
I'll connect the two of you join
us next week when we're on the air

737
00:48:14.840 --> 00:48:17.559
with Cynthia Bryant. She's in an
empowerment architect, author, speaker, TV

738
00:48:17.800 --> 00:48:23.199
radio personality, lifestyle professional, spokesperson, coach, philanthropist, and goddess gardner

739
00:48:23.199 --> 00:48:27.440
and loved that last part. That's
awesome. We'll be talking about her numerous

740
00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:30.719
work outlets to empower and inspire students
and adults everywhere to live their best lives.

741
00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:34.039
See you there. Remember that work
is at least one third of our

742
00:48:34.079 --> 00:48:39.199
life, so let's work on purpose. We hope you've enjoyed this week's program.

743
00:48:39.559 --> 00:48:44.599
Be sure to tune in to Working
on Purpose, featuring your host Alis

744
00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:50.119
Cortes, each week on the Voice
America Empowerment Channel. This week, find

745
00:48:50.159 --> 00:49:01.119
your life's purpose at work to