The Career Builder's Podcast

Gap Years, Irrational Fears, and Purposeful Education with Jay Gosselin

Episode Summary

Career paths are certainly not straight lines anymore. Jay Gosselin, the founder of MentorU and Discover Year, shares his career story and the insights he's gained from working with thousands of young people questioning their professional future.

Episode Notes

Topics Covered

• Jay Gosselin - Character-based career and leadership facilitator and coach
  • Mentor U - https://www.mentoru.ca/
  • Discover Year - https://www.discoveryear.ca/
  • Ted Talk - Gap Year: A Path to Purposeful Education | Jay Gosselin | TEDxKanata
• Jay's background, education, and career journey
• How getting fired lead to working at the Olympics
• The key things employers are looking for
• Gathering skills and pursuing interests to uncover his mission
• Humility taught him how to learn and deliver education in a new way
• Why Discover Year is unique - one year career and leadership development certificate
• How vulnerability and honesty creates a supportive environment
• Irrational fears about taking a gap year
• Why it's important to support women specifically in making career changes
• Emotional risk vs financial risk
• Insights that can come from a gap year at any stage in your career
• The value in diversifying the people you interact with on a regular basis
• Listening, curiosity, and asking questions
• Human connection is paramount in all things
  • Dr. Ned Hallowell - "increased human connection can cure everything" https://www.drhallowell.com/
  • Carl Rodgers - Humanistic approach to counselling https://www.simplypsychology.org/carl-rogers.html
• The importance of purposeful education
• Harvard's gap year
• What would education look like if it were more purposeful
• Jim Collins - Author of Built to Last, From Good to Great "Get the right people on the bus and in the right seats"