Episode 87: How Miracle Olatunji helps students start their careers
Beyond 6 Seconds: Neurodiversity stories from neurodivergent people
11/18/19
•21m
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Miracle Olatunji is a college student, entrepreneur, and author of "Purpose: How To Live and Lead With Impact." In high school, she founded OpportuniMe, an award-winning education organization which democratizes access to summer experiential learning opportunities for high school students.
On this episode, Miracle shares:
- How her own struggle with finding summer opportunities in high school lead her to create OpportuniMe
- How she balances her life as a full time college student and entrepreneur
- What inspired her to write her book, "Purpose: How To Live and Lead With Impact"
You can find Miracle on Twitter at @mirolatunji, on Instagram at @miracleolatunji, and on LinkedIn.
Special offer for Beyond 6 Seconds listeners: If you Venmo $12 to @MiracleO, and email miracle.e.olatunji@gmail.com with your mailing address, she will mail you a signed copy of her book!
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Full Bio:
Miracle Olatunji is a student, entrepreneur, innovation director, and author of Purpose: How To Live and Lead With Impact. In high school, she founded OpportuniMe, an award-winning education organization which democratizes access to summer experiential learning opportunities that enable high school youth to develop life and leadership skills, cultivate their passions, become socially conscious, and build their network. Through OpportuniMe, hundreds of youth have been able to find and secure incredible opportunities. Miracle is a passionate advocate for access to opportunities because she has seen firsthand how even just one opportunity, connection, or resource can change the trajectory of someone's life!
Miracle served as a member of the advisory board for the Diamond Challenge, one of the world's largest entrepreneurship programs for high school students.
While in her sophomore year at Northeastern University, she is the Director of Innovation at Thrive, a student organization which empowers college students through financial literacy programs and supports student-led entrepreneurial ventures in personal finance and financial technology. She hosts an event series that provides actionable advice and strategies for young women on building their net worth, self worth, and network.
Miracle is also a volunteer on the programming team for Startup Boston 2019.
Miracle has been honored as a Young Global Leadership Scholar, Youth Entrepreneur Of The Year, a 'Woman To Watch', one of The Root 25 Young Futurists & Changemakers, and grand prize winner of the World Series of Entrepreneurship. She has been featured in Forbes, Thrive Global, Technical.ly, The Female Lead, and other leading publications. Miracle was also selected as one of America's Amazing Teens by the AAT Project, which identifies exceptional youth who are changing the world.
Citing Oprah Winfrey, Sallie Krawcheck, and Tiffany Pham as her top role models, Miracle firmly believes in the importance of giving back, mentorship, and empowering others. She hopes to one day start a foundation that grants scholarships and grants to underrepresented young leaders and changemakers.
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Episode 86: Helping young people create a path to success – with Michael Basagre
November 11, 2019
•27m
This week's episode features Michael Basagre, who founded and runs a career coaching service and blog called Momettas while he works as a packaging consultant in New Zealand. Momettas focuses on helping young adults between the ages of 15 and 30 succeed as they transition out of key life milestones such as leaving school or university, getting their first job or looking for that next step in their career. In addition, Michael is dedicated to helping people discover a passion for personal development by helping uncover their core values.
On this episode, you can hear Michael talk about:
- How his passion for helping others became his side hustle
- How he balances his energy between family, a full-time job, and Momettas
- How living out your core values can help you find career success
- The unusual technique Michael uses to help his clients uncover their core values
- Why he encourages his clients to talk about their core values in job interviews
- The importance of keeping your core values in mind as you develop your own business or creative projects
You can learn more about Michael on the Momettas website, www.momettas.com, and blog, www.momettas.com/blogs. If you are between the ages of 15 – 30 and would like some career coaching, feel free to contact Michael at michael@momettas.com for one free coaching session (and mention that you heard him on the Beyond 6 Seconds podcast)!
The Seven Fundamental Tools that Michael uses with his coaching clients:
- Self-Awareness
- Change of Mindset
- Decide what your core values are
- Build a solid character
- Begin believing
- Inspire personal change
- Encourage positive change through ongoing continuous improvement
Next Episode
This week's guest is Josh Stine, the co-founder and CEO of Seat Insiders, an event ticket concierge agency serving companies and individuals around the world. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Josh worked in cyber security and management consulting at PwC. Josh has also started several other successful side hustles over the past four years, but he has turned his focus solely to Seat Insiders since its founding.
On this episode, you will hear Josh talk about:
- His journey from Big 4 consulting to the ticketing industry
- How the changes in the ticketing industry are beneficial for both fans and artists alike
- How building international relationships has created opportunities for fans to go to events around the world
You can contact Josh on www.seatinsiders.com and by email at josh@seatinsiders.com. You can also learn more about Seat Insiders on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Special offer for Beyond 6 Seconds listeners: Seat Insiders is giving five listeners a free 1-year concierge membership (a $240 value)! To claim this offer, go to www.seatinsiders.com, click the contact us link, and fill out the contact form -- be sure you mention Beyond 6 Seconds in your message!
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