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But just remembering like I said it's nothing is that serious. You know if you end up at a school that you don't like, you can transfer.

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If you choose a major that you don't like, you switch your major. If you realize that college isn't for you, you can leave and you can start a career that you're interested in.

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Like I think that that's something young people really need to hear and parents with young people could also relay to their kids.

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Hello and welcome back to Life's Next Lesson Plan podcast where I continue to pave my post education path after three decades as an English teacher.

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On today's episode I'm chatting with my former journalism student and current college senior Hannah Kennedy who shares stories about studying abroad in Australia as well as her advice for planning a post high school or post college path.

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So today I'm happy to welcome one of my favorite former students, Hannah Kennedy, to the podcast. Obviously we met at Homestead when I was her teacher.

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And then she went off to study. Her whole family actually went to Ireland during her sophomore year and we kept in touch a little bit because she knew she was going to be coming back.

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And she has an affinity for journalism. So we spent a lot of time together. I will say a lot of heart to hearts during the COVID pandemic.

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So we grew very close with that. But I will let Hannah explain her background a little bit more.

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Okay. Hi everyone. I'm Hannah. I am now a senior at the University of Maryland. And I am majoring in journalism with a minor in general business.

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And I'm hoping to pursue audience engagement, digital, social media journalism. That's kind of been my niche that I've found a passion for in college.

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But I must say like my whole journalism career started back in high school when I joined pubs freshman year.

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And Ms. Raulck was definitely a mentor and I don't know if I call you Rachel or from Ms. Raulck.

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Either way it's fine.

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But yeah, Ms. Raulck was a mentor and definitely ignited my passion for storytelling and journalism and allowed me to grow all throughout those four years.

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And it's ultimately what led me to pursue journalism. So I'm forever grateful for that.

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Yeah, I guess a little bit about me. Like personally, I grew up outside of Philadelphia. So originally from the East Coast, moved to Wisconsin, lived there for about eight years.

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And then my family was relocated to Ireland. So I spent a year there, my sophomore year of high school, aka the best year of my life.

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And then I came back, finished up at Homestead Junior and Senior year. And now I'm at the University of Maryland and TVD where I will be afterwards.

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But yeah, in my free time, I love to travel. That's a huge passion of mine. I like to cook. I'm vegetarian, very passionate about the environment.

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Yeah, that's me. Okay, awesome. So obviously, as I alluded to, we have a ton of memories from the pubs lab.

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And I'm wondering if you could share with us either a memorable high school moment, either from pubs or not, just something you remember from high school?

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Yeah, I mean, pubs, I feel like was my high school experience. I spent so much time in, is it 401? 405? 405.

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I spent so much time in that room. So I would say like most of my fondest memories from high school are there just, you know, with other students, like the girls just hanging out, or we would play games.

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We would always, you know, do fun stuff around the holidays. But then I would spend like my lunch breaks and my study halls and everything in there as well.

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So obviously, like you said earlier, we got really, really close. So yeah, I would just say as a whole pubs was just such a positive experience for me in high school.

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And I think back on high school, it's definitely, you know, crunching at the deadlines to finish your books for writing articles and getting to interview cool people.

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I will say like the one thing that I remember really stuck out to me is when we shut down during COVID.

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And I got that article out like the day after about like the lockdown rules and how school would be virtual and stuff.

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And it was like the community hadn't really heard anything from the schools. And I was kind of the first like, I got out there.

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So that was like my like, outest moment, I guess, maybe.

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I remember I had been, you know, watching the news and listening. And I don't think I remember before any of us.

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I was telling you guys and you guys all looked at me like I was crazy. You're like, what? Shut down school.

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That's what the news is saying. And you guys were all like, no, you don't know what you're talking about.

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And I was like, okay, don't believe the journalism teacher.

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Yes, you wouldn't let us like near your desk.

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I think like beginning of March 2020, you're like, everybody's getting sick. Stay away.

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We're not going to be in school next week. Just you wait. And we're all like, no, she's crazy.

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Hyperjournalism, germaphobe here. Yes.

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I remember too, one of my memories from you that sticks out is when you, I can't remember what the topic was now while you were sitting on that school board meeting zoom.

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Was that about COVID? I think it was definitely was, I'd say.

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And you and your mom were sitting on the zoom.

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And you were like, that was eye opening.

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Yeah. I was in my kitchen, here in my sitting room with my mom and we were just like, plug-eyed at the, yeah, the craziness.

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You got kind of a real world taste of what a journalist does.

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So I remember having a lot of chats in the pub's lab about just life and then how you were going to plan your life after high school.

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So can you share with anybody who's kind of at that stage in their life, how you went about planning what you were going to do post high school?

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Yeah. I mean, again, like I said, you had such a big role in me kind of deciding what I want to do with my life.

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So yeah, when I was younger, I was always a very creative kid. I love to read. I love to write.

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I like to, you know, make movies on video star. So I always knew that I was going to do something with storytelling or creativity.

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Sorry. I decided that it's something that I wanted to pursue and I felt like I could make a difference and I could tell people stories.

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So when I was looking at colleges, I had two priorities where that they were on the East Coast and they had a really good journalism program.

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So I kind of applied up and down from like Boston to the DC area and picked a school that had a really reputable journalism program.

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You know, like Purdue is known for engineering or I don't know, Maryland's known for journalism.

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And that's kind of why I chose Maryland. I was really impressed and I felt like it was just a perfect continuation of what I had started in high school.

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I will say it was easier to plan college than it is to plan post grads.

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That's your own child and she has so many interests and you want to be helpful and supportive, but you don't want, you know, to influence the decision too much.

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It's not in your own home.

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So yeah, when you chose your college and obviously you toured and I remember talking with you after that and you kind of felt like it was the right place for you.

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So now that you've been there and you're at the end of your journey, how has that gone for you? What are some of the highlights been?

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And the thing that I love about Maryland and loved when I toured and when I applied was that the journalism school is a very small school.

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So I'm going to graduate with like around a hundred kids, maybe, but Maryland is a huge big 10 school.

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So it's nice that I feel like I get both experiences.

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So it feels like a very personal experience.

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But at the same time, I can go to a big 10 football game on a Saturday or kind of stay anonymous on campus.

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You know, you're not seeing the same faces around.

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So that's been that honestly for me is, you know, on top of the journals and program being really good.

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I just like that I felt like I got the best of both worlds.

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All of the professors are like Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Dental reporters, or former reporters.

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Like, I mean, their resumes are insane.

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So it's been really cool to learn from like the best people you can in the industry.

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So that's been super cool.

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Um, yeah, I would I could say so many good things about the program here.

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But I will say I do think I'm glad that I went to school for journalism and I want to stay in news.

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But I think it was around my sophomore year when I kind of realized because Maryland gives you such, I should say Merrill.

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It's the Merrill School of Journalism.

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Merrill gives you such hands on experience right away.

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Like you are you get to be your like second semester freshman year.

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Typically you're assigned to a relocation and you're reporting on multiple stories that semester.

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So you're kind of thrown, I don't always say thrown to the wolves, but like you're you're pushed out of the nest pretty quickly.

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And which is great because it's obviously like immediately hands on experience.

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But at the same time, it did help me realize by the end of my sophomore year that I don't think I necessarily want to be a reporter anymore.

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I still want to stay in journalism.

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I think the news is so important. I think journalism is so important.

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I just don't see myself in a reporter role.

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So like what else can I do to still be a part of this and story tell and you know share people's stories but not be the one out there.

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You know interviewing the politicians on Capitol Hill.

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So but that's that's been such a good experience because I feel like a lot of people graduate in four years and they're like, oh, I don't want to do this.

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Whereas I kind of figured that out a little bit earlier on and I'm like, okay, but what else can I do with this and they the journalism school here.

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You know, you can do broadcasts, you can do production, you can do audience engagement, you can do on correspondence.

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You like there's so many different routes that they let you kind of concentrate on.

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So that was really great because I kind of, you know, was able to step out of that reporter role but not feel totally lost about like what I want to do.

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We were talking a little bit just about the opportunities and you were talking about the internship that you have coming up.

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Can you just talk briefly about, you know, what you're doing now and then how that's going to go next semester.

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Yeah, so I've had a few internships like throughout college because the journals go actually requires you to have an internship before you graduate, which is very helpful.

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So I've had a few throughout the years but this spring I am going to be an audience impact and social media intern for Frontline at PBS, which is like their documentary series.

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So it is like, I could not think of a more perfect role to be honest.

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I like I'm so interested in investigative journalism and videography and documentaries and all of that but being able to then, you know, take my skill set of like social media and audience engagement.

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It's like a perfect combination of everything that I would want to do.

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So I'm very excited.

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I like just found out a few weeks ago.

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So it should be a really good experience and yeah, I'm very excited.

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That is exciting at just the movie spotlight with, you know, like investigative journalism comes to mind and I can just see you digging and digging and that's going to be amazing to see what you do.

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So would you say that you've had, I know you've had impactful experiences.

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Have you had an impactful mentor or professor along the way as well?

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Honestly, I have not had a bad professor here, I must say like across the board journalism or not.

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My professors have been overall really great.

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Like I said before, the professors specifically at the journalism school have the most impressive resumes.

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So you're always learning from somebody like me, my sophomore year, Jerry Zaremsky was a professor of mine.

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And he's talking about when he was in Iraq and like in on the back of a truck and it's like they have the craziest experiences.

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I will say this semester specifically I have two incredible professors, Dana Priest.

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She writes, wrote slash writes for the Washington Post and she covered like the CIA and you know, was it did like a bit of foreign correspondency and I'm taking a class with her.

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That specifically focuses on the media's coverage of foreign and domestic extremism, which has been really interesting, especially now.

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Very, very interesting eye opening.

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I mean, you realize that might be a little bit interested in international relations.

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So she's been super cool. And then I am currently doing my capstone, which is like required in the journalism school, an audience engagement and my editor slash professor her name is Stacy Decker.

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She has been so wonderful.

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And it's like so nice when you can resonate with somebody like a lot of my professors like I said they're super high achieving they have this super impressive resume.

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And Stacy is obviously very impressive and like has a ton of experience as well.

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But like to us, she's like, you know, like you don't have to be the reporter that's on 60 minutes, you know, your face everywhere.

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Like she's like you can she she got involved in journalism like I did and then decided to go into social media and the digital on the back end.

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And it was just so nice seeing somebody that kind of took the same path that I want to take.

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So she's been such a good mentor to have she's been so helpful.

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She's yeah, she's definitely been it's been a highlight of my semester for sure with her.

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Wow, that's really cool that they have such amazing real world experience as well.

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Oh, fascinating.

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So how has that played into then the goals that you have for yourself post college?

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Yeah, I mean, I, I don't I don't have a set path.

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I could see myself going a couple of different ways when I graduate.

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Like I said, I'm kind of since taking this class becoming a little bit more interested in international relations.

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So maybe I could see myself maybe pursuing something post cred with that or still stay in journalism and working in audience engagement and doing social strategy for a newsroom would be really interesting.

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Not sure where I'll end up. Yeah, I guess my but my like broad circle would just to make sure that whatever I'm doing is something that I genuinely want to be doing.

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Like I think your first little podcast episode that was the first one that got released, you were saying something of like, you know, doing what you want to do now what you feel like you have to do.

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And I feel like especially with graduating college, there's a lot of pressure around doing what's expected of you or what might be the most successful or high achieving.

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And I really want to make sure that I prioritize doing what I want to do and what is best for me like holistic, not just a career driven choice or, you know, whatever that may be.

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So honestly, still, you know, wanting to achieve a lot and be successful and do something that I'm interested in.

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But yeah, that's that's like my overall goal.

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You've had so many life experiences, I think, because of all your travels, which I know you're going to talk about a little bit today that I feel like you maybe have a little bit more perspective on like what's important.

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And you've seen a lot of different cultures and different ways people live, right?

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I think especially for someone your age, you've seen a lot more than maybe others your age.

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So if you could give advice to people your age, either personally or professionally, just about kind of creating that ideal life based on what you want, not on the messages that you're being given.

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How would you phrase that?

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So I guess like if I could give a piece of advice, even though I'm only 22, take this with a grain of salt, everybody.

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I would say that, you know, in life in general, you just have to do like what you think is best for you and kind of block out the noise and prioritize what you think is going to lead to your best life, which I guess kind of segues into my into my lesson.

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Yeah, I would just say prioritize you and your goals and the rest will fall into place.

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Okay, well, we're all really excited to hear the lesson that you prepared.

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The tables are kind of turned a little bit where I get to learn.

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Well, I always learned from my students.

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They were teaching me something every day, but this is kind of a fun role reversal here where you're going to teach the world and me a lesson.

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So we'll let you get started.

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So much pressure.

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No, I guess, yeah, my lesson that I would share with people is that kind of like the life advice that I gave.

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But my lesson would be that you have to prioritize what you want in your life and it will come to fruition.

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So just making like if you have goals or something that you want to achieve, making small steps a priority in your daily routine or your habits or your spending habits or whatever that may be to kind of help that goal become reality.

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Obviously, dreams can be really big, but if you take small steps towards them and if you know that you always have that dream as your end goal and your priority, then you can kind of work towards that slowly.

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I guess, yeah, like in my experience, I would say I guess if that if I was like looking back and reflecting on myself, travel is a huge priority in my life.

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I love I love to travel. I love to meet new people. I like, you know, experiencing new cultures.

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And so a typical college kid would, you know, spend a lot of their money on shopping and going out and eating out, which I obviously, you know, do account for.

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But for me, a lot of my personal budget goes towards travel because I know that that's something that I want to prioritize.

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So I knew when I was going to college that studying abroad would be a priority for me.

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So I built my college schedule around keeping my second semester of junior year pretty free and flexible for me to go abroad, which ended up working out.

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So I went to Sydney, Australia last semester and I was there for about five months at the University of Sydney.

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And it was the coolest experience as usual. I mean, I was very lucky that because I had lived in Ireland my sophomore year with my family.

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We, it was very nice to be there with my family and get to experience it all together.

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And we obviously got to travel Europe a lot because it was so close.

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So when I was studying abroad in college, I knew that I wanted to go somewhere that was really far and I probably wouldn't get to like soon in my life for a significant amount of time.

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So that's kind of what drew me to Australia and there's just so much to do there.

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So I spent the semester in Australia and I traveled all around Australia and I was able to go to Bali, Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand, New Zealand.

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So I crossed a lot off my bucket list. It was an expensive semester, but it was an incredible semester.

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And yeah, that I mean, it just kind of fueled my my passion even more. But while I was in Australia, kind of backtracking a little bit.

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When I had lived in Ireland, I got really into videography and I would document all of my family's trips through video and I would post on YouTube.

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But I always kind of regretted that I didn't keep a journal or a blog because the videos are great to look back on and I love them.

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But like the day to day and everything, I kind of forget that a little bit.

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And so with Australia, I was like, I just I want to make it start a blog so I can, you know, keep track of everything and have it to look back on.

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So I get like kind of prioritizing, you know, like still because I wasn't doing any journalism either in Sydney.

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So I still wanted to make journalism a priority. And so I decided to start a travel blog while I was there and I documented all my trips and some of the day to day in Sydney,

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which was really great. And I have that to look back on now and I can obviously keep doing that, you know, as I continue to travel.

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So circling this all back into my original lesson, like I said, for me personally, travel is a priority and has been for a while now.

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But, you know, if no matter what it is, that's a priority to you.

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If you just keep that in mind and I don't want to say center your life around it because, you know, there's obviously multiple things in my life that are important.

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But it is one of my top priorities. And so if you have something that you, you know, really want to go after, you can as long as you just keep that as a priority in your day to day.

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Yeah, I loved, I just love following, you know, I have so many former students with far more fascinating lives than I lead.

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When they documented it's so fun to watch and it kind of, it's neat too because it's a form of journalism in a way you're using your journalism skills.

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And I remember when we were emailing when you were in Ireland and you came back and you were like, yeah, I have all these videos.

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You know, like I was trying to do some journalism while I was there and I was like, oh my gosh, this is like a 15, 16 year old girl like doing this on her own.

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And that was super impressive. So with your action steps for the audience, you might have some of your own action steps, but I'm hoping that maybe as part of them too, you can just sort of talk them through what you learned about blogging and like,

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I'm sure you got some feedback from people on what they like to see and then just a little bit about how you went setting that up and then any other tips or action steps that you have for the audience.

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And then I will definitely put a link to your blog in the show notes so that they can see an example and of course all of your amazing adventures as well.

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Yeah, I will say the blog has been on pause a little bit my fall semester of college because I've never really been going anywhere, but it will start back up because I had some exciting trips coming up over winter break.

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So there will definitely be some content on there.

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But my advice would be that with the new year coming and if you're into like making goals for the new year or not, like kind of connected to my lesson is that if you can make a list of priorities that you have for the new year,

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I think instead of making these big lofty goals, just make just write down or keep in mind whatever like what you want to prioritize and it doesn't have to be like an everyday thing, you know, as long as you kind of just keep this priority in mind,

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I feel like it becomes more of a habit.

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So for me, like in my life, I knew journalism and being creative and storytelling is one priority for me. And then at the same time, traveling and exploring and being adventurous is like another priority.

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I found either through YouTube and videography back when I was 15 or 16 or now, you know, with doing a little bit of blogging, like I'm able to kind of mesh those two priorities, those two passions, those two interests or whatever.

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And so kind of how I got started was because we use WordPress in pubs. And I was like, I have somewhat basic knowledge of how to use this interface.

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So I was just in Australia and I decided to start my own little WordPress site. And I, it's very basic, I will say, I need to, when I have time, I will like delve more into the aesthetics of everything, but it turns its purpose for now.

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And I guess I didn't start it with like any intention of like gaining a following and I by no means like have a big following. It was more so just so I can document what I'm doing.

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I have it to look back on and my grandmothers who live in Pennsylvania can also check in on me and I know that I'm doing fine in Australia and what's going on in my life because they don't use social media.

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So that was the premise behind it. So I launched or created a WordPress account and chose the free subscription, the very basic fonts and photos and whatever.

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And that's kind of how I got started. I just have a headline, I'll write the body. I threw some photos in there. It could definitely be more high tech.

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But for now, like I said, it served its purpose and I think it's cute and I, you know, it's something that I have that I can look back on and I also want to give people advice too.

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You know, like I kind of tailored it to obviously a college aged on a budget kind of person who's traveling.

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So that's some advice in that I give on there is geared towards that audience. I also like to keep my personality and my voice in there and I'll talk about my mom and I as road trip to New Zealand and our personalities on that trip.

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So it's a combination of everything. But yeah, that's like an example, something that I prioritize and something that I really wanted to do. And I think like same with this podcast that you're doing, I think we're both creative people and these are different outlets that we've discovered.

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And I think if it's something that you might have a slight interest in, like why not do it? And like I said before, you know, it's not necessarily you shouldn't be doing what people expect of you or what you think people expect of you.

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You should be doing what you think or know is best for you. And like, if my travel blog is kind of bad, like it's fine, like it's fun for me and you know, I think you go into it with the intention of just kind of having fun and being creative with it.

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And this is with anything in life like it doesn't necessarily have to be a podcast or a travel blog. But any endeavor that you have in life, I think if you realize that it's not that serious, you'll just enjoy it more.

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So that would be my a little bit more advice or act, I guess the action that you could take in the new year is just to go forth with your priorities and not let outside opinions affect what you want to do.

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And just remember that it's all not that deep and not that serious. And if you make a mistake or you mess up, it is what it is in life will go on.

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I love that you say that because the teacher who I took this podcast course from to start a podcast said, you just have to sometimes release things messy and I was like, you know, the recovering perfectionist and me at first was like, but then I remembered all the

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journalistic work that we had done on deadline. And if you're not comfortable releasing something before it's 100% perfect, you'll never finish a yearbook for sure.

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And so I thought, okay, I can do this, like I will hear the mistakes and see the mistakes just like we did back in the old days in the pubs lab, right? But it's okay. You're doing meaningful work. And you are enjoying your experiences and I'm enjoying the work that I'm doing in our creative capacities here.

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That's all that matters. So I'm going to throw a unscripted question. It just popped into my mind. So if you need a minute to think about it, let me know. But I kind of you alluded to the first episode and that has to do with sort of prioritizing and following your

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own heart and what you would like to do. So we know that you your path involves digital journalism. Is there like, if you could absolutely, you know, grant be granted a wish for your dream job related to that, have you thought about what that might look like?

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Yeah, I mean, I, I have a bunch of dream jobs to be honest. But right now, I guess my dream job would be working for like a travel publication like Condon Oster, lonely planet or National Geographic, something like that would be like dream goal.

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I know long term I want to go back to Ireland. So if a career could take me okay that way, I would be very appreciative as well. That's yeah, not so easy to just pick up and boot another country at 22.

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So that would be super cool. But yeah, that that like anything in the travel lifestyle culture food realm would be dream career for me, I think just being creative in that field in some capacity.

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Yeah, I could see that. And it's interesting because really what you've been doing while you're having fun and enjoying your passion of travel is you have been resume building.

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Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, if you if you want to be comfortable in new experiences and you want your career to involve travel, you have to travel right like really.

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And so you have you've been building your skills along with having fun and getting yourself a paving that path to your next step.

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And I'm just always so proud of you and so honored that you could join me for this today. I will as I said I'll put your link to your travel blog at the bottom.

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And then maybe if you're comfortable, we can drop your LinkedIn or something in case there's someone from National Geographic who happens to listen to this and wants to reach out to you.

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Please hire me. We'll see what we can do a little.

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Yeah, I'm not against that.

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The stage in my life.

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So just like everyone.

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I appreciate your time today and even just obviously for people your age who are going through this, I think it would be really helpful.

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But as I mentioned earlier too, as a mom who's trying to guide someone through making big life decisions, right?

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And kind of a young age at 17.

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I think parents will appreciate to some of your insights just from a student's perspective on how to approach that situation.

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So thank you so much for being here today, Hannah.

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Yeah, of course. One more thing because you kind of just triggered something for me talking about parents and your daughter making a big life decision or people in general.

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One thing that my mom always says and has definitely stayed with me through life is that it will all work out.

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So like all these and I'm trying to remind myself of that as I'm approaching graduation from college as well.

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But just remembering, like I said, it's nothing is that serious. You know, if you end up at a school that you don't like, you can transfer.

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If you choose a major that you don't like, you switch your major.

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If you realize that college isn't for you, you can leave and you can start a career that you're interested in.

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Like, I think that that's something young people really need to hear and parents with young people could also relay to their kids.

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I've, yeah, I guess I've just learned that like what seems like a big deal in the moment is never really that big of a deal and nothing is permanent.

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So I love that.

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I love that you're spouting wisdom at this point.

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But I love that advice because after a year and year and year of, you know, listening to the college decisions and all the debates we had about the college map and the pressure to where your name goes on that college map.

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I think it all goes back to the pressures from society versus being comfortable with your own decision.

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So shout out to mom for that great advice.

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Yeah, I'm glad that we were a mom who always gives you the best advice.

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That's another, they do know best.

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Whether you agree in the moment or not, right?

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All right.

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Awesome.

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So great to have you, Hannah.

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Thank you so much.

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Yeah.

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Thank you so much.

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I'm so excited.

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