Hello and welcome back to Redirected. My name is Andrew East and this is a show we sit down with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, really anybody who has experienced a change or pivot in life.

Today we sit down with a special guest, Rebecca Fleashman as part of our Forbes 30 for 30 series. Rebecca has a really cool story. After being a teacher, K-5 teacher, she moved on to administration.

She has a different work for an organization called Child Mind which was all about children's mental health and psychology. She talks us about what she has learned from that, how she started and got so involved with this specific industry.

She also tells us what she is up to now. If you want to find out more about Rebecca and what she is up to, it is a pretty amazing work. I will link that down below. Before we jump into this, if you haven't given the show a rating or subscribe to it, please do so on whatever platform you are listening to.

I hope you enjoy the show with Rebecca. Let's just go ahead and jump into it.

Rebecca, thanks so much for joining. It is a pleasure to meet you.

Thanks for having me. I am happy to be here.

Are you in New York right now? I am in Brooklyn, New York. I have been here the entire pandemic. I haven't left.

Wow. I know two NYU grads. One is you. The other is Nostya Luchin. I don't know if that name rings a bell.

You like to choose maybe an ice skater?

Jimness. Yeah, close. Yeah. But impressive resumes. I would love if you could give us a start with the foundation of where you grew up, what your parents did, and the potted version of how you became this person we see today.

Yeah, happy to. So I am from a small town in North Central Massachusetts named Groton. There is a groton in every New England town. That is the one fun fact I can ever give you about anything.

Gwatin?

Groton. GROT.

Who is that guy?

I have no idea. But Paul Revier rode through my town. So it is like old New England town. Very, very small. Born and raised there.

And I have one older sister and you asked what my parents do. My dad is a fizzist and just super cool. And my mom was always a state home mom.

And so I was raised in this really small town and I always knew that I wanted to live in New York and that I did not want to be in a small town. So I graduated and I made the bold choice of studying abroad my freshman year. So I moved to Paris at just from 18.

I was in New York and I was absolutely nothing. I was so terrified all the time. So I moved to Paris spent a year there and then I moved to New York.

And I just love New York. I am one of those diehards. I think it is the best place on the planet. I will probably live here for the rest of my life.

And professionally, I never knew what I wanted to do. And that was always a really ambiguous thing for me. I was the kid who also never even wanted to go to college. I just didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't want to feel confined or constrained.

I liked school when I liked what I was learning about, but I didn't like school when it was something that I felt was just a class for the sake of a class or like a prerequisite because everyone has to take them. So through my college career, I found my way by finding professors that I really enjoyed and finding people that I felt like I really connected with.

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