1101: How to Make the Most of the School Year with Education Expert Ana Homayoun

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Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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There’s plenty to be frustrated with, as a parent to a child experiencing school virtually this fall. Same for teachers, administrators and students. These are unprecedented times and the path forward is unclear. All are struggling. But, what are the bright sides? How can families navigate this challenging academic year with more success (regardless of income)? This show is dedicated to offering positive solutions to an otherwise challenging school year with guest Ana Homayoun, noted teen and millennial expert, author, speaker, and educator. Her work focuses on helping students develop empathy and executive functioning skills in today’s tech and social media world. More about Ana: She is the author of three books: That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week, The Myth of the Perfect Girl, and Social Media Wellness. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Jose Mercury News, as well as on Fast Company, CNBC, and ABC News, among others, and she is a frequent guest on NPR. In 2001, Ana founded Green Ivy Educational Consulting, LLC, an internationally recognized organization that works with parents, students, educators, and employers. She works with schools, universities and corporations consulting with parents, students, educators and employers about promoting intrinsic motivation, authentic engagement, and overall wellness. In early 2019, with the support of the Foundation for the Carolinas, she launched the Life Navigator Middle School Program, a school advisory curriculum and school coaching program designed to promote executing functioning skills and student wellness as well as social and economic mobility. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So Money episode 1101, finding the bright spots in this challenging academic year with
0:05.4	teen and millennial expert author and speaker, Anna Homayoon.
0:11.2	You're listening to So Money, with award-winning Money Guru Farnu Tharabi.
0:15.0	Each day, get a 30 minute dose of financial inspiration from the world's top business minds, authors, influencers, and from Farnuus yourself.
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0:31.0	Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life.
0:34.3	Welcome to So Money.
0:37.5	One of the things I think parents really need to think about
0:40.3	or educators in general is this idea of the entrepreneurial model of success and that's really what I subscribe to and I talk about in my books and the
0:51.3	entrepreneurial model of success is all about helping you develop the skills that you need to be able to be adaptable and flexible.
1:01.0	And I think this pandemic more than ever has showed us as adults how we need to be more adaptable and flexible.
1:09.0	And for kids, we're actually seeing how some of them are more adaptable and flexible than we are.
1:14.0	Welcome to So Money Everybody. You know I've been thinking a lot these days as a parent
1:18.9	as someone who just cares about kids about you know what would have happened to me and my parents if at any point in my
1:26.8	childhood we had to spend a year of my schooling at home away from classmates stuck to a computer. You both my parents worked.
1:36.3	English was their second language. We weren't well off enough to hire tutors.
1:40.3	And here we are. This is the reality for many families today. In our home, our son is
1:46.4	experiencing first grade completely virtually and our work schedules thankfully are
1:51.5	relatively flexible so we can be there to assist him.
1:55.0	We also have a tutor coming twice a week to reinforce what he's learning,
2:00.0	but it's a lot of work. It's a heavy lift, it's cost prohibitive, it's a lot of work it's a heavy lift it's cost prohibitive it's frustrating and I worry you know I worry all the time that he's not
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