Cause for Hope: Two Gen Zs Tell It Like It Could Be

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Need a bounce in your step? Click play. You will spend the better part of an hour with two young people who are coming into their power just as we need them most. JerDrema (Dreme) Flynt is a Fulbright Scholar and tech entrepreneur. Will McQuiston is well on his way to a degree from Harvard after a harrowing childhood in Prattville, Alabama. In a sea of gnarly headlines and a culture of name calling and blame gaming, these Gen Z superstars soothed our nervous systems and made us more ready to participate in the great correction. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My mother said to me, you're going to college
0:03.4	and you're going to be more than these four walls.
0:06.8	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:11.7	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
0:13.7	I'm Kelly Corrigan, and today I'm wondering about the magic
0:17.1	that happens when high potential meets deep resources.
0:21.2	We all know kids without rages capacity to contribute.
0:25.2	Sometimes they find their way to places
0:27.8	where their extraordinary array of dormant talents
0:31.3	can be realized.
0:32.6	My first guest is Jardreema Flint,
0:35.1	a Fulbright scholar in Cape Town, South Africa,
0:37.9	whose teacher wondered if she would ever go to college.
0:41.4	Will McQuiston started his life as the son of drug addicts
0:44.8	in Prattville, Alabama.
0:46.7	He called in for this conversation from the studio
0:49.4	at Harvard, where he's a junior.
0:51.7	Join us for a very inspiring episode
0:55.0	of Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
0:56.3	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
1:07.4	Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
1:09.2	I'm Kelly Corrigan, and this is the final episode
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