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New Year's is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.

As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.

So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small.

Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR.

Hey, everyone, just a quick announcement before we start the show.

So a lot of you may know how much I miss seeing all of you at the live in-person shows that we do around the country during normal times.

So I am really excited to finally announce our first how I built this virtual event.

It's happening next month with Jay Shetty.

Jay is a best-selling author, former monk and wellness coach, and if you're searching for purpose, peace, and clarity in your life, or you're struggling to find meaning and motivation at work, you will not want to miss this conversation.

Please join us. It's happening on Thursday, March 11th, and anybody around the world can take part.

For more information and tickets, head to nprpresents.org, and I hope to see you there.

Hey, everyone, and welcome to how I built this resilience edition from NPR. I'm Guy Ross.

Each week on Thursday, we invite entrepreneurs and other business leaders to come onto the show live to talk about how they've been building resilience into their businesses over this past year.

And if you want to, you can join us every Thursday at 9 Pacific, New and Eastern on how I built this Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube pages to hear the conversation and ask questions as well.

And today, my conversation with Beverly Leon, founder and CEO of Local Civics.

Local Civics is an ed tech startup that's helping students build their civic and community leadership skills.

Now, if you were just to take a guess at what Beverly did before launching this company, professional soccer player might not be the first thing you'd think of, but that's exactly what she did.

And we'll talk later on about how she got from there to founding Local Civics in 2018.

So first of all, Beverly, how do you explain what what local civics is to someone who hasn't heard of it? What does local civics do?

At Local Civics guy, we teach kids about power. We help them navigate and explore power. We help them learn about their own power to create impact in their community.

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