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What A Day

Millennials And Gen Zers Step Into Leadership

What A Day

Crooked Media

News, Daily News

4.612K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

It's 2025, and if you're a Millennial or Gen Zer, there's a good chance that you are qualified to manage and lead other people, even run for political office. Yes! Even you, the person who shares "I'm just a baby" memes! But taking that leap into leadership can be super intimidating, especially when it feels like the qualities needed to be a 'good leader' have changed so much in the last 10 to 15 years. Amanda Litman, co-founder and president of Run for Something and author of the new book 'When We're In Charge,' shares some tips and tricks for the next generation of leaders. And in headlines: Trump administration officials projected confidence after a weekend of trade talks with China, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky invited Russian President Vladimir to meet with him for direct peace talks in Turkey, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller says the administration is considering suspending the constitutional provision that allows people to challenge their detention in court.

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0:00.0

It's Monday, May 12th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day. The show that thinks President

0:08.5

Donald Trump accepting a luxury plane from the Katari royal family to serve as the new Air Force one

0:13.6

is very normal and cool and not corrupt and definitely doesn't make me think of the Trojan horse,

0:19.4

which definitely ended totally fine for the city of Troy.

0:25.0

On today's show, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller says

0:28.4

the Trump administration is thinking about putting a major constitutional right on pause

0:32.1

because that's definitely how rights are supposed to work.

0:35.0

And the White House projects confidence after a weekend of

0:37.5

trade talks with China. But let's start today with you. Yes, you. It's 2025. And if you were

0:45.8

born in or after 1981, making you a millennial, or 1997 making you Gen Z, there's a good

0:52.7

chance that you are qualified and prepared to manage other people,

0:56.5

or run for political office. Yes, even you, the person who shares, I'm just a baby memes.

1:02.8

Now, maybe you have been thinking about running for office. You see everything that's going on right

1:08.1

now and you're thinking, I want to make this better. And sure,

1:11.4

you might not be thinking about running for the House or Senate because big races can be very

1:15.2

expensive. And besides, spending lots of time in the same vicinity as, say, Georgia Republican

1:20.3

Representative Marjorie Taylor Green sounds like a punishment for a crime you never committed.

1:24.9

But city council, school board, state legislature, the positions that to me

1:29.9

matter most if you want to make real change for everyday people. But even if you don't want to run for

1:35.2

office, no matter where you work or what industry you work in, whether you're newly elected to the

1:39.9

state senate or leading a team at work, you might have had a sudden realization.

1:49.4

You have absolutely no idea what you're doing, or how to do it, or how to look like you know what you're doing. I get it. You want to be a good leader, but you don't want to be an asshole

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