• Episode 10: From Teen to Functional Adult

  • Jun 26 2022
  • Length: 30 mins
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Episode 10: From Teen to Functional Adult

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    • Every week 'Generation What' talks about how to address common mental health struggles and the disconnect between the older and younger generations and how it affects relationships between teens and parents, young adults and their professors and bosses, friendships, self-esteem, and more.  This podcast gives insight and concrete takeaways on how to better manage mental health and how we can improve ourselves individually, come together and better understand one another.

     

    • In this episode Doug and Janene interview Soren Pack who recently started college and talks about his experience finishing high school during COVID and some of the habits and skills practiced that have helped him transition to an independent adult.  Concepts such as hard work, resilience, independence and mindset will be processed with Soren.  He discusses real life experiences that can help any teen start visualizing how they can achieve the kind of young adult independent lifestyle that can lead to success.

     

    • 1:01- Introduction of the guest, Soren Pack and the focus of the podcast- transitioning from teen to young adult.

     

    • 3:46- Soren discusses trends like COVID that disrupted teen development mentally and emotionally along with skill building.

     

    • 7:49- Skills needed such as self motivation that helped in Soren's transition from a teen living at home, to being an independent young adult living on a college campus.

     

    • 11:00- Soren talks about how skill building started with small goals like working out.

     

    • 14:00- Talked about cultivating the habit of doing things that you don't want to do, but are good for you especially when you don't feel like it and when self motivation is low.

     

    • 17:00-Talked about parenting do's and don'ts from Soren's perspective as far as what kind of parenting techniques helped Soren gain skills that set him up for success as a young adult.

     

    • 21:30-Talked about giving space to teens so they can start monitoring themselves and how to help them analyze what is going right and what is going wrong and how the teen should be a part of the solution.

     

    • 25:00- Discussed a work place survey where employers identified soft skills such as hard work, resilience, following a schedule, follow-through, self-advocacy, and  working as a team as core skills that are needed for success in the work place.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     
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