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Welcome to a new kind of school. We talk about career paths you don’t normally get to hear about in the classroom. Every episode, I talk to someone with an interesting life path and learn about how they got to where they are today. Join us as you learn from others what it’s like to make a living as a comedian, become a culinary director, start your own non-profit, become a CMO, become a foreign war correspondent, and much more! Support us: https://www.patreon.com/thenewschoolpodcast Advertis ...
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Kathryn Minshew didn't intend to ever found her own business, but life is full of surprises. After finding other job searching sites frustrating to navigate, Kathryn decided that she needed to do something about it. She left her stable job at McKinsey to start her first company PYP, only to have it fall apart a year later. However, from PYP Kathryn…
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Master Rahsun was passionate about music and martial arts growing up in Brooklyn. He took on martial arts because he wanted to learn how to defend himself when he was younger so he could always have the upper hand in a street fight. However, as he grew up, he decided he would focus on the music for a while. After about 10 years, Rahsun had made a n…
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Chelsea Fuss was obsessed with flowers when she was growing up. When other kids were at the mall or playing sports, she had grown her own cottage garden at the age of 14. She studied art history at college but would draw flowers in the margins of her class notes. She decided to make flowers her career — going from internships to renowned floral des…
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When Dr. Therese Mascardo was little, she wanted to be a doctor, or failing that, the first female president. Well, neither of those goals worked out exactly, but it’s safe to say that Therese has definitely found her calling. Once she realized psychology was a thing — and that she could talk to people for a living — there was no turning back. In t…
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Today’s guest proves you don’t have to know what your dream career is when you’re still in school. Michael Riscica struggled with school - in his own words he was a special ed student - and he didn’t have a plan for graduation. In fact, he just barely graduated high school. But a chance job at an interior design company helped him realize that he a…
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Whether it’s a bad job interview or disappointing grades, we’ve all had those moments where things don’t work out how we hoped (or, if it’s 2020, a whole year of things not going to plan). But for this episode’s super-inspiring guest, it’s all about how you react when things don’t go to plan. Hannah Cecille grew up in a musical household and she al…
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If you’ve ever had that quarter life crisis where you feel like you’re stuck in a Groundhog day loop, you’re not the only one. Eric, at the age of 25 decided that he wasn’t in the career that he wanted to do for the rest of his life. After realizing his interests was truly in action movies and how they were made, he decided to embark on his career …
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If you love hosting events for your friends and family, have you ever considered doing it for a living? We’re all familiar with the hotel industry, but don’t really know what goes on behind the scenes. Caroline Shone gives us the inside scoop on what it takes to curate experiences for luxury resorts and how she became one of the youngest managers a…
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Have you ever looked up at the stars and wondered about what goes on outside of our own world? Othniel Mbamalu discusses his own experience of how he founded a corporation that is helping advance human space flight and leading the way to better understand what goes on outside of our planet. He is the founder and CTO of Advanced Rocket Corporation (…
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The New School is coming back for Back to School season this Monday, October 5! We got some amazing guests for you: Othniel Mbamalu, who grew up in rural Nigeria yet was able to start his own aerospace company at age 28; Caroline Shone, who was one of the youngest housekeeping managers that Four Seasons has had; Eric Linden, who has worked in stunt…
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I always used to feel self conscious growing up because I didn’t have a single passion and always felt jealous of others who knew exactly what they wanted to be when they grew up. Even on the show, we’ve had a few guests who told me there’s only one thing they ever considered as a career like Jen Kramer, who knew she wanted to be a magician as a ch…
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When I was growing up, I remember stressing about how to make money after school especially as high school graduation approached. I never even really considered if I just focused on casual hobbies I enjoyed they could be a way to make money. That’s not the case for Matt Miller, who grew up eating, sleeping, breathing skateboarding. His passion for …
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Growing up, I used to binge interviews with my favorite celebrities on TV and Youtube. What’s it like to be the person on the other side interviewing celebs on TV and on the red carpet? I get the answers today from Sanyee Yuan. She’s achieved her hosting dreams as a Disney Channel Movie Surfer and as a regular Hollywood reporter on the red carpet a…
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If you’ve ever gone to a live concert, I’m sure you’ve noticed not just the music but the amazing lighting that really gives you the full concert experience. But who is behind designing this lighting? Today, I’m getting the answers from Jeff Maker, who has been working as a touring lighting designer for concerts the past 14 years and has worked wit…
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If you’ve binged Sex and the City like me, you’ve probably been obsessed with Samantha Jones and her job, PR. Is it really as glam as the show? Do you really get to go to exclusive parties all the time and work with celebrity clients daily? Today, I’m getting the answers by sitting down with Emily Johnston, an experienced publicist in the media lan…
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For some people, their favorite time of year is Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. I’ve always wondered why some people are so fascinated with a creature they fear as much as sharks. Today, I chat with someone so into sharks he made it his job, Dr. David Shiffman. Dr. Shiffman is a marine biologist who has turned his passion for sharks into a career f…
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In a time of astrology apps like Co-Star and The Pattern, there’s clearly a lot of people interested in learning what their horoscope says about them. However, if you type in “Do you believe in astrology?” into Google, you’ll find equally divisive opinions on the matter. I’ll admit that I’ve been a skeptic when it comes to horoscopes printed in new…
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When I first met Lucas Sin, he was running a pop up restaurant every Friday night in the basement of a Yale dormitory. Little did I know he would go on to design the entire food menu for the successful chain of fast-casual restaurants, Junzi Kitchen. Junzi Kitchen’s mission is to update the American understanding of Chinese cuisine and has been dub…
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How does one become a C-Suite executive at a major company? I get the answers today from Blair Shane, who has been CMO of multiple huge brands including Sequoia Capital, one of the top venture capital firms, Stanford Business School, and the California Academy of Science. In this episode, we chat about how she got into marketing, how she worked her…
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What’s it like to be a foreign correspondent? Are you actually putting your life on the line regularly just for a story? How do you even become one? I get the answers today from Alex Pena, digital journalist and producer at CBS. In this episode, we talk about how he got started in journalism, what life was like as a foreign correspondent in Kenya, …
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Next Monday, The New School is back and better than ever, with amazing new guests including a Emmy Award-winning foreign correspondent, the former CMO of Sequioa Capital, the culinary director of Junzi Kitchen, and much more. Subscribe to stay up to date, new episode out every Monday!
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When I first met Jen during college ski team weekend trips, she’d wow us with her magic tricks at the cabin. Now she’s Vegas' only headlining female magician with her own magic show at Westgate Resort & Casino every Wed-Sat. She has also been featured on The CW’s Masters of Illusion, and NBC’s TODAY Show. In this episode, she talks about how she gr…
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Fan Yang started playing Heroes of the Storm as a way to hang out with his friends. They entered competitions together until one day he realized he was making more money from HOTS tournament money than from his day job, so he left to play HOTS full time. In this episode, Fan walks us through how he ended up on the Heroes of the Storm world champion…
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When Sophie Ascheim was just 16, she helped start a non profit called the The Pad Project, which gives access to menstrual products and pad making machines for women in low income communities throughout the world. In India alone, 23 million girls drop out of school early when they start menstruating because they are unable to handle their periods p…
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Joey Roth was working full time as a program manager at Airbnb in San Francisco when he decided to give it all up to move to Hawaii to fulfill his lifelong dream of building his own treehouse… even though he had no experience working on a house ever. Since then, he lives full time in Big Island, Hawaii Airbnbing out his treehouse and other properti…
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At 23, Larissa Russell co-founded a healthy vegan cookie company called Green Pea Cookies, but even though customers wanted the cookies… they couldn’t get them on major grocery shelves because of high food distributor costs. That’s when she and her cofounder decided to shut down Green Pea Cookies and start Pod Foods (https://podfoods.co/), the only…
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When I first met Richard, we were both software engineers together at Yahoo in the Bay Area. Now just five years later, he is living full time off comedy in Los Angeles already making six figures a year. In this episode, Richard talks about how he pulled off this transformation and how he makes a living off performing standup comedy, running two st…
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