Faith is Taking The First Step

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Episode 4: FAITH IS TAKING THE FIRST STEP, EVEN WHEN YOU DON'T SEE THE WHOLE STAIRCASE. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Achieving Moonshots with Youth, Tech, Entrepreneurship, and Collaboration with cross sector leaders

Tune in to hear about: Real world impact in Providence with period equity, how solving SDG5: Gender Equality can solve all of the SDGs and how a courageous young man has overcome anxiety not just to engage in life and survive, but how taking steps in the face of it helped him find a unique passion that can change the world.

Heidi Cuppari, host of a new podcast featuring global youth social innovators and entrepreneurs who are chasing their dreams and creating solutions for a better world. The third episode features Quinn Coleman, a senior at Brown University.  Heidi, a Brown Alumni, interviews Quinn after a winter internship program at Brown, who is building a survival game within Island17.io, a problem-solving game to implement youth solutions for a better future. 

Quinn talks about what faith means to him, advice for other young people, how he is passionate about advocating period equity as a male, and more.

Video Version of Episode: https://youtu.be/YZ_iaaKc3yA
Island17 animated storyboard trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLxnV6mCbt0

Topics timestamp:

4:22 How to overcome anxiety by doing something new.
5:15 What advice would you say to other young people
9:30 How to overcome dreamcrushers
11:35 What did you dream about when you were 8?
15:09 What was it like being a freshman in college when covid shut everything down?
18:20 How can the adults of the world help the youth more?
18:45 Period equity advocacy
19:40 What inspired you to work on period equity as a male?
23:00 Could we solve the SDGS if we had gender equality? 


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