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Today I’m talking about when college students should consider taking a gap year or semester. I’m going over what a gap year is, different reasons to take a gap year, and a review of the options. I’m using the term gap year but it could also stand for gap semester or even an early withdrawal from a semester. Gap years tend to refer to time off between high school and the start of college but it can also refer to taking a semester or two off when in college. These breaks are typically when students hit pause on traditional academic work and do something like volunteering, traveling with friends or participating in a therapeutic wilderness or treatment program. 

Show Notes

Gap Year Association - https://www.gapyearassociation.org/

NOLS - https://www.nols.edu/en/

Outward Bound - https://outwardbound.org/

The Dorm Gap Year Therapeutic Program - https://thedorm.com/blog/therapeutic-gap-year-program/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/motivatecounseling
https://motivatecounseling.com/

A night under the stars in the Himalayas. A lion hunt from a safari van in Africa. A dune climb in Morocco. Aayas Joshi ’26 (the first Morehead-Cain Scholar from Nepal), Olu Kopano ’26, and scholar host Elias Guedira ’26 share about their global experiences on the Morehead-Cain International Gap Year. 

At the end of the episode, we also hear from current gap year scholars Abbey Beebe ’27 about swimming in bioluminescent waters in the Caribbean Sea and Chandler Beals ’27 from an airport in Las Vegas between trips.

Morehead-Cain recipients are invited to consider taking a funded gap year between graduating high school and coming to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Listen to the first gap year episode from last year: Gap year dispatch with Emile Charles ’24 (and ft. Taylor Shinal ’25, Mark Finamore ’25, Asher Wexler ’25, and Noah Gottlieb ’25). Emile interned at a children’s hospital in Cape Town, South Africa; visited his father’s Caribbean home in St. George’s, Grenada; worked on a global public health collaboration between the Carolina and the Malawi Ministry of Health; and organized Black Lives Matter protests in Chapel Hill.

Hosted by Ania Wiktorowicz, Created by Mari Feher

In June of 2022 Sam Kang was leading a 5.6 trad route on Unicorn Peak in the Tatoosh Range in Washington, when a microwave-size rock came loose, sending them to a 25 foot fall, landing face up on the ground.  Freak accidents like this can happen to anyone and on routes that you have done a thousand times before.  Petra Lebaron-Botts who is a trainee with Portland Mountain Rescue and Roberta Zouain an instructor with the Mazamas were the climbing partners that provided excellent immediate care and aided in the helicopter rescue. 

Climbers of Color is well known if you are a climber in the Pacific Northwest. Not only Sam Kang is the founder of Corvallis Climbers of Color in Corvallis, Oregon  and a pillar of the community  but also a solid and experienced climber. 
 
If you wish to contribute to their recovery, follow the links below. 


Sam's Gofundme page: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-sam-kang
Corvallis Climbers of Color: https://valleyrockgym.com/corvallisclimbersofcolor

Links where you can find courses in first aid and medical training: 

nols.edu
mazamas.org
ncascades.org
redcross.org
wildmed.org
cascadewildernessmed.com
wildsafe.org

www.pmru.org

Guest Sarah Lugaric was drawn to the study of religion and the myths and narratives that all cultures have to help us understand ourselves and our place in the world. Leaving college without the clearest sense of who she was, but with a job on Wall Street, she learned the culture of business and found that she was still interested in what that said about being human. She didn’t love banking, though, and when she finally quit, she took a 30-day sea kayaking trip, rekindling her relationship with nature and herself. She found a consulting company that applied the leadership lessons that had served her so well in the wilderness to organizations and their employees, marrying two important aspects of herself.

When she had the chance to work with the captains of industry and the environmental world to bridge cultures and make positive environmental change, the glacial pace of that change and the missed opportunities caused her to take a break, spending time with her growing family, and unlock different paths to help others live with more grounding, authenticity, and security.

In his episode, find out from Sarah how navigating the world sometimes takes looking inward and protecting space, time, and that which you love…on ROADS TAKEN...with Leslie Jennings Rowley.

About This Episode's Guest

Sarah Lugaric provides the tools to build resilient organizations, families, and individuals through her work as a founder of Seven Streams Group, a transformational coaching and consulting firm and also as the founder of Equipt, the groundbreaking personal emergency preparedness consultancy. Shenow lives in North Carolina with her husband and three kids, dogs, cats, chickens and goats. 

Mentioned on this episode: Joseph Campbell

Executive Producer/Host: Leslie Jennings Rowley

Music: Brian Burrows

Find more episodes at https://roadstakenshow.com

Email the show at RoadsTakenShow@gmail.com

Find more episodes at https://roadstakenshow.com

Executive Producer/Host: Leslie Jennings Rowley

Music: Brian Burrows

Email the show at RoadsTakenShow@gmail.com

In this episode, Josh and John discuss planning opportunities for businesses and individuals that may have a net operating loss (NOL). They'll cover general rules for NOLs in 2020 and items to consider when planning for 2020 and beyond. 

BNN Tax Snacks is a podcast from Baker Newman Noyes covering timely and impactful federal and state tax developments affecting our clients, friends, and other listeners. In the tax world, the impact of 2020 will be felt for quite some time. In the next several episodes of BNN Tax Snacks, you'll hear from a few of our tax specialists about business and tax topics directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tax law changes it set in motion, and what those changes mean to individual taxpayers as well as businesses.

 In this episode of Adventure Experiences, we chat with Sac State Aquatic Center Water Front Supervisor Ross Garner. Grab a "virtual chair" and join us as we sit down with our Host Kyle Murphy and Ross in this conversation about life lessons learned on the river, NOLS, working on a challenge course, advice for students who want to land a job in outdoor recreation.

Song: California Burnout by The E-Regulars
https://e-regulars.bandcamp.com/

Marc Randolph is the co-founder and first CEO of Netflix. He’s also the author of “That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea,” where he shares the untold story of what became known as one of the most successful companies in history.

In this episode, Marc joins Pat and Posh to share stories from his upbringing that helped shape who he is today, how Netflix was born, his experience as the first CEO of Netflix, as well as answering questions submitted by the audience and his thoughts on the coronavirus pandemic as it relates to entrepreneurship and opportunity.

Marc also recalls some of the most pivotal moments in Netflix history, such as the risky shift in focus from selling DVDs to renting, turning down an offer to sell to Jeff Bezos and Amazon in 1998, being passed up by Blockbuster for $50 million, the day the company went public and what was going through his mind, and what ultimately led to him stepping down as CEO.

Tune in for an incredible conversation with Marc about what’s possible when you take risks and have conviction in your ideas and vision, as well as thoughts on leadership, focus, maintaining a positive mindset, and never taking no for an answer.

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