Create Your Life Series

CYLS 008: Leverage Your Experiences to Build Your Life with CEO of Foster Care Magazine Chris Chmielewski

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Episode Summary

In this episode of Create Your Life Series, host Kevin Y Brown chats with the Founder/CEO of Foster Care Magazine, Chris Chmielewski. As someone who’s been a part of the foster care system, he’s used his passion to create a niche product, spread awareness, and constantly raise his voice for healthy amendments in the system. He uses his pain positively and inspires people to live a more fulfilling life.

 

Tune in now to know more about his journey and advice.

 

Kevin Y Brown

Kevin is a seasoned multi-media executive who is passionate about Africa’s digital future. As an award winning entrepreneur, podcast producer (over 1,000 episodes across different genres with over 30 million downloads across clients) and tech veteran, Kevin is the Chief Content officer and Head of Strategy at Afripods leading their multi-country strategy and product vision.

Kevin is the host of the Create Your Life Series podcast and has been featured or spoken in Forbes, Black Enterprise, Essence, Podcast Movement, Podcast Sessions, Ted X, Sirius XM, Inc. magazine and many more…

 

Chris Chimelewski

Chris Chmielewski is the Creator, Owner and Editor of Foster Focus Magazine, America's only monthly foster care magazine. He spent five years in foster care before aging out. He created Foster Focus so that others in care would have the most up to date information. The magazine has consistently grown as Chris is entering his sixth year of the magazine. He has interviewed celebrities such as Maia Mitchell and Jimmy Graham. And writers from all over the country contribute articles to the magazine, making it one of the leading sources of foster care news and information in the country.

 

Insights From the Episode

  • You can create your own life, if you try enough and consistently
  • There’s no one way to achieve success
  • Live in the moment and be aware of what you’re doing
  • Find your people and keep them close
  • Never ever go to bed angry. Always try to find solutions

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    Quotes From the Show

    • “A lot of people are trailblazers and entrepreneurs like yourself, they have different educational levels and there’s no one set way to do things. So, I think, it’s very important for us to always highlight the different educational journeys and routes that people take” - Kevin Y Brown, Create Your Life Series, #008
    • “Just because you have a low graduation rate in school doesn’t mean you have a low success rate”  - Kevin Y Brown, Create Your Life Series, #008
    • “I’m positively in the moment which is sometimes to my detriment. Sometimes I miss things and they fall through the cracks. But I’m in the moment and I’m aware of what I’m saying. I’m aware of what I’m doing, especially in times of conflict” - Chris Chmielewski, Create Your Life Series, #008
    • “The great thing about me is the ability to adapt and adjust. Chameleon is my pet name when I write about that side of the world of foster care” - Chris Chmielewski, Create Your Life Series, #008
    • “We had the first foster care thanksgiving on the steps of Capital Hill because of Misty Stenslie. That was the first time I felt like I was home” - Kevin Y Brown, Create Your Life Series, #008 [38:53 - 38: 57]
    • “I believe if you watch close enough and if you pay attention enough, you can pretty much learn anything in a month and that makes you highly employable” - Chris Chmielewski, Create Your Life Series, #008
    • “There’s two ways you’re going to come out of the foster care: you’re either going to want to take the world by the horns or you’re going to want to be by yourself in a corner and go in life unnoticed. I find that a lot more of them want the life, not in the spotlight, but a life worth living” - Chris Chmielewski, Create Your Life Series, #008



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