Declassified College Podcast | College Advice That Isn't Boring

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Traveling across the world, eating exotic foods, and still getting credits for college? Sounds like heaven right?

Well before you take that leap of faith and jump on a plane, learn from some individuals who have experienced this first hand and their advice to you.

Here is Benjamin Field's episode on traveling with minimal money in college: Apple | Spotify

In this episode you will hear from the following:

Amy Zhou - University of California Santa Barbara (US) to Geneva (Switzerland)

Anjali Rego - University of Mumbia (India) to Westminster (UK), now in Canada

Shivani Bala - York University (Canada) to National University of Singapore (Singapore)

Tanushree Handa - York University (Canada) to National University of Singapore (Singapore)

Ibrahim Naizam - University of Glasgow (Scotland) to Universita Bocconi (Italy)

Stephanie Simosa - University of Central Florida (US) to Griffith University (Australia)

Naphtali Bryant - San Antonio College (US) studied in China and Taiwan

Product Management is one of the hottest careers to pursue as a student right now. When I was in college I never heard of it, but every day on LinkedIn I see someone talking about wanting to get into the space.

In this episode, you will uncover the cheat codes to getting into product management and what it looks like when you're there. Here is who you will hear from today:

Philip Rufini - PM at Microsoft, runs his own course that will help you get into PM

Dasani Madipali - PM at Microsoft

Aniket Malvankar - Chief Product Officer at several startups, worked as PM at startups with successful exits of $100M+

Alumni are this secret network that very few people take advantage of. They are hidden inside companies all around the world... so how do you gain access to them?

In this episode, I feature two UCF alumni, Eamonn and Sean.

Eamonn is a 2-time Emmy award winner with ESPN and is currently in the start up space for sports.

Sean is the Chief Strategy Officer at Elevate Experiences

What's the most important part of your degree? It's not a piece of paper... it's the people you get to associate yourself with by calling yourself an alumnus from X University.

This episode you get to hear from a few students who are killing it talk about how they've been able to grow their alumni network.

Dom Vargas - shares his advice on how to to get started

David Zhou - shows you how to speed up the process of networking

Joseph Shin - tells his unique story of meeting an alum in an interesting place

Here is a link to Product Buds, a community for students looking to break into product management

Here are some previous episodes on networking:

How to network as a student - Apple | Spotify

School clubs are the ultimate hack to networking - Apple | Spotify

An unconventional approach to networking - Apple | Spotify

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In debt? It's time to figure out how to pay it off. Kieran Lenahan paid off $100,000 and he shows you exactly how he did it.

Helpful links:

StudentAid.gov is a helpful resource people can refer to - constantly getting updated: https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/coronavirus

Student Loan Calculator: https://smartasset.com/student-loans/student-loan-calculator

Personal Capital: https://share.personalcapital.com/x/JL1bMs (people get $20 gift card to Amazon if they use this link, I do too - I don't care about the gift card so you can also just use the regular link: https://www.personalcapital.com/)

Mint: https://www.mint.com/

We didn't get into refinancing, but this article has the top ones listed:  https://www.investopedia.com/best-student-loan-refinance-companies-4782684

If people want a consultation or to work together, they can go here: lenahancoaching.com/personalfinancecoaching

Someone needs to explain it. Kieran Lenahan explains the keywords that you need to know when understanding what student debt is, what it can become, and why you need to start thinking about it now and not when it's too late.

Kieran Lenahan - paid off a combined $100,000 worth of student debt with his wife. On the side of his coaching business, he helps recent graduates escape their mountains of loans before it's too late.

Helpful Links: 

StudentAid.gov is a helpful resource people can refer to - constantly getting updated: https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/coronavirus

Student Loan Calculator: https://smartasset.com/student-loans/student-loan-calculator

Personal Capital: https://share.personalcapital.com/x/JL1bMs (people get $20 gift card to Amazon if they use this link, I do too - I don't care about the gift card so you can also just use the regular link: https://www.personalcapital.com/)

Mint: https://www.mint.com/

We didn't get into refinancing, but this article has the top ones listed:  https://www.investopedia.com/best-student-loan-refinance-companies-4782684

If people want a consultation or to work together, they can go here: lenahancoaching.com/personalfinancecoaching

You won't become the Wolf of Wall Street... but you can get pretty close with this career. Learn about what it takes to make it as a financial advisor as well as what to look for in one when you need to manage your finances.

Also learn about how ice cream can lead to internships

You will hear from:

Bilal Afolabi - Financial Advisor for Northwestern Mutual

Todd Bryant - Founding Partner at Signature Wealth Advisors

Christine Teh - Financial Coach at Teh Financial Coaching

Credit cards can be extremely powerful or incredibly dangerous depending on how you use them. Learn from experts to see how you can use a credit card to earn free things and which credit cards you should think about getting first.

You will learn from:

Lee Huffman - Founder of Bald Thoughts

Lee's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/baldthoughts/

Scott Trench - Founder of Bigger Pockets

Scott's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/scott_trench/?hl=en

If you want a high paying job, look into cybersecurity. Not only can these positions start off with 6-figures, but they are also in high demand of skilled college graduates... 500,000 job openings to be exact.

In this episode you will hear from:

David Choi: Cyber Security Consultant at Deloitte

Jasmine Henderson: IT LDP at Textron

Links to the resources that Jasmine uses:

IT Security Guru - https://www.itsecurityguru.org/

Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/

@computersciencebarbie - https://www.instagram.com/computersciencebarbie/?hl=en

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