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Walking With Harlan - Friends, Dating, Fitting in, Overeating, ADHD, Change, Rejection, Success Jan 23, 2025

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I’ve been wanting to do this for a very long time, but I’ve been intimidated. Today, I took a risk and took a big step outside my comfort zone. During this walk I touch on lots of topics including: Taking Risks, Getting Comfortable with the Uncomfortable, Friends, Dating, Fitting In, Overeating, ADHD, Change, Rejection, & Success.

If you enjoy this episode and would like more, please subscribe, like, and let me in the comments. I will be responding to these personally.

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Happy, Healthy, Almost Stress-Free College Planning (October 2024 Live Event Recording) Oct 31, 2024

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Are you a parent of current or soon-to-be college student? Are you a student?
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All slides, resources and links for this presentation can be found here:
https://harlancohen.com/happy2024/

Harlan Cohen presents his program 'Happy, Healthy, Almost Stress-Free College Planning' sponsored by College Ave. By emphasizing the importance of connections, personal fit, and practical planning, Cohen addresses the challenges of college admissions, the pressures students face, and the significance of mental well-being. He proposes a framework centered on 'people, places, and patience,' encouraging students to explore various options to find community. Cohen also highlights the need for honest parent-student conversations, leveraging resources, and finding supportive communities on campus. Throughout the event, Cohen shares personal anecdotes, practical tips, and promotes tools like giveaways, coaching memberships, and additional resources from College Ave to help participants make informed and financially feasible college choices.
THE HARLAN COHEN PODCAST New York Times bestselling author Harlan Cohen has candid conversations with top experts, and leading influencers. Guests share their greatest victories, devastating setbacks, and most valuable advice to help listeners dream big and take action. Hosted by Harlan Cohen, New York Times bestselling author, and speaker. Harlan is the founder of Best First Year, and has over 1 million books in print. His live events, books, programs, and workshops have reached millions of people and changed countless lives.

Gina Moffa: Navigating grief, loss, and processing trauma Sep 19, 2024

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The Harlan Cohen Podcast is available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcasts, Pandora, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

About Gina:

Gina is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in New York City. In the field for over 20 years, Gina has helped thousands of people seeking treatment for grief and trauma, but focusing on emerging adults. As a grief therapist, she wanted to find a way to educate young people about the grief experience to help the experience to be less debilitating for the long term. With that intention, she wrote the book, Moving On Doesn't Mean Letting go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss (Hachette). It has been quoted in international publications, such as Forbes and USA Today, as well as NPR. Gina is currently working on a new book that focuses on friendship loss.

Gina’s website: www.ginamoffa.com

Instagram: @ginamoffalcsw

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ginamoffalcsw

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
02:30 Understanding grief
12:30 Rejection
21:08 The problem with the “stages” of grief
27:52 How to console someone
32:09 Grief free fall
38:04 Grief rhythms
45:45 Dealing with the loss of a friend
51:57 Trauma
58:00 How to process and help
1:02:36 Loss during college
1:13:06 Compare and despair
1:15:12 Outro

THE HARLAN COHEN PODCAST New York Times bestselling author Harlan Cohen has candid conversations with top experts, and leading influencers. Guests share their greatest victories, devastating setbacks, and most valuable advice to help listeners dream big and take action. Hosted by Harlan Cohen, New York Times bestselling author, and speaker. Harlan is the founder of Best First Year, and has over 1 million books in print. His live events, books, programs, and workshops have reached millions of people and changed countless lives.

John Pryor: The data behind understanding college success and happiness Sep 12, 2024

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The Harlan Cohen Podcast is available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcasts, Pandora, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

About John:

John Pryor is a researcher, speaker, and writer with over 30 years of experience using research findings to help understand and improve the educational experience. He is passionate about using his knowledge about the college experience to help people make better choices and get better results.

John speaks frequently on what really matters in choosing your college. He has published many articles, monographs, white papers, and opinion pieces, including the Journal of College Student Development and The Chronicle of Higher Education. His TEDxUCLA talk (“How to Make College Better, And Why We Need To”) identifies the lack of connection between the college classroom and life after graduation. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and other news organizations.

Website: www.johnpryorspeaks.com

Instagram: @johnpryorspeaks

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
04:21 College expectations vs reality
07:45 Student happiness
15:51 Graduating on time
34:05 It’s not where you go, it’s what you do there
38:13 Gallup-Purdue Index data
55:37 Prepared for the real world?
1:02:05 The cost vs value of college
1:14:05 Highly selective schools
1:25:22 Outro

Link to John's research: https://www.pryoreducationinsights.com/blog/2024/4/4/what-matters-is-what-you-do-not-where-you-go

Link to study: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/archive/releases/2015/Q2/gpi-finds-big-six-experiences-linked-to-on-time-graduation.html

Link to study: https://www.gallup.com/174167/temp-methodology-gallup-purdue-index-methodology.aspx

Some college tips referenced in the podcast:

CT - #1232 Do not just go to professors office hours when you have a problem
https://www.instagram.com/p/C_tJjTMPdCs/

CT - #1109 How Important is going to office hours?
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5i8gCnrudW/

CT- #1107 If you still haven't gone to office hours...
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5ezQGXLIjz/

CT - #938 Go to office hours
https://www.instagram.com/p/CxshzfhriB3/

CT #1028 If you struggled in the classroom last term (academic resource center plan)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C1xV0HUvGuO/

CT - #755 Here's your Sunday challenge... (go to the academic resource center)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekFILzMsZvs

Kass & Mike Lazerow: Entrepreneurship, knowing your strengths, and navigating business & life together as a couple Sep 06, 2024

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The Harlan Cohen Podcast is available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcasts, Pandora, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

About Kass & Mike:

Kass and Mike Lazerow are serial entrepreneurs and investors best known as the cofounders of Golf.com and Buddy Media, the leading social media marketing platform that sold to Salesforce for $745 million. With a lifetime of stories from decades of building businesses and helping others as investors and advisors, they are in high demand as public speakers, writers, and podcast guests.

Their journey began as friends growing up in the suburbs of the nation’s capital. They started dating after reuniting at a mutual friend’s wedding in 1996. Two years later, they did what all new couples deeply in love do - cofounded a company, Golf.com, before marrying in 1999. After selling Golf.com to Time Warner in 2006, Mike and Kass cofounded Buddy Media. And since selling Buddy Media to Salesforce in 2012, they have focused on providing capital and advice to the world’s most innovative founders.

Mike and Kass have supported close to 100 early-stage startup founders. They served as angel investors and advisors to Scopely, which sold to Savvy Games for $5 billion in 2022, and Liquid Death, the canned water company whose “evil mission” is to make people laugh and get more of them to drink healthy beverages more often, all while helping to kill plastic pollution.

Mike was named NewYork’s Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year®, and together they were ranked No. 1 on Business Insider’s Silicon Alley 100, received the Cycle for Survival Game Changer Award for their leadership in helping to raise $375 million for cancer research and were recognized with the Leader of the Future Award from the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute. Mike and Kass live in New York City and the Hudson Valley and have three grown children (Myles, Cole, and Vivian) and two rescue dogs (Cece and Gizmo).

Check out www.kassandmike.com to learn more about the book they are launching in March 2025 at SXSW: Shoveling $h!t: A Love Story.

Follow Kass & Mike:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kassandmike

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kassandmike

Twitter/X: https://x.com/kass_and_mike

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kassandmike

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
01:46 Early days
09:59 Knowing your strengths
23:52 Fear of rejection
29:03 Working as a couple
39:22 Interviewing for jobs
49:04 Managing anxiety
1:02:54 First year job tips
1:08:15 Employee success stories
1:19:16 The pressure of success
1:23:14 Outro

Cindy Muchnick: Co-author of The Parent Compass Aug 29, 2024

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The Harlan Cohen Podcast is available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcasts, Pandora, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

Cindy, a graduate of Stanford University, is an expert in the college admission process: she got her start in admission offices before opening a private study skills and college counseling business in Southern California, which she ran for over fifteen years. As an Assistant Director of Admission for the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago, she screened and reviewed over three thousand applications, interviewed prospective students, and served on the admission committee to evaluate borderline applicants and appeals cases. Then, as a private counselor, she helped hundreds of high school students navigate their academic journeys, including course selection, study skills, time management, and college applications. Since closing her private educational practice in 2011, Cindy has focused on public speaking to student, parent, school and business groups on a variety of education-related topics.

Over the course of her career, Cindy has written numerous books: The Parent Compass: Navigating Your Teen’s Wellness and Academic Journey in Today’s Competitive World (Familius/Workman/Hachette, 2020), The Best College Admission Essays (co-author, ARCO/Peterson’s, 1997), The Everything Guide to Study Skills: Strategies, Tips, and Tools You Need to Succeed in School (Simon& Schuster, 2011), Straight-A Study Skills (co-author, Simon& Schuster, 2012), The Everything College Checklist Book (Simon& Schuster, 2013), Writing Successful College Applications: It’s More than Just the Essay (Peterson’s Publishing, 2014), and four other books (Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House). Her essays have appeared on Zibby Owens’ Zibby Magazine, Your Teen Magazine, College Confidential, Raising Teens Today, The Los Angeles Times, and The Mom Experience, among others. C is for Construction is her eleventh book and first children’s book.

www.cynthiamuchnick.com
www.parentcompassbook.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parentcompass/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheParentCompass
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindymuchnick

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
2:01 Practicing what you preach
9:07 Biggest lesson from writing the book
14:44 Best time to talk to your kid
21:10 Parenting with your partner
32:21 Navigating conflict
36:03 College tours
44:28 Treating kids as individuals
50:08 Talking about uncomfortable topics
1:00:40 Supporting your teens
1:05:20 Knowing when to push
1:12:05 It’s not the school, it’s what you do there
1:25:00 Outro

Box of Table Topics link is here - lots of themes:
https://tabletopics.com/gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD4r056tLGXNWFrJ5YGK2hFVnkHRv

The Book of Questions Cindy uses
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Questions-Revised-Updated/dp/0761177310

15 Things New College Parents Should NEVER Do (2024 Live Event Recording) Aug 22, 2024

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All links and resources: https://harlancohen.com/15things-24/

The Harlan Cohen Podcast is available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcasts, Pandora, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

17 Things You Need to Do Before Starting College (August 2024 Live Event Recording) Aug 15, 2024

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This is a recording of Harlan's live event held in August of 2024.

Slides and Resources here: https://harlancohen.com/17things824/

The Harlan Cohen Podcast is available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcasts, Pandora, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

Ron Lieber: Author of The Price You Pay for College and NY Times "Your Money" Columnist May 24, 2024

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The Harlan Cohen Podcast is available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcasts, Pandora, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

About Ron:

Ron has been the “Your Money” columnist for The New York Times since 2008. Before coming to The Times, he wrote the “Green Thumb” personal finance column for The Wall Street Journal and was part of the startup team at the paper’s Personal Journal section.

He is the author of The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money, which was an instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller when it was released in 2015. “The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Roadmap for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make,” was published by HarperCollins in January, 2021, and was also an instant New York Times bestseller.

He lives in Brooklyn with his family.

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
06:51 Reacting to the FAFSA trouble
09:17 Who are schools accountable to?
29:58 The “business of college”
36:36 Admissions deadlines
41:43 Highly selective college vs. state school
59:35 Outro

Check out Ron’s course on merit aid: meritaidcourse.com USE CODE HARLAN for $50 off (offer is good until 7/1/24)

Learn more about Ron’s book The Price You Pay for College here: https://ronlieber.com/books/the-price-you-pay-for-college/

Stories mentioned during the podcast:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/your-money/paying-for-college/100k-college-cost-vanderbilt.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/18/your-money/paying-for-college/early-decision-binding-nyu.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/23/business/financial-aid-college-merit-aid.html

17 Things You Need to Do Before College (Live Event Recording) May 09, 2024

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Download the slides for this presentation here: https://harlancohen.com/17things-may24/

The Harlan Cohen Podcast is available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcasts, Pandora, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

Harlan’s gifts for grads (and books): https://www.amazon.com/shop/influencer-7e79dad0/list/FDN3OGT2EEP4?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ons_mixed_d

College Ave Student loan calculator: https://www.collegeave.com/calculators/student-loans/

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
06:00 Best First Year info
08:05 Dream BIG
11:14 Getting in...
12:18 Paying for college
13:40 It's not about where you go
20:50 No. 1 Want something
23:45 No. 2 Expect the unexpected
29:20 Harlan's story
36:06 Transition
40:59 No. 3 Get comfortable with the uncomfortable
47:26 No. 4 Find your three places
50:31 No. 5 Find your five people
52:09 No. 7 Practice patience
53:43 No. 8 Talk to your parents
56:28 No. 9 Deadlines and emails
58:35 No. 10 Follow, post, like
59:42 No. 11 Read the campus newspaper
59:59 No. 12 Know these roommate rules
1:01:20 No. 13 Know these relationship rules
1:05:24 No. 14 Ask, budget, work
1:10:59 No. 15 Have rules for going out
1:12:22 No. 16 Identify academic support resources
1:13:00 No. 16.1 Mental health transition plan
1:13:48 No. 17 Tell your story as if...
1:15:44 Books and resources to check out
1:19:30 Q&A session

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