Gap Year Radio
Gap Year Radio is a podcast that brings you information and inspiration to plan a life-changing gap year adventure.
We focus on bringing you interviews from people from across the gap year spectrum - people who run or lead gap year programs, gap year alumni who can tell you about adventures and travel experts who can give you advice on how to turn your dream of a year out into a reality.
Intro music credits:
Quasi Motion Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 73
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Ep. 503 Anusha Goel on Virtual Gapping with Global Citizen Academy
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a covid gap year student? Are you curious what you'd do on a virtual gap year program? Today we hear from current gap year student Anushka Goel, who is par…
00:28:58 |
Mon 19 Oct 2020
Ep. 502 Caleb Kyle of Outward Bound Costa Rica
Joining us today on the pod is Caleb Kyle, who spent last year on a gap year adventuring in the outdoors through New Zealand and Costa Rica. He discusses with us the two programs he participated in, …
00:33:02 |
Mon 05 Oct 2020
Ep. 501 Katy Oliveira of Collegehood Advice
Ok, so here's what we know in September of 2020: There are a TON of students taking a gap year this year! And they are finding creative and meaningful ways to spend their year.
We want to help stud…
00:47:51 |
Mon 21 Sep 2020
Ep. 407 Julia & Margo on Gap Years vs. Coronavirus feat. Drew Beasley
Today on the pod we are rounding out Season Four of Gap Year Radio with a feature from your cohosts, Margo and Julia. We discuss gap year and college planning in the time of COVID, something we know …
00:38:53 |
Mon 11 May 2020
Ep. 406 Gary Robinson on Wellness While Planning for Gap Year or College
Joining us on the podcast is Gary Robinson of P3 Mental Health. For the last twenty years Gary has been the Director of Counseling at Hartwick College, and has dedicated himself for over 30 years to…
00:45:12 |
Mon 27 Apr 2020
Ep. 405 Francesca Eremeeva on Taking a Political Gap Year
Franny Eremeeva's political journey started when she received an email from Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign asking "Do you want to be a fellow?"
She volunteered and interned on Clinton's pr…
00:38:09 |
Mon 13 Apr 2020
Ep. 404 Focusing on Environmental Sustainability with Gap Year Alum Ivy Jones
Gap year alum Ivy Jones spent her gap year expanding her knowledge and experience in environmental sustainability.
She began her year with a Thinking Beyond Borders semester spent in Guatemala and …
00:20:53 |
Mon 16 Mar 2020
Ep. 403 Disaster Relief Volunteering with Riley and Josiah, All Hands and Hearts Alums
When disaster strikes, we are all asked to give money to help in the immediate aftermath. But once a disaster zone shifts to a recovery zone, you are also able to donate time and your own sweat. In t…
00:42:27 |
Mon 02 Mar 2020
Ep. 402 Andrew Buchanan on the Morehead Cain Scholarship and his Self-Designed Gap Year
Andrew Buchanan joins us on the pod to discuss the Morehead Cain Scholarship, a program that provides a fully funded four year undergraduate degree at UNC Chapel Hill, as well as offers funding for a…
00:49:32 |
Mon 17 Feb 2020
Ep. 401 #ExploretheGapYear During Gap Year Exploration Month!
February is Gap Year Exploration Month! There are so many fun ways to explore the opportunities of the gap year option this month. This episode, we open Season Four by chatting all about Gap Year Exp…
00:21:32 |
Mon 03 Feb 2020
Ep. 307 Charlie Taibi of Year On
Joining us on the pod is Charlie Taibi, CEO of the gap year program Year On, a three part program that helps students gain the confidence, clarity, and direction they need to succeed in college and b…
00:33:27 |
Mon 23 Dec 2019
Ep. 306 Rough Magic Author Lara Prior Palmer on Horse Racing in Mongolia, Writing a Memoir and Being Brave
Today we welcome bestselling author Lara Prior Palmer to talk about the gap year that inspired her book, Rough Magic. At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to “the w…
00:40:00 |
Mon 09 Dec 2019
Ep. 305 Learning How to Leverage Money for Good with Marco Marsans
Marco Marsans spent his gap year on four continents, expanding his understanding of himself as well as the mechanisms that make the global economy run. Marco learned that by understanding the functio…
00:31:51 |
Mon 25 Nov 2019
Ep. 304 Emma Hulme on Conserving the American West with American Conservation Experience
Joining us on the pod is Emma Hulme, who spent her post-college gap time with the American Conservation Experience (or ACE), a branch of Americorps that coordinates and trains volunteers to undertake…
00:35:30 |
Mon 11 Nov 2019
Ep. 303 Gap Years x College Admissions with Skyler Adams of Northwestern University
Ever wonder what colleges think about the gap year option? This episode we are joined by Skyler Adams, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Northwestern University.
Skyler tells about …
00:34:34 |
Mon 28 Oct 2019
Ep. 302 Dividing Up Your Gap Year with Mackenzie Burke
This episode you are going to hear from Mackenzie Burke, a gap year alumni who participated in three distinct program during her gap time. She chats about the various passions and interests these thr…
00:29:26 |
Mon 14 Oct 2019
Ep. 301 Gap Year Entrepreneurs Kris, Anika And Cecilia
Welcome to Season Three of Gap Year Radio! We are excited to bring you a brand new season of exciting interviews. Our premiere episode features three entrepreneurs who launched successful social vent…
00:55:24 |
Mon 30 Sep 2019
Ep. 208 Gap Year Preparation with Professional Gap Year Counselors
How does one prepare for a transformative experience like a gap year? For our Season Two finale, we invited three professional gap year counselors; Jason Sarouhan of the Center for Interim Programs, …
00:40:06 |
Mon 13 May 2019
Ep. 207 Jacqueline Contino on A Wildlife Focused Gap Year in South Africa
Joining Margo on the pod is Jacqueline Contino, who spent a life-changing post-undergraduate gap year in South Africa through the program Oyster Worldwide. After studying a pre-veterinary track in co…
00:33:05 |
Mon 29 Apr 2019
Ep. 206 Planning Your Independent Gap Year
Joining us in this episode is Sasha Landauer and Jiyoung Jeong and of Gapyearly, who start us off by telling us a bit more about their own independent gap years post high school before beginning thei…
00:46:49 |
Mon 15 Apr 2019
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