Kids Mental Health, Education & Entrepreneurship for Teens with Jessica Flynn of Flynn Collaboration

Today we're talking to a dear friend of mine and powerhouse entrepreneur, Jessica Flynn of Flynn Collaboration.

Jess is a mom of two, a high school teacher for eleven years, and loves helping teens access and believe in their own potential. She's also launched several businesses, and when she mentioned this project she had created, Be Your Own B.O.S.S. Virtual Entrepreneurship Camp, I immediately asked to be involved because the value Jess has built into this project is incredible.

Not only that, the statistics that have come out so far around kids mental health and the effect the pandemic has had are staggering and frightening.

We won’t know the full effect and numbers until after more time has passed and research has been done, but the initial numbers have been indicative of how hard all of this has been on our youth.

I’m not a parent, but I’ve spoken with many parents over the past year about some of the struggles both they and their kids are experiencing, and some of the stats that are already starting to come out around mental health and the impact this pandemic has had….alarming.

I'm BEYOND excited to be part of this project as one of the mentors working with the kids.

There was nothing like this when I was growing up, and I never even really knew that entrepreneurship was an option because I didn't learn about it or know more than one or two people who had their own business.

It was only because of being able to look to people who were doing the things that I didn’t even think were possible that I was able to start imagining what I could do for myself - and this camp is going to do exactly that for teens.

Jess and I are also going to be talking about:

• Kids mental health and the effect the pandemic has had, including sharing some statistics
• Talking about the current education system and how much parts of it need to be overhauled
• Jess’ vision of bringing more mentorship to kids outside of school and sports 
• Bringing the focus more to giving kids solid skills, character, confidence building, resilience etc that can be applied in various areas and careers alongside the content

Even if you're not a parent, there's some incredibly valuable information in here for everyone to consider - or, pass this along to a parent you know and a teen who could benefit from joining this amazing camp!

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