The purpose of our podcast "young people aren't alien, they're just a different generation" 👽 is to shed a light on the reality of being a young person today.
🤝 We've brought together voices from GEN-Z and older generations to tackle the cross-generation information gap, share their life advice and why human skills are so important in today's world of AI.
Volkanic is built by young-people, we've experienced the challenges and opportunities first hand and are now giving back to the next generation so you can learn from our successes, mistakes and everything in-between.
Compared to previous generations the world looks a little different for GEN-Z, who have grown up and are trying to find their feet, jobs etc in a world post-pandemic, with social media and AI... 🤔
... Good grades and technical skills are only 1/2 the challenge in today's world of AI, your human skills are the other half.
After noticing a lot of discourse around GEN-Z, without ever getting young-people into the room to understand their perspectives, we decided to tackle the cross generational misunderstandings head on...
🌋Welcome to the Volkanic Eruption -> how our podcast works
At Volkanic, all our development runs via our skill playing cards
This season we have 8 volkanic skill playing cards, each represent the different human skills we develop
📈Leadership, 🎙️Communication, 💪 Resilience, 🌟 Selling Yourself, 🤩Confidence, 🕵️♀️ Attention to Detail, 💰Opportunity Creation
Each week we unpack how you can exploit each human skill to level up in career & life- all based on lived experience
Episodes drop in 2s:
1️⃣ A Gen-Z (aka a volkanic eruptor)
2️⃣ A guest from an older generation
Our guests will be chatting about what life is like as young people today or when they were "younger", the mistakes, the challenges, the opportunities...
🌋 All our GEN-Z guests (aka VOLKANIC ERUPTORS) are young people like you and us, from normal backgrounds living the challenges and opportunities of today's world, they don't have huge social media followings, may not have won loads of awards or been the top of their class but they bring value in so many other ways that goes beyond metrics, stats and social status.
The industries they come from : Motorsports, Media/Journalism, Creative Arts, Engineering, Fashion Design, Corporate
Volkanic Skill Playing Card 🌋: Resilience
Do the younger generation have resilience? We think so, but resilience can look different from situation to situation, person to person and generation to gen…
00:00:00 Episode Intro
00:02:45 Intro to Gerren
00:05:01 Gerren Joins
Motorsport demands high-performance, period. Ever thought that was just technical skills? If so, think again.
The sport commands ex…
🌋 Volkanic Skill Playing card: Communication
00:00:00 Episode Intro & Intro to Thandie
00:02:32 Thandie Joins
00:03:18 What does "Young people aren't alien, they're just a different generation" mean …
00:00:00 Intro to the Podcast 🎉
00:02:12 How does the Podcast Work?
00:04:15 Intro to Jayden
00:04:45 Don't settle! Why at 19, Jayden wanted to be a leader at JLR
00:06:20 It's not impossible, how Jayde…
🌋 Volkanic Skill Playing card: Leadership
In this episode we pick the brain of a millennial, the brilliant Helen Marshall, who takes a trip down memory lane sharing what life was like for her generat…