1KHO 357: The "Running on Empty" Generation | Michele Borba, Thrivers

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this thought-provoking episode, host Ginny Yurich welcomes back renowned educator and author Michele Borba to The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast to discuss her book Thrivers: The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine. Michele shares crucial insights on how our high-pressure culture often leaves kids overwhelmed, despite impressive GPAs and resumes. She emphasizes the importance of resilience, self-confidence, and creativity over academic scores alone, revealing practical ways parents can help children discover and pursue their passions. With actionable advice on fostering optimism, building unstructured time, and developing social skills, Michele provides a refreshing roadmap for empowering kids to handle life’s challenges and truly thrive. ** Learn more about Michele Borba here Purchase your copy of Thrivers here ** Download your free 1000 Hours Outside tracker here >> https://www.1000hoursoutside.com/trackers Find everything you need to kick off your 1000 Hours Outside Journey here >> https://www.1000hoursoutside.com/blog/allthethings Order of copy of Ginny's newest book, Until the Streetlights Come On here >> https://amzn.to/3RXjBlN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, Red, nice and energize for me. Take one.
0:03.0	Hey, people! Did you know that when you buy a pack of M&M's, you could be in with a chance to win an
0:08.4	epic Marvel adventure at Disneyland Paris for you and your crew? The race is on to be a hero. Sorry guys I got to run.
0:17.2	Uh, red, where are you going?
0:18.5	Didn't you hear what I just said? The race is on to be a hero.
0:23.0	Okay, I guess that's a wrap.
0:25.0	M&M's for all fun kind.
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0:30.0	Okay, here we go.
0:32.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is
0:35.0	Jenny Yurich and I'm so excited to have back for the second time
0:39.0	Michelle Borba, welcome. Oh, thank you. I am so glad to be back, Jenny. I love talking to you. So thank you for the honor.
0:47.0	We talked last time about your phenomenal book called Unselfy. Talked a lot about empathy, why that is so important so people will have to listen back to that
0:53.9	episode. The most recent book I've read of yours and you have a lot of books more than 10
0:58.4	but the most recent one I've read is called Thrivers and this is a very enticing title the surprising reason why some kids
1:06.5	struggle and others shine and you do notice that do you notice that in life that
1:10.4	some are struggling and some are not struggling quite as much they're thriving a little bit more.
1:15.0	Yeah. This book is incredibly important because it's talking about our kids and how they're running
1:21.7	on empty. They're dealing with too much they're stressed how they're running on empty.
1:22.6	They're dealing with too much, they're stressed and they're overwhelmed,
1:25.5	they're in trouble, and what we can do about it.
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