1KHO 425: Drowning in Information, Starving for Experience | Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this episode of The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, host Ginny Yurich sits down with leadership expert and bestselling author Tim Elmore to explore a startling reality: today’s kids are drowning in information but starving for firsthand experience. As adolescence stretches longer than ever—sometimes into the late 20s—young people are overexposed to knowledge before they’re ready but underexposed to real-world challenges until it’s too late. Elmore unpacks why this shift is happening and how overprotection, prescriptive parenting, and risk aversion are leaving kids unprepared for adulthood. With decades of experience developing young leaders, Elmore offers solutions for reversing this trend—starting with allowing kids to face real challenges, take meaningful risks, and develop the social and emotional resilience they’ll need in life. He explains why protecting kids from discomfort today can lead to greater harm tomorrow and why true preparation means letting them fail, struggle, and grow. This powerful conversation will challenge you to rethink how we guide the next generation toward genuine readiness, not just survival. ** Get your copy of Generation Z Unfiltered here Learn more about Tim Elmore and all he has to offer including the Habitudes here Learn more about Growing Leaders here ** Get your 1000 Hours Outside Really Very Crunchy Tour Tickets here !! Use promo code "PODCAST" for $5 off! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey friends, before we dive into today's episode, I want to personally invite you to something really special that is happening later this month.
0:07.7	We are going on tour. We are coming to Grand Rapids, Michigan, Adrian Michigan, Smyrna, Georgia, Franklin, Tennessee, and Cincinnati, Ohio.
0:17.6	It's called the 1,000 Hours Outside, really very crunchy, worthy tour, and this night is going
0:22.7	to be unforgettable. If you need a break, if you need to laugh until you cry, if you just want to be
0:28.1	surrounded by some like-minded people who get it, this is for you. I don't want you to miss it,
0:32.8	and I really want to meet you in person. Tickets are available now at 1,000 hours outside.com
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1:18.5	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Urich. I'm the founder of 1000
1:22.8	Hours Outside and have a wonderful, wonderfully accomplished guest, unbelievably accomplished.
1:28.8	35 books, spoke all over the world, 40 plus years of teaching, developed young leaders on every continent.
1:37.3	Russia, China, Brazil, throughout the Middle East, India, been all over every news thing that you could think of, a TEDx talk, a blog that's read
1:45.4	by over 100,000 people weekly.
1:48.5	Tim Elmore, welcome.
1:50.7	Thank you, Jenny.
1:51.6	It's great to be with you.
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