Rebel With a Cause: With Guests Francis Kelly & Christopher Bryan
Choiceology with Katy Milkman
Charles Schwab
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today I was talking to my coworker and somehow a dolly parten comes up. |
| 0:12.0 | And she was like, yeah, we actually went to the same high school. |
| 0:15.8 | Not the same time, but the same high school. |
| 0:19.6 | In 2022, a Tik-Toc user named CAM shared a story from his coworker who went to high school in Severe County, Tennessee. |
| 0:28.0 | It was the same school that Dolly Parton had attended many years earlier, |
| 0:32.0 | and it would have been an interesting |
| 0:33.1 | anecdote just for that fact. But the coworker added that when she graduated, |
| 0:37.3 | Dolly gave her $500. |
| 0:39.5 | The person you're paired with graduated like you're supposed to, you book your |
| 0:42.4 | $500. |
| 0:43.8 | Dolly's gift was part of an initiative to increase graduation rates. |
| 0:47.7 | It was called the Buddy Program, and it started in 1988 when Dolly promised every seventh and eighth grade student in her home county |
| 0:55.2 | that she would personally give them $500 if they graduated. |
| 0:59.8 | The catch? |
| 1:01.3 | Students were paired up, and if one buddy didn't graduate, neither would receive the $500. |
| 1:07.0 | According to the Dollywood Foundation's website, the program actually took the high school dropout rate in Severe County from 35% to 6%. |
| 1:17.4 | And it convinced the region to start more initiatives rewarding students to finish high school. |
| 1:22.8 | In this episode, we look at the power of pursuing goals together. |
| 1:27.3 | In the classroom, at the gym, and on the water. |
| 1:31.6 | The 2022 champion pushing hard to try and beat the 2023 champion Max made it. I'm Dr. Katie Milkman and this is Choiceology, an original podcast from Charles Schwab. |
| 1:50.6 | It's a show about the psychology and economics behind our decisions. We bring you |
| 1:56.0 | true and surprising stories about high stakes choices and then we examine how these stories |
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