Liv and Marian are back with an Ask Us Anything Episode, answering questions from people who are on the ground in schools and universities. No guest, no script, unfiltered and real.

We've got questions about whether career uncertainty is helpful, whether AI career tools have any benefits, how wellbeing and futures connect, how to be strategic in working with school leadership, and more.

And this episodes's "I Didn't Know This Was a Thing" is about someone who prices financial products using something called stochastic calculus. I know. We didn't know it was a thing either.

Mentioned in this episode:

OECD (2025), The State of Global Teenage Career Preparation — https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/the-state-of-global-teenage-career-preparation_d5f8e3f2-en.html

OECD Career Readiness Project — https://www.oecd.org/en/about/projects/career-readiness.html

SELCE model, myfuture Insights — https://myfuture.edu.au/docs/default-source/insights/time_for_a_holistic_perspective_of_career_development.pdf

Longpath by Ari Wallach — https://www.longpath.org/book

Brene Brown, Dare to Lead, "generous interpretation" — https://brenebrown.com/book/dare-to-lead/

C.R. Snyder, Hope Theory — https://positivepsychology.com/hope-theory/

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Credits

The Great Careers Program is a collaboration between BECOME Education and Coherence Co-Lab, and is hosted and produced by Liv Pennie and Marian Wright, with production support from Bev Laing. Music by Chad Crouch.