As a Speaker, Trainer, Global Thought Leader, and Business Owner since 1987, Carole Copeland Thomas moderates the discussions of key issues affecting our global marketplace. Carole served as an adjunct faculty member for Bentley University for a decade and is the host of ‘Focus on Empowerment’, a weekly radio show that she has hosted for more than 17 years. Carol shares her 5-step framework for parents to help empower their teens, who are still trying to find themselves.
Key Takeaways
- Carole has a 5-step framework for parents and young teens to help make more empowering choices.
- The first important message Carole wants to share is to stop doubting yourself.
- Expand your mind. Read books and don’t get trapped in your local bubble.
- Education and learning new things is a lifelong journey.
- Have a quick reality check. How do you react to unforeseen problems?
- Music is powerful. Find your songs and hold on to them to help you bring yourself back to more positive times.
- Carol lost her son when he was 17 years old. Music has helped her through some painful moments.
- We want to give our teens a reality check and be independent adults, but we also want them to be safe.
- Influence and lead.
- Diversity is such an important topic and something Carole has talked about for over 30 years, but there have been times where things have been tough.
- We are our children’s role models.
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Quotes:
“The mind expansion piece can start when you’re 10 and it can go all the way up until you’re 104 years old.”
“Every life is going to be filled with problems, hurdles, obstacles, etc. As a parent, it’s important for you to ground your young people with the realities, and when you have a problem, how you react to those problems.”
“What if I quit all those years ago? I would have influenced my children in another kind of way. They’ve seen me take lots of knocks, but I pick myself up and keep going.”
