 Hi, my name is Matt. I'm from LA. I'm on a gap year right now I spent September through December in the Dominican Republic in Costa Rica Wanted to get some exposure to entrepreneurship on this year, so I'm entering at creative HQ shout out to the creative folks here Yeah, so showed up four weeks ago found out about this on Thursday figured. What the heck and here I am volunteering Thanks, man Hi everybody, my name is Charlotte. I'm a member of the hot city youth council. I'm part of a body positivity trust And yeah, I'm just thrilled to be here Kia ora Charlotte. Thank you. Anya Kia ora. My name is Anya. I am the founder of the climate challenge We run conferences across the country which work to empower young people who might not otherwise have access to leadership Opportunities and work on the biggest issue of our generation Climate change, so we're in our fourth year and it's incredibly exciting Awesome. Thanks so much for your Mahi So I'm just gonna start really simple. I'd love to hear your reflections on this event Would you like to start and we'll go the other way? Yeah, I mean it's been unbelievable The networking opportunities alone have been incredible Thank you to everyone who sat down with me and the speakers in the workshop workshops have been Mind-blowing. I guess the one thing I'd say is that there aren't very many young people in this room I work with high school students And I would love to see them here because they would get just as much out of this opportunity as any of you would So I really hope that that's something that we can work on for future years Obviously no shame, but we'd love to see them in this room. Yeah. Kia ora Yeah Well, I live in Trenton I live like three minutes away from here and it just blows my mind the amount of inspiring people that are here And Trenton is just crazy Neither would have thought so yeah, it's been absolutely amazing and I just love the people that are here I love the atmosphere and the energy is just incredible the wellness space is amazing Yeah, love it For me it's been just inspiring conversation after inspiring conversation Totally unexpected from a conference. I think that's great greatly due to just the atmosphere you guys create and also a great job by The volunteer team to keep things just casual and open And I think that's more conducive to being productive and how having helpful Conversations and connections and I think like all of you guys have come with that that great mindset of hey Let's have a good time and let's do something with it. So Props to you guys Sure You learned that one yet? Sure? Sure. Sure So I'm really curious, you know so much of this corridor here is around the world that we want to see I'm really really interested if you three have anything that you'd like to share from the heart about What are you showing up for you know when you take a shower in the morning when you're getting out of bed each day when you're Fighting the fatigue to get out and do your thing. What is it that's motivating you to create that future? And what is it that you're working towards? What do you want to see? Um For me it would be a world where young people are completely equal. So Obviously everyone in this room understands the value of young people because you know where the change makers conference and Most people do but in society. There's a lot of people who see young people high school students you know people just entering the workforce as you know less capable or Less able to do this work and I really want to see a system where you know politically socially Economically young people are valued just as much as anyone else Yeah, I mean I mentioned the well-being space here before And I think it's fantastic and I want to see that sort of that sort of idea put into our education systems and Into the the youth-based organizations that we have Because mental health and well-being is becoming worse and worse with our generation and I see it so much among my peers And we need to start doing something about it and it needs to become the biggest priority Because when we're looking at all these massive things that we want to do in this massive future that we have We need to make sure that the people that are going to be living it Have a great sense of well-being and know how to take care of themselves and their mental health and their spiritual health and their social health And I think we need to make this priority that we're having at the conference We need to just increase it and just continue because it's so important For me it comes down to two things. I think the first is I Everything about human relations and progress and productivity comes down to empathy It comes down to being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes and kind of see from their idea see their point of view Doesn't disagree. That's fine, but that understanding. I feel like it's the most important part to progress in any form And the second thing that really just gets me going in the morning is that attitude of Hey, like I can make a difference. I can go and do something I come from a place in the in Los Angeles where it's such a huge country such a huge city that a common Just idea is that the problem is too big for me. I can't solve it. What is what's one person going to do and The only way to change that is for every individual to start believing Hey, if I step up if I take that step others will too and that's the best and only way to make a difference Awesome. Thanks team. So I've got a couple more questions for you I'd like to touch urgency for a second because I feel like so often There's this passionate fiery feeling of urgency that is more awake in a young body And so I'm just really curious. What is it that you feel really urgent about and I'm wondering if there's a Challenge that you also might put out to the room today in regards to stepping up to the urgency that you feel I'm gonna take the the low flying ball Climate change obviously something that I work in every day And I think we all know how big of a problem is it's constantly on the news And I think the real urgency is that it's quite hard to act on I know for me personally it can be really overwhelming looking at it And I know that's a feeling that lots of other people have so the urgency is climate change But the other agency is supporting people to act on it in a meaningful way because that's you know Something that's been quite slow You know to progress because we've known about this issue for a long time Yeah, so climate change and I guess my call to action is Have conversations with you know your CEO or a politician you bump into just talk about climate change because that's how we're gonna You know support people to take action on these issues Yeah, I think something that's really urgent is that I feel like among Teenagers and among our mental health is often this shame aspect and Often this thing of you go and talk to someone and they're like don't worry. It's just hormones like it'll be fine and That's something that really urgently needs to change because we're not going to get better if you don't first respect us and respect Our emotions and our well-being And I think a way that you can do something about this is just by Taking teenagers seriously and taking young people serious and taking everyone seriously Um, because I'm sure that you're you're all gonna have young people in your lives whether your parents or whether you work with young people and Knowing that there is someone that will take what you are saying seriously is so important and just helps so much Real important for me is the whole environmental climate change thing especially animals. I love love animals and I think that a Huge part of just our the diversity of our world and the natural life and all the flora and fauna. There's all Interconnected and creating a livable world and enjoyable world for all of us and that's like end of that is coming quick like we heard yesterday we're in like the middle of the sixth great extinction and I mean, it's only fair for all future generations to have access to that so Huge thing and the other We're all dying so get out there and do what you want to do Yeah, feel those hormones One more question. I feel like You know, I watch older people around me getting their news from different places that young people get their news from And I'm really curious to hear if you would have any advice for us as we go out back into the world of where to get information from that We like it's like where do you go when you want to get organized when you want to reach out to people make stuff happen When you want to find out which events you need to be going to what does that look like for you? And maybe an invitation for other people to use those resources as well The really obvious one is Facebook because a lot of young people are on Facebook wouldn't you know it? But I guess beyond that reaching out to organizations and groups that work with young people and talking to them The people in your community who work with your target market of young people or whatever it is I'm working with them to partner and deliver that news because you know if you run a Very adult business that doesn't look like you interact with young people young people aren't going to respond to that So definitely reaching out to people who understand your target market if you want to work climate change and reach out to young people You hit me up That's my best advice. Yeah Yeah, I completely agree with and you just get in touch with those youth organizations those youth councils youth groups schools We're always keen to hear from passionate people Absolutely, and the way I find anything is really just the internet I know that's a broad but Facebook Instagram Google searches and just having like a contact information Thing on your website or anything. I think young people especially just love to call up Just random numbers or emails or phone numbers So really if you're on the internet and you kind of make yourself kind of seem user-friendly people will find you Awesome awesome any last words. Yes, I did I had so if you guys want to kind of continue this I was thinking about doing one of the open spaces where we kind of flip the script a little bit I was young people can be the teacher and then everyone else can come in we can talk Golda so check out that opens best board for Matt session and thank you so so much give them a big round of applause