TODAY, WE ARE BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THE TWO WORLDS – LUMINARY LEADERSHIP AND RAISING LUMINARIES.
My guest today is Emily Oster, an economics professor at Brown University, and a writer of books on pregnancy and parenting: The Family Firm, Cribsheet and Expecting Better. Our conversation today is all about the power of giving your kids the space to make their own choices as they develop in leadership.
Emily is speaking from both experience and from a place of science backed data. So, today’s episode is about raising Luminaries, raising leaders, giving your kids the space to develop and grow based on actual science.
IN THIS EPISODE, WE COVER:
[3:39] Empowering with Data
As a professor of economics at Brown University, Emily does some academic work on health, healthcare and health decisions that people make. But much more of her work revolves around data in pregnancy and parenting, trying to help people work through a lot of the choices that they have to make in their pregnancy and with their kids using data. In the last 18 months, she’s been doing a huge amount of work around COVID, helping parents think about choices during the pandemic.
I feel like data is the great equalizer that brings us all on the same page and allows us to look objectively at what we’re dealing with. Emily’s work surrounding data focuses on the idea of empowering people with data. In her own words, it’s not that the data tells you what to do; it’s that the data tells you how to think about it, and then you decide what to do.
[9:48] Day-to-Day
Being a parent and an entrepreneur, we do our best to juggle both worlds. But I think there’s a common thread in all of us and that’s our desire, not just to parent, but to raise these well-adjusted leaders and to make choices now that will give our children the best chances later.
In Emily’s book The Family Firm, which is focused on kids going to elementary school, there are two big cornerstones:
- Thinking deliberately about what you want your life to look like.
- Being structured about decision making
- Expecting Better by Emily Oster
- Cribsheet by Emily Oster
- The Family Firm by Emily Oster
- Emily on ParentData
- Raising Luminaries True North workbook
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