Welcome to d’Skills In Action
If you're in high school, you probably spend a lot of time buried in textbooks, but don't really know how your skills could apply to the real world. Trust me, I get it. It can be daunting to build skills and take them outside the classroom. That's why we started this show. Welcome to d'Skills in Action, the show where we help you get the d'Skills you need to impact the real world, not just ace a test or rely on a degree.
I'm your cohost, Hannah Grady Williams. I'm 25 and I'm the brain behind d’Skills and alongside me is Swetha Tandri. She's 20 and she's the founder of Melodies for Math. Both of us have forged our own career paths doing something we love. This is a real dialogue podcast. It's for high schoolers, gap year adventurers, and epic parents with a different mind.
Each month, we'll bring you d'skills deep dives with students who are making real world impacts so you can see how it's done, and Rebel roundtables with leaders who had untraditional pathways to success and who inspire us. Why are we doing this? Well, it's pretty simple. Less than 30 percent of companies in the 21st century think that students with degrees have any marketable 21st century skills.
Big yikes. It's time to ditch the script and get d'Skills in high school. But we're not just a podcast, we're a movement and a community, and you can join the conversation and have a chance to be featured on the show if you go to d'Skills. io forward slash community or click the link in the show notes.
Because we're on a mission to help 1 million high schoolers graduate with an impact portfolio of the skills they've applied to the real world before they ever get a degree. All right, Rebels, ditch the script, and we'll see you on the other side.