This is personal
I didn't start Pathfinder+ because I had it all figured out. I started it because I didn't — and I got lucky.
Growing up, school gave me academics. But the stuff that actually shaped me — how to deal with my emotions, how to treat people, how to figure out what kind of person I wanted to be — that came from home. From people who cared enough to have those conversations.
But here's what I've learned working with young people: most of them don't have that.
Not because their parents don't care. But because everyone's stretched thin, school doesn't cover it, and the thing that's filling the gap is a phone screen that teaches them everything except how to be a human being.
So you get teenagers who don't know why they're angry. Who can't tell the difference between being assertive and being rude. Who have no idea what they value because nobody's ever asked. Who are deeply unhappy at school and can't explain why.
I kept seeing it. And eventually I stopped thinking "someone should do something" and started thinking "what if I did?"
I can't change the whole system. But I can sit with a few young people this summer and help them build the foundation that nobody else is building. That's enough to start.