Ana Homayoun

Last week, I had the joy of visiting Fast Company/Inc Magazine offices in NYC to speak with their wonderful staff about social media, technology and kids. I was in conversation with Christine Haughney Dare-Bryan, the award winning investigative reporter and Editor at Large of Inc Magazine who also, fun fact, created the series Rotten. She asked terrific questions, and engaged an audience filled with recent college graduates, mid-career journalists as well as parents of young children, teens and young adults, all who brought thought-provoking questions.

A wonderful part of my work is visiting with companies. As part of my visit, they purchased multiple copies of both Social Media Wellness and Erasing the Finish Line, and both were gone by the time our conversation was through. 📚📚📚

It was especially fun to touch on three of my four books, including my latest, Erasing the Finish Line, where the introduction describes being bombarded with viral college acceptance videos, and one of the four pillars (also, ironically, Acceptance) discusses the impact of social media socialization on every aspect of teen and young adult life.

This company visit was also personally reflective for me. The Fast Company/Inc offices are in the World Trade Center buildings that were rebuilt after 9/11 along with the memorial center and museum. In 2001, I was 22 years old and had recently graduated from college. Up until two weeks before 9/11, I took the subway into the World Trade Center every working day, walking the stairs now exhibited in the 9/11 museum. Visiting the same site 22 years later, knowing how so many lives including mine were forever impacted big and small ways, is something I don’t take lightly. It provided a moment of extra gratitude that I didn’t realize I needed in the midst of all the hecticness of a book launch and back-to-school.

What an incredible honor to have my new book, Erasing the Finish Line, featured on Good Morning America this morning.

I am so grateful to get the message of the book of moving beyond the faulty finish line of college admissions and focus on the underlying skills around systems, connection, perspective and acceptance as a way to help all kids and young adults develop their own blueprint for success.

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Ana Homayoun talks new book 'Erasing the Finish Line' The academic adviser's book seeks to redefine what success means for kids and what it could look like in a classroom setting.