Building towards confidence and mobilizing your ecosystem with Maya, 2012 London Olympics champion, Princeton alumna and Fintech Product Marketing Director

About this episode

Maya discusses her journey and how to balance academics with extra-curricular activities to build confidence.

Maya shares her story from New Jersey, USA to Paris, France. In this episode we discuss how to make the most of activities (sports, arts...) even if you are not good at them to prioritise from your early high school years when you want to both excel academically and enjoy extra-curricular activities to build your confidence by identifying what you want to do and the next steps and much more!

People in this episode

Host: Yosra

Guest: Maya

Topics covered

• confidence building
• extra-curricular activities
• academic excellence
• sports
• arts
• personal development

Keywords

• confidence
• extra-curricular
• sports
• arts
• academic success
• high school
• personal growth

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Princeton, Fintech

Places: New Jersey, Paris

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