My Ouchy Advice to Parents of New Graduates. Please Take It.
From Becoming You with Suzy Welch by NYU Stern Professor Suzy Welch
May 19, 2026 · 44 min
About this episode
Suzy Welch offers crucial advice to parents of new graduates, focusing on the importance of helping their children find direction rather than just employment.
It's graduation season. And you, mom and dad, are about to make some very big, very loving, very misguided mistakes. This week on Becoming You, your host Suzy Welch — professor, author, parent of four, and someone who got the post-graduation parenting thing spectacularly wrong at least twice before she got it right — delivers the advice nobody is giving at the graduation party. Here's the ouchy truth: you are focused on entirely the wrong problem. The problem is not that your kid is unemployed. The problem is that your kid is unaimed. And those two things require completely different solutions. In this episode, Suzy walks you through the brutal math of this job market, the expensive lie hiding inside the grad school "solution," and the hard conversation about values that most parents are afraid to have. The last piece of advice is the ouchy-est of all: how not to become the villain in your child's story, and how to become something far more powerful instead. Take the Becoming You One-Day Intensive this June on NYU’s campus, here . Ready to know yourself better? Start here, with The Values Bridge . You are always growing and evolving and so are we. Sign up for the Becoming You…
People in this episode
Host: Suzy Welch
Topics covered
- graduation advice
- parenting
- career guidance
- job market
- values discussion
- self-improvement
Keywords
- graduation
- parenting advice
- career
- job market
- values
- self-improvement
- guidance
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: NYU, Becoming You
Products: The Values Bridge, PIE360 Feedback tool, Becoming You book
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