07: Improving Lives, Changing Policy + Public Service with PG Sittenfeld - a podcast by Co-hosted by Ivy LaClair and Blake Brandes

PG Sittenfeld currently serves on Cincinnati's City Council, where he chairs the Education & Entrepreneurship Committee and was the youngest Councilmember ever elected in Cincinnati. He was a 2016 candidate for the Democratic nomination for Ohio's United States Senate seat - a race in which he finished 2nd, earning nearly a quarter million votes in his first bid for statewide office.

 

PG also co-founded the non-profit Community Learning Center Institute, which included an innovative proposal to turn school buildings into around-the-clock learning hubs featuring adult education, co-located health and dental facilities, and recreational programs.

 

Listen to the episode as PG discusses:

 

• Why PG got into politics
• Why local politics can actually affect the political discourse on a national level
• The issues that PG and other millennials care about that motivated him to get involved in politics
• Why leading by example is important
• Are millennials wrongly stereotyped as cynical and apathetic about politics?
• Why millennials may feel frustrated by politics and is it a justified feeling?
• How young people in elected office can provide much-needed diversity
• How PG wants to inspire other millennials to get into public service
• What’s fun about being an elected official
• The 2 roles that PG feels are important in his political career
• Why a community-based approach to improving people’s lives is important
• How a holistic approach to education is really a whole child approach
• Why millennials are really outward facing in their outlook
• Lessons learned from his failed Senate bid
• Positive outcomes PG accomplished by being in the campaign
• Why millennials crave work that has meaning

You can read the full show notes and access all the resources at www.motivationalmillennial.com

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