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Raise Her Up

A podcast by GDST, the girl experts

Welcome to Raise Her Up, the Girls’ Day School Trust new podcast.With 25 schools, 19,000 students, and the largest women’s alumnae network of its kind, the GDST are experts in girls’ education and everything that goes wi

Latest Episode10/20/2021

Communicating for Change

The murder of George Floyd in May 2020 brought about a cultural shift in the way many of us now speak about racism and discrimination. Moved on by a groundswell of people across the globe demanding change, we have revisited how we perceive and address these issues. In the workplace, this might have involved more focused Unconscious Bias training, learning to be more culturally sensitive and taking a more open and curious approach to our community and colleagues. What about at home, and at school?If we want to make a positive difference, we have to know how to recognise our own biases and blind spots – only then can we understand how to be part of the solution and start having meaningful conversations.In this episode of Raise Her Up journalist and communication consultant Genelle Aldred offers suggestions and guidance to help us be better listeners, readers, watchers and talkers. With insight drawn from years of experience, she breaks down the barriers to effective conversation so we can communicate in a more nuanced, thoughtful way and understand our part in bringing about a more just society.

Communicating for Change

The murder of George Floyd in May 2020 brought about a cultural shift in the way many of us now speak about racism and discrimination. Moved on by a groundswell of people across the globe demanding change, we have revisited how we perceive and address these issues. In the workplace, this might have involved more focused Unconscious Bias training, learning to be more culturally sensitive and taking a more open and curious approach to our community and colleagues. What about at home, and at school?If we want to make a positive difference, we have to know how to recognise our own biases and blind spots – only then can we understand how to be part of the solution and start having meaningful conversations.In this episode of Raise Her Up journalist and communication consultant Genelle Aldred offers suggestions and guidance to help us be better listeners, readers, watchers and talkers. With insight drawn from years of experience, she breaks down the barriers to effective conversation so we can communicate in a more nuanced, thoughtful way and understand our part in bringing about a more just society.

Who Are Generation A? special episode for International Day of the Girl

Meet Generation A, navigating their way through adolescence amid the perennial themes and challenges of social media, independence, sexuality, mental health - and all as we rebuild after Covid. How do they see themselves? What does it mean to be a female member of Gen A? And what are our roles as educators, parents and carers in nurturing them?Our guest is Chloe Combi, writer, speaker, columnist and researcher. For her book Generation Z: Their Voices, Their Lives, Chloe interviewed over 10000 young people, and the insights she gained have informed her work with global brands on their future strategies. Currently researching and writing a follow up book on Generation A, she is also known for her itunes number 1-rated podcast You Don’t Know Me as well as her column for The Telegraph about teenage and family life.

Finding your tribe and feeling 'enough'

How many times have you told your child, ‘it doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks!’ However, caring about what people think, and deferring to others’ judgement is an essential part of our young people’s identity development. So what can we do to help them navigate the challenge of comparing themselves to everyone else and finding themselves lacking?To mark World Mental Health day, in this episode we welcome the brilliant Dr Tina Mistry, clinical psychologist, writer, speaker, podcaster and mental health expert. She’ll be reminding us of the need to validate our young people’s emotions and reactions, rather than soothing them away in a way that doesn’t really bring any long-term solution or comfort. She will also be explaining how caring what others think is a vital step on the journey to greater self-awareness and self-confidence.

Equal Parenting

In this episode, we speak to Dr Charlotte Faircloth from the University College of London about how to model equal parenting in the home.It is widely accepted now that the examples set at home by parents, care-givers and extended family shape how young people think about gender and equality, and have very real implications for issues of work-life balance and career progression later in life. Since fathers undoubtedly want the best for their daughters, why are we still seeing old patterns predominate? And what can both mums and dads, whether in heterosexual or same sex relationships, do to address this and ensure their daughters and sons are witnessing fair and ‘equal’ parenting?Dr Faircloth gives practical and realistic tips on how we can model equal parenting within our own four walls.

Learning to Live With Covid

As we come through a global pandemic, the effects will be felt by young girls for some time to come. Clinical Psychologist Dr Deborah Woodman looks at the impact on our wellbeing, and shares her psychological insight into the brave new world we’re living in, as well as what it means for us and our children.

Introducing: Raise Her Up from GDST

Covering topics from wellbeing to womanhood, communication to creativity, self-image to sexism, as well as mental health, careers, and relationships to name just a few, Raise Her Up from the GDST gives you the tools to help your girls flourish.

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