006. Kathy Davies: Design Your Life to Get Unstuck

TODAY’S GUEST   Kathy Davies wears many hats - she’s a Design Lecturer at Stanford University. She's the Managing Director of the Stanford Life Design lab, where she and her team have trained 150 universities globally to use the life design processes on their campuses to help students design, prototype, and test the right career paths for them.   She is also a Cofounder and CEO at DYL Consulting where she uses design thinking and life design principles to build a better world.    EPISODE SUMMARY   In this episode we discuss: [02:56] Challenges during the pandemic, transitioning into virtual classes and workshops. [18:34] Kathy's early desires to connect, and to combine science with art in her work. [29:23] Kathy's engineering experience. [33:14] Getting into Design Thinking at Stanford. [48:59] The journey into Life Design. [1:02:22] Why is it so hard for us to figure out what we want to do in life? [1:07:31] The Life Design process. [1:19:39] Life Design for women. [1:30:02] The future of Life Design, and its impact.   EPISODE LINKS Kathy Davies' Links 🌍 Stanford Life Design Lab 🌍 DYL Consulting  🌍 Stanford Product Design Program 📘 Designing Your Life Book 🌍 Designing Your Life for Women 🗓 Designing Your life for Women Event Page Other Things Discussed 🌍 Seth Godin's Akimbo Workshops 📺 How to Make Hard Choices, TED Talk by Ruth Chang   ABOUT US Remake Podcast: Visit us: RemakePodcast.org 🙏🏻 Rate the show on iTunes 🙏🏻 Support us! Join the Podcast Member community 💌 Share your thoughts: [email protected] 👉 Subscribe to the show: Apple Podcasts・Google Podcasts・RadioPublic・Overcast・Stitcher・PocketCasts・Castro・SoundCloud・Spotify・YouTube・Deezer Remake Labs:  RemakeLabs.com・Medium・LinkedIn・Community・Twitter・Facebook・Instagram Eran Dror:  EranDror.com・LinkedIn・Twitter・Medium

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Remake is a podcast about Design, Systems, and Society. And I'm Eran Dror, a product designer and researcher of eastern religions. In each episode I interview someone who’s trying to change our lives for the better in some meaningful way, whether through a new product, new venture, or new way of looking at the world, and I try to understand how they came to it, what makes them tick, and what we all can learn from them. I truly believe Design is strategic, that it goes to the core, that it's at the root of what it means to be human. In this show we explore an expansive view of design, and cover Systems Thinking, Social Innovation, Secular spirituality, and the future.