How Girl Scout Camp Built a Career in Outdoor Leadership with Mary-Jane Strom | See Her Outside Podcast
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If you went to summer camp as a kid, you get it. The bats at dusk, the swim across the pond, the feeling of being someone slightly new for a week… Those memories don’t fade.
And if you worked at summer camp, you also know that the skills you built there — troubleshooting on the fly, managing 300 kids and 65 staff, keeping everyone safe and fed and having fun — are some of the most transferable skills you’ll ever develop.
Mary-Jane Strom is the CEO of Girl Scouts of Northern California, a lifetime Girl Scout member, and a Gold Award recipient whose project focused on increasing access to outdoor spaces for all girls and women. Mary-Jane is also a competitive swimmer working toward completing open water swim events in all 50 states.
Mary-Jane and Angie talked about:
Why summer camp is a powerful growth environment for youth (and adults)
The business of summer camp: 8 weeks or 3 days?
Mary-Jane’s career path from camper to lifeguard to camp director to CEO
How to translate outdoor leadership experience into resume-ready skills
Mary-Jane’s 50-state open water swim goal and how camp swimming started it all
What the media gets wrong about Girl Scouts
This conversation is for anyone who’s ever felt like their outdoor experience doesn’t “count” on a resume.
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