Take Flight with Abby Falik

Abby Falik is constantly thinking about what it actually means to prepare for a life - not just a career. She took a year off during undergrad to travel Latin America alone, then convinced her university to give her credit for it. She went to business school not because she cared about business, but because she wanted to learn how to work with power. This was the mindset that led to her founding Global Citizen Year, which encourages graduating high school students to take a gap year, and now The Flight School, which takes that thinking one step further, providing fellowships to graduating students for a “launch year” - and for an education that she says is “higher than higher ed.” Abby’s thinking about travel, entrepreneurship, self-discovery and lifelong learning is fascinating, and I loved this conversation. We talked about where self-permission comes from, why the most formative learning often happens outside the classroom, and why real change is *always* an inside job. SHOW NOTES AbbyFalik.com The Flight School Taking Flight on Substack Social: Croutons: Will we choose love, or fear? "We were born to fly." "How does my inner work intersect with my work in the world?" *** The Breadwinners" Season 7 is a joint production between Reworking Leadership and The Smart Friends Network, generously supported by Ruth Ann Harnisch. The Breadwinners" was founded by Rachael Lowell and Jennifer Owens in 2019. Host: Rachael Lowell Executive Producers: Rachael Lowell, Rachel Sklar Audio Engineer: Ron Passaro Original Music: "Perfect" by Hannah Bakke Rick Snell: Guitar Cesar Moreno: Banjo Nyssa Grant: Fiddle Erik Alvar: Bass Justin D. Cook: Keyboard, Percussion, and Orchestration Vocals: Hannah Bakke, Cassidy Stoner Hannah Bakke: Music and Lyrics To stay up to date with The Breadwinners, please

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Take Flight with Abby Falik is an episode from The Breadwinners by Rachael Lowell.

This episode is 39:13 long.

This episode was published on Apr 9, 2026.

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