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Outside Perspectives Podcast
by Nicola Wood & Lauren Humphrey
Two people working in youth development trying to make sense of what is happening to community, belonging, and the systems that once supported young people. Hosted by Nicky Wood and Lauren Humphrey of the nonprofit Outside Perspectives, this podcast explores the growing cracks in youth development across Connecticut and beyond: shrinking public programs, overwhelmed families, rising costs, fragmented communities, youth disconnection, and the quiet disappearance of spaces where young people once belonged. After 11 years of fighting to get young people access to meaningful outdoor and community based experiences, we started asking a bigger question: why has it become so hard to simply create spaces where kids can belong? These are not polished interviews or theoretical conversations. They are honest, evolving discussions from inside the work itself. Through stories, observations, and hopefully conversations with people across communities, schools, nonprofits, recreat
Episodes
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Teen Takeovers & the Search for Belonging
Teen takeovers. Third spaces. Phones. Youth work. Emotional safety. What’s actually going on with young people right now? In this conversation, Nicky and Lauren are joined by Sadie and Nicolette — two solidly Gen Z young adults working directly with youth through Outside Perspectives programs —…
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Why Does Community Feel So Hard Right Now?
In this conversation, Nicky Wood and Lauren Humphrey explore why creating simple, meaningful spaces for young people to connect now feels so complicated. Starting with personal experiences from teaching, Girl Scouts, youth sports, and outdoor programs, they unpack what actually helps young people...
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The Commodification of Third Space
In this follow-up to “The Disappearance of the Third Space,” we take the conversation further by exploring how third spaces may not have disappeared entirely — but instead evolved into something far more fragmented, structured, and commodified. We break down different types of third spaces, the...
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The Disappearance of the Third Place
In this conversation, Nicky Wood and Lauren Humphrey explore what may have been quietly lost as community life, youth independence, and “third places” have disappeared over the last several decades. They discuss the shift from the freer, community centered childhoods experienced by many Boomers,...
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Trying to Hold the Line
In this conversation, Nicky Wood and Lauren Humphrey talk more openly about the reality many youth organizations and community programs are facing right now: exhaustion, instability, and the growing feeling that the systems supporting young people are slowly breaking down. Building off their...
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The Quiet Collapse of Youth Development
In this conversation, Nicky Wood and Lauren Humphrey begin unpacking a growing realization: many of the systems that once naturally supported young people and families are quietly eroding. Drawing from 11 years of frontline youth development work through Outside Perspectives, they explore the...
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Outside Perspectives Intro
In this first episode, Nicky Wood and Lauren Humphrey introduce Outside Perspectives and the conversations that led them to start this podcast. After 11 years of building outdoor and relationship based youth programs across Connecticut, they began asking a bigger question: why has it become so...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Two people working in youth development trying to make sense of what is happening to community, belonging, and the systems that once supported young people.
Hosted by Nicky Wood and Lauren Humphrey of the nonprofit Outside Perspectives, this podcast explores the growing cracks in youth development across Connecticut and beyond: shrinking public programs, overwhelmed families, rising costs, fragmented communities, youth disconnection, and the quiet disappearance of spaces where young people once belonged.
After 11 years of fighting to get young people access to meaningful outdoor and community based experiences, we started asking a bigger question: why has it become so hard to simply create spaces where kids can belong?
These are not polished interviews or theoretical conversations. They are honest, evolving discussions from inside the work itself. Through stories, observations, and hopefully conversations with people across communities, schools, nonprofits, recreat
HOSTED BY
Nicola Wood & Lauren Humphrey
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Two people working in youth development trying to make sense of what is happening to community, belonging, and the systems that once supported young people. Hosted by Nicky Wood and Lauren Humphrey of the nonprofit Outside Perspectives, this podcast explores the growing cracks in youth development...
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