Bonus Episode: Prepare Your Teen for an AI-Driven World with These Essential Skills

🌟 How to Equip Teens with Life Skills for Success 🌟

What’s the one life skill you wish you had learned in school but didn’t? Self-awareness? Emotional regulation? Resilience? These essential skills are often overlooked in traditional education—but they’re critical for thriving in today’s fast-changing world.

In this episode of The Teen Anxiety Maze, I chat with Nitin Gour, founder and CEO of Bloomster, a groundbreaking platform designed to teach kids over 25 essential life skills. With a mission to prepare teens for real-world challenges, Nitin shares how Bloomster focuses on holistic growth through self-awareness, leadership, mindfulness, and more.

🎙️ What we cover in this episode:

Why self-awareness is the #1 predictor of success.
How to prepare teens for an AI-driven future.
The powerful impact of holistic education on kids’ confidence and resilience.
How Bloomster’s innovative platform bridges the gap between academics and real-life readiness.

💡 Parents, educators, and caregivers—you’ll gain valuable insights on how to empower the next generation with skills they need to thrive.

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 Hello, thank you for joining me for the Teen Anxiety Maze. What is one life skill that you wish you had learned in school, but didn't? If you could teach one skill to every young person in the world, what would it be? Now, imagine if there was a platform designed to teach students over 25 essential life skills, helping them become confident, Self aware and ready to tackle life's challenges.

That's exactly what today's guest has created. Let me introduce you to the incredible founder and CEO of Bloomster, Nitin Ghor. With nearly two decades of experience in the corporate world, he realized that academic success alone isn't enough So in 2022, he left the corporate sector to build a platform that transforms [00:01:00] education to focus on holistic student development. Today, we are going to talk about how Bloomster equips students with the skills that they need to succeed in school and beyond. Nitin, welcome. I am so glad that you were with us today.

Nitin Gour: Thanks for having me on the show. And for that kind introduction. I'm really excited to be here. I would like to answer that question because I have, 25 plus skills on the platform. I constantly look, which one would I rank number one?

Cynthia: So 

Nitin Gour: I would pick self awareness as my number one. I want every child to be self aware, confident, and well rounded moving humanity forward. So I put self awareness.

At the top 

Cynthia: I love that. one of the things that you can put, cause I've been putting this sometimes on social media is self awareness is the number one predictor of success. if you want your children to be successful, they need to be self aware. your program is creating that.

tell us, how does this work? how does that help children become self [00:02:00] aware? 

Nitin Gour: if you look at it, the way we grow up we don't focus on these skills that we'll talk about. I think it's only when we are in our adult fold, that's when we start to focus on these skills.

in my, like, you know, the whole research and all, I went through a discovery phase. I was happy with my finance career but there was a persistent void I embarked on a personal journey of discovery. And in that, like, I had to do a lot of research and all there were, like, 2 big things that came along and which basically prompted me, 

Along with the academics, we need something more, something that will help our children to deal with the kind of future we need to help our children learn these skills early on so that they are able to manage life situations today and into the future that's coming our way and that has to do with technology 

But that is what Bloomster is trying to do with all the research that I did. [00:03:00] I talked with professionals, PhDs, psychologists, and did a lot of my research also while I was doing my own MBA. I was also studying that gave me some time access to university resources, professors and all. with all of that, I figured, and this is nothing novel that I created.

If you search for social emotional learning, you will see like many standards out there. The social emotional is one of the two pillars. Then I thought, okay, there's something more that's required. So I added intellectual dimension, mindfulness dimension, and then physical dimension. 

Cynthia: On Bloomster, 

Nitin Gour: I identified skills like self awareness, emotional regulation, resilience, mindfulness, leadership, effective communication, it became a list of 25 plus. Then I organized them into five dimensions. As humans, we like some, framework.

If I give you these skills, like, you know, all scattered around, you might forget about that. But if I organize them, put them into a framework, name it, you will remember my professional experience gave me that exposure.

We had [00:04:00] scorecards I wanted parents to have a similar framework so that they can track the progress of their child. Okay, where's my child today? After taking courses on Bloomster, where's my child six months from now, a year from now? So they see development. my goal is to increase the odds of success for a happy fulfilling life.

Success, everybody is after the, after the success, but I think that fulfilling heart is what's missing right now, at least clearly was missing for me, the way my career was going. That's the reason why I had to like pause, think through, then like do my research and then got to a point where, you know what, yes, this is what's required.

So I started building a platform and that's what it is. 

Cynthia: that is true because you can be successful and hate your life. and have terrible relationships. I love that this is taking the parts we don't teach often the most important in our lives and allowing kids to have access on their own time. even though schools are mandated to teach a bit of [00:05:00] this, they're not doing it as much as they need to. And so this kind of gives parents some power in making sure that their kids do get this education.

Nitin Gour: Absolutely. there are two things, as I said, one related to technology, But this other one I could see, after keenly observing my colleagues, anybody I came across in my professional career, and my adult classmates while I was doing my MBA at NYU.

I did some other courses as well. And I was observing kids of my friends, my colleagues. Specifically their schooling and education and how it was contributing to their growth I could see a gap between the academic world and the professional world. My professional career allowed me exposure to many jurisdictions, top professionals that you can think of, like they were coming from top universities.

the academic side, top of their game. They knew their craft. But in situations, I was observing like, you know, how are they managing tough situations? We talk about those leadership skills and I'll put myself [00:06:00] in the same bucket. I struggled through many of the situations where I would like, you know, behave in a certain way, react in a certain way.

And then I would think, what just happened? Why did I do that thing? So that was happening. And that was prompting me that, you know what, there's something missing. I would go to Barnes and Noble, read books. generally that's what we do as adults now 

Cynthia: that, 

Nitin Gour: okay, self improvement, this book, that book, you struggle to get there.

We all somehow get there, but that process is so inefficient. It starts so late, at least in my case, it started in like early thirties. Some start in their twenties, but nobody starts earlier you have to undo a lot to write new stuff.

Why not start learning early on so that you're not like, you know, struggling with whatever is already established in this brain. So that, that was the key there. And that was again, another point that I, okay, we need to do something early on. 

Health awareness and these skills are way more important, for individuals and let's teach them early on. Yeah. 

Cynthia: I [00:07:00] love that. this is important for parents too, because we haven't been taught How to regulate our emotions. I do now after much work on myself and learning way after I was young this is a way for parents to get the information too, because it's not like they know it. And then they can teach their kids. They need this help of these classes or these courses that kids can take. And the parents can learn along with them. 

Nitin Gour: Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, I went through this phase of blaming my parents, but if you really look at it. I mean, they also didn't know, they went through the same stuff, like whatever their parents knew, that's the best that they could teach my parents. And the same thing happened with me. But somebody has to stop, pause, and think I'm, lucky I got this opportunity. I paid attention and decided, This should not go on to my child. Let me do something about it. And then it evolved into, okay, can I do something more? It became like that mission or calling in life, that's what keeps me going 

Cynthia: I love it. so you said, we can [00:08:00] find some of these things online, but is your program unique because it's all in one area and holistic everything they need is in one platform.

Is that what's unique about it? 

Nitin Gour: there are, standards out there, and I'll name one, CASEL framework. CASEL is well known, in the education world. in the last 10, 15 years people have started looking in that direction.

Okay. You know what? Social and emotion. And there's ample research out there that shows. A social and emotional learning or education will help in your academic performance as well. That's why many schools are now interested in that. The ASM framework has five competencies or tenets. First one is self awareness, self management, responsible decision making, relationship skills, and social awareness.

Cynthia: In 

Nitin Gour: my analysis and research, I feel like there are a few more skills. my professional career helped me. Critical thinking is very important and problem solving. 

Cynthia: Yes, there are 

Nitin Gour: [00:09:00] leadership, conflict resolution. There are many skills. It's hard to pick, pick those, pick any two.

So I picked these two, 



Nitin Gour: as my number one and two. And I would say we added this. So these two are part of my intellectual dimension. There are others like, learning adapting, creativity innovation and finance But if you ask me. Where to start, I would say these five skills also on the platform and these two critical thinking problem solving great way to start and that's more of a holistic approach.

I would add forces related to mindfulness. we discount mindfulness as living in the moment purpose the way things are going, and I'll touch on this on technology here, because that was number one thing that concerned me with my technology background.

I started my career in technology, worked for six years, and then I transitioned to finance, and I worked for Citigroup for 18 years in finance, and that's where I gained most of my experience. But the way things have advanced in the tech world, I'm not talking about the advances themselves. Yes, they're great.

They're increasing [00:10:00] productivity, lifestyle and all that kind of stuff. But what concerned me was the pace of change. The thing is, as humans, we don't come with a manual which tells us how to adapt to the change. We somehow like struggle, react, and this and that figured out while that's happening. And if it happens at a rapid rate, we struggle with it.

it has been happening at a faster rate. compare the last hundred years up until, let's say, draw a line at 2000, year 2020, and then before that hundred years or so, and then after that, the, the things that have happened after that, it's so fast, even like, you know, four or five years of gap, it's not.

Humans and all to adapt to change. It's not like long first internet came 95 and all then Google came handed you that in a time in that search box. So you started searching, getting more data. We're producing so much data after that we're producing, we were producing a data in a year. We're producing that in one day.

So that is happening. You would say, look, [00:11:00] I'm not bothered with all that data, but you are in a way, because it has thrown into your face through social media, through some news and all, whatever interests you, you, it's a human tendency that you would want to know more 

Cynthia: the desire 

Nitin Gour: because you want to make the informed decision that keeps us looking for more information.

So that we can have that successful life. But that results in us, straining our head in some way. And that was like, social media came, then smartphone came. The combination concerned me a lot. I stopped using social media in 2016. because it was taking so much of my time away, we all, have 24 hours.

Cynthia: How 

Nitin Gour: can I use it better so that I'm doing something that is useful for me, beneficial for me, that gives me that peace, happiness and all. But looking at a social media feed was not, 

Cynthia: I mean, 

Nitin Gour: when it came out, we were so mesmerized by the technology. It was fun to share pictures with friends, connecting with them But it took us a decade to realize, these are not actually social networks. [00:12:00] They're making us anti social, unhappy, in many cases, depressed. We took a decade to get there. 

Cynthia: The 

Nitin Gour: alarming thing now is this AI. and we don't have that luxury of time. The pace of change is going to be exponential from this point on.

If you look at it, in the last two years or so, since the ChatGPT, first version was announced, we've seen maybe four, five versions. And each version is capable of doing way more than the previous version, literally, like, you know, you can have a conversation, like a human being. it's capable of miracles.

I'm amazed day. I use it for some purpose. if is the case, we know what it's doing. I mean, we used to like talk about, Oh, machines cannot be as creative. They are creative. They're way more creative than humans. They more creatively. So if that's the case, we know what the world is going to look like in 10, 15 years from now.

So that world will be dominated by intelligent machines. robots are in early stages, but many [00:13:00] companies are focusing on it. We know this autumn auto autonomous cars are going to become a reality within five years. I mean, they are running in many different states in the U.

So that world will be more automated. We know that. there'll be constant change happening. it'll be way more. it is taking maybe a year, two years. For new jobs finance jobs, many were eliminated taken over by algorithms in the trading world, the markets, we've seen the movies where traders, are on the trading floor in lines, taking orders, 

The New York Stock Exchange, floor was filled with thousands it was a madhouse there. If you look at old pictures 

Cynthia: there's 

Nitin Gour: nobody there. all automated That trend will continue. It's going to be faster. And that disruption is going to happen in every industry.

Cynthia: There's a 

Nitin Gour: recent report by World Economic Forum. called, future of jobs. talks about encouraging humans to learn new skills. Those days are gone, Cynthia, where you studied, had a career, 40 years, and then you retire.[00:14:00] 

That model is no longer there. you have to continuously learn figure out what's working imagine the future, 10 years from now, that world would require this times 10. That is going to happen every six months or so. So that individual.

Looking to thrive in that environment would have to continuously learn new stuff, 

Cynthia: adapt 

Nitin Gour: to change, be resilient 

Cynthia: and 

Nitin Gour: have a growth mindset, take risks, learn from their failure and do all of this again, because by the time they learned some new thing, okay, you know, six months down the road, they thought everything is fine again, like they'll have to go through the same cycle.

Just imagine I have a three year old and she is out there 20 years from now, dealing with all that we're talking about. I want my child and I wish for every one of your listeners. That your child is self aware. You don't want your child to be slapped around by the world.

Okay, it's a human tendency. I want to survive. do good. oh, I can do this. do that. if they're going to be doing this and that, [00:15:00] then they will struggle through their life. And then it's a question of survival, not thriving 

Cynthia: I 

Nitin Gour: want every child to thrive.

First thing is they know what they want, who they are. They've done this self awareness exercise, their strengths and weaknesses, values and beliefs. What matters to them, why it matters to them, how it affects them, others around them, their behavior and all that. Once they have done all of that, then just imagine them being in that environment, wouldn't that be nice that they are making their decisions very consciously?

What they, what they want to do, rather than just like following the world, what the world wants them to do. That's the key here that, okay, let's prepare our kids for that kind of environment. I know I went all in tangents and all, but yeah. 

Cynthia: I love it. No, it's, I love, this is really important for listeners to be thinking about these changes and how, if your child is emotionally secure 

self aware and resilient, then they're going to be able to handle these changes way more than kids who are not getting this [00:16:00] information. And one thing that I had thought about too, probably way back when we first started talking about this, but also when I was getting ready for this podcast, I thought about.

All the homeschool kids that I know and the homeschool families, I've always felt sad that they kind of miss that counseling piece that we have embedded in our schools and the public school anyway. And this would be a way for them to be getting that social emotional learning alongside their academics at home, 

who were doing the homeschooling, don't think about that piece they need to know this math this kind of reading. they don't need to know this history, but this would be another way for homeschool kids to get that information. 

Nitin Gour: Absolutely. beginning of 2024 or end of 2023, I did connect with some moms who were homeschooling and you'll see me repeat that I connect with moms.

I'm not discounting dads, but data shows 80 percent of people, doing some stuff are [00:17:00] moms. 

Cynthia: That's off 

Nitin Gour: to moms. they do so much. they work take care of kids also.

So that's why I connect, I'd say moms, most of the time. although I have connected with some dads as well, but this mom was homeschooling her kid. initially, a few of them wanted, everything on the same platform, including academics. And that's where I struggled, initially I learned through, a mistake, I started building academic courses math English, And some science because I truly, truly believe that yes, math and science and English and all literature, everything would be needed.

And even in that like futuristic world or AI dominated world. So I went in that direction, but then I had to like really pause. There are established like platforms out there who've been at it for decades. I don't want to be competing in that space. And I had clarity, yes, academic, but I want to complement something.

But when you want to do everything at once. you hear, they want it. I thought, okay, you know what? We should have it. So I made those academics, academics courses out of my intellectual [00:18:00] dimension. But then I decided, This platform should be about these skills.

So my intellectual dimensions had only five skills critical thinking, problem solving, learning, adapting. and finance. like we don't talk about finance. when we are kids but when we are like, you know, when we see that money coming into our bank account, that's when, okay, you know what I need to figure out what to do with this Dave and stuff and all.

we are not disciplined at that time because it's all new. I wanted kids to learn financial skills early on so that when they start making. This power of compounding, we know that I wish I'd started saving much earlier, but if they start to save like, you know, when they are fresh out of college with their first job or not, they will be way better off even if like, you know, they don't somehow like, you know, they're, they're struggling, but if they start saving, they have that discipline.

Our course talks about budgeting, planning, and all that imagine a child thinking about that in their early adolescent years. my intellectual dimension. that's the holistic perspective and homeschooling. I strongly believe homeschooling can use this as a complimentary [00:19:00] tool for teaching academics, they need credits there's ample research, if you go to castle. org it's the collaborative for academic, social, emotional learning, and they have ample research if you Google it, you'll find that social, emotional learning in my case, social as I call it SCL plus or holistic growth model. if you compliment it, your child will be better off even in academics, you will see that boost in performance. On academic side. There's no doubt in my mind.

Just imagine. I'll take one quick quick example here. I was okay average child growing up in the sense like, okay, in the class, if you pick mathematics, let's say, yes, they were like geniuses, like, you know, those kids who are just smart at math. they just know it all. I mean, I wouldn't get there, I had to struggle.

in class is just that because the teacher would focus. And if she asked something, if she gets an answer, all she cared off. Okay. Somebody understood. I mean, if I'm not understanding, I'm looking at the board or trying to figure it out, it'll take me some time. [00:20:00] There's a tendency at that age when we're that young.

Maybe I'm struggling. Everybody's getting it. So you're trying to take it on yourself. it's worth doing that exercise, your strengths and weaknesses. So these kids know there's nothing wrong with them. They can go home. Yes.

There's some kid who's much faster. So what? But they can get there. Don't label yourself. There's something wrong. Just go home, study, have that growth mindset. So then you can do your homework, study, and then, okay, next class, you'll be at the same pace. things like that are taught in our courses so they have the tools to manage such situations.

And certainly it will help in that academic performance. if they're not struggling with these negative thoughts it'll help their academic performance. I would recommend homeschooling, 



Nitin Gour: audience, 

Cynthia: Talk about how does it work when they first log on?

What does it look like? how do they get this information? How do the parents know if the kids are doing it or getting anything out of it? What do you have in place for that? 

Nitin Gour: up until a few months back, everything started with signup, [00:21:00] meaning you go on to our website, bloomster.

com on the top right and various places you'll see, we have signed up link. It's a short form that you feel where you put in your basic details, like friendships and a password and all. And then you put in your first child and then you log into the platform. It creates a profile for you. Parents decide what, the child learns because we're talking about 10 to 14 year olds.

they can create login for their child as well so that independently they can log in, but you have full control as a parent at some point in time. But now, so when that was happening, inside the platform you could search for courses and whatnot, we have a course catalog. Where it will show you most popular courses, or you could go by dimensions and specific skills.

If you want to focus on those, we are trying to open all of this on our website as well. So if you go to course library on our website, you can directly look for courses you are interested in, and then you can directly enroll in that particular course. So you'll, it'll, so let's say you want to enroll in self awareness or a self confidence course, [00:22:00] confident you believe in yourself is the name of the course you're interested in.

You looked at the plan objectives and saw who created the course. We also like show you for in this case, PhD who has like 25 plus years of experience expert in this space who have taught and also like, you know, done psychology work as a therapist and all. She is the one created, so you'd be able to see her bio who created it.

So you are convinced. Okay, this is the right course for you. You hit enroll or if new customer, you'd sign up and then you can start that course. We've also launched this new functionality where, because this also came when I spoke to mom, a few moms, people think, okay, what is my child struggling with 

Cynthia: like 

Nitin Gour: my child is having difficulty saying no is uncomfortable when plans change.

Is not good at making friends, is oblivious to other cultures, beliefs, and like, you know, lifestyles to social awareness, like in other cases, okay, the child needs help with self confidence, or [00:23:00] resilience, not good at planning.

So goal setting course, or self discipline course, you can select these challenges with your child. we recommend a plan a structured way of grouping courses, based on what you see as a challenge with your child, as you are the parents, you know, with them all the time, then we recommend you a plan based on that.

And that can be your sort of like, you know, pathway where you can just like, you know, explore those courses with your child 

Cynthia: and 

Nitin Gour: see how they do. And to get to your, like, how would you see change, happening with your child? we've divided our courses into four modules.

At the end of each module, we provide workbooks. Basically, We call them exercises. it's a lesson with an exercise. It's, it's, it's at every module, end of every module, so four times. That's the point where the child's get to reflect on whatever they learned in the entire module. So we give them those workbooks.

to engage with you as a parent. 

Cynthia: So let's 

Nitin Gour: if they were to do an inventory of their strengths [00:24:00] weaknesses, their values and beliefs. The, this values and belief is very important. at least for me, because I find a lot of values and value in this.

These kids make ton of decisions on a daily basis. They don't have any yardstick at that age, you know, how to even evaluate options They're trying to figure out. This new world. talking about 10 to 14 year olds, and they're literally trying to figure out, okay, right, what's not right.

And in that moment when you're thrown and asked to make 15, 20, 30 decisions in a day. And do it on an ongoing basis. That's a daunting task, even for adults. So doing that inventory, I talked about that's this workbook imagine them doing it with you as a parent, you know, as a family, let's figure out what our values are.

And then they have this yardstick. Whenever faced with decisions, what aligns with values and beliefs, strengths and weaknesses it's easier to make decisions. 

Cynthia: And if 

Nitin Gour: that is happening, then you will see that change also, like in the real world.

These OLA courses mimic what happens in the real world. [00:25:00] that's the basic model on the one hand, hand a book to a child. within two or five minutes, they'll check out.

Cynthia: And then 

Nitin Gour: if you put them on a video game they can play for hours. You'll have to pull them out of it. so I had to stay close, but make it as engaging as video game, but at least I want to teach that skill. So I decided initially to make it a storybook.

A comic was the model in my mind. I dabbled with it initially. But we migrated to animated courses, So through those animations and videos, characters go through life situations, teaching that skill.

so that is the model we follow clearly the idea is to make characters as relatable as possible. So, if let's say that Beth, who's that PhD you created a self confidence course. My ask is, let's think of these characters. Who are so relatable so that the learner, let's say your child, my child, when looking at those characters, can quickly say, Oh, this Sam in this video is like Alex in my class, or this girl like Sarah is like Amy in my class.

So when they make those connections and the [00:26:00] real life is happening, some situation at school. the odds are high that the child will remember, and manage what's happening Parents would see some change in the real world, that'll be a big win. 

Cynthia: Yeah. I love that. I'm sure they would because those are important things 

Nitin Gour: and you 

Cynthia: have something special you're offering my listeners. tell us about that?

Nitin Gour: I would highly encourage every one of your listeners to go to our website. There are a bunch of free resources I want you to get to the place where you feel like holistic education is right for your child. we've provided, some eBooks.

EBooks is a great way to start, everything on our platform is practical, scenario based, there's nothing definitional you can Google or just read as an article. we've provided you five scenarios. if it's related to conflict resolution or responsible decision making, whichever you think, it's a way for you to assess, okay, what's What's that area of growth that you want to want your child to work on?

each scenario [00:27:00] is carefully crafted to help you engage with your child in a very engaging manner. ask an open ended question. Like, how would you. Behave or deal with this real life scenario through that discussion, you will learn how your child responds and how exactly maybe something like that happens in the real world, how, how, how would your child react? And similarly, when you go through those 5 scenarios, you would clearly know, okay, you don't want your child that needs help or, you know, he's good without even like, you know, getting any help.

He's able to make those good decisions, which like you would agree with the way he reacted. So if your child needs help I highly encourage you to sign up on our platform. We don't ask for a credit card. You get 30 days free trial. Every course is free.

I'd encourage you. to take one or two courses, it's worth letting these courses sink in, immerse yourself, like have that engaging. time with your child while they're going through that course, there's a lot that parents can learn, through these courses as well.

just these concepts and [00:28:00] ideas, and I'm telling you that I learned about them reading books and all while I was like, you know, in my thirties like separating your self esteem, from negative feedback back then, reviews and all it was suddenly it would hit me.

if you have done this work. you know, feedback is feedback, you're not that vulnerable. These things are taught in courses I recommend taking one or two courses. 

Cynthia: After 

Nitin Gour: 30 days. If you think that this is the valuable thing, this is the right thing for your child, that's when you decide and that is, I think what you're referring to, I am giving like, you know, 25 percent discount for the entire year, or anybody who signs up, obviously, like, you know, we, Cynthia, you and I spoke, I think it's worth that, everybody gets this, gets this opportunity that they can use this tool to prepare their child for that future.

Sure. as I said, when I identified that gap, between the academic and professional world by observing colleagues parents I boiled it down to three things.

The first one parents have to model it. Right. Because there were a few, [00:29:00] like, my colleagues, I could see this guy has it under control, like, you know, cause I, whatever, like I had my struggles and all, but I could clearly see it was my boss, boss, boss, and I could see like, you know, at home, his kids and all the way they grew up and all that's one model, right.

If parents can model, that is tough. at least in my case, I can say like, I would react in certain way, even if I've done so much work. but that's one number two was. you spend money, put your child in private schools. I was not a believer at one point, but when I saw a kid go through that, I saw the kid when he was five and I always saw it when he was just about to graduate high school.

I could clearly see Cynthia that he is well put together child and I saw another one where the amount of focus that they get in private schools. Is something that you don't get that in public schools, 



Nitin Gour: maybe very rare cases. But majority of them, you don't, and the social emotional learning [00:30:00] if the child needs it, they know because the teacher is focused on it.

Okay, what's missing? What? So they will figure it out. that's one way, but we know only 10 percent or less can afford 30, 40, 000 a year, even at that age. Right. I mean, you're talking about spending that even in pre K through high school. 

Cynthia: That's like, 

Nitin Gour: yeah, yeah. So that's that. And the last one, the third one is if it happens by randomness.

When I say random, I mean your child is going through experiences thinking of stuff. And then some of their, let's say, top sports stars, some athlete, like, you know, comes along, does something that inspires them. They can hold on to that.

that could become the path that they go through. Or some politician or somebody even in the family and all some businessmen, Oh, you know what? I want to be like him. So that is the element of randomness 

You'll see it is about exposure these kids go through. while going through life the kind of exposure they get, they are vulnerable at that time. We need to provide tools to them.

I want to make it as easy as possible. [00:31:00] Without any friction, no credit card. You decide, you take some courses, figure it out, and then take that additional 25 percent discount. And if, let's say, like, you know, I'm sure you'll post, like, our email address or not. If you reach out to us, I can, look further into it.

Let's say you are having difficulties to even afford that. I want to level the playing field. I want to democratize at least this part where that child going to that private school and your child gets the same kind of information. And it's my mission, my quest to make sure I continuously enhance the courses.

Add more courses, add more value onto the platform. And I encourage your listeners to reach out through that email to us. I want to connect with you. I want to improve my courses. So it's very important that you give it a shot and if there's something value, and if you want new course, please, I want to hear about that.

So I'll just let you know. 

Cynthia: This seems like a no brainer. Like what this, this is so packed full of value and it's just like. It's like a [00:32:00] guarantee, you get to see it all before you even decide what you're going to do and who wouldn't want to do that. So I, I hope that everyone takes a look at this and especially, the 10 to 14 year old.

Yes, parents, but I just, I think everyone should look at this I have a lot of educators who listen and so this might be something that they would be interested in for schools, which I know is your, later vision 

Nitin Gour: Actually, at the moment I'm seriously looking into that because in the last year I connected with certain, teachers a lot of schools, as I mentioned earlier as well. No, that this can add a lot of values would boost their academic performance as well. And they started going in that direction cave, COVID pushed them in that direction.

But after COVID parents, are just interested in academics. it will take time to get to the point. Us, like if we like keep at it, that's my mission to at least help parents like look in this direction of holistic learning But that may take time.

schools are struggling. somebody created [00:33:00] curriculum content but it's hard to continue year over year, people were laid off and all those who are focusing on it.

And even if they're there, their focus schools focus change or not, I think Bloomster can add a lot of value that I have 1000 plus lessons and these various courses I want schools to get on board and get started You select whatever plan you want these 10 courses. based on your school calendar and rooms that accommodates all of that your holiday schedule, even after keeping some snow days unplanned buffer days and all you can comfortably complete those seven courses 

I call that castle plus plan. 

Cynthia: seven 

Nitin Gour: I want to go in that direction now. 

if a school starts, I'm also giving like, you know, free subscriptions. So school is going to be subscribing for students and teachers. and let's say there are a thousand students I'll give a thousand free subscriptions for parents Parents should know what their child is learning in schools, whatever they're learning on Bloomster, so that's the direction that I'm going, and that's an immediate task for 2025, I'm focused on that. 

Cynthia: [00:34:00] I love that. Well, and you want the parents to be involved because they can reinforce all these skills at home they know what their kid is learning and can talk about it and expand on that in their own family.

So I love that. Well, then I am so glad you were here. This is exciting I want people to dive in. And yes, all of the links and everything to contact you and get to this information is going to be in the show notes I can't wait to see what happens.

let us know. 

Nitin Gour: I'm really glad we connected Cynthia and I saw a bunch of videos that you have on the platform, you're doing an amazing job. And when I saw them, okay, there's so much insightful stuff in there and I was these guys are talking my language, I should connect with you again.

So I know we spoke early last year, then I got busy with Bloomster and you with your platform. 

Cynthia: I'm 

Nitin Gour: glad we connected 

Cynthia: Oh, me too. Thank you so much. 

Nitin Gour: Great.