We've all heard it a hundred times: Your network is your net worth. Who Got Me Here features leading executives looking back on the relationships that transformed their careers, unearthing lessons that anyone can use to build more meaningful connections and make the most of them.
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Rebecca Agostino: The Skill Schools Forgot to Teach
Rebecca Agostino is an entrepreneur in the world of education, and she’s on a mission to teach the next generation how to build the relationships and durable skills that power career transitions. She has served with Teach for America, helped scale edtech platforms, and at just 25 years old became the founding principal of Freedom Prep High School in Camden, New Jersey. Today, through her company Prentice, she is tackling a gap almost no one is addressing head-on. Networking is one of the most important skills in modern life, and it isn’t taught in school.
In this conversation, Rebecca shares the truth that quietly shapes every career: the best opportunities are almost never found through job boards or career fairs. They come from people — a warm introduction, a follow-up email, a thoughtful question, a hand raised in a room. She walks through how she breaks networking into micro skills for teenagers: how to map the 25 people you already know, how to write the email, how to follow up without nagging, and how to turn a single conversation into a job shadow, a referral, or a mentor.
It is a conversation about agency, self-advocacy, and the quiet truth that most of us got our foot in the door because someone gave us a shot. Rebecca’s work is making sure the next generation knows how to ask for that shot — and how to be ready when it comes.
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Timestamps:
00:00 – Introduction: Why teaching networking matters
02:49 – Networking is a skill schools rarely teach
05:07 – The childhood lesson that shaped Rebecca’s mindset
08:33 – Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not
10:05 – The student who changed everything
11:51 – Founding a high school at age 25
14:28 – The mentor who taught her how to lead
17:09 – How networking opened the next chapter of her career
19:07 – Why apprenticeships are so powerful
21:47 – Rethinking how students access opportunity
25:27 – Teaching the hidden language of networking
27:26 – Helping students overcome fear and self-doubt
30:11 – Why most adults actually want to help
34:24 – Rebecca’s advice for young people
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[…] One of you has to overshare information at your own expense in order to create the greater good and put yourself at risk. There really wasn't a solution to this problem. The only thing people knew how to do was this age-old practice called account mapping, where you just email a bunch of spreadsheets back and forth to one another and play battleship. The idea for CrossBeam was to solve that problem once and for all and make CrossBeam basically this independent, third-party, trusted data platform that sits in between companies who collaborate with each other and basically functions like an escrow service for data. […]
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