How many of you guys can raise your hand to the fact that you need to adult better? Well, today‘s podcast guest, Pete Hardesty, has been a friend of mine for a very long time, and we reconnected this past year. He has been a mentor in many ways through Young Life, which is an organization that helps adolescents become who they are meant to be.

Way before I understood identity and before I even considered writing ”Always Becoming: Sex, Shame, & Love”, Pete Hardesty was there teaching me. He was planting seeds years ago, and I believe the younger generations, especially with today‘s turmoils and traumas, need someone like Pete, who is now 30 plus years into his time with the Young Life organization and a co-author to two best-selling books - Adulting 101 Book One and Book Two.

Enjoy the gems he drops about how we can help the younger generations step into who they are meant to be!




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About Pete:

Pete Hardesty currently lives in Washington DC and serves as the Young Life College Divisional Coordinator for the Eastern part of the U.S. Young Life is an international non-profit helping adolescents become all they were meant to be.




Pete is co-author of the 2 Amazon #1 bestsellers ADULTING 101 Book 1 and 2. Both of these books provide tools to help young have wild success in the ”real world.” Book 2 was released in April 2021 and focuses on inner adulthood and mental health
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Having grown up in Baltimore, MD, Pete graduated from the University of Virginia, where he was pre-med, emphasizing ”pre.” He crammed his 3 years of grad school into 17 and finally received his Masters of Divinity in 2014


A passion for the Middle East has inspired Pete to lead service trips for the last 14 years, primarily working with Palestinian kids in the West Bank. Pete is a frequent international speaker, having spoken to over 100,000 young people, in groups as big as 4000 and as small as 0. He has been working with college students for over 20 years and loves helping them achieve their potential.

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