Gary Linnen

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Mick Unplugged · Gary Linnen: Unlocking the Power of Peer Leaders · 22 Sep 2025 podcast

But that changed my entire life because it gave me the opportunity then to go to Cornell, which was never on my list, right?

I was able to meet lifelong friends that I still talk to today.

And throughout that journey, what I learned is that

There were individuals in my community that were just as smart as me, if not smarter.

And for some reason, every time I came home, they were still on the corner.

They were still on the block.

They weren't doing anything.

And I'm like, hold on, I'm giving a chance.

Why not them?

And that for me, like I like internally bothered me because, you know, I look at my sister.

I look at my three sisters and I look at how they struggled.

And I'm like, but I got out.

And I just don't like that notion of you get out and you don't give back.

And so that's how I got into this work.

I graduated from Cornell, went into PR for a little bit, didn't like that.

I used to work, because it was, for me, it was inauthentic to me.

It was business to business and PR for technology companies.

And then I started working with the Princeton Review and

And as you could imagine, like that's helping, you know, the elite to be able to, you know, get helping everyone to be able to get into college.

But it wasn't fulfilling for me.

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