# #5: Three Ways to Battle Back And Get on Track to Follow Your Dreams After a Major Life Event

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Podcast: [This is How She Did It with Bonnie Habyan: Top Women Podcast, Conversations for Women, GenX Women, MidLife Women on Claiming Success, Persistence, Resilience, Reinvention, and Finding Your Voice.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-is-how-she-did-it-with-bonnie-habyan-top-women-podcast-conversations-for-women-genx-women-midlife-women-on-claiming-success-persistence-resilience-reinvention-and-finding-your-voice-7080758)
Published: 2024-11-13T05:00:00+00:00
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Imagine being nearly killed in a hit and run accident and then emerging with more fire than ever to pursue your passion. This is Kat Pattillo's journey and she shares it with Worth Knowing. From her life-threatening experience in 2019 to becoming a leader in education reform, Kat's perspective on life and career goals changed after her brush with death. Kat shares insights on resilience, long-term thinking, and advice for overcoming challenges, highlighting how her near-death experience shaped her approach to taking risks and making a positive impact in the field of education. Kathlyn (Kat) Pattillo believes that we need to pay attention not only to well-known education 'success stories' in places like Finland, Singapore, and Canada, but also learn from systems change bright spots such as Brazil, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Indonesia. As a researcher, she writes stories and produces tools about how leaders in the Global South created education innovation and reforms. And as a facilitator, she designs experiences for leaders to learn from those examples about how to strengthen schools. Kat also speaks, advises, and teaches about how leaders transform Global South education systems - through pathways such as coalition and movement-building, collective impact, networks of proximate leaders, and large-scale systems change with government. She is the Founder of Global Graduate School of Education, which runs field trips for education leaders to learn from Global South education systems. Their first program is the Coalition for System Reform, which strengthens foundational learning coalitions and runs cross-country immersion trips for government policymakers across Brazil, South Africa, Kenya, and India. Alongside this, Kat writes the EdWell newsletter and is writing a book about…

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