(Courtesy Chevrolet)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe premise of the GoalKeeper program is to provide them with an opportunity to gain the tools, knowledge and inspiration needed to achieve their goals; a recent study by global consultancy Ernst & Young indicates that more than 90 percent of female business leaders played sports as children.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s GoalKeepers have a diverse array of ambitions, from interior design to medicine and as such, Chevrolet paired each of them with a mentor who will help her devise benchmarks and coach her toward reaching her goals.<\/p>\n
Cashman, who has dreams of becoming an interior designer, was paired with Chevrolet Lead Designer Ven Lai, who specializes in color and trim.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mentor designs all the interior and exterior of the Chevrolet cars and I found it really interesting, because when you think about designing a car, you can pick any color you want and pick a color that matches the inside, but I learned you have to learn about the person you\u2019re designing the car for,\u201d she said. \u201cYou need to learn if they\u2019re going to go on a lot of camping trips and if they do a lot of fun family activities because if so, they\u2019re going to want a bigger car that\u2019s more suitable for a big family and a lot of messes. It they are more of a chill-and-go-to-the-beach person you\u2019ll want to design a smaller car that\u2019s still big enough to pick up friends.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cashman was quick to acknowledge that the experience was \u201cso much more\u201d than being paired with a mentor.<\/p>\n
Traveling to Manchester, meeting the Manchester United team and walking onto the field with them, was a once in a lifetime experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been playing soccer since I was 4 years old, so for about eight years. When my dad found out about the [GoalKeeper] program he nominated me, and it took about two to three months to find out I was picked. That was one of the best feelings I\u2019ve ever had,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was such an amazing experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Getting to meet, and spend time with the other GoalKeepers, she said, was equally amazing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was cool hearing all the different accents and hearing how other people talk. All of the girls were extremely nice and super loving, and even though we didn\u2019t all speak the same language, we all became very good friends,\u201d she said, adding that she keeps in touch with some of the other girls via Instagram and Snapchat. \u201cWe talk almost on a daily basis.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to meeting the Manchester United players and other GoalKeepers from throughout the globe, Cashman said the experience has taught her some valuable life lessons.<\/p>\n
The workshop component of the trip, which included relationship workshops, innovation workshops and creativity workshops, taught her how to work with a diverse group of people, many of whom didn\u2019t speak the same language, to achieve a common goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cOut of this whole experience, and especially through the workshops, I\u2019ve learned that if you stay on path and keep your goals in mind, you can do anything,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you believe in yourself anything can happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Margie M. Palmer can be reached at margiep@alumni.pitt.edu<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Por Margie M. Palmer<\/p>","protected":false},"author":746,"featured_media":224752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11548","_seopress_titles_title":"Reaching goals in life, on field","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11548,11551,11553,11550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-la-mesa-courier","category-news","category-sports","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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