We Chatted With Byron Dempsey to Talk Driven Young and His Partnership With Student Edge

Do you wanna build on your practical life skills?

Let’s be honest: we’ve all spent a solid couple of hours scrolling through TikTok with our eyes glued to the screen, TikTok is basically the place to be if you’re Gen Z.

On our journey to become more in touch with Gen Z and learn what kind of things young Aussies want to watch, hear about and read, we discovered TikTok influencer and podcaster Bryon Dempsey and all that he does to help young people develop practical life skills.

If you’ve been around as a Student Edge member for some time now, you may have noticed the new tab on our website menu titled ‘Learning’. Here we house our very own suite of practical life skills, which are part of our new premium membership, Student Edge Plus, so for us, it was a no brainer to partner with Byron.

To give our members a bit of an intro about Byron and what we have planned, our Writer and Content producer Marie Gooley sat down with Byron over Zoom and chatted everything there is to know about Driven Young, TikTok, his Intentional Gap Year program and his partnership with us. Here’s what he had to say.

Who is Byron Dempsey?

In case you haven’t heard of Byron before, he’s the founder of the Driven Young Podcast, a platform that helps educate and inspire the younger generation around entrepreneurship and practical life skills.

Byron grew awareness of his education podcast via super short TikTok snippets of each episode, and oh boy have they blown up.

Right now, Byron has over 377.8K followers on his main TikTok account and 302.9K followers on his other account @consent.and.consequenses which talks about relationships, sexual assault and consent education.

You’ve probably come across one or two of his videos on your fyp before, maybe interviewing an expert on a topic we’ve all struggled with?

Basically, he’s here to help Gen Z with their common burning questions.

How are Student Edge and Byron helping young people?

Both the Driven Young podcast with Bryon and Student Edge Plus aim to give young people the critical life skills that they missed out on in high school.

Driven Young touches on topics like landing an internship or dealing with anxiety—things most of us probably need help with—whereas Student Edge plus, hones in on boosting your resilience, managing your money and even discovering your dream career.

With a team of industry experts, Student Edge Plus brings Student Edge members heaps of super fun and easy courses that make learning real-life, everyday skills just that little bit easier.

By using Student Edge Plus in conjunction with Driven Young, students can harness their potential and ace, not only their exams but also life post-school.

You can learn more about Byron on his website Driven Young and you can sign up to Student Edge plus right here on the Student Edge website.

Catch full episodes of the Driven Young podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts.