SAN MARCOS — Powered by the Texas Youth Action Network Spark Grant, the teens at the Greater San Marcos Youth Council (GSMYC) have launched a podcast that allows them to have a platform to share their voices, talk about real-life topics and encourage their peers.
GSMYC strives to strengthen families through its services available to Hays County residents, with an objective to reduce child maltreatment, truancy and juvenile delinquency, while also increasing families’ protective factors and resilience to crisis. One of the ways it does this is through the Teen Life Soundtrack Podcast, created in the summer of 2025.
“The youth are the ones who make up the team and they do most of the conversation. I am just a facilitator to kind of keep them on track. When we first got this together, we came up with different topics that they would like to talk about and then, my part of facilitating is kind of adding those questions in there and they'll have a conversation and they might come up with their own questions along the way or even just have that casual conversation,” explained Lizzy Orman, lead family support specialist and facilitator of the podcast.
