{"id":219844,"date":"2026-03-14T18:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/219844\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T18:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:59:06","slug":"kern-county-students-take-part-in-leaders-in-life-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/219844\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County students take part in Leaders in Life conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2013The 26th annual Leaders in Life conference took place at the Dignity Health Convention Center Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This yearly get together has impacted thousands of young lives over the past two decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several workshops were held to teach students how to become strong leaders and good decision-makers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI think my favorite part about seeing the kids is seeing them realize that they have a voice, and their voice matters, and that they\u2019re not too young. You can be any age and make an impact on anybody,\u201d said student Siena Martinez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Students also heard from keynote speaker Taes Leavitt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The content creator stresses the importance of properly expressing feelings to improve confidence, assertiveness and reduce anxiety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">1,500 students attended Thursday\u2019s conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2013The 26th annual Leaders in Life conference took place at the Dignity Health Convention Center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,12086,328,100660,100659],"class_list":["post-219844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-dignity-health","tag-kget","tag-life-conference","tag-young-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}