This Year & Beyond

Did you know when a City Year Corpsmember becomes a City Year staff member there is a special ritual performed involving phones? Well that's at least how this weeks guest, Shawna Melton describes her experience  :).   Check it out!

On this week's episode I chat with Brian Tierney, a City year alum and current VISTA Leader. We chat about what it was like serving with City Year right out of High School, going into college with a term of service under his belt and what #VISTAlife is like. Check it out!

On this weeks episode I chat with Alex Flower and AmeriCorps VISTA and Peace Corps alum.  We talk about that time Joe Biden showed up to one of his events and dancing and playing drums in Mongolia - ya know normal the normal stuff that happens while serving. Check it out!

Ever think about running for elected office? Well this episode is for you. I chat with Max Klau Chief Program Officer at New Politics Leadership Academy.  New Politics Leadership Academy is a nonpartisan non-profit organization dedicated to recruiting and supporting servant leaders to serve through politics. Through leadership development experiences, educational programming, and networking events, they're building a new pipeline into politics for Americans who have served our communities and country before and who feel called to continue their service by jumping into the political arena.

This weeks episode features a great conversation with Lindsay Stewart who is currently service as an AmeriCorps VISTA at Sunflower County Freedom Project. We chat about what life in the Mississippi Delta, what it means to take time to serve after college and #VISTAlife. Enjoy!

This might just be crazy enough to work. That's the mentality that landed this week's guest, Adam Greenberg, an internship at the White House. In this week episode I chat with Adam's winding 10 year from NCCC Corpsmember, to NCCC Team Leader and soon to be Peace Corps Volunteer and all the stuff he was able to do in between.  

On this week’s episode I chat with Lisa Tatum, who served as both an NCCC Corpsmember and team leader out of the San Diego campus and has since and a remarkable career in service. She’s worked as an NCCC staff member, at the Red Cross, with the Student Conservation Association, and was named one of the top 20 AmeriCorps alum. There’s so much. Lisa’s awesome and I so much fun chatting with her, I hope  you enjoy our conversation as much as I did.

Are you interested in making the leap into working internationally? Well this is a great episode for you. Stephanie shares her story of serving as a State/National AmeriCorps member in Denver, working with foster youth in transition and how that experience motivated her to work all around the globe, from South Korea, to the Republic of Georgia, to Guatemala. Enjoy!

Have you ever been told in an interview that you were going to save someone's life if you took the job? Well Troy Wilkerson has. In this week's episode Troy shares his experience serving 3(!) terms with the Joseph Pfeifer Kiwanis Camps. 

Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/ThisYearandBeyond Happy New Year! I can't think of a better way to start off 2018 by sharing Kelly Siefkin's NCCC Class 24 Induction Speech with you all. Kelly will take you through the ups, downs and lessons learned from a term of service and how she's transformed from NCCC Corpsmember to an NCCC Team sponsor at the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services. Enjoy! 

Taking the week off, but cant wait to hear more stories of service in 2018!

What can I even say about this one... Kristen and I co-crew lead an energy & water conservation crew three years ago and never looked back. We've traveled to Colombia together, we've decimated the competition at bar trivia, and generally enjoyed one another's company. Now for the first time on record I hear all about Kristen's City Year days. Enjoy! 

What to know the difference between being a City Year Corpsmember vs. NCCC Corpsmember?  Want to know what a recruiter looks for in a City Year Corpsmembers? Well this is the episode for you! This week I chat with Rod Swain about his service experience as an AmeriCorps Unit Support Team leader and City Year recruiter in Columbus OH. 

I was fortunate enough to get to know Randi while she was a Corpsmember in Denver. We rode  bikes. enjoyed refreshing Denver craft beers and I halfheartedly watched a lot of Wisconsin sports. Unfortunately, this left little time to chat about #AmeriCorps. So it was great learning more about the amazing work she was able to do on her road to medical school.  Enjoy!  HealthCorps Link: http://bzfd.it/2BAqZJS Like the podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThisYearAndBeyond/ Donate: https://igg.me/at/ThisYearandBeyond/

Sit back, relax and get ready for a great episode. This week I talk with an AmeriCorps Alum who served back in the early days on the first NCCC team to serve in Hawaii. Enjoy!

The podcast as made it to 10 episodes WOO!  And to celebrate I have an old NCCC friend on the show to share his AmeriCorps experience and how one project put him on the path to getting a PhD in School Psychology.  Be sure to like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/thisyearandbeyond And buy the podcast a coffee or beer! https://igg.me/at/ThisYearandBeyond/x

Rod Swain got to chat about AmeriCorps on Jeopardy a few weeks ago. Stay tuned for a future episode where I chat with him about his full Corpsmember Team Leader and City Year experience, Jeopardy Episode: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x660wdy IndieGoGo: https://igg.me/at/ThisYearandBeyond/x/17155788 Facebook: www.facebook.com/thisyearandbeyond.

I chat with a City Year alum about Milwaukee and Starfish. Also make sure to like the Facebook page and donate to the IndieGoGo campaign https://igg.me/at/ThisYearandBeyond/x/17155788

Go check out Shelbi's YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/Shelbizleee It will change your life.

Listen to all to the way to end on this on. We end on one of my favorite AmeriCorps stories. For real. Also be sure to check out the crowdfunding campaign (https://igg.me/at/ThisYearandBeyond/x/17155788) and share with all your AmeriFriends (www.facebook.com/ThisYearandBeyond) You all are my favorites.

This episode really proves AmeriCorps alums can do it all! Daniel Little is an NCCC & VISTA alum who is now the CEO of his own start up! Check out his website here www.involvemint.co. Also here's the link if you want to check out the rest of Stevie Wonder's speech https://youtu.be/w7j1bKqbGNY?t=45m23s

This week I chat with Cristy Rowley, a two time City Year alum. It was great learning more about the City Year experience. Hope you enjoy Cristy's story as much as I did! Also PLEASE like the Facebook page and post your alum thank yous. Does anyone actually read these?

I had a great chat with Ryan about his Team Leader year. Be sure to check out more about what he does at www.inspire-usa.org. Also go above and beyond going to the Facebook page to tag and thank a fellow AmeriCorps alum.

HI everyone. Welcome to This Year & Beyond. Thanks for listening. I want to create a strong community of AmeriCorps members, supporters and alum. I also have no idea what I'm doing. So let me know what you want to hear on the podcast! thisyearandbeyond@gmail.com www.thisyearandbeyond.com

In this episode we get into what it's like to be an NCCC Team Leader.

In this inaugural episode I sit down and talk with my good pal Noreen Ahmed about her experience as a two term VISTA.