Your Sorority Journey

Today we're talking about one of the biggest questions potential new members have prior to recruitment:What are the expectations of chapter membership? The time commitment, financial aspects, housing experience, behavioral expectations, and so much more that contributes to a meaningful commitment to your organization. Today, Cassie breaks down these expectations, both the myths and reality of them to give potential new members a better idea of what their chapter membership experience may look like.Whether your a potential new member or a current member looking to prepare your chapter for recruitment, today's episode offers guidance, clarity, and a fresh perspective on the expectations of membership.

So what's the difference between joining a sorority or joining another campus organization?We're led to believe that joining a sorority prohibits us from joining any other campus organizations, but in reality, being a part of a chapter only empowers us further to be leaders in all kinds of communities on our campuses. What a sorority does is give us lifelong friendships, leadership experiences, and a sisterhood built on values we share rather than interests. Today's episode features a perfect example of the blend between both types of involvement with our guest, Ashley Beers.Throughout Ashley's time in college, she served as the vice president of recruitment and later chapter president, while also being a leader in ROTC, mock trial, and multiple other campus organizations. Ashley tells the story of her sorority journey and how valuable it's been not only in her chapter president role, but in her involvement all across campus. Ashley helps us understand the importance of being involved with both values-based sorority chapters and interest-based campus organizations.

So you think you want to join a sorority? This month, we're exploring all the Greek life topics that may have you on the fence about registering for recruitment this fall. This week we're diving into the stereotypes surrounding Greek life, and helping you understand what a sorority is and what it's not. Today we talk myth vs. fact with Alyssa Ciango, the Associate Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life at Miami University of Ohio. Alyssa shares her wealth of knowledge on the recruitment experience, the myths she's seen, and how to approach the sorority experience well before the first day of recruitment. Alyssa also has advice for current members and chapter leaders to know as we head into the season of recruitment.Whether you're on the fence about registering for recruitment, or even a current chapter leader looking to redefine what the sorority experience looks like for PNMs, today's episode is for you.

Serving on a committee or in a leadership role within your chapter helps you develop all kinds of life skills within your sorority. Whether you serve on a recruitment committee, secretary, or even chapter president, the skills you learn through your sorority experience can translate to a professional workplace setting after your collegiate experience.How can we use the skills we've learned in our chapters to land our dream jobs? Today, we hear from Maddy Hine on how she found her dream job using skills she learned from leadership roles in her chapter. Maddy explains what skills have been the most crucial in the workplace, how to articulate those skills in an interview, and why her sorority experience was so impactful within her career.Whether your navigating what to do after graduation, or weighing the professional development benefits of a sorority experience, today we'll dive into the impact of your sorority journey on your future career.

Hot Girl Summer is right around the corner! The transition into the summer months can be a great time to begin new habits and lifestyle changes, especially surrounding your personal health. Our social media platforms are flooded with fear-based marketing, unrealistic body standards, and unhealthy habits related to personal health . Today, we sit down with Katy Saltsman to talk all about these myths and how we can create positive health cultures for ourselves and those around us.We can be the ones to create supportive communities that celebrate women beyond their physical appearance and offers practical tips for tracking health indicators that go beyond the scale. Whether it's in your chapter or your circle of friends at home this summer, learn how you can be the one to create this positive healthy community for those around you.

Your sisterhood is meant to be a lifelong commitment, but what does it look like to actually be active in our sorority after graduation? The alumni experience gives women the opportunity to not just meet sisters from other universities, but build new meaningful relationships with sisters they never knew in college to give back to the collegiate experience and support philanthropic efforts. Today, Erin Donegan gives us an inside look into the alumni experience and how valuable it's been to her sorority journey. Erin's sorority experience didn't stop after graduation; her alumni chapter has brought her sincere friendships and valuable experiences she's excited to share, along with her advice for recent college graduates.If you're graduating wondering how your sorority experience could possible continue or in the middle of your journey looking for inspiration for the future, this episode is for you.

Are you tired yet? After the past three weeks of awards ceremonies, Greek Week events, scholarship banquets, and senior send offs, do you feel like your celebrating the community or competing for your place in it?As we end the academic year, I hope you find a breath of fresh air in this week's episode. Let's exchange our goals to be the best in our community (and consequently communicating to our members that our worth has to be earned) for a lived reality of a chapter who enjoys the company of its members and values the experiences enough to hope to share it with new sisters this fall.

ICYMI: Our 2025 Summer Internship application is open! We are looking for two ambitious sorority leaders to drive Her Sorority Journey's social media strategy & educational resource development over the next few months.When one door opens, another closes. It's a bittersweet season to dream about our next intern team while celebrating the amazing work, investment, and personal growth of our interns coming to the end of the terms and collegiate sorority journeys.If you're at all curious about what it might look like to be a Her Sorority Journey intern, you have to tune in to hear Aubrey + Taylor's greatest takeaways from their past year and their hope for those who step into their roles next!Apply here! Application closes 4/25/25.

During Sexual Assault Awareness Month, you may feel overwhelmed with information, statistics, and more questions than answers in how to protect or support your sisters. We invited Megan Hatfield, Alpha Chi Omega's Assistant Director of Education and Leadership Initiatives, to share her insight into how chapters and their members can take the resources available to them to be the kind of sisters the potential survivors in your sisterhood need. Tune in to hear Megan's fresh perspective unpacking the intersection that she often works with between domestic violence and sexual violence, the value of peer facilitation for some of these conversations, and how to communicate that you believe your sisters when you can't find the right words.

Did you attend a fraternity & sorority life leadership conference this year? As you go into the final stretch of your spring semester, let's reevaluate how you've maintained that conference momentum. What progress have you made toward the goals you set? How have you used that inspiration to ignite meaningful change in your chapter or community? 2025 AFLV Central Intern, Madi Breedlove, and Outgoing SGLA Student Board President, Kori Alexander, join Cassie on the podcast to share some challenges they experienced carrying out their leadership vision inspired by conference conversations with peers and programming. You don't want to miss their encouragement for how you can maximize your council's investment and step out boldly to sustain relationships you built with peers or speakers!

We've all heard "Greek Life is for everyone" but is that being lived out daily? This week guest Kailey Couch a freshman at Missouri State University in Sigma Sigma Sigma shares her take on the topic of inclusivity. Kailey is visually impaired and actively making strides in her community to ensure every student feels invited to the fraternity experience. Kailey gives insight into what recruitment looked like for her and her ideas for an inclusive environment for all wanting to participate. Kailey encourages listeners to "never be afraid to ask" and to educate chapters on topics such as diversity, disabilities, and accommodations from recruitment and beyond. Kailey is a wave maker on her campus and has a lot to share so tune in and share what you learn with your chapter!

On our 5 year anniversary of the Your Sorority Journey Podcast, Cassie reflects even further back than the start of her entrepreneurial journey, to the start of her sorority journey. While sorority recruitment can feel like such an isolated experience, she reveals common experience of women forming beliefs about themselves from any moment of rejection and the need to dismantle the shame we project on ourselves that we are the only one who feels this way. If you resonate with this story or any of our work to cultivate confidence & community in the sorority experience, not just for the sake of sorority but for lifelong networks of support & connectedness, we have 3 ways for you to get involved!1. Consider brining Cassie to campus to speak at a sisterhood or recruitment event, or host a leadership development workshop! Her Sorority Journey Programming2. Look out for our summer internship applications opening in a few weeks and consider joining our team!3. Are you a emerging female entrepreneur? We believe in you and want to support you! Apply for our 2025 Uncharted Grant

You're halfway through the spring semester... how many weekends or evenings have you had free recently? How much capacity have you had to invest in the sister relationships that really matter to you between the retreats, workshops, philanthropic fundraisers, and your academics?! Dr. Mari Ann Callais, Sr. Director of Strategic Initiatives for Tri Delta and passionate advocate for over 30 years of the sorority experience, joins Cassie to shed light on what really matters and the shift she has seen in curriculum in the sorority experience. There is power when woman come together, and while she shares how your events play a role in it, we can often fall into the trap of focusing more on the event itself rather than the relationships deepened. Cultivating a space that members feel invited into and want to stay apart of starts when sisterhood isn't a planned event. As you go into the second half of your spring term, we hope her story will inspire your chapter to revaluate your priorities, maximize the impact, memories made, and educational expectations of each event, and at the root of it, elevate sisterhood to the top priority.

Need a new recruitment strategy to retain interested future sisters into passionate, contributing members? Let's try authenticity.Our potential new members deserve to see clearly what membership would be like if they join, not what you want it to look like or feel like it should look like, but what it would actually be like. We invited Zafyre Turner, past chapter consultant for Alpha Chi Omega and current Customer Success Manager at PhiredUp, to share how her sorority journey started not with recruitment but with emersion. Dream with us how you can showcase the real sisterhood you are a part of and love before, during, and after recruitment. So let's revitalize your current & future members' (and your own) recruitment experience.

It's time to transform the cliche of "Panhellenic Love" from the topic of your community sisterhood event to a lived reality on your campus. We cannot effectively tap into the strength of our collective sisterhood while tolerating competition and comparison between our chapters. Joining Cassie to unpack these tensions is Her Sorority Journey's newest team member, Molleigh Pompilio. With experience ranging from traveling to chapters across the country as a sorority consultant and supporting a Panhellenic community through tragedy as a FSA, Molleigh has seen power that can come from members supporting one another regardless of affiliation. We all need a refreshed vision of Panhellenic love so let's build it together before the month of love ends and women's history month begins!

Forgot to hop on the New Years' Resolutions this year and don't have any goals for 2025? Good thing a new year, birthday, new academic year, or other milestone aren't the only days you can set goals! Regardless of your leadership position in your chapter or season of life in sorority, let's give you a helpful framework to set some goals that orient your decisions in the direction of the person you want to become with a clear understanding of the outcome and confident passion to motivate you toward that end result! Tune in to help break your goals into 3 critical categories and learn 3 essential questions to reflect on the hopeful impact of your goals.

If we want to sustain sorority, we have to start looking ahead. Heather Matthews joined Cassie to share the research findings from the Foundation of Fraternal Excellence's first Amplify Sorority Campaign that explored WHO are our future sorority members. The research revealed that the future of our chapters will be made up of women who fall into unique four personas, requiring four unique marketing methods! You don't want to miss the talking points, types of content you need to start posting, and recruitment format adjustments that she suggests to ensure your community is attracting tomorrow's leaders today. Tune in to learn how to attract an anxious but loyal generation of women who need to "try before they buy".

COB season is here! Are you ready for it? Despite the stigma & stressful chapter conversations, continuous open bidding attracts amazing women to our organizations. The reasons that these future leaders and impactful sisters disregarded sorority because of the primary recruitment process are the very same reasons that they will be irreplaceable members. On today's episode, Lauren Stills, recruitment enthusiast & Director of Growth at Sigma Kappa Sorority, shares recruitment strategies for COB process that she gained from her prior experiencing supporting recruitment efforts for fraternities! You'll learn where to find potential new members, how plan events that are already built into or mirror your chapter calendar, and where to start: with your sisterhood. Regardless of your leadership role in the chapter, you play a critical role in the growth of your chapter. The power she shares on COB being an opportunity to curate your own pool of PNMs and consequently, your future chapter culture, will leave you with a new perspective on sharing your sorority experience and not gatekeeping it that you will be excited to take back to your chapter!

Happy New Year, Your Sorority Journey listeners! As we step into 2025, we are continuing season 5 with an episode for newly elected officers + the advisors who support them to cultivate their leadership vision. Cassie will walk you through important considerations when casting your vision including what to sustain, where you can implement growth, and what currently exists that could be elevated! Want to learn more about a workshop to cultivate individual or collective visions in your leadership team? Talk to Cassie here

Stepping into a leadership position or your titleless leadership potential and nervous about how your friends will respond to new boundaries in your life that come with that role? Let's talk about it. Join Cassie and friendship coach, Danielle Bayard Jackson, in unpacking pitfalls we often experience when sorority becomes a commodified community. Danielle's expertise from research she's done in female friendship will give you tangible tools to navigate friendships with honesty, trusting that the right relationships will respect and reciprocate, and cultivate a community of contribution within your sisterhood. Connect with Danielle ⁠here⁠!

Just got elected onto your sorority's executive council? CONGRATULATIONS! Once the reality of this privileged opportunity sinks in, you might find yourself leaning toward one of two extremes: 1) getting ready to change everything that's been done in your position before hoping for a different result than you've seen in the past or 2) preparing to replicate the plans you have seen executed in the past to ensure the same results. In this episode, you'll learn why both extremes can be dangerous to your sisterhood's health and growth! Cassie has a framework of questions to ask yourself every time you are considering making a change to identify if it's a pillar (something that should be sustained) or a banner (something to innovatively reimagine!) Looking for support with your officer transitions? Take advantage of our pre-recorded officer transition workshop, Pass the Gavel, available for $149 through the end of the year!

So you're coming to the end of your sorority officer position - what's next in your sorority journey? As your sisters in your chapter prepare to transition into the roles you and your friends have held this past year, let's get you ready to STEP UP as a leader in the chapter as you step down from your titled role. After serving for a year or longer, it is no easy experience going from the executive board to being a general member so Kayla Eggering, the recruitment advisor and past chapter president of Alpha Sigma Alpha at Missouri State, joined Cassie to unpack helpful considerations & the nuances of this transition. Tune in to learn how to find the balance of being present & available to the newly elected officer with not being overbearing and showing up as a role model with caring for yourself after a likely exhausting term. Ultimately, we hope you use these tips as a road map to be able to graduate with pride in your sorority journey & a desire to continue serving your organization as a proud alumna and potentially advisor. You may be stepping down from a title but you are stepping up in leading by example and showing your support!

So you're ready to run for a sorority officer position... have you thought about why? Have you mapped out what you hope to accomplish? Cassie believes that ALL interested sorority leaders need the take the time to imagine what they hope the chapter would look like as a result of their leadership - cast a clear vision for their leadership term. And it needs to be about impact. Sorority leaders are responsible to leave the chapter better than they found it - you need a vision that will sustain your leadership to do that! In this episode, let's talk about how to cultivate a vision that reflects the needs of your members, will motivate you throughout the year, and not make the result of elections personally. In short, tune in to learn how run for a sorority officer position NOT about you.

Upperclassmen Sorority Members! Did you know that you dictate the leadership culture in your chapter? The way you model membership, take ownership in your chapter, and empower younger members will be repeated! As sorority election season is upon us, let's talk about how to balance the need to elevate upperclassmen leaders and the value of fresh perspective from emerging leaders. We invited Aubrey Hardy, Her Sorority Journey's Resource Intern & Chapter President of Alpha Sigma Alpha at Missouri State, to discuss the implications of unbalanced elections. From her own leadership journey, Aubrey shares her passion for elections to cultivate positive change in the chapter, honor outgoing and aspiring officers, and sustain sisterhood. In this episode, Cassie & Aubrey explore the two extremes of not having enough interest in elections to an overflow of aspiring leaders officers and the role upperclassmen and newer members often play in each scenario.

How quickly it seems we go from stressing about recruitment to stressing about retention! If your chapter or community has set member retention goals, this episode is for you. Her Sorority Journey Executive Assistant and local chapter advisor, Maddy Wilson, joins Cassie to define what we're talking about when we discuss "retention", help us reset our goals to be rooted in the membership experience, and provide actionable steps for each group of members we hope to keep in our sisterhood. Maddy is an advisor to a chapter in and graduate student of Appalachian State University, located in Boone, NC. In light of the devastation that she witnessed and heard of in neighboring towns from Hurricane Helene, Maddy shares her experience living through this natural disaster and her unique perspective on retention for sisters in affected communities. While we dream that sisterhood can be a place of support & stability for sisters in unthinkable circumstances like these, we hope our disclaimer to start the episode provides sisters permission to take the steps they need to look out for their wellbeing, even if that means stepping away from sisterhood.

Welcome to Season 5! We are so excited to kick off the new season with an interview with Her Sorority Journey's 2024 Uncharted Grant Recipient. Valerie has been making moves to open a dance studio to inspire confidence and cultivate authentic community for women. In this episode, she shares her passion to empower others through dance and the role her sorority sisters played in motivating her to take this jump! Cassie and Valerie relate about the challenges that come with entrepreneurship and the role self-care plays in preventing burnout & sustaining the vision. We are celebrating with Valerie as her business, Diva Dance Nashville, opens this weekend!

Calling all Pi Chis, Gamma Chis, Rho Gammas, and Recruitment Counselors! You play such an invaluable role in sorority recruitment regardless of your reason for being there. Whether you applied to skip your chapter's recruitment process or you're actually really missing your chapter, your influence WILL shape the PNM experience so let's talk about how to reset your intentions if they are for any other reason besides mentorship & support of our next generation of sisters. As a recruitment counselor, you have all eyes and ears on you to model a way of sisterhood and positivity. On the podcast today, Her Sorority Journey's Summer Social Media Intern and UNC Wilmington's Panhellenic Vice President of Public Relations, Taylor Autrey, shares her insight into the role of recruitment counselors. We want you to feel prepared going into hard conversations with PNMS or missing the core memories being made by your chapter and stay focused on the impact you making on your Panhellenic community AND your chapter, even if you don't see it right away!

Attention to all returning recruiters feeling like you've done your time and your not needed. Consider this your pep talk to get your head in the game for recruitment season because you are apart of a team who needs YOU. Listen to find out how your energy and role elevates the chapters recruitment experience. For recruitment leaders use this episode to find inspiration on how to encourage these members and use them as support throughout the week!

You've been recruited and enjoyed a full year of the sorority experience but now it's your turn to recruit and invite others into the sisterhood! Recruitment week doesn't have to be what social media has made it seem and their truly is more that goes into besides posting TikToks. @Bewellwithbritt _ a mental health advocate, representative of NAMI and pilates teacher shares her vision for a restful week of recruitment. The idea is that through this podcast you will learn ways to prioritize yourself in July so that when August brings on recruitment season you're ready. Mental health, gratitude, and communication in conflict are all topics discussed in relation to recruitment for first years.

Going through recruitment this fall and not sure who to believe? There is an overwhelming number of voices you can listen to as you prep for this experience: parents & hometown friends, people you meet in class your first week of college, and the internet. Over everything else, let's help you recenter YOUR voice and opinions in the recruitment process.

Potential New Members! Have you picked out your recruitment outfits yet? Before you panic and go buy an all new closet, let's talk about how much what you wear impacts your opportunities to find your lifelong sisterhood. In a process that feels so uncertain, it makes sense to want to control what you want to control. But instead of focusing on what will make you fit in with a chapter or even the other potential new members, we want to help you find outfits that showcase your personal style and make you feel like your most confident YOU!

So you've heard that your sorority membership is “ not just four years, it's for life"... but what does that look like? On our 100th episode, we invited active chapter advisor and national volunteer, Kaitlyn Kirksey, to share with us her WHY behind staying active as an alumna! While moments of her collegiate sorority journey were a little less than glamorous and at some points disheartening, her perspective on how disappointment in her sorority has made her a more relatable & empathetic advisor will inspire you! Kaitlyn also shares how she advises chapter officers to have hard conversations that push members to cultivate sisterhoods of true belonging. Be sure to listen until the end to hear the role clarity, vulnerability, and empathy play in true inclusion work!

What do you think of when you think of ✨ sorority housing✨ ? Does it feel like a burden? Bring back fond memories? Regardless of the kind of facility your chapter has, the sorority experience is undeniably impacted by living in close proximity to sisters. Liz Toombs, founder of PDR Interiors, joined Cassie on the podcast to share how her experience living in her own chapter house influenced her interior design career to now support sorority chapters in making their spaces feel like home across the country. She shares with Cassie that the experience of living in doesn't have to be a series of rules but a place to make memories that will last a lifetime. If you find that your chapter doesn't desire to live in together, listen as Liz and Cassie share ways to enhance the experience to buy members in. PDR Interiors transforms sorority house interiors into vibrant spaces that embody your chapters unique personality, learn more and admire their portfolio at PDRInteriors.com or @pdrinteriors on Instagram and Tiktok

Ready to love your day-to-day by ditching others' opinions and expectations of what your life should look like? As we head into the summer months, take some time to consider the impact your daily habits today are having on your long-term vision for your life! Professional guest speaker and certified life coach Brittney Tucker, or @brighterwithbritt, joins Her Sorority Journey to share her story of leaving the corporate world to find true joy in her passion for speaking. Brittany Tucker is a dynamic keynote speaker and coach experienced in speaking to over 350 businesses globally. Her passion is motivating individuals to live a life true to who they are and joined Cassie to explore how you, as a sorority woman, can break out of the unwritten rules you feel you need to follow in this season of your life. Don't let college be a checkbox, allow yourself to dream and dream big despite the path others may have set for you!

Curious where your sorority journey can take you? Our guest today wants to help you see how sorority membership can help you build your dream life or in her words "define your brand of beautiful." Bailie White is a motivational speaker with 7+ years of entrepreneurial experience and a heart for serving, motivating, and encouraging college-aged women. You will love her candid truth about her journey through entrepreneurship, life, and the hard-earned lessons learned along the way -- especially the lessons she wishes she had learned before she hit the college graduation stage herself. Get her guide to Define Your Brand of Beautiful!

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Happy Women's History Month! As we approach International Women's Day on Friday, here are a few ideas to consider in how to celebrate women on your campus both close to you & different from you

Two chapter presidents collaborated on their podcasts and left with an episode of tips, insight, and stories from their unique life stages and business experience that inform how they empower women in their professional life. Cassie joined Lauren Truslow, host of A Girl in Sweaty Sweatpants, boutique fitness and nail salon owner, and founder of The Plan by Lauren Truslow, to unpack their shared passion for women's empowerment in their unique careers. Tune in to hear more of Cassie's story, how Lauren manages their time, and the heart they have for women to live confident & courageous lives!

How is your sorority leadership journey going? Whether you are currently in a officer role, newly off exec, or aspiring to be in a leadership position in the future, we need to talk about how relationships in your chapter impact your influence - including the relationship you have with yourself. On this episode to unpack the role of curiosity & vulnerability in leadership is James Robilotta, a long time friend of Cassie's and husband of a previous guest, Tina Vansteenbergen. Connect with James & Tina here!

Happy Valentine's Day! While today is largely celebrated for couples, let's expand our imagination of love

Is it hard to talk about drinking habits or alcohol culture in your sisterhood? We'll let @tastefullybuzzed help you

Heading to a national organization council, or regional fraternity & sorority leadership conference this season?! From Cassie's YEARS of conferences both as a collegian & professional, this episode is packed with tips to make the most of your experience before, during, and after! Heading to AFLV Central, SGLA, or AFLV West?! Be sure to look out for Her Sorority Journey's sessions on the program schedule and meet Cassie!

Kicking off a new academic term or officer term this January can come with a lot of uncertainty! How confident are you feeling this new year? If you're finding yourself questioning how you'll do in your classes, if your sisters will like the changes you make in the chapter, or where you belong as a member, you are not alone. So let's talk about how instead of comparing yourself to one another or treating a sister like your competition, you can be proud of who you are and who she is, too. After all, women need other women. To provide insight & passion into this conversation, Tina VanSteenbergen (Speaker with StoryMatters) joined Cassie to unpack how confidence comes from both women cheering us on and our own self-talk. Connect with Tina! @tinaraevan

There is nothing quite like the tension of hoping to be elected to an officer position & finding out another close sister wants it, too… Let's talk about it. Cassie & Emily share lessons learned from either experiencing it personally or advising chapter members in navigating it. We hope you leave this episode committed to not campaign and accept that the chapter will ultimately make the right decision.

ASPIRING OFFICERS: Ready to put yourself out there this year and run for an officer position in your chapter? Let's talk about where to start! On the episode, Emily & I dive into the value of reflecting on where you want to contribute to the chapter & WHY you're interested in that position. We will walk you through how to approach the officer who currently holds the position you're hoping for, what to ask them when you meet with them, and how to use what you learn in that conversation to share your heart for leadership with the chapter!

CURRENT OFFICERS: Let's go back in time for a moment. You've just been elected into your officer role and you're sitting in your scheduled officer transitions meeting. How did you feel leaving that meeting? Overwhelmed? Stressed? More questions than you started with? This is an all too common experience with our newly elected officers. It's time we break the cycle by reflecting intentionally, understanding what was accomplished, and breaking down what you actually do to be communicated to others BEFORE your successor is even elected. Knowing how things went, what works well, and the areas of your position that have room to grow can shape how you communicate what is needed for the role with interested sister & the chapter in elections!

CURRENT OFFICERS: Want to cultivate a strong leadership culture in your chapter or community? You have a lot more say in that happening than you may think. In this episode, Emily & I discuss the necessary role that calling out strengths we see in our sisters plays in the effectiveness of our elections. We cannot assume that sisters will just apply for positions or be passionate about opportunities to contribute to the chapter. As current officers with influence in the chapter, it is our responsibility to empower emerging leaders in their skillset with a suggestion of where those skills will be best suited in the chapter. Be sure to listen to our insight on how to go about these conversations with your future leaders! You have more influence in the direction of your chapter after your term ends than you might think

POP QUIZ: How many Greek organizations are on your campus? In our sorority journey, it is so easy to make our Greek experience all about us - our chapter, our council, our sisters. But if we look up and around us, we have a lot to learn from our Greek brothers and sisters in other councils on our campus! We have a rockstar community builder as our guest on the podcast today! Bonny Shade is a speaker, educator, facilitator, and curriculum designer who is passionate about cultivating safe communities. On the podcast today, she shares lessons learned from her sorority journey and professional experience creating spaces where cross council friendships could thrive. Whether you have just started thinking about the opportunities of community collaboration or have had a desire to overcome built up tension between councils on your campus, we hope this episode will support you in building meaningful friendships this fall!

How excited are your new residents to live in the house?! If you have a sorority house, townhome, dorm floor, or other living accommodations, your chapter probably feels one of two ways about it. It is either highly sought after to have the experience living with sisters in your facility or members are finding every potential opportunity to be excused from the live-in requirement. Let's talk about how starting this year, you can change the narrative around the live in experience to excite and incentivize future sisters to be a part of this special element of sorority. We invited Lindsey Clemensen, Her Sorority Journey's previous executive assistant and current regional property manager for Tri Delta (also one of Cassie's besties), on the podcast to share nuances of the housing experience from a national organization's vantage point and steps you can take as a member or officer to revitalize living in!

FUTURE SISTER TAKEOVER: for potential new members You may not have heard it yet but regardless of how your recruitment experience goes, there will come a moment when a well meaning recruitment counselor says “trust the process.” If the idea of being out of control in a process to find your future sisterhood fills you with anxiety, this episode is for you ✨ Cassie is joined by Colleen Blevins of @phired.up to unpack the role values play in your experience as a potential new member every step of the way from filling out your registration form to selecting your final chapter on preference. Not on the PNM side of recruitment? Be sure to share with sisters who are!

Future Sister Takeover: this episode is for potential new members but all sorority members have something to gain from the parallels in the Barbie movie and sorority life! Curious if the stereotypes are true: is sorority membership just like Barbieland? After watching the Barbie movie this weekend, Cassie is convinced the answer is yes... but not in the way you might think. Tune in to this week's episode for how our favorite takeaways from the Barbie movie can help you set realistic expectations of sorority membership & go through recruitment feeling a little less alone.