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Kay Kriesel “Catholic Sisters Building Feminist Spirituality” Kay (they/them) studied art therapy at Alverno College, taught by the School Sisters of St Francis in Milwaukee. They've bridged the surprisingly narrow gap between Catholicism and Wicca for many years, finding common threads wovens together throughout history. They're a textile artist and an associate of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Today our guest is Dr. Mark Chapin, Principal at Meyer Middle School. We talk to Dr. Chapin about how his district takes a purposeful approach to character development—from monthly character kickoff presentations to unifying yearly themes. He explains how each trait is clearly defined and modeled across all grade levels, K–12, and how community input plays a key role in shaping the work. Hear how this district-wide effort brings consistency, clarity, and connection to their character education approach. Learn More About CharacterStrong:  Access FREE MTSS Curriculum Samples Request a Quote Today! Visit the CharacterStrong Website   Mark Chapin is the principal of Meyer Middle School in River Falls, Wisconsin serving approximately 750 students in grades 6 - 8. Meyer Middle School was recognized as a National School of Character in 2016 and again in 2024.  Mark has served as a building administrator in the School District of River Falls for 16 years.   Prior to coming to River Falls, Mark taught for 12 years in the Ellsworth Community School District as a high school special education teacher and an 8th grade US History teacher. While in Ellsworth he also coached cross-country, track, tennis and basketball.  In 2008 Mark was recognized as the Teacher of the Year in the Ellsworth Community School District. In 2019 Mark earned his doctorate degree from Bethel University.  His dissertation focused on character education, leadership and the change process. Mark currently serves as a character education coach through Alverno College and on the Wisconsin Character Education Partnership Advisory Committee.   Mark works closely with the American Legion Post 121 in River Falls serving on their Veterans Memorial Committee. In 2014 he received the Post 121 Community Service Award. Finally, in 2023 Mark was the recipient of the Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Leadership award. His wife Cary proudly served in the Minnesota Air National Guard as a C-130 pilot and retired in 2011 after five deployments and 20 years of service. Mark and his wife Cary have four children together: Matthew, Christopher Erik and Emma. In his spare time Mark enjoys spending time with my family, fly fishing, and mountain biking.

Meet Erica CaseErica Case is currently the Head of Human Resources at LiveWire Group, LLC. Ms. Case joined LiveWire from Harley-Davidson where she was most recently Director Human Resources, Global Manufacturing and Product Development. Prior to that Ms. Case held multiple Human Resources roles in her 16 years at Harley-Davidson. Prior to joining Harley-Davidson, Ms. Case held various positions at Kraft Foods, AT&T (formerly SBC), and owned and operated The Alchemist Theatre. Ms. Case also serves on the Board of Director for Milwaukee Area Technical College and the Manufacturing Skills Standards Council. Ms. Case holds an MBA and BA from Alverno College.Connect with Erica!LinkedInFacebookInstagramLinksThe professional woman's pocket decoderHighlights00:00 Introduction and Daily Question02:04 Meet Erica Case: HR Leader and Former Theater Owner03:28 Erica's Journey from Pre-Med to HR05:38 The Importance of Real-World Experience in Education10:06 Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace15:48 The Value of Skilled Trades and Apprenticeships22:41 You Complete the Sentence: Fun Facts and Insights26:58 Conclusion and Contact InformationConnect with the Broads!Connect with Lori on LinkedIn and visit www.keystoneclick.com for your strategic digital marketing needs! Connect with Kris on LinkedIn and visit www.genalpha.com for OEM and aftermarket digital solutions!Connect with Erin on LinkedIn!

Join NAFI: www.nafinet.org Podcast listeners can get a $10 discount to NAFI memberships by using Discount Code: POD49 This episode is sponsored by: Avemco Insurance Company Learn more about the NAFI CFI Insurance Plan ------------------------------------------------------------------- In this enlightening conversation, we talk to Gita Brown, a soloed pilot, classical musician, and yoga instructor, about the unique connections between aviation, music, and the art of yoga. Get ready to explore the correlations and discover valuable tips CFIs can incorporate into their flight training programs. Gita Brown is a writer, musician, pilot, and yoga educator from Massachusetts.  head-shot-serious-34.jpg Gita's writing has been featured in the Boston Globe, Integral Yoga Magazine, The Fix, and many other publications. She is an Integral Yoga Advanced Yoga teacher, and a licensed practitioner in Yoga for the Special Child®. For two decades she has been dedicated to making yoga accessible to people of all ages and abilities. In addition, she is a teaching artist and provides clarinet lessons to clarinetists of all ages. Mrs. Brown has degrees in music performance from the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan. In addition, she has a degree from Alverno College in music therapy. Mrs. Brown is also a certified Integral Yoga instructor-500 hours, and a  Licensed Practitioner in Yoga for the Special Child®.

I love the opportunity to have had Dr. Christin Roberson as a guest on Unstoppable Mindset. Christin, like others who we all have met, was born into a military family and spent much of her youth traveling from one place to another. Christin loved the travels and the experiences. Her youth gave her a broad view of people which helped her later as she began a career in higher education. More important, as she will tell us, she learned over the past seven years, that she had strengths that not only served her well in her original career, but that also caused her to “pivot” into a coaching and entrepreneurial business. Today she uses her strengths to help others who are considering a career change. She also uses her skills and knowledge to help her clients learn about and better utilize their own strengths. Often, as she will describe, people may not even recognize their individual strengths and gifts, but once they do and embrace them these people really can move on and advance. Christin is just completing a course about strengths and how you can use your gifts. We have information about the course in the notes. I hope you find this episode timely and valuable. About the Guest: Dr. Christin L. Roberson, EdD, is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach who employs her top five strengths—Relator, Learner, Achiever, Developer, and Deliberative—by developing genuine relationships with others, learning about their talents, helping them reach new levels of productivity, and teaching others how to utilize their strengths to make sound decisions in their personal and professional pursuits. She recently pivoted from a 15+ years career in higher education into recruiting in the tech industry and now provides full-time career services. Her educational background includes a Doctorate in Higher Education Leadership from Azusa Pacific University, a Master's in Education in Educational Organization and Leadership with a concentration in Higher Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Alverno College.  Dr. Roberson has also been featured as a guest on Gallup's podcast, Called to Coach, presented at the 2017 CliftonStrengths Summit, and completed Strengths Certification Training in Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University. Ways to connect with Rob: The Career Doc Website,  Instagram,  LinkedIn,  Facebook About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Transcription Notes **Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.  **Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, hi, welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset where inclusion diversity in the unexpected meet. I love that unexpected part. It makes it so much fun. Then today, we get to chat with Christin Roberson. She is a certified Gallup strengths coach, we're going to learn about that. She's spent a lot of time in higher education. And now we'll she'll tell you what she does now as we get to it. And obviously is had what I would say is a fascinating life, and a life we're talking about, which is how we got her to come on unstoppable mindset. So, Kristen, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're glad you're here. **Christin Roberson ** 01:58 Thank you for having me. I'm happy to be here. **Michael Hingson ** 02:01 Well, why don't we start? It's always fun to why don't you tell us a little about kind of the early Christin, you know, where, where you came from growing up, and any of those good kinds of things that you think would be relevant for us to know? **Christin Roberson ** 02:16 Well, I was born on November 8, no, I won't go that far. **Michael Hingson ** 02:20 And you had to walk 12 miles when you were 12 years old, just to return three cents to someone. Right? Yeah. Yeah, that was me. That was me. Yeah. It wasn't like and it was you? Yeah. **Christin Roberson ** 02:32 I think probably the best way to start is that I'm an Army brat. So life was very different. And of growing up. My dad was in the army for 2020 plus years or so. And so my whole life was basically moving every three years. And so change was constant. Change was constant, friends were always new. So I learned how to be pretty resilient and adjust fairly quickly. At an early age, it got harder as I got older, but early Christin moved a lot. And so I think it probably characterizes why I moved so much when I was younger, because I enjoyed it. I think a lot of my earlier experiences too, were around education, I always wanted to be in the field of education wanted to be a teacher initially. And then a counselor and I started working in higher education and got the bug and started working in housing and thought it would be a good idea to live and work with college students. Which is can be good and bad. But it was a wonderful experience that really taught me a lot about building community, you know, handling a lot of tough decisions and problem solving and really helping others grow because college students are, you know, very much in a developmental phase in their life, and to be kind of a part of them figuring themselves out through the good and the bad, was something that I feel like I really enjoyed. And I think kind of followed me on to my further career is to always be in some type of helping profession, where I'm helping other people kind of figure things out, and kind of shaped what they want their life to be. So I hope that answers your question. **Michael Hingson ** 04:13 My wife was a teacher for 10 years, she loved elementary school. And she said she really loved third grade, because the kids in third grade were still really developing attitudes and so on. And she said, by the time they got to even sixth and seventh grade, much less than high school, it was harder to teach them and to really have an influence on their lives. Yet at the same time, I hear a number of people say exactly what you said about college that and I think we all of us who've been to college would would mostly agree that even when you go to college, you're you're still really looking for yourself. So how does that correlate with like what my wife felt about third graders? **Christin Roberson ** 04:50 Yeah, well, there's from our own kind of study from higher ed like there's these different phases. And so I think there's different phases in life up to development. And you know, thinking about your wife, a lot of that development is not just kind of figuring out who you are figuring out how to walk, how to do very basic foundational things to learn as just being a person, but I think when you get to college, they formed a lot of that already. So it's kind of helping them figure out, or at least in my experience, a lot of what's right and what's wrong. And how to exist in a world where there are a lot of temptations and making the best decisions for yourself. So it's kind of some of those more moral, maybe foundational pieces that you kind of get to, you help them shape, maybe some other, you know, foundational things, too, if that's something that they didn't get growing up, which was the case with a lot of students, depending on how they grew up. But a lot of times, a lot of the morality issue will just like, Okay, why did why did you think it was a good idea to do that much drinking, and I found you on the grass outside of my building passed out? Let's talk about making good decisions. So it helped with a lot of a lot of that. Those are a lot of the conversation. **Michael Hingson ** 06:04 Did anybody ever say to you, though, well, you know, I feel sorry for people who don't drink because then they get up in the morning. That's as good as they're gonna feel for the rest of the day. I listen to too much Dean Martin, what can I tell? **Christin Roberson ** 06:18 Two great lines ever said that before I've gotten cussed out before by students who weren't drunk, but nobody ever said that before. **Michael Hingson ** 06:25 I was at the University of California, Irvine, and I think it was in my senior year I was living on campus apartment, because I kind of outgrew living in a dorm. by that. I mean, I had too many Braille books wouldn't all fit in a dorm room. So they let me live in a campus apartment. I had two roommates, who actually moved with me from my dorm. And one of them decided one night to drink. He hadn't done it before. We had those 12 or 16 ounce wienerschnitzel glasses, Coke glasses, and he started drinking screwdrivers. And the first one was maybe about a quarter to a third full of vodka and the rest was orange juice. Then the next one was half vodka. And the next was basically all vodka by five in the morning. He was ill horrible, convinced me never to want to get drunk and I never have I don't never had a desire to do that. So no, yeah, I I have had a couple of times that I did drink something that someone gave me and said it's very strong. Drink it slow. I did over about an hour and I still had a little bit of a lightheadedness and I said if that's the way drinkin starts, forget it. So I wasn't imperative to the point where I couldn't move around and walk and all that but I understand what what alcohol can do. And I saw it with with my roommate and what happened to him. He was bad for a while he was just not not doing well in the bathroom. It was one of those horrible things. **Christin Roberson ** 08:10 There was some caution tape over that door. **Michael Hingson ** 08:12 Well, it was all about. Yeah. And you could hear you know, and we were all helping him. We supported him. But he was just doing a lot of throwing up to get it all out of his system. But it's no fun. Not at all. Drink it up. 1216 ounce glass of pure vodka. Yeah. So that's bound to happen. Yeah, it's bound to happen. But I hear what you're saying. I think there's a there's a it's like anything College offers so many opportunities to learn, and as also a matter of being open enough to take advantage of them and really learn too, isn't it? **Christin Roberson ** 08:50 Absolutely. **Michael Hingson ** 08:52 So people just can grow. I really enjoyed college life. I enjoyed dorm life. And then when we moved to the apartment, which we as I say we had to do, because I needed the space for Braille books. Getting a master's in physics, Braille takes up a lot of space and physics. But nevertheless, it was it was fun and still participated in campus activity. So it was very enjoyable. So you what was your Bachelor's in **Christin Roberson ** 09:21 my bachelor's in psychology? The plan was to be a clinical psychologist, mainly working with with young people. And then that went away. When I started working in higher ed, I realized I enjoy working with college students and still got to use that psychology degree every single **Michael Hingson ** 09:39 day. So what were you doing? What was your job in higher ed when you started? How long ago was that, by the way? **Christin Roberson ** 09:45 Um, well, I probably have about 15 years of experience working in higher education. It started in housing. So in the dormitories most people will call it so it was basically running a bit building building manager of sorts. And so anything that was happening, you know, with the building of like, anywhere from two to 400 students packed in the building. I would oversee, you know, the resident, you know, the RAS and supervise them and plant programs and all that. And then most recently, it was working in what did I do? First year programs. So a lot of it was around programs and work that we were doing with incoming freshmen. So I oversaw a course the introductory course that every freshman basically had to take, and kind of the design of it hiring, you know, of staff and managing it. So yeah, it was a lot of work. But it was, it was very enjoyable to kind of see the results and the fruit of your labor to see students growing and kind of learning from it. **Michael Hingson ** 10:51 I started as a freshman at UC Irvine in the fall of 1968. I sure wonder, and I'm sure that there is a lot that's changed. But I just wonder how it's all changed and how the student programs go. I've had the pleasure of being invited to speak at various colleges, including it some freshman orientation programs over the past several years and see a lot of the difference. But it's, it certainly has to have changed a lot in well for me now. 55 years. **Christin Roberson ** 11:21 Oh, gosh, it's very different. It's so different. **Michael Hingson ** 11:27 But but it's important to keep up with that. **Christin Roberson ** 11:30 It is and but some of it is just scary, because there's so much to keep up with. But yeah, me and a friend of mine, we always kind of talk about, you know, some of those things where we're like, did we have to deal with this when we were younger, you know, with some of the online bullying and having to keep up with social social media so big and we're like, we didn't have that. I didn't have a cell phone in high school. I didn't get one till I was maybe like, I don't know, a sophomore in college. So Right. My life did not revolve around social media or technology. It was like, Okay, here's my phone book that has the numbers, and it's a call people. But it's so so different now. And everything is so out there and live, you know everything kind of instantly. And it's just like, that is a lot. **Michael Hingson ** 12:16 Yeah, I'm not totally sure. It's all a good thing to have such interesting gratification and have such ready communications, especially when a lot of times, factually changes by the time the real truth comes out. I mean, I've watched the news and I see a news headline about one thing or another. And within a day or two, it changes because it really wasn't quite the way it was originally reported. And nobody does anything to regulate that or, or at least do some fact checking before they put the news out. And I don't mean that in a negative political way. I just mean in a, in a factual way about everything that comes out. Oh, **Christin Roberson ** 12:52 my goodness, I completely agree. It's like, can we wait until we get all the information? Before we say that this is what happened? Or what they did? Yeah. You know, **Michael Hingson ** 13:02 you hear about a plane crash, and you hear some things and oh, well, it changes in a day or so well, updated information. Well, you didn't really have information before you had what, what were rumors or what one person said. And we're teaching ourselves that we got to have this information all the time, and that we don't really look at getting accurate information, necessarily. It's more important just to have something and that's crazy. **Christin Roberson ** 13:30 Yeah, it's the breaking news, like CNN effect was breaking news. Something happened, we're not sure what it is. But we're gonna keep saying that for the next hour, or **Michael Hingson ** 13:38 two or three. Right? And, and I remember, well, one example that comes to mind is I was here in July of 2019. And I was about to go to the convention of the National Federation of the Blind, I was gonna go over on a Friday. And the day before, on Thursday, we had an earthquake, and it was a pretty substantive earthquake, it was six point something which, and it was on a fault that really we hadn't had much stuff on before. The epicenter was about 100 miles north and east of us. But the media came on and started talking about it. And every five minutes, they say the same old thing over and over again, rather than you said it, don't keep focusing on this because you're not adding any value. Until you get more information. Of course, then they eventually did. Dr. Lucy Jones at Cal Tech came on and started discussing more about it and that's great, but for an hour or more, they just had all of the same old stuff time and time again, it's just crazy. No, **Christin Roberson ** 14:49 a lot of times like they're, you know, forecast and like I feel like because I lived in California for a time and so, you know, we get an earthquake and then that would be the discussion of the big one. That's kind of the norm Ridge, it's coming in, here's what it could look like. And it's like this doomsday prophecy. And it's just like, Okay, this happens all the time in California. We know something's coming. But do you have to talk about it now? And we're still trying to recover from one? Yeah. **Michael Hingson ** 15:15 Yeah. And the big one. Yeah, that's, well, if it comes, it comes. But you know, so So just go ahead and continue to scare people. Right? Yeah. It makes for an interesting world. But for college students, that is the world that they live in now. And it I, I've got to believe, especially even more than college kids being a little kid, it's gotta be tough, because there's so much stuff that's being thrown at you all the time. And probably a lot of parents don't know how to really filter that or deal with it. Yeah, **Christin Roberson ** 15:50 I cannot imagine being a parent. You know, right. Now, I know, it wasn't easy, you know, necessarily for anybody's parents growing up, because things were changing and growing all the time. But things move at a super fast pace now of learning and having to figure things out. And just as a parent trying to be aware of like, okay, what are these words mean? Or if I see this, what does this mean? Oh, that's a code for this. Okay. That's the code for dress. Oh, oh, my gosh, it's so overwhelming. **Michael Hingson ** 16:22 Yeah. And, and it's just thrown at you all the time, because we have such instant communications or instant gratification about communications. And I don't mind instant communications. But again, gee, let's make sure we have it right a little bit part of the at least part of the time. **Christin Roberson ** 16:43 And I think a lot of young people like, you know, especially in college is kind of this invincibility, like they haven't yet grappled with the fact that you know, something can happen to you, you're not invincible, because you're young. And a lot of them make really poor decisions and kind of put it out there for everybody to see. And don't remember when you put it out there, it's there forever. So I ended up talking to those students from a career perspective to say you might want to do a little research on the internet of what pops up when you type in your name, because that party that you went to, and 97 is still out there, and an employer can see that. So those are always fun conversations. **Michael Hingson ** 17:22 Well, and we see it even with with politicians who get bombed by something that happened 20 and 25 years ago, and they're being held responsible, just like it happened yesterday. And it's that really relevant. We have interesting standards we live by, don't we? **Christin Roberson ** 17:40 Oh, my goodness, yeah, that happened 20 years ago, they were a completely different person. **Michael Hingson ** 17:45 Yeah. And it's crazy that, that you still have to, but you're right, it's there. And you have to deal with it at some point and, and address it, because everything goes out on the web today. And a lot of things are dredged up, just because there were somewhere and so somebody digitized it, and it's out there on the web again. **Christin Roberson ** 18:07 Just like, you know, entertainment, it can blow up into something else, I could have made a statement that, you know, I don't eat burgers anymore, I'm trying to look into my oh my gosh, she hates animals. She thinks like, she's this and this and that. And it's like, that's not what I said, I just said, I made the personal decision not to eat meat, you know, beef or something. And they can blow it up into something where it's like, that's, that's not at all what I was trying to communicate. When **Michael Hingson ** 18:31 I worked at Guide Dogs for the Blind. One day, I went in and delivered a speech. And I was describing what a guide dog does, as opposed to what a person does. And I've said that a guide dog doesn't guide doesn't lead the guide. Their job is to make sure that we walk safely. And my job is to give commands and say where we want to go. And I said another way you could look at it is that I'm the brains of the outfit, not the dog and someone called Guide Dogs for the Blind the next day. And they said they heard about this speech that Mike Hanson gave, and he said that dogs don't have brains. Oh, my goodness. Which is not what I said at all, **Christin Roberson ** 19:12 at all. But you know, they wanted to they **Michael Hingson ** 19:16 heard what they wanted to hear, which is unfortunate. How do students react when you have those conversations with them about Be careful about what you put out there and stuff? **Christin Roberson ** 19:26 You know, some of them will kind of just give the lip service, you know, yeah, kind of know what you mean. And then it's not until they they're in my office for like the second or third time which just happened. And we're like, okay, I remember when I told you you've done this a couple of times. how's this working out with you hanging out with this group of people because you're trying to be, you know, popular, but you are. You're pre med. How do you think that's really going to work out for you? When they you know, look at your record, your grades are poor because you've done these other you have to kind of give them like the big picture from the small steaming Really minut detail to them. The consequences of that can be far, you know, long lasting than you just being in my office and me giving you, you know, a task to do or whatever or you being on probation. So I think that there comes like, some surprised, but also, there's still a lot of times the invincibility piece like, Oh, it'll be fine. Nobody cares about that. So they don't really get it until it happens. It happens. Yeah, unfortunately. **Michael Hingson ** 20:29 Yeah. It's like, so many things, people fear, the whole concept of blindness, partly because we emphasize eyesight so much. But there's also that thing in the back of their mind, this could happen to me what a horrible thing that would be rather than recognizing is just another way of learning to use the gifts that you have eyesight is not the only game in town. But that's not what people want to hear and what they want to believe. So it also makes for a great challenge. **Christin Roberson ** 21:00 Whoo. Yeah, there's definitely a focus on a very specific kind of person or lifestyle. And anything outside of that. It's just like, oh, my gosh, life must be so hard for you. And I'm like, it's probably hard for you to. **Michael Hingson ** 21:15 Yeah, we all have. We all have things that we deal with. And people today say, well, you're differently abled. And I say how? Well you're blind. How does that make me differently abled, the ability is the same. It's the tools that I may use to get there. But you know, I feel sorry for you. Because you have to turn the lights on tonight, you're screwing up the whole carbon footprint by having to run all this electricity, I don't need to do that. **Christin Roberson ** 21:40 I never thought of it in that way. **Michael Hingson ** 21:43 Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb is a reasonable accommodation for light dependent people who can't function in the dark. Which is another way of saying you have a disability too. It's just that technology has mostly covered it up. But seriously, it doesn't change the fact that it's there. It's true. **Christin Roberson ** 22:00 I could not agree more. **Michael Hingson ** 22:02 So well. So you at some point decided to move away from doing higher education college stuff, and you had been doing it 15 years? What? What caused you to go off and go in a different direction? **Christin Roberson ** 22:15 Yeah, well, I think, one, I really had no desire to move up in the field, because I had seen what kind of the C suite looked like, at several different institutions. And a lot of times they have far less contact with students. And I really liked working one on one. But I always chose positions that were student facing where I was planning programs, or supervising them or doing something that was very much focused on the student experience. And I realized, like, okay, we can stay in this kind of, you know, assistant director or coordinator position, forever, or we can decide that maybe we want to try and do something else. I think, you know, higher ed is also very slow to change. And a lot of ways and I think that's why so many have closed and not even just because of COVID was because I think higher education thinks it's invincible to everybody's always going to go to college. And it's like, no, the price tag gets higher and higher every year, people are finding something different to do that is more economical, and advantageous to them than spending four years where you can learn that maybe in like 18 months and an online program and be out working. And so I think that's been a reckoning for higher ed. And so knowing that information, in addition to just a lot of the toxicity that I experienced, made it made it that I'm like, Okay, let's, let's look at something else. Let's look at our strengths. Let's look at what we actually enjoy about this work and how it applies to other industries. And so I took a look at it, and started just looking for jobs. And I'm like, what jobs are interesting to me, that aren't higher at focus. And that's where I kind of started seeing the pattern around things like, you know, human resources, or, you know, people management and things of that nature, which I had done before a long time ago. But I think it was really assessing the current situation, whether it aligned with my values and what I want it and I discovered that it wasn't and it was time to do something different. **Michael Hingson ** 24:24 So what did you end up pivoting to? As you would put it, and how long ago was that? Yeah, **Christin Roberson ** 24:32 so it actually wasn't long ago. And it felt like a very quick pivot. So I learned that sometimes you have to So I left my institution, I ended up taking a contract job, which was not the plan to not have health insurance immediately. But the pay was good enough that I could afford you know my own. So I ended up taking a position in the tech industry where Working in recruiting for a program that oversaw apprenticeships, for the organization, and then some kind of early career programming so long ago. Oh, gosh, that was maybe just like, a year or two ago. Oh, gosh. So **Michael Hingson ** 25:15 coming out of COVID. **Christin Roberson ** 25:17 Yeah, coming out of COVID. And so I worked remotely, you know, it was based in, you know, the Bay Area. And so every now and then I got to travel, you know, and the tech, the tech sector, which a lot of my friends also pivoted into, and they were kind of the inspiration before me, I saw them pivoting into that area, and they were, you know, making way more money than any of us could have ever dreamed and education. The place that I worked at had like, unlimited vacation, and it was just like, how does that work? Do you never have to work? Like, do you? I'm taking off six months, and I'll be back, you know, in the fall. But it became this really interesting concept that there was more out there. And so sadly, I was a contract for six months. And then they converted me to full time. And then I want to say the day after my birthday, I got laid off. It was a quick process. It was like makes a lot of sense. And so well. But I think again, like nobody saw what was coming, or was maybe not as prepared as they thought they were for, you know what happened economically. And even a company like mine that had never done layoffs, had to deal with kind of that harsh reality. And I knew it was coming, you know, I was one of the you know, let you know, a newer hire and sounds like I get it. I'm low on the totem pole. But the day after my birthday. **Michael Hingson ** 26:45 Yes, a little rude. Yeah, I **Christin Roberson ** 26:47 was on vacation at the time. It was, it was difficult. It was a rough vacation. **Michael Hingson ** 26:54 Yeah, I, I've been there and and had similar kinds of situations not right after my birthday. But I've been in situations where I was working for a company, actually in 2019. And I was going to go deliver a speech in Northern California, and then we were going to take a week off. But the morning that I was to travel, I was notified that well, we've spent too much money, we have to lay some people off, and you're one of them. Well, thanks, wow, which ended the vacation idea, but we still went up into the speech because I had made that commitment and it brought in some money. But still, it is it is never fun. So if your plans change, and sometimes you just don't have control over those changes happening. **Christin Roberson ** 27:48 It's unfortunate, like you have to have a plan B through Z is especially in this day and age where it's like really, and truly anything can happen. I've, I've worked with a couple clients now where they're on like their third layoff. And it's just like, wow, and you just kind of keep going out there. Because you don't, you don't know you have to work you have to provide for your family, you know, you have a specialization in that area. And you just have to kind of keep going out and trying. But I think that it's it's, it's heavy, it's heavy to kind of deal with that. And you start to, you know, maybe doubt your abilities and your strengths in that. And so a lot of my work with with folks has been kind of encouraging and affirming them in their abilities that you've been laid off has nothing to do with you as a person or your skill set. This is a business decision. **Michael Hingson ** 28:39 Which may or may not be right, but still it is true. **Christin Roberson ** 28:41 Right? But reframing it I think sometimes kind of helps and kind of helping them focus on okay, but you still have this set of skills. You know, Liam Neeson style have a specific set of skills to do a certain thing. And kind of helping them, you know, point that in the right direction. **Michael Hingson ** 29:01 So, it happened to you and then what did you do? **Christin Roberson ** 29:05 Yeah, so I had already had like, a lot of travel plans. So I ended up doing a lot of traveling probably because it was also basically December, so it was holidays, too. So I was traveling, so I decided I'm gonna keep my travel, I'm gonna still go ahead and have fun and enjoy it. And then we'll come back to the reality when the holidays are over. And so I started again, kind of looking at jobs and seeing like, what is interesting to me, do I want to go back into higher education because that is where, you know, my skill set is predominant, or do we want to give this a go and it's something else? Now while I was working the job in tech, I was getting a lot of people reaching out to me that worked in higher education. And they were like, Well, how did you do that? How did you pivot? And so I started having conversations with people people started asking for help with their resumes. And, you know, okay, how do you what's the interview process? Like? How do you negotiate? And so I started having these conversations, it started kind of a very beta test of a coaching of a coaching job. And so I didn't charge anything at the time, I just asked people to give me a LinkedIn recommendation, if they, you know, were happy with my work. And so after the layoff, I, you know, I had an interview somewhere, it didn't, you know, turn out the way that I hoped, and I decided, okay, all roads seem to point towards this career coaching, because that is what I'm getting the most attention for. And it's something that I actually really enjoyed. So I just started fine tuning what that looked like, and okay, I need a website, I need this and this and that. And started kind of formulating, what would be, you know, the career doc? **Michael Hingson ** 30:54 So you started your own business? **Christin Roberson ** 30:57 I did. I did. Great. Are you? **Michael Hingson ** 31:00 And are you having fun? Sunday's **Christin Roberson ** 31:06 you know, overwhelmingly, it's what's fun is I absolutely love the work of coach, I love coaching. What is not so fun is a lot of the logistics around it, it's very expensive. And a lot of the advice they say and you know, in the beginning is to spend as little amount, you know, money, but the more you do spend, the better. Things kind of get, and the more attractive people might be to your to your product. And there were just some things I couldn't handle. So I think that's the part that kind of gets this isn't fun to have to, you know, buy another thing or this rate is going up. But I'd love, love, love just the one on one nature of helping people kind of figuring out what to do next, or what to do different. **Michael Hingson ** 31:49 Do you get support? Do you get people to help you with some of the logistical things and things that you don't really like to do? So do you have any kind of staffer help to do any of that? **Christin Roberson ** 32:00 I do. Probably like in the last month or two? Yeah. Someone I actually knew from my higher ed days had a side business of basically doing administrative work. And so I reached out to her, and we kind of did a trial run of sorts. And so she handles all the admin stuff, kind of going through my overflowing inbox and making sure you know, people get rescheduled. And then I ended up hiring somebody to do marketing, because marketing is everything. And I just did not have time or capacity or really allowed the expertise to do the things that she can do. So, and then also, I'm going to be launching a course soon on Route Career Discovery. And I hired a course designer to help with that. And so because I realized, like, I can't do this on my own. Because one, it's overwhelming, but there's also people who have strengths in these areas that I don't have, and I think I need their help. **Michael Hingson ** 33:00 Well, as you go toward doing your course and so on, I, I would assume you've had enough time at doing this, that you realize that it's okay to charge not overly so but to charge and charge a decent fee for what you do because you're worth it. Yeah, it's, **Christin Roberson ** 33:19 it's difficult. But you do have to do it. A lot **Michael Hingson ** 33:24 of people will say, well, but how do I know people will pay $1,000 for a course or something like that, or for whatever it is that I'm doing. And the reality is we mostly underrate our gifts, our abilities, and our worth. And sometimes you've got to start by not charging or not charging much to get people to to come. But if they really want to continue with you, then you've got to make it really clear and get them to acknowledge you're worth it. Yeah, **Christin Roberson ** 33:58 I think the difficult thing about that is like a lot of my population are folks that have maybe worked in education. And as someone who's worked in education, I know how much we don't make. Right. Right. That becomes a struggle of like, I don't want to price out, you know, my prime audience. **Michael Hingson ** 34:16 But you know what to do in that situation, though? And yeah, that's the point. Yeah. **Christin Roberson ** 34:21 So you know, you work through some of that stuff. And then you have different price points for different things and kind of go forth. But I think I'm just now getting into that space of just like, Okay, we've been doing this for a while, you know, we we've made a profit, we've had to hire some people. It might be time to kind of raise our prices, like everybody says, to do that every kind of expert. Yeah, you're like, Oh, you're charging way lower. And I'm like, I don't want people to not be able to do this. But **Michael Hingson ** 34:50 the other side. The other side of that, though, is that if they really want to do this, and I know you don't want to price yourself out of the market, but if they really want Do it, they will find ways to come up with funds to to make it happen. And you may have to adjust exactly how you charge like, maybe you don't do it all at once you charged for payment schedule or something. I mean, who knows, but people can always find ways to do things, if they really value what it is that they want to do. **Christin Roberson ** 35:21 Yeah. And that, honestly, what you just said is exactly what I did. I started looking into kind of those, you know, you know, what is it pay per service, or, you know, PayPal has a program paying for, you know, installments, and so I started looking at installment payments. And that helped quite a bit where you don't have to pay it all at once. Like, I'll get it all at once. But then you're paying it slower. And that was something that helped. And that took research and just kind of is that something I could do? Yeah, I could do that. And it still allows me to charge you know, what I think is, you know, necessary and values need but also allows them to have a little bit more flexibility with how long it takes them to pay for something. **Michael Hingson ** 36:06 There's a course I needed to take a few years ago, and they wanted a bunch of money upfront. And I said, I really value the course I want to do it. I know what I'll get out of it. But I can't pay you all that money, can we work out a schedule, and God bless them they did. And what Normally people would pay in one lump sum of I don't even remember what the total was, but it was significant. They let me pay it over two years. Oh, wow. But we had a we had a schedule, we had it set up so that the money automatically came out. So they were confident in it, and it worked out. So there are a lot of ways to do it. If people want to make something happen, they can. And when you're willing to really help make it happen, then so much the better, because then you establish a more meaningful relationship. Yeah, **Christin Roberson ** 36:52 I think that's true. Because at the heart of the matter, I just, I really have a passion for kind of helping people, you know, especially in their career, because of what I, you know, experience through a lot of hard lessons to learn about, you know, not only just valuing myself, but also just kind of recognizing that there is more out there, you don't have to be, you know, chained to a desk and always working, you know, at night pass work on the weekends. That's not really live in life. And some people love that. But it wasn't for me, and it was something worse, like I can do something different. And I want to help other people do the same to work at home. **Michael Hingson ** 37:29 And I like my weekends. But also there are some things that I maybe didn't get done during the weekend, I'll do them on the weekends. But I can also spread things out and do them when I want. There's a lot of fun, I'm used to doing a lot of work at home, not necessarily going into an office, although I also value, the time when I can go into an office, but still working at home is a lot of fun. And you can schedule your times now, my life changed because my wife of 40 years passed away this last November. So now I can be up at 530 in the morning without worrying about waking her up. Which is a good thing. And as I tell people though, she's she's monitoring me if I misbehave, I'm going to hear about it. So but but she doesn't have to worry about waking up at 530 in the morning. She's going to monitor all the time anyway. So I can do that. But at the same time if I decide I want to go to bed at eight or 830 I can do that too. **Christin Roberson ** 38:25 Yeah, yeah, I definitely caught the stay at home. But during the pandemic, I was Yeah, working in education, and they sent us you know, home or whatever. And I was like, I think I actually thrive a little bit better being at home. I'm an introvert also. So I don't necessarily always need the the interaction and I could get it you know, if I wanted to, you know, through different chats or meet offline. But overwhelmingly I was like, I think I function better being at home. And just being able to do what I need to it was a part of what I needed to thrive. Some people Oh, you're so lazy. You don't want to go into the office? And I'm like, No, actually, it's just a preference. I didn't know it was the option we ever had. And now that we do, I don't want to let it go. **Michael Hingson ** 39:13 And the reality is the pandemic has taught us that there's a lot of value in people being able to work in a hybrid environment and spending some of that time working at home. Yeah, **Christin Roberson ** 39:23 and you get to use your own toilet. I'm just saying. It's just like you can make your own lunch, you can take a nap if you want to, like you can do things that actually make work not feel quite as daunting by kind of like, okay, I'm going to shape what my day looks like. Yeah. **Michael Hingson ** 39:44 And, and it works. And I think a lot of companies are starting to recognize that which hopefully will lead to a little bit more common sense in terms of who work environment will tell me about this whole concept of being a Gallup certified string. Just coach, I've never heard of somebody who was certified by Gallup. Yeah. So **Christin Roberson ** 40:06 they probably found is that I was working in higher education, because that's where, you know, a lot of the Clifton Strengths Assessment is administered is in higher education with students. And I had taken, you know, the assessment, you know, maybe one or two times. And then in one particular job, I worked at an online university that was connected to a larger university that was strengths based. And I was like, what is that? What does that mean? And so I ended up taking the assessment again, and then I got coaching from someone who was certified. And I was like, Oh, wow, this, this makes quite a difference. And there's like 5 million different assessments, you know, what color is your balloon? Right foot left foot, you know, you know, that tells you about what you do best. But this one gave language to the things that I did well, and how I approached kind of situations and problems. And so it made more sense to me. So I started looking into, like, how can I get more training on this. And so they had, at the larger institution I was connected to, you know, they had a training that was more focused on higher education, students success, so I took that. But I really wanted to get a larger Foundation. And so I ended up going to the very first Clifton Strengths summit that they had, I couldn't even tell you what year maybe 2016 or so. And it was there that they started talking about the certification piece. And here's what you get out of it, this is what it is. And I decided, like, I think I want to do this, because this is something I feel like I would integrate into every job that I had. And I really believe in this. So I spent the money, I definitely use student loan money, because I was still in school at the time. And I went to Omaha, Nebraska for a week and did an intense start of our strengths kind of training process, because you take the classes, and then you have to get a number of people to I guess, recommend you or give you a rating on your coaching. And then you take an exam, and then that's when you kind of find out whether you're you're going to be certified or not. So it's a lengthy process, but it was well worth it. **Michael Hingson ** 42:23 And it's it's run by or ultimately Gallup is involved. **Christin Roberson ** 42:27 Yes, yeah. Yeah. So when you're certified, you're certified through Gallup. **Michael Hingson ** 42:33 So you can start going off and doing polls now. Well, so and you are certified as a strength coach, what does that mean? Yeah. **Christin Roberson ** 42:45 So what it means is that there's a level of expertise that I have, and being able to talk about strengths and help other people kind of develop, and train. So a lot of my early work was around, kind of working with teams, and helping teams to kind of work better together. And to kind of discuss, like, you know, you work better together as a team, because everybody has different strengths. And here's the best practices on how you can kind of work together better, because some folks are butting heads, or there's something called kind of the shadow side of strengths. It sounds very ominous. But essentially, it's kind of the the side of your strength where you're not maybe using it correctly, it's not matured, or it's causing problems for you. And so we talk about kind of the how you kind of manage that piece of it. So it's, it's honestly learning how to work better with people from a place of your strengths and using them in a way that benefits you and the other people that you work with. **Michael Hingson ** 43:48 So how did you determine what your strengths were? **Christin Roberson ** 43:52 Yeah, well, I took the assessment. Yeah, took the assessment. And, you know, gave me my top five, I've taken all 34, which is always interesting, because you look at the bottom of the list, naturally. But my top five ended up being a relator, learner, achiever, developer and deliberative. And so then became kind of what what does this all mean, and how does it impact my work? A lot of my work with clients now, especially in the business is around value alignment. That's the framework that I've kind of created. And I look at strengths as values. So for example relator is used is generally about kind of close relationships, folks that are relators generally haven't had people in their life that have been there forever. You've had the same friend since kindergarten. I don't because I moved around all the time. I knew who I am. But most of the people in my life had been there for a very long time. So I really value close relationships, community like that I can be connected to. So it taught me a lot about a lot about those things. And it helped me actually figure out even job wise, like, if I'm going to work somewhere, I want to work somewhere where I can actually build community, and be connected to other individuals who enjoy what they're doing. I don't want to work in like a singular space where it's me and only me. And I don't have a chance to interact with anybody, I actually want to build community. So yeah. **Michael Hingson ** 45:33 So how do you feel you use your five key strings to help support people in building their personal and professional worlds? **Christin Roberson ** 45:42 Yeah. So it also starts with that relator piece, the one on one, because that's most of the coaching that I do now is one on one versus group. And so it centers around kind of building the relationship and building that place of trust. Because a lot of times people will tell you, you know, some deeply personal things that relate to work or their personal life, because your personal life doesn't sit at the door, when you go to work, it comes with you and affects your work. And so, you know, we end up kind of talking about, you know, what is it that you, you know, why did you even want to come to coaching, why is this important to you? What do you want to get out of it? But a lot of the questions that I kind of end up asking are kind of from that learner perspective. So it's the building of the relationship through the learning about the other person. And really kind of getting to the heart of of who they are, and what they're really looking to do. Because some of them have maybe never asked been asked that question or haven't thought about it in a long time. Because, you know, I've done the same job forever, I never thought that there'd be other options. So those two work pretty pretty instinct. achiever is generally focused around productivity, that's more of a, I call it an internal strength, there's like, internal things that are more so for you versus external, that are for other people like responsibility that she was really focused on other people. So for me, it's the constant need to kind of stay busy. And to always be learning and doing new things. And feeling like I'm being productive in the help that I'm giving other people like I'm doing things that are going to help them be successful. developer is probably the biggest one because it's around potential. And so seeing the potential in people, places and things. And so that's a lot of the work, that's probably the most utilized strength, because people really don't always can always see some of the things that everybody else knows about them. And being a stranger than I generally am to a lot of people. And, you know, after a couple of conversations, you look at their resume, gather some information. And you just start saying some of these things. They're like, yeah, yeah, that is me. Yeah, I never, you know, I never thought about that. Yeah, so being able to just point out the potential that people have to do something different, or differently, I'll say, has been huge. Yeah. Well, so there's a fifth one. Oh. Last one is just deliberative. And that's generally circled around decision making. So it's a lot of pros and cons, which is a lot of what I do with clients, where the pros and cons, okay, if you stay at your job another year, if you do something as like a side role if you decide to leave, and just trying to help them make the best decision possible. **Michael Hingson ** 48:40 What are some of the common challenges and misconceptions that people have about their own strengths? **Christin Roberson ** 48:47 Yeah, one, they don't always feel like they have them. The things that they do so naturally, they never really thought of as strength. So I always use kind of the example around like math. And I'll do like our raise your hand if you really love math. And it came very easy to you, you know, in school, and you know, you know, there'll be a couple of people that I raised their hands. And then who else who struggled with math, and you never liked it, and that was me raising my hand as well. And, you know, when you talk to both groups, you kind of get a sense of, you know, oh, well, this particular I didn't think that was a strength. I just like numbers. And it's like, that's, that's a strength of yours. That's an ability to be probably analytical. One of the strengths and you maybe just never thought of it that way, but that's maybe how your brain functions. So if you are approaching, you know, a problem, you might do it from an analytical perspective versus something that's more around well, how are the people versus someone who's going to ask like, can I see, you know, the strategic plan for the company that would give me the insight that I kind of want a little bit more. And so I think a lot of People don't consider the things they do naturally strengths. I think that they, when they get their top five, they kind of feel like, Oh, well, I, I kind of stink. They're only in one leadership area. And so I had a friend and all hers were in, like the relationship development leadership domain. And she was like, well, this stinks. And I said, No, it doesn't. You, you are the heart of this team, you can always tell me what's going on with everybody. I don't always see it, because I'm rushing, and I'm doing supervisory things. And I might miss it. But she will be the one to be like, Kristin, you really need to check in with so and so because they're going through this. She was the heart and I really had to talk to her about seeing that, you know, as a strength. But also not feeling like just because you don't have one in every leadership domain doesn't mean like you're, you're not okay, or that you won't do well, it simply means that your strengths are very concentrated in one area. And it's something that you do well. So those are probably the two, I think biggest ones or challenges kind of help people see and kind of get through. Do **Michael Hingson ** 51:06 you encourage people to take time at the end of the day, or at some time during the day just stop and chill and maybe do a little bit of introspection, and so on and to think about what's going on in their lives? Because we're so much on the go all the time, as we've talked about so often already on this episode. **Christin Roberson ** 51:25 Yeah. And I think that's kind of what happens in a lot of my conversations with them is that kind of what we ended up doing, they started thinking about things that they had never really, you know, considered before, or, Oh, okay, that's, oh, it's a lot of the Oh, the AHA lightbulb moment of them figuring out that's why I do that particular thing, or that's maybe why I'm struggling with this job so much is because it's actually not aligned with my strengths and the things that I really value. And so there's a lot of those little lightbulb moments that happen, or we're just really able to make some connections between their strengths. And the areas where they are doing well in the areas where they are experiencing challenges. I generally tend to think the areas where we're experiencing challenges, it could be for a number of reasons. But a lot of times, I think it's around the fact that it may be out of sync with our strengths, which is one of the things that I did in my pivoting is I started, I looked at my strengths and kind of did a bit of an assessment. And I said, you know, how, how often do I actually get to use my strengths in my job. And it was very low. And there was maybe one that I use all the time, which was productivity, because it was about kind of getting work out very quickly. But I wasn't learning anything new. I wasn't building community, I wasn't really able to make decisions they were made for me. Yeah, and it was like, Okay, I think it's time to think about this in a different way, or to figure something else out. Because this is not in alignment with who I am or what I want. And we **Michael Hingson ** 53:01 get so much in the habit of just going one way and doing whatever it is we're doing that we don't tend to look at going about what's going on. And is this really what I want. And our brain is usually our heart is usually telling us, maybe there's an issue here. And it becomes a process of learning to listen to that. And then going back and stepping back to see what's really happening. **Christin Roberson ** 53:27 And oftentimes, as it was for me, and a lot of other people that I know, maybe didn't realize it, but it was showing up physically where I was, I had migraines way more often I was getting sick, you know a lot more often, like there were physical ailments that I was experiencing that were in response to the strength or the stress I was experiencing. And even, you know, depression, anxiety was happening. And I'm like, I don't know what's going on. And I had to take a look what's working in my life that I love. And where am I seeing like the most, you know, the more difficult difficulty in trying to manage it. And it always came back to my job. So it wasn't that I didn't like to work with the particular environment. And what I was tasked to do became more difficult by the day that it was showing up as a physical ailment. And this hadn't been the first time that I had experienced it. And I had heard it from many other people who had also left higher ed, who experienced the same thing. And they're like, I don't know if I'm going to make it another year and not have be found in my chair and had a heart attack or something, you know, because of the weight of the stress of what you're trying to do. And so I would rather people figure it out through coaching than being in the hospital. Yeah. **Michael Hingson ** 54:42 What's up being a sales guy loving stories? Do you have a story of one particular time that maybe you really had a great success that helping people understand their strengths and how they were able to use that to improve and enhance **Christin Roberson ** 54:57 Yeah, When I first started the business, I wasn't charging anything, I was just asking for LinkedIn recommendations. And there was a group of about five individuals that I was working with at the time, they all worked in higher education, they had been doing it for a long time. Some of them had chord experiences and the way that they were being treated, and being able to kind of talk them through what they were experiencing was, first, it was phenomenal, because it was an opportunity for people to connect with someone who understood the field, what they were going through, you didn't have to explain you know, acronyms, or what this thing was, I already knew. And so I love that they enjoy connecting with someone who knew. And so with one particular individual, like, we would have extensive conversations about her experiences, but also at what she was good at. And we worked together for quite a few months, along with all the other individuals. But one of the things that I always deem is success is not just that they find a job, it's like they're thriving in that job. So the conversation and the coaching became something that was like, excellent, because I could see the results of it, I could see the result of it, and it's what they wanted. And now they were living a life where there you can see them going on vacation, you see them going to a conference, and they're happy. And I check in with them, I'm like, Oh, my gosh, you look like you're having a great time works going well. And they'll they'll let me know. And so I don't always get to see that. But a lot of times I do. And so for me, those moments are always key and seeing people happy, thriving and enjoying themselves. And knowing that there were other options, because many of them were like, I'm never going to get off this field, which is how I felt I don't have any options, especially having a terminal degree, like me and so many others had where it was not my intention to leave the field with a doctorate in higher education, that's an investment you make that you're going to stay in the industry. So talking to other individuals who felt the same way with their degrees, and giving them hope, was just paramount to what I always deemed as success was the hope that you felt them staying at the end of the call I oh my gosh, Chris, I feel so much better about this. Okay, I think about this differently now. So it's hard to pinpoint specific examples. But it's more so kind of the moments of aha of happiness and seeing the end result of the coaching and how they have progressed afterwards. **Michael Hingson ** 57:39 I had always planned on going into teaching when I got a bachelor's and a master's degree. But then things changed. And what I discovered, which I think is a pretty important thing is that, although I didn't go into formal teaching, in fact, mostly what I do is teach and in fact that the training I got in the the world of science, and attitudes and philosophies are tools that I can use wherever I go in whatever I do. So I I would not regret my time in physics at all. **Christin Roberson ** 58:17 I agree, it's taken me some time to kind of get over that mostly looking at my student loan balances. Sometimes they're like, my gosh, maybe we should go back and make it work. But when I remember what that life was like, and that yes, I have this degree, but ultimately, this degree led me to be know about strengths. And to be certified and to meet, you know, other people who are interested in it and folks that I've now known forever, then yeah, it was worth it. It's tough sometimes, because there's still some moments where I think about it, but it's never that I can't go back. I'll say that. And I always remind myself, I can always be an adjunct instructor or go and do something else. This may not be forever. But it definitely is what I want to do now and for as long as I possibly can. **Michael Hingson ** 59:00 So, you know, you pivoted, you went from one kind of career in a sense to another, although I'm not sure that totally they're different, the environments different, but what you're doing to a great degree is the same. What kind of advice would you give to other people who may be thinking about or who ought to think about looking at an alternative to what they're doing today? **Christin Roberson ** 59:22 Yeah. And I'm totally not sponsored by Simon Sinek. But start with why. I, that is one of the one of like five books I recommend that people who are thinking about it is to start with why that's probably the most important book to me outside of pivot by Jenny Blake. And it's basically starting with Why do you want to do this? Why do you feel like you need to do this? And there's not any right or wrong answers. A lot of mine were Yeah, I want to be happy. I want to be fulfilled. I'd also like to buy a house someday and I can't do that. On my salary, I can't pay off the debt, you know, from student loans on this salary can't necessarily live the way that I want to. And I, I had hoped, with the investment that I made in my, you know, particular education. And so a lot of that is just asking, why not just why you want to do coaching? Or why are you thinking about changing fields? I think beyond that, it's also just like, doing doing the research into the job. You know, the thing about strengths is, a lot of people may fit like they have a strength in a particular area. But it's maybe not. And we have people in our lives that are probably working in profession where you're like, that's probably not the best route for you. You're, you're, you have strengths in other areas that this, isn't it. And so being able to kind of do the work, or kind of, you know, what I call it as the skills gap, you know, what am I missing? So doing the research, discovering what actually are my skills, not just my top five strengths that are a great foundation, a great place to start, but like, what else am I like, really good at? How do I, you know, extend this, but starting with just the reason why unpacks a lot, because a lot of in the even in my unpacking was like, Oh, my gosh, I've been terribly unhappy for the past five years, working in the field, I really haven't been able to do the work that I want to, I'm always working, I've missed things, because I'm always working. So it wasn't just, you know, I'm not using my why was yes, you know, I'm not using my strengths. But also, there were basic foundational things

Have you ever wondered how a seasoned educator navigates the challenges of teaching in today's world? Take a seat with us as we engage with Angela Love Jackson, a dedicated teacher with 29 years of experience. Angela takes us through her riveting journey, sharing her experience of teaching US history, adapting her approach to diverse student groups, and discussing her family's educational background that influenced her career. Angela doesn't just stop at sharing her personal journey, she takes us into the realities of being a black woman in education, exploring the resilience, faith, and the strength of her support system. We delve into the lives of siblings, life-altering moments, and hear from a student in the Alverno College doctoral program about their experiences. In an enlightening conversation, Angela shares about the challenges faced by at-risk African-American students in rural West Texas, emphasizing the socio-economic factors and lack of support that they often encounter.We also take a deep dive into the importance of cultural awareness in the classroom, exploring teaching strategies for African-American students. Angela spotlights the importance of recognizing children's feelings and how understanding their emotional needs can tremendously impact their educational journey. We touch on the barriers in higher education, the benefits of attending historically black colleges and universities, and the significance of understanding college insignias. This episode wraps up with a heart-to-heart chat about starting a podcast, community involvement, and finding one's purpose in life. Join us on this enlightening journey as we unpack these compelling stories and experiences.Support the show

#100 Boom! How the heck did we get to 100 so fast? Seems like we just started, and now here we are!    Well, y'all are in for a treat. For this special episode, Kurt and Pat sit down with Jean O'Toole. Jean is the Director of Marketing and Communications at Alverno College.    We get into Jean's background, focusing on how she goes about marketing a college in these tough times. If you have been keeping up with the higher education space…you know the struggle is real.    What makes Jean's story so good is her diverse background. And we get into all of it.    ✅How she begged her way into marketing.   ✅Her time at the New York Beef Council.  ✅What it's like working for the New York Beef Council.  ✅How influencers helped to bring back the beef business.   ✅How she made the switch from beef to higher ed.   ✅What it's like marketing a small, private college.  ✅What her first 90 days were like.    And a lot more…   You can reach out to Jean at  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanotooleprofile/.   And make sure you reach out to Kurt and Pat here:    ✅ Connect with Kurt at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtlingel/ ✅ Connect with Pat at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pmcgovern1/  

Step into the world of non-profit, where success is measured by the positive impact on lives and communities, not just profit margins. Today, we're joined by Brianne Kilpatrick, a seasoned non-profit professional who'll guide you through navigating this fulfilling career path. In this insightful conversation, Brianne shares her journey from the corporate world to a non-profit career driven by purpose. She'll delve into the concept of beneficiaries, the heart of the non-profit sector, and how their lives are transformed by these organizations. Learn how to identify beneficiaries and understand their unique needs, the driving force behind non-profit work. Brianne will also shed light on how everyone has benefited from a non-profit, whether directly or indirectly. For job seekers transitioning into the non-profit sector, Brianne provides invaluable tips on crafting a compelling response to the interview question: "Why this charity? Why now?" She'll also reveal the must-ask interview question to assess an organization's commitment to beneficiaries: "How does this charity include beneficiaries in organizational decision making?" Embrace self-advocacy and learn how to request follow-up conversations to gain clarity after an interview. Additionally, Brianne guides you in aligning your career aspirations with the organization's mission and intervention point, ensuring your values and goals resonate with their work. Whether you're seeking a meaningful career transition or want to enhance beneficiary engagement in your non-profit leadership role, this episode is packed with actionable advice and thought-provoking insights. Join us and discover how you can contribute to a better world through the power of non-profit work. About the guest: Brianne Kilpatrick is a dedicated Planned Giving Officer at Environmental Defense Fund. She has more than a decade of experience in direct fundraising, fundraising operations, and digital communications and she has collaborated with numerous nonprofit leaders to identify fundraising gaps and develop comprehensive strategies in support of their missions. Brianne started her career in for profit corporations, working at AB Data, LTD and interning at Time Warner Cable, before moving on to the nonprofit sector. Brianne holds a master's degree in Nonprofit Administration from North Park University and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Alverno College in Milwaukee, WI. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/askingforgood/support

Tables are turned this week and WE are in the hot seat! If you've ever wondered how we got our start with the podcast, why we decided to take the plunge and launch Cream City Dreams, and what keeps us going, listen in to this conversation with Stephanie Melnick, of Melnick & Melnick.Listen as we talk about … Who were Shelly and Meagan BEFORE Cream City Dreams? Find out a little bit about how we both landed in MilwaukeeOur mistakes, lessons we've learned from our guests, and where we could use some help in leveling up the podcastOur dreams for Cream City Dreams (and where we'd love to be in five years). Yep, we're putting these ideas out into the universe!And listen as audience members share a few of THEIR dreamsLocals and Links we love! Alverno CollegeShe Stands Tall She Shines Women's Entrepreneurship WeekYou Betcha She Did PodcastFranciscan Peacemakers Once Upon a Figgy (the little pink car!)Cream City Dreams episodes we referenced:Rooted MKE (Ashley Valentine)Lai King Moy of Tour of America's DairylandAngela McManamanTia RichardsonLionart MediaInterwovxnDasha Kelly HamiltonChase My Creations (Chloe)Cecelia Gore (Brewers Community Foundation)Stephanie MelnickMeagan Johnson (Milwaukee Diaper Mission) Show your love for Cream City DreamsAs always, we are so grateful to our listeners. If you haven't already, be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our newsletter on our website. And we'd LOVE it if you rate and review us on Apple Podcasts. And if you're feeling even more generous, Buy us a Coffee. Support the show

Join us for an extraordinary episode of The MisFitNation Show, hosted by Rich LaMonica, as we welcome a true American hero and seasoned entrepreneur, Greg Fischer. A United States Marine Corps Veteran with three combat deployments under his belt, Greg's journey from the battlefield to the BBQ pit is nothing short of inspiring.

Ingrid Gruett completed her Bachelor of Music degree from the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music, her Music Therapy Equivalency from St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, and her Master of Music Degree from Alverno College.  Ingrid is a board-certified music therapist, a Wisconsin Music Therapist-Registered and a Certified Dementia Practitioner who specializes in providing evidenced-based services and 1:1 support to persons with dementia and to their caregivers. Ingrid is the owner and director of Middleton Music Therapy Services, LLC.  Her master's thesis is a philosophical inquiry entitled, “Music Therapy Techniques for Dysregulation in Autistics Applied to Agitation with Late-Onset Alzheimer's: A Case Study" which is the topic of our discussion today.

How can we handle feedback in a way that promotes personal growth and development? Tammy Belton-Davis, founder and president of Athena Communications, shares invaluable insights on the art and science of giving and receiving feedback, as well as reminds us how feedback and criticism differ. She emphasizes the importance of delivering feedback with love and empathy because it creates a supportive environment that fosters growth and resilience.Additionally, Belton-Davis shares her personal experiences and highlights the importance of faith, positive affirmations and choosing to be better. Don't miss this episode, which is packed with tips on how to engage in open conversations with trusted advisors and introspective examination while intentionally seeking areas for improvement.Episode Highlights:05:10 - Criticism is really about pointing out what is wrong. The difference in both is that feedback should propel us. It should give us an opportunity to do self-inventory. It should give us an opportunity to sort of analyze and go, "Hmm, I hear that." But it should be an opportunity for us to grow.15:01 - Those people that we have the most intimate level of relationship with are often the folks who will tell us the truth, and sometimes in very candid ways, and sometimes it doesn't feel good, because these are people that you love. 20:01 - You know me as a person of faith. I rely a lot on my relationship with God to both be my guide, my compass, my foundation, my everything. There are often conversations that I'm having like, "Help me because I need help." Because I recognize that a mindset change is about intentionality.Connect with Becky Dubin JenkinsLinkedIn Connect with Tammy Belton-Davis LinkedIn Guest Bio:With a background in government, education and public relations, Tammy Belton-Davis is an award-winning public relations and diversity professional. She launched Athena Communications in 2009.From July 2020-February 2022, Tammy served as the inaugural Chief Diversity Officer for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, with which she has worked in multiple capacities for the past eight years. During her time with the Rep, she worked directly with executive leadership and the board of trustees to develop, implement and measure equity, diversity and inclusion goals and served as an internal coach on inclusiveness and diversity issues. An accelerant in this important work, Tammy assisted the theater as it transitioned to a more permanent staffing structure to lead ED&I work into the future.Prior to launching Athena, Tammy held senior-level positions in city government and community-based organizations and served as a staff assistant with the Milwaukee County Board and Milwaukee Common Council.Tammy brings a fresh perspective, excellence and passion to every project she undertakes. Because of her charismatic style, she is a sought-after facilitation leader for branding sessions and equity training. In 2017, Tammy was inducted into Alverno College's Vanguard Society, the highest honor bestowed upon an alumna for their professional achievement and community service. In 2021, she was a part of the inaugural class of the Milwaukee Biz Times' Notable Alumni, a recognition for distinguished local alumni. She was recognized as a 2017 Center of Change for her commitment to work as a change agent in Milwaukee, and Athena Communications was recognized with a Diversity in Business Award by the Milwaukee Business Journal.Tammy is an active member of the

NICU baby skin is sensitive and often requires proper wound care, either from a lack of development or other treatments required by the NICU staff. Media Esser, a board-certified wound nurse shares common causes of skin damage, suggestions on making wound care easier and tried and true rules of thumb when caring for damaged neonate skin.   In this episode, we chat about: What is a wound care specialist? What is it that makes NICU/micropreemie babies' skin so sensitive? What are some common causes of skin damage in the NICU? What are some questions parents or caregivers should ask to ensure they understand wound care treatment and techniques? How do you know when what you're doing is hurting, or helping, your baby's skin? What are some rules of thumb you use as a wound care specialist when working with NICU skin? What is your best advice to a parent who is feeling overwhelmed by their baby's wound care treatment or care?    Media Esser is a nurse scientist, neonatal nurse practitioner and board-certified wound nurse, currently in a Level II NICU in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Dr. Esser also holds the position of Assistant Professor and Neonatal NP Program Chair at Alverno College in Milwaukee. She is a consultant for evidence-based practice, a NICU review course content, quality improvement, skincare research, and she presents on all those topics on a local and national level. Dr. Esser is passionate about neonatal skincare, specifically diaper dermatitis in the NICU, and has published many manuscripts and chapters on the topic.   Links to Media's research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Media-Esser    Connect with Media: National Association of Neonatal Nurses: https://my.nann.org/myprofile/profile?UserKey=a5ab1838-c37d-4dfe-8ed1-7de4d8c12dca    The NICU is hard. We're here to help.   Hand to Hold is a national nonprofit dedicated to providing neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) parents with personalized emotional support, educational resources and community before, during and after their baby's NICU stay. NICU support is available at no cost to NICU parents in English and Spanish.   Connect with Hand to Hold: Learn more or get support at handtohold.org   Follow Hand to Hold on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/handtohold Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/handtohold/   Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/NICUHandtoHold YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/HandtoHold    The following music was used for this media project: Music: Thriving Together [Full version] by MusicLFiles Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/10332-thriving-together-full-version License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Music: Bright Colors Of Life by MusicLFiles Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/7855-bright-colors-of-life License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  

We learn about a new social work program at Alverno College. We explore the struggles Black Americans have had accessing the G.I. Bill benefits. We hear from Milwaukee historian John Gurda about his experience homesteading. Plus, Bubbler Talk explores the history of Mitchell Street businesses.

Cecelia Gore leads strategic change and transformation in her current philanthropic role with the Brewers Community Foundation, the charitable arm of Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club. As a leader in the Milwaukee community, she has been instrumental in raising $50 million for local nonprofits over the past decade. Cecelia has worked to drive social change and institutions towards greater understanding around equity. She has helped raise awareness about systemic racism and other challenges facing Milwaukee such as education, housing health, and employment.Cecelia has a passion for giving back to her community and helping those in need. She shares her experience working with Henry Aaron, an inspirational legend in baseball who was committed to using his platform to make a difference. Tune in to hear about Cecelia's work which involves raising money for organizations that serve families impacted by domestic violence and other causes. Listen to her advice on how to treat people and to recognize everyone has something valuable they can bring to the table.Episode Highlights04:48 - They understand, because they come from places throughout the country, how important it is to give back. Many of them recognize how wonderful it is for them to be able to access resources that they have. And so, I'll call it an easy ask to say, "Please help us provide some financial resources to support the community."07:07 - Education is an issue. We've been all kind of exposed to and grappling with systemic racism, housing – pretty much the areas that we focus on – health, education, basic needs, workforce, employment, all of those issues are challenging, but I think the reality that there are so many disparities and gaps that we need to address and really look hard and long at are just the work of the day.15:19 - I could just go down the list of organizations where people are working hard everyday. And so, the little piece that I can play is it seems minor, but I have built my career around saying yes, involving myself in causes and organizations where I could bring some resources to the table or some knowledge, and it has really fed my soul. It is inspiring, and I'm thrilled that I had something that I can offer.Connect with Becky Dubin JenkinsLinkedInConnect with Cecelia GoreLinkedInGuest Bio:Cecelia Gore is a senior level executive with extensive experience leading community/external affairs, foundation and sports philanthropy. She leads strategic change and transformation in her current philanthropic role with the Brewers Community Foundation, the charitable arm of Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club. Gore maintains operational excellence, consistently advises on innovative strategies which support efforts to achieve recognition as a strong corporate citizen, and engages in activities that support the community. Gore previously represented one of the largest independent and most active foundations in the history of Greater Milwaukee philanthropy, the Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation where she led grant-making and managed board relations. She has served as a board member and committee chair for numerous nonprofit organizations. Currently, Gore serves as a director for C. G. Schmidt, a family owned/private construction company as well as Froedtert Hospital, The Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Sojourner Family Peace Center, Milwaukee Film and Alverno College. She has received numerous awards and recognition including a Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa from Carroll University. She looks forward to serving as co-chair of...

In episode 11 of Little Big Chats, we meet Valerie and Lilly, a match that has been together for 10 years. Valerie (Big Sister) is a lab manager at UW-Milwaukee, and Lilly is a 19-year-old freshman studying nursing at Alverno College. The two have been together since their initial match when Lilly was 9, and have had fun learning and growing together. Having been involved in each other's lives for a decade, these two are a great example of how a BBBS match can last a lifetime.

This week Aaron is joined by Meghan Walsh, the dean of the School Of Adult Learning and New Initiatives at Alverno College, to discuss some non-traditional ways people can re-engage with their education to further their entrepreneurial endeavors including Alverno's badging and certificate programs. You can find out more at www.alverno.edu/adult-learning. Then Kendale Allen returns for another session of Coaching With The Coach.   Be sure to connect with the podcast by going to www.anhourearlyllc.com.  

WSSP high school insider, Mike McGivern, gets you caught up on the latest surrounding high school sports in SE Wisconsin and beyond! Guests this hour: Two Lake Shore Chinooks: George Klassen - RHP - Port Washington/University of Minnesota and Mitch Mueller - RHP - Brookfield Central/Utah Valley University Lexi Hess - softball player at Alverno College, joined by her dad, "Radar", from the MIX Morning Show 

This week Joe is joined by Marine Corps Veteran and co-founder of Burn Pit BBQ, Greg Fischer. Greg served for four years, completing three combat deployments before transitioning into the civilian world. He attended college and started a ten year career in the insurance industry. Greg made the move to full time entrepreneurship in 2020, with his company Burn Pit BBQ, turning his passion for cooking and helping others into a full time business. Burn Pit BBQ sells high quality, all natural rubs, seasoning, and sauces online and select storefronts. Greg shares his advice for entrepreneurs looking to expand their business and achieve their long term goals. Check out Burn Pit BBQ here.  About Our Guest  Greg Fischer is a US Marine Corps veteran and co-founder of Burn Pit BBQ, where he shares grilling and barbecuing recipes and tips. Greg served 3 combat deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. As a Marine, he led and took part in combat & humanitarian missions. Greg was honorably discharged at the rank of Sergeant in 2006. He received his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and his Master of Business Administration from Alverno College. Greg spent 10 years working in the insurance and finance sector as a leader and coach. He is a certified ECHO and NeuroLeadership Brain Based professional coach. In 2020, Greg left the comforts of the corporate world and launched Burn Pit BBQ with Ben Kreple where he shares the grilling and barbecuing tips, recipes, and seasonings he learned in the backyard to help beginners cook delicious meals. Join the conversation on Facebook! Check out Veteran on the Move on Facebook to connect with our guests and other listeners. A place where you can network with other like-minded veterans who are transitioning to entrepreneurship and get updates on people, programs and resources to help you in YOUR transition to entrepreneurship.   About Our Sponsors Navy Federal Credit Union  When you hear the name Navy Federal Credit Union, you probably think that it's just for members of the U.S. Navy. In fact, Navy Federal Credit Union serves all branches of the armed forces, Veterans, and the families of servicemembers. Navy Federal Credit Union wants to thank the men and women in the U.S. military for their important commitment to our country. For more than 85 years, Navy Federal Credit Union has made it their mission to help people in the military community and they understand their members better than anyone. This month is Military Appreciation Month so show your own support for our troops with #MissionMilitaryThanks. Learn more about how Navy Federal is celebrating the commitment that connects them to their members at navyfederal.org/celebrate. At Navy Federal, our members are the mission.   Want to be our next guest? Send us an email at interview@veteranonthemove.com.  Did you love this episode? Leave us a 5-star rating and review!  Download Joe Crane's Top 7 Paths to Freedom or get it on your mobile device. Text VETERAN to 38470. Veteran On the Move podcast has published over 430 episodes. Our listeners have the opportunity to hear in-depth interviews conducted by host Joe Crane. The podcast features people, programs, and resources to assist veterans in their transition to entrepreneurship.  As a result, Veteran On the Move has over 7,000,000 verified downloads through Stitcher Radio, SoundCloud, iTunes and RSS Feed Syndication making it one of the most popular Military Entrepreneur Shows on the Internet Today.

K (they/them and she/her) was raised Roman Catholic in Chicago and is now a hospice chaplain and ceremony officiant in Jo Daviess county, Illinois. They discovered Wicca in middle school and converted immediately, as this was the first time they had ever heard of a loving, non-masculine God. Thanks to the social justice and inclusivity of the School Sisters of St. Francis at Alverno College, where K studied art therapy in undergrad, K has come to the path between Wicca and Catholicism. The sacred nature of our queer family, history, and Pride has inspired both their spirituality and artwork for many years. K has facilitated workshops, both in person and virtually, on how church groups can be more queer inclusive and feminist. They are also a textile artist with a strong focus on Marian imagery. Website: https://kkriesel.com/ Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/kkrieselart Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kkrieselart/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KKrieselArt --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rainbowsoul/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rainbowsoul/support

If you are wanting to get involved in volunteering around the Twin Cities, but not sure where to begin, this is the episode for you. Tracy shares the incredible history behind HandsOn Twin Cities, how she got involved, and tons of ways to find the right volunteering opportunity for you.  From trade skills, to legal work, to hands on projects, there are many different ways to make a huge local impact using the HandsOn Twin Cities platform. Featuring the song "Limbo" by the local musician Janes Band. Tracy Nielsen has served as the Executive Director for HandsOn Twin Cities for the past five years. She received her Bachelor's degree from St. Cloud State University and her Masters in Business Administration from Alverno College in Milwaukee, WI. Prior to her current role, Tracy worked with United Ways for twelve years serving in roles as Chief Executive Officer for United Way of Kenosha County, Communications Director and VP – Marketing and Resource Development for both United Way of Racine County and United Way of the Wine Country in Northern California. Tracy has held other roles in the nonprofit sector. Roles included, Regional Program Coordinator for a ten‐state AmeriCorps Program focused on the retention of low-income and first generation college students throughout the Midwest, as well as AmeriCorps*VISTA member focused on addressing the issues of homelessness in Racine, WI.Tracy is devoted to helping all people achieve their potential and believes that every person can play a role in the betterment of their community – especially through the power of volunteerism.HandsOn Twin Cities is the Twin Cities' only full service volunteer center that both promotes and facilitates volunteerism while improving the community's ability to create more impact with the time generously given by volunteers.  We work with all types of volunteers, companies and nonprofit affiliates to ensure that every hour spent in the community is valuable.At HandsOn we make it easy to transform your passion to action. We connect people to opportunities that align their skills and interests. We help nonprofits find, develop and retain volunteers, and we assist companies in delivering on their corporate social responsibility goals and employee engagement strategies.Building on 101 years of experience as the Nation's first Volunteer Center, HandsOn Twin Cities and our more than 600 nonprofit partners give everyone the opportunities to Be the Change. Learn more about HandsOn Twin Cities HERE. Follow Minnesota Circle on Instagram or Facebook @MinnesotaCircle and visit our website themncircle.comSupport the show (http://www.minnesotacircle.com)

This episode recognizes and celebrates Alverno College, recipient of the 2021 Trudy W. Banta Lifetime Achievement in Assessment Award.  Our guests are Joe Foy, Heather Mernitz, and Kathleen O'Brien. Joe is vice president for Academic Affairs at Alverno College.  Heather is Professor of Physical Sciences and Chair of the Council for Student Assessment at Alverno College.  Kathleen is Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Emerita at Alverno College and currently serves as Provincial Coordinator for the School Sisters of St. Francis.Listeners will enjoy learning about what are known as the "Alverno Abilities" and the incredible, pioneering difference Alverno College has made to our understanding of teaching, learning, and assessment.This season of Leading Improvements in Higher Education is sponsored by the Center for Assessment and Research Studies at James Madison University; learn more at jmu.edu/assessment.  Episode recorded:  September 2021.  Host:  Stephen Hundley.  Producers:  Chad Beckner, Caleb Keith, and Shirley Yorger.  Original music:  Caleb Keith.  This award-winning podcast is a service of the Assessment Institute in Indianapolis; learn more at assessmentinstitute.iupui.edu.

In this episode of “The Journey of My Mother's Son” podcast, I sit down to talk with Dr. Toni Palermo. Toni was one of the youngest players to play in the AAGPBL.  After her playing days, she entered the convent and became Sister Toni. After Toni became a Nun, she went on to earn her Bachelor of Science Degree in English, History and Math from Alverno College.  She then earned three Master Degrees and a Doctor of Philosophy Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  She taught in the Physical Education Department and the School of Social Work at the University. We were connected by our mutual friend and fellow supporter of women in baseball, Sandy Kimbrell.  Sandy saw that we were in Wisconsin and reached out to me with Toni's contact information. We conducted the podcast on Toni's front porch and unfortunately, we had some cicadas in the background, so the sound quality is not the greatest, but nonetheless, Toni has a great story to tell.

Dr. Jeanette Mitchell grew up in St. Lewis, Missouri and moved to Milwaukee at high school. She spent 30 years at telephone company AT&T, where she has learned how to be a manager, how to be a leader. She left the company as the highest-ranking black woman. As the Program Director at Cardinal Stritch University she established the Leadership Center, through which she helped design and manage several leadership development programs. She is the founder of African American Leadership Program, and African American Leadership Alliance of Milwaukee. For Dr. Jeanette, Leadership is influence. Influence of yourself and other towards the goal that is mutually beneficial, morally and ethically. But you first have to get right with you and then as you get right with you, you get right with others. And yes, her blackness is an asset. What we talk about: 05:45 – Alverno helped me to realize that this was not just about Jeanette, that I need to give back to community. 15:50 – That's how AALP came about. The idea behind it was to have people cross-sector, so that you get to know each other. 22:18 – Transformation is like inner grounding where you really start to look at where your values are, what it is about. And that can bring you to a change. 28:00 – Right now we're trying to redefine Milwaukee as the top-ranking city for African Americans. We want to make sure that African American Leaders chose to live, work, and prosper here. 33:00 – To be a leader, you really have to know who you are. Leadership is from the inside out, which means you have to take time to reflect on your practices, how congruent are you, is your work aligned with your values, how are you really living your life. It is important. And the awareness - taking time to become aware who you are and how you're interacting with those around you. What we mention: https://www.alverno.edu/ (Alverno College) https://www.stritch.edu/ (Cardinal Stritch University) Connect with us: https://www.aalamilwaukee.org/ (AALAM) https://www.instagram.com/aalamilwaukee/ (Instagram) https://www.linkedin.com/company/african-american-leadership-alliance-of-milwaukee/ (LinkedIn)

Zig At The Gig with Jon Langford Interview 2021 Welsh rabble-rouser, painter extraordinaire, punk rock pioneer: Jon Langford (born October 11, 1957) is a prolific and well-respected visual artist whose punk rock instincts and unparalleled draftsmanship come together in a painting style that is distinctive, engaging, and challenging. In addition to his paintings and prints, his artwork appears on CD's (his own and other's), book covers, and Dogfish Head Brewery beer bottle labels. His multimedia music/spoken-word/video performance, "The Executioner's Last Songs," premiered at Alverno College in 2005, and has been performed in several other cities, including Austin. He illustrated the comic strip Great Pop Things under the pseudonym Chuck Death. Since 2005 he has co-hosted a weekly radio program, "The Eclectic Company," broadcast on WXRT 93.1 FM in Chicago. He has contributed to This American Life . Yard Dog Art Gallery has represented Langford since 1996. Langford is from Wales but has lived in Chicago since the early 1990's. He was originally the drummer for the punk band The Mekons when it formed at the University of Leeds in 1977, but he later took up the guitar as other band members left. Since the mid-1980s he has been one of the leaders in incorporating folk and country music into punk rock. He has released a number of solo recordings as well as recordings with other bands outside of The Mekons, most notably the Waco Brothers, which he co-founded after moving to Chicago in the early 1990s. Jon's Info https://www.yarddog.com/collections/jon-langford https://www.facebook.com/jonboylangford https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/artist/jon-langford SHOW INFO AUG 5th Music box Cleveland OH https://wacobrothers.com/wb/ Aug 4th Blue Arrow Records Cleveland OH https://www.bluearrowrecords.com/ https://www.facebook.com/bluearrowrecords/  

Dr. Vanessa Hintz is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor at Alverno College. She is the Founder of Vivid Insights Consulting, LLC, in Milwaukee. She is also a Diversity and Equity Consultant. As black people, we have a legacy of exhaustion. Rest, taking a break, is a key to connecting to the wisdom of our ancestors in creating a new world. But, then, rest may be connected to a negative “You're lazy, you do nothing” stereotype. How to fight against those negative stereotypes, cycle of racial stress and microaggression? How to take care of ourselves and recover when our old wounds get open again. How to find rest and process the trauma? Find out in this conversation with Dr. Vanessa Hintz. What we talk about: 02:45 – First and foremost, you're going to die a lot sooner if you don't sleep. Keep that in mind. 04:29 – Modern day women are asked to do more than ever before: women are doing a lot more, they are out of the home a lot more, and they are still called to do all the things at home. – Add to that the intersection of race… 08:20 – Find your village, people that you can talk to. And code-switch. 15:50 – Selfcare for you is what it is for you. It is whatever you need to do for yourself to relieve stress. 24:13 – Therapy can be proactive; it does not have to be reactive. You do not have to wait until something happens. What we mention: https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/ (The nap ministry) https://vividinsightsconsulting.me/ (Vivid Insights Consulting) Dr Vanessa Hintz on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-vanessa-hintz-061294160/ (LinkedIn) https://www.facebook.com/drvanessa.hintz/ (Facebook) https://twitter.com/drvanessahintz? (Twitter) https://www.instagram.com/drvanessa.hintz/ (Instagram) Connect with us: https://www.aalamilwaukee.org/ (AALAM) https://www.linkedin.com/company/aalam/ (AALAM on LinkedIn)

Join Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square, the aunt and niece duo, for Episode 3 of Why Are they So Angry?, a look at systemic racism in education. Educating the general populace is a cornerstone of American society providing the foundation for an informed and knowledgeable electorate. For over 400 years, however, Black/African Americans have endured poor, inadequate, and substandard education. In this episode, you'll hear about the heroic battle Dr. George McLaurin waged to integrate Oklahoma University and how that battle ended. You'll also hear how some of the same inadequacies in public education from the Jim Crow era are still in various forms of existence in education today and how those inadequacies impede upward mobility for Black/African Americans. Partial Citations: “A teenager didn't do her online schoolwork so a judge sent her to juvenile detention,” by Jodi S. Cohen, Pro Publica Illinois, July 14, 2020. ACLU “Cops and no counselors: how the lack of school mental health is harming students”, https://www.aclu.org/issues/juvenile-justice/school-prison-pipeline/cops-and-no-counselors. Reese, L. (2007, January 19) George W. McLaurin (1887-1968). Retrieved from https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/mclaurin-george-w-1887-1968/. “The education of Black children in the Jim Crow South”, Dr. Russell Brooker, Professor of Political Science America's Black Holocaust Museum, Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Education of Blacks in the South: 1830-1938, James D. Anderson, The University of North Carolina Press, 1988. The Education Trust, Jan. 9, 2020, “Inequities in Advanced Coursework”. “School segregation is not a myth skeptics claim that concerns over racially divided schools are false alarms—but they're missing the full picture,” Will Stancil, The Atlantic, March 2018. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/carol-francois/support

This week we present two stories from people who got called into action to save an animal they didn’t know they’d be called to save. Part 1: While running an errand, Andrea Azarian happens upon a lost horse that needs her help. Part 2: Left in charge of the farm for the first time, Gwynne Hogan panics when a goat goes into labor. Andrea Azarian has an undergraduate degree in Public Administration and Political Science from UW-LaCrosse. She completed her teacher certification and Master’s degree in Education at Alverno College. Andrea taught English, Math, Reading, and Family and Consumer Education in grades 5-8 in Milwaukee Public Schools before coming to UWM. She has been at UWM as an Academic Advisor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction for twelve years. Her time outside of work is spent traveling with her friends and family laughing and being present in the moment. Gwynne Hogan is a reporter and producer in the WNYC newsroom who seems to keep ending up covering disease and communities from measles to COVID-19. She's also a proud assistant on Story Collider podcast production team and is excited to make her virtual storytelling debut with the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mama said... Do you remember when your mother gave you advice or shared her wisdom with you? Did you listen? Can you hear her voice in the back of your head? Bonnie shares in her interview how her mother of 7 influenced her so much that she wrote a book about it. Bonnie's key take-aways: Never give up Celebrate your mother Celebrate small victories How her mother influenced her   Bonnie J. Edwards received her Master’s Degree in Education, Professional Development from Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She pursued Advanced Doctoral Studies in Adult Education at Walden University in Minneapolis, MN. Bonnie added two additional licenses, one in Administrator Leadership and Director of Instruction certified through the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI). Inspired by the power of raising awareness, Bonnie designed, implemented, and instructed a graduate course in Interpersonal Communication for educators to renew their licenses through McPherson College, Milwaukee Campus. She is recognized by her colleagues for her personable and reflective leadership style. After 14 years of teaching middle school and participating in educational community outreach, Bonnie retired in 2015. Bonnie is founder of B.J. Edwards Professional Development & Communication, owner and co-publisher with her husband, Cary Edwards. They are proud parents of Danny, Lisa and Mildred. Subscribe and share with one other person. Would you like to be a guest on Local First Podcast? Get started by going to ScheduleMyPodcast.com This episode is brought to you by: EXACTA Corporation (https://wp2.myexactamundo.com/) Family Organizer Plus (https://wp2.myexactamundo.com/) The first app designed for the ultimate social network. The Family. RARE Leaders (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElcO6qqDMjE9MBH27DEoquYArGgCdhSCW_) Where leaders come to thrive and grow Conversation Series - Connect, Collaborate, and Contribute Support this podcast

An art history course developed for Alverno College based on a challenge to save art works of five ancient cultures from oblivion and thereby save the memory of those cultures. About Our Guest: Marilyn Zwissler started out as a product trainer, found out it was a profession, and is now a performance improvement professional. Along the way, she earned her Master's Degree in Organizational Development and is a certified Learning and Development Professional (CPLP). Games and how people learn through experience has always intrigued her. Last year she graduated from Sententia's Journeyman program and started an online course program for Alverno College based on a game concept. She calls her course The Great Art Quest. The Gamification Quest Podcast Host is Monica Cornetti, President of Sententia, Inc. (www.SententiaGamification.com) and GameMaster of GamiCon - The Annual International Conference for the Gamification of Learning (www.GamiCon.us). Connect with Monica on LinkedIn.

An art history course developed for Alverno College based on a challenge to save art works of five ancient cultures from oblivion and thereby save the memory of those cultures.  About Our Guest:  Marilyn Zwissler started out as a product trainer, found out it was a profession, and is now a performance improvement professional. Along the way, she earned her Master's Degree in Organizational Development and is a certified Learning and Development Professional (CPLP). Games and how people learn through experience has always intrigued her. Last year she graduated from Sententia's Journeyman program and started an online course program for Alverno College based on a game concept. She calls her course The Great Art Quest. The Gamification Quest Podcast Host is Monica Cornetti, President of Sententia, Inc. (www.SententiaGamification.com) and GameMaster of GamiCon - The Annual International Conference for the Gamification of Learning (www.GamiCon.us). Connect with Monica on LinkedIn.

Dr. Hintz is a licensed clinical psychologist, who received her doctorate in clinical psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She works with children, adolescents, and adults with a wide array of presenting issues. She has extensive training in working with individuals who have been exposed to traumatic experiences, those with co-occurring substance use issues, as well as those struggling with emotional regulation. Dr. Hintz works actively to achieve understanding of each person's unique circumstances, all while ensuring one's individual values and beliefs are respected within the therapeutic relationship. She believes the ultimate goal of therapy is to empower individuals to confront problematic circumstances in their lives, and to work collaboratively toward furthering health and wellness. Dr. Hintz is an active proponent of multicultural counseling and theory, and works dynamically to understand how individuals make meaning of the world within their various cultural contexts. Dr. Hintz is also a self-proclaimed "Geek Therapist," and incorporates elements of popular culture into treatment and training, when beneficial. Dr. Hintz has been a contributing author to two different books in the Popular Culture Psychology Series, to include, Black Panther Psychology: Hidden Kingdoms and The Joker Psychology: Evil Clowns and the Women Who Love Them. In addition to working as an Assistant Professor at Alverno College, Dr. Hintz maintains a private practice at Cornerstone Counseling Services in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/just-a-thought-el/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/just-a-thought-el/support

Thursday on Lake Effect : We hear from local Catholic nuns leading the charge on environmental justice, five years after Pope Francis made it a priority. Then, some tips on how to help ease your pets transition from having you at home, to spending the day alone. Plus, as SpaghettiOs turns 55 this month we learn about its creator — Waukesha-native Donald Goerke. And essayist Mel Miskimen wonders if she’s become too callous. Guests: Sister Kathleen Braun, leads the United States Province of the School Sisters of St. Francis; Sister Deborah Fumagalli, the province’s Justice and Peace Coordinator; Sister Judeen Schulte, professor at Alverno College and a founder of CARE: Creating Action to Reverence the Earth Samantha Steinbring, behavior and training specialist at the Wisconsin Humane Society Kyle Cherek, food historian Mel Miskimen, essayist

Erin McCarthy is the 2020 Wisconsin Teacher of the Year. She teaches 8th grade social studies at Greendale Middle School in Greendale, Wisconsin. In her eight years teaching she has collaborated to create a welcoming environment where students turn up the volume on the untold stories of history. She believes all students can be curious, self-directed activists and influencers and that we need to amplify the stories of educators who are grassroots change agents. After receiving her MA in Public History from Loyola University, Chicago, Erin managed museum education programs at several Chicago area museums. After moving to Milwaukee in 2009 she attained her teaching license from Alverno College and has been teaching since 2011.

Vote for your favorite Story Collider story of all time here: https://airtable.com/shreBxfsM5XYktIT5 This week we present two stories from people who navigated the joys of sex in surprising ways. Part 1: When Eva Bloom struggles to have an orgasm, she turns to research. Part 2: Dasha Kelly Hamilton thinks of a creative way to teach her daughters about sex. Eva Bloom (she/her) is a sexuality educator and researcher. She is the creator of the inclusive, anti-oppressive, and evidence-based sex-ed web series for youth “What’s My Body Doing”, which has garnered over 1 million views. She holds a Masters of Science with her thesis focusing on sexuality and technology, with interests in self-compassion and bisexuality. She has spoken at the Guelph Sexuality Conference among others and is a winner of a Planned Parenthood Toronto’s Choice Award (2017) for excellence in sexuality education. Dasha Kelly Hamilton is a writer, performance artist and creative change agent. Through responsive and respectful intentionality, Dasha leverages the creative process to facilitate critical dialogues around human and social wellness. Dasha delivers her engagement sessions to campuses, classrooms, correctional institutions, association conferences, social service agencies, municipal departments and team retreats. Her nonprofit, Still Waters Collective, has curated poetry programming and spoken word events in the region for almost 20 years. The work has impacting more than 13,000 youth, provided professional development to more than 100 young people and created platforms for thousands of voices to be honored and heard. Dasha has written for national, regional and local magazines; produced three collections of poetry; recorded four spoken word CDs; and published two novels. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University and has taught writing courses at Mount Mary University, Alverno College and UW-Milwaukee. Dasha served as an Arts Envoy for the U.S. Embassy to teach, perform and facilitate community building initiatives in Botswana and the island of Mauritius. A former Artist of the Year for the City of Milwaukee, Dasha was recently named the city’s 11th Poet Laureate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you heard the inspirational story of Gwen Jorgensen, CPA turned 2016 Olympic gold medalist? In this episode of Hilary Topper On Air, Hilary interviews Elizabeth and Nancy Jorgensen. They are the authors of Go, Gwen, Go: A Family’s Journey to Olympic Gold. About Elizabeth Elizabeth Jorgensen received her undergraduate degree from Marquette University and her master’s from Carroll University. In 2017, she was named Carroll University’s Graduate of the Last Decade. Her memoir, co-written with Nancy Jorgensen, Go, Gwen, Go: A Family’s Journey to Olympic Gold, is available from Meyer & Meyer Sport. Jorgensen is published in the Journal of Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English and served as guest editor for the Fall 2017 issue. Other work appears in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Azalea (Harvard University’s Journal of Korean Literature & Culture), Wisconsin State Reading Association Journal, and elsewhere. Learn more at lizjorgensen.weebly.com About Nancy A Wisconsin writer and musician, Nancy Jorgensen co-authored the 2019 memoir, Go, Gwen, Go: A Family’s Journey to Olympic Gold, published by Meyer & Meyer Sport. In alternating voices, she and daughter Elizabeth tell the story of Gwen Jorgensen’s path from CPA to Olympic gold medalist. Nancy earned a Bachelor of Music from Alverno College and a Master of Music from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. A high school choir director for many years, she is the co-author of two music education books. Her writing also appears in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Prime Number Magazine, Cagibi, Ruminate Magazine, Brevity and elsewhere. About the Interview Elizabeth and Nancy will discuss the inspirational story of Gwen Jorgensen. Gwen, a CPA turned the 2016 Olympic gold medalist and the family that supported her unconventional path to success. Hear about the secret world of Olympic training, professional coaching, international travel, sponsor funding, and anti-doping requirements. Discover what it takes to be the best in the world! About Go, Gwen, Go: A Family's Journal to Olympic Gold Narrated in alternating voices Go, Gwen, Go: A Family's Journey to Olympic Gold is an inspiring story. This memoir introduces readers to a young woman of modest athletic achievements who uses desire and discipline to attain the ultimate in sport: the Olympic gold. To contact Elizabeth or Nancy or learn more about Go, Gwen, Go: A Family’s Journey to Olympic Gold, visit https://lizjorgensen.weebly.com/ and https://nancyjorgensen.weebly.com/.

Welcome to season 7 of the Education on Fire Podcast which is focusing on Wellbeing. Today I chat to Tina Owen-Moore about her experience of creating a new school and  The Alliance Way: The Making of a Bully-Free School (https://www.amazon.com/Alliance-Way-Making-Bully-Free-School/dp/1682532879) her book that unveils the story of it’s success. Tina Owen-Moore has been an educator for twenty years. She started in 1998, as a high school English teacher in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 2005, with a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Tina worked with a group of teachers and students to open The Alliance School, the first school in the nation started with the explicit mission of reducing bullying. She led the school from 2005-2016, and has consistently worked to share Alliance’s practices, so that all schools can be safe and inclusive places for all students.   Tina has received numerous awards and recognition for her work, including being named 2010 Educator of the Year by GSAFE Wisconsin, being recognized by the Wisconsin Charter School’s Association with the Innovator of the Year Award for her co-creation of the Teacher Led Network, and receiving an LGBT Progress Award from the Shepherd Express Magazine of Milwaukee. She was also honored with the Marquette University School of Education’s Young Alumna Award in 2008. The school was awarded the 2011 Wisconsin Charter School of the Year, Platinum Award, and in 2015 won recognition as one of the “41 Most Innovative Schools in America” by Noodle.com.               Tina earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Marquette University, her Master of Arts degree from Alverno College, and her doctorate in Education Leadership from Harvard University. She is the mother of two adult children, Felicia and Jeremy, and has been a foster and surrogate mother to many others. She currently lives in Chicago, Illinois with her wife, Velvet, and their two adorable cats, Tiger and Juani.   Website   www.bullyfreefirst.com (http://www.bullyfreefirst.com/)   Social Media Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram: @Tina Owen-Moore   If you are new to the show here are the links to the beginning of each season so far so you to look back or visit for the first time.   The first 9 episodes discuss what we believe to be important in education. (https://www.educationonfire.com/009-season-2-launch-show-computing-technology/) 031 : What do the children think? How to be involved in season 3 (https://www.educationonfire.com/1646-2/) 040: Season 4 launch show – Music and the Arts in schools (https://www.educationonfire.com/040-season-4-launch-show-music-arts-schools/) 071: Physical Education – Season 5 Launch Show (https://www.educationonfire.com/071-physical-education-season-5-launch-show/) 087: LitFilmFest English & Literacy Season 6 Launch (https://www.educationonfire.com/087-litfilmfest-english-literacy-season-6-launch/)   Show Sponsor             The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them. This includes parents, teachers, governors and all those interested in primary education. NAPE is a non-political charity and works tirelessly to support teachers in the classroom as expressed in their ‘Value of Membership’ Document. NAPE leads the Primary Umbrella Group of thirty primary subject associations and unions and gives teachers and schools a voice at governmental level at consultative meetings with ministers for schools. For full details of how they can support you please visit their website at  nape.org.uk (https://nape.org.uk/)     Support this podcast

Dr. Laci Robbins My experience rooted in the field of education and non-profit management. Over the course of nearly 15 years I have been blessed to study at my dear Fisk University, Harvard, and even NASA! And most recently, I have served the local Milwaukee, WI community and abroad through creative visual practice, as well as, in my role as Executive Director for a local non-profit organization.    In 2017 my husband and I founded Robbins’ Nest Consulting. An affiliate, Dr. Laci.com supports current and aspiring women leaders, to go from the process of figuring it out, to leadership in practice, via education and empowerment.   In conjunction with special programs, I have participated as a guest with Alverno College, the Milwaukee Art Museum, Marquette University, Northwestern University, Milwaukee Public Schools, and even as an expert via a TEDx.    www.drlaci.com

Local News Chat: Gov't Grants & Local Elex (0:00)Your Take on Vehicles Going Through the Ice (19:58)Alverno College's "Status of Girls in WI" Report (40:54)Meet Menominee Musician Wade Fernandez (1:00:32)The Takeaway: Do You Know Better Than Experts? (1:32:07)

On this week's podcast, Jarrett is joined by Exploit No More's most recent intern, Jordyn. Jordyn is a social work major at Alverno College, loves research and collecting knowledge, and seeks to make the world a better, brighter, place. Jarrett and Jordyn discuss how students can prepare for in a social work internship and how to make the most of it. If you're a student, whether high school or college, check out this episode; it offers great insight into the world of interning and non-profits. Support the show (https://www.exploitnomore.org/donate.html)

"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands." - Anne Elliot in Persuasion by Jane Austen How has literacy shaped the power and resources available to women in different historical and geographic contexts? Hear our panel of scholars and educators consider the impact of literacy for women across the world in this moderated panel discussion. Panelists include: • Michelle Morris Carter, Principal at Golda Meir School • Holly McCoy, Executive Director of Literacy Services Wisconsin • Dr. Desiree Pointer Mace, Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in the School of Education at Alverno College

The painting is cleaned, the painter is discovered, the Layton Collection is told, and two, yes, two, art history mysteries are solved. Led by storytellers Kerri Lowe and Shannon DeJong from House of Who interviewing: Tanya Paul, Isabel and Alfred Bader Curator of European Art Catherine Sawinski, Assistant Curator of European Art Jodi Eastberg, professor of history at Alverno College and the chair of the works of art committee for the Layton Art Collection Amy Kirschke, Director of Adult, Docent and School Programs John Eastberg, Executive Director of the Pabst Mansion, co-author of the book Layton’s Legacy and a member of the board of trustees for the Layton Art Collection Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Constable? A Landscape Rediscovered at the Milwaukee Art Museum. A Layton Art Collection Focus Exhibition. Created by House of Who for the Milwaukee Art Museum.

88Nine's Nate Imig speaks with Holocaust survivor Estelle Laughlin prior to her appearance at Alverno College's annual day of remembrance. This radio piece features select parts of his extended interview, which can be heard here: https://radiomilwaukee.org/story/community-stories/holocaust-survivor-estelle-laughlin/

It is becoming increasingly rare to hear firsthand from someone who experienced the horrors of the Holocaust. Listen to Estelle Glaser Laughlin, 2018's featured speaker at Alverno College's Holocaust Remembrance Service.

88Nine's Nate Imig speaks with Holocaust survivor Estelle Laughlin prior to her appearance at Alverno College's annual day of remembrance. This radio piece features select parts of his extended interview, which can be heard here: https://radiomilwaukee.org/story/community-stories/holocaust-survivor-estelle-laughlin/

For the second year in a row, Alverno College recently hosted its "Voices of Refugees Day." Listen to the podcast to hear a student, originally from Burma, interact with an American student from Pewaukee High School.

For the second year in a row, Alverno College recently hosted its "Voices of Refugees Day." Listen to the podcast to hear a student, originally from Burma, interact with an American student from Pewaukee High School.

The basketball season is about to tip off, but do you know all the new rules? Dave McHugh talks to members of the men's and women's basketball rule committees along with an athletic director about all the changes which are sure to confuse fans early on this season. Guests include Bill Raleigh, former men's basketball coach and current Assistant Athletic Director at Southwestern University, Brad Duckworth, Athletic Director and women's basketball coach at Alverno College along with current chair of the NCAA Women's Basketball Rules Committee, and Tim Fitzpatrick, Athletic Director at U.S. Coast Guard Academy, who has gave his thoughts on the rule changes to the Coast Guard Athletic's website earlier this year. Also in this Hoopsville special, Dave gives his thoughts on the rule changes now that we are moving forward. Dave wrote earlier this year about his thoughts when the rules had been recommended.

Timothy Chhim interviews Stephanie Barenz Stephanie Barenz is a Milwaukee artist who honors the stories of others through painting and writing. Her mission is to tell others that their experiences, whether of pain or joy, matter. Stephanie received her MFA or Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Washington University in St. Louis in 2009. She has been working full-time as an artist for over ten years. Barenz is recognized as an established artist in the Milwaukee community through her participation in several artist residencies such as the Mandel Creative Studio and the Pfister Hotel AiR program. She is a Professional Dimension's 2015 SACI Artist. Her work has been acquired by notable public collectors, such as Northwestern Mutual and Alverno College and by private collectors across the United States and in Europe. Her paintings have been exhibited at MAM, MOWA, Dean Jensen Gallery, and Expo 72 in Chicago. Her work has been featured in The Artist's Magazine, the Journal Sentinel, MPTV, Milwaukee Magazine, the Huffington Post, and many more. To learn more about how she honors others through custom paintings and storybooks visit www.stephaniebarenz.com. If you would like to contact Stephanie you can do so by emailing her at sbarenz@gmail.com. 

ArtSees Productions welcomes Susan Block for a 6 week series, "Conversations On Creativity."  Susan welcomes Paul Smith for week 1, "the psychology of creativity." Paul is a Professor of Psychology at Alverno College in Milwaukee. His background is in cognitive educational psychology, and he holds an MS in Learning Sciences, an MA in Philosophy, and Ph.D. in  Educational Psychology (Urban Education). In that work he focused on belief formation and the barriers to belief change. His current academic interest is in how adults learn new skills in areas such as programming, foreign languages, and music. In addition to Paul's many talents, he is also a musician currently serves on the Board of the Badgerland Bluegrass Music Association.He is active in local music as a guitar and mandolin player and singer. Susan Block brings with her a vast knowledge of the arts and creativity. She is LaPorte County Poet Laureate Emeritus, playwright, writing workshop leader, art exhibition curator and cultural arts advocate. "Conversations On Creativity" is the brainchild of Block.  Special thanks to Jefri Clark Payne for contributing his music for this special series. 

Peter Roller has been exploring guitar styles in a variety of cultural directions since discovering music like the blues of Mississippi Fred McDowell and the Bluegrass of Flatt & Scruggs as a teen. Over the past thirty years, while working as a professional musician and college instructor, he has written a body of guitar-led original music that leans variously towards Hawaiian slack key, bossa nova, Piedmont blues and steel guitar jazz. Roller is releasing his first full length CD of such pieces in Spring 2010, including his Dobro instrumental Rancho Mirage, the only work previously available on the widely popular Narada compilation Masters of Acoustic Guitar. Roller is based in Milwaukee and teaches in the Music Department at Alverno College. He has played and recorded with area performers--bluesman, Steve Cohen, worldbeat band, Paul Cebar & the Milwaukeeans and gospel quartet, the Masonic Wonders. Previously, Roller was the guitar accompanist for first generation country bluesman, Yank Rachell, acting as producer and playing on his Bling Pig release Blues Mandolin Man. Video http://youtu.be/d_Y3H6811ds

Mary Radspinner began harp studies with Jeanne Henderson in the Milwaukee Public School System. Jeanne provided many kids with the opportunity to learn the harp who may have never had the luck otherwise. Mary credits her love of music and the harp to Jeanne, a wise teacher who imparted many different styles of playing to her students, preparing them for all kinds of work in the music world. She also studied string bass and voice. In 1977 she earned degrees in applied harp and music education from Alverno College in Milwaukee, WI. During the next 10 years she taught elementary general music, elementary band, high school orchestra, choir and music theory. Mary free-lanced in Houston for 11 years, playing an average of 4 events per week, and during that time she served as substitute harpist with the Houston Symphony and second harpist with the Houston Ballet Orchestra. She has served as president of the San Jacinto Chapter of the American Harp Society, SW Regional director of the American Harp Society, and president of the International Society of Folk Harpers and Craftsmen. She chaired the International Folk Harp Conference held in Galveston in 1998. Mary is the immediate past president of the Scottish Harp Society of America. She served as editor-in-chief of the Folk Harp Journal for a six-issue interim. In 1993 Mary and her husband John Gill opened Melody's Traditional Music & Harp Shoppe, a harp specialty store in Houston, TX. In 1999 Mary and husband John established Afghan Press, specializing in harp music publications. Afghan Press is named after John and Mary's beloved Afghan Hound, Melody. (1987 - 1998). Mary instituted the harp events at the TX Scottish Festival in Arlington, and has chaired the harp competition events for the Houston Highland Games. She was a winner in the Florida Summer Harp Seminar pop harp competition in 1994, and is the 1995 Texas champion Scottish harper. She performs and gives workshops throughout the country on harp techniques for relaxation, ensemble ideas and improvisation. You can find out more about Mary Radspinner at www.maryradspinner.com and contact her at mary@folkharp.com.