Podcasts about cal state san marcos

The South Bay Union School Board decided to not close two of its elementary schools, for now, but one school in Imperial Beach is closing. The City of San Diego is continuing its investigation into the potential third parties' responsibilities, after they countersued flood victims for not maintaining their drainage facilities. Students in the south bay, will now be able to get their bachelor's degree from Cal State San Marcos at Southwestern College through the a new program.

With state capital support on the decline and infrastructure aging out of usefulness, higher education leaders are under pressure to find new ways to fund capital projects—without compromising mission, control, or long-term sustainability. In this episode of Changing Higher Ed®, Dr. Drumm McNaughton explores creative capital funding strategies institutions are using to meet urgent facility and housing demands. His guest, Brent Miller—Higher Education Market Sector Leader at HED—shares how colleges and universities across the country are structuring public-private partnerships (P3s), securing transformational donor gifts, and leveraging local bond initiatives to move large-scale capital plans forward. This conversation is especially relevant for presidents, CFOs, trustees, and VPs of facilities navigating deferred maintenance, campus growth, or strategic repositioning. Brent brings 30+ years of architectural and capital planning experience to the conversation, offering insights from some of the most innovative projects in higher ed capital development. Topics Covered: Why traditional state funding is no longer enough—and what institutions are doing about it How public-private partnerships (P3s) work, and which types of projects they're best suited for Case studies from USC, UC Irvine, University of Michigan, UC Merced, and more Donor and corporate partnership models that align with institutional missions How local bond initiatives are changing the future of community colleges What boards and presidents need to know about aligning capital projects with strategy and risk Real-World Examples Discussed: USC's Iovine and Young Academy, funded by a $70M gift from Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre UC Irvine's interdisciplinary health sciences building—merging donor intent and design University of Michigan's Ford Robotics Building, a co-developed corporate-academic research hub UC Merced 2020, a $1.3B P3 that doubled the university's physical capacity Cal State San Marcos' early mixed-use P3 development for housing and retail A facilities deal struck to replace plant equipment at cost and pay via utility savings General Motors University as an early model of industry-aligned higher ed Three Key Takeaways for Leadership: Ensure capital alignment with strategy: Every capital initiative should support the university's mission, enrollment trajectory, and long-term vision. Build in lifecycle costs: Deferred maintenance and energy savings must be part of the upfront planning—not afterthoughts. Communicate across stakeholders: From boards and donors to students and local communities, transparency is essential to success. This episode provides both a strategic framework and actionable insight into how today's institutions can overcome capital constraints through innovation, collaboration, and long-range thinking. Recommended For: Presidents, provosts, CFOs, trustees, board chairs, and facilities executives leading campus master planning, housing expansion, or long-term capital strategy. Read the transcript: https://changinghighered.com/capital-funding-strategies-higher-education/ #HigherEdLeadership #PublicPrivatePartnerships #HigherEducation #HigherEducationPodcast

Local veterans are pushing back on the Trump administration's plans to cut more than 70,000 jobs at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Plus, faculty and students are staging walkouts and protests at CSU campuses this week, including at Cal State San Marcos. And being at the right place at the right time may have helped a San Diego woman save the life of a baby bird.

Social mobility is a defining mission for many regional public universities, but what does it take to truly move the needle? In this episode of Confessions of a Higher Ed CMO, host Jaime Hunt sits down with Ellen Neufeldt, President of Cal State San Marcos, to discuss how institutions can break down barriers for first-generation and underrepresented students. From innovative dual enrollment programs to rethinking enrollment marketing strategies, Neufeldt shares actionable insights on how universities can drive economic and social change.Guest Name: Ellen J. Neufeldt, President, California State University San MarcosGuest Social: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellen-neufeldt/Guest Bio: Ellen J. Neufeldt was appointed CSU San Marcos' fourth president in May 2019. She came to CSUSM from Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, Virginia, where she served as vice president of Student Engagement and Enrollment Services from 2011 until her appointment at CSUSM.​Before joining ODU, Neufeldt served as vice president of Student Affairs at Salisbury University, where she oversaw 15 offices and programs, including admissions, athletics and campus recreation, career services and student activities. Her higher education experience also includes serving as assistant vice chancellor for Student Development and dean of Student Life at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Jaime Hunthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimehunt/https://twitter.com/JaimeHuntIMCAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:Confessions of a Higher Ed CMO is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you'll like other Enrollify shows too! Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — the next-generation AI student engagement platform helping institutions create meaningful and personalized interactions with students. Learn more at element451.com.Attend the 2025 Engage Summit! The Engage Summit is the premier conference for forward-thinking leaders and practitioners dedicated to exploring the transformative power of AI in education. Explore the strategies and tools to step into the next generation of student engagement, supercharged by AI. You'll leave ready to deliver the most personalized digital engagement experience every step of the way.Register now to secure your spot in Charlotte, NC, on June 24-25, 2025! Early bird registration ends February 1st -- https://engage.element451.com/register

(The first four minutes of audio when I begin my talk is kind of crackly - it clears up after that!) Happy New Year, y'all! I hope everyone had a good holiday season and is feeling hopeful about 2025. Scuyler and I didn't do sh*t, lol. Finished Ozark and went to bed way early. Wouldn't have it any other way! Today's episode is a bit different, today I'm sharing my talk from Cal State San Marcos in October 2023. They invited me to campus to share my addiction and recovery story, as well as easy and effective ways to add fitness to your life. I am also sharing some mental health benefits of exercise and my hope is to inspire you to add some more movement and exercise to your life in 2025! When I changed my motivation from "getting skinny," to " staying happy," my fitness routine became way more consistent and rewarding. Can't wait to hear what y'all think! DM me on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Message me on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Listen AD FREE & workout with me on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Laugh with me on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email me chasingheroine@gmail.com See you next week!

Austin hosts and Carly makes her return back to the podcast as they review and overreact (to only the good things) to the Aztecs exhibition win over Cal State San Marcos and look forward to the season ahead. At the very end they talk a little Aztec Football. #CollegeBasketball #CollegeFootball #NCAA #SanDiegoSports #CollegeSports #SanDiegoState #Aztecs --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aztecbreakdown/support

Diane Strand is an award-winning Executive Producer at JDS Studios and the TV show Spirit of Innovation, the first Riverside County local news and information program. She is the majority owner of JDS Video & Media Productions, Inc / JDS Actors Studio and the founder of nonprofit JDS Creative Academy, she is also a published author who talks about entrepreneurship, and providing pathways for career opportunities in the visual, performing and digital arts. Diane's passion for Workforce Development in the arts, led her to write two approved curriculums for video production. One is a Title 17 program designed for adults with developmental disabilities. The other is a California State approved apprenticeship program for college graduates. These programs provide Hands-On training and paid supported internship opportunities, designed to break down barriers to gainful employment in video production, post production and acting. Diane's prior career life holds credits from A-List shows like; General Hospital, Friends, Veronica's Closet and building the high-def control room at Staples Center, for the last 17 years Diane has been a successful entrepreneur of her own, a multi-award winning production company, working with clients like Abbott Vascular, City of Temecula, Cal State San Marcos and United Healthcare Services to name a few. Diane has launched over 100 videos and acting careers into the mainstream entertainment and video production industry. She sets out to provide H.O.P.E. which Diane defines as; Helping One Person Everyday! Listen to this informative Sharkpreneur episode with Diane Strand about crafting compelling stories. Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show: - How JDS Productions specializes in corporate marketing and communications creating content like training videos and PSAs. - Why JDS Productions targets large corporations in industries like biotech. - How content creation, from social media posts to large-scale marketing campaigns helps businesses achieve success. - How JDS can create broadcast quality television shows for marketing purposes. - Why small changes can significantly impact storytelling. Connect with Diane: Guest Contact Info X @JDSProductions Facebook facebook.com/JDSProductions LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/dianestrand Links Mentioned: jds-productions.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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An evacuation order is in place at Otay Mesa, after an energy storage facility caught fire. We're hearing for the first time from a witness who called 9-1-1 after the Oceanside Pier caught fire. Cal State San Marcos is now offering guaranteed admission to qualified San Diego Unified graduates. Here's NBC 7's Jackie Crea with the top stories of the day.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome back to the Same Business Different Day podcast with host Zeke Corley! Zeke met today's guest Nicolina at a networking event last month, where she and a number of her peers from Cal State San Marcos were fulfilling an assignment to network with local business owners. One of her other requirements was to interview local business owners, so Zeke said "Why not use my platform?" As our show typically discusses the early paths of currently successful business owners, what better opportunity than to talk about Nicolina's early years prior to the success? You'll learn a little more about Zeke in this episode as Nicolina performs her interview on our show! Shoutout to CSUSM's Business 300 program! They are turning out some very impressive future business minds. Thank you to our sponsors for this episode- Couples Unfiltered Podcast, YourInsurancePlace.com, Velocity- The Vista Chamber Podcast, and I Like Beer The Podcast! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samebizpod/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samebizpod/support

We are joined by the softball and baseball star from Cal State San Marcos to get her story --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jim-cross8/support

Author Dan Van Tassel returns to the Sunbury Press Books Show to discuss his new travel memoir, "Beyond Barron." The sequel to the 2008 release, "Back to Barron," Van Tassel tells of he and his wife Rhoda's travels and career. The memoir focuses on schools and universities attended, taught and visited; homes built, bought and redecorated; vehicles and pets acquired, all done with humor and detail.  Dan Van Tassel grew up in Barron, Wisconsin, about 80 miles northeast of Minneapolis, Minnesota and discusses his upbringing in a small town reminiscent of the life Garrison Keillor often wrote and told his own tales about. Van Tassel graduated from St. Olaf College, and earned graduate degrees from the University of Iowa. He taught literature at Muskingum College and Cal State-San Marcos, and now teaches courses for senior citizens. Dan is also the author of the 2022 Sunbury Press release, "Journey by the Book: A Guide to Tales of Travels." He lives in Northfield, Minnesota. 

The Talk of Fame Podcast got to chat with Diane Strand! Diane impact's K- 12, Higher ED students, a community, entrepreneurs, and adults with developmental disabilities to reach for their DREAM (with D- Direction, R- Realization, E- Evaluation A- Action, M - Momentum ). She teaches visual, performing and digital arts providing career pathways. She is the majority owner of JDS Video & Media Productions, Inc / JDS Actors Studio and the founder of nonprofit JDS Creative Academy, she is also a bestselling author on entrepreneurship and Breaking into the Industry as an Actor. Diane is the Founder of DigiFest Temecula (now in its 8th year) the 3 day festival, competition and conference for everything digital. (Film, Video, Music, Animation, Graphic Arts and more) Diane provides pathways for career opportunities in the visual, performing and digital arts. Her passion for Workforce Development in the arts, led her to write two approved curriculums for video production. One is a Title 17 program designed for adults with developmental disabilities. The other is a California State approved apprenticeship program for college graduates. These programs provide Hands-On training along with paid supported internship opportunities, designed to break down barriers to gainful employment in video production, post production and acting. Diane's prior career life holds credits from A-List shows like; General Hospital, Friends, Veronica's Closet and building the high-def control room at Staples Center, for the last 17 years Diane has been a successful entrepreneur of her own, a multi-award-winning production company, working with clients like Abbott Vascular, City of Temecula, Cal State San Marcos and United Healthcare Services to name a few.  Diane has launched over 100 video and acting careers into the mainstream entertainment and video production industry. She sets out to provide H.O.P.E. which Diane defines as; Helping One Person Everyday!  FOLLOW ME:  INSTAGRAM:  Officialkyliemontigney  Talkoffamepod  Facebook:  Officialkyliemontigney  Talkoffame  Twitter:  Kyliemontigney4  ABOUT ME: Hi, I am Kylie! I love sports, spending time with my family, traveling, and meeting people that inspire me. I love listening to other people's stories and sharing their journeys.

San Diego County is investigating reports of a stomach illness outbreak at one of the safe sleeping sites. The recent rain is adding to the coastal erosion of the bluffs along Beacon's Beach. Students at San Diego State and Cal State San Marcos could be affected by a potential week-long labor strike starting today.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this episode, we're joined by Adrianna Adame. Adrianna is an indigenous democracy and education reporter for Buffalo's Fire via Report for America.Buffalo's Fire is a non-profit website that produces independent journalism to enhance the quality of life for Native communities through news coverage that informs and engages American Indians and lifts up our stories to the broader culture.Adrianna is No. 2 on the masthead, the site's lone reporter. She is a 2020 grad of Cal State San Marcos and has a masters from Syracuse. She is of Mexican heritage and an enrolled member of the Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy, Montana. Adrianna talked about her journalism path and previous work experiences. She explained how she has been reconnecting to her Native roots while working in this job. And she shared what it was like to report on stories such as one about a memorial walk for Indian Boarding School survivors, another on a homeless shelter working to promote sobriety and one on the New Year's Eve traditions of her great grandmother. Adrianna's salute: IndigiNewsThank you as always for listening. Please send us feedback to journalismsalute@gmail.com, visit our website thejournalismsalute.org and Mark's website (MarkSimonmedia.com) or tweet us at @journalismpod. And find us on TikTok at @journalismsalute.

Ben & Woods start off the 8am hour by bringing back a funny moment from the end of yesterday's show where Ben makes a noise that we still aren't sure exactly what happened to him. Then we react to Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney going OFF on a caller during his weekly radio show before we talk about the return of San Diego State basketball who won their exhibition game against Cal State San Marcos last night at Viejas Arena! Listen here!

Dr. Delores Lindsey retired as Associate Professor at Cal State San Marcos, San Marcos, and continues to serve as guest lecturer and education consultant. Prior to coming to the University she served as a middle grades and high school teacher, assistant principal, principal, and county office of education administrator. Dr. Lindsey's primary area of research is studying, creating, and sustaining Culturally Proficient teaching and learning environments. Using the lens of Cultural Proficiency, Dr. Lindsey helps educational leaders examine their policies and practices, as well as their individual beliefs and values about cross-cultural communication. Her message to her audiences focuses on socially just educational practices and diversity as assets to be nurtured. She facilitates educators to develop their own inquiry and action research. Her favorite reflective question is: Are we who we say we are?She has co-authored numerous books on Cultural Proficiency and the role of equity and access for educating all students. TwitterLinkedInTHE CENTER FOR CULTURALLY PROFICIENT EDUCATIONAL PRACTICELeading While Female BookWe'd love to hear from our listeners!Connect with Dr. Renae Bryant:TwitterInstagramLinkedInConnect with Lynette White:ConnectEDTwitterInstagramLinkedInLynette White

When it comes to inclusion, it is all about education.   Surrounding yourself around others that are not like yourself is going to push you to learn more about others. This education then leads to the ability to be more inclusive and helping to be more accessible to other groups.   On this show, we had the chance to talk with two amazing gentlemen, both who started their lives out with vision and are now legally blind. The things that these gentlemen are doing to “change the perception of blindness” for others is instrumental!   In this discussion, they talk about the fears that set in when it comes to inclusion and accessibility. There is fear from one side when it comes to asking. Asking if a blind individual needs help. Asking how you can support them. There is fear from the blind community when it comes to applying for jobs, getting support, etc.   We all have fears when it comes to taking steps to change AND change is necessary. Asking the questions is something the simplest place to start.   This episode is a vital episode to listen to if you are wanting to support different communities in being more inclusive and accessible and you don't know where to start. This podcast gives encouragement to just start. It can start with simply asking questions. Ask how to help, how to change, how to improve… and then let's do it! Did you know?   7 out of 10 working age people in Arizona who are blind or visually impaired are not working Estimated to be about 20K 45% of hiring managers believe there are no jobs within their organization that a person who is blind could do Changing the perception of blindness is the biggest barrier to employment and inclusion So, ask the questions to start to make the change.   We are in this together and can make the changes to help others in the blind community. We can help this community and others to feel included and have the tools to allow them the access to resources and jobs.   Arizona Industries for the Blind (AIB) is a solution provider… Solving today's complex business problems by providing quality products and value-added Business Process Outsourcing services that matter to their customers. While providing a viable option for Arizonians who are blind or visually impaired to achieve their version of the “American Dream” through dignified employment.   Their mission is to inspire individuals who are blind or visually impaired to achieve their highest goals and aspirations by creating and sustaining career opportunities while providing quality products and services.   Through collaborative partnerships with Federal, State and private sector companies they are able to provide Third Party Logistics services, Document Conversion services and quality AbilityOne products. David Steinmetz is the Community and Public Relations Manager at Arizona Industries for the Blind in Phoenix. David works to “change the perception of blindness” through his advocacy and public relations efforts.   Mr. Steinmetz serves as the Public Information Committee Chair on the Governor's Council on Blindness & Visual Impairments (GCBVI), and is a Board of Director on the Vision Rehabilitation Assistive Technology Expo and Arizona Center for the Blind & Visually Impaired. David is a graduate of Arizona State University and participated in the National Industries for the Blind Business Management Training program through the Darden School of business.   In 2008, David was the recipient of the National Industries for the Blind Milton J. Samuelson Career Achievement award. This prestigious award recognized Mr. Steinmetz for his career achievements and community service work.   Mr. Steinmetz enjoys spending time with his family, fishing and traveling across the United States. David believes that every person who is blind deserves the right to full participation in work, community and life and with the right training, right technology and right attitude it is possible. Follow AIB on LinkedIn and Facebook.   With a 70% unemployment rate in the blind community, Clusiv is helping remove barriers to employment for the blind community by revolutionizing training and services for the modern workforce.   Their eLearning platform has been built to be accessible with assistive technology that blind or visually impaired people use, and this platform holds employment skills training courses to cover technology, occupational and career skills for the modern-workforce. Clusiv works with state vocational rehabilitation agencies to provide access to its courses to people who are blind or visually impaired. They help simplify the work of vocational rehabilitation counselors through their Assessment Tool, easy enrollment process, and positive outcomes for their clients to achieve measurable skills gained.   Clusiv is here to equip the blind community for employment and impact inclusion in the modern workforce by giving graduates the skills, confidence, and insights needed to find competitive integrated employment and be an advocate for positive change in the workforce for people with disabilities. To learn more and get in touch go to https://clusiv.io/. Blake Steinecke grew up with perfect vision and at the age of 16 a condition called LHON caused him to go through severe central vision loss and become legally blind. This created many new challenges of relearning how to do school, navigating college, employment and more.   Blake has a degree in marketing from Cal State San Marcos and has worked in software sales, marketing in the mountain bike industry, accessibility testing and training, and now leads marketing for Clusiv as the Growth Manager.   Through Blake's work, he is able to connect his educational and professional background, lived experience navigating the challenges of education and employment being blind, and his passion to serve the blind community through the work he does with Clusiv.   Outside of work Blake plays blind hockey for the US Blind Hockey Team, enjoys spending time with his wife, Amanda, and making videos, some of which you can find on his YouTube channel Adapting Sight.   Connect with Blake on LinkedIn and follow Clusiv on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. About Culture Crush Culture is not just a tag word to be thrown around. It is not something you throw in job descriptions to draw people to applying for jobs within a company.   According to Marcus Buckingham and Ashely Goodall in their book Nine Lies About Work, “Culture is the tenants of how we behave. It's like a family creed. This is how we operate and treat each other in the family.” As a growing company:    There are many resources out there for company culture but they are scattered and difficult to find. Culture is not a one size fits all, so it is important for companies to find the resources that are the right fit for growing their own company culture.    We have worked to build a hub that brings all of the resources together in one place and one community. The Culture Crush Business is the one stop shop for everything related to growing company culture.    On this podcast:   We focus on everything surrounding businesses with good company culture. We will talk with company leaders to learn about real-life experiences, tips, and best practices for creating a healthy work environment where employees are finding joy and satisfaction in their work while also striving and growing within the company. We also find the companies that offer resources to help improve company culture and showcase them on the show to share their tips and tricks for growing culture. About the Host Kindra Maples is spartan racer, past animal trainer, previous magician's assistant, and has a weakness for Oreo cookie shakes. Her journey working with people actually started working with animals as a teenager (don't worry we won't go that far back for her bio).   She worked for over 15 years in the zoo industry working with animals and the public. Her passion of working with animals shifted into working with people in education, operations and leadership roles. From there her passion of leadership and helping people develop has continued to grow.   Then came the opportunity for leading the Culture Crush Business Podcast and she jumped on it. Leadership, growth, and strong company cultures are all areas that Kindra is interested in diving into further.

Overseas pro player Greg Milton joined me to discuss his journey to becoming a pro that started at Sac City JC to Wyoming(D1) and then finished off his last 2 seasons starring at Cal State San Marcos(D2)! He discusses many lessons learned and adversity he had to overcome at each stop and gives you insight on what it took to accomplish his goal of becoming a pro. Get ready for some Strayt Talk on this episode!!! •The Strayt Talk With Strayhand Podcast is available on all major platforms! •Follow Oddie Strayhand on Instagram @strayhand https://www.instagram.com/strayhand •Follow Greg on Instagram @iamgmilt

Caroline Wales, a three-time Desert Empire League Team Champion, is on the 2022-23 Women's Golf Roster at Cal State San Marcos. On this episode of The Wednesday Match Play Podcast presented by Mindful "U", Caroline talks about her time at CSUSM, her experience playing Pebble Beach alongside Stephen Ames, her favorite course in the Coachella Valley, how she recovers from making bogey, and reminisces on her high school golf experience. She also talks about her commercial with Rickie Fowler and her passion for running. This was an unforgettable conversation and an honor having Caroline on the show. Let's tee off.

Hola mi gente! Welcome to Siempre Pa'lante! Always Forward. I'm your host, Giraldo Luis Alvaré. Gracias for listening. In this episode, family origins for our guest begin in Mexico and lead to the U.S. His familia instilled in him discipline, work ethic and the power of education. His love for the game of baseball has made a positive impact through coaching on and off the field. He's not afraid to roll up his sleeves and put in the work. He leads a team responsible for the most popular video simulation game on the market exclusively for Major League Baseball. Please welcome, Director of Product Development for MLB the Show, Jason Villa. Gracias for listening. Don't forget to rate, review, follow, subscribe, like and share. Check out my Linktree for more info. Pa'lante! https://linktr.ee/sp.alwaysforward Jason Villa Director of Production, PlayStation Studios, MLB The Show MLB The Show 23 | YouTube | Instagram | Twitter | Twitch | TikTok | Discord MLB The Show 23 - https://theshow.com/  YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9N9mZrlPKIjvPH_9fI20jQ   IG - https://www.instagram.com/MLBTheShow/  Twitter - https://twitter.com/MLBTheShow   Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/sonysandiegostudio TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@mlbtheshow?lang=e Discord - https://discord.com/invite/mlbtheshow NOTABLE MENTIONS MLB The Show, Negro Leagues Storylines, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Sony PlayStation Studios, San Diego Studios, Cal State San Marcos, Tony Gwynn, Aaron Judge, Fernando Tatís Jr., Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico, UCLA, Harvard Law School, Ibarra Chocolate --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spalwaysforward/support

Zion Clark is a legendary American wrestler, professional mixed martial artist, and wheelchair racer who was born without legs due to a rare disorder called Caudal regression syndrome. Zion has set multiple Guinness world records for his various athletics feats, is an inspirational speaker who's appeared on Netflix, CNN, Forbes, Ellen, etc. and has done amazing work to uproot the broken foster care system. Alongside my good friend and Zion's talent manager, Craig Levinson who played basketball for Cal State San Marcos and is now the CEO of CL Talent Agency, we break down the business of Zion and the effort it takes to manage the business of being an international inspiration. @bigz97 @craig.levinson Episode Breakdown: 0:00- Intro 2:10- process of booking appearances for Zion 6:20- Filtering opportunities, managing distractions 12:00- Public speaking training 13:55- Why Craig and Zion train to the brink 17:00- Craig's Playlist and Zion's Playlist 19:30- Outro I do not own the rights to this music (Blxst- Alone (instrumental), Waka Flocka Flame - O let's do it (instrumental)) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/a--and--a/support

Jim DeMello, Coach of the  University of Hawaii - Hilo Vulcans Women's Golf Team  talks with Emily T Gail from Hapuna Golf Course at Mauna Kea Resort on the Big Island of Hawaii where the Division II Dennis Rose invitational with 16 teams was taking place. Jim talked about his history with University of Hawaii-Hilo Men's Golf Team for many years. He had the opportunity to coach the women's team when they received some title IX monies. He has been successful  recruiting players  from the Hilo area which is given local players an opportunity to get college scholarships and pursue their golf experiences. Teams from all over the country enjoy playing in the Dennis Rose invitational because the Vulcans are the hosts and their hospitality is well known. The men's team played their 2 day 36 hole Stroke Play event at Waikoloa Beach Resort. Cal State San Marcos won the Women' Division with Point Luma coming in second.

Meet Ronald Ramirez, the new Dean of The Business School at Cal State San Marcos. His mission: to help students prepare to be outstanding future professionals. Stepping into a new position is always challenging, and Ronald Ramirez meets it head-on as the new Dean of Cal State San Marcos' School of Business Administration. In this interview, you'll get a behind-the-scenes peek into the inner workings of the school's administration, what they are currently doing for the student body, and the amazing things they have planned for them coming up. Preparing students to be great business leaders is Ronald's #1 mission, and even though he's only a few months in, he has brought fresh ideas with him inspired by his time in the private sector, and the results promise to be life changing for the students. Hear all about them in this inspiring and can't-miss interview.  Let's Get Social!  Website: https://www.csusm.edu LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronald-ramirez-ba27234/ Produced by Imagine Podcasting https://www.imaginepodcasting.com/ 

Dr. Darin Gray is the Director of the USC Viterbi K-12 STEM Center and CS@SC Coding Camps. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering from USC Viterbi School of Engineering, a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,  a Master's degree in teaching with an emphasis in mathematics from USC Rossier School of Education, a Master's degree in Cybersecurity from Cal State San Marcos and a Doctorate in Education Technology from Boise State University. He also holds teaching credentials in math and science. He teaches an introduction to engineering course and a cybersecurity seminar at USC. Darin is also an IT and cybersecurity engineer for California State Guard (CSG).Support the show

Jessica Berger, Vice President of University Advancement for California State University San Marcos, announces the university's #1 ranking among 1,400 colleges in Social Mobility. The prestigious recognition will be a catalyst in the university's creation of the West Coast's first Social Mobility Center. Berger chats about the university's largest and most ambitious fundraising campaign, along with its integrated science and engineering program, and its huge support of veterans attending the North County university.

Escondido, Ca based producer and Cal State San Marcos alumni Jorge Flores talks about his roots in Northern California to migrating to Southern Cali, his influences, catalog of instrumental albums, and his latest work with Marlon D for Marlon D's 12th official solo album “The Orphan” and more! For more info follow @dahomie_beats --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Diane Strand is a true inspiration! She wears so many hats with the common thread of true passion for all that she does.   Love this quote, " No one loves your business like you do".    Diane Strand is an award-winning Executive Producer at JDS Studios and the TV show Spirit of Innovation, the first Riverside County local news and information program. She is the majority owner of JDS Video & Media Productions, Inc / JDS Actors Studio and the founder of nonprofit JDS Creative Academy, she is also a speaker and bestselling author on entrepreneurship and Breaking into the Industry as an Actor.   Diane provides pathways for career opportunities in the visual, performing and digital arts. Her passion for Workforce Development in the arts, led her to write two approved curriculums for video production. One is a Title 17 program designed for adults with developmental disabilities. The other is a California State approved apprenticeship program for college graduates. These programs provide Hands-On training along with paid supported internship opportunities, designed to break down barriers to gainful employment in video production, post production and acting.   Diane's prior career life holds credits from A-List shows like; General Hospital, Friends, Veronica's Closet and building the high-def control room at Staples Center, for the last 17 years Diane has been a successful entrepreneur of her own, a multi-award-winning production company, working with clients like Abbott Vascular, City of Temecula, Cal State San Marcos and United Healthcare Services to name a few.   Diane has launched over 100 video and acting careers into the mainstream entertainment and video production industry. She sets out to provide H.O.P.E. which Diane defines as; Helping One Person Everyday!   To connect with Diane:  https://spiritofinnovation.org/ https://jdsstudio.live/ https://digifesttemecula.org/ https://jdsactorsstudio.com/ https://jds-productions.com/ https://jdscreativeacademy.org/   This podcast is all about inspiring , connecting and sharing stories   Like, follow and share so we can hear each other and expand the definition of creativity to make it all inclusive!   There are a bunch of exciting things going on at I Am Creative & Express Yourself Publishing to check out: https://www.iamcreativephilly.com/   If you have always wanted to write a book or be in one then check this out... You will gain community and expand yourself more than you can imagine! https://www.iamcreativephilly.com/express-yourself-publishing-house   We are now gathering contributors for the next multi author book: Creativity Is.... Being You  To check it out go to: https://ytcz2qvw8xc.typeform.com/to/YyTyzAnA   Also I Am Creative is now streaming on RVN TV platform. Check out the weekly interviews with incredible guests as we are expanding the definition of creativity and they are teaching me something... so fun! Check it out: https://rvntelevision.com/tv-show/i-am-creative/     Creatively Yours,  Hollis

DIANE STRAND, the award-winning Executive Producer at JDS Studios & TV show Spirit of Innovation, The majority owner of JDS Video & Media Productions, Inc / JDS Actors Studio and the founder of nonprofit JDS Creative Academy, and two-time bestselling author from California, in California, will join us to discuss entrepreneurship, and providing pathways for career opportunities in the visual, performing and digital arts. FROM HER WEBSITE: "Diane Strand is the majority owner of the multi-award winning JDS Video & Media Productions, Inc. The Producer at JDS Actors Studio and Founder of the nonprofit 501c3 JDS Creative Academy. In addition, Diane is the Creator and Executive Producer of the show Spectrum of Innovation news and information for Riverside and Digifest Temecula.JDS Video & Media Productions, Inc. was established in May of 2003, with her partner in both life and business, Scott Strand. Their multi award winning corporate video company was built mostly on word of mouth; some of their local clients include Abbott Vascular, City of Temecula, Temecula Chamber, MSJC, Cal State San Marcos and Temecula Valley Hospital. In January 2010, Diane started a Drama Club program with Scott, which launched in the Temecula Unified School District. There was such a huge response that they decided to create an Actors Studio for all ages to learn the technique and craft of Acting, which is now known as JDS Actors Studio. JDS Actors Studio has launch well over 100 actors into mainstream Film, Television, Commercial and Theater acting careers and provided well over 700 students in the Temecula Valley creative enrichment, self-confidence and leadership skills through acting classes. In 2014, Diane founded and launched the nonprofit 501c3 JDS Creative Academy (JDSCA), which offers education, training & apprenticeship, programs in all disciplines of visual, performing and digital arts. JDS Creative Academy located at JDS Studios, services the entire Temecula Valley and surrounding regions with a mission to inspire, educate, and enhance achievement in video production and workforce development by providing job skills and hands-on training in the visual, performing and digital arts. JDSCA works with foster and at-risk youth, autistic young adults, developmentally disabled adults and mainstream populations both youth and adults, creating cross- collaborative enrichment, workforce training, and a creative safe environment for all. Diane founded the Digifest Temecula Event in 2017, and created and launched the web series program Spectrum of Innovation in 2018 through JDS Creative Academy." www.jds-productions.com

DIANE STRAND, the award-winning Executive Producer at JDS Studios & TV show Spirit of Innovation, The majority owner of JDS Video & Media Productions, Inc / JDS Actors Studio and the founder of nonprofit JDS Creative Academy, and two-time bestselling author from California, in California, will join us to discuss entrepreneurship, and providing pathways for career opportunities in the visual, performing and digital arts. FROM HER WEBSITE: "Diane Strand is the majority owner of the multi-award winning JDS Video & Media Productions, Inc. The Producer at JDS Actors Studio and Founder of the nonprofit 501c3 JDS Creative Academy. In addition, Diane is the Creator and Executive Producer of the show Spectrum of Innovation news and information for Riverside and Digifest Temecula.JDS Video & Media Productions, Inc. was established in May of 2003, with her partner in both life and business, Scott Strand. Their multi award winning corporate video company was built mostly on word of mouth; some of their local clients include Abbott Vascular, City of Temecula, Temecula Chamber, MSJC, Cal State San Marcos and Temecula Valley Hospital. In January 2010, Diane started a Drama Club program with Scott, which launched in the Temecula Unified School District. There was such a huge response that they decided to create an Actors Studio for all ages to learn the technique and craft of Acting, which is now known as JDS Actors Studio. JDS Actors Studio has launch well over 100 actors into mainstream Film, Television, Commercial and Theater acting careers and provided well over 700 students in the Temecula Valley creative enrichment, self-confidence and leadership skills through acting classes. In 2014, Diane founded and launched the nonprofit 501c3 JDS Creative Academy (JDSCA), which offers education, training & apprenticeship, programs in all disciplines of visual, performing and digital arts. JDS Creative Academy located at JDS Studios, services the entire Temecula Valley and surrounding regions with a mission to inspire, educate, and enhance achievement in video production and workforce development by providing job skills and hands-on training in the visual, performing and digital arts. JDSCA works with foster and at-risk youth, autistic young adults, developmentally disabled adults and mainstream populations both youth and adults, creating cross- collaborative enrichment, workforce training, and a creative safe environment for all. Diane founded the Digifest Temecula Event in 2017, and created and launched the web series program Spectrum of Innovation in 2018 through JDS Creative Academy." www.jds-productions.com

Ally Spooner, an Oak Park High graduate who played for the Cal State San Marcos women's soccer team, talks about the importance of having mental health resources for student-athletes.Relevant LinksOpen Letter - The Truth About College Sports & Mental HealthSpooner has heart of a championCalling the shotsA Basketball Miracle  (Story written by Ally Spooner) Branching OutFind us on TwitterEmail us at branchingout@theacorn.comWritten by  Eliav AppelbaumProduced and Edited by David LopezMusic by Ian Bradley SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!Timios Title and Escrow Services211 Village Commons Blvd. #13, Camarillo(800) 377-8019Maid in America HousecleaningCall for a free estimate!(805) 499-7259Gold Coast Veterans Foundation4001 Mission Oaks Blvd, Suite D, Camarillo, CA(805) 482-6550Save a Life Thrift Stores315 Arneill Rd #103, Camarillo (888) 876-0605

This is a four part series for Pride Month called, "Be Curious, Not Judgmental". On June 28, 1969  New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club located in Greenwich Village in New York City. The raid sparked a riot among bar patrons and neighborhood residents as police roughly hauled employees and patrons out of the bar, leading to six days of protests and violent clashes with law enforcement outside the bar on Christopher Street, in neighboring streets and in nearby Christopher Park. The Stonewall Riots served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world. In Volume One of our series we chat with Nicole Verdes (She/They) about what's going on in the Queer community. Nicole is the Board President of Lambda Archives–the first nonbinary person to hold this position. At Lambda Archives, she has been successful in using her passion for social justice, arts and culture, and cultural preservation to create policies that center equity and access to the arts. In the conversation, Will asks for Nicole to explain the significance, and importance, of using pronouns, which Will admits he hasn't thought much about them until this series began. The gang then switches gears and talk about the significance of Pride Month, mainly the Stonewall riots, and the monumental SCOTUS decision that allowed her and her wife to be lawfully married.  Learn more about Lambda Archives: https://lambdaarchives.orgGuest Bio:Nicole has been living and working in San Diego since 2002, when she relocated from San Bernardino for work. She is a passionate community leader with six years of experience in nonprofit management and board governance and more than twenty years of experience in the financial services industry. She is well-versed in client account management, budget development, tax laws and reporting, and conflict resolution. Nicole holds a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and a Master's Degree in Sociological Practice from Cal State San Marcos. She enjoys volunteering in the Queer community, most recently as the Board President of Lambda Archives–the first nonbinary person to hold this position. At Lambda Archives, she has been successful in using her passion for social justice, arts and culture, and cultural preservation to create policies that center equity and access to the arts. In addition to her role at Lambda Archives, she has served on the Executive Committee of the San Diego LGBT Community Centers' Young Professionals Council, Board Treasurer for Volunteer With Cheli, and a member of the Steering Committee for Rising Arts Leaders San Diego. She has presented on topics such as Youth Archival Futures at the ALMS Conference in Berlin and has served on a grant panel for the California Arts Council's Administrators of Color Fellowship program.  Support the show

Hey. How are you? How's your mental health? Yes, really.In this month's episode, I invited my mental health neighbor and forever dance partner in science, Krystle Osby. We talk about our mental health journeys so far as it pertains to our graduate school career. So for you academics out there, maybe there is something that we say that you relate to. I then introduce her Johnny Mathis' "When Sunny Gives Blue" as we discuss how doctors would identify and diagnose depression in the 1950s and onward as protocols were updated. More info on Krystle belowKrystle Osby is a PhD graduate student studying mutations in endometrial cancer at Huntsman Cancer Institute and University of Utah. She has a B.S. in Biotechnology from Cal State San Marcos, and experience working as a biochemist post-bacc. She is passionate about science communication and increasing patient access to knowledge and health resources, with an emphasis on historically minoritized and at-risk communities.Follow her!Intagram @k_raqTwitter: @KrystleographySong of the Sound: Present by KhalidFollow Us.Instagram: @scientificallysoundTikTok: @scientificallysoundemail: 4thescientificallysound@gmail.com

Kimberly Ayers is an assistant professor of mathematics at Cal State San Marcos, where she studies the mathematics of hybrid systems. Kimberly is a genuine theorist (in contrast to us computer science neanderthals, haha) and this talk touched on some of the aspects of hybrid systems that make them theoretically interesting (e.g., how the topology imposed on a skew flow can apparently be quite strange). Since I've only previously seen hybrid systems work in CS, where it's always motivated by practical justifications like "Boeing", this was refreshing and cool! Anyway we had a really nice time with a great conversation section, and if you missed it, I'm sure you'll thoroughly enjoy the recording. You can read more about Kimberly HERE.

Cheers to having Melina, a 19-year-old sophomore at Cal State San Marcos with a podcast called Life's an Adventure podcast. In this episode, the three of us chat about... Being a college student (classes, roommates, fun!) Being podcast hosts How to stay motivated and balanced --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/party-of-two2/support

Cheers to having Melina, a 19-year-old sophomore at Cal State San Marcos with a podcast called Life's an Adventure podcast. In this episode, the three of us chat about... Being a college student (classes, roommates, fun!) Being podcast hosts How to stay motivated and balanced --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/party-of-two2/support

We are excited to welcome the first guest of the SYCK Podcast, Barbara Campbell! Barb is a result-oriented professional with 15+ years of experience as a trusted advisor and Sr. Manager at Salesforce. Today, she and Alan talk about her first career in sports marketing, how she made the leap into technology and the lessons she learned along the way. Tune in as we talk about the importance of networking when making a career pivot, how to give and get feedback in individually effective ways, and whether or not to include a cover letter in your next job application.  IN THIS EPISODE: [04:45] Barb shares about her first career in sports marketing, lessons learned from earlier jobs and her first role at Salesforce [17:05] The seniority levels of Salesforce and Barb's move to working with internal stakeholders  [22:20] Maternity leave benefits and the reasons why Barb has stayed at Salesforce for a decade now [31:28] Volunteer mentoring at Cal State San Marcos and leadership coaching at Salesforce [39:40] The skill of asking for things in your career, facing rejection and gaining confidence [48:12] The most common career obstacle that people face [51:34] Best practices for job applications and virtual interviews and common derailers for candidates KEY TAKEAWAYS: Coaching/mentoring  breaks down barriers and titles of bureaucracy. Everybody needs a coach, no matter how senior you are. Coaching and being coached allows people the opportunity to flourish, change and pivot.  Actively ask for feedback. When you get it, ask questions and get specific about making it measurable so you can constantly be improving your skills and moving forward in your career.  Gain confidence by advocating for your needs in your job. Start by asking for something small and work your way up. There's always the fear of rejection but that's life and people are going to judge you, no matter what you do. So just do it anyway!  RESOURCE LINKS Professional Trouble Maker by Luvvie Ajayi Jones Syckpodcast.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanjstein/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/kadimacareers/ https://twitter.com/kadimacareers https://www.facebook.com/kadimacareer https://www.instagram.com/kadimacareers https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN_kDPq7iNPAfjPZMj10STg   BIO: Barbara Campbell is a result-oriented professional with 15+ years of experience as a trusted advisor for large enterprise customers and Fortune 500 brands. She spent the first part of her career in sports marketing, working on promotions for licensed sponsor activations in the professional sports and entertainment industry. Moving from sports to technology was a big shift, but a welcome one. Being hired onto the world's #1 CRM platform, Salesforce, Barb would get to work with customers on developing their SaaS adoption strategies. This eventually led to a desire to resolve complex customer issues in global escalations, where she has now built and manages a team of escalation managers in North America. Barb's other passion lies in coaching and high-impact teaming facilitation, which she leverages at Salesforce and as an Executive in Residence at California State University San Marcos. She truly believes any job can be your #dreamjob if you design it that way. https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbcampbell

This week's guest is Dr. Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, Professor of History at Cal State San Marcos where she teaches comparative history with courses focused around Haitian history, revolutionary Europe, women in Jewish history and travel and contact in the early modern world. Dr. Goldstein Sepinwall thought she'd go to law school initially but inspiring debates and discussions with friends in the dorms, including at Oxford University, started to change that. After undergrad, she applied to law school and PhD History programs and got into both! She even interned at the Supreme Court and worked as a legal secretary but the history program ultimately won out. Dr. Goldstein Sepinwall is trained as a historian of France. She became captivated with the 18th century ideals of equality and how they applied to the conflicting existence of slavery in the French colony of Haiti. This led to her own studies of Haiti and the lack of knowledge around Haiti has motivated her to teach about it too. It is clear that Dr. Goldstein Sepinwall loves her students and learning about their backgrounds. She seeks to build community in her classroom and students find themselves immersed in multi-sensory experiences that include the incorporation of food and dance breaks. It isn't surprising that she took home a student-nominated award, the Harry E. Brakebill Outstanding Professor Award which is a top honor at Cal State San Marcos. She has published three books books including her most recent, "Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games”. It is one of the first books about video games written by a historian. In her spare time, and outside of pandemic times, Dr. Goldstein Sepinwall is also active with the San Diego Jewish Film Festival volunteering her time as an academic, speaker and chaffeur. We also talk about her parents who are also academics. You'll have to listen to learn more! Official Bio: Dr. Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall is Professor of History at California State University – San Marcos and past winner of the university's Brakebill Distinguished Professor Award. She received her BA in History and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and her MA and PhD in History from Stanford University. Her research specialties include the French and Haitian Revolutions, modern Haitian history, Slavery and Film, French colonialism, French-Jewish history, history and video games, and the history of gender. Her most recent book, Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games, was published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2021. Her previous works include the biography The Abbé Grégoire and the Making of Modern Universalism (University of California Press, new in paperback, 2021), and Haitian History: New Perspectives (Routledge, 2012). Note from Rabiah (Host): I had an incredible time speaking with Dr. Goldstein Sepinwall. If you haven't listened already, you'll find her to be enthusiastic and open and quite frankly someone you could talk to all day. One thing that resonated with me is that as a student, she reached out to a respected professor for advice. That's what I did just over a year ago when I was working on my short-term path. That really resonated with me. People want to help. Reach out to them. Also, in talking about her students, I learned she has a true interest in people and their backgrounds. The fact that she teaches non-history majors history and takes the time to know them and care made me think of the pivotal time I had at UCSD when I took science classes for non-science majors and had some incredible professors who also cared (and some who did not). +++++ Find Dr. Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrSepinwall Book - Slave Revolt on Screen:

Mary Ann Scott Financial Flossing: Guiding Dental Professionals to a Brighter Future with Ross Brannon  Episode 029: Unfound Money: Claiming Yours Through the R&D Tax Incentives Mary Ann Scott spent 25 years as a senior manager in global operational roles for Fortune 200 technology companies working in Boston and Silicon Valley. She was recruited as a CEO to a take over a venture-backed startup and continued working with small businesses and early-stage companies until she was introduced by an investor to Business Group Resources. She is also a faculty advisor and Executive In Resident at Cal State San Marcos, teaching and coaching students.  Listen to this information-packed Financial Flossing episode, where Mary Ann explains how dentists can access unfound money through the R&D tax incentives. Here is what to expect on this week's show: The definition and history of the R&D tax incentives How dentists, specifically, can utilize the incentives, and what makes them such a prime sector to take advantage of them Dispelling pervasive myths about R&D tax credits Why you shouldn't be afraid of audits when thinking about taking advantage of these incentives Why so many of Mary Ann's clients are glad they took her advice Connect with Mary Ann: WEBSITE: http://maryann.businessgroupresources.com/ LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryannrussoscott/ EMAIL: maryann@businessgroupresources.com PHONE NUMBER: 858-382-8830 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining the show is Diane Strand! Diane Strand is an award-winning Executive Producer at JDS Studios and the TV show Spirit of Innovation, the first Riverside County local news and information program. She is the majority owner of JDS Video & Media Productions, Inc / JDS Actors Studio and the founder of nonprofit JDS Creative Academy, she is also a published author who talks about entrepreneurship, and providing pathways for career opportunities in the visual, performing and digital arts. Diane's passion for Workforce Development in the arts, led her to write two approved curriculums for video production. One is a Title 17 program designed for adults with developmental disabilities. The other is a California State approved apprenticeship program for college graduates. These programs provide Hands-On training and paid?supported internship opportunities, designed to breakdown barriers to gainful employment in video production, post production and acting. Diane's prior career life holds credits from A-List shows like; General Hospital, Friends, Veronica's Closet and building the high-def control room at Staples Center, for the last 17 years Diane has been a successful entrepreneur of her own, a multi-award winning production company, working with clients like Abbott Vascular, City of Temecula, Cal State San Marcos and United Healthcare Services to name a few. Diane has launched over 100 video and acting careers into the mainstream entertainment and video production industry. She sets out to provide H.O.P.E. which Diane defines as; Helping One Person Everyday! https://www.facebook.com/DianeStrand.JDS --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shutupandgrind/support

Sociology professor, writer, and performer Kimberly Dark returns to the podcast to discuss her latest book, Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old; why appearance is a form of privilege; how ageism intersects with other oppressions; how diet culture has influenced our ideas about self-improvement; why women are often penalized for not wearing makeup; and so much more. Plus, Christy answers a listener question about how alcohol consumption fits into intuitive eating. (This episode originally aired on February 10, 2020.) Kimberly Dark is a writer, professor and raconteur, working to reveal the hidden architecture of everyday life so that we can reclaim our power as social creators. She's the author of Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old, The Daddies, and Love and Errors. Her essays, stories and poetry are widely published in academic and popular publications alike (Ms, Ravishly, Everyday Feminism). Since the 1990s, Kimberly has been facilitating discovery-based learning internationally -- in person, as well as in writing. She hosts retreats, and travels to teach workshops and offer keynote presentations. Her work uses storytelling in lectures and performances themed to help audiences discover the contours of privilege and oppression and use their own complex wisdom about the world. Kimberly teaches sociology at Cal State San Marcos and writing/arts courses at Cal State Summer Arts. Learn more at KimberlyDark.com. Subscribe to our newsletter, Food Psych Weekly, to keep getting new weekly Q&As and other new content while the podcast is on hiatus! If you're ready to break free from diet culture once and for all, come check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course. You'll get all your questions answered in an exclusive monthly podcast, plus ongoing support in our private community forum and dozens of hours of other great content. Christy's first book, Anti-Diet, is available wherever you get your books. Order online at christyharrison.com/book, or at local bookstores across North America, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Grab Christy's free guide, 7 simple strategies for finding peace and freedom with food, for help getting started on the anti-diet path. For full show notes and a transcript of this episode, go to christyharrison.com/foodpsych. Ask your own question about intuitive eating, Health at Every Size, or eating disorder recovery at christyharrison.com/questions.

The city of San Diego is suing the real estate brokerage firm and broker who advised the housing commission in acquiring two hotels to house unsheltered people during the peak of the pandemic. Plus, the economic divide is showing up in vaccination rates across California. Medi-Cal enrollees have been vaccinated at substantially lower rates than the overall population. Also, the Biden administration and DOD have endorsed major changes in how sexual assaults in the military are handled. In addition, scorching heat continues in San Diego's backcountry, but at the beaches it's a different story, as ocean temperatures are colder than usual. Then, Sesame Street has tackled difficult issues in a kid-friendly way, now it's taking on how military families can talk about racism. And, the new Amazon fulfillment center in Otay Mesa is ready to hire 1,500 people, but low wages and a competitive labor market are creating doubt on whether they will find enough workers. Finally, a Cal State San Marcos professor's new book looks at the Haitian Revolution in film and video games.

Adapt. Improvise. Overcome. Season 2, Episode 2: Matt Bergandi - Assistant Baseball Coach at Cal State San Marcos We are getting better with every episode. We have almost narrowed down the format for the visuals. We really appreciate your support! Today, Ray McIntire and Austin Byler talk about our unbelievable trip to Colorado and Wyoming. They dive into the newest segments on THE GOOD NEWS, THE ZEN OF THE WEEK, and our INTERVIEW. This week we are joined by Matt Bergandi. Matt is a newly-hired assistant coach at Cal State San Marcos in Southern California. He talks about his transition from the University of San Diego, the differences in the positions, as well as the unbelievable run their team went on last year (They had some dudes). This was a fun interview with a great friend of ours. We are really excited to watch how they do this year with Bergandi in there. We wish him all the best. If you have a person that you would like to see interviewed, please let us know in the comment section! As always, if you enjoyed, subscribe and turn on notifications. Have a great day! If you have a comment or just want to leave a warm review please rate on apple podcasts. This helps us grow! Any topics that you would like covered please email rmcintiremlu@gmail.com! If you haven't already and want to receive all of our latest content, be sure to sign up for our Weekend Rotation newsletter at the link below! majorleagueuniversity.us20.list-manage.com/sub…c0c IG: @majorleagueuniversity Twitter: @MajorUniversity Facebook: Major League University YouTube: Major League University www.majorleagueuniversity.com #TrainTheMind #DevelopingLeaders

In the mid-1930s, Russian-born muralist Victor Arnautoff was commissioned by the New Deal’s Public Works of Art Project to paint a series of frescoes at sites around the San Francisco Bay Area. One of his more ambitious undertakings covered 1,600 square feet of wall space inside the lobby and stairwells of George Washington High School, depicting scenes from Washington’s life as a military leader and statesman. Parts of the work portray a slaughtered Native American and enslaved African-Americans, which Arnautoff — a Communist whose art was an outgrowth of his activism — deliberately foregrounded.Whatever his intentions at the time, Arnautoff is now at the center of a heated controversy among students, parents and community members, some of whom find the images traumatizing and want them “painted over” or removed. Host Amna Khalid spoke with those on both sides of the issue, equally passionate and resolute. She brings us the story.* FULL TRANSCRIPT* ALLISON COLLINS: A Native American that is dead on a wall and having people walk over him? That has cultural significance.DR. JOELY PROUDFIT: Enough is enough. Stop with the racism, stop with the dehumanization, stop with the genocidal artwork. Not in our public schools.COLLINS: That painful history is not something that needs to be consistently in children’s faces.JOHN LEARNED: Hey, as hard as those things are to look at, that's what really happened. There’s Indians that want to tell their history, they want people to know what happened.AMNA KHALID: This is a story of a painting — “Life of Washington,” by Russian artist Victor Arnautoff. It hangs on the walls of a high school in San Francisco. And I say walls because it’s actually 13 separate paintings covering 1600 square feet. It’s a series of vivid and sometimes violent vignettes from George Washington's life. The first panel is of Washington in his 20s. Later on, a scene from the French and Indian War. The Boston Tea Party. Winter at Valley Forge. Surrender at Yorktown.There are members of the community who find some of these images disturbing. Even traumatizing. One painting shows colonists walking past a Native American, dead on the ground. Another is of enslaved African-Americans on Washington’s plantation at Mount Vernon. Many students want the murals ... gone.Of course, it’s not that simple. First, there’s a logistical problem: these are frescoes, which means they were applied directly onto the wet plaster of the walls. But the bigger problem is philosophical: Should we remove the art? Because there are just as many who want these frescoes to stay exactly where they are — where they’ve been since 1936 — forcing us to confront the atrocities of America’s founding for nearly a century. But do they really belong… in a high school?I’m Amna Khalid, and this is Banished.How do we reckon with painful reminders of past sins? What responsibility do we have to shield our children — or adults for that matter — from material that they find offensive? What do we do about paintings and ideas, even people, that we now find unacceptable? Do we just cancel them? What does that even mean? In the case of one high school in San Francisco, it might mean destroying art.TRACY BROWN: The mural depicts violence and triggers emotional trauma, creating an unsafe environment which may get in the way of student learning.  This mural has had no teaching significance ...AMY ANDERSON: The depiction of indigenous warriors attacking white soldiers, who stand with the arms raised in surrender, erases the reality that George Washingtion ordered all-out war without diplomacy against indigenous peoples.TRONG: This mural is not teaching students about the history of slavery and indigenous genocide under George Washington or other settlers. Instead it is teaching students to normalize violence and death of our Black and indigenous communities. Paint it down.AK: Those are the voices of parents and students pleading with the San Francisco school board to paint over the mural. On social media, the movement is called “hashtag paint it down.” One of the women you heard was Amy Anderson. She’s an indigenous mother whose son was in 10th grade at the time. Here she is, again before the school board, on the image of the dead warrior face down on the ground.ANDERSON: The size and placement of the deceased American Indian warrior creates in me a deep sadness for the millions of indigenous people who were killed by forced assimilation or all-out war. With the signers of the U.S. Constitution, George Washington stands beside the fallen warrior, but not a single eye is diverted in his direction. There is no remorse for his death. And students and staff who are rushing to beat the bell breeze past this every day.AK: In June, 2019, the school board voted to paint over the murals. The total cost, including a lengthy environmental impact review, would run to about three quarters of a million dollars.PROUDFIT: My name is Dr. Joely Proudfit. I am Luiseño Payómkawichum. I am the director of the California Indian Culture and Sovereignty Center at Cal State San Marcos and the chair of the American Indian Studies Department at Cal State San Marcos.AK: Dr. Proudfit applauded the Board’s decision. She says the murals are from the perspective of European invaders, they are simply inaccurate and that they are dangerous.PROUDFIT: These false and harmful images do a number on our self-esteem and especially the self-esteem and the aspirations of our young people, especially our children. It reinforces negative stereotypes about non-native people. It keeps us in the past as a people that has been defeated or conquered in some capacity. It internalizes biases, stereotypes, misunderstandings, ignorance, furthers this notion of manifest destiny and colonization.AK: Interpreting art is obviously subjective. We could argue for years, and we have, over what these paintings are communicating. But perhaps a good place to start is with the artist himself. Do we have any idea of what Victor Arnautoff intended when he painted these murals?CHERNY: Arnautoff was living at a time when people on the left were very conscious of the oppression of people of color and wanted to dramatize that.AK: Robert Cherny is the author of Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art.CHERNY: And you see that in the four largest murals, he is centering people who were often being either ignored or actively erased. You know, the French and Indian wars mural puts a Native American in the center, the Revolutionary War puts working people in the center, Mount Vernon plantation puts enslaved Black people in the center and the settlement of the West puts a dead Native American in the center.AK: In centering the dead Native American, Arnautoff is critiquing fellow artists of the time, who portrayed colonization as worthy, even laudable.CHERNY: The white settlers are always painted in a fashion that makes it clear that they are being celebrated by the artist, that the artist is celebrating the settlement of the West by white men and women who are taking over empty territory. Arnautoff is breaking with that pattern to show that the white settlers were moving into territory that they had acquired by war, that they had acquired by killing the original inhabitants.AK: If those were Arnautoff’s intentions when he painted these murals, they haven’t always been interpreted that way. They first became controversial back in the 1960s, when Black students at the school started demanding more positive representations of African-Americans on the walls.Now what’s interesting is that the solution at that time was not to cover the murals, but to add even more art. The school commissioned a young Black artist named Dewey Crumpler to paint response murals. He would depict the historic struggles of African Americans, Native Americans and other minorities. Crumpler still lives in the Bay Area, and remembers that when he took the job he had one condition.CRUMPLER: I would only make the mural if they left that mural in place because Arnautoff was trying to expose a history that should be told and understood, even though he knew that the imagery was not easy imagery. He wanted to tell a truth about the contradiction of a Founding Father who signed a document that said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights.”He and those other signers of the Great Document, and it is a great document, while standing on the neck, while standing on the neck of African peoples who are under his boot, laying on the ground that belongs to the millions of Native Americans who also have died, shed blood, fighting for their right to their space.AK: There are certainly many Native Americans who agree with Dewey Crumpler that the murals are painful, but they are truthful and should remain. Robert Tamaka Bailey is a Choctaw elder who told me that these paintings are imbued with deep layers of symbolism and meaning. You just have to know where to look.BAILEY: And that’s the first thing that I saw in this one particular mural that had the dead native in it. If you looked in the bottom right hand corner, there's a chief that's sitting there handing a peace pipe over to a settler with his tomahawk behind the back of the settler. That’s the ways of the white man. What they did is they got us to lay our weapons down, came to us, try to make treaties, and then they took. They broke the treaty. What was pointed out to me later that I didn't notice was there's a tree right behind the chief, and if you looked at it, the branch is broken. Arnautoff was conveying there the broken treaties. And when I saw the images of the settlers stepping over the dead bodies of the native in gray — it's the only pictures of all of ’em that was not colored, it was in gray — I immediately thought, here's the gray area of what we're being taught about George Washington.AK: John Learned, of the Cheyenne Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, is another Native elder who wants these murals to stay. He sees them as a unique opportunity to remember and to address history.LEARNED: Unfortunately, it was a dark time for American Indians and that, that mural really has an opportunity to tell the story. And I think it'd be great if they, if they added that to their curriculum there in, in California to talk about what the United States and the state of California and the eradication efforts that they took to wipe out American Indians. When you get rid of something, it's gone. It’s finished. You're not talking about it and this mural in California has an opportunity to talk about the history.AK: I asked Dr. Proudfit, the professor at Cal State, what she would say to those Native Americans who are in favor of keeping the murals.PROUDFIT: It's like saying, well, we talked to some African-American folks and you know what, they're OK with the N-word so we're gonna go ahead and use it. No, no, no. And let me tell you how disingenuous the people who want to keep up these murals have been. They have gone so far as to go out of state, find some Native Americans, or self-defined Native Americans that agree with keeping these murals up. But you know what they don't do? They don't listen to the very people whose lands they are on who are opposed to it. And while, yes, not all of us think exactly alike. The majority, and we have ample evidence, when our own national associations like the APA, like the ASA, like Illuminative, have done national surveys to find that these types of images are harmful to us, take our majority word for it. It is inappropriate and we would not allow for this type of racist antics and imagery for any other population.AK: I looked at the surveys that Dr. Proudfit cited. The images that Native Americans were asked about, and that many actually found harmful, were of sports Mascots and other caricatures. They had nothing at all to do with the kind of artistic renditions in the murals.The evidence that I did find of what some Native Americans think about Arnautoff’s murals was from February, 2021. A group of Native American leaders from across the country wrote to the school board protesting the decision to cover the murals. The paintings, they concluded, should be used as educational tools.Of course, there is also the argument that this kind of art simply does not belong on the walls of a high school. Again, Dr. Proudfit.PROUDFIT: This is a public school that should provide safe working and learning environments for all students, not simply just native students, but all students. And so these harmful effects, these stereotypical harmful toxic narratives hurt not only native students, but non-native students who are still learning or have yet to learn about the original nations and people of this land. We would not tolerate this for any other population. What if George Washington High School had images painted by someone who's trying to depict dead Jewish people at the hands of Nazis. Do you think that would be okay to have those images up in a public school?AK: But hang on. Isn’t that part of being a student — contending with deplorable, even distressing, truths? That’s how Dewey Crumpler sees it.CRUMPLER: Let me just say that the most important place for young people to confront difficulty is in high school, just before you get into the world. So a young person seeing difficult imagery, that's a perfect opportunity for teaching. Okay, you're not going to read Huckleberry Finn because of some words. They're offensive. I was offended by them. But, if it's in the world, it's for me. If it's in the world, I have a right to it. I have a right to know it. I have a right to experience it, and it's my youth that helps prepare me for it, even though it will be problematic. That's how we learn to overcome the difficulties.CHERNY: I think we can probably assume that Arnatouff wanted them to be a bit disturbed.AK: Robert Cherny, the author of the book about Arnautoff, says that Arnautoff was deliberate in placing the murals. He wanted them to be precisely where they are, in the lobby and stairwells of a public high school.CHERNY: He wanted them to confront the reality that the settlement of the West had come at an enormous cost to the original inhabitants of the West. He said that it was expansion by war and peace, that he wanted the students to confront the fact that they were living in a place that had been taken from the first people by force. I think that Arnautoff wanted them to be troubled by the image that he was presenting there. He wanted them to be disturbed, I don't think he was trying to traumatize them or offend them, he was trying to get them to think.AK: But what about the fact that now we're in different times, maybe if he was alive today, he'd be part of, you know, people on the left who are campaigning for the rights of people of color, and that's perhaps what he was doing then. But now we know the history. How would you respond to people who say: Well, this may have been all well and good and revolutionary and wonderful when he painted them, but we have moved on and we no longer need these murals.CHERNY: Well, do we ever need art at all? I mean, there's a really big question here. If we disagree with something in the past, do we just erase it and pretend it never happened? You know, that's what Arnautoff was in fact objecting to in the way he presented his art. He was objecting to the erasure of people of color. He was objecting to the erasure of slavery and genocide. And if we say that, okay, maybe his intent was okay, but his intent is irrelevant, and therefore we have to just erase him and his art. I find that really very troubling because we, we’re not learning from it in that case. To me, the purpose of art, any art, is to make you think. And if it is purely decorative, it's not art, it's decoration. And I think that if we are going to ban art that makes you think because someone might be offended by thinking about those topics, then, you know, our culture is going to be a very sad one, I'm afraid. I hope I never see that.AK: In 1935, the San Francisco Chronicle published an interview with Victor Arnautoff. He told the paper: “As I see it, the artist is a critic of society.” What Arnautoff could not have foreseen was that decades later, society would become a critic of the artist.The longer I think about this issue, the more I find myself wondering, why must the solution be reduced to only two options: cover the murals OR let them stay up? Can’t we come up with a more creative solution? How about keeping the murals up and contextualizing them? Well it turns out, Dewey Crumpler suggested exactly this decades ago when he painted his response murals. He asked the school board to put up explanatory plaques alongside Arnautoff’s artwork, much the way museums do.CRUMPLER: Every generation is different. They confront new issues, and therefore you have to give them information, otherwise they will misunderstand all the implications and symbolisms that are all over those murals. Whether it's Arnautoff or my mural in the future, unless something is done to explain them, to make them clear, this will crop up again.AK: As it stands, these murals are devoid of any signposts that tell us where we are and what they might mean.CRUMPLER: Those murals have to be contextualized. And when you are young, everything looks larger than it is. When I saw those murals in 1966, I was incensed by them and they looked huge. When I came back to engage them, they were much smaller. And I’d come to understand profoundly why he used those images. In fact, one of the people who had been most vociferous about taking those walls down, once he, like me, had graduated from college, he apologized to me: “Mr. Crumpler, I really appreciate what you painted. I appreciate those murals greatly, but if I understood what Arnautoff was doing, I would’ve never done what we did.”He couldn't have come to that realization if I had joined them and said, “Yes, let's tear this s**t down. And when we tear it down, I'll paint over every bit of it.” Because they would have been prepared to do that, but the foresight of the board, because they were not going to permit this painting to be destroyed. And it was very important to all those board members and people who had been trained in the notion and understanding of art. But this new cohort of people, they're not trained in the arts, they don't really have that same sense of the importance of an artistic work.I tried to create a worthy dialogue but of course, once I had made that mural, the school board relaxed and they didn't do what I said at the dedication they should do. You have to use those murals as teaching tools and you have to put plaques next to them that explain them.AK: To my mind, that is the smartest solution. High school, where children are becoming adults, isprecisely the place where they need to confront troubling ideas. I asked Dr. Proudfit whether contextualizing Arnautoff’s murals by putting up written explanations might be a way forward.PROUDFIT: A public high school is not the place for that conversation, we are not at that point and we are far from that point. And the analysis or the example you just gave of the promise that was made 50 years ago, 60 years ago, and that that promise has went unmet, American Indians know about broken promises. We're very familiar with broken promises. This is a safety issue. This is a health and wellness issue. Okay, so if that means you take those walls out and you put them in storage until, I don't know, 10, 20, 30, 40, whenever people want to get around to telling the truth, and telling the truth from all sides, then maybe they can be brought out and have that discussion. But I would make a point to say that public high schools are not that place because we don't have the capacity, the information, the people, the structure to have those conversations. And so while that's a noble and nice idea, we are so far from that. And no, we don't believe that that will happen given the 50 years of lies.AK: Mark Sanchez is a member of the San Francisco school board. He says that, sadly, Dr. Proudfit is right, that the school will likely never put up these plaques.SANCHEZ: I don't have a lot of faith that that will happen, even if that's what the board decided to do.AK: Why? You have faith that something that hasn't been removed for so long, has stayed on the walls, now there is faith that we can remove it. Why not have faith that we can actually use it and teach it, which is what an educational institution is about?SANCHEZ: Given the history of that school and the trajectory of what's happening at that school, I don't believe that they would be able to do that.AK: So, tell me, the school will actually be able to paint over these huge murals, but they won't be able to put up plaques contextualizing it.SANCHEZ: I don't believe that they would, no.AK: And why is that?SANCHEZ: Well, they've had how many decades to do that?AK: But is that a reason to destroy something then?SANCHEZ: I don't believe that the school has the wherewithal or the gumption to move in that direction, to use that piece of art as an educational tool.AK: It boggles the mind why the school board refuses to explain these murals, an initiative that would cost mere pennies compared to the three quarters of a million dollars needed to paint over the artwork. Why can’t these public school officials find a creative solution that simultaneously preserves the art, acknowledges hurt feelings and uses these murals as educational tools? I find myself wondering, is this controversy a symptom of something larger that plagues our society? Are our core values so fundamentally divergent that our differences can no longer be bridged?It’s easy to remove works of art when people are offended by them. At times, it can even feel like the humane thing to do. But we must ask ourselves: How does erasing depictions of our history truly help us?CRUMPLER: To me, to destroy Arnautoff's mural would be to destroy truth.AK: We still don’t know how this particular controversy will ultimately play out. The alumni association has a lawsuit pending to preserve these murals. What we do know is that there are countless other works of art, many in public places, awaiting their own public outcry. Once more, Dewey Crumpler.CRUMPLER: Censorship and cancel culture is all around us. That's why art has to be free to do its work, even though it can make individuals very upset and angry. It's a worthy subject that an inanimate object can actually do something to a human being, can make a human being think, can make a human being angry. But the point is you have to work your way through it. Working your way through it is the point of life itself.AK: Who gets a voice in the telling of a story and who gets left out? Why do certain words, ideas and even people get canceled? What does the use of such strategies to silence tell us about our times and our society? These are the issues we’ll be exploring throughout this year on Banished.If you’d like to see photographs of the “Life of Washington” murals and Dewey Crumpler’s response murals, visit our website BooksmartStudios.org. And if you’d like to hear more of our conversation with Dewey Crumpler and other exclusive content, please consider becoming a paying subscriber to Booksmart Studios.I’d like to thank Lope Yap and Peta Cooper for all their help with today’s episode. Banished is produced by Matthew Schwartz and Mike Vuolo. N’Dinga Gaba and Chris Mandra mixed the audio. If you have any thoughts about today’s episode, please leave us a comment at BooksmartStudios.org.This is Banished. I’m Amna Khalid. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit banished.substack.com/subscribe

"I think we forget sometimes that we are actually making culture.  That's what humans do.  There is no culture outside of what humans create, and so we literally can create something new", Kimberly Dark.Kimberly joins the podcast today to discuss some thought provoking and empowering concepts to help unearth the power that we have as humans to be social creators and make cultural change, including how we can create empowered experiences socially and at the doctor's office. Kimberly is a writer, professor and storyteller.  She's the author of Damaged Like Me, Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old, The Daddies and Love and Errors, and her essays stories and poetry are widely published in academic and popular online publications alike.  Her ability to make the personal political is grounded in her training as a sociologist, and you can find her course offerings in Sociology at Cal State San Marcos and Writing/Arts at Cal State Summer Arts.Kimberly hosts retreats, and travels internationally to offer workshops, lectures, and performances that use storytelling to make big, complex ideas relatable at campuses, conferences companies and anywhere people seek startling revelations and positive change.  Beloved by diverse audiences Kimberly crosses boundaries to show how we must engage all the wisdom and verve we have to create the most compassionate, fair and inclusive world we can.What we discuss:what is body sovereignty, and how it aligns with the concept of body liberationhierarchy based on appearance and identity her new book Damaged Like Mehow to navigate our sovereignty in the doctor's office and in social settingssocial competencies and the importance of addressing unconscious bias. Connect with Kimberly:Instagram  https://instagram.com/kimberly.darkFacebook  https://www.facebook.com/kimberly.dark.9/Website (to preorder book and access The Hope Desk)  https://www.kimberlydark.com/Connect with Lindsay:https://www.lindsaysarson.comhttps://instagram.com/theintuitivediabetic/

In this episode Lori talks to Kimberly Dark about her new book Damaged Like Me: essays on love, harm and transformation.  Preorder the book here Kimberly Dark is a writer, professor and storyteller, working to reveal the hidden architecture of everyday life so that we can reclaim our power as social creators.   She's the author of Damaged Like Me, Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old, The Daddies and Love and Errors, and her essays, stories and poetry are widely published in academic and popular online publications alike. Her ability to make the personal political is grounded in her training as a sociologist, and you can find her course offerings in Sociology at Cal State San Marcos and Writing/Arts at Cal State Summer Arts.   Kimberly hosts educational intensives, and travels internationally to offer workshops, lectures, and performances that use storytelling to make big, complex ideas relatable at campuses, conferences, companies and anywhere people seek startling revelations and positive change. Beloved by diverse audiences, Kimberly crosses boundaries to show how we must engage all the wisdom and verve we have to create the most compassionate, fair and inclusive world we can. Page regarding Kimberly's Hawaii Intensives Page regarding Kimberly's Office Hours The Hope Desk You can find Kimberly on Instagram @kimberly.dark                                       on TikTok        @therealkimberlydark     find Lori on instagram @lorishortzamudiord Lori website unapologeticallymerd.com  .

Nick Vos wasn't always the rugged outdoorman that he is now. In fact during his childhood years, he was diagnosed with Overactive ADHD. Working through that in school with support, he eventually made his way to Cal State San Marcos before dropping out to pursue a career in music. We discuss the lessons he's learned from his music playing days, working on cars from the San Diego Chargers, and relationships. From the various lessons, he's also started a lifestyle brand called Atropos that we dive into its meaning and connecting with the community and also how that is connected to his budding Ultra Running Career. If you or someone you know would be interested in being a guest on the show, email mark@markthecoach.net Connect with Nick Website: https://atroposstore.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/heavypackslighthearts/ https://www.instagram.com/teamatropos/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/atroposapparel Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@team_atropos?lang=en

Joined by World Elite Hurdler whose resume includes being a 2x All American and ranking in the Top 10 Hurdlers in the World, Coach Wes Williams who started his career in track running the 660 and 440 hurdles at Lincoln High School in San Diego. We explore his journey from San Diego Mesa, San Diego State, and professionally.  Along the way he also got involved with coaching where he has made stops at San Diego Mesa, UC San Diego, and Cal State San Marcos where he has impacted hundreds of Athletes to grow in their respective events and life.  His approach to training the mind for adverse conditions is one you don't want to miss and how he balances being serious in training, but also bringing some humor to it as well. If you or someone you know would be interested in being a guest on the show, send an email to mark@markthecoach.net To connect with Coach Wes Email: hrdl4me@aol.com San Diego Mesa: https://www.gosdmesa.com/sports/mtrack/coaches/Wes_Williams?view=bio 

Join Sabrina Meditz as she interviews Carrie Morrow on the topic of continuous learning. Carrie earned her first Master's in Literature and Writing at Cal State San Marcos, and her second Master's at the University of Kent, in England. She is a Lecturer in the Literature & Writing department at Cal State San Marcos, and at San Diego Mesa College. She teaches courses in literature, film, and writing. Carrie is a self-described pun-loving bibliophile who has an optimistic view of life. Carrie and I were discussing our mutual love of learning the other day and knew we needed to share that conversation with all of you. Engage in a conversation with Carrie on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ClassicMorrow   Books or materials referenced on the episode or by the speaker: Works by Malcolm X: https://amzn.to/3qVnd6O Works by Daniel H Pink: https://amzn.to/3czo2NG  Works by Neil DeGrasse Tyson: https://amzn.to/3lptxSU  UCLA TMP Program: https://tmp.uclaextension.edu/  

Alex Davison is the Executive Director of the Arthritis Foundation for Louisiana. Alex has a master's degree in public administration from the University of New Orleans, where he serves on the Alumni Board of Directors. He was raised in South Lake Tahoe, California, and graduated from Cal State San Marcos before moving to New Orleans. He lives with his wife Ashley, his son Cooper, and two rescue pups: Abby and Bernie. In this episode… A lot of collaboration is going on in the private and public sectors, but we have yet to see not-for-profits collaborate enough to leverage scarce resources. Not-for-profit organizations aren't doing enough to see how they complement one another's programs rather than duplicate. As a result, they frustrate many donors who want to see a high level of collaboration for maximum impact. How do not-for-profit organizations collaborate effectively, not just in applying for grants from funding foundations but also in working with donors in the community? How do these organizations change their methods and communications for the better? Listen to this episode of Penny Cowden's Philanthropy212 Show featuring Alex Davison, who works as the Arthritis Foundation Executive Director for Louisiana. They discuss how not-for-profits should collaborate for fundraising to achieve their missions, how fundraising has changed since COVID-19, innovating and not getting stuck in a silo, and more.

In the first of a 4-podcast series, Ben Boelter of Fresno State and Andi Seaton of Cal State San Marcos talk Social Media, a platform where they have met and engaged with hundreds of new students. While painting a picture of community, adventure and significance, they also relentlessly interact with followers to make the invitation personal. In a culture where social media is a dilemma, YLC staff can redeem this tool, enter into the world beneath, and invite students to take their next steps in following Jesus.

 Get the book, Culturally Proficient Coaching: Supporting Educators to Create Equitable SchoolsVisit The Center for Culturally Proficient Educational Practice (CCPEP) WebsiteContact Delores at dblindsey@aol.com About the AuthorDelores Lindsey, PhD supports schools and districts through coaching, consulting, and mentoring. With more than 50 years of experience as an educator committed to the work of equity, she has served as a teacher, administrator, and university professor at Cal State San Marcos.

Coalition- it’s good to be back. We have a good one for you today, we are talking with Certified Level 1 USA Track and Field coach, Mark Shimmin. Mark is based out of San Diego CA where he is a Fleet Feet Ambassador as well as a Mind and Body Coach and Sports Therapist. We track Mark's running career from his time at Cal State San Marcos to present, including his Half Marathon PR of 1 hour and 20 minutes at the USA Half Invitational. Mark also shares his coaching insights, we detail how to structure a training week to include mileage runs, tempo runs, and speed work…as well as how to build mileage and increase performance while staying injury free. We also get into the mental and emotional side of training to include mindfulness, meditation, body work and how to address past emotional trauma whether it be conscious or subconscious through deep work..yeah, we get into it, and I think you guys are going to dig it. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/flytrap/support

Jaime is a pro golfer and a senior at Cal State San Marcos. This episode was co-hosted by Gabriel DePaolo.

If you had asked Abraham a few years back what he was going to do post college, his answer was related to law enforcement. After serving as a Community Service Officer at Cal State San Marcos, he realized that wasn't the path he wanted. In the time of figuring out what he wanted, he begun the inner work of figuring out who he was and what things he had been hiding from people that wasn't serving him. As he continues his journey, he has now started Chasing Endorphins lifestyle brand to encourage people to live a healthy and fulfilling lives. Promo Code: CHASING2020 for 15% Off Your Order Socials: Instagram : https://instagram.com/chasing_endorphins_?igshid=zepzsg7vi2uh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChasingEndorphins Store: https://chasingendorphins.secure-decoration.com/ If you or someone you know would be interested in being a guest, send an email to mark@markthecoach.net

We've always heard that the two things we don't talk about at the dinner table are religion and politics, but in this episode of The Ferment we are going to talk about them both and how we navigate them as a unit…or don't. Featuring conversations with 8 different pastors spanning gender, racial, cultural and political divides, we hear the perspectives of just about every ideology that exists amongst people who study the Bible and love Jesus deeply. Up first is Shane Claiborne, a prominent speaker, activist and best-selling author who founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia and worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta. He is followed by David Englehardt, pastor of Kings' Church NYC in Manhattan and founder of Englehardt Law, and Rose Madrid Swetman, who is currently the Regional Leader for Vineyard USA in the Northwest Region and an Adjunct Professor and Moderator for the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. Next we hear from Montel Richardson, who pastors a 172-year-old historically black church in Campbellsville, KY and founder of the H.O.P.E. Project, which seeks to be of service to the community in practical ways. Parker Frey is a pastor at the Oxford Vineyard Church in Ohio, and Jason Coker is the Lead Pastor at the Oceanside Sanctuary in California, as well as a member of the Human Development faculty at Cal State San Marcos. Finally, we wrap up with Melody and Bud Winderweedle, pastors of Ekklesia Vineyard in Chattanooga, TN.   With such a diverse group of pastors, the conversations cover topics of pro-life vs. pro-birth, moral hierarchies and how they affect our priorities as Christians, the value of face-to-face conversations, how we navigate racial unrest and the beauty of practicing lament. This episode provides valuable opportunity for developing empathy and learning to love our brothers and sisters in Christ during an extremely polarizing season.   Shane Claiborne's website: https://www.shaneclaiborne.com David Englehardt's church – Kings' Church NYC: https://www.kcnyc.org/team Rose Madrird Swetman's website: http://rosemadridswetman.com/ Montel Richardson's website: https://montelrichardsonministries.org Parker Frey's church: https://www.oxfordvineyard.com Jason Coker's website: https://www.jasoncoker.net/about Melody and Bud Winderweedle https://ekklesiavineyard.com

Bettina Heinz is a retired organic chemistry teacher originally from Germany. Along with teaching at Palomar College and Cal State San Marcos, she is a world traveler, published author, visionary artist and all around awesome human! Check out her artwork at the links below.https://bettinaheinz.com/https://www.instagram.com/heinz.bettina/

Can films help us remember history so that we don't repeat it? That's the question Cinema Junkie poses to Kimber Quinney, professor of history at Cal State San Marcos, and Antonio Iannotta, artistic director of the San Diego Italian Film Festival. We look at the rise of fascism in Italy in the 1920s, 30s and 40s to see what lessons we might be able to learn that might apply to the U.S. right now. We discuss films such as "Rome, Open City," "Anni Difficilli," "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis," and "Christ Stopped at Eboli."

Cindy Sytsma joined us to discuss his campaign for Poway School Board.  Cindy is a wife, mother, former deputy sheriff and teacher, and currently a college professor.  During our conversation we covered so much ground including her background working with students with disabilities and middle school students being recruited by gangs.  We spent time discussing her tremendous experience with online education and the school district’s plans dealing with COVID-19.  We explored budget issues, bond measures, fundraising and the maintenance needs at various schools.  Cindy shared her thoughts on the Black in PUSD Instagram account and the issues of social justice in education.  Cindy enjoyed discussing her volunteer efforts with the PTA, Little League and Girl Scouts.   We also discuss a range of other people and places including Poway, Sabre Springs, Morning Creek Elementary, Creekside Elementary, Garden Road Elementary, District E, Mt Carmel High School, Poway High School, National University, Fresno State, Cal State San Marcos, No Child Left Behind.   #JohnRileyProject #Sytsma4PUSD #PUSD #Poway #Cindy4PUSD   JRP0147   Cindy Sytsma Info:   Cindy Sytsma campaign website: http://www.cindysytsma.com/   Cindy Sytsma campaign Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cindy.woodsytsma       John Riley Project Info:   Bookings? Inquiries? Contact me at https://johnrileyproject.com/   Sponsorship Inquiries: https://johnrileyproject.com/sponsorship/   YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJJSzeIW2A-AeT7gwonglMA   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnrileyproject/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohnRileyPoway   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnrileypoway/   iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/john-riley-project-podcast/id1435944995?mt=2   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3llrMItpbx9JRa08UTrswA   Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/john-riley-project   Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9qb2hucmlsZXlwcm9qZWN0LmNvbS9mZWVkLw   Tune In: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/John-Riley-Project-Podcast-p1154415/   Listen Notes: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/john-riley-project-john-riley-2l4rEIo1RJM/   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com  

Kiki  is a true fairy here on earth sprinkling her magic throughout her work, life and creative expressions. What I appreciate most about Kiki is her devotion to intentional creation, whether it is a meal, a garden, a conversation or one of her special handmade crystal medicine pouches. The intention she infuses into each creates an energy that I am sure you will feel shine through in this episode. From a young age Kiki was drawn toward creativity and the healing benefits of art as expression. Currently, she creates mini crystal and medicinal herb pouches through her biz Infinite Love Designs which is rooted in sustainability, regenerative habits, local sourcing, wild harvesting, good communication, community, growth, and most of all love.  In this episode,  Kiki shares with us how these special pouches came to be and her thoughtful approach towards sharing them with the world. She beautifully expresses her divine connection to sacred rituals, mother earth, and how she avoids claiming ownership of her crystal pouches as they are gifts from mother earth to humanity. Our conversation expands upon the importance of intention, the challenge of putting energy into words, connecting to ones intuition, and how she stays grounded throughout the day through the practice of presence, gratitude and the visualization of colors and light.    Connect with Kiki: Website infinitelovedesigns.com instagram @infinitelovedesigns       About:  Kiki Love is an artist and inspired free spirit residing in San Diego, California. From a young age she was drawn toward creativity and the healing benefits of art as expression. She studied Visual Arts at Cal State San Marcos where she explored many mediums of art including video, ceramics, painting and dance, with the support of her dedicated teachers. She also worked as an art educator for youth, sharing her love and passion for the creative process and hopes to continue her journey exploring art therapy. Additionally, Kiki is trained in Ashtanga Yoga and Permaculture. She values Primitive Skills and learning about the natural world and its boundless generosity. Kiki's company, Infinite Love Designs is a synthesis of all her heart's callings and is committed to sustainability, regenerative habits, local sourcing, wild harvesting, good communication, community, growth, and most of all LOVE.  

Kevin Easterly is the founder of Apollo10x, a private real estate investment firm. He has invested in over 250 apartments and has diverse real estate experience in rehabbing, purchases, and running large construction teams. Kevin has the ability to assess risks and investing wisely in the best interest of the entire team and investors. Kevin holds a bachelors degree from Cal State San Marcos and lives in San Diego, CA. On This Episode: Kevin shares about how he started with fourplexes and progressed quickly to 100 doors. Sam and Kevin discuss whether single-family homes are a waste of money. Learn what sort of property and location to invest in. Hear the horror story from Kevin’s trailer park deal. Key Takeaways: You’ve got to be okay with a long-term play. Base all your purchases on rent amounts. Be educated before you buy a unique asset class. Tweetable Quotes: “Trust but verify.”  “You can’t be scared to take action but be educated before you take two much action.” “A small piece of the pie is better than 100% of no pie.” http://Apollo10x.com (Apollo10x.com)

The Cheers! North County podcast welcomes Judith Downie who is a San Diego Beer and Brewery Historian at Cal State San Marcos, and is the curator of the Beerchive (https://archives.csusm.edu/brewchive/). We talk about about a project they have archiving the brewing community's response to COVID called Glass Half-Full, how the BeerChive came to be and San Diego's long beer history.If you want to get involved in the Glass Half Full Project which is creating a historical record of how the COVID-19 pandemic has, and is continuing to impact the brewing industry go to: https://archives.csusm.edu/brewchive/ and click on Glass Half Full in the menu.You can purchase copies of Eli and Jane, a modern fiction road trip novella, here: https://www.onewildlifeco.com/shop/eli-and-janeThis podcast was recorded remotely June 15th, 2020. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cheers-nc-podcast/support

Combo guard Greg Milton III discusses his journey that has led him to Cal State San Marcos! He went from being a star locally in high school at Cosumnes Oaks and Sac City JC before transferring to Wyoming for his sophomore year. He is now back home in California to finish out his final 2 years of college and looking forward to a pro career! •The Strayt Talk With Strayhand Podcast is available on all major platforms! •Follow Oddie Strayhand on Instagram @strayhand https://www.instagram.com/strayhand

The crew sits down with the head brewer of Dos Desperados Brewery, Hayden Weir! Hayden was named head brewer in 2018 at the age of just 24 years old! At the time, he was likely one of the youngest ones in perhaps the nation's largest market for craft beer! San Diego is home to a colossal, $1 billion craft beer industry. Hayden tells his story from playing college baseball at Cal State San Marcos for four years to making the transition to where he is now. Awesome story, awesome guy. Cheers!

Heath talks to Griffin Teisher, a senior at Cal State San Marcos. He has played baseball all four years of his college career, but just like so many others, had his season cut short due to Covid-19. NCAA has agreed to allow Griffin to play a fifth year next year to make up for his … Continued

Heath talks with his longtime friend Bob Teisher. He is a history teacher at San Dieguito Academy and also helped Heath coach a travel baseball team. His son attends Cal State San Marcos and is a senior there and is also a baseball player. They talk about how Covid-19 is affecting teachers, students, baseball and … Continued

Cal State San Marcos announced Wednesday that two key executives have left the university, the interim provost has resigned his position, and the dean of graduate studies is on administrative leave. The changes come as the California State University system is preparing to release an audit that examines how and why top CSUSM officials used university funds for first-class flights and five-star hotels, exceeding spending limits. The spending also has drawn the ire of CSUSM President Ellen Neufeldt, who said in a public address last week, “I need you to know that this is unacceptable, and this is not what we are about. “Moving forward, we are hitting the reset button on our cultural drift.” The university said Wednesday that Mike Schroder, the dean of extended learning, and Beth Schroder, the senior director of philanthropy, are no longer with the university.

Sociology professor, writer, and performer Kimberly Dark returns to the podcast to discuss her latest book, Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old; why appearance is a form of privilege; how ageism intersects with other oppressions; how diet culture has influenced our ideas about self-improvement; why women are often penalized for not wearing makeup; and so much more. Plus, Christy answers a listener question about how alcohol consumption fits into intuitive eating. Kimberly Dark is a writer, professor and raconteur, working to reveal the hidden architecture of everyday life so that we can reclaim our power as social creators. She’s the author of Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old, The Daddies, and Love and Errors. Her essays, stories and poetry are widely published in academic and popular publications alike (Ms, Ravishly, Everyday Feminism). Since the 1990s, Kimberly has been facilitating discovery-based learning internationally -- in person, as well as in writing. She hosts retreats, and travels to teach workshops and offer keynote presentations. Her work uses storytelling in lectures and performances themed to help audiences discover the contours of privilege and oppression and use their own complex wisdom about the world. Kimberly teaches sociology at Cal State San Marcos and writing/arts courses at Cal State Summer Arts. Learn more at KimberlyDark.com. Christy's new book, Anti-Diet, is available wherever you get your books! Order online at christyharrison.com/book, or at local bookstores across North America, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Grab Christy's free guide, 7 simple strategies for finding peace and freedom with food, to get started on the anti-diet path. If you're ready to break free from diet culture once and for all, come check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course. Ask your own question about intuitive eating, Health at Every Size, or eating disorder recovery at christyharrison.com/questions. To learn more about Food Psych and get full show notes and a transcript of this episode, go to christyharrison.com/foodpsych.

Michael Schroder, the dean who traveled first class, stayed at Ritz-Carlton hotels and bought a $110 Bruno-style bone-in filet was not the only one at Cal State San Marcos using state tax money to cover luxury expenses. So were the people responsible for approving his expense reports. Graham Oberem, former provost and most frequent signer of Schroder's expense reports, stayed at a $639-a-night hotel in Spain in 2017 and paid $472 for Half Moon Limos to take him to and from Los Angeles International Airport for a recruiting trip to various countries in Europe in November 2018. Karen Haynes, former president of the university, stayed in the same hotel in Spain for $762 a night. She accumulated more than $9,100 in charges for chauffeured transportation from September 2017 to June this year. She billed the school for rides from her home to the university and was chauffeured to Long Beach routinely, documents show.

We often discuss many aspects of San Diego beer history on TIBS!, but to hear it directly from integral members of the industry and those documenting it live was truly a special occasion! August 14th, at Latchkey Brewing, located in the original Mission Brewery Plaza, that was built in 1913, we were honored to host 50+ people for a night of learning and fun!We began The Show with Matt West, Co-founder of Latchkey Brewing, to discuss what attracted them to the location and some of the difficulties improving a historical structure.Then we take a deep dive into the history of San Diego beer, starting in the 1800s and working our way up to some current trends. We have amassed a super star panel for your listening pleasure; Judith Downie, Curator of the Brewchive™ at Cal State San Marcos, Bruce Glassman, Long-time editor, writer, and publisher who has been covering the San Diego beer scene for nearly a decade and is a team partner working on creating the Museum of Beer , Sheldon Kaplan, beer author and producer of Suds County, Gina Marsaglia - Co-Founder of Pizza Port, and Chris Cramer, CEO & Co-founder of Karl Strauss.With roughly 100 years of cumulative San Diego beer knowledge, the panel offers you may insights to the what lead to and is currently driving the gigantic success of the SD beer industry. Get comfortable, grab a Red Trolley or a Swami's IPA to honor our panel, and hit the play button! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr. Karen Haynes retired as president of Cal State San Marcos on June 30, 2019. She was the longest-seated president in the CSU system and the first woman to hold this role in history. Haynes began her presidency in 2004 when the institution had a student population of 7,000 and an alumni base of 13,000. Through her leadership, the campus grew to serve 17,000 students and now has approximately 45,000 alumni. More than 100 new academic programs were launched during her tenure, including the first engineering program in 2019. Haynes also has overseen the addition of 15 new buildings as well as the planning for the university’s Extended Learning Building, which opens in fall 2019 through a one-of-a-kind public-private partnership. Establishing Bold Goals Haynes believes that holding a university presidency offers the opportunity to work with faculty and the community to envision what a truly 21st-century university can look like. In her own case, she pointed to the richness of the San Diego region, the area’s diverse demographics (which include the military and 18 tribal communities) and the ongoing population growth as fuel that helped Cal State San Marco, which is 100 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border and the only higher education institution in this area, to evolve and prosper. Haynes entered Cal State San Marcos’s presidency when the university was 13 years old. The fact that she was able to set what she described as “audacious” institutional goals and then go on to achieve them was due to a supportive faculty and community as well as having a legislature that was supportive of Cal State San Marcos’ efforts. These goals included: Raising the educational attainment rate for the entire region. Diversifying the student population to mirror the diversity of the region. Changing the narrative so that Cal State San Marcos was no longer the best-kept secret in North County; instead, the institution connected through partnerships to different constituent groups and organizations who understood the institution’s value. In addition to setting goals, the institution identified strategies to create, execute, annually measure, refine and revise these goals. Increasing Educational Attainment One example of how these goals made a difference was in relation to the institution’s education attainment rate. To begin to understand this rate, Haynes looked at the college-going rate of the area’s school districts. At that time, most school districts were not adequately preparing students to enroll in college following their graduation from high school. In addition, the majority (70%) of the students who were academically ready for college were white. Realizing the gap that existed, Hayes worked with CSU San Marcos administrators and faculty to establish numerous bold goals. The institution also identified strategies to create, execute, annually measure, refine and revise these goals. The results of their work included: A 50% increase in first-generation students attending Cal State San Marcos. Graduating classes have grown to between 50-55 percent first-generation students. The university grew from 7,000 students to 17,000 students during Haynes’ tenure. Data-Driven Decision-Making Ultimately, Cal State San Marcos’ decision to be data-driven to identify what practices worked and what was less successful put the institution ahead of the curve when the Cal State System started to focus on specific achievement gap. Haynes noted these sustained efforts resulted in Cal State San Marcos enjoying a 0 percent gap between majority and under-represented students from first year to second year, which often indicates whether a student will complete their degree and graduate from college. Working with School Districts Haynes noted that achieving these results required non-traditional thinking involving both the university as well as the school district. She pointed out that some Cal State San Marcos stakeholders (especially faculty) belived that working with school districts was outside of the university’s scope and mission. However, Haynes disagreed, saying that without creating these partnerships and helping teachers understand what students needed to start learning and by what grade, students would not be ready for college. CSU San Marcos established multiple partnerships with local school districts, and as part of these partnerships, the university created guaranteed admission for K-12 students if they followed the pathway identified by the University.These efforts raised attainment rates and diversified Cal State San Marcos’ student population. More importantly, these partnerships brought more students to the institution who were prepared for college work and didn’t need remediation. Faculty and other stakeholders worked with K-12 school districts, which ultimately saved CSU San Marcos money and faculty time. Extensive Partnerships Haynes formed a number of key relationships with North San Diego County communities and businesses in a strategic effort to reach out and operationalize the president’s initiatives. For example, Cal State San Marcos created Chamber Champions that involved the city chambers and economic development companies from the 11 communities in the institution’s service area. Through this effort, 6-8 Cal State San Marcos administrators or faculty were involved with those chambers. These individuals were the university’s voice while also serving as a conduit for the businesses to express their feedback on workforce issues to the university. These connections increased Cal State San Marcos’ visibility in the county. In addition, the university and each of its colleges had an advisory board that served as a sounding board in which to get stakeholders’ input. When she took over the presidency, Haynes inherited a small (10-member) council that wasn’t representative of the region’s sectors or demographics. She used this as a starting point, but also began to diversity and increase it to where it now has 40 members. These advisory boards give the institution input that helps it identify workforce issues as well as emerging areas where new programs are needed. A great example of this is Cal State San Marcos’ new biotechnology and engineering programs.Haynes used this feedback to create these new programs as well as other degree and certificate programs. There was an added benefit to these boards in that they also helped the university communicate its needs with the legislature and community, as well as developed its outreach efforts to Temecula.These efforts led to its creating an off-campus center in Riverside County, thus helping students who lived there and expanding CSU San Marcos’ footprint in the region. Real World Experiences Cal State San Marcos has developed and continues to develop programs that give students real-world experience prior to graduation. For instance, the school’s business school has implemented a program called Senior Experience, a required credit course, that requires its students to work in a team and to do a high-quality project with a local company during their senior year. This project gives students work experiences that are more extensive than an internship.Many students get job offers from the businesses that participate in these experiences. These projects also serve as good publicity about the quality of Cal State San Marcos programs. Another business school program, the mentor program, involves MBA students, who are assigned a mentor that they can rely on. The program has grown and is drawing high-caliber mentors who love working with students. Three Tips for New University Presidents Three pieces of advice for new university presidents: Start by actively listening. Whatever experience or vision you have that you can bring to the new job, you also need to hear the stories and aspirations of the people on campus. Otherwise, it will be difficult to get these individuals to follow and align with you. Pace yourself. Everyone will want a piece of you. Within that pacing, the preponderance of time and focus needs to be internal to listen to these constituencies. Take the position very seriously. University presidencies are important to complex organizations. However, don’t take yourself seriously. Be authentic and have fun. Bullet Points Higher education institutions can set “audacious” institutional goals if they have faculty and community support. To reach these goals requires the institution to identify strategies to create, execute, annually measure, refine and revise these goals. Some goals require innovative partnerships to be successful. For instance, Cal State San Marcos formed a partnership with school districts to increase educational attainment. This effort enabled university representatives to educate K-12 administrators and faculty about college-level work and to increase high school students’ level of knowledge by graduation. This meant that Cal State San Marcos could forego the cost and time needed to remediate these students. Cal State San Marcos created a number of innovative programs, including advisory programs and Chamber Champions. This latter outreach effort involved the city chambers and economic development companies from the 11 communities in the institution’s service area. This effort placed university administrators and faculty as representatives to the chambers so they could learn about industry needs and also communicate the university’s programs. Cal State San Marcos is increasingly trying to provide more real-world opportunities to students prior to graduation. For instance, business students work in teams during their senior year to assist a business or organization on a project. This enables the students to get experience beyond their internship and often results in a job offer. Links to Articles, Apps, or websites mentioned during the interview: Cal State San Marcos Guests Social Media Links: Karen Haynes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-haynes-7465988/ The Change Leader’s Social Media Links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdrumm/ Twitter: @thechangeldr Email: podcast@changinghighered.com  

Episode Summary Facing declining enrollments due to changing demographics and societal factors, many higher education institutions are engaging in marketing practices that don’t make sense.  Instead, institutions should consider embracing marketing strategies that are based on informal and formal market research. Developing these strategies should include reviewing current messages, crafting new messages, and reallocating resources from ineffective marketing efforts to promising pilot programs. Changing the Paradigm Higher education marketing departments get a bad rap because many don’t have marketing experience that corporations or other industries have. However, the majority of higher education’s marketing issues are not due to failures of the marketing department. Instead, these issues are due to the institution’s inability to identify the type of students who enroll, the reasons why they come to the institution and why are they successful. Research tells us that most current students enroll in an institution within a 40-mile radius of their home so they can be a commuter student. An example of this is Aurora University outside of Chicago. Instead of thinking about how to market to more students from a wider geographic location to fill up dorms, Aurora realized it needed to meet the needs of commuter students who want to complete their degree program quickly at a very low price. The institution is trying to attract more of these types of students by offering top-quality programs attractive to commuter students. In addition, institutional leaders realize this approach may mean that some dorms may need to close. Refining Marketing Efforts Most institutions are trying to be “all things to all people” through casting a wide net for students, but this approach waters down the marketing message because the institution generally is not clear about what they offer--and do not offer—to prospective students. Smart institutions are realizing that they have to stop this, and they are becoming more targeted in their marketing efforts.  This leads to greater efficiency and more cost-effective marketing.  They increasingly are able to recognize who their target market is and then use that information to attract those types of students. These institutions look at the students who enroll and complete their degree programs in order to analyze several factors: Who are these students? What do they look like? What do they want? Why are they coming to the institution? Why are they successful?   Institutions then can use this information to craft marketing messages to attract more of these types of students. Market Research Institutions that take a blanket marketing approach (instead of a targeted personalized marketing approach) create a tremendous amount of institutional waste. The vast majority of institutions don’t have a large budget for formal market research, and consequently, don’t do the positioning and differentiation that’s important in marketing. Fortunately, College Board and ACT have resources and data to identify where an institution’s students are coming from and how to reach those students. Informal market research can be helpful too, especially through anecdotal information such as feedback from current students. Conversations such as these can provide rich data and are supplemented by having similar conversations with faculty, staff, and alumni, and will help institutions craft their messages on how they can differentiate themselves from competitors, as well as identify gaps in the university’s marketing materials. Finding New Avenues One area that is ripe for plucking is that many students do not have the realization that their career will require a lot of work on projects that have a messy start and require continual refinements until project completion. This has huge marketing implications. Institutions can highlight the number of students enrolled and educational outcomes, as well as the programs that help students be successful. This makes the degree worth it, thus offsetting questions about the value of a college degree, and can differentiate the institution from its competitors. Furthermore, it’s important for higher education institutions to look at today’s markets to identify what students want and then develop plans for how to offer these types of programs. For example, the traditional MBA program in which people take time off from their jobs to pursue this graduate degree is no longer working for many people, and consequently, the number of traditional MBA programs is declining. Aurora University has developed a plus-one program in which students who have completed their undergraduate degree can complete an extra year of business coursework, including an internship, to earn an MBA, thus helping students become more marketable.  Some institutions (Cal State San Marcos) are offering undergrad seniors practical work experience through a serious work project (vs. a fluff internship). These experiences give college seniors a chance to earn course credit by working as part of a team on a real-world project for a local business or non-profit, and they gain direct experience in their major and makes them more attractive to employers. Stacked credentials also make a lot of sense. In addition, some institutions are marketing credentials to businesses so that the businesses will pay for their employees to return to school. There’s a large market for higher education institutions to help businesses, which in turns balances higher education’s revenue streams. It also helps train people and creates a pipeline for high-demand jobs, such as coding and cybersecurity. However, because institutional accreditation can limit the flexibility in creating those types of mini-courses, it’s important to identify how to shift the higher education paradigm to become more nimble. Three Tips for Higher Education Leaders Three pieces of advice for higher education leaders: Do market research. At the very least, talk to students and recent graduates, faculty, and staff to get a solid understanding of who you are. Craft marketing messages to reach prospective students who want what you’re really offering. Give your marketing department the freedom to stop doing some things that aren’t working. This will free up some dollars to pilot new marketing efforts that will help the institution personalize and target the right students. Bullet Points Higher education institutions need to do a better job of identifying who their ideal students are and then developing marketing strategies to reach those prospective students. Casting a wide net for students is an inefficient and costly approach, especially during a time when enrollments are declining and funds are limited. Therefore, institutions should review marketing efforts to determine what truly works to increase enrollments (and what doesn’t work). This analysis can help institutions build efficiency by refocusing marketing efforts. Market research is important. However, a formal market research effort – which can be costly – is not required. Informal marketing research can be conducted through having conversations with students, faculty, staff and graduates. Creating new programs that meet prospective students’ needs can make marketing more efficient. Links to Articles, Apps, or websites mentioned during the interview: Aurora University Senior Experience, Cal State San Marcos Guests Social Media Links: Deb Maue Twitter: https://twitter.com/debmaue Deb Maue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahmaue/ The Change Leader’s Social Media Links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdrumm/ Twitter: @thechangeldr Email: podcast@changinghighered.com

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Dominic and Cymene talk about sunburns, the petrocultural epic that is the reboot of Dynasty, and whatever ASMR is. Then (19:46) the terrific Dina Gilio-Whitaker joins us to talk about her new book, As Long as Grass Grows:The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock (Beacon, 2019). A member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, Dina teaches America Indian Studies at Cal State San Marcos and is policy director and senior research associate at the Center for World Indigenous Studies. We begin by looking back at Standing Rock and the Idle No More movement and talk about how important those were to environmental politics and prospects of energy transition today. Then we talk about how to further the decolonization of the environmental justice movement. We cover colonial unknowing, the erasure of genocide, and the importance of land and place based ethics for human survival. Dina tells us about her research on Panhe, a long-standing Acjachemen sacred site threatened with development, the complexities of sovereignty and recognition it surfaces and then we talk about how far the Rights of Nature legal arguments can go in the settler courts. Finally we debate what’s the real surfing capital of the world, the Institute for Women Surfers project (https://www.instituteforwomensurfers.org), surf feminism, and why Dina and her collaborators see surfing as an environmental justice issue. PS Shout out to Krista Comer for this week’s episode and pls check out Dayla Soul’s film about women’s big wave surfing, It Ain’t Pretty (trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6VDCZudTlg)

On this episode of 'Homeless in San Diego: Real People, Real Stories,' host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes Sarah Gomez. Sarah is a Marine Corps veteran, mother of two, and graduate student at Cal State San Marcos. Today she is also an Instructional Technician and Academic Coach at the university. Greg and Sarah discuss her journey from a successful homeowner to losing everything and becoming homeless with her two children and nowhere to go after her husband was sentenced to jail. Listen to learn how Sarah’s resilience and grit, and her commitment to her children led her to where she is today.

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We are back guys! Thanks to everyone who continuously tunes in to the ParBar. This week we bring back the Kuya of the Goodlife Tattoo shop and discuss the topics of art & culture of tattooing. Of course with that comes much laughter and good times. Don't forget to come out to CCF on March 30th at Cal State San Marcos. We will be in the beer garden providing live entertainment. Make sure to catch the ParBar broadcast every Thursday at 9 pm only on Island Block Radio. Until next week, Shoooootz!

Hafa Adai everyone. Check out our latest episode. The original episode that was intended for this week has been postponed due too.... well just tune in and you'll hear what happened (lol). Thanks again for sharing and subscribing. Don't forget to check us out at CCF on March 30th located at Cal State San Marcos. Til next week. Shooootz!

Cassandra Cummings is the Founder and CEO of August Nine, a technology led creative company that designs brand experiences across social media, content and community. She got her start in marketing in the gaming industry, and moved on to lead content and event production for Splash! Animals, an award winning live art show featured at TEDx and Downtown Disney. After graduating in Global Business from Cal State San Marcos, she moved to Spain to learn a new culture, and launch her career in tech. There, she became founding member of the marketing team at Product School, where she hosted 100 online events for 50,000 people with speakers from Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Slack, Amazon and more. Her true passions are traveling, food and art which were combined during her seven months in Amsterdam, where she was often found riding her bike while juggling a chocolate croissant and a gallery pass. In this episode of the Just Go Grind Podcast we discuss how to break in and succeed in product management, how to create an effective content strategy for your business, how Cassandra decided to launch her digital agency, and much more! Show notes: https://www.justgogrind.com/cassandra-cummings-podcast Just Go Grind Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justgogrind/ Just Go Grind Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/justgogrind/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justincharlesgordon/ 

On today’s Happy Half Hour episode hosts Erin Chambers Smith and Troy Johnson, along with producer Archana Ram are coming at you from the Manchester Grand Hyatt inside Brew30, their new modern gastropub that pours 30 different local craft beers (including one from Tijuana). We’re chatting with assistant food and beverage director Matt Rapping about their Super Bowl specials—giveaways, beer deals, and prizes!—plus their Freshfor30 beer collaboration with Stone Brewing Co. Plus, they have the Impossible Burger, which we’re taste-testing on the show. In other restaurant news, Harumama opens in Little Italy, Salud expands, and Cesar’s in Rancho Santa Fe switches concepts. Today’s guest is Judith Downie, an archivist at Cal State San Marcos who’s working on the Brewchive, a collection of historic papers related to San Diego’s beer scene—think recipes, brewer logs, and more. She gives us the scoop on Greg Koch before he launched Stone and how women played a big role in beer during the pre-Prohibition era. In Hot Topics, we discuss the Ingniter incubator and whether it’s a worthwhile model for new breweries. We end with Two People/$50, including Campfire, Hanna’s Gourmet, and When Pigs Fly. Subscribe to the Happy Half Hour on iTunes or Google Play, or listen below.

Jayrell Ringpis - Owner of Snoice - Paradise Hills, San Diego - @SnoiceSD Jayrell Ringpis grew up in Paradise Hills San Diego working for his families event company where he began learning about business. After graduating from Cal State San Marcos, Jayrell and his wife moved to New York where he worked for a non-profit start up company learning even more about the business world. Jayrell and his wife moved back to San Diego and opened Snoice, their very own dessert shop in his families Filipino bakery. Jayrell talks about how he grew his business by embracing his community and selling tasty desserts. From amazing shaved snow to boba teas, Snoice is making a name for itself! Links Mentioned in this Episode: Snoice Website Snoice on Instagram Snoice on Facebook Snoice Yelp Kababayan Bakery D'licious Desserts Ube Paradise Hills Night Market Key & Peele Nooice Skit Halo- Halo Primacy Meat Company Podcast Sticker Request Form Quotes / Snackable Takeaways From This Podcast: Get in Touch Derek Marso - https://twitter.com/MarsoDerek Shawn Walchef - https://twitter.com/shawnpwalchef Cory Wagner - www.twitter.com/TheFifthPofmkt Layla Mettler - https://twitter.com/LaylaMett Valley Farm Market - www.valleyfarmmarkets.com - www.instagram.com/valleyfarmmarket/ Cali Comfort BBQ - www.calicomfortbbq.com/ - www.instagram.com/calicomfortbbq/ - www.twitter.com/calicomfort Behind The Smoke -www.instagram.com/bbqwarstories/ - www.facebook.com/bbqwarstories/ - www.twitter.com/bbqwarstories Email - behindthesmoke@calicomfortbbq.com Honorable Mentions: NBBQA: https://www.nbbqa.org/ Ole Hickory Pits: www.olehickorypits.com/ Grill Grates: https://www.grillgrate.com/ Weber Grills: www.weber.com/US/en/grills Spring Valley Tailgate & BBQ Festival Photos: https://www.facebook.com/pg/SVBBQFestival/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1688443121186369 Upcoming BBQ Events and Competitions: https://www.nbbqa.org/ Thank you to Jet West Band for our epic Intro Jingle! Jet West: http://www.jetwestband.com/ Jet West Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jetwestband/

Body in Culture Kimberly Dark is a writer, sociologist, and raconteur, working to reveal the hidden architecture of everyday life one clever essay, poem, and story at a time. She uses humor, surprise and intimacy to help audiences discover their influences, and reclaim their power as social creators. She teaches in the graduate program in Sociological Practice at Cal State San Marcos. Kimberly Dark has written award-winning plays, facilitated and performed for a wide range of audiences in various countries over the past two decades. Her essays appear in popular online publications such as Everyday Feminism and Ravishly.  Her poetry and prose are available in various literary and academic publications. The storytelling performances and interactive lectures make big, complex ideas relatable at campuses, conferences, companies and anywhere people seek startling revelations and positive change.  Beloved by diverse audiences, Kimberly crosses boundaries to show how we must engage all the wisdom and verve we have to create the most compassionate, fair and inclusive world we can. You will feel her passion through the mic and this episode incorporates her storytelling and my interview with her. She is currently touring with her show, “Thing I learned from fat people on the plane”.      “We need more fat yoga teachers. And old yoga teachers, and disabled yoga teachers and anyone with a different body than you think you want. “ - Kimberly Dark   This Week on the Every Body Podcast: • Why she uses spoken word and storytelling to communicate her sociology perspective.  • A performance about  fat children and the many ways the “starve” • Healthism • Her experience of fat stigma being yoga teacher for 20 years.  Additional Resources: • Link to Kimberly Dark’s website • Here’s Looking At You: Yoga, Fat & Fitness • Another Way to Starve • Kalani Yoga Retreat  • Kiese Laymon’s website Rate & Share Thank you for joining me this week on the Every Body podcast. If you enjoyed this week’s episode, head over to iTunes , subscribe to the show and leave a review to help us grow the podcast. Don’t forget to visit our website , follow us on Facebook , Twitter, and Instagram , and share your story because this podcast is for every body.    

Guest Speaker @ CBCJosh PetrasJosh serves as high school pastor at Grace Community Church and has been involved in student ministries leadership for 10 years. He earned an undergraduate degree from Cal State San Marcos and a master's degree from Azusa Pacific University. Josh has been married to his wife, Katie, since 2010 and they have one son, Jude. Josh and Katie moved to Los Angeles in 2014 to attend The Master's Seminary, where Josh is currently working on his M.Div.

My first guest on the Tami Jackson Show* tonight will be Steven L. Hays. Steven L. Hayes graduated with honors from the University of Arkansas and the University of San Francisco Law School. As a self-described “recovering” tax attorney he spent considerable time and resources investigating alternatives to the income tax. Based on his research, including interviewing tax practitioners, business owners, employees and economists, he determined the best solution was to eliminate the income tax and the IRS and replace them with a national retail sales tax collected by the states. In 1990, Mr. Hayes joined and became President of Citizens For An Alternative Tax System (CATS), a non-profit 501(c)(4) lobbying organization, which was the first organization dedicated to the idea of replacing the federal income tax with a national sales tax. He was also instrumental in forming the Florida FairTax® Educational Association, Inc., (FFETA) and currently serves on the FFETA board of directors. Hayes has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows, had numerous articles published in newspapers and magazines, and regularly speaks to groups of citizens around the country about why we must eliminate the income tax and the IRS and replace them with a national retail sales tax. Steve is the Chairman and President at FairTax.org and we'll discuss all that is going on with Trump/Congress' pending tax reforms in the budget, tax reform/cut package of legislation and AHCA legislation. Will these reforms take hold or will the media/Democrat Party thwart any and all efforts in Congress and the Executive to push forward the President's legislative agenda with the current controversy regarding Russia? Don't miss this conversation with the "rest of the story" vis-à-vis "the Fair Tax." ******************* My second guest will be ADF VP Kristen K. Waggoner. Kristen K. Waggoner serves as senior vice president of US legal advocacy, general counsel – Arizona, with Alliance Defending Freedom. In this role, Waggoner supervises a team of more than 50 attorneys and legal staff who specialize in constitutional law and focus on religious freedom, sanctity of life, and marriage and family. Waggoner joined Alliance Defending Freedom in 2013. Waggoner has extensive experience in civil litigation, employment, education, nonprofit, and constitutional law. After clerking with Washington Supreme Court Justice Richard B. Sanders and interning with U.S. Representative Linda Smith, Waggoner joined Ellis, Li & McKinstry, a Seattle law firm, where she became a partner in 2004. At ELM, Waggoner participated as counsel in hundreds of legal matters including constitutional cases such as Andersen v. King County (same-sex marriage), Stormans v. Wiesman (pharmacists' conscience rights), State v. Arlene's Flowers (floral designer's right not to participate in same-sex marriage), State ex rel Gallwey v. Grimm (financial aid to religious university students), and State v. Hamlin (clergy-penitent privilege). Waggoner's clients primarily included private schools and universities, churches, denominations, and other nonprofit organizations, and she served on the firm's management, compensation, pro bono, and hiring committees. Waggoner is Peer Review Rated AV® Preeminent™ in Martindale-Hubbell. Washington Law & Politics selected her as a “Rising Star” for many years and she is a sought-after national speaker on legal and cultural issues. She has made numerous media appearances including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Times, the Seattle Times, BBC News, CNN, CBS Sunday Morning, and ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, as well as appearances on Fox News and other networks. Since 2000, Waggoner has served as an adjunct faculty member at Northwest University at the undergraduate and master's levels. She is currently a member of Northwest University's board of trustees. Waggoner earned her J.D. from Regent University School of Law, graduating cum laude. Waggoner also served as the internal managing editor for the Regent Law Review. She earned her BA from Northwest University. Waggoner is admitted to practice in Washington, Oregon, Arizona, and Florida, and is admitted to many federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Kristen and I will cover a number of cases including Don Vander Boon/West Michigan Beef Company v. the USDA, Cal State–San Marcos gives $300,000 to Gender Equity and LGBTQA Centers, $0 to Students for Life, Kentucky appeals court upholds victory for printer, deals blow to govt coercion and more! This will be a great conversation with one of America's foremost religious liberty litigators! Follow me at @tamij AND tweet your questions/comments during the show using hashtag #tjrs. *Sponsored by Rentacomputer, your premier source for Server Rentals , by ROBAR® Guns, a True Custom firearms and firearms finishing shop located in Phoenix, AZ, and found online at RobarGuns.com, and by Dispatches, your site for the BEST conservative resources to fight and win the information war.

What to do after retirement? Tom McGurn will talk to us about finding our passion. You can listen to the show at http://rockyourretirement.libsyn.com/what-do-you-do-after-a-career-at-bmw What do you do after a career at BMW? Tom McGurn earned his first paycheck as a journalist writing sports for a daily newspaper while still in high school. He continued to work as a part-time journalist during college and then pursued a career in public relations after graduation. In 1975, at age 28, and with about 5 years of experience, he got a huge break. He was hired as part of the start-up management team at BMW of North America. The sales and marketing arm for Bavarian Motor Works. He didn’t leave until he retired at the end of 2007. During his career, Tom was responsible for public relations, industry affairs, dealer relations, and a host of communication responsibilities, including: speech writing, corporate meetings and training.  When he retired he had to ask himself the question, “What do you do after a career at BMW“? VOLUNTEER AND PHILANTHROPY Tom discovered early on in his retirement that one of the things he wanted to do was volunteer, as he did during his career. Tom is a seasoned corporate communication professional and writer. He uses his experience to offer clients fresh perspectives on their communications needs and customer focused writing.   That's how he was able to answer the question, “What do you do after a career at BMW“? * He volunteered on the board at MiraCosta College * He is an active volunteer with SCORE. Offering free business counseling for people who are thinking about starting a small business and those who want to increase the performance of an existing business. * He is a member of the Cal State San Marcos Foundation Board. Serving on the marketing committee and is a member of the Athletic Director's Council. What do you think people should know BEFORE they retire? How much fun it will be and how you will have control of your life to do what you want when you want. We have a lot of listeners who are new retirees or maybe feel stuck in their lives at the moment.  If you were sitting across the table from a new retiree, what’s the one piece of advice that you would give to have a successful retirement? What is your passion? Follow your passion, whether it's volunteerism, tutoring, a hobby, recreation, or self-improvement. Do something with and for others If you would like more information on either volunteering or using the services SCORE offers, you can go to: https://sandiego.score.org/ or for the National SCORE the website is https://www.score.org/ If you would like to visit the Cal State San Marcos website and learn more about the foundation board, you can go to: http://www.csusm.edu/giving/csusm-foundation/ http://traffic.libsyn.com/rockyourretirement/017_R_Tom_McGurn_160303_IFinalcs2.mp3

A little about our guests.As of September 14 when we recorded this episode, Hawk and Caitlin were married just a few days. They have been together for 2 years and in business together just 1 ½ years. Newly wed and somewhat newly together 24/7.Hawk is an adventurer and family guy who enjoys spending time with Caitlin, going to the zoo and Disneyland and just having fun every day. Caitlin is a graduate of Cal State San Marcos with a degree in Arts and technology and Video Production. She too loves the zoo, Disneyland and all things fun. Caitlin also volunteers with Ocean Sanctuaries where she sits on the board. A little about their business.InVert Strategies is a strategic marketing company. Caitlin is the video production half of the team. She is a genius behind the camera and makes everyone look good. One piece of advice (the nutshell version)Being a 24/7 couple is NOT for everyone. Be open to the fact that you could be in business if you currently aren’t. But be open to change the situation if the relationship warrants it. Family first. Develop yourselves together Reading MaterialFor Better or For Work: A Survival Guide for Entrepreneurs and Their Families by Meg CadouxGet in Touch with Our Guestswww.InVertInc.comConcierge@InVertStrategies.com832.800.4295InVert 4660 La Jolla Village DrSuite 500San Diego CA 92122

The Writing Mama show is on every Monday and is hosted by Mom's Choice and Award-winning Author Virginia S Grenier, who is joined weekly by guest authors to talk about the publishing and writing industry. Grenier, with her guests, hope to not only share their love of the written word, but also tips on writing, what makes a good book and much more. This weeks guest is Author Kevin Gerard and teacher of statistics at Cal State San Marcos. When not writing or teaching, he enjoys walking the grounds at the San Diego Zoo, hitting the waves at Cardiff State Beach and visiting animals at local shelters. He also enjoys playing Halo on the internet; look for him in the rocket games as Magnifico, the magical dragon from the Diego's Dragon Fantasy series. To Follow Kevin Gerard, visit www.diegosdragon.com or www.conorandthecrossworlds.com Learn more about our shows and network at our website http://worldofinknetwork.com You can find great books and articles on our blog or follow us on our Facebook Fanpage!

It’s long been said that ‘success lies not so much in what you know – as in who you know.’ Learn what today’s savvy business professionals do in developing a million dollar database of high-level contacts, prospects, referral sources, resources and priceless client & referral relationships. About our Guest : Michelle Bergquist Michelle Bergquist believes that when it comes to business and success, it’s all about relationships. For over 25 years Michelle has built her business and success on this simple, yet important philosophy. Michelle’s professional background includes 17 years expertise in helping businesses obtain funding, increase sales and improve business performance and success. Since 1991, Michelle has worked with hundreds of small to mid-sized companies across the nation providing consulting and training seminars on marketing, sales, communication, entrepreneurship, business planning and growth. Currently, Michelle is the core instructor at the University of San Diego’s Academy for Small Business Success and Cal State San Marcos for the small business certificate program, Smart Steps to Start and Grow a Small Business. Michelle is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a past board member of numerous community and professional trade associations, including Financial Women International, The National Association of Women Business Owners and the American Institute of Banking, to name just a few. In 2005 Michelle was honored as a finalist for the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce “Entrepreneur of the Year Award” and a finalist in 2004 for the San Diego Business Journal’s highly sought-after “Women Who Mean Business Award”. Michelle’s passion as a national speaker, author, seminar leader and consultant is rooted in her desire to help businesses and professionals achieve significant business results Her book on the topic has been a best seller.