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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2021 78:02

Carolyn Casey '87, founder of Project 351, is joined in conversation fellow alum and Project 351 volunteer, Jamie Hoag '98. They speak about Carolyn's career leading up to the founding of Project 351 and the many ways that the Holy Cross community has lifted her up and supported her along the way. Carolyn's journey exhibits the incredible difference that one person can have in making the world a better place. Interview originally recorded on September 25, 2020. Due to the ongoing effects of the pandemic, all interviews in season 2 are recorded remotely. --- Carolyn: How can service be a unifier and remind us that we have more in common than what makes us different. Maura: Welcome to Mission-Driven, where we speak with alumni who are leveraging their Holy Cross education to make a meaningful difference in the world around them. I'm your host Maura Sweeney from the class of 2007, director of alumni career development at Holy Cross. I'm delighted to welcome to today's show. Maura: This episode features a conversation with Carolyn Casey from the class of 1987. Carolyn is a native of Taunton, Massachusetts and hails from a Holy Cross family with her three siblings and father all attending Holy Cross. After studying as an English major, Carolyn began work as a hostess before launching her decades-long career blending government and service for others. Her career was launched on a political campaign leading to a role as the director of national affairs in the early years at City Year and a 20-plus year career running corporate social responsibility for Timberland. Maura: Today, Carolyn turns her focus closer to home running Project 351, a youth service nonprofit she founded that engages eighth-graders in service from all 351 cities and towns across the state of Massachusetts. She is joined in conversation by fellow alum, Jamie Hoag from the class of 1998. They speak about Carolyn's time on the Hill and the way that service fueled her successful career afterward. Carolyn's journey exhibits the incredible difference that one person can make in making the world a better place. Jamie: Hi, Carolyn, this is Jamie. Carolyn: Hi Jamie. This is Carolyn. Jamie: How are you? Carolyn: I'm doing great. So happy to be with you. Jamie: Where are we chatting? Where are you chatting from? Carolyn: Well, I'm happily in the backyard of our family's house in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Jamie: Very nice. I'm in Watertown where I've been held up if you will, since March, but I'll say behind me, you can see other, others won't on the podcast, but a picture of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and in a place of honor behind me. Carolyn: On a historic day. The first woman to lay in state in the Capitol rotunda. Jamie: Very historic, very historic. She earned it, that is for sure. I thought I'd start. We'll get into more about your time at Holy Cross and what you've done since, but I want to hear a little bit about where you grew up and I know you grew up in Taunton. As you know, I grew up in Fall River- Carolyn: Yes. Jamie: ...and I'm interested to see how did growing up in Taunton or how did Taunton influence who you are today? Carolyn: Appreciate that question. First of all, clear year from Fall River, because you say Taunton the way we say it in Taunton. And there's a very strong kinship between Fall River and Taunton and New Bedford. One of the things that links those communities is a heritage of the blue collar ethic, and a passion for family, and for faith and community. And so when I think about Taunton and 28 Briar Drive, where I grew up with my three siblings, all Holy Cross alum and my dad, Holy Cross alum, and my mom, not a Holy Cross alum, but she didn't have a choice. Jamie: By association. Carolyn: It was all men when she was growing up, so she went to the Newton College of the Sacred Heart, which is now part of BC. But Taunton was formative in many ways, and I think one of the first things I think about is my dad who was an educator, lifelong educator after graduating from Holy Cross. He was a coach and he was a teacher, and then he ultimately became a school superintendent. Carolyn: But for us, for the Casey kids, we were really fortunate that we grew up in an environment, our mom had been a teacher. And so education as a gateway to discovery, and to journey, and to wonder, and to edification of your values and how you make your way in this world, it's very much part of our ethos, but not... People used to think, because my dad was a superintendent that like he'd lord over us to do homework, or we had to get honor roll. Carolyn: It wasn't like that at all. It was very much just a culture of learning. So it felt very integrated into both our schoolwork, but also how our family lived our lives. We weren't tremendously financially blessed, so our outings were lots of times to things like Plymouth Rock and Battleship Cove, and the Museum of Fine Arts and things like that. And so just a rich and deep appreciation for how every opportunity and every individual is an opportunity for growth, and for education, and for deeply understanding the human condition. Carolyn: That was certainly formative. And then both of my parents, great faith. My mom is 83, still goes to mass every day and the church and our faith being very central to the values that defined us, but also the way in which we are responsible as human beings in this world, which is we are our brothers and sisters keeper. So both for Kizzy, Joe and Mike, my siblings, but also the broader community. That was most definitely a guiding principle. Carolyn: And then the final thing, and I feel like I'm saying three very typical things, which is like- Jamie: No, no. Carolyn: ... education, and faith, and community, but in Taunton, I was... Happily will say I'm 54 years old and my Taunton girls are still core to my everyday life. Those friendships forged at E Pole Elementary School, or in the girl Scouts, or brownies are still defining for me. What my friends taught me and what Taunton as a community taught me was the importance of loyalty and the importance of devotion through times that are easy and difficult. Carolyn: Taunton as a city, I know you can relate Fall River, Taunton had glory days as a silver manufacturing and the last 50, 60, 70 years have been challenging years for Taunton. Jamie: Sure. Carolyn: But there's something about that, there's something about struggle and triumph, and struggle again, and then triumph again, and there's that resilience. And again, that sense that if we all pull together, we can achieve extraordinary things. Jamie: I think there's a certain work ethic and communities like Taunton and Fall River, New Bedford, that if you grew up in that environment, you're influenced by it. And I think no matter what you do, where you go, that has a special place in your heart, in your soul, if you will, to... It's also not more work ethic, but it's also to appreciate people who work hard, and work hard and to raise families on very little and are loyal to community, as you said. Jamie: You mentioned that you grew up in a Holy Cross family with your dad, obviously, and then the three brothers also went to Holy Cross. Did you have any choice in deciding what college to go to or was Holy Cross a given? Carolyn: I did actually, I was the controversial one. Because she would kill me if I let the record go on- Jamie: Kathleen too, your sister Carolyn: The oldest sister, yeah. Kathleen is class of '84, Joe, class of '85 and Mike, class '90. I just want to give a, a shout out to them, my best friends and heroes, and to all their classmates, which I think is one of the things about Holy Cross that we know so well is that the friendships that just go on, and on, and on. And so all of those classes, '84, '85 and '90, and of course my class, the great class of '87 are just filled with the most extraordinary people. So I send all of them love. Carolyn: But yes, so most definitely I did. I was the third, I was the second daughter. Kathleen was at Holy Cross premed, Joe was there as well together. And my father who had been visiting Holy Cross since the mid '40s as a student was sort of burning out on Holy Cross and was strongly encouraging me to go anywhere, but Holy Cross. And I don't know if that- Jamie: Why was that, if I may jump in? Carolyn: I don't know if he was thinking, and my mom, actually, my mom wanted me to go to an all-girls school and I got into Mount Holyoke and almost a full ride and for our family, that was a really big deal. Anyone who knows me that would not have been a successful endeavor. I don't know. I don't know if my father... Parents are wise and maybe he was thinking it was important for me to step out of my sibling shadow or... I'm not really sure what motivated it. Carolyn: But ultimately I ended up at Holy Cross and with his blessing and my mom's blessing, or the tuition check would not have been written. And then I was really lucky because I was the one Casey who went to school with all of my siblings. When I was a freshman, my sister was a senior, Joe as a junior. When I was a sophomore, Joe was a senior, when I was junior, I was there by myself. And then when I was a senior, Mike was a freshman. Jamie: Wow. What an amazing opportunity to be able to share that with your siblings? Carolyn: Yeah, it was very special and I feel really lucky because my dad's license plate is HC52. And when he passed away, that was the only thing I wanted. So now my car has HC52. And I love it because there are still HC52-ers who will come up to me. They're like, "Is that Bill Casey's car?" "Well, not his car, but his license plate." It just goes to show they're everywhere. Jamie: They're everywhere, we're everywhere, and that's a good thing. We like that as a kid. It's certainly a community. What was your first experiences Holy Cross like? Especially growing up, I would say is growing up as someone from Fall River, going to Durfee Public school, Holy Cross in some ways at the time was a foreign place to me, because there are a lot of people went to this academy and private schools, is what I'm trying to say. Jamie: And it was just a different culture for me. And did you have that, what I would argue is maybe a mild culture shock when you went to Holy Cross? Carolyn: The one thing I felt lucky about is I had... and I don't know if it's... Maybe comfort for me was wasn't an important part of going to Holy Cross, but my dad had been president of the alumni association and chairman of his class. So when we were growing up, we were up there like every weekend and we'd sometimes sit in Hogan and be bored and complain because we weren't with our friends in Taunton. But I had a really very strong sense of place there and a very... I knew where everything was. Carolyn: Not in a overly confident way that I was superior in any way, but I just knew my way around. And then of course, because my sister and brother went there, I started visiting my sister when she was a freshman. So I was like 15 and I was a sophomore and I would go up for weekends and stay with my sister. So I got a little bit of that experience too, like the classroom experience, going to Hogan, going to Kimball, going to keg parties in Hanselman... Jamie: ... I'm not going to ask for the stories there. I'm sure there are some. That's for a different podcast. Carolyn: Exactly. Especially given my current constituents of eighth-graders that I will not tell those on the record, but. My earliest days of Holy Cross, they are... I'll say one thing about my earliest days is that they foretold my four years because I hit the jackpot with the friends that I met very early on. So down the hall from me were the two Leannes- Leanne Kearney and Leanne Martin. Carolyn: And I was just texting with my whole Holy Cross circle right before I got on this. They are still... Just like my Taunton friends, still in my life every day, and still my teachers and my cheerleaders, and I hope I'm the same for them. But for me it started first with those friendships and sort of the rituals that I think so many people know from Holy Cross, which are 10:00 PM mass on Sunday and meeting at the hand in front of the library before you go down to Kimball, and just rich conversations. Carolyn: It sounds idealic, and when I look back, it feels idealic because we were in a different space in time than young people going to college. Now we definitely thank goodness didn't have the social media, but there was a lot of... It was obviously prior to 2001 prior to the global challenges we're facing now. We definitely incubated in a way on Mount St. James. And that because we weren't venturing out, that just made the bonds of friendship even deeper and I think more transformative. Carolyn: Those are the things I remember, and I also remember, the intimidation for me was the classroom because I have to work hard on my academics. That's where I felt, as you were talking that sort of a little bit of, will I fit in, in the classroom? But I think you know, I was an English major and I felt like talk about an abundance of blessings of professors and classes and conversations. Jamie: Yeah, I think when you learn as much outside the classroom, as you do inside the classroom, I find that at Holy Cross. And I think that's something that's stayed consistent, which I think is a good thing across generations. Question for you, where did you live your freshman year? Carolyn: Freshman year I lived in Carlin. Jamie: Oh, Carlin. Wow. That was an upper class residence hall when I was there. They let the first years live there. Carolyn: They let all freshmen in and I lived over the bridge, so we had the window over the bridge. So when the classes changed, you got to see everybody. And then I went to Wheeler for two years and then Caro Street, my senior year much later. Jamie: What floor on Wheeler did you live on? Carolyn: Fifth floor. Oh goodness. My friends are going to be like, "She can't remember." I think it was second floor, sophomore year, fifth floor, junior, and then Caro street, which was a health department abomination. That house was like, we were all jammed in there and yeah. That's another thing that we'll just keep off the record. Jamie: That's another podcast, as I said. Carolyn: Those safety protocols were probably not adhered to. Jamie: I was a Wheeler three guy for two years, my freshman year, my sophomore year. And it was an experience living in Wheeler, that's for sure. Carolyn: Wheeler Beach. Jamie: But I loved it. Carolyn: Right? Jamie: Wheeler Beach. Wheeler Beach. And- Carolyn: Those were the days. Jamie: I still am, as you've mentioned, it's amazing how those bonds can last throughout the years, the bonds you make. And blow do you know when you first drive up to up the up Mount St. James, how it's going to change your life, but- Carolyn: And that's one of the things I remember meeting you the first time I met you. All you have to hear is Holy Cross and I'm like, "I know I'm going to love him." It just comes with that built-in comfort level and excitement. Jamie: Exactly right. Obviously, beyond the classroom, what type of extra extracurricular activities were you involved in when you were at Holy Cross? Carolyn: I wish I could say a ton, but... Because of my focus on academics, that took a lot of my time, but I was work study and I also did student government. And I worked at the library, which I loved. For me, I worked in the... Oh, I can't remember the name of the room, but it's where you had a sign out so that- Jamie: Oh sure. Carolyn: I can't remember what they called it. Jamie: The reserve room, but I don't that- Carolyn: The reserve room, that's right. That was where I was, so that's where I spent a lot of my time, was in the reserve room. And I love that because you got to see everybody, so it was social, and I also got to do homework. But our crew, we were very enthusiastic sports fans. We loved all the sports. A lot of our friends played football, hockey, basketball, baseball. That was a big part of our time. Carolyn: So road trips , stole my father's car once. That was a mistake. I went to William and Mary, and then of course somebody is like, "Hey, I saw your car in Virginia." So I was given up, that wasn't... I got to remember HC52. Jamie: That HC52 license plate does not come in handy. Carolyn: Yes, that's when it doesn't... "darn It, I thought I'd get away with that," but no, I didn't. I also did internships, which I always, when I talk to prospective students and I think everybody knows this now, it's again, not novel advice, but that was enormously helpful for me. I was an English major and when I was at Holy Cross, I wanted to go into sports marketing, and so I did marketing internships, and those were extraordinarily helpful for me. Carolyn: I didn't end up going into marketing, but those skills helped me in my current job Jamie: Where did you intern? Do you- Carolyn: I interned at a hospital, St. Elizabeth. Jamie: St. Elizabeth? Carolyn: Is that right? Jamie: Yeah, it's there. Yeah, it's still there. That's good. That's good. Carolyn: Was great. They were very kind to me. Jamie: What was your favorite class at Holy Cross? Carolyn: Oh, goodness- Jamie: If you can pick one, it's a hard question. It's like saying, who's your favorite sibling? I don't want you to answer that question, but- Carolyn: I know, all of them. One of the things that I'm known for is my terrible memory, but I know the class, I'm not going to remember the professor. But the class was a seminar on Martin Luther King and it was incredible. It was maybe 15 people in the class and it was probably my best class for sure. Jamie: What made it incredible? Carolyn: Well, I love the size of it and it was the students. No disrespect to the professor. Obviously I can't remember his name, which is terrible, but the students in the class, it was... I was an English major, so it was a bunch of students I didn't know and they were from different grade levels as well. For me, the diversity of opinion in that class was very rich because there wasn't a tremendous... when I was at Holy Cross, it wasn't tremendously diverse. Carolyn: That was a class where there was a lot of diversity in many ways, and including racial and ideological, and lived experiences. And so for me, it was more of an awakening as opposed to other classes. And I loved all of my English classes because I love literature, I love to write, but just in terms of getting me to think in new ways, that class was formative. And Dr. King is such an abiding figure in my life in terms of his philosophy and his teachings, and it really started there at Holy Cross in that class. Jamie: That's powerful. That's a great. I want to fast forward a little bit now and start talking about your post Holy Cross life, if you will. Carolyn: Sure. Jamie: Obviously we want to talk a lot about Project 351, which you're the founder and executive director of. But give us a little snapshot of what your first few years were after Holy Cross. I know you had some interesting jobs pre Project 351, so tell us a little bit about them. Carolyn: My first job right out of Holy Cross was I was a hostess at a restaurant because I couldn't make the cut as a waitress, so that goes to show. But I was- Jamie: Because your warm, charming personality, they wanted you to do the hostess. Carolyn: Yes. Well, they gave me one shot as a waitress and I dropped a tray of drinks on a bald man's head and I was, I was redistributed back to the hostess stand. Jamie: At least you don't have to wipe off his hair- Carolyn: No... Jamie: ... just wipe his head off, it's easy. Carolyn: Of course I started crying right away. But I was liberated by another Holy Cross grad. My cousin Maura Donlan from West Roxbury, also class of '87 who is like my sister. We're the same age, and she was working for Governor Dukakis, his presidential campaign in New Hampshire in the field. I went up for a weekend of canvassing and I'd never really done anything quite like that. It was one of these, they had me at hello. It was completely transformative. Carolyn: And I came home and my parents for some reason were in Europe or something, which would be rare. And I told them I wanted to quit my very important hostess job and move to New Hampshire and worked for Mike Dukakis. And thankfully they said, yes. That was the beginning of the path of service that I've been on ever since around public service and around mission-based organizations or campaigns. Carolyn: But I was really fortunate, I worked up in New Hampshire, and I was like 22 or whatever and I was the deputy to the state director, Charlie Baker. Not governor Baker, but the other Charlie Baker. Jamie: No, very well. Dewey Square Group Charlie Baker, yeah. Carolyn: Dewey Square Group. And his dad, Charlie Baker was a professor at Holy Cross. Jamie: Exactly right. French professor, I think. Carolyn: Yeah. French in like movies. Did he do something on movies too? Jamie: Yeah. No, Charlie is a wonderful person. Carolyn: Yes. You know how lucky I was to work for him and John Geezer, who you probably know well. Jamie: Sure. Carolyn: And so I got to work for Charlie all the way through the general election, and that was just in his philosophy was, everywhere I go, you go. And so I'd be in the room with Jesse Jackson and the negotiations. And I was for the nomination, and down in Atlanta, and I just did my best to soak it all up, and to be as... I remember thinking that then, as I was in the job was around trying to... I wasn't a political animal, so I didn't really have great scale on the politics side. Carolyn: And so my focus was on being kind and responsive. I just wanted to, how can I help as many people and try to prove myself that way, because I wasn't going to be the policy work. And from that ended up... Of course governor lost and I went to... So I moved to D.C. and I worked for the democratic Senate campaign committee, and that's a whole bunch of wild and crazy stories about... Not wild and crazy, but in that I can't believe that I had this job at age 23 where I was doing at the time, it was their major funding program. Carolyn: So I set up weekends that donors would go to with like eight or nine senators and their spouses. And then it would be me on the plane with like George Mitchell and- Jamie: Wow. Carolyn: Wyche Fowler, and John Kerry and they listen to me. I was giving them a brief and the this and the that, and we would do a weekend of like policy retreats. That was incredibly inspirational, informative and real insight on how relational politics works. Jamie: And I would take away two things just to jump in here for a second. One, this path that you were sent on, that you started down, began through your relationship with Maura Donlan, your cousin, but also a fellow Holy Cross Crusader. And so it's again the power of the Holy Cross network to open up opportunities for the students or recent grads. But I would say something, I just want you to comment on one thing too, is you said something that caught my attention that... You said you don't have the political skills necessarily that are... you don't have the political experience, but you said you wanted to focus on being kind and responsive. Jamie: And I would argue with you and say that those are extremely important political skills, especially in our day and age. I think being kind and responsive to people's needs are two skills that a lot of people in politics lack today. Not to go off in a different direction with this discussion, but I would just say that I think you're a perfectly suited for politics because of those two skills of being both kind and responsive to people. And so I just wanted to make that point. Carolyn: Right back at you because you're a model of that. When I think about Holy Cross throughout my life and my professional and personal life, one of the things about if it's... there's sort of a built-in confidence if it's a Holy Cross person asking you to do something, inviting you just have a... For me, I'm more likely to take that leap of faith because it's somebody who I... There's that bond, and that trust, and that sense of shared values. Jamie: Sure. I just want to talk briefly before we get to the important work that you're doing at Project 351, and I want to hear all about it obviously. You worked in Timberland for a little while and did social responsibility? Carolyn: Corporate social responsibility, yeah. Jamie: How was that? How was working in the private sector? Carolyn: It was incredible. One thing I'd say, that there's sort of one theme from my career path would be that I was really very lucky in that I worked for a lot of visionaries, and so people who were very bold about the kind of either organization or world that they wanted to build, and would be sort of relentless in pursuit. And not relentless in like a criminal way or mean way, but in terms of relentless about galvanizing the resources to enable that vision. Carolyn: After I left D.C., I worked at city year for eight years, and the co-founders Michael Brown and Alan Khazei who had this bold vision of building a national service movement and started with 50 young people in Boston. And today, millions of young people have served through AmeriCorps, which- Jamie: Amazing. Carolyn: ... City Year the model for. And through city Year, while I was at City Year. And I was there in the early days, so people who do nonprofit work who might be listening to this know that in the nonprofit sector, you often have like 12 jobs and a lot of them don't relate. And so I was... President Clinton was the president at the time and I was responsible for media, our national convention fundraising, the Clinton relationship and managing the Timberland partnership and new site development. It was like this crazy mosaic of things. Carolyn: And from the relationship managing the partnership with Timberland, Jeff Swartz was the CEO of Timberland, invited me to come to work for him and to help direct corporate social responsibility. Jeff is a person that I always I wanted him to speak at Holy Cross, because his leadership is driven by faith, his deep faith as a Jewish person. And he grew over the time that I worked for him a comfort level and talking about that in the business space, which was fairly rare at the time. Carolyn: But he was also incredibly visionary, and bold and courageous around pushing the edge of the envelope around the role and the responsibility of the private sector as a catalyst for social justice. This is like 25 years ago and there... I still see things now from companies and they regard them as breakthroughs, I'm like, "Jeff was..." I don't mean this in a dismissive way at all- Jamie: No, no. Carolyn: ... but Jeff was doing this like 30 years ago. If you worked at Timberland, you had 40 hours of paid time for volunteerism, a full week to donate to community. And the entire business model and operating systems were built around the notion that commerce and justice are inextricably linked. And so when we're thinking about manufacturing our boots, where we're manufacturing them? How are we giving back to those workers in that community? What materials are we using to make sure we're not despoiling the planet? Carolyn: How can those boots be a lever for change through a consumer point of sale that invites them to come serve with us? Jamie: Wow. Carolyn: So it was this very creative time to be able to work for somebody like that, who, when you would have like crazy ideas, he wouldn't say they were crazy. He'd say, "Yeah. Let's try it." Jamie: That's a sign of a good leader. Carolyn: Yes. My time there, many, many, many gifts, including my relationship with Jeff, who is a teacher and a mentor and like a brother to me. But the other thing that came out of my time there was a friendship with Congressman John Lewis, which transformative. I love how Jon Meacham talks about John Lewis as a saint, as an American saint. I'd never heard of him referred to him that way, but Jon Meacham puts him within the context of faith, and holiness, and- Jamie: The beloved community. Carolyn: And the beloved community. And that John Lewis' ability to endure what he endured throughout his life, including 45 arrests, and a fractured skull, and multiple beatings, and humiliations that no human should ever have to endure was a deep faith in God. Jamie: And after all that, still having a faith in people too. After all those experiences that he suffered through, to still have faith and hope in the human spirit, it was remarkable. Have you read Jon Meacham's new book about- Carolyn: I'm reading it right now. Jamie: I finished it last week. What a powerful... I was in tears. At some part of the book, I was laughing, at other parts and I just think it's such a powerful life. I had the opportunity to meet him once, John Lewis, once when I was waiting for an elevator on Capitol Hill and the elevator was for members of Congress only. But he said, "Oh, come on, ride with me. You can ride with me." He asked me where I was from, who I worked for, Jim McGovern at the time. And he was just the nicest man. The only thing is he got off the elevator before I did. Carolyn: Oh no. Jamie: I still had two floors to go and other members of Congress got on and they were looking at me like- Carolyn: They were like, "Who's this guy?" Jamie: ... why are you on our elevator? I said, John Lewis let us to be on. John Lewis let me on, and they believed it. They didn't second guess me, because I guess it was a typical practice of John Lewis to invite people on the members-only elevator. Carolyn: Yeah. He was pied-piper for sure. But learned so much from him and just... Such perspective that any sort of hardship or challenge that I would ever face either personally or professionally, whatever, I would always draw on his, keep the faith, keep moving. I remember one time I was going through really hard time personally and I was talking to him and he said to me... I said, "What do you do when you feel like there's hate coming at you?" And he said, "You go at hate with love, and then more love, and then more love, and then more love." Carolyn: And I was like, "Okay, I got it." Jamie: Yeah. And those were certainly not just words to him. That's the way lived- Carolyn: No. Jamie: ... words in action, so to speak. Well, it's remarkable that you got to know him. We'll have to talk more about that at some point, because I think he's one of my heroes, and I think he should be one of everyone's heroes because of the life he led. But I want to move on here too and- Carolyn: Sure. Jamie: ... I have a question about your gap year. Carolyn: Yes, the gap year. Jamie: Gap year, it wasn't a... People think of gap years typically is years right after high school, between high school and college or maybe the year after college. But your gap year was a few years after, after having some work experience. Right? So tell us a little bit what you did. I think some of the stories are remarkable from what I've heard already, but why you took the gap year. Carolyn: It was after my Timberland tenure and I decided to drive across the country from California to Savannah, Georgia and do service in civil rights history. My motivation for doing it was, I'd been on this durable wheel, whatever that is, hamster wheel, for about two decades and working. Working for Jeff was amazing, but it was 24/7 and then City Year was the same way because we were trying to build City Year, the institution, and it was just sort of non-stop. Carolyn: And, and then I know you know my sister-in-law who's class of '90 was killed- Neilie Casey, who's another love and incredibly important person in my life. She was killed on September 11th, and that experience, and that tragedy, and the emotion. And so I was really burnt, I was really fried. And I had been doing commerce and justice and service with Timberland and at a global level, and so traveling to South Africa, and Prague, and Italy and all across the United States with John Lewis doing service, and it was amazing. Carolyn: But I wanted to get back to the essence of service, so without the corporate funding behind me, which was great to have a budget actually going into community and really do one-on-one with people who were on the frontline of some of our country's most critical issues. And so these are all people who no one would know their name. They were running a domestic violence shelter in Birmingham, Alabama, or working on native American health in Chinle, Arizona. Carolyn: I did four days with a bunch of Vietnam vets, building a home after Katrina, it was still in the aftermath of Katrina in Mississippi. Serving the City Year core members in LA, which was incredible, but also very depressing because these children had nowhere near the educational resources that they needed to learn and to succeed. And this was pre smartphone. I think we had cell phones or blackberries or something. Jamie: Flip phones. Carolyn: Yeah. And so I was able to... It was quiet and there was only one time where my sister, thank goodness came out early on in my journey because she's a surgeon and extraordinary. She came with me to Chinle, Arizona because we... My service partner there was the John Hopkins Center for Native American Health. And she was very interested in it from her perspective and she knew that I needed her. Carolyn: So she came out and we did that and we did the Grand Canyon. So, that was also a bonus. But that trip, it was incredible on so many levels. The opportunity to serve and be humbled by the example of people who are truly, people talk about this all the time, like unsung heroes and this. These are the truest unsung heroes who are working day in and out to feed families or provide compassion for seniors or protect women from domestic violence and to bear witness. Carolyn: Billy Shore, who's one of my heroes and mentors who's the founder of Share Our Strength. Billy always talks about the importance of bearing witness, and to bear witness and to listen and learn and to just be quiet. To be in a space of reflection. And then I get in my car and then I would drive like 10 hours or whatever. Going through Western Texas was scary because I lost my cell and you had like for eight hours, no gas station. Carolyn: They're like, "Fill up here or you're not going to make it." And so you just have that quiet to sit and reflect. That's where the spark for Project 351 started to come, but it was... And not to sound overly hokey or, I don't know, silly in any way, sentimental in any way. But just for me was just this deep sense of gratitude for this country and just how diverse... Now even more, now it's polarized. Carolyn: Then it was diverse and not so polarized. Now it's diverse and so polarized. But I remember every interaction was a lesson in humility and a lesson in grace, and that these people from every background you could imagine who were doing things driven only by devotion to cause greater than self, and that the character of the American people. And I remember just... Certainly, our family was very blessed and changed by the extraordinary, and Holy Cross being one of the most extraordinary sources of love and comfort and care after 9/11. Carolyn: And how important it is to access that through memory when we are in times like this, that feels so divisive, that what this country stands for is not what we're witnessing on the television. Jamie: There are people out there doing God's work, if you will, and doing it quietly, but doing it so well and making a difference in people's lives. One life at a time. But you multiply that in the aggregate and there are a lot of lives being touched out there by a lot of people. And so including you, I would argue, I would say, without a doubt- Carolyn: With your help, Jamie. With your help. Jamie: Well, let's transition I know to Project 351, because obviously, that is close to my heart. Obviously, a part of your heart, this is your heart. Tell us a little bit about Project 351. And I want to hear its origin story, if you will, as they say in superhero movies these days. The origin story of Project 351. Carolyn: I want to make sure, because I'll forget is to say upfront one, how grateful I am to Holy Cross the institution, the civic space because of you, Jamie and Elizabeth Rice and so many wonderful people at Holy Cross. Holy Cross is a little bit of Project 351 West because we have our educator advisory group meetings there, we have alumni summits there and I love it. I love every time I can bring my alum on campus and tell them that they all should go to Holy Cross. Carolyn: But I always tell them, "We are very intentional about everything we do at Project 351." So we convene in places of meaning, and that Holy Cross is devoted to developing men and women for others. And so that's why we meet there. Because we can meet anywhere in Worcester, but we meet there because of that ethos. Jamie: It's our honor to have you there for sure. Carolyn: Then the broader gratitude to all of the Holy Cross alums specifically and the class of 1987, my best friends, Jen White, and Julie Foley, and so many friends who have... Frannie and Danny and everybody who have believed in Project 351 and encouraged, and have volunteered. I just feel really lucky shout out also to Ellie and Michael Hall, our other family members, Jamie: The San Francisco wing of Project- Carolyn: Yes, of Holy Cross. Exactly. The origin story is, it's one of these things where the path is so unclear what the origin story is, it's sort of one. But the way I always think of it is that, and I think most people probably would have a similar is that, Project 351 is a mosaic and every one of those beautiful cuts of glass is a gift that someone has given me along the way. Whether it's John Lewis whose passion for the beloved community and insistence on leading with love. Carolyn: If Jeff Swartz who's courage and bold vision around creating cross sector collaboration and social change. Michael and Alan and my partner at Project 351, and my third brother, Charlie Rose, from City Year whose fierce belief in young people as a catalyst for transformative change. And then there's a million pieces of glass that I picked up all over Mount St. James. So those are the lessons of faith, and those are the lessons of partnership, and respect, and inquiry and reflection. Carolyn: The philosophy around Project 351 comes from all of those lessons, but the reality of Project 351 comes from, it was the first Baker Patrick contest. Right? I think, the first one? Jamie: Yeah, 2010. Carolyn: 2010, yes. And there were two other candidates, right? Jill, Stein? Jamie: Jill Stein, yeah, yeah. Carolyn: And I'm forgetting the independent. So there were four candidates running in a state small like Massachusetts and governor Patrick and Charlie Baker, and Charlie Baker, I'd known, he was a friend of mine for, at that point like, I don't know, 15 years. And that campaign was, you'll recall because you were probably in the middle of it. It was an unkind campaign, shall we say? Carolyn: And I remember thinking as someone who just loves Massachusetts and loves the quaintness of it that we're so small and thinking, wow, this division, first of all, we have four candidates, and then it's a race that's divisive. It's kind of mean, which felt not that things are like hunky dory in Massachusetts politics, but it felt a little bit out of kilter. And I remember thinking like, well, how do you bring the state together again after a time like this? I'm thinking, well, through service and through young people. Carolyn: We're small enough to do it. You're not an eighth-grader from each one of the 351 cities and towns, but we're big enough where it feels bold. Where it's like, how the heck are you going to get one eighth-grader from every city and town? That prompted me. It was really around, how can service be a unifier and remind us that we have more in common than what makes us different? Governor Patrick would always talk about turning towards one another, not against one another. Carolyn: And and I didn't know him. I'm a Democrat, but I had never engaged with him. I supported him, but I didn't know him. And a mutual friend of ours, David O'Brien- Jamie: Exactly. There you go. Carolyn: ... was the head of his campaign inaugural and reached out to me. And he said, "You're like my service community person and the governor wants to focus on service and community. Any thoughts?" And I was like, "Well, actually, yeah. I have this concept paper called Project 351." And I sent it over and they presented it with options to the governor and the governor said, "I want to do this." It's not that exciting, but that's- Jamie: Wow. No, it's powerful. Carolyn: That's how it happened. But it was conceived as a one-day event. This happened very quickly. It was end of November, the inaugural was middle of January and I started calling superintendents in the first week of December saying, "How you don't know me, but we would like an eighth-grade unsung hero from your school district." And they're like, "We're about to go on Christmas break and you can call us back in January." Carolyn: And as it is in all things, there's always one person. And so Tom Scott who's executive director of the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents said yes, I was calling the first yes. And because of Tom and a lot of amazing people, we were able to assemble, you were probably there, a class of celebratory event called Project 351 that was really, and nothing to do with me, everything to do with Governor Patrick and the young people. Carolyn: But it was a celebration of Dr. King and it was these young people, literally from 351 cities and towns, including Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard, and Provincetown, and North Adams. Those young people getting up at 4:00 in the morning to get on a bus to get... And it's so amazing because the bus, not only the bus routes, but the bus captains from that first go are still the same today. Jamie: They're still involved today. Wow. Carolyn: Yep. Jamie: That speaks to the organization. Carolyn: And it speaks to how amazing educators are too. Right? Jamie: Yeah. Absolutely. Carolyn: But we figured out then how the heck to get young people in and out safely and programmatically, in and out in one day. And then the day itself was highly programmatic, celebration of Dr. King, transformational service across Boston, reflection and celebration at the end of the day. And the cool thing about Project 351 that you know and that everyone who's listening is welcome to come is, in the morning, you can't hear a sound, they're petrified. Carolyn: They're eighth grade, 12 years old or 13 years old. They're the only person from their town. They were selected, you don't apply, and so you are a quiet leader, so by nature, you're quiet. And they come into Faneuil Hall in the morning and you could hear a pin drop until Charlie gets them going on the building. And at the end of the day, they have found their voice, they have found their tribe. Carolyn: Some of them have found the love of their life, they think and their best friends. And the noise at the end of the day is like the symphony of service and idealism and it's at like fever pitch. It's so- Jamie: That is so true. That is so true. I've noticed that before. It's more than just the fact that they're early in the morning. I think the nerves are real in the morning, but they've become such a community by the course of the day that it is just wonderful to see. And they see their personalities come out, their spirits come out, and it's just really heartwarming to see. Carolyn: And to make sure for all the listeners, the kind listeners if you're still listening is, the very important role that Jamie has played as champion, and advisor, and friend. And also is the chairperson of the selection committee, our most highest award at Project 351, which is a $20,000 scholarship named after Myra Kraft, who those at Holy Cross know there's a deep relationship between Myra Hiatt Kraft's family, and Holy Cross. Right? Jamie: Absolutely. Carolyn: So all roads lead to Holy Cross. Jamie: Yeah. The wings of the library are the Hiatt wings- Carolyn: The Hiatt wings. Jamie: ... named after her family. So you have this launch day then you also have a reunion day. So tell us about reunion day. Carolyn: Well, the one thing I'll tell you about the first original launch day is that at the end of the day... How do we go from a one-day event to a program? At the end of the day, the young people were standing up, and a lot of them were crying. It was very, very emotional. A lot of the educators were crying and the young people kept standing up. And the governor who you know better than me is magical with young people. Carolyn: So he was in this community discussion and a beautiful discussion. And they would stand up and say, "No one's ever called me a leader before," and all these things. But a number of them set up and they said, "Okay, so now what? You called me to serve, and now what?" The governor was on a microphone and I was way in the back of the room. He's like, "Where's Carolyn?" On microphone. I'm like, "I'm here." Carolyn: And he said, "This keeps going, right?" And I was like, "I don't know." I'm like, "Yeah, I guess." Then that night, we created a Facebook page and that's how we started. Every bit of advice I ever gave to her nonprofit when I was at Timberland like do a market scan, build a board, raise the money, do a strategy, blah, blah, blah. No. Jamie: No? Carolyn: All of that went right out the door. I was building programs under me. And sometimes I feel like we never caught up, but from that moment. But so fast forward now, we're 10 years old, a decade. And now we are a youth-led movement for social change. There are 3,753 eighth-graders have embraced the obligation to serve through Project 351. And it's awe call it the ambassador journey, so it's a 12-month ambassador journey. Carolyn: And they're still selected, can't apply. Still unsung hero, quiet leader. And it is a year of developing their courage, and their compassion, and their capabilities to lead change. And we do that in very intentional ways through milestones throughout the year that are both enrichment-based, and also hands-on civic leadership and service leadership. I can talk about those, but I don't want to go on too long. Jamie: I think, I'm curious to hear from you what your thoughts are and what inspires these young leaders? What inspires them to serve at such a young age especially? Carolyn: One of my probably overused words when it comes to Project 351, there are two probably remarkable and extraordinary, because I run out of words for our young people and they are both... they're remarkable and extraordinary. And I think anybody listening who has children, nieces, nephews know that young people have innate goodness and hopefully for as long as possible, no judgment. And so bias or prejudice, we all know that that's taught, right? And so- Jamie: Yeah absolutely. Carolyn: And they are unfortunately increasingly sophisticated because of the world that we live in, but there's also when we were intentional about picking eighth-graders, because again, wanted them to be sort of young enough to feel as if this was an honor, that spending time with the governor. Now it's not Governor Patrick, it's Governor Baker. That felt like a big deal, not a cynical response to that, but that they're old enough as eighth-graders to be able to grow into the role of change agent and to understand nuances around the issues of hunger and the intersectionality between race and homelessness. Carolyn: What motivates them is probably motivates you and me, Jamie, is that injustice, and lack of opportunity, and a planet that's burning, and the gap in educational opportunities. Our young people are so motivated by the challenges of other young people. That is causes deep pain for them, in their reflections when they write, when they learn about... One of our partners is the only youth-led youth homeless shelter in the state, why to, Y2Y, you might know them. Jamie: Yeah, I do. Carolyn: And just that reality that there's a youth homeless shelter for our young people, they have to reflect and process that. But the other thing that's really important is, it's one person from every city and town, and so you know Fall River and I know Taunton, right? Jamie: Yeah. Carolyn: We know Brockton, you think about these rural communities. We are blessed in the state where we have communities of extraordinary wealth and we have communities of extraordinary poverty. And so our young people are from those communities, so we've young people who have parents who have extraordinary wealth and young people who... We've had young people who are homeless. Carolyn: We have one young woman who stood up at the end of last year's launch day and said, crying because she said, "I've never been..." How the day made her feel so special and that she and her mom had slept in a car the night before because they had no place to go. Right now we're preparing, potentially with the help of Jim McGovern to kick off our efforts on hunger for our next service campaign. So many of our young people are going to be serving food pantries that serve their family. Carolyn: I remember distinctly, one of my young women writing in her reflections after service about, it was one of her proudest moments. She brought her grandmother shopping. She put in air quotes at the food pantry, and he said, "And my grandmother was taking cans off the shelf that I had placed the day before- Jamie: Wow. Carolyn: ... from the donations I had collected." And she said, "And it made me so proud that- Jamie: Wow. Carolyn: ... I was helping my grandma, but I was also helping all these other families." Jamie: Wow, how powerful? For eighth-graders. It's amazing. Carolyn: It is amazing. And then the other is that on the other end of the spectrum, you have these young people who know that they're from families of good fortune, but have such sensitivity and then struggle. Every year on launch day, you may recall this, that we always have a couple of young people who stand up and have a tremendous sense of guilt- Jamie: Yes. Carolyn: ... because their family has resources. Governor Patrick would always say... and he was always so compassionate and he would always go right over to the young person and put his hand on their shoulder and say, "I hear you. I hear you and I understand what you're saying, but it's a good thing that you're blessed. It's a good thing that you're blessed. But your reaction shouldn't be guilt, your reaction should be generosity, engagement, compassion. And that's what you're doing right now." Carolyn: He had four classes of ambassadors every year, it was an experience at that because there was always one young person who would say, "I was at Cradles to Crayons, we ran out of socks and this morning going from my bed to the shower, I stepped over like 100 pairs of socks and I feel so guilty that I don't respect my socks." So it's that awakening and empowering across all demographics and backgrounds and life experiences. That's what Dr. King tells us, right? Everybody can be great. Right? Jamie: Exactly right. Everyone can learn from each other, learn from each other lived experiences and share your lived experiences with one another. That's one of the many powerful things about Project 351, and that exposure that these young men and women get. One question I would have, I always might have ask you this. These students, the young men and women, these young leaders are facing a lot of challenges in their lives. Jamie: Whether it be hunger or whether it be what's going on in the world, how have those changed over the past 10 years since the Project 351 was first founded? Have their lives gotten more complicated or have things stayed the same? I'm just curious about their lived experience, because you're keeping up with the world through their eyes, and you're helping them deal with the, not the outside world, it's the real world, I don't know how to describe it, but. And how has that affected Project 351 and these young, remarkable men and women? Carolyn: There has been a stark change in the last four years of what our young people are dealing with, and right now is very intense. Mental health challenges for young people, especially at this age group, so middle school are spiking. They're spiking and then COVID has made it worse. Social isolation, the fact that they aren't able to be with their friends and socialize. But we have had in the last, really the last three years, a lot of very deep and painful conversations around identity. Carolyn: Either because of their race, or gender, or gender identity, or who they love, and those young people feeling under attack and how that affects them and their self-confidence and self self-worth. The last probably six months have been... I will say there is a difference between our ambassadors in eighth grade and then our alumni leadership council, which you know is our governance body and they are the mentors to the eighth-graders. Carolyn: We put our eighth-graders for 12 months, they're 45 teams, geographically diverse to build those relationships that we talked about across all metrics of demographics. And those are named after service heroes, so John Lewis, Malala, Mandela, we have a Governor Patrick team, a Governor... Team, Devin McCourty team. So people who we consider service heroes and those are led by a high school alum, who's trained to be a mentor and team leader for 12 months. Carolyn: Our high school and college alumni are very... there's activism and it's across the political spectrum and across the causes right now that are very dominant, Black Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter, so within our community. Of course, it's a microcosm of the world and a microcosm of Massachusetts. We have those perspectives and work to... What we are trying to do is trying to model and teach how to respect... how to have empathy, first of all, and respect for the dignity of all. Carolyn: And how to be an active and engaged listener where you may not leave a conversation condensed, but that you have been respectful and maybe you've learned something. It might not be enough to convince you in another direction, but the idea... So we're doing work on that now, how can we be more directive and deliberative around teaching collaborative leadership models and skill around communication. Carolyn: So civic dialogue, how do you do that in an authentic way, but in a way that respects the opinions of all? Jamie: That's so important. And you've mentioned this word a couple of times, empathy, teaching them empathy. To put themselves into other people's shoes and understand that we all come to the table with our own backgrounds, and our own perspectives, and how to listen and learn. Doesn't mean sacrificing and giving up what you believe in, but it actually, I think you grow in your own understanding of your own beliefs by listening to others and learning from others. Carolyn: Absolutely. Jamie: And I think that's a powerful thing. And Project 351 represents that because it was started by a Democratic governor and now very much supported by the current governor, Charlie Baker, who's a big supporter- Carolyn: Huge. Jamie: ... and he's always at launch day. Carolyn: Lauren. Jamie: And first lady Lauren is a force. It's one example how they can... I know you've made that point before that it's a bipartisan organization in that way that it started by Democrat and has continued and supported by a Republican. I think- Carolyn: I think ... sorry. Jamie: No, no. Go ahead. Carolyn: No, I was going to say, I think one of the things that feels just more and more important to starting Project 351, part of it is, it's marveled at the fact that if you just deeply believe in young people and are consistent in that messaging, where it's like I always tell... We have a very small team, but I always tell our team, I'm like, "I want Project 351 to be the source of affirmation only, like we believe you can do it," and constant, every day. Carolyn: And because then they believe it and they do, but you need to... One, you need the affirmation, two, they need the platform, then they need the tools, and then they need the microphone. Right? Jamie: Yeah. Carolyn: So their voice. That combination is also important right now, which is to say, because one of the things I fear is this just escalating violence as we get closer to the election, it terrifies me. I'm 54 years old, so I being the young person at this time, how terrified they must be or scared maybe. So how do we model and teach, create that form, create that affirmation, give them the tools and the platform, hand them the microphone, but in a way that is about, like you said, empathy, that is about inclusion. That's about deescalation around these issues that are polarizing, so that they can... Carolyn: And that's one of the things, I just did the end of week email to them. And I was closing it by saying that these are challenging times, but we have the opportunity to demonstrate when we serve and when we lead with compassion, that love wins and that you can unite through empathy and compassion. And how proud I am of them for continuing to do that work during these challenging times. And that adults are paying attention to them, those eighth-graders and those high school students. Jamie: That's right. Well, I have to say, one thing that being involved in this organization has given me is hope. Hope in the future, not only because of the young leaders and obviously definitely because of them, but also because of you and because of the people who are involved in the Project 351 family. People who show up just to volunteer for one of the events or serve as a bus captains who are just there. The adults in the room, so to speak, who are inspired and are inspiring is what I would say. Jamie: I think they also serve as an example, and in this day and age, I think we all could use a little hope. So thank you, Carolyn, appreciate it very much. Tell people how they can learn more about Project 351. Carolyn: Sure. You're the best. Before I do that, I want to just make sure one group that I didn't recognize, which is so important, because it's full circle coming back to my dad and mom is Project 351 would be impossible without our educators. Jamie: Yes. Carolyn: And I know that so many graduates of Holy Cross are either teachers or in the education field. Little shout out to my friend, Danielle who's an educator and others out there who are educators, and especially now with COVID what those professionals have been managing and experiencing and doing what they can to ensure that children are educated during this time remote or otherwise. Carolyn: I would be remiss if I didn't, because ours is a school-based model, partnering with schools to build social and emotional learning skills. And we're very outcomes-based, which is a little more wonky to get into, but an important part of what we're trying to do is trying to be a solution provider for school districts who are looking to build character, education, civic, engagement, social, and emotional learning and to build unity around diverse communities. Carolyn: And so I just want to make sure I appreciate all the educators and certainly my parents who were educators and extraordinary teachers and my siblings who aren't educators, but teach me every day still. Jamie: Thank you. Carolyn: Oh, how can they find out. You can come visit Project 351. We are www.project351.org and we welcome... Obviously with COVID, we're doing everything virtual, we're sort of... but one thing in terms of hope, you would think that the environment our young people are in and COVID, social distancing, and our engagement, our service impact has gone up. Jamie: Really? Carolyn: We're doing 9/11 tribute service which honors and remembers through service our largest in history. Our spring service with like 514 projects. Young people are looking to make a difference, they're looking for meaning, they're looking for connection. They want to be part of building the beloved community and creating opportunity for their neighbors. And if you want to be a part, we're a .org. Normally we have volunteer opportunities on launch day and reunion, and hopefully we'll get back to that in 2021. Carolyn: We're always grateful if anybody wants to support us financially because we're a small organization, but we leverage every dollar because we have this extraordinary volunteer army across the state. And so, grateful for the time, grateful to Maura for inviting me to be part of this, and to you, Jamie who's somebody that we hold up at Project 351 as leader, and friend, and role model and you made this so easy. I was so nervous and... Jamie: I really appreciate all you do, and I appreciate who you are, and I appreciate all your contributions. It really is comforting to know that there are people like you out there and there's a future generation who we're putting a lot on their shoulders to be sure, but I think they can carry it. I think they can carry it. And it gives me comfort to hear that, but thank you. This has been a lovely conversation. Carolyn: Thank you, and thank you to... If anyone listening, we just say thank you for sharing time with Jamie and me. Jamie: Thank you. Maura: That's our show. I hope you enjoyed hearing about just one of the many ways that Holy Cross alumni have been inspired by the mission to be people for and with others. A special thanks to today's guests and everyone at Holy Cross who has contributed to making this podcast a reality. If you or someone you know would like to be featured on this podcast, then please send us an email at alumnicareers@holycross.edu. If you like what you hear, then please leave us a review. This podcast is brought to you by the Office of Alumni Relations at the College of the Holy cross. You can subscribe for future episodes wherever you find your podcasts. I'm your host Maura Sweeney and this is Mission-Driven. In the words of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, now go forth and set the world on fire. Theme music composed by Scott Holmes, courtesy of freemusicarchive.org.

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No. 25 KRISE & Demut

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2021 55:58

Herzlich willkommen zu unserem 25. ‚Podcast‘ über Demut und Krise. Krise ist das zentrale Thema eines Workshops, den Robin und ich seit einigen Monaten vorbereiten. In den nächsten Wochen mehr dazu. Heute versuchen wir Antworten zu folgenden Fragen: Was ist Krise? Was ist Krisenmanagement? Welche Rolle kann Demut oder ‚Management by Demut‘ bei der Lösung von Krisen spielen? Was sind die wesentlichen Eigenschaften von Demut? Hat Demut etwas mit Unterwürfigkeit zu tun oder eher mit dem Mut zu dienen? Welche Rolle spielt Demut bei den Führungsstilen Empowerment oder Dienender Führer? Kann Dir Demut helfen gesünder und erfolgreicher zu leben? Im Job und Privatleben? Welche Rolle spielt Demut bei den Zeitkonzepten Chronos und Kairos? Literaturempfehlungen: Maly, Hartwig; Chronos und Kairos, Post im Blog ‚shapingalphapower‘, https://shapingalphapower.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/chronos-und-kairos/ Holiday, Ryan; Hanselman, Stephen; Der tägliche Stoiker, 2017 Aurel, Marc; Selbstbetrachtungen, 2018

Dietary Guidelines Good for Dairy, Hanselman Says

Dairy Defined

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2021 5:24

Newly released federal dietary guidelines will benefit dairy, even as work remains to be done, said Miquela Hanselman, NMPF’s regulatory affairs manager.“Dairy is in a good place,” Hanselman said. “Three servings of low-fat and non-fat dairy are continued to be recommended in the healthy U.S. and vegetarian diets, and dairy remained its own group. In addition, dairy was recognized as a source of under-consumed nutrients, which are also known as nutrients of public health concern.”Hanselman also discusses the need to incorporate up-to-date research on dairy in fats in the next round of guidelines and talks about their impact on encouraging the next generation of milk-drinkers.

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John Hanselman and dairyman Randy Gardner on anaerobic digesters to handle both manure and food waste.

DairyVoice Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2020 31:45

“If U.S. food waste were a country, it would be the third largest producer of greenhouse gases in the world, behind the U.S. and China”, says John Hanselman, CEO of Vanguard Renewables. His company is partnering with dairy farmers on anaerobic digesters to handle both manure and food waste. In this episode of DairyVoice podcast, he talks with host Joel Hastings of DairyBusiness News and dairyman Randy Gardner, a Vanguard partner, who has been working successfully with digesters on his central Massachusetts farm for nearly a decade. Vanguard recently announced the Farm Powered Strategic Alliance along with Dairy Farmers of America, Starbucks and Unilever. For a great overview, you can listen as DFA member Gardner gives his practical take on all of it.

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Election News Review, Goodbye To Jay Hanselman And Lee Hay & More Top Stories

Cincinnati Edition

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2020 49:05

On Cincinnati Edition 's weekly news review, we say goodbye to two longtime WVXU voices. Lee Hay, the host and producer of Around Cincinnati and many other special programs, is retiring after a 45-year career in public radio. And, reporter Jay Hanselman is leaving his post as City Hall's watchdog.

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09-25-20 Segment 2 Naked golf, Drops, and The Moe Miracle

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2020 40:29

Cletus, Hanselman, and the Flower are in Florida playing naked golf and sleeping together. Andy calls in to answer any questions. Iggy's Drops. The new Pick 6 dropped yesterday. Bama -27.5 looks juicy. The Moe Miracle.

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09-25-20 Segment 2 Naked golf, Drops, and The Moe Miracle

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2020 40:29

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Still Time to Influence the Dietary Guidelines, NMPF’s Hanselman Says

Dairy Defined

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2020 9:00

Public comments on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans Committee’s scientific report may be submitted until Aug. 13. It’s a great time for dairy voices to be heard, said Miquela Hanselman, NMPF’s manager for regulatory affairs.

Briana Crane '00

The Good Practice Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2020 34:08

In the final episode of season one, Maura Sweeney '07 speaks with Briana Crane '00 as the Novel Coronavirus pandemic is taking hold in the United States. As a member of the fundraising team at Feeding America, we discuss the critical work of her organization to serve the country during this crisis and how Holy Cross inspired her to pursue such life-changing work. Interview originally recorded on April 17, 2020. --- Transcript Briana Crane: I truly believe that we can end hunger in this country. And I think especially with the bright light that is shining on it right now, for very unfortunate reasons, there's a new awareness and people are able to see like, "Wait, this can happen to me, or it is happening to me." And this could be a time when we can say, "Look, let's use the next few years to figure out how to end this." Maura Sweeney: Welcome to Mission-Driven where we speak with alumni who are leveraging their Holy Cross education to make a meaningful difference in the world around them. I'm your host, Maura Sweeney from the class of 2007, director of Alumni Career Development at Holy Cross. I'm delighted to welcome you to today's show. In the final episode of season one, I speak with Briana Crane from the class of 2000. We speak in April, 2020 as the Novel Coronavirus pandemic is taking hold in the United States. As a member of the fundraising team at Feeding America, we discuss the critical work of her organization to serve the country during this crisis. After growing up in Chicago, she came to Holy Cross to play softball and was a member of the team when they won the Patriot League Championship her sophomore year. She jokes that she has a habit of being in the right place at the right time. With some helpful advice from a fellow Holy Cross grad, she applied her degree in English and education to build a successful career in nonprofit fundraising. Driven by a mission to end hunger, she credits Holy Cross for living its mission and inspiring her to pursue a career focused on serving the needs of others. Maura Sweeney: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak with you today, Briana. Thank you so much for joining me. Briana Crane: Thank you for having me. I'm excited to do this. This is a new thing for me, so I'm thrilled. Maura Sweeney: Well, and I should say to everyone out there, it's new for me to be hosting this podcast from my home. So this is our special edition, work from home podcast episode. Briana Crane: Everything has to be adjusted these days. Maura Sweeney: Yes. Briana Crane: In some way. Maura Sweeney: Right. So we appreciate everyone's forgiveness if weird sounds come in or the audio quality isn't quite as perfect as we might like it to be. But Briana I know you're doing such incredibly important work with Feeding America and we've been talking about some of the really cool things that some of the positive things that have come out of this pandemic. Some exciting work with Disney and ABC and Elton John. Just to kick off, you're currently working as the Managing Director of Strategic Gifts at Feeding America. That must just be so critically important right now. Could you talk to me a little bit about the organization and the work that you do? Briana Crane: Sure. Well, Feeding America is the largest hunger relief organization in the United States. What it is comprised of is 200 food banks that serve every county and congressional district and parish in the United States. Those food banks serves 60,000 agencies, which are pantries and schools and community centers and places where food is actually handed out to people in need. Through that network, typically we serve 40 million people a year who are what we call food insecure. So they don't always know where their next meal is coming from. That includes 12 million children and 5 million seniors in this country rely on our services. And of course, this pandemic has disrupted a lot of things in society, but it's also increase the need by a lot, about 40%. Maura Sweeney: Wow. Briana Crane: So far, I know. I mean, in the last few weeks, 22 million people have filed for unemployment. So what we're seeing and I'm sure you've seen on the news are lines of cars at food distributions. And these are people who are going to the charitable food system for the first time in their lives. I've heard people saying they wait in this line for such a long time and they get to the front and people have said we're putting food directly in cars that have low and no contact distribution. But people will say, "Do I qualify for this? Does somebody else need it more than me?" I know. I mean, we're hearing that a lot, people they still have this guilt of going to the charitable food system, but there's plenty of food for everybody in this country. But in addition to being the largest hunger relief organization, we've also been a food rescue organization. So we're the largest food rescue organization in the country. About 70 billion pounds of food is wasted every year, and that doesn't include plate waste or what we waste in our homes. Maura Sweeney: Right. Briana Crane: So we rescue billions of pounds of that to get it to people who need it. But as you know, the food supply chain has been very disrupted in the last several weeks. Maura Sweeney: Yes. Briana Crane: So retailers don't have as much to donate, especially shelf stable food. And so the food banks have had to resort to purchasing food or finding other creative ways of getting it or even competing on the open market to purchase the food. So our expenses have gone up tremendously. It's a tragedy when we see binds of 10,000 cars at a food bank the same day that we see in the news that farmers are having to plow under or dump some of their produce and dairy farmers are having to dump some of it. The challenge with that is there's this huge quantities of not stable, not shelf stable food that's available, but there's such large quantities, it's hard for our network to absorb that and have the refrigerated trucks and be able to break it down to small household sizes in a safe way. I mean, all of it, but I mean, the good news is our network is so sophisticated and we've been around for 40 years and we really know how to be innovative and pivot through disaster. I mean, nothing like this, of course, but the government shut down last year and hurricanes and wildfires have helped us understand how to change our operations very quickly, which we're doing. Maura Sweeney: Yeah, yeah. Briana Crane: Yeah. Maura Sweeney: And you don't have a choice. Briana Crane: Right, right. Maura Sweeney: Right, right. But it's true. I mean, I know I've seen on the news all of the stories about how all of the food that would normally go to restaurants, or going to schools is a different type of ... It's packaged differently. It's set up differently. It's a different quantity than what goes into grocery stores, and like you said, all of these challenges in the supply chain that it's not as easy as you would hope to just divert from one place to another. There are different systems, there are different processes that need to ... Briana Crane: Right. With all of the restaurants closing and most people cooking at home, you're exactly right. That's 50% of the agricultural market is food that's close to perishing, because that's when it's going to go to the restaurant. So it is hard for us to rescue and hard for us to break down, but we are doing it. We're finding lots of ways. The food industry, government agencies, local state governments are really stepping in to help us find solutions. Maura Sweeney: That's fantastic. I do want to make sure we get to some of those success stories and some of those bright spots. Briana Crane: Sure. Maura Sweeney: Well, I also want to learn about you and about your background. These episodes are about you and about our alumni. So backing up a little bit, I'd love to know where you grew up and what your childhood was like. Briana Crane: Okay. Well, I grew up in Libertyville, Illinois, which is a suburb about 30 miles North of Chicago. I'm the youngest of four children. My sisters are 15 and 13 years older than me. So I kind of had three mothers in the house, which is awesome. My brother is two years older than me. All of them still live around Chicago. And my parents, they're all in the suburbs. I live in the city. I had a wonderful upbringing and being aware of helping others and being kind to others was something that's always been very instilled in me and the importance of family and community. I was very fortunate. I had a lot of advantages in growing up and I've always been very aware of that. Maura Sweeney: I can kind of get a sense that that inspired you to pursue the kind of work that you do. So how did Holy Cross get on your radar and what made you choose to come East and to become a Crusader? Briana Crane: Right. Again, I was very lucky. I, of course, knew about Holy Cross and my parents knew Holy Cross very well. I didn't have any relatives that had attended the school, but I played softball. I was looking for an opportunity to play softball in college, and I sent through a program at the time. I sent a tape out to about 300 and some schools all over the country to try and get interest. One of the handful of schools that called was Holy Cross. I remember coming back from the movies and having this voicemail message from the softball coach at the time, his name was Fran Dyson. I was so excited that they wanted me to come visit the campus over Labor Day weekend, and I did, and it was pouring rain when I ... Maura Sweeney: I swear Worcester has wonderful days and yet so many times the rain and the snow really interrupt that. Briana Crane: I know, I know, but poor Coach Dyson was standing out in the rain and we had gotten lost. Of course, my mom and I had never been to Massachusetts before, and navigating how to get there, especially at the time without our cell phones and everything else that we have. So poor Coach Dyson had been standing out in the rain for over an hour waiting for me and he was such a sweet man. I know. But then the next day the rain had stopped, the campus fully bloomed for me. And it's the most gorgeous place you can attend school at, in my opinion. I had such a wonderful time spending the weekend there and just fell in love with it. It was the only option for me. Of course, I had backups, but my expectations were high that I really wanted to go to Holy Cross. And I'm really glad I did. Maura Sweeney: That's wonderful. Well, I'm glad that you did get one nice day because I am. I'm impressed by the people who see Worcester in the snow, see it in the rain and trust us and choose to come to campus anyway. Briana Crane: The campus does know how to show off when it wants to. Maura Sweeney: It's true. It's true. I know. I always feel for the students because the campus is at its most beautiful in the summer and no one is there, except for the staff and visitors, but we fully enjoy it. But I know students always leave right as the peak is beginning. Briana Crane: Right. Yes. Maura Sweeney: Well, and so I know in addition to softball that you were an English major and you also completed the teacher education program. Briana Crane: I did. Maura Sweeney: And so many people, including myself, tend to have a circuitous route through their career. So I'd love to know a little bit about your decision to pursue English and teaching, and then how it shifted a little bit to what you're doing today. Briana Crane: Sure. I went through the program at Holy Cross and did my student teaching at Burncoat High School, which was a wonderful experience. One that I really enjoyed, and I'm very passionate about literature and sharing knowledge with others and really enjoyed teaching. But it was very hard after I graduated to find a position as an English teacher. I was certified in Massachusetts and Illinois. I was kind of looking in both places and I was working at Barnes & Noble, natural choice for an English major because I could spend hours in that store to this day, trying to kind of figure out what I wanted to do and should I go into a master's program that will give me an extra advantage? I did move back to Chicago after about a year being in Boston, after graduation because of 9/11. I wanted to be closer to my family, as a lot of people did after that terrible tragedy. When I moved back to Chicago, a fellow alum from Holy Cross who had lived in my dorm freshman year, called me and said, "Hey, I'm working for this consulting firm that works with nonprofits. And it's something that you would really love doing. And they hire from Holy Cross all the time." They recruit at Holy Cross. And it's a great training ground to get into this industry of fundraising and development. And it's something that it's becoming more part of mainstream professional development and now schools have tracks for development. But at the time I had no idea that it existed, but I did interview with CCS and started working for them. My first client was the Catholic church in Illinois on a campaign and then worked with every size and sector of nonprofit over the course of the next 13 years and really enjoyed the relationships that I developed there, the knowledge I was able to gain there and seeing different aspects of how the development departments work. I always knew about Feeding America and the food banks had been our clients as well. I admired how smart everybody there was, and I admired their mission. I thought hunger, that's such a solvable issue. Everyone in this country should have access to food. So when they started developing a major gifts program, one of my colleagues went from being a consultant to being in charge of that program and working with them full time. And he came to me because I was doing some recruitment and my life has been a series of being in the right place at the right time, I think. But he came to me and he said, "You're recruiting people and I'm looking to build my team. Do you know anybody that would be interested?" I just raised my hand. Maura Sweeney: That's kind of recruitment. Briana Crane: And he said, "Really? When do you want to start?" And so that was seven years ago and it's been just a dream job for me. And even during this horrible crisis, I feel very lucky waking up each day. And not only knowing that I still have a job, but knowing that my job is making a difference for people in some way. Maura Sweeney: Right. Right. I know. Because I think, especially in times of tragedy, it's when people are called to give and to help. And I think one of the most challenging things is when you feel like you can't help or you don't know how, and I just think I can imagine it must feel so incredibly rewarding to know that you really are making a difference. And like you said, over 40 million lives, that's huge. Briana Crane: Right. Yes. I mean, I think the real heroes right now are the people who are at the pantries and distribution centers and who are handing the food out to people and the volunteers and the national guard in a lot of states has stepped in to help where we don't have volunteers. I think those are the people that are really incredible right now. They're putting their health at risk. Maura Sweeney: Right. Right. Yeah. Thank goodness for these success stories and for these kind of beacons of hope. Because I think looking at our health care workers and looking at volunteers like this, our frontline, all these people who are stepping up, it really does make you feel good about people and feel good about our community. Briana Crane: Yeah. I do feel like for the most part, everyone wants to show each other kindness, especially now. And it's really coming out of how can we help each other. It's been an incredible outpouring of support, not just for Feeding America, but for every nonprofit that's involved right now. And even in small ways, what people are doing for each other to help out is really heartening to see. Maura Sweeney: Yes. Yes. Well, as you've transitioned to fundraising, do you feel like you've found your calling? It sounds like it's true. Briana Crane: I do. Yes. I love what I'm doing. I've never wanted to leave Feeding America, but I've had just through different connections, some opportunities come up where it was a mission that I believed in, but not quite as strongly as Feeding America or a position that maybe wasn't as direct front line fundraising. What I really like about fundraising is I get to work with philanthropists all over the country, very generous people, no matter what level of giving they're at. I get to help them feel more engaged with the causes that they're supporting and get them more directly connected and working with these wonderful people has been such an incredible experience and learning from them and understanding where they're coming from and their points of view. People give to hunger for many different reasons, and they give from both sides of the aisle and it's a nonpartisan issue. Maura Sweeney: Right. Right. Briana Crane: Yeah. Maura Sweeney: Well, and given the nature of this podcast being Mission-Driven, is there a particular mission that drives your work and that keeps you motivated to do this important work every day? Briana Crane: Yes. I mean, I truly believe that we can end hunger in this country. And I think especially with the bright light that is shining on it right now, for very unfortunate reasons, there's a new awareness and people are able to see like, "Wait, this can happen to me, or it is happening to me." And this could be a time when we can say, "Look, let's use the next few years to figure out how to end this." I think that motivates me and thinking there can be a future where everyone has access to food and how much stronger would our health care system be? How much stronger would our education system be and our workforce, if everyone had nutritious food? Maura Sweeney: Right. Right. Well, and how does the Holy Cross mission kind of weave into that and influence your passion for this work and the way that you live your life? Briana Crane: Yeah. Well, I mean, from the moment I stepped on campus, I was always impressed with the men and women for others and how much that was a huge part of the community there. I did take part in the student athletes speakers bureau, and working with the community as an athlete and mentoring young kids in Worcester. I think I mentioned to you last time we talked, it was my senior year when we had a major tragedy in Worcester that really brought the community together, was a warehouse fire, and 10 firemen lost their lives in that fire. The whole community came out in support of their family and their children. And first responders came from all over the world to attend their services because it was at the time of the worst first responder tragedy in the country. Holy Cross opened its doors to these first responders and they slept in the Hart Center. We really showed support and caring. I mean, we were literally a campus on a hill, overlooking a city that in many cases has poverty and problems. And to see that the campus community really cares about the city and the people in it always impressed me. And after that fire I saw the Red Cross. I saw the Salvation Army. I saw all of these nonprofits that were coming together to support the community, including Holy Cross. And I thought this is something that will always be important to me is being a part of solutions in my community. I joined the Red Cross not long after that and I've been a volunteer with them for about 20 years. Maura Sweeney: Oh, wow. Briana Crane: Yeah. Maura Sweeney: Wow. I think it's wonderful to hear that story and to be reminded of that today. Because I know I read something just in the past week that Holy Cross is opening up Lehy and offering that as a place for first responders in the Worcester area who aren't comfortable going home. Briana Crane: Oh, that's great. Maura Sweeney: Yeah. Briana Crane: That's great to hear. Maura Sweeney: Yes. Yeah. So it's nice to kind of be reminded of just how strong and how present that same mission is at the college and really them living that mission and the impact of it passing along to you to continue to live that mission and move it forward is really wonderful. Briana Crane: Yeah. Maura Sweeney: Well, and I know at the beginning we talked about the work that you're doing at Feeding America, and I'd love to know a little bit about we were talking about some of the fun things that are happening. Some of the people who are coming out of the woodwork to really enhance your work, to get the word out there about the great work that you're doing. I'd love to hear some of the success stories that you've seen. Because I think a lot of people need hope right now. Briana Crane: Yes. It's been so inspiring to see the people who are calling us every day and asking how they can help and/or activating on their own or through their channels, through social media, donating everything that they're doing to drive awareness. One of the things that was very special to me was I got to work with the team at the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation and Cal Ripken is a hero of mine. Somebody who played softball my whole life and fellow baseball. And the foundation has always been very active in communities all over the country, working with boys and girls clubs and building fields. They decided very early on in this pandemic, they reached out to us and said, "Look, we're going switch. Our foundation is going to switch all its funding to Feeding America during this crisis." Maura Sweeney: Wow. Briana Crane: So we're going to discontinue what we're doing for now and Cal Ripken Jr. himself joined social media for the first time in his life to help promote it. Maura Sweeney: I feel like that's a win. Briana Crane: Yeah. And he posted videos and he's a very articulate, genuine, wonderful human being. He has a wonderful team and they've been just very helpful and a joy to work with. And they've raised a lot of money and awareness for Feeding America. So that was a dream of mine to work with one of my heroes. Maura Sweeney: Yes. Briana Crane: And Jeremy Lin, who's a former NBA player and he posted a very powerful story on his Facebook page because he's somebody who lives between China and the United States. And he's seen some of the negative effects of the pandemic and he's really worked to address some himself, it very much paints him as somebody who has residents in both places, especially. And he's been very thoughtful in how he's engaged with us and very generous. And not just the celebrities and the athletes who of course have wonderful platforms and we're so thankful they're using them in a positive way right now, especially while they're at home. But people who are just going online and giving $5 or posting something on their Facebook page or bringing food to their neighbors or offering to pick up food for their neighbors, all of those small acts of kindness, and they're not small to the person receiving them, are making a huge difference too. Maura Sweeney: Yeah. I mean, I must say ever since we started talking about this podcast, there's a ... My town is a small town in Metro West of Boston and we have our own food bank, I thought, "Oh, I need to make more of an effort with them," because I think like you said, starting in your own community helps you to see the impact of the work that you're having and really can help. I think those small acts do make such a huge difference. Briana Crane: Yes, absolutely. Yeah. Maura Sweeney: Yeah. Briana Crane: Some of our partners are doing really creative things and fun things to not just drive support and awareness, but also raise people's spirits. There's a clothing line in LA, Fred Segal. I did an Instagram live with them last week and because they're a higher end clothing line, they're having all their followers do a clubbing night in where they get dressed up at night, most of them and put on makeup and the whole nine yards. Maura Sweeney: That's amazing. Briana Crane: And then they post it on their social media. It's kind of cool. Yeah. Maura Sweeney: I feel like I could say my two young daughters and I could have ... We have a clubbing night in at least once a day. It's a little lower class I would say, but we certainly could. Briana Crane: That's so fun. I'm glad you're doing that. They're going to remember that for the rest of their lives. Maura Sweeney: Yes. Yeah. Well, and so I'd love to wrap up with some speed round questions. Briana Crane: Okay. Maura Sweeney: If you're ready for those. Briana Crane: Sure. Maura Sweeney: Just some quick questions for quick answers. No need to think too much about it in advance. Briana Crane: Okay. Maura Sweeney: So since you live in Chicago, what's the best place to visit as a tourist? Briana Crane: Oh, there are so many. The architectural boat tour. Maura Sweeney: I've actually been on that one and it was fantastic. Briana Crane: I've been on it several times and I never get tired. I think it's the number one thing. And to see the skyline and be on the river, it's the number one thing to do in Chicago? Maura Sweeney: Yes. Yes. I agree with that completely. This might be controversial. Best restaurant. Briana Crane: Oh gosh. There are so many in Chicago. That's a tough one. I'll have to say Girl and the Goat. Maura Sweeney: Great, great. And what kind of food is that? Briana Crane: It's American food, but she was on Top Chef, the chef. Maura Sweeney: Oh nice. Nice. Briana Crane: Yeah. So it's one of the ... It can be hard to get into, but it's also achievable. Maura Sweeney: Oh good, good. Of your four years on campus, which was your favorite year? Briana Crane: I enjoyed every year, but I guess my favorite year would be my sophomore year. My softball team, we're still very close to this day. We had a Zoom get together a few weeks ago. And my sophomore year was the year we won the Patriot League Championship for the first and only time in Holy Cross history for the women's softball team. Maura Sweeney: Wow. Briana Crane: Yeah. Maura Sweeney: Oh my gosh. Briana Crane: Yeah. So that was really exciting and fun, and one of the best memories of my life with that team. Maura Sweeney: Yeah. That's wonderful. It's so fabulous to know you're still in touch. Briana Crane: Yeah. I've been to most of their weddings. We got together last year. It was the 20th anniversary of winning the Patriot League Championship. So we all got together in Connecticut and had a wonderful time. Maura Sweeney: Oh, that's awesome. Briana Crane: So those are friendships that will always last. Maura Sweeney: Yeah. Yeah. What was your favorite dorm? Briana Crane: Mulledy. Maura Sweeney: Freshman year dorms. You can't beat them. Briana Crane: Yeah, I was there two years and I just loved Mulledy. It was the farthest possible from everything. Maura Sweeney: Yes. Briana Crane: But I love it. What dorm were you in? Maura Sweeney: I was in Hanselman. Briana Crane: Okay. Maura Sweeney: Yep. Yeah. I was in the first year program, so we were ... Briana Crane: Oh right, yeah. Maura Sweeney: Yes, so we were all in Hanselman, but I know from everyone I've talked to, it seems like wherever you lived freshman year, it just sticks with you. Briana Crane: It does. Yes. Maura Sweeney: Yeah. What was your favorite Holy Cross tradition when you were a student? Briana Crane: Oh my gosh. My favorite tradition, I think I'll have to say Cape Week was my favorite tradition. It was such a fun release after finals to go down there. I was with girlfriends and we weren't in like the fun, it was called a Thunderbird, like really the motel or something that was on the Cape. We stayed in like kind of nice houses, nicer houses that were like not close to all the craziness. So we had really nice fun time. I remember when my senior year of Cape Week was the last episode of Beverly Hills 90210. Maura Sweeney: Oh, wow. Briana Crane: So like 50 girls gathered in a room together to watch the last episode of Beverly Hills 90210. Maura Sweeney: That is another strong memory, I'm sure. Briana Crane: Yeah, it is. Maura Sweeney: Well, and what I loved about Cape Week too, is that everyone else thinks you're crazy because it's like 50 degrees on the Cape, but it's not a time to be going to the beach or to be vacationing, and yet all of Holy Cross kind of descends. Which makes it wonderful, because then it feels like aside from the people who live there year round who I think tolerate us for a few days. Briana Crane: Right. Those poor people. Maura Sweeney: But at least they bring business, so that's something. Briana Crane: Right. Exactly. Maura Sweeney: Who was your favorite professor? Briana Crane: Professor Wong, and she was in the English department and I'm not sure she's still there. I don't think she is, but she taught 18th century lit and she would often buy lunch for the whole class because our class time was right around lunchtime. I remember when I got Wong, that's what people called her. They'd say, "Oh, you got Wong. You're in trouble. She's really hard." I didn't find her that hard. I mean, she was challenging, but 18th century lit is challenging, but she was such a wonderful person and made coming to class fun and interesting. I think she was my favorite. Maura Sweeney: Well, and it's often those professors that people say watch out for them, they're so hard. Those are the people you learn from the most. Briana Crane: Right. Exactly. Yeah. Maura Sweeney: Yes. Yeah. What was your favorite class? Briana Crane: Kennedy to Watergate was my favorite class. It was a history class and I spent ... It was really interesting, of course, time period in United States history. But I spent hours in the Holy Cross archives because I was not just ... One of my term papers was about Holy Cross during that time period and what the campus went through, and so much happened at Holy Cross during that time. We talked about the hepatitis outbreak with the football team that happened around that period, and going through the newspaper articles and even the campus, Clarence Thomas was the editor of the paper and lived in the basement of one of the dorms. It was just so interesting everything that happened on campus during that time. So that was my favorite class and really resonated with me, always stayed with me. Maura Sweeney: That is cool. I mean, it's true. I mean, Holy Cross is a long history, but it's kind of wild to look back, not that far ago and to see the kind of impact and kind of connections that there are. So I have one last question for you. Briana Crane: Okay. Maura Sweeney: What's the best thing about being a Holy Cross alumna? Briana Crane: The best thing is the sense of community that you keep for the rest of your life. I think anytime you run into another Holy Cross alum, whether you knew them or not, or whatever class they're from, there's a sense of community and connection to them. And it's been very impactful for me throughout my career. It's been every job I've had or career choice I've made have been through connections from Holy Cross. And that's something that's very important to me to pass on. I just got an email this morning about the virtual shadowing program and who I'm getting paired up with, and I've been able to do that for several years and I really enjoy it and encouraging young kids the way I was encouraged by older alumni, I think that's a big thing. There's a robust alumni group here in Chicago. Maura Sweeney: Well, and it's one of the wonderful things too, is that no matter where you go in the world, somehow Holy Cross people tend to come out of the woodwork in a really wonderful way. Briana Crane: They do. Absolutely. Maura Sweeney: Yes. Well, this has been a real pleasure, Briana. Thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me about your history, your background and just the incredible work that you're doing right now. Briana Crane: Thank you. Thank you for doing this and doing this different format with me. I really appreciate it. Maura Sweeney: Oh my pleasure. And to all of you out there, thanks for putting up with any background noise that we might have. I’ve got a barking dog upstairs who's dying for something. Thank you very much. Take care, Briana. Briana Crane: All right. You too. Take care, everybody. Maura Sweeney: That's our show. I hope you enjoyed hearing about just one of the many ways that Holy Cross alumni have been inspired by the mission to be men and women for and with others. A special thanks to today's guest, and everyone at Holy Cross who has contributed to making this podcast a reality. If you or someone you know would like to be featured on this podcast, please send us an email at alumnicareers@holycross.edu. If you like what you hear, then please leave us a review. This podcast is brought to you by the Office of Alumni Relations at the College of the Holy Cross. You can subscribe for future episodes wherever you find your podcasts. I'm your host, Maura Sweeney, and this is Mission-Driven. In the words of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, "Now, go forth and set the world on fire." --- Theme music composed by Scott Holmes, courtesy of freemusicarchive.org.

Episode 42 - Grit and Growth Mindset: Good Practice Podcast Crossover Special

Emotion At Work

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2020 45:50

Carol Dweck's Mindset (2006) and Angela Duckworth's Grit (2016) are two of the most influential social science texts of this century, but difficulty implementing their ideas and a failure to replicate their findings has left them open to criticism. In this special crossover edition of The Good Practice and Emotion at Work podcasts, hosts Nicola Boyle and Phil Willcox are joined by Owen Ferguson, Ross Garner and Gemma Towersey to discuss. We explore: the extent to which we feel we demonstrate grit and growth mindset the problems posed by the popularity of these ideas the impact of grit and mindset on L&D. Show notes Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfil Your Potential, by Carol Dweck, is available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindset-Updated-Changing-Fulfil-Potential/dp/B07NQLQDWN Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, by Angela Duckworth, is available at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grit-Passion-Perseverance-Angela-Duckworth-ebook/dp/B019CGY2ZG A useful review of mindset literature is: Burgoyne, A. P., Hambrick, D. Z., & Macnamara, B. N. (2020). How Firm Are the Foundations of Mind-Set Theory? The Claims Appear Stronger Than the Evidence. Psychological Science, 0956797619897588. Online at: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/2020-burgoyne.pdf A study looking at mindset in the workplace is: Campbell, A. (2019). Effects of Growth and Fixed Mindset on Leaders' Behavior during Interpersonal Interactions (Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University). Online at: https://search.proquest.com/openview/f227f221ad725ab6802a70bb2d192d83/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Professor Dweck has responded to criticism of her work here: http://theconversation.com/growth-mindset-interventions-yield-impressive-results-97423 Two papers critiquing the 'grit' concept are: Credé, M. (2018). What shall we do about grit? A critical review of what we know and what we don’t know. Educational Researcher, 47(9), 606-611. Online at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1051&context=psychology_pubs Lee, C. S. (2018). Authentic leadership and organizational effectiveness: The roles of hope, grit, and growth mindset. International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 118(19), 383-401. Online at: https://acadpubl.eu/jsi/2018-118-19/articles/19a/27.pdf The paper that Ross and Owen discussed was: Yeager, D. S., Hanselman, P., Walton, G. M., Murray, J. S., Crosnoe, R., Muller, C., ... & Paunesku, D. (2019). A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement. Nature, 573(7774), 364-369. Online at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1466-y?fbclid=IwAR3eSTiOiVc3v8LARTfGwxTzlSDz4AiAFpLK-jK4VcJr57wI0eO8zyvwkEc The blog by David D'Souza that Phil mentioned was: https://daviddsouza.com/2020/02/03/the-surprising-truth-about-obvious-truths/ In What I Learned This Week, the gang discussed: Security issues associated with Zoom. Find out more at https://tidbits.com/2020/04/03/every-zoom-security-and-privacy-flaw-so-far-and-what-you-can-do-to-protect-yourself/ and https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/03/thousands-zoom-video-calls-left-exposed-open-web/ Ross' reflections regarding Dr Catherine Calderwood's resignation, covered online at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-52181221 The book Ross recommended was Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed, available from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/So-Youve-Been-Publicly-Shamed-ebook/dp/B00L9B7IRC The paper Phil discussed, on the mindsets intervention, was: Foliano, F., Rolfe, H., Buzzeo, J., Runge, J., & Wilkinson, D. (2019). Changing mindsets: effectiveness trial. National Institute of Economic and Social Research. Online at: https://www.niesr.ac.uk/sites/default/files/publications/Changing%20Mindsets_0.pdf The book that Gemma recommended was The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker, available at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sense-Style-Thinking-Persons-Writing/dp/1846145503 If you'd like to Give Blood during the current crisis, you can! See: https://www.blood.co.uk/ For more from Emerald Works, see: https://emeraldworks.com/ For more from Phil, see: https://www.emotionatwork.co.uk/

189 — Grit and Mindset: Emotion at Work Crossover Special

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2020 45:49

Carol Dweck's Mindset (2006) and Angela Duckworth's Grit (2016) are two of the most influential social science texts of this century, but difficulty implementing their ideas and a failure to replicate their findings has left them open to criticism. In this special crossover edition of The Good Practice and Emotion at Work podcasts, hosts Nicola Boyle and Phil Willcox are joined by Owen Ferguson, Ross Garner and Gemma Towersey to discuss. We explore: the extent to which we feel we demonstrate grit and growth mindset the problems posed by the popularity of these ideas the impact of grit and mindset on L&D. Show notes Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfil Your Potential, by Carol Dweck, is available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindset-Updated-Changing-Fulfil-Potential/dp/B07NQLQDWN Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, by Angela Duckworth, is available at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grit-Passion-Perseverance-Angela-Duckworth-ebook/dp/B019CGY2ZG A useful review of mindset literature is: Burgoyne, A. P., Hambrick, D. Z., & Macnamara, B. N. (2020). How Firm Are the Foundations of Mind-Set Theory? The Claims Appear Stronger Than the Evidence. Psychological Science, 0956797619897588. Online at: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/2020-burgoyne.pdf A study looking at mindset in the workplace is: Campbell, A. (2019). Effects of Growth and Fixed Mindset on Leaders' Behavior during Interpersonal Interactions (Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University). Online at: https://search.proquest.com/openview/f227f221ad725ab6802a70bb2d192d83/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Professor Dweck has responded to criticism of her work here: http://theconversation.com/growth-mindset-interventions-yield-impressive-results-97423 Two papers critiquing the 'grit' concept are: Credé, M. (2018). What shall we do about grit? A critical review of what we know and what we don't know. Educational Researcher, 47(9), 606-611. Online at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1051&context=psychology_pubs Lee, C. S. (2018). Authentic leadership and organizational effectiveness: The roles of hope, grit, and growth mindset. International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 118(19), 383-401. Online at: https://acadpubl.eu/jsi/2018-118-19/articles/19a/27.pdf The paper that Ross and Owen discussed was: Yeager, D. S., Hanselman, P., Walton, G. M., Murray, J. S., Crosnoe, R., Muller, C., ... & Paunesku, D. (2019). A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement. Nature, 573(7774), 364-369. Online at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1466-y?fbclid=IwAR3eSTiOiVc3v8LARTfGwxTzlSDz4AiAFpLK-jK4VcJr57wI0eO8zyvwkEc The blog by David D'Souza that Phil mentioned was: https://daviddsouza.com/2020/02/03/the-surprising-truth-about-obvious-truths/ In What I Learned This Week, the gang discussed: Security issues associated with Zoom. Find out more at https://tidbits.com/2020/04/03/every-zoom-security-and-privacy-flaw-so-far-and-what-you-can-do-to-protect-yourself/ and https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/03/thousands-zoom-video-calls-left-exposed-open-web/ Ross' reflections regarding Dr Catherine Calderwood's resignation, covered online at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-52181221 The book Ross recommended was Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed, available from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/So-Youve-Been-Publicly-Shamed-ebook/dp/B00L9B7IRC The paper Phil discussed, on the mindsets intervention, was: Foliano, F., Rolfe, H., Buzzeo, J., Runge, J., & Wilkinson, D. (2019). Changing mindsets: effectiveness trial. National Institute of Economic and Social Research. Online at: https://www.niesr.ac.uk/sites/default/files/publications/Changing%20Mindsets_0.pdf The book that Gemma recommended was The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker, available at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sense-Style-Thinking-Persons-Writing/dp/1846145503 If you'd like to Give Blood during the current crisis, you can! See: https://www.blood.co.uk/ For more from Emerald Works, see: https://emeraldworks.com/ For more from Phil, see: https://www.emotionatwork.co.uk/ Subscribe to the Podcast There are so many ways to subscribe to The Good Practice Podcast. Click your preference below and subscribe. Google Play Music iTunes Overcast Pocket Casts Podbean Spotify Stitcher TuneIn You can find Phil's podcast at: https://www.emotionatwork.co.uk/podcast/ and on iTunes. Connect with our speakers If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, connect with our speakers on Twitter: Nicola Boyle @Nicola_BoyleEW Phil Willcox @PhilWillcox Ross Garner @RossGarnerEW Owen Ferguson @OwenFerguson Gemma Towersey @GemmaTowersey You can follow Emerald Works on Twitter @Emerald_Works and LinkedIn. Emotion at Work is @EmotionAt_Work.

195: The Hanselman Machine Learning Model

Merge Conflict

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2020 46:55

We dive back into machine learning with more automagical ML. James tries to pull off some sentiment analysis for his app and we discuss a few options. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website, Chat on Discord Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface ⭐⭐ Review Us (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/merge-conflict/id1133064277?mt=2&ls=1) ⭐⭐ Machine transcription available on http://mergeconflict.fm

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Merge Conflict: 195: The Hanselman Machine Learning Model

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2020 46:55

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Bridget Bowman '13

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2020 30:14

Paige Cohen '21 speaks with Bridget Bowman '13 about her career as a political reporter, and how the Holy Cross mission has influenced her approach to connecting with voters and reporting the news. Recorded September 23, 2019 --- Transcript sHour, then how did you get from NewsHour to Role Call? Bridget: So the politics editor of the NewsHour at the time, her name is Christina Belintoni, she had been the political editor at Role Call and then while she was at the NewsHour, was then hired to go back to Role Call as the Editor in Chief and she encouraged me to apply to a paid internship that they had and I was kind of nervous about it. I didn't have a ton of newspaper experience outside of writing for the Holy Cross paper, but I knew that it would be a great opportunity to learn from seasoned journalists like Christina, to get my own experience reporting and writing. So I applied to that internship and I've basically been there ever since. Bridget: I interned for several months and then was hired as a full time reporter. I've kind of done different beats in Role Call throughout the last almost six years, five and a half years at this point. So it's been a really great experience, but that's kind of how I ended up there. Paige: So since you didn't have the print experience that maybe some other applicants had had, was there anything that you said in your interview that you think like really made you stand out or ... Bridget: That's a good question. I'm trying to remember, but that was a little while ago. I'm trying to remember my interview. I remember talking about specific races that I thought were interesting, like congressional races that were going on. So I think the political knowledge, and I also did get some writing experience at the NewsHour writing for their morning newsletter that they had, doing some stories for the website. So I did have that experience. I can't remember exactly what that interview was like. I remember who it was with, but I do sort of remember talking about the individual races so maybe that might've been helped. Paige: Yeah. General like political knowledge. I felt like, so I spent last summer in DC interning at the State Department and it was, I just felt like in DC there's this culture of everybody knows every political thing up to the minute. So just trying to keep up with that, but I feel like that's the way to stand out there. Bridget: Yeah. People in DC are very focused on, it's kind of a funny world. Paige: Yeah. Bridget: But it's interesting, for sure. Paige: I know. I'm trying to like get back on my podcast here at Holy Cross and I'm like, you know, keep up, keep up. So have there been any stories that you've worked on at Role Call or anything, any big highlights that were your favorite to write or research? Bridget: Sure. I think anytime that I've traveled, so I've been on the campaign team for the last two and a half years, jumped into the politics team covering the midterm elections last cycle, which was kind of wild. There was a lot. It was so closely watched and so much going on. But anytime I've had a chance to travel has been really interesting and just getting of DC and talking to voters has been fun. I covered the Alabama Senate special election where a Democrat Doug Jones won and upset the Republican candidate, Roy Moore, who had, you know, sexual misconduct issues and there was a lot of stuff going on in that campaign. And I remember being in Alabama and the days leading up to the race and writing stories about who are the Republican voters that were supporting Doug Jones because that was why that race was competitive. Bridget: And also writing about how both candidates were using religious networks to kind of reach out to communities. Jones, focusing on African American churches. Moore, focusing on rural churches throughout the state. So I think that race was really kind of fun. It was kind of my first big election that I covered and just we ended up going to Doug Jones election night party. We had no idea of which candidate was going to win. It was so close. People I was talking to in both parties, nobody knew what was going to happen. We kind of made the choice to go to Jones because we figured if he were to win that would be the place to be. And just kind of being there when the race was called and scrambling to write follow up stories was just a really interesting experience. Bridget: And yeah, like I said, being able to travel and see parts of the country has certainly been really interesting. Paige: Do you think, you know, Holy Cross has such a focus on the community and you said you were involved in Spud, so I'm curious, did any of that start to come back to you? Like that kind of community learning component? I don't know. It might be fishing. Bridget: Yeah. I think so. I mean, you're always trying to tap into different communities and figure out what voters are thinking and what's motivating people, what's driving them to the ballot box, what messages are working. So that has a lot to do with going into different communities and talking to regular people. I've literally stood outside of Walmart's and asked people as they go to shop, what are you thinking about? Who are you going to support? And things like that. So I don't know that answers your question. Paige: Yeah. No, it does. It just, yeah. So, and then what is the most difficult story that you might've had to cover? Was there anything, I don't know, difficult and it could be in different ways. Bridget: Right. Paige: Hard to write or maybe troubling to write. Bridget: Sure. That's a really, there's been so many things going on. I think one story that took me a really long time to write actually was an earlier story I wrote at Role Call on the, so my first beat was covering the Capitol campus, which is like the kind of the local news of Capitol Hill issues impacting staffers, legislative branch agencies, which includes the Library of Congress. And I had heard from some folks about, concern about diversity and discrimination issues for Library of Congress staffers, that staffers of color were seeing some barriers in being able to advance up. Bridget: So that took a long time to kind of report out and kind of at the same time, the first African American Librarian of Congress was nominated and being confirmed. So there was, you know, history being made at the highest level of the library, but those are the lowest level were still seeing a lot of barriers to advancement. Bridget: So people, especially regular workers, don't always want to talk to a reporter or go on the record, but it involves a lot of talking to people, digging through court documents, seeing discrimination cases that have been filed, talking to the unions and talking to them, going back and forth with the library about their diversity plans and things like that. So that was a huge, a big lift. Bridget: But it also led to another story about diversity among senior Senate staff when I was on the Senate beat. After that story came out, then Senate staffers are reaching out saying we're having some similar issues in the Senate. Bridget: So that's always kind of a really sensitive issue to talk to with people. But it was a really good experience in how you bring together interviews and legal documents and all of that. So that was definitely, that was a lot of work. Paige: Well, and it strikes me like that's the kind of what you're talking about, the essence of your mission, like the finding the truth. I mean, literally digging through and getting all these interviews together and bringing all these different, you know, people from different walks of life all together. So. Paige: All right. This is kind of a big question. What does it mean to you to live a meaningful life and how is your work a part of this meaning and maybe how is it not? Bridget: That is a big, very big question. Paige: Yeah. Bridget: Critical thinking at Holy Cross. I think when I think of what it means to have a meaningful life, I think of what kind of impact have you had on people. I think professionally, when I think of what kind of impact I'd like to have, I'd like to kind of be able to look back and say I told stories of people who hadn't been heard before or I shed light on a problem that hadn't been noticed before. I think that that's kind of what I like to think about in terms of my career. Bridget: Kind of personally, a meaningful life can be how you are impacting the people around you. And I tend to think of that Maya Angelou quote where she said people don't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel. And so, am I making the people around me feel loved and respected? Paige: I love that. You answered it, I think. All right. So we want to do a little Holy Cross speed round to go off of the big question, into Holy Cross questions. All right, so speed round. What was your favorite dorm at Holy Cross? Bridget: So I lived in Figge my senior year, which was beautiful and awesome. But I probably have to say Hanselman for the sentimental value because that was my freshman dorm and a lot of my friends are friends that I've met in Hanselman. Spent a lot of time doing homework in the Hanselman basement. So I think that even though Figge was newer and nice and beautiful, I think I have to say Hanselman. Paige: Do they call it Hanselfam when you were here? Because now it is the Hansel family. Bridget: Hanselfam? Paige: Hanselfam. Bridget: I love that. Paige: So it has continued. Yes. Bridget: That's great. That's so great. Paige: Okay. Favorite Cool Beans order. Bridget: I love their chai. My friend called it Christmas in a cup, which is so accurate. So good. I also love the pumpkin bread at Cool Beans. So good. Paige: So good. Bridget: So good. Paige: All right. And then Kimball meal? Bridget: Kimball meal. Oh, I'm trying to remember. Wasn't there like an Apple Fest thing? Paige: There is, in the fall. Yes. Bridget: Where they have a ton of apples. I remembered that was always really exciting. Paige: Yes. The caramel apples. Bridget: Yes. Paige: Very good. Bridget: I also remember having a lot of the stir fry station. Paige: Yes. Bridget: But that was ... Paige: Love the stir fry station. Bridget: That was a good one too. Paige: Favorite class? Bridget: That's so hard. I thought meaningful life was going to be the hardest question. I mean, I loved taking classes outside of my major too. I took American Sign Language, which was really interesting. I did love a lot of my poli sci classes though. Bridget: One actually I still kind of think about is my senior year I took a seminar called politics and technology and we kind of went through historically how technology had impacted politics. And even then we're talking about campaigns micro targeting people like very specific digital ads aimed at people. And today, I deal with that all the time and I find myself kind of thinking back to that seminar where we could, I kind of wish I could just sit around and talk to people about it for awhile like we did then and that was really interesting. Paige: Favorite professor? Bridget: That's also really hard. I can't just choose one. My freshman year I had Professor Stephanie Yule from the history department. She was fantastic. She actually I think might've been the only professor that I had that made us learn every person's name in the class. Like she would call us to the front of the class and we'd have to identify everyone. Paige: That's some pressure. Bridget: Which was scary but also awesome because the next four years, I knew, we all knew each other so well. So she was fantastic. All the political science department professors were fantastic. Daniel Klinghard, Ward Thomas, Donald Brand, Lauren Cass, just a really great team. I can't. I don't think I can pick just one. Paige: Yeah. Yeah. Bridget: But that's an amazing part of Holy Cross. The access that you get to your professors, to go into office hours and the small classes is definitely something I really enjoyed about this place. Paige: Well, and it's good to hear all of those names because they're still here for the most part. Bridget: Right. That's true. Paige: So I was just walking down the political science department hallway, seeing their names, so I hopefully be in their classes. Bridget: Nice. Would recommend. Paige: And then favorite Holy Cross memory? Bridget: That's a really good question. I mean, there were so many big events, graduation, the night before graduation is always a really fond memory. I feel like my favorite memory is not a specific thing, but just thinking about my friends just hanging out in our dorm room, a couple of my friends played guitar and stuff and that just all being together and just relaxing in a dorm is something I really miss. Bridget: I think when you're here at Holy Cross and kind of in the moment, you don't realize how fortunate you are to just be surrounded by your friends and to be learning all the time. And we're all, a lot of us are spread out, so I definitely miss that a lot. Paige: Yeah. Your friends like downstairs or just a meal at Kimball. Bridget: Right. We used to think like going from Figge to Carlin is so far. Paige: Such a long walk. Bridget: Right. Paige: And now in DC and they're Connecticut or Boston, it's a little farther. Bridget: Oh my gosh. All right, and then last question. What is the best part about being a Holy Cross alum? Bridget: Oh my goodness. I think just the community that alums have. Our alumni network is so active. When I was, as I mentioned, I think when I was applying to jobs, I was using the Career Advisor Network, talking to alums, asking for as much advice as I could. And in DC, cities have different chapters of alums. In DC, we get together about once a month and when I tell other people that my college does that, they're kind of surprised. Like what? Like you still, you ... there's that connection? Paige: Yeah. Bridget: But that's been a really great part of it. And whenever you meet another Holy cross alum, you have that instant connection, whatever it is about this place that kind of bonds people together is definitely a really great part about being an alum. Even though I miss being a student here, that's like something you can probably look forward to. Paige: That's good to know. I'm glad it doesn't end here. Bridget: Right. Exactly. Last pumpkin bread unfortunately, but ... Paige: You have to make that yourself. Bridget: Exactly. Not as good. It's not as good. Paige: Well, Bridget, thank you so much for talking to me today and I hope to talk to you more in the future. Bridget: Sure. Thanks Paige. This has been really fun. Paige: Thank you. Maura: That's our show. I hope you enjoyed hearing about just one of the many ways that Holy Cross alumni have been inspired by the mission to be men and women for and with others. A special thanks to today's guests and everyone at Holy Cross who has contributed to making this podcast a reality. If you or someone you know would like to be featured on this podcast, please send us an email at alumnicareers@holycross.edu. If you like what you hear, then please leave us a review. This podcast is brought to you by the Office of Alumni Relations at the College of the Holy Cross. You can subscribe for future episodes wherever you find your podcasts. I'm your host, Maura Sweeney, and this is Mission-Driven. In the words of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, now go forth and set the world on fire. --- Theme music composed by Scott Holmes, courtesy of freemusicarchive.org.

Season 8, Episode 3:Migraines and Traumatic Birth with Special Guest Dr. Hanselman

Your Weekly Checkup

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2020 59:09

Andy Hanselman Consulting - Andy Hanselman

Steel City Business

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2020 19:42

Andy Hanselman has been helping businesses for 27 years. In that time he's been all over the world and thinks he's picked up the characteristics needed to succeed in business - or as he puts it, thinking in '3D' We met up to find out more. Find Andy here: http://www.andyhanselman.com/ (http://www.andyhanselman.com/) Steel City Business is the Sheffield Business podcast, highlighting the great stuff happening within the business community here in Sheffield. Each episode features a company or organisation based in or around the city - from the big ones right down to the sole traders. If it’s happening in Sheffield, we’ll be covering it. It’s brought to you by the team at Rebel Base Media, the Sheffield-based podcasting experts. Find out more at steelcitybusiness.com - and if you want to appear on Steel City Business or know someone we should feature email hellothere@rebelbasemedia.io

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Jim Cavanagh '13

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2020 43:17

In the third of this three-part series, Maura Sweeney '07 speaks with Jim Cavanagh '13 about forging his own path from Holy Cross into the legal profession. Recorded September 11, 2019 --- Transcript Jim: I realized, wow. I think what I learned at Holy Cross and I talked about the excitement of being a history major and getting lost in the stacks at Dinand. You just learned the importance of being a learner and learning that if you think, and even though things are difficult, if you buckle down and read and try to learn, you will learn and then when you do learn and you do put in the work that you can contribute and you can and you can serve. Maura: Welcome to Mission-Driven, where we speak with alumni who are leveraging their Holy Cross education to make a meaningful difference in the world around them. I'm your host, Maura Sweeney from the class of 2007, director of alumni career development at Holy Cross. I'm delighted to welcome to today's show. In part three of this three part series, we speak with Jim Cavanagh. Jim graduated from Holy Cross in 2013 and Notre Dame law school in 2015. Despite being a fellow history major like his siblings, Mary and Joe, Jim decided to apply his Holy Cross education differently. We hear about Jim's decision to try out teaching theology before going to law school. Today Jim works as an associate at Jones day and talks about how his Holy Cross training has prepared him for the multidimensional work that he does. We wrap up by bringing the three of them back together for a speed round about their favorite memories from Holy Cross. I'm excited now to turn to Jim, class of 2013, also a history major. You taught theology at Saint Sebastian school in Needham for two years before choosing to go to Notre Dame law where you graduated in 2018. You're an associate at Jones day doing something a little bit different, working across practice groups including business litigation, merger and acquisitions, banking and finance, tax credit transactions and pro bono work. You similarly take on pro bono work with the TGC Memorial fund and you've received your own slate of awards while at Notre Dame including the American law Institute CLE award for scholarship and leadership and the faculty award for excellence in civil procedure and health law, which, being recognized by faculty is really significant because I know that law school faculty seem to be some of the toughest out there. Jim: Right. Actually it's funny. So those awards are given based on your exam, which you're anonymous. You have a number. So I think on my civil procedure professor in particular, must've been like, “that kid won the award?” I think some of the questions I asked during my... That was my first classes I took in law school and I just remember asking a few questions, realizing, Oh, wow, I really don't know much, but that was a good... I mean, there's so many experiences in law school, but that was certainly a gratifying moment where I realized in that first semester I'd certainly come a long way. Maura: Right. Well and almost gives your professor the thought of, Oh wow, I shouldn't have underestimated this person. Jim: Right. And he never did anything to make me think that he was thought little of me at all. I just remember my own questions thinking, wow Jim, that was not a good question. Just these funny experiences. I think a lot of law students, a lot of anyone who's gone to law school certainly has these humbling moments, especially in their first year. So, that was a nice... When I realized I won that award, when it came out the highest exam score to me, I was pretty surprised myself. So yeah, that's a fun accolade to have. Maura: That's great. That's great. And I know you talked in preparation for this conversation about choosing to really forge your own career path separate from Mary and Joe, and so you described it as choosing the world of deals instead of the world of cases. Could you talk to me a little bit about that? Jim: Right. So think little... I certainly didn't know this when I was at Holy Cross and you don't even really understand it when you go to law school so much, but you really, once you get into practice, especially at a big law firm, you realize the different things lawyers do. Maura: Sure, right. Jim: And specifically there's a big divide, I mean, there's a divide between public interest work and private practice, but even just even in private practice, there's a big divide between transactional work and litigation. Litigation's, I think with the impression of everyone has a lawyer doing, what Joe and Mary do, where you go to court, you're representing a client in the lawsuit. And transactional work is you're helping a client complete a business deal so there's no judge involved. Right? You're not representing a plaintiff or defendant, you're representing, often it can be a seller or buyer or lender or borrower and so it's a completely different animal in a way. You're trying to complete the business deal. It's a collaborative... Even though there are negotiations since things, it's more of a quote when it's done well. I think a collaborative exercise with the other parties counsel trying to get this deal done and in law school, even though you can learn about transactional work, there are courses on corporations and merchandise acquisitions, corporate finance. It's always in the litigation context. When years after this deal ended, it fell apart and everyone's suing each other. And what do the contracts say? What are our indemnities? So it's just a whole different world. So, it's like I said, when I interned with Jones Day after my second year of law school, it was my first exposure to wow, there's this whole other side to the legal profession that I know very little about, certainly. I mean, my dad being a litigator and Joe and Mary being litigators, civil litigators. And so I remember being overwhelmed and at first reluctant to try it. But my first year at Jones Day, it's neat, they don't give you an offer into a practice group. They say they give you a year to essentially be a free agent and work across practice groups. Maura: That's fantastic. Jim: And it's a lot, it's been great. It's difficult in a sense. There's a learning curve with almost every project. Maura: Sure. Jim: Because it's with different people, it's a different practice. So with that you move from practice to practice, so you're always learning again. So, even after eight months it's only then you start to maybe get a second project with one group and you can take everything you learned from your first product, first deal or case. And so for me, it was a very discern slowly that I learned that at Holy Cross and it certainly was a slow discernment process for me because I always imagined that I wanted to be a litigator, I wanted to be a trial lawyer. And I don't know just getting out into practice even though it hasn't been so long, you see very much the practice of law is way more than the theory you learn in school where you're talking about cases in the abstract and reading appellate opinions. There's a human side of law that I think, law schools have gotten better about it now. There are a lot of internship, externship opportunities and clinical practice things... Clinical courses you can take, but more or less it's theory and then you get out and practice and you see the human side of it. Which I think is really what most of lawyer... Joe and Mary can speak to this better than me, but lawyers really spend most of their time doing client management, interacting with opposing counsel. And I don't know, for me, I was lawyered into transactional work. One thing about it is, the reality is, it's quicker. Deals are shorter than a case. A case, a lawsuit, I know Joe and Mary can say this can last for years. A deal, the ones I've worked on, I know their deals, I can get stressed out maybe for a while, but they usually take a few months at most from the ones I worked on. So it's fun because there's a start and an end and it's also really intense and you're trying to get it done. But I've just found it's really exciting because you're working, the end result is something exciting. A business is getting bought, a business is growing. And I think it's really fun to prospectively make your client aware of problems or where I think litigators jump in and crisis mode where like I said, a business deal has fallen apart or something, a conflict has arisen in a person's life or in the client's life if their corporation and you're there to really guide them through that disaster, which is incredible profession. And I know there's so many people who do that well, but I thought it was really appealing to work on the prospective side where you look at a deal, you look at the transaction your client's trying to complete it and you say, well, here's some things you need to think about. Because I know we wouldn't like to think that this transaction would fall apart, but if it did, you have to be mindful that you have a lot of exposure here if we don't take this step. And I think that's a real skill to have the foresight to identify the issues that can be an issue. Trying to communicate those to your client without scaring them, without getting them overwhelmed with the hypothetical, which might not happen, but also forcing them to be realistic and to think beyond the moment where you sign this deal and you have to go forward with whatever you've agreed to buy, agreed to sell, or agree to invest in. And now, so it's been fun. So like I said, I discerned slowly. So I think I'm about a year in, so I have to choose a practice group. So, that's coming in the next few weeks. So, it's not going to be a litigation group. It's most likely going to be... it's going to be a transactional group. So, that's a long winded answer, but I hope I described a little bit about my encounter with learning about the other side of law. Maura: Well, and it seems like discernment has been something that you've really carried from Holy Cross because you didn't jump into a lot right away. And you did take a step and you taught for a few years. So talk to me a little bit about that decision to really take another step before jumping in. Jim: Right. Well, I couldn't have told you I started... I graduated in 13. My last day of school at Holy Cross was... Graduation was probably around May 20th and then September 1st, I was the teacher. I think I got a haircut, bought a tie and all of a sudden I was Mr. Cavanagh, teaching a class of seventh and eighth graders. And it was quite a transition. And I don't think I could have told you in January of 2013 that I would be... if you told me I was teaching the next year, I would have said really? I don't think that's going to happen. So, even though I did say discern slowly that certainly happened quickly, looking back at the grand scheme of my life and just to tell you how it happened. So, I always knew I wanted to go law school. I think even though in the last few years, I think my career is going to be very different than what I imagined it would be just from growing up in our family. And our dad was a litigator and he always had... I always loved talking to him about his job and different things about his cases and I thought it was very appealing and it was just very appealing to me. So, I always wanted to go, but I just knew I wasn't ready. It was always, even as a senior in college, I thought, I want to do that, but I just knew I didn't want to go right away. And I remember, I had really had no idea what I wanted to do. I think I had applied to some Fulbright scholarship, a Fulbright scholarship with Tony Cashman had helped me apply and so I was waiting on that, but I didn't really know what else. And I remember studying for finals in December. December, 2012 the first semester of my senior year, and there was an email that got shot out from the career services office and it was for internships at a prep schools and it didn't apply to me. It was a applied to rising juniors, rising seniors where you could intern at a summer camp, I forget the... Some New England prep schools and I thought just, I went to an all boy Catholic school and Rhode Island and it was big. It was about a thousand boys. Some of my brothers had gone to a prep school and I just knew that it's a very small community. They all had very good experiences and played sports. And I also just was familiar with the model where you know, the teachers, they teach in their small classroom size and then your teachers are also your coaches. And the teachers are really a part of the community, especially at those schools. And I don't know, just an image of me teaching and then coaching, like hockey. I liked, I didn't play hockey here, but I love hockey and I just thought, wow, wouldn't that be a lot of fun? But I kind of dismissed it thinking I couldn't do that. I've never thought of doing that. And then I was home, it was around Christmas and my sister and I, not Mary or our sister Carol, who's also a lawyer. She started to cross examine me about what I was going to do. Maura: That's what the holidays are good for. Jim: Right. Exactly. What are you going to do? You're a senior, the clocks ticking. Do you have a plan? And I don't know. Well I just didn't want to say, I didn't have anything. I said, well, I've thought about teaching. And she said, Oh wow. And she said, where? I was like, maybe a prep school, I don't know, just from that one thought. And she put me in touch with a guy who was an alum here. He's works at CM now, guy Mike Schell. And he's just a wonderful guy. And he was a student here and had done the same thing, went right to teaching in a prep school. And so I had the long break and he was a friend of my sisters. So I gave him a call and just talked to him about what I was interested in. I said, I really haven't thought about this much, but it excites me. The idea of teaching. I think it'd be fun. And I know it would be challenging and everything. And he said no. And I think he identified with what I was feeling as a senior in college and he was my guy to applying to different prep schools around that might be open to hiring a kid right out of college. He wasn't an education major, no prior teaching experience. So I interviewed at some places, made it to the final rounds and nothing was happening. But then I got an email from him that his school where he taught was looking for a new religion teacher, at St Sebastian's. So I went and I interviewed and I met the headmaster Bill Burke, who's a wonderful guy and the assistant, who was a Holy Cross alum. And I just spent a day at the school and right away fell in love with it and one of my good friends from college Luke Sullivan, went to St. Sebs and I knew he loved his high school and I immediately thought, wow, this is a place I could picture myself. And sure enough they thought they could picture me there too. So it was great. I had an offer and I had a job. Spring semester, senior year. So I started that and I know... so that's how I ended up there and that was just an incredible experience and I just loved every minute of being there and it was kind of funny. It was one of those things where a year, December, 2013 I was coaching the JV hockey team, I had taught a full day class, was at the rink and just having fun. I thought, this is funny. A year ago I pictured myself doing this and didn't think it... And really laughed at it. I'm actually here doing it. So, that was great. Maura: It's sometimes hard to believe that work can also be fun. Jim: Right? Maura: Like I can get paid to do this. Jim: And that was, I remember that too, right, being at hockey practice coaching a game. And I'm thinking, I guess I'm at work right now, which is pretty cool. And actually it's funny I mentioned to you, I did some work this morning and cool beans and a bunch of students I taught who were in seventh and eighth grade are actually now here as students. And I was hoping maybe I could scare one of them. Like, Hey, like I used to do or just see one of them. And so, yeah, it was a great experience. Maura: Yeah, that's fantastic. I also read that you did an internship at the US attorney's office. Jim: Yes. Maura: Along your path of figuring out what you want to do. I'd love to hear a little bit about how that's informed your work. Jim: Right? So it was after my first year of law school. After your first year of law school is interesting because it's really a year in the books. You're learning law and the abstract and like I mentioned this earlier, you really know very little about the practice of lot itself, but you've learned a lot of legal theory and about the substantive bodies of law. So, as a first year law student, they're not too many options to intern because no one's really willing to pay you to do anything. But it's a great opportunity to work for a government agency that might have unpaid internships and have a program where you can come in and they'll give you some assignments and you'll get to see a lot of action. Maura: Right. Jim: Because I mean US attorney's office is interesting experience because they're federal prosecutors, so they're in court all the time. So, I spent a lot of time that summer, just really, I mean, more so than the work I did, just sitting in court watching... I got to watch a full jury criminal jury trial. I got to watch sentencings, plea agreements and also did some research and stuff to help an attorney. I remember that was fun doing some research and an attorney was taking it with him to argue it for the judge. I hope it went well, but one thing, so I do something very different now, right? I'm in private practice, transactional work, but it's something to see the criminal justice system at work, is I think just something as a citizen, as a lawyer especially, is worth witnessing and knowing something about, because I mean so much, sadly, a lot of people... I think Mary spoke to it earlier when she said, we have an incredible legal system in the United States and so often, right? We just take it for granted, especially if you're from here and having lived in a different part of the world with a different legal system. But a lot of people unfortunately, right, like one of the times they really realize that they are part of a society governed by laws is if they have an encounter with the criminal justice system. If they find themselves charged with something. And so just knowing how that works and kind of just, I think any, every lawyer has an obligation to know a little bit about it. And also seeing it... I also, you understand that it's, for the system to work well, it takes a good lawyers, both good judges, good prosecutors, good defendants and good law clerks who help the judge and do research for the judge. And I think just that summer broadened me to realize that this system has worked and it's working every day. There are a million cases before these judges, these judges are working hard, these lawyers are working hard. And I think it really, if anything just as a first year law student just makes you more aware of how important the criminal justice system is, that the people in it do a good job, the people in it are committed and act ethically. And also too that, just as a lawyer, you should know something about this because you might, before you know it, now you're a lawyer, right? So someone years down the road, hopefully I think all the guys I met here, upstanding citizens, but if they found themselves in trouble. You might get a phone call, might be helpful to know a little bit something about it, but so it was a good experience. Maura: That's fantastic. And how has the Holy Cross's mission influenced your life? Jim: Right. The Holy Cross mission for me, like I said, discern slowly and I think if you show up on campus, you're 18 it's really your first time away from home. Even though home is only 45 minutes away in Rhode Island. And I think of, just in four years you've come a long way or you should. And I think certainly Holy Cross and I think Mary and Joe harped on this in their experiences that, you do mature quite a bit in college. Just, I mean, you're 18 when you arrive, you're 22 when you graduate. So I think, I do remember it just being here and I like to think that my awareness of being mission driven grew and the whole Jesuit philosophy to be, men and women for others. And the idea that you should always be mindful of the questions of who is God, who is God calling me to be, and who is God calling me to be for others. And I think just as I went through my time here, I became more and more aware of that and I took more advantage of the opportunities Holy Cross offered to discern what God is calling you to do. I went on the spiritual exercises. Actually the winter of my senior year, it was right around the time this whole teaching decision happened. And I remember I'd actually just found out I didn't get my Fulbright and I really was out of... I didn't know what I was going to do. I knew I had this idea about teaching and I just remember going on the exercises and thinking, okay, this is the time for your discernment. And really the only thing I discerned was all you can do is just respond to whatever's happening in front of you to treat the people around you with love and try to do the next right thing. To try to give your full attention to the task in front of you because that's God's plan for you that day. The people and the circumstances, he places in front of you. And I remember I read a book by a Jesuit, during my experience on that retreat and that was kind of... and my mom just gave it to me before I went and it was really, I think all for a purpose. And I remember so, so when I say, how's that affects how Holy Cross drives my mission. Now, it's interesting, right? Because again, this has been a big transition year for me. I just graduated from law school, I moved back to the East coast and I've been working across practice groups and with that it's been a little chaotic. At times you feel overwhelmed and it always comes back to, what does God want me to do in this circumstance with these people I'm dealing with? And I think a lot of it just stems from the academic experience here that you should do your work well. Right. That we all have gifts. That part of being men, women for others is giving the best of yourself to task. So even if it's the most monotonous, tedious task on this deal that you're asked to do as a junior associate, you're called to do that to the best of your ability. And so right now I'd say it drives my mission because you want to serve others. But it also just made me really aware of the way you serve others is by serving who's in front of you. And I've found that just to keep your sanity in a chaotic year, practicing law and to find God in it, is you really have to stay in the moment and do your best with what you have in front of you. Maura: Well and that probably ties in, you know my next question of this, is about your personal mission and I'm sure it's tied into that. So I guess, how have you taken that and really created your own mission? Jim: Right. So right now, I think my mission is really just to become confident in what you're doing. And I remember showing up at Holy Cross and being a history major and really realizing I don't write well. And so much, I mean, this is, I think just an example of Holy Cross and how the professors were great, but they were honest and blunt and said, your writing's weak. You need to get better. And I remember it took so long to get better. It took draft after draft. And I remember taking different courses and visiting professors at office hours who were always willing to help. But I remember getting over the hump, and I'm not going to say I'm a great writer, but I'm going to say that I'm certainly a better writer than I was when I started here. Mary: I guess your Civil Procedure professor thought you were pretty good. Jim: A good part of it was multiple choice. And I think, so right now, what drives me is getting better and gaining in competencies because I've learned that law is extremely complicated and it's a bit daunting when you realize there's so much I don't know. But the thing is you can just keep at it and as you grow in competencies, it gives you more opportunities to serve others. Right. Because I don't know where I'll end up in my career. I mean, Joe and Mary, they graduated from law school a few years before me, so I'm not exactly sure where everything's going. But that's certainly driving me right now. How can I be, utilize my gifts, develop them the most I can. So I can serve others the way God calls me to. Maura: That's wonderful. And think back to when you were a student and you've talked about it a little bit, you don't have to think back as far. What stands out to you about your experience on campus and how has it really prepared you for some of the challenges that you've faced? Jim: Right. I mentioned it in my previous answer, but certainly I found as a history major, that you certainly had the opportunity to become a better student. You had the opportunity to really develop your critical thinking because of professors who cared, professors who pushed you and professors who are really passionate about what they taught. I can think of so many examples. I think of my first class I took with Stephanie Yuhl, it was my Montserrat class, I believe they still have the Montserrat program and I wasn't just a history major because Carol, I mean, because of Mary and Joe were, but I mean certainly that helped and I thought I would be interested, but I remember taking this class on World War II and Vietnam and thinking it would just be a military history class, but with professor Yuhl it was very different. It was really about the memory of those wars and how we as a society now choose to memorialize them and what narratives get told and whose narrative get told and who are the stakeholders. And you realize that there just so many layers that complicate these issues. And it just really opened my eyes to what a complex world we have and the need to be aware of that and the need to be a voice in the conversation. So with that, it helps if you can analyze, it helps if you can critically think and it helps if you can write well. And so I think to my experience at Holy Cross, it was certainly one where I grew quite a bit and I remember after that experience in class thinking, wow, I think I want to be a history major and I chose to be a history major. And then I just taking other courses with Gwen Miller, with Father K and having these moments where you're looking at correspondence from members of Congress, looking at the writings of the Jesuits in their encounter with native Americans hundreds of years ago. And you really get into the primary sources. And what was the experience of this person? What are they saying about it? And I just remember it was a neat experience to have your interest inflamed in so many... In an area of study. And I think that helps for anyone who's a student here and you go to law school because of lot of... Even if you took some time off... like I didn't take time or you did something different before going to law school, you have the muscle memory of what it takes to be a serious student, to be a critical thinker, to analyze a document, to analyze someone's writings and to write well. And I think, so certainly when I think back, especially after going to law school, I think those experiences at Holy Cross certainly prepared me. Maura: Right. And even just the practice of learning someone else's perspective through that analysis must be so valuable. Jim: Oh certainly. I'm not a litigator, but I mean, so much of the study of law is right? There are two sides of the case and there's a different way and you read two different briefs that are written about the same... Based off the same facts. They can try to tell such a different story. I think Joe and Mary can probably speak to that with more detail and with more experience than I can. So always being mindful of what is the other narrative? What narrative am I overlooking? And you see that too, just applying it and you can always apply that in whatever you're doing, in transactional work negotiations. What does the other side want out of this deal? Why would they care about this? And when you do that and you have a sense of where someone else is coming from, it just makes for more beneficial dialogue. And then in a pragmatic sense, it's way better for your clients, way more efficient, if the lawyers aren't talking past each other. If you're really listening and appreciating and understanding that one issue that you might be raising is important to them and you might, based on your client's position, it doesn't really matter to you, it matters to them. So taking the time to dialogue with them and then it just gives you more credit going forward. When you have something you want to talk about. So, yeah, certainly very valuable. Maura: Fantastic. And so this you've probably touched on also, about how your Holy Cross education influence the way that you practice law. Jim: Right. I guess, one thing is to just be willing to put in the work to... It's tough, especially in law because you bill per hour and you're very busy and so it's important to learn efficiency, but it's also important to do your work well. Because that's serving your client... To really... You get a long complicated contract, really sitting down and analyzing it and digging in, getting into the weeds on things. I mean, it takes some judgment. You don't want to spin your tires too much on things. And that comes, I think with time, knowing what issues to look for, what things aren't important. But really I think Holy Cross really taught me from the get go. As I started the path that led me to law school and I knew the practice of law, that you really just need a great attention to detail. That you really have to take pride in your work and do it well. Because it certainly becomes a habit and I can see, actually it's interesting, I feel like law school in a way is a moment, it's the culmination of you putting into practice all the skills you've learned as a student. Because in law school, especially the first year, you only have one exam, per class, per semester. There was no study guide or anything. So it was really on you to be organized, to make sure that you're listening, to make sure that you've developed critical thinking skills to be identify what's important in your course. And then, you put that, then you write an exam and hopefully you had the right skills. And then law school prepares you for law because it's really that practice. It's really just the same practice that I started here at Holy Cross of having attention to detail. Putting in the work to analyze, to read, to think and if you've been doing that for a long time, you know that's how you have to do it. You have to put in the work, but also too, you're just better at it. So certainly, I think, that's how Holy Cross is carried into my practice of law. But you still got to do it. You still got to break a sweat always. But I learned that a long time ago, I think. Maura: Yeah. Yeah. Oh good. What has been the most satisfying or rewarding moment for you in your work so far? Jim: That's a good question. A recent experience actually and I think it's great because it touches on something that I learned here at Holy Cross and I credit Holy Cross are helping me have this experience. Like I said, I'm not going to be a litigator, but for about six months this year I did quite a bit of litigation work. And I remember on the first day I got to my office, there was this big stack of briefings on my desk and I had an email that I was being put on part of this case team in this massive lawsuit that had been going on for a long time. And my job was to help prepare for depositions. And depositions, right, are pretty much just having a witness testify outside of court where a lawyer, it's not in court, but lawyers go and one lawyer questions a witness and the other lawyer defends the witness and it helps you build a record of the case and just different facts and going forward. And so I had prepared for the... Helped partners in my law firm and other associates prepare for these depositions. And a lot of that is grunt work. There's so many doc... These two major institutions are suing each other. So they're just a lot of documents. So you spend a lot of time reading documents, it's a lot of grunt work and you have to pull ones you think are relevant, things that will come up in this deposition. And I remember being just overwhelmed by the case when I first got there because it was very complicated matter and we were thinking, how will I ever understand this much less be ready to look at hundreds, maybe thousands of documents and be able to identify ones which could be problematic or worth asking a witness about. And I remember in June I went to New York with the partner in the deposition for this case. And I remember he had asked me for the months leading up to it, just different questions about different documents that had come up in this case. And I would read them, analyze them and shoot them off in email and everything and I remember we were preparing for the deposition and we finally started the deposition and it was the first one I actually attended and it was just a neat moment for me because when I realized I was part of a team. I was part of this litigation team and I was there on the record at the deposition on behalf of a client and also too, I remembered this case was so complicated but the deposition lasted eight hours and this was a very important witness and I realized I knew everything about the case or there was a lot I still didn't know, but I knew so much that I was with it for the seven, eight hours we were there. Every question, I knew why it mattered, I knew why we were asking it. And also it was rewarding... I helped prepare the outline, seeing documents that I was asked to look at a few weeks ago and I didn't even really, just because the partner is busy, I hadn't received much feedback, some questions, points I had raised come up in the questions. So it was a rewarding moment because I realized, wow, I think what I learned at Holy Cross and I talked about the excitement of being a history major and getting lost in the stacks at Dinand and you just learned the importance of being a learner and learning that if you think, and even though things are difficult, if you buckle down and read and try to learn, you will learn. And then when you do learn and you do put in the work that you can contribute and you can serve. And so I felt, even though I don't want to be a litigator, that was a great moment for me. So, I'd say, just like I said, you got to break a sweat. Probably Holy Cross taught you that. I think I did that for six months, leading up to that deposition. I felt like a rewarding moment for me. Maura: Yeah. Well, given what you know now, what advice do you have for someone who's interested in pursuing law? Jim: Right. This is certainly, I think, I know you asked Joe and Mary this question, but certainly for me, being right out of law school, I think it's certain... I had to consider, I mean, I had the discern law school in more recent time than they did and I'd say, one I've been really blown away by just, like I said, especially going to my firm, all the different opportunities that are for lawyers. So, if you're a science person, there are opportunities for in law in life and health sciences, in intellectual property if you're interested. If you're, I mean, people were passionate about civil rights and passionate and about equality injustice. There are obviously major opportunities especially in public interest in government. And so one, I'd say, don't think you're pigeonholing yourself by going to law school because there are a lot of different ways you can go. But also too, it is an incredible investment of time, energy, and also money too. So, law school can be very expensive. I think it's very much worth it if you're going to be a serious student there and take the time to learn. And I think of how I grew in three years of law school. And so, I'd say certainly think about it, pray about it, discern it, but also too know, I'd say talk to as many lawyers as you can because there's so many different experiences and it's actually funny for me, because I realized when I showed up at law school, even though I had three siblings who were lawyers and a father whose lawyer, I knew so little about what law school would be like, but going through it and I thought that was really funny for a person who had always wanted to go, but I realized I was really happy that I went. So that was my experience, but certainly I'd say take the time before you invest, but also know I'm an optimist and I'm a promoter of it, thinking there's a lot you can do with it. Maura: Fantastic. Fantastic. Well now to wrap things up, I have a series of speed round questions. Quick questions, quick answers. And for this I'll ask the question and then go around and hear everyone's answer. So are you ready to tackle it? Yeah. Okay. What was your favorite dorm? Joe: Lehy Maura: Joe. Yep. Mary? Mary: Mulledy Jim: Hanselman. Maura: Fantastic. Favorite meal on campus or favorite Cool Beans order, Joe? Joe: Omelets, made to order with waffles at Kimball on weekend mornings only. Maura: Mary? Mary: Pizza from the pizza kitchen. Maura: Fantastic. And Jim? Jim: Chicken parm night, definitely. Maura: Very nice. Very nice. Favorite class? Joe? Joe: Contemporary Christian Morality with Father Linnane. Maura: Mary? Mary: Law and Human Rights in China with professor Karen Turner. Maura: Fantastic. Jim? Jim: Understanding Mary with Father Gavin. Maura: Wonderful. Favorite professor, Joe? Joe: Father Linnane. Father Kuzniewski. Maura: Mary? Mary: I guess. Professor Turner. Maura: Great. Jim? Jim: Professor Yuhl, she was great. Maura: Favorite memory? Joe? Joe: Winning the Mac Hockey Championship my senior year. Maura: Not running down to Kimball and back? Joe: No, I blocked that one out. Maura: Great. Mary? Mary: The last few nights before graduation at the heart center. Maura: Jim? Jim: I will say, senior year going to the Cape with my friends, with all my friends I had gotten to know over the last four years. It was incredible. Maura: Great. And last question, best part about being a Holy Cross alum, Joe? Joe: The pride you take in the whole spirit of the school and being able to say that you're a part of that. Maura: Mary? Mary: I think just knowing you are part of such an excellent tradition and excellent institution. Something that you always have with you. Maura: Jim? Jim: In a similar way, remembering where you came from and remembering the mission you were taught here and how even though you can stray from it and it might not always feel present to you that I think just being here for four years, just being... I appreciate being ingrained with, we're supposed to be men and women for others. Maura: Fantastic. Wonderful and that's a wrap. Thank you. That's our show. I hope you enjoyed hearing about just one of the many ways that Holy Cross alumni have been inspired by the mission to be men and women for and with others. A special thanks to today's guests and everyone at Holy Cross who has contributed to making this podcast a reality. If you or someone you know would like to be featured on this podcast, please send us an email at alumnicareers@holycross.edu. If you like what you hear, then please leave us a review. This podcast is brought to you by the office of alumni relations at the college of the Holy Cross. You can subscribe for future episodes wherever you find your podcasts. I'm your host, Maura Sweeney, and this is Mission-Driven. In the words of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, "now go forth and set the world on fire." --- Theme music composed by Scott Holmes, courtesy of freemusicarchive.org.

Episode 52: Jory Hanselman, Director of BaMidbar Wilderness Therapy

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2019 37:03

Jory Hanselman is the director of BaMidbar Wilderness Therapy, located in Colorado. BaMidbar is the first Jewish wilderness therapy program in the United States. Jory shares her inspiring journey from her teenage years when she asked her parents to send her to a wilderness therapy program to being a camp counselor at a Jewish summer camp to being a field guide at wilderness programs. She shares how BadMidbar evolved and how the program helps young Jewish people with its unique wilderness therapy model. From BaMidBar Wilderness Therapy website: Jory Hanselman has dedicated her personal and professional career to engaging youth and emerging adults in meaningful outdoor experiences, and helping youth build personal resiliency and the skills necessary to grow and thrive in a complex world. Jory has experienced wilderness programs from the client and staff perspective, from field and office formats, in Jewish and secular settings, and in the private industry and the nonprofit sectors. She has over 400 professional “field days” managing youth from 13-26 through organizations focused on education, recreation, therapy, and workforce development. Jory sees the wilderness therapy model as an extremely powerful environment and believes that BaMidbar Wilderness Therapy can help magnify that impact through Jewish learning, providing a foundational tapestry for clients that builds Jewish identity and provides the framework for youth to experience meaningful transitions to independent and healthy adult lives. Jory holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Environmental Studies and Philosophy from Tufts University and is a Master of Public Administration degree candidate at University of Colorado – Denver’s School of Public Affairs.

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PBI Week 3 Karen & Garth Hanselman Intercession Strongholds & Principalities

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2019 111:17

PBI Week 3 Karen & Garth Hanselman Intercession Strongholds & Principalities

PBI Week 2 Garth Hanselman Intercession Strongholds & Principalities

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2019 111:19

PBI Week 2 Garth Hanselman Intercession Strongholds & Principalities

PBI Week 1 Karen Hanselman Intercession Strongholds & Principalities

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2019 78:59

PBI Week 1 Karen Hanselman Intercession Strongholds & Principalities

What's this Pod? And Black Feminist Critiques of Search and Tech.

Eyes Cool Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2019 51:46

In this episode we introduce the pod, discuss Safiya Noble's groundbreaking 2018 book Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, take a look at the NYPL CulturePass program, and get to know how some new grad students decided on the UW-Madison iSchool! SHOW NOTES! Audio clip sources: Donavan, Joan. (2018, May 15.) Algorithms of Oppression. Data & Society Research Institute. Retrieved from https://listen.datasociety.net/algorithms-of-oppression/ Elevator Speech (00:09 - 00:39) Titling of book (30:52 - 32:01) Dr. Joan Donavan (the director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard Kennedy’s Shorenstein Center) interviews Dr. Safiya Noble for the Data & Society Research Institute. “Data & Society Research Institute advances public understanding of the social implications of data-centric technologies and automation.” https://datasociety.net/ Chamseddine, Roqayah and Salehi, Kumars. (2018, April 12.) Algorithms of Oppression. Delete Your Account. Retrieved from https://deleteyouraccount.libsyn.com/algorithms-of-oppression Impetus for the book (07:52 - 09:22) Radicalization (21:39 - 24:15) Hanselman, Scott. (2019, February 1.) Episode 66: Exploring Algorithms of Oppression. Hanselminutes. Retrieved from https://hanselminutes.com/669/exploring-algorithms-of-oppression-with-dr-safiya-noble Discussion of STEM student education (14:47 - 16:45) Article/Book Sources: Noble, Safiya Umoja. (2018.) Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York: New York University Press. Wajcman, Judy. (2010, January.) Feminist theories of technology. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 34(1), 143–152. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/ben057 Roose, Kevin. (2019, June 8.) The Making of a YouTube Radical. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html Additional Resources: Collins, Patricia Hill. (2000.) Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge. The Combahee River Collective. (1979.) A Black Feminist Statement. https://combaheerivercollective.weebly.com/the-combahee-river-collective-statement.html Weill, Kelly. (2018, December 19.) How YouTube Built a Radicalization Machine for the Far-Right. The Daily Beast. https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-youtube-pulled-these-men-down-a-vortex-of-far-right-hate Noble, Safiya Umoja. ([2018]) How biased are our algorithms? TEDx University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXuJ8yQf6dI Noble, Safiya Umoja. (2016.) Challenging the Algorithms of Oppression. Personal Democracy Forum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRVZozEEWlE Current Events: Nancy Coleman, "Libraries’ Culture Pass Signs Up 70,000 in First Year" New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/arts/design/culture-pass-library-new-york.html. 8/13/19.

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Pioneering Food Waste Recycling with John Hanselman, CEO of Vanguard Renewables

Waste360 NothingWasted! Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2019 39:28

Listen as John Hanselman, CEO of Vanguard Renewables, digs into how being a destination for organics helps solve the ongoing food waste challenge. Hear how to successfully turn that "waste" into high value renewable energy for farmers, haulers and waste generators. John shares his insights on farm-based anaerobic digestion and how waste generators like Whole Foods and Gillette Stadium are mining their own food waste. #NothingWastedPodcast

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Episode 62: Xamarin.Forms 4 - Who Could Ask For More?

The .NET MAUI Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2019 43:27

Wait no more to set a high score with Xamarin.Forms 4, it ain't no bore! That's right, Xamarin.Forms 4.0 has officially been released and it's on fire! Join James and Matt as they discuss the new features of 4.0, preview this summer's Xamarin Developer Summit, talk about some Android fun, and explore the ins and outs of Azure Event Grid. As always, get yourself some free Azure here (https://azure.microsoft.com/free/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast62-podcast-masoucou)! Show Notes Office hours are back! (https://aka.ms/office-hours) Xamarin.Forms 4.0 Intro Blog (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/introducing-xamarin-forms-4-0-the-era-of-shell/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast62-podcast-masoucou) The Xamarin.Forms 4 live stream recording (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfi-EfVHMTY) Intro to Shell Blog (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/shell-xamarin-forms-4-0-getting-started/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast62-podcast-masoucou) The Docs for Shell (https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/app-fundamentals/shell/introduction?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast62-podcast-masoucou) Can you believe the Shell navigation?!? (https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/app-fundamentals/shell/navigation?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast62-podcast-masoucou) Find out what makes those Android fast renderers so fastt! (https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/internals/fast-renderers?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast62-podcast-masoucou) Unify all the ImageSourceTypes (https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/Xamarin.Forms.ImageSource?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast62-podcast-masoucou) You gotta be kidding me - Xamarin.Forms 4.1?!? (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/checkbox-xamarin-forms-4-1-0-pre-release/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast62-podcast-masoucou) Join us at the Xamarin Developer Summit! (https://xamarindevelopersummit.com/) Prep those Droid apps for Google 64 bit (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/64-bit-requirements-xamarin-android-apps/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast62-podcast-masoucou) Get a deeper dive into all that 64 bit goodness (https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/android/deploy-test/multicore-devices?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast62-podcast-masoucou) Demystify Android SSL and cleartext! (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/cleartext-http-android-network-security/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast62-podcast-masoucou) Check out Merge Conflict for all the WWDC news (https://www.mergeconflict.fm/special-edition-wwdc19) MSAL 4.0 - Auth All the Things! (https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-dotnet/wiki/msal-net-4) Microsoft Learn - IT'S STILL FREE!!! (https://docs.microsoft.com/learn/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast62-podcast-masoucou) Cloud Shell seem cool? Learn more! (https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-shell/features?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast62-podcast-masoucou) Azure Event Grid Overview (https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/event-grid/overview?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast62-podcast-masoucou) Hanselman.Forms (https://www.mergeconflict.fm/152) Pick of the Pod - Pancake View (https://github.com/sthewissen/Xamarin.Forms.PancakeView) Follow Us: * James: Twitter (https://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno), Blog (https://montemagno.com), GitHub (http://github.com/jamesmontemagno), Merge Conflict Podcast (http://mergeconflict.fm) * Matt: Twitter (https://twitter.com/codemillmatt), Blog (https://codemilltech.com), GitHub (https://github.com/codemillmatt)

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Merge Conflict: 152: Refreshing Hanselman.Forms - Visual, CollectionView, & Serverless Backend

soundbite.fm: a podcast network

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2019 45:24

What does it look like to refresh a 5 year old app with the all of the changes in iOS, Android, and Xamarin.Forms? James walks through all of the UI and backend changes he has been making to fully optimize the app. Additionally, he walks through how he is using Azure Functions to revolutionize his backend. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website, Chat on Discord Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface ⭐⭐ Review Us (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/merge-conflict/id1133064277?mt=2&ls=1) ⭐⭐ Machine transcription available on http://mergeconflict.fm

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152: Refreshing Hanselman.Forms - Visual, CollectionView, & Serverless Backend

Merge Conflict

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2019 45:24

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Episode 59: POP! New docs, blogs, customer showcases, and Twitch streams!

The .NET MAUI Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2019 36:35

Lots of new great stuff to talk about this month! New, new, new web pages galore! Xamarin landing documentation page, Xamarin development blog, and customer app showcase! James tells us how to debug ASP.NET Core Web APIs from Android, and find out what POP means. All of that this month and more! Show Notes Brand new Xamarin documentation landing page! (https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev59-podcast-masoucou) One stop shop for all the Microsoft development blogs (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev59-podcast-masoucou) Xamarin app customer showcase - get inspired! (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/xamarin/customers?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev59-podcast-masoucou) XamU getting Twitch-y (https://twitter.com/XamarinU/status/1102664661445558273) The Twitch Live Coders team (https://www.twitch.tv/team/livecoders) Catch James on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/jamesmontemagno) Updatng the Hanselman.Forms app (https://montemagno.com/updating-hanselman-forms-bottom-tabs-bindable-layout/) Debug those ASP.NET Web APIs on Android Emulators (https://blog.xamarin.com/debug-local-asp-net-core-web-apis-android-emulators/) Primo PDFs with SyncFusion (https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-forms-apps-syncfusion-pdf-viewer/) Pop! Pop! UI Testing with the Page Object Pattern (https://blog.xamarin.com/best-practices-tips-xamarin-uitest/) Become a speaker at Microsoft //Build (https://sessionize.com/build) Get your //Build tickets! (https://www.microsoft.com/build?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev59-podcast-masoucou) Explore the new App Center features. Raise and comment on the issues for the features too! (https://github.com/Microsoft/appcenter/wiki) Azure App Configurations - one config to rule them all (https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-app-configuration/overview?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev59-podcast-masoucou) Xamarin.Forms 3.5 release notes (https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/release-notes/3.5/3.5.0?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev59-podcast-masoucou) 5 Things You'll Love About Xamarin.Forms 3.5 (https://blog.xamarin.com/5-things-youll-love-xamarin-forms-3-5/) Xamarin.Forms Essentials 1.1.0 (https://github.com/xamarin/essentials/wiki/Release-Notes) Visual Studio 2019 RC notes (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-2019-release-candidate-rc-now-available/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev59-podcast-masoucou) Visual Studio for Mac Preview 3 (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-2019-for-mac-preview-3/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev59-podcast-masoucou) MSAL 3.0 Preview (https://aka.ms/msal-net-3x) Forms 9-patch all the things - the forum post (https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/58597) Forms 9-patch all the things - the website (https://baskren.github.io/Forms9Patch/) Forms 9-patch all the things - the guide (https://baskren.github.io/Forms9Patch/guides/Image.html) Selected / Unselected Xamarin.Forms tab colors (https://blog.verslu.is/xamarin/xamarin-forms-xamarin/unselectedtabcolor-selectedtabcolor-tabbedpage-xamarin-forms/) Follow Us: * James: Twitter (https://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno), Blog (https://montemagno.com), GitHub (http://github.com/jamesmontemagno), Merge Conflict Podcast (http://mergeconflict.fm) * Matt: Twitter (https://twitter.com/codemillmatt), Blog (https://codemilltech.com), GitHub (https://github.com/codemillmatt)

Annual Giving Best Practices Survey - Shad Hanselman

Fundraising Voices from RNL

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2018 17:36

Annual giving is the lifeblood of most fundraising programs, and we’re interested in keeping a pulse on current trends and fundraiser challenges. We’ve published the second version of our Advancement Leaders Speak series, where over 250 annual giving leaders told us about where they’re focusing their energy to connect with donors. Included this year is a special focus on both parents and leadership givers, two important groups. I got on the line with annual giving career veteran Shad Hanselman to go through the survey results and hear from him about the future of annual giving. You can download the full report here. Engaging parents and leadership donors will also be a top priority for most institutions in the coming years. These two groups, which might actually be the same people in many cases, require a different approach from your overall alumni and supporter base. Again, personalization, and engaging donors with a live feedback look will be key.

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How Do You Even Know This Crap?

Weekly Dev Tips

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2018 5:37

How Do You Even Know This Crap? This week we have a special guest offering a dev tip - please welcome Scott Hanselman who blogs at Hanselman.com and has a great long-running podcast, Hanselminutes. Scott's going to share with us some tips on how you can leverage your experience to know when a problem you're facing should already have a solution somewhere. Here's Scott. Sponsor - DevIQ Thanks to DevIQ for sponsoring this episode! Check out their list of available courses and how-to videos. Show Notes / Transcript You can view Scott's article on this topic called How Do You Even Know This Crap on his site. Show Resources and Links How Do You Even Know This Crap Scott's Blog Hanselminutes Podcast

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TMA 7-23-18 Seg 2 Jay Jr joins Us to Re-Cap The Open

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2018 55:56

Jay Jr. joins us to break down the British Open. Jay lost his Fan Page match to Hanselman after an argument with his GF. PGA Championship less than 3 weeks away. The Tamm Ave. Capital Partners changed their strategy for the British Open. It didn't work. The Tamm Ave. boys lost 60% of their investment. Do Doug and Charlie even listen to the show. Are there sharks in New York Harbor.

TMA 7-23-18 Seg 2 Jay Jr joins Us to Re-Cap The Open

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2018 55:56

Bamidbar Wilderness Therapy with Jory Hanselman

The Jewish Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2018

Welcome to The Jewish Hour with Rabbi Finman, for June 24, 2018. In this episode, Rabbi Finman rebroadcasts a conversation he had with Jory Hanselman about “Bamidbar Wilderness Therapy“.

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Minisode #16 – Andre The Giant – HBO w/ Amanda Hanselman

That One Sports Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2018 12:22

We watched Andre the Giant on HBO. Overall pretty good. A bit sad, but also […] The post Minisode #16 – Andre The Giant – HBO w/ Amanda Hanselman first appeared on That One Sports Show.

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Minisode #16 – Andre The Giant – HBO w/ Amanda Hanselman

That One Sports Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2018 12:22

We watched Andre the Giant on HBO. Overall pretty good. A bit sad, but also […]

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Jory Hanselman: Bamidbar Wilderness Therapy

The Jewish Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2018

Welcome to The Jewish Hour with Rabbi Finman, for April 8, 2018. In this episode, Rabbi Finman talks to Jory Hanselman the Director of “Bamidbar Wilderness Therapy“.

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Episode 63: Judaism, Wilderness and Healing - A Passover Journey with Jory Hanselman from Bamidbar

Dash of Drash

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2018 23:20

As our Jewish calendar takes us on the journey from slavery to freedom to receiving the Torah on Sinai, join a conversation at BaMidbar Wilderness Therapy with its director Jory Hanselman. BaMidbar, the nation's first Jewish wilderness therapy program, integrates Jewish learning and values into an intensive backcountry, therapeutic experience. During Passover, students embark on a physical and metaphorical journey as they explore the things that bind them, and finding a healthy pathway forward. Jory Hanselman and Rabbi Marc Soloway discuss the uniquely Jewish approach BaMidbar takes to mental health and recovery.

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PBI Week 4 Pastor Garth Hanselman Five Fold Activation - Pastor

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2018 100:32

PBI Week 4 Pastor Garth Hanselman Five Fold Activation - Pastor

PBI Week 3 Breaking the Spirit of Lethargy Pastor Garth Hanselman

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2018 104:07

PBI Week 3 Breaking the Spirit of Lethargy Pastor Garth Hanselman

PBI Week 2 Breaking the Spirit of Lethargy Pastor Garth Hanselman

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2018 103:42

PBI Week 2 Breaking the Spirit of Lethargy Pastor Garth Hanselman

PBI Week 1 Breaking the Spirit of Lethargy Pastor Garth Hanselman

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2018 100:50

PBI Week 1 Breaking the Spirit of Lethargy Pastor Garth Hanselman

#80 Angela Dugan, Impostor Syndrome

no dogma podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2017 34:32

Summary Angela Dugan tells me about impostor syndrome, why it matters and what you can do about it. Details Who she is, what she does. What impostor syndrome is, Hanselman's post. Who is affected by it. The more you know, the more you realize you don't know; being an "expert"; why is "I don't know" not acceptable, do agile sprints and commitments force unreasonable expectations. Angela's impostor syndrome survey. The opposite of impostor syndrome - Dunning–Kruger. Should one do anything about it; teaching what you learn. Angela might retake the test. Angela suggests helping others with impostor syndrome.

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Week 2 Garth Hanselman Victory Enforcement Spiritual Warfare

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Week1 Garth Hanselman Victory Enforcement Spiritual Warfare

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Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2017 101:04

Week1 Gatrh Hanselman Victory Enforcement Spiritual Warfare

#133: A Preview of OSCON 2017

The New Stack Analysts

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2017 49:20

In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, we talked to conference co-chairs of OSCON, the open source convention being held in Austin on May 8-11. Interview participants were: Rachel Roumeliotis, Strategic Content Director, O'Reilly Media, Inc. Scott Hanselman, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft. Kelsey Hightower, Google developer advocate. A few highlights from the conversation include: There will be a lot of discussion about collaboration and community. Topics will cover managing contributions in a large organization, incentivizing community members and how to leave a project. Outside of the actual sessions, expect lots of one-on-one mentoring in the hallways. Open source business models continue to be something people want to talk about even if there is no long-term plan to transition a project to a full-blown start-up. Hanselman made sure to let us know about the care with which speakers were picked. All the co-chairs are on the speaking circuit and didn't want to hear the same old people giving the same old talk.

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Ray Hanselman

FLW Bass Fishing Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2015

Episode 76: . . 0:00 Intro. 0:36 Hi Jesse!. 1:30 Rundown. 2:46 Interview: Ray Hanselman (winning everything, diet on tournament day and more). 31:22 Rayovac FLW Series on Texoma recap. 35:14 Boat food. 38:14 Jesse teases some videos. 39:30 Fantasy Fishing picks for Eufaula . 49:30 Who will make the Forrest Wood Cup?. 56:36 Previewing the Rayovac FLW Series on Kentucky Lake. 1:00:52 Hawgs on the Delta. 1:03:00 Mentioning some College Fishing action. 1:05:06 Jesse plugs videos again. 1:05:52 BFL Weekly Update . 1:14:16 Outro

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17: Unbreakable 2015

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2015 48:08

It's been too long, but we have reasons! We're back for 2015 and commiting to a regular schedule for Ratchet and The Geek. Download Here

ASP.NET 5 and More with Scott Hanselman

MS Dev Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2015 46:46

Welcome to the MS Dev Show, episode #43. This week we talk to Scott Hanselman about ASP.NET 5, community, and more. The best new Windows phone 10 features in 6 gifs. And You don't know JS, the book.

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16: Lupita Slays

Hanselminutes - Fresh Talk and Tech for Developers

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2014 49:55

It's a new year, a new day, and a new episode of Ratchet and the Geek! Download Here

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PANEL: What do Web Developers need to know in 2014 - Hanselman, Crockford, Papa, Jacobs

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2013 53:10

Scott leads a LIVE panel at the AngleBrackets conference in Las Vegas. "What do Web Developers need to know in 2014? With Douglas Crockford, John Papa, Denise Jacobs, Michele Leroux, Bustamante

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15: Chicago LIVE

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2013 49:51

Luvvie and Scott are broadcasting LIVE from Chicago's Columbia College with a Studio Audience...of one. Download Here

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14: Banana Stand

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2013 37:47

Luvvie's all caught up with Arrested Development and Scott's son is an accidental model. There's always money in the banana stand. Download Here

12.5: Point Five

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2013 5:35

Live from Blogging While Brown New York - 5 minutes of Mini Ratchet and the Geek Download Here

12: All White

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2013 40:28

Scott needs some new White Pants and Luvvie is certified 100% Nigerian! Download Here

11: Broadcasting Live

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Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2013 69:07

Check out VIDEO of this episode on YouTube. Luvvie's in town and we're broadcasting LIVE! Download Here

10: Mad Men

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2013 42:45

Mad Men is coming and Luvvie is stoked. Plus, Scott's got a new laptop! Download Here

9: Clearly Feedly

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2013 40:04

We're back from SXSW, Google Reader is dead, Scandal is back on, and the internet explodes! Download Here

8: Ignition Remixed

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2013 37:46

Olivia Pope's natural hair on Scandal, Scott's Amazon was hacked. R. Kelly's Ignition? Download Here

7: Lucky Seven

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2013 44:52

Two weeks of Scandal under our belts, we are SO FRESH AND SO CLEAN. Download Here

6: The Return

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2013 40:06

We're back, so is Scandal! New tech, bad eyebrows, MLK parties fail, and Red Pump! Download Here

5: All Scandal

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2012 39:05

It's a very special ALL SCANDAL Recap of the Season 2 Winter Finale! Download Here

4: Holy Fitz

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2012 35:18

Who did it? Luvvie gets a Surface, Scott's got an Ultrabook, plus Scandal! Download Here

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3: The Charm

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2012 34:16

Third Show is the charm! Luvvie's got new audio and Scott garage's open. Download Here

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2: Radio Voice

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2012 43:16

We are back. 5000 listens later, this is our second show! Download Here

1: It Begins