Podcasts about liberal arts degree

My Alaska! by Nancy LeeAn adventure from the get go, it contains Nancy's earliest memories of Alaska and the 1964 9.2 Good Friday earthquake. Her stories are inspirational and heartfelt, humorous and gripping. All true situations add faith to the faithful and hope to the hopeless. This book gives the reader a good taste of the Alaskan life as it was in the 80's.Nancy grew up in early Alaska, and as an adult, raised her family while obtaining her Liberal Arts Degree at the University of Alaska. Being an Emergency Medical Technician with Talkeetna Ambulance Service in Alaska for many years, Nancy fell in love with medicine and became a Registered Nurse. Moving to Grand Junction, Colorado with her children, she earned her Bachelor of Science, Nursing Degree from Mesa State College. She is also a Licensed Private Pilot, Certified Scuba Diver, proud mother of Andrew and Melissa, and Grandmother. This is her first book."This book gives the reader a great slice of the true frontier Alaskan experience. Nancy Lee has walked the walk...her stories are heartfelt, exciting, and inspirational. If you've had a yearning to pack up, leave the city life behind, and head into the Alaskan wilderness, Nancy's stories will help show you the way."-Charles Heath Jr., father, teacher, Alaskan author and gold miner."This is a fascinating tale of a girl growing up on America's last frontier, in the wilderness of Alaska with its bear, moose, caribou, and wolves, with many close calls and adventures. Nancy was married to a bold bushpilot who was also a gold miner, hunting guide and flyer of Mt. McKinley climbers. All in all, a wonderful story of high adventure in Alaska."-Lowell Thomas Jr., former Lt. Governor and Alaska State Senator, adventurer, author, film and television producer, lecturer, and Alaskan Bush Pilot.COVER - Talkeetna Air Taxi flying to recover climbers after being caught in a weather emergency for eight days on the Kahiltna Glacier, Mount Denal, Alaska.https://www.amazon.com/My-Alaska-Nancy-Lee/dp/1684864747/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?crid=N7ID9XHL1YTA&keywords=My+Alaska!+urlink&qid=1696352909&s=books&sprefix=my+alaska+urlink,stripbooks,589&sr=1-1-fkmr0http://www.urlinkpublishing.com   http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/11124nlurl.mp3 

NOT studying computer science, Alan-Michael pivots from Liberal Arts, and lands a successful career as an IT consultant, where he learns how to code on his own!Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are solely my guest's and my own. They do not express the views or opinions of our employers.Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are solely my guest's and my own. They do not express the views or opinions of our employers.If you enjoyed this episode let's connect: InstagramTikTokLinkedIn

Clip From Ep #598 Of The Clay Edwards Show W/ Shaun Yurtkuran On 103.9 WYAB (09/19/23) 1. Mississippi state auditor Shad White is going to war with the liberal state colleges over tax payers paying for liberal arts degrees instead of paying for degrees that can benefit Mississippi industry more than useless liberal degrees. We turn this into a traditional 4 year degree vs. a vo-tech / skills trade degree debate too (which we both oddly agree on) Check out my website at Www.ClayEdwardsShow.Com for all things Clay

Vashet tells Kvothe of love and the Lethani. We talk about Kvothe's relationship to love, Tempi's quality, and Vashet's attitude.

College students are turning away from liberal arts degrees. Marc Vogl says we are all the poorer for it

Are you a liberal arts college grad who struggles to articulate your value proposition to employers? Did you graduate during a recession? Are you thinking about pivoiting into the project manager career path? Then you need to tune into today's episode, with special guest, NYU grad, and Dominican-American Ariana Rodriguez. On this episode, we discuss: Why she decided to pivot out of the education/nonprofit and social work space, and move into a project manager career in healthcare How a personal health problem turned into a soap business that she talked about in her interviews  How her philosophy college courses actually helped her fine-tune a skillset that she still uses today Why she left her job to go full-time on her business in 2021  Follow Ariana Rodriguez on LinkedIn. Ariana owns a business where she helps emerging agencies get to the next level of success by streamlining backend operations and systems. -- Get Priscilla's FREE "Jumpstart Your Job Search" Course HERE. Interested in working with Priscilla 1:1? Sign up for a FREE 1-Hour Consult here.  Follow Priscilla on IG at: priscillabulcha 

Reading, we've long understood, is fundamental. Where we lack consensus, however, seems to be on what the fundamentals of reading are. Amy and Mike invited educator Dr. Linda Hirsch to share new insights into literacy. What are five things you will learn in this episode? Why is early literacy so foundational? What is the history of the "reading wars"? Why has pedagogy shifted to its current re-emphasis on phonics? How do decoding strategies and cultural knowledge interact in reading  How do we encourage children to become readers? MEET OUR GUEST Dr. Linda Hirsch is a professor in the English Department at Hostos Community College/CUNY and a literacy development expert. She is also the creator, producer, writer and host of EdCast, a TV program that examines pressing issues in education. EdCast airs on CUNY TV, WNYE and the web.  Since its inception, EdCast has received seven Telly awards for excellence in cable broadcasting. These include “How to Spot Fake News,” “Holocaust Education,” NYC Men Teach: Bringing Men of Color into the Classroom,” “A Conversation with André Aciman: Whose Text is it Anyway?” “Addressing Bullying,” “New Approaches to Stuttering” and “Children's Emerging Literacy Development.”  Dr. Hirsch is the Director of the Liberal Arts Degree and Co-Coordinator of the Writing-Across-the-Curriculum (WAC) Program at Hostos. She holds a Ph.D. in English Education from NYU and is the author of numerous publications on literacy, English-language learners and WAC. She has taught graduate courses at Columbia University's Teachers College, New York University, and the CUNY Graduate Center on literacy and linguistics and was a consultant for the PBS children's literacy series, Ghostwriter. Linda can be reached at LHIRSCH@hostos.cuny.edu. LINKS "EdCast" Playlist A Brief History of 'The Reading Wars' Casualties of the Reading Wars RELATED EPISODES IMPROVING READING SKILLS WITH STRUGGLING TEENS (PART 1) IMPROVING READING SKILLS WITH STRUGGLING TEENS (PART 2) SOCIAL STUDIES INSTRUCTION AND READING COMPREHENSION ABOUT THIS PODCAST Tests and the Rest is THE college admissions industry podcast. Explore all of our episodes on the show page. ABOUT YOUR HOSTS Mike Bergin is the president of Chariot Learning and founder of TestBright. Amy Seeley is the president of Seeley Test Pros. If you're interested in working with Mike and/or Amy for test preparation, training, or consulting, feel free to get in touch through our contact page.

Bend, OR- Bitcoin Magazine interviewed me and you could feel the exuberance! Learn how to send a Bitcoin and you already have more valuable/marketable 2020s skills than you would get at a Liberal Arts college (for $200k over 4 years)! We compare past bear markets to this one- 2022 is the best bear market ever! The 4 year cycle lives, but supposed BTC heroes and dogmas disappear. Bitcoin is the ultimate provider of freedom of association, but you need to be comfortable with being a confident decentralist to fully appreciate what that means. Elizabeth Warren is the worst US national politician and she foams at the mouth in joy at a potential Ethereum failure, a clear sign that this would be bad for BTC. In this crazy world I could see her endorsing a future proof of stake BTC fork as the real Bitcoin! That is the kind of scenario you will only hear about from Adam! Be a unique beast! Russia and the other countries that pretend to like BTC will only do so much until the "threat" of financial freedom for their oppressed people becomes to close for comfort. Don't pedestal fascist authoritarian leaders just because they say the like BTC. MUCH MORE COVERED! If you want to interview me and can set up all the logistics then I will gladly appear on your show and it will also appear on this channel! In motion! Thanks to Scott, Marco Esquandolez, Towers Comics, DJ Cfair, Henry Law, and Accidental Tourist we need $66 for the next 1 BTC show! BTC Magazine- https://www.youtube.com/c/BitcoinMagazine/videos Coinbeast shirts- https://coinbeast-shop.myshopify.com/ Follow Adam on Twitter- https://twitter.com/TechBalt Adam's Parler- https://parler.com/profile/BitcoinMeister All of the BitcoinMeister videos are here at- http://DisruptMeister.com Financially support the podcast here- https://anchor.fm/bitcoinmeister/support BOOKMARK SPORTSMEISTER.com DISRUPTMEISTER.com & TECHBALT.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bitcoinmeister/support

"They're too small" "No one's heard of them" "I won't be able to get a job"These are some of the typical arguments that can be heard when liberal arts colleges are brought up as part of a student's college search. This week, admissions expert Tyler Kusunoki breaks down why those beliefs are misguided, and often just factually incorrect, and makes the case as to why you should consider adding a few liberal arts colleges to your college list.

Liberal arts degrees have a lasting impact on lifelong success, leadership, and fulfillment. Learn more in this podcast interview with Dr. Rick Detweiler. Listen to the episode here:  https://tamingthehighcostofcollege.com/thcc-episode-156-is-a-liberal-arts-degree-worth-it/ *** Check out these FREE resources about college planning:  https://tamingthehighcostofcollege.com/resources  *** We care about what you think and want to help you out, so we'd appreciate you reviewing us on Apple, Stitcher, or on your favorite podcast platform!

Welcome back to Powering Your Retirement Radio. Today, we're going to continue our conversation about college planning and colleges in general with my good friend, Dr. Bryon L. Grigsby, who I've known since we were high school classmates, college roommates, and many other things throughout our lives. Bryon is the President of Moravian University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and he is one of the few presidents is also the President of his own Alma Mater. Moravian was founded in 1742. It's the sixth-oldest school in the country. It was the first to educate women. And it's been thriving since Bryon became the President back in the summer of 2013. So with that, welcome back, President Grigsby. Why don't you tell people that maybe didn't hear our last episode, just a bit of yourself and Moravian? Start of Interview President Bryon L. Grigsby: It's great to be here. Dan is a treat to run our Alma Mater, and I'm not quite sure when we were tearing around the campus. Either one of us thought that we'd be in the roles we're in right now, but it's a joy to be at your Alma Mater. It is the sixth oldest college in the nation. It's in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. We have one of the only Revolutionary War hospitals on the campus, and we're about to get UNESCO world heritage designation, which will be the second a university in the nation to be a world heritage site, the University of Virginia being the other one. So it is a place of very historic buildings. My house, the President's house, comes with a desk that was George Washington's. And so you are when you're wandering around the streets of Bethlehem, truly wandering around in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Lafayette. So it's a neat place to be. The campus is a Division III sports campus. We have about 2,600 students on the campus. We have about 25% of our students are graduate students and primarily in the healthcare and business industries. The other 75% are undergraduate students and all sorts of liberal arts and science and nursing.   Main Points Covered Four Year School vs. Community College Risk vs. Reward Value of a Liberal Arts Education Training people for jobs that don't exist, yet What does success look like in college? Relationships with Faculty and classmates and taught by professors, not grad assistants   Dan: As an aside for the listeners, I've got to tell you the story of the George Washington desk. I was back at Moravian for Bryon's inauguration, and I heard the story about George Washington's desk. Later we were back at the President's house for a reception. And I asked him, where is this George Washington's desk? And Bryon looked me square in the eye and said, you're leaning on it, which I promptly got off of and wondered why there wasn't a velvet rope around it. The things you learn after you graduate from college. Anyways, one of the things that is an issue here in California, and we talked about it a little bit in the last episode about affordability, is kids that aren't quite ready for a four-year school. Here the answer is DVC - Diablo Valley College. It's the community college much like North Hampton in Pennsylvania or Orange County Community College, where we grew up, and that's in New York, not California for all my California listeners. Should I go to a four-year school and figure out if I like it or not, or should I do two years in community college? Let's start with that. President Bryon L. Grigsby: The lowest level of risk financially is to go to a community college. If your child doesn't know academically, what they want to do, and financially you're having difficulty affording college education, community college is a very viable opportunity. If a student is not successful at community college, they'll have maybe a couple of thousand dollars worth of student loans. As opposed to, if they're not successful at a state university or even an independent college, you could have $10,000 or more in student loans and no degree to be able to help pay down those loans. If you look at when people talk about the student loan crisis, everybody's eligible by the federal government. When you do a FASFA to get a loan from the federal government, it's guaranteed from the federal government. You don't have to put up any collateral for it, but paying that loan back without a college degree can be nearly impossible.   If you look at the default rates of all the student loans, they're all in $10,000 and less that's because a person who has $150,000 probably is going to med school and will be able to pay that loan back after they graduate. But the person who has $8,000 and did not get a college degree of any kind associates or bachelors can't afford to pay back that loan. And so that's where all the defaults come in. So if you are financially at risk and academically at-risk, community college is a great opportunity. It is an ability to very, cost-effectively see if you can make it in college courses where the downside comes in is if you academically know that you can make it in college, you're confident that your academic, your college material going to a community college may set you back in your degree, completion in programs such as nursing and engineering and computer science, because, the four-year schools have programs where you're going to get basic level information for your major in your first two years.   So that's the only risk you have is that if you have a career path that you really want to do in health professions, in computers and technology or an education, and, you know, you can make it, your college material you'll do fine in college. Then the best avenue is to go into a four-year school so that you can graduate within four years. If you are wondering whether college is right for you or having significant issues about paying for college, then community college, that gives you the ideal situation. And, students transfer from North Hampton here. They become highly engaged in our campus as a transfer in for the last two years. Sometimes if they're in nursing or computer science, they may have to take an extra semester to complete out that degree. But even at that level, it's still financially better for them if they're having difficulty paying for the finances. Dan: Obviously, Moravian's a liberal arts college. And we had talked about it a little bit before we got started today.  I thought it was an interesting comment. In liberal arts school, you're training people for jobs that don't exist. Talk to me a little bit about the value of liberal arts versus going in with like, just I'm going to be an engineer, and this is all I'm going to do. President Bryon L. Grigsby: Well, Moravian's proud of saying that it intentionally combines the liberal arts with professional programs. So, in my experience, I find two kinds of students have Moravian. I find the student who has known since they were eight years old exactly what they want to do. So I want to be a doctor. I want to be a veterinarian. I want to be a lawyer. I want to be a nurse. I want to be an occupational therapist. And those students come in, and they have a path. They know what that path is. They want to go. They want to go straight through that path to get their degree. Where the liberal arts benefit them is liberal arts are what we call the soft skills. So I want at the end of a college career, I want a student to be able to critically think, to work well as a team member, to be a leader, to be ethical, to be able to use quantitative, qualitative analysis, to arrive at a decision, to understand and use technology effectively in their disciplines and their majors, and to be a global citizen that understands the value of diversity. Those are the components of a liberal arts college. Those components are transferable across every career possible. So, I may want to be a veterinarian, or I may want to be a medical doctor. And after four or five years of doing that, I decide I want to move into finance. And I do a career change because you have all these liberal arts skills. You can make that switch into a different career. Statistics will tell us that children today who are going into college will have four to five different careers over their lifetime. So, the value of the liberal arts college, even if to the student who knows exactly what they want to do right now, most likely across their lifetime, they will switch careers and need to rely on those liberal arts skills so that they can manage moving into careers back in the day when you and I went to school, everybody wanted to be a web page designer. The internet was just starting, and all these tech schools created eight-month web page designers. Well, someone eventually created a software program that was easier just to do the software program than hire the guy for $60,000 to do your webpage. And they all lost their jobs because they didn't have all those other soft skills. So that's one kind of student that knows exactly what they want to do and the benefits of still getting a liberal arts degree, even in their professional programs, so that they can switch careers seamlessly for the student who comes into Moravian. And I would say, this was me who doesn't know what they want to do. The liberal arts provide a sampling of a variety of different careers that are possible. I had five different majors at Moravian. I went from a physics major to a math major, to a computer science major, to a criminal justice major, to an English major. The liberal arts allowed me to think about different careers, and if I wanted to do those for the rest of my life, and then settle on the one that I wanted to do. The liberal arts right now, as you said, Dan, not only are we training students to have four or five different careers over their lifetime, we are also training students for careers that will exist in four or five years or ten years. Think about what's happening with Tesla and automated cars as automated cars come out and electric vehicles. There's going to be this mass need for technicians to build charging stations, repair stations. Those careers don't exist yet. They will in five or ten years as more and more vehicles become autonomous. The skills of the liberal arts will allow people to learn how to learn again, to learn a new career. And that those are the benefits of not just going to a technical school where you're just going to learn how to be a webpage designer. You're just going to learn how to be an engineer. You're going to learn how to just do one thing. You want to go to a place that will allow you to learn that and create all the other skill sets that you're going to need to be more diversified and more able to change careers. Dan: And I can attest, I was there for at least three of the major changes. I know which class it was that made him an English major. And Bryon is still good friends. How has Dr. Burcaw President Bryon L. Grigsby: And he's good, 92 years old, still learning quantum physics and other things. Dan: I was in that class. I went a different route, but it worked for Bryon for sure. And that, that kind of is a good lead-in, I think to our next question, which is, what do you think success looks like for someone at college? And I bring that up because, you know, I know the answer you gave me earlier. I'll let you tell the people, but I know who one of those people is for you. President Bryon L. Grigsby: It is actually pretty simple. It's been studied by Harvard for over 50 years. Success is that you have out of college, uh, one or two, three or four close friends, people that you truly are your lifelong friends and one mentor, and that mentor can be a faculty member or a staff member, but someone that you rely on to mentor you through your college career and beyond. I've said that person is Dr. Burcaw for me. And you know, Dan's been a lifelong friend. We were friends before college, but we were roommates in college. So it's really not rocket science for having a successful college career, two or three strong friends, and a mentor. That's it. The chances are of that happening at a small college are way greater, particularly in the mentor program. When I started out my career teaching at the University of Connecticut, I had 450 students in an upper-division Shakespeare class in a large rake auditorium. There was not any way to get to know any of the students. That was markedly different than my Chaucer class at Moravian with four students at eight o'clock, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, where we had breakfast, the last class at the faculty member's house, getting the mentorship part is much easier at small independent colleges than it is at large state universities. For parents, the one thing I would say is to visit lots of college campuses, ask your child, do you see yourself fitting in here? Do you see yourself walking around and seeing people with who you could be friends with? Do you see yourself sitting at a table in the cafeteria, and you would have friends here? That's going to be the key for finding a place where they feel they fit and belong?   Dan: I can attest to that as a, again, back to Bryon's inauguration. When he talked about his dreams to become present and all of that, I got to remind him that I was the first student he ever recruited to Moravian because I was a transfer student to Moravian. And I know that everything Bryon just said about, do you see yourself fitting in at the school I was at? I definitely did not. And when I would come to visit Bryon and Moravian, I did. And by the end of my first semester, I had already applied and was ready to go for my first semester, sophomore year. Bryon was a good recruiter then and is still doing a great job for the college. Now, why don't we wrap up with this one, Bryon? You kind of touched on it a little bit there, but you might want to hit a few other points—just some of the benefits of, you know, a school like Moravian University. I won't use one that's in the same city. So, let's say a school like the University of California, Berkeley, or Stanford, or one of the schools where you've got thousands and thousands of students there versus hundreds in a class like in the entire class, not just one that you're taking, but like everybody that's a freshman. There are what now? 500 at Moravian President Bryon L. Grigsby: Well, we're about 450 incoming first-year students. And then about 150 transfers and 50 international students. It's what the student wants essentially. And, and I get back to, you know, mom and dad who are paying the bill has to think about the value of the education. I personally don't see a whole lot of value in 40,000 students and focused on Division I, football, or Division I basketball. That's not, to me, the reason you should be going to be educated. There are many people that love that. And, there are 4,000 institutions of higher education in the United States. I guarantee you, if you want to go to a Buddhist school, there's a Buddhist school. If you want to go to a Catholic school, there's a Catholic school. You can find any mission possible in higher ed. But I find that the places that truly transform students are the small independent colleges where they have less than 5,000 students. You're taught not by a graduate assistant, which is the case for almost all state universities and research universities. The first two years of undergraduate education is taught by a graduate student who has not finished their Ph.D. I was one of those students that taught other students when I was getting my doctorate. There's value to that. But there's also value to having a full professor who has 20 years of teaching experience teaching your child, freshmen writing. That's the kind of places that small independent colleges have at a place like Moravian. You most likely in your four years there we'll have a dinner at the President's house. We cycle through all the athletic teams and all the clubs every other year. So, if you're even remotely engaged at the campus, you're on a, in a club or you're in a sporting, or you're an athlete. You will get a dinner at the President's house with the President. I guarantee that's not happening at Berkeley. There are just too many students for that to be occurring for some students. That's not important. But for me, that was, it was life-changing for me to be able to go over to Bob Burcaw's house and have dinner with him and Dottie and become part of the family, or be known on campus by your Faculty on a first-name basis, not a number it's not right for every student. I realized that there are students when I said I was at UConn. They wanted nothing to do with me. They simply wanted to go back to what they were doing together as a group of adolescents. I just think if you're paying a lot of money for this education, you want to get the most out of it. And, at small independent colleges, you know, the faculty member is by your elbow, helping you with your skills that are going to be so important for your career. Dan: Fantastic. I think that's a great way to wrap up today. I want to thank you for taking some time out with me to do the last two episodes for the listeners on the Powering Your Retirement Radio website. There is an ask a question button. If you just click on that, you can leave a voicemail or type in a question. If you have one, as I said, if we get overwhelmed, maybe we can have Bryon come back and answer a few of those. But, I will work with Bryon to try to get answers to any of the questions that do come in and get back to you with a response. So, I sincerely appreciate your time, Bryon. I know you're a busy guy, so we'll let you get back to, uh, the important business of running a school and, uh, for my listeners, uh, until next episode, stay safe. And, uh, this should have just come out the week after Thanksgiving. So I hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving and a good holiday season. Thank you so much. President Bryon L. Grigsby: Thanks, Dan   For more information, visit the Podcast Episode page here: https://poweringyourretirement.com/2021/12/03/the-value-of-a-liberal-arts-degree-and-how-to-measure-success/

On this week episode of Gentlemen's Agreement, the guys get together on zoom due to the Thanksgiving holiday. The GA Boys get into Cowboy Bebop on Netflix and Hawkeye on Disney Plus, reiterated on our Kyle Rittenhouse takes, Florida & Georgia strip clubs, Bam hanging with Chef in NYC, buying property in the south, Liberal Arts Degree being useful, Mogero's homeless take in cities, Manhattan, sports talk, if Bam was the GM of the Miami Dolphins, movie talk, Ahmaud Arbery case and many more...please tell a friend to tell a friend about Gentlemen's Agreement Podcast!

Wondering why you might want to consider a liberal arts college? Tune in this week for our thoughts on the benefits and the potential return on investment you can see from a liberal arts degree. Office Hours this week features early round results and advice for turning to regular decision.

Wondering why you might want to consider a liberal arts college? Tune in this week for our thoughts on the benefits and the potential return on investment you can see from a liberal arts degree. Office Hours this week features early round results and advice for turning to regular decision.

Wondering why you might want to consider a liberal arts college? Tune in this week for our thoughts on the benefits and the potential return on investment you can see from a liberal arts degree. Office Hours this week features early round results and advice for turning to regular decision.

This is our episode #4 in our ‘Life After Anthro' series. Guest Elaine Strawbridge is a passionate creative and leader with a 20+ year career in retail. Growing up in the greater Chicagoland area, she was immersed in sports and her emerging love for the arts. At Columbia College, Elaine earned a Liberal Arts Degree with focus on sculpture – working primarily with metal & wood. After graduation, she learned to weld and continued to dig deeper into her passion for working with mixed materials. During college, Elaine worked for The Gap and found the retail environment exciting, ever-changing and always challenging.  This was the start of her journey into visual merchandising and window display, allowing her to apply her creative passion in a career. In 1999, Elaine was hired at Anthropologie/URBN Inc, where she would advance over the next 17 years. During her time with Anthro, she moved to California and built her life in LA. In 2010 Elaine started B.E. Woodcraft, a small jewelry line, creating handmade wooden heart necklaces and sold them at Anthro and BHLDN. In 2016 she left URBN to pursue a new challenge as a consultant in the marketing world. Once out of visual merchandising/display, her passion shifted focus onto team leadership and development – and her creative mind took on challenges that are “people” focused. From 2016-2021 Elaine co-created and built a global brand advocacy and training program – spanning 11 countries with over 450 staff. Currently, Elaine is freelance consulting and developing a few new businesses which will launch in 2022 (ssshh, they are not ready to formally announce yet). Enjoy this week's episode and don't forget to leave us a review!WEBSITE: https://spark.adobe.com/page/T7E0MOJFe6cgZ/PINTEREST: https://www.pinterest.com/elainestrwbrdge/_saved/

Food For Thought Friday From Performer To Academic - Is A Liberal Arts Degree For You? Source: https://www.danceplug.com/article/from-performer-to-academic-is-a-liberal-arts-degree-for-you DancePlug is Dance Plug is YOUR connection to dance. It the go-to digital hub for online classes, auditions, and articles on all things dance! Check them out on Instagram @danceplug or at danceplug.com. Author: Andrew Pearson is a performer, choreographer, producer, and dance/movement educator based in Los Angeles. He has been presenting work in LA for over 10 years and has been invited to share his work throughout the US as well as at the Gdansk International Dance Festival in Poland. Andrew was with LA Contemporary Dance Company for 6 years where he taught, choreographed, and performed, including engagements in Buenos Aires and New York City. Additional credits include performances with the LA Philharmonic, the FIAC Art Faire in Paris, and exhibitions at MOCA and LACE. In addition to his creative work, Andrew has taught guest classes at college programs both nationally and internationally and is currently on faculty at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) as well as working as the Los Angeles Program Coordinator for Saint Mary's College of California's LEAP Program. Special Thanks: The LEAP Program - @leap_program, Lauren Breen - @laurenb314, J. Alexander - @j_ontheway & KeKe Morris Are you practicing your tip for the day? Share with us on social media and tag @dancetipsdaily to be shared on our platform! Don't forget to follow us on IG and Facebook @dancetipsdaily! Stay up to date with DTD & Subscribe to the once a month newsletter at www.dancetipsdaily.com Like what you heard? Give us a 5 star rating or share with a friend to help us keep bringing well rounded & grounded dance content to you! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dance-tips-daily/support

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This week, I interview Catherine Roberts, Executive Director of The American Mathematical Society and Math Professor at College of the Holy Cross, about the far-reaching impact her liberal arts education from Bowdoin College has had on her research, teaching, and career. In this episode, Catherine shares:  The many ways communication skills relate to math How her liberal arts degree aided her in her research on water rafting in the Grand Canyon How the language we use to teach subtraction in elementary school relates to higher levels of math The different ways teaching Calculus changed during the Calculus Reform Movement The goals and benefits of the American Mathematical Society (which you MUST check out!) Learn more about Catherine Roberts and the American Mathematical Society at ams.org. Get Allison's Inspire Your Students to Love Math Starter Kit at allisonlovesmath.com.

This week we spoke with Emily Ridout, Folklore and Ethnomusicology BA ‘09. Emily is an AstroYoga specialist and has a super interesting background. In this episode, we talked about what she loved about her time at IU and how exploring her interests after graduation rather than following one narrow path ultimately led her to her dream job. If you're interested in astrology, yoga & wellness, or interested in learning about how to maximize your liberal arts degree to start a creative, entrepreneurial endeavor, you'll love this episode. Enjoy! Find the transcript for the episode here. Links Mentioned in this Episode: https://www.emilyridout.com/ wcsn.indiana.edu

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The Compliance Life details the journey to and in the role of a Chief Compliance Officer. How does one come to sit in the CCO chair? What are some of the skills a CCO needs to success navigate the compliance waters in any company? What are some of the top challenges CCOs have faced and how did they meet them? These questions and many others will be explored in this new podcast series. Over four episodes each month on The Compliance Life, I visit with one current or former CCO to explore their journey to the CCO chair. This month, my guest is Katie Smith who is the Vice President for Ethics at Assurance. She previously served as Assistant Vice President and Chief Ethics Officer for USAA and Executive Vice President and Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer at Convercent. Katie is passionate about compliance, having worked in the field for 20 years, building high-performing teams and increasing employee engagement by up to 300%. She has proven expertise in building and promoting talent, creating a trust-based culture, anti-corruption, code of conduct, conflict of interest, marketing internal programs, training and awareness, investigation excellence, data privacy and process efficiency. She is a much sought after public speaker and contributor featured in Wall Street Journal, Time, Fortune, NBC and Compliance Week. Katie's commitment to the compliance profession is well as she currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Ethics and Compliance Initiative (ECI). In this first episode, we consider Katie's journey to the CCO role. She talks about how her Liberal Arts degree, not a JD, facilitated her success in compliance. She details her initial corporate work in HR and moving over to the compliance field and her journey to the CCO chair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this installment of the Detroit Worldwide Podcast, Marquis connects with acclaimed speaker and purpose recognition coach, Marv Fox Jr. about his lived experience growing up in the D as well as the role sports played in his development as a young adult.   Marv also discusses his career as a college basketball coach and his commitment to helping individuals identify their purpose.    About Marv:    Marv Fox Jr., Purpose-recognition Coach, helps highly ambitious and courageous people discover their purpose with two simple questions. Marv's purpose is to help people discover their purpose. The purpose-centered life offers those who choose to accept it the opportunity to improve themselves, help their family, and contribute to their industry and community. Marv provides purpose programming and inspirational speaking on how to discover one’s purpose, and how to convert that purpose into productivity, profit, and prosperity. Marv conducts most of his work in higher education, profit and non-profit settings using purpose to explore Leadership – Wellness – Performance – Spirituality – D.E.I, in addition to one on one purpose-recognition coaching sessions. Marv has a Bachelor of Liberal Arts Degree in Psychology and a Master of Science in Students Personnel Administration in Higher Education. Marv Has worked for University of Michigan, Concordia University, and Eastern Michigan in student-life, as an adjunct professor, and as basketball coach.    Connect with Marv:    Website:       http://www.marvfoxjr.com/ Instagram:   @marvfoxjr_purpose_recognition Twitter:         @marvfoxjr    

One of the most important parts of the Common App is the section in which students list their activities. Involvement outside the classroom is a major selection component for many universities, and this is the primary opportunity to share the depth and breadth of that involvement. We'll offer tips for these 10 entries to maximize their impact. In other segments, we'll go over what you need to know about FERPA and one of our educators will share her experiences studying engineering in a liberal arts college.

One of the most important parts of the Common App is the section in which students list their activities. Involvement outside the classroom is a major selection component for many universities, and this is the primary opportunity to share the depth and breadth of that involvement. We'll offer tips for these 10 entries to maximize their impact. In other segments, we'll go over what you need to know about FERPA and one of our educators will share her experiences studying engineering in a liberal arts college.

In this episode our special guest was Reggie Colson III. Reggie plays Wide Receiver for Western New Mexico University Mustangs. Reggie talks about playing junior college football. He also goes into how ended up at Western New Mexico. Reggie stands at 6'2 coming out of Hollywood, Florida South Broward. He gives insight on his current plans for this season and that he will return to campus at the end of this month. Reggie tells us that he has a Liberal Arts Degree and is planning on getting a second degree before he graduates. Reggie Colson is an amazing athlete that the world must know.

Conventional wisdom about careers says "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life." Katherine Brunk, an analyst at the civil engineering firm Kimley-Horn, takes that to another level. Listen to this week's episode to learn how she took her liberal arts degree and made the ultimate pivot from marketing to civil engineering.

Len Piechocki who is a 2014 graduate of The College at Southeastern shares his story about how his liberal arts degree helped him become employed by one of the top fighter jet manufactures, Lockheed Martin.

Len Piechocki who is a 2014 graduate of The College at Southeastern shares his story about how his liberal arts degree helped him become employed by one of the top fighter jet manufactures, Lockheed Martin.

According to a recent study, four out of five employers agree that all students should acquire broad knowledge in the liberal arts and sciences.

George Anders is a senior editor at large at LinkedIn. He’s authored five business books including the New York Times bestseller Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett Packard, and most recently You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a “Useless” Liberal Arts Degree. After earning his undergraduate degree at Stanford University, George started his career as a journalist at the Wall Street Journal where he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. The post 202: How You Can Do (Almost) Anything in Tech With a Liberal Arts Degree w/ George Anders, LinkedIn [Main T4C episode] appeared first on Time4Coffee.

Contemplating a liberal arts degree but concerned about how that will translate into your career? Convinced that your child must major in a pre-professional area if they're ever going to make a living? We get it: college—and life—are expensive, and these are important concerns. That's why we're exploring the value of a liberal arts degree when it comes time to actually get a job. We're also talking through the impact of owning real estate on the financial aid process.

Contemplating a liberal arts degree but concerned about how that will translate into your career? Convinced that your child must major in a pre-professional area if they're ever going to make a living? We get it: college—and life—are expensive, and these are important concerns. That's why we're exploring the value of a liberal arts degree when it comes time to actually get a job. We're also talking through the impact of owning real estate on the financial aid process.

Liberal Arts in Crisis? You don't have to look hard to find news stories and books questioning the value of higher education. Bryan Caplan recently published "The Case Against Education - Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money." And on Fox News, Jon Stossel recently wrote: "What everyone's afraid to say about college and jobs." Often, the liberal arts are a prime target of such criticism. Naysayers question the potential job opportunities a liberal arts degree offers. And in all honesty, we've even made similar comments on the Class Dismissed Podcast. Making the case Our guest on Episode 70 of the Class Dismissed Podcast sees value in the liberal arts and humanities. Dr. Andrew (AJ) Ogilvie wrote New Frames for New Futures: Translators as Metaphor for the Value of a 21st Century Liberal Arts Education, a research paper that makes a strong case for a liberal arts degree.  Ogilvie argues that the current job market is in need of more liberal arts majors. "Some of the challenges that places like Google and Facebook are facing are human-centered challenges," says Ogilvie. "On how people think about privacy, on how different groups of people think about what is moral, what is right and wrong." Ogilvie says the kinds of knowledge many companies need right now is the not necessarily the kind of education you'll find in a textbook. He says that you need to be translating what your company does for your customers, clients, and stakeholders. Translators Ogilvie likes to look as those holding a liberal arts degree as "translators." He says translators have a real feel for how language works. They understand how arranging words and concepts can be persuasive. For example, Ogilvie notes that taking history courses is not to just remember dates and places of significant events. He says that studying history is about understanding competing stories from the past. "The way we tell the story about the past serves a particular purpose in the future," says Ogilvie. To hear our full interview with Ogilvie Listen to Episode 70 of the Class Dismissed Podcast on your favorite podcast app or iTunes. Other links related to Episode 70 Lessons from a school without walls Jeff Bezos is going to create schools where ‘the child is the customer.’ 11 School Districts With the Highest Starting Salaries All Rights Reserved. Class Dismissed Podcast 2018  

Picking a major in college is stressful. How can anybody possibly know what they want to do with the rest of their life in college?! It feels like a gamble. Do you spend all that time and money on something super specific or shoot your shot on a more generalized major that may make finding work difficult down the road? We sit down with our CEO for 15 minutes each week to get practical business advice so we can advance in our careers. On this episode, we chat about what to do if you’re debating a liberal arts degree...

Choosing between an engineering and philosophy major? Here’s some help.

Don’t have a degree in technology, but you want to join a tech firm? Scott Hartley, author of The Fuzzy and the Techie, tells us how. Listen to his riveting anecdotes on some of the famous leaders in the tech world today who don’t have tech backgrounds.

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-366 – Nick Kershaw – Impact Marathon Series  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4366.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends, and welcome to episode 4-366 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  366 Podcasts.  If you’re new to the show that means you could listen to one of the old shows every day for a year, even a leap year, to catchup.  And, assuming I haven’t thrown in the towel, you’ll still be 25 episodes behind.  It’s in our nature as endurance athletes to just keep moving forward.  I do believe there is some innate value in that attribute of dogged persistence.  What do you think?  Are people too quick to ‘Pivot’ in these Silicon days?  Silicon days.  Kinda sounds like Halcyon Days.  Do you know what that means?  You may have heard that phrase “” used by people whose parents spent too much on a Liberal Arts Degree as referring to a happier time in the past. It really means more of a calm time.  It means a time where winds don’t blow.  It’s from Greek mythology.  10 words or less.  Alcyone was turned into a sea bird.  Aeolus becalmed the waves for 7 days each year so she could make her nest.  Ok that was 21 words and a number. ‘Silicon Days’ also makes me think of irony.  Many classic SciFi stories are about humans being devastated by a silicon-based life form.  From where I’m sitting, we may have manifested this already, right?  Enough rhyming games.  What about endurance sports do we have to share today?  Today we talk to Nick about his new enterprise Impact Marathons.  He Skype called me from Greece where he was staying with his uncle Nick, his cousins, Nick, Nick and Nicki.  Sorry couldn’t resist.  Nick has an interesting story.  He ditched a lucrative banking career at an early age and now sets up these experiential, socially impactful marathons in remote and beautiful places.  I wanted to dive into why someone would do that.  Why would you give away all your stuff, live out of a couple duffle bags and lead this nomadic lifestyle in pursuit of a big dream?  Sounds fulfilling, romantic and terrifying at the same time.  In section one I’ll address a question people have asked me about what to do when your next training cycle isn’t going to start for a couple weeks or months?  In section two I’ll talk about anxiety. Speaking of the old shows, I’ve gone back in time and downloaded a few to listen to.  Those first 80 shows are rough.  I was on a schedule of pushing a show out a week and keeping it under an hour.  The early audio is poor.  I was using a cheap USB mic.  That being said there was a certain hopefulness and creativity to them that is fun to listen to.  I’m going to start editing up some of them and curating them into the members feed.  I know when I subscribe to a new podcast and see there are 300 shows, I don’t go back to the beginning.  I may cherry pick by topic.  I’m going to do some cherry picking of my own from the archives for my members.  Members, I truly appreciate you support.  This has never been a commercial endeavor for me.  It’s a passion project.  My favorite thing is when I get a membership notice from someone I’ve never interacted with before and they say something like ‘I’ve been listening for years and you’ve really helped me with my running and my life’.  That keeps me moving forward.  Even when the days are not so Halcyon.  Teresa and I did end up driving down to CT for that trail race last weekend.  I’ve got my notes down but haven’t had time to write them up.  I will.  I’ll probably push it as a separate piece because those race reports tend to go long.  Summary is, we had a good day.  She ran the 20K like a champ and I ran the 50k like a stubborn old guy.  Felt fine.  No issues.  My engine is good and my legs are good, I’m just a bit at loose ends with nothing to train for.  … I finished reading a book called “” by Robert Rodriguez.  He is a director.  He made one of my favorite movies ‘Desperado’ with Antonio Banderas.  It’s a really good story.  It is his journals from when he made his first movie El Mariachi for $7,000.  He did it with no crew.  It ended up making him the toast of Hollywood.  The basic story is that as a kid all he ever wanted to do was to make movies.  So he made movies with his brothers and sisters as actors and videotape.  He didn’t get good enough grades to get into film school, because, he spent all his time making movies.  He didn’t have any money so he went into one of those research hospitals to make $3,000 as a clinical trial lab rat.  He used that money and figured out how to make a feature length movie as an experiment in Mexico for the Spanish video market.  That was El Mariachi.  His plan was to make all his mistakes on this movie, sell it to the video distributers for a small profit and make a series of these as he learned that trade.  Essentially throw-away movies.  Then when he had enough experience he would approach the Hollywood crowd.  Long story, short, El Mariachi got noticed in Hollywood, starting a feeding frenzy that got him a deal at Columbia and won Sundance.  What’s great about this story is several things.  First, he worked very hard over many years to put himself in a position to succeed.  A splendid example of grit.  He also had the growth mindset going into this that he would make a movie, learn what he could in the process, not worry so much about failure and just do it.  Take action.  Learn from the results. It’s a classic , rags to riches, very American in nature.  On with the show! … I’ll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported.  What does that mean? It means you don’t have to listen to yet another Blue Apron or Hello Fresh ad.  As a matter of fact, stop being lazy and go shop for your own food.  We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member’s only audio. I’ll also remind you that I have started raising money for team Hoyt for my 2017 Boston Marathon.  I would appreciate any help you can give.   The fundraiser is on Crowdrise (so I don’t have to touch any of the money) it goes straight to the Hoyts and supports acquiring equipment and supporting others who want to participate like the Hoyts do.  … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported.  We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member’s content.  Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I’ve been writing for 30 years.  Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro’s, Outro’s, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3’s you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – In between training cycles - Voices of reason – the conversation Nick Kershaw Link to share:    Bio:    The Impact Marathon Series are races for those who think differently, run for the good of others and dream they can leave an impact.   Founded in 2015 by Nick Kershaw and Matt Fenton, IMS organizes races in four developing locations: Nepal, Malawi, Colombia and Guatemala.   Like many more mainstream marathon companies IMS encourage runners to fundraise beforehand. However they ask runners to raise funds for one of the United Nations’ Global Goals directly relating to the location of their race – for example, charities focusing on Gender Equality in Nepal.   Runners then fly out to the race location a week before the marathon and complete two days of voluntary work directly relating to their selected Global Goal – in the above case, for example, providing support in a Nepalese burns unit. By doing so, participants get to see exactly how their fundraising helps and even get involved themselves via aid-work, thereby making a direct impact.   IMS aims to provide a synthesis between travel, running and voluntary work. By harnessing the power of running they believe runners can make a real difference to the developing world. City-worker turned Social Entrepreneur with a penchant for travel, running and creating positive impact. He has spent the last living entirely nomadically, with just two bags for company. In this time he founded the Impact Marathon Series: a social business that harnesses the power of running to empower communities, runners and tackle the UN Global Goals.   The Impact Marathon dream combines travel, volunteering and running to bring about social change. In their first year they began races in Nepal, Colombia, Malawi, Guatemala & Kenya. They bring 120 people from all over the globe, representing a variety corporates, NGOs and running clubs to each race. They all live together in the Athletes' Village whilst heading out each day to work at the exact projects they have fundraised for...   They want to create a direct link to your fundraising so you can see, feel and understand the impact you have.   The best bit, on the final day of Impact Week, everyone joins together with the surrounding communities to run a tough trail race, with most stunning backdrops you can imagine! http://run.impactmarathon.com Section two – Anxiety - Outro Ok my long suffering friends that is it, you have dug water pipe ditches and built out-buildings for the marginalized 3rd-world poor through to the end of episode 4-366 of the RunRunLive Podcast, and then you ran a slow marathon to celebrate.  Yes I did run a 50K a couple weeks ago.  Like I said, I have my notes, I just have to write it up.  Other than being slow – took me 7 hours – it was a pleasant experience all around.  I know, you’re all going to divorce me if I don’t start doing something interesting! We are rolling into June this week and we’ve had the oddest spring weather up here in New England.  It’s been 40’s and 50’s and overcast and rainy like Seattle or London for most of May.  I’m not complaining.  It’s great running weather.  I can’t remember a spring where I was able to get so much use out of my old Boston Marathon running jacket.  Not to run in, just to wear out.  Usually we go from 45 to 90 and it stays there.  We don’t have these extended periods of cooler weather.  It’s been great for my apple trees.  They flowered and since it wasn’t hot they kept the flowers for more than a week.  Now there are hundreds of little apples on them.  I didn’t get my garden in until just this past weekend.  I’m starting a new project for June that I’m calling 5 at 5.  I’m going to get up at 5 AM 30 Days and run 5 miles.  The getting up early isn’t the hard part for me.  It’s going to take a while or my body to get with the program of rolling out of bed and hitting the trails.  My body would rather have coffee and oatmeal and a bathroom break.  I’m taking Buddy with me for the first 2 miles and I’ll try to take a photo every day in the same place to get a time lapse.  With any luck we’ll get to see summer break like a wave over these few weeks. This will help me stay in shape during June and will take less time out of my week than my normal training routine so I can get more stuff done.  Let me tell you a couple stories from the past couple weeks. The first one is my mailbox story.  This winter the snow plows took out my mail box.  I wasn’t able to fix or replace it with the ground frozen and I propped it up with some bailing wire and a metal stake.  Now that it’s warmer I needed to fix it because it frankly looked shoddy.  But before I could fix the mailbox I needed to fix my wheelbarrow.  So, really this is my Mailbox/Wheelbarrow story.  I had a great big metal wheelbarrow that I had acquired many years ago.  A few years back one of its staves broke.  That is the proper term for a wheelbarrow handle, ‘stave’.  Me, being the impatient man that I am bought a new wheelbarrow. I soon discovered that the quality of wheelbarrows has plummeted in the intervening time and this new wheelbarrow was crap.  Very low quality.  After I worked that new wheelbarrow into the ground I decided to fix the old one this year.  I measured everything up and was able to procure the correct length staves on Amazon.  I had to spend a few hours getting the old rusted bolts out of the old wheelbarrow and buying the proper inventory of new nuts and bolts.  The new staves were the right length and of reasonably good quality.  But the holes were in the wrong places.  For the life of me I could not find my electric drill.  And I did end up buying a new electric drill on Amazon.  (I have since threatened my wife and children with painful and horrible death if they touch my new drill)  Change that to the mailbox/wheelbarrow/drill story.  I was able to find the full set of wood bits that I needed for the drill to drill the holes in the staves so that I could reassemble the wheelbarrow with the new hardware.  And it’s a thing of beauty.  Then I went down to see if I couldn’t dig up the roots of the old mailbox so I could drop a new one in.  It turns out that whoever put that mailbox in wanted it to stay there.  It was clasped on all sides by granite shards that I had to dig around and manually remove with my hands.  You see I had to dig about surgically as to not destroy the well-established lilies, clematis and irises flourishing there. I got all the pieces of the old mailbox out, measured it up. checked the official postal regulations online and headed off to one of the giant home improvement stores.  These mailbox posts come as one preassembled thing that you just stick in the ground so I thought I was close to the finish line.  However when I made my pilgrimage up and down the aisles and to where the post box posts were I was disappointed, ne thwarted.  They had two posts. Both of such poor quality as to be embarrassing.  Instead I hiked the extra kilometer down to the lumber section and procured a couple 8 foot pressure treated 4 by 4’s.  So, I guess this is the mail box/wheelbarrow/drill/post story… Anyhow I was able to find my table saw and I crafted a beautiful post box post I set it nicely back into the ground with the granite chunks at the official height from the curb.  I then gave the box itself a new coat of matt black paint.  I have to tell you, it’s a thing of beauty.  There is nothing as life affirming to your suburban male then to be able to craft something with your own hands and have it actually end well.  So those of you who have significant others who roll their eyes when you ask them to do some simple task – remember in suburbia there is no such thing as a simple task, but there is a job well done. I’ll see you out there.   MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-366 – Nick Kershaw – Impact Marathon Series  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4366.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends, and welcome to episode 4-366 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  366 Podcasts.  If you're new to the show that means you could listen to one of the old shows every day for a year, even a leap year, to catchup.  And, assuming I haven't thrown in the towel, you'll still be 25 episodes behind.  It's in our nature as endurance athletes to just keep moving forward.  I do believe there is some innate value in that attribute of dogged persistence.  What do you think?  Are people too quick to ‘Pivot' in these Silicon days?  Silicon days.  Kinda sounds like Halcyon Days.  Do you know what that means?  You may have heard that phrase “” used by people whose parents spent too much on a Liberal Arts Degree as referring to a happier time in the past. It really means more of a calm time.  It means a time where winds don't blow.  It's from Greek mythology.  10 words or less.  Alcyone was turned into a sea bird.  Aeolus becalmed the waves for 7 days each year so she could make her nest.  Ok that was 21 words and a number. ‘Silicon Days' also makes me think of irony.  Many classic SciFi stories are about humans being devastated by a silicon-based life form.  From where I'm sitting, we may have manifested this already, right?  Enough rhyming games.  What about endurance sports do we have to share today?  Today we talk to Nick about his new enterprise Impact Marathons.  He Skype called me from Greece where he was staying with his uncle Nick, his cousins, Nick, Nick and Nicki.  Sorry couldn't resist.  Nick has an interesting story.  He ditched a lucrative banking career at an early age and now sets up these experiential, socially impactful marathons in remote and beautiful places.  I wanted to dive into why someone would do that.  Why would you give away all your stuff, live out of a couple duffle bags and lead this nomadic lifestyle in pursuit of a big dream?  Sounds fulfilling, romantic and terrifying at the same time.  In section one I'll address a question people have asked me about what to do when your next training cycle isn't going to start for a couple weeks or months?  In section two I'll talk about anxiety. Speaking of the old shows, I've gone back in time and downloaded a few to listen to.  Those first 80 shows are rough.  I was on a schedule of pushing a show out a week and keeping it under an hour.  The early audio is poor.  I was using a cheap USB mic.  That being said there was a certain hopefulness and creativity to them that is fun to listen to.  I'm going to start editing up some of them and curating them into the members feed.  I know when I subscribe to a new podcast and see there are 300 shows, I don't go back to the beginning.  I may cherry pick by topic.  I'm going to do some cherry picking of my own from the archives for my members.  Members, I truly appreciate you support.  This has never been a commercial endeavor for me.  It's a passion project.  My favorite thing is when I get a membership notice from someone I've never interacted with before and they say something like ‘I've been listening for years and you've really helped me with my running and my life'.  That keeps me moving forward.  Even when the days are not so Halcyon.  Teresa and I did end up driving down to CT for that trail race last weekend.  I've got my notes down but haven't had time to write them up.  I will.  I'll probably push it as a separate piece because those race reports tend to go long.  Summary is, we had a good day.  She ran the 20K like a champ and I ran the 50k like a stubborn old guy.  Felt fine.  No issues.  My engine is good and my legs are good, I'm just a bit at loose ends with nothing to train for.  … I finished reading a book called “” by Robert Rodriguez.  He is a director.  He made one of my favorite movies ‘Desperado' with Antonio Banderas.  It's a really good story.  It is his journals from when he made his first movie El Mariachi for $7,000.  He did it with no crew.  It ended up making him the toast of Hollywood.  The basic story is that as a kid all he ever wanted to do was to make movies.  So he made movies with his brothers and sisters as actors and videotape.  He didn't get good enough grades to get into film school, because, he spent all his time making movies.  He didn't have any money so he went into one of those research hospitals to make $3,000 as a clinical trial lab rat.  He used that money and figured out how to make a feature length movie as an experiment in Mexico for the Spanish video market.  That was El Mariachi.  His plan was to make all his mistakes on this movie, sell it to the video distributers for a small profit and make a series of these as he learned that trade.  Essentially throw-away movies.  Then when he had enough experience he would approach the Hollywood crowd.  Long story, short, El Mariachi got noticed in Hollywood, starting a feeding frenzy that got him a deal at Columbia and won Sundance.  What's great about this story is several things.  First, he worked very hard over many years to put himself in a position to succeed.  A splendid example of grit.  He also had the growth mindset going into this that he would make a movie, learn what he could in the process, not worry so much about failure and just do it.  Take action.  Learn from the results. It's a classic , rags to riches, very American in nature.  On with the show! … I'll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported.  What does that mean? It means you don't have to listen to yet another Blue Apron or Hello Fresh ad.  As a matter of fact, stop being lazy and go shop for your own food.  We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member's only audio. I'll also remind you that I have started raising money for team Hoyt for my 2017 Boston Marathon.  I would appreciate any help you can give.   The fundraiser is on Crowdrise (so I don't have to touch any of the money) it goes straight to the Hoyts and supports acquiring equipment and supporting others who want to participate like the Hoyts do.  … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported.  We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member's content.  Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I've been writing for 30 years.  Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro's, Outro's, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3's you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – In between training cycles - Voices of reason – the conversation Nick Kershaw Link to share:    Bio:    The Impact Marathon Series are races for those who think differently, run for the good of others and dream they can leave an impact.   Founded in 2015 by Nick Kershaw and Matt Fenton, IMS organizes races in four developing locations: Nepal, Malawi, Colombia and Guatemala.   Like many more mainstream marathon companies IMS encourage runners to fundraise beforehand. However they ask runners to raise funds for one of the United Nations' Global Goals directly relating to the location of their race – for example, charities focusing on Gender Equality in Nepal.   Runners then fly out to the race location a week before the marathon and complete two days of voluntary work directly relating to their selected Global Goal – in the above case, for example, providing support in a Nepalese burns unit. By doing so, participants get to see exactly how their fundraising helps and even get involved themselves via aid-work, thereby making a direct impact.   IMS aims to provide a synthesis between travel, running and voluntary work. By harnessing the power of running they believe runners can make a real difference to the developing world. City-worker turned Social Entrepreneur with a penchant for travel, running and creating positive impact. He has spent the last living entirely nomadically, with just two bags for company. In this time he founded the Impact Marathon Series: a social business that harnesses the power of running to empower communities, runners and tackle the UN Global Goals.   The Impact Marathon dream combines travel, volunteering and running to bring about social change. In their first year they began races in Nepal, Colombia, Malawi, Guatemala & Kenya. They bring 120 people from all over the globe, representing a variety corporates, NGOs and running clubs to each race. They all live together in the Athletes' Village whilst heading out each day to work at the exact projects they have fundraised for...   They want to create a direct link to your fundraising so you can see, feel and understand the impact you have.   The best bit, on the final day of Impact Week, everyone joins together with the surrounding communities to run a tough trail race, with most stunning backdrops you can imagine! http://run.impactmarathon.com Section two – Anxiety - Outro Ok my long suffering friends that is it, you have dug water pipe ditches and built out-buildings for the marginalized 3rd-world poor through to the end of episode 4-366 of the RunRunLive Podcast, and then you ran a slow marathon to celebrate.  Yes I did run a 50K a couple weeks ago.  Like I said, I have my notes, I just have to write it up.  Other than being slow – took me 7 hours – it was a pleasant experience all around.  I know, you're all going to divorce me if I don't start doing something interesting! We are rolling into June this week and we've had the oddest spring weather up here in New England.  It's been 40's and 50's and overcast and rainy like Seattle or London for most of May.  I'm not complaining.  It's great running weather.  I can't remember a spring where I was able to get so much use out of my old Boston Marathon running jacket.  Not to run in, just to wear out.  Usually we go from 45 to 90 and it stays there.  We don't have these extended periods of cooler weather.  It's been great for my apple trees.  They flowered and since it wasn't hot they kept the flowers for more than a week.  Now there are hundreds of little apples on them.  I didn't get my garden in until just this past weekend.  I'm starting a new project for June that I'm calling 5 at 5.  I'm going to get up at 5 AM 30 Days and run 5 miles.  The getting up early isn't the hard part for me.  It's going to take a while or my body to get with the program of rolling out of bed and hitting the trails.  My body would rather have coffee and oatmeal and a bathroom break.  I'm taking Buddy with me for the first 2 miles and I'll try to take a photo every day in the same place to get a time lapse.  With any luck we'll get to see summer break like a wave over these few weeks. This will help me stay in shape during June and will take less time out of my week than my normal training routine so I can get more stuff done.  Let me tell you a couple stories from the past couple weeks. The first one is my mailbox story.  This winter the snow plows took out my mail box.  I wasn't able to fix or replace it with the ground frozen and I propped it up with some bailing wire and a metal stake.  Now that it's warmer I needed to fix it because it frankly looked shoddy.  But before I could fix the mailbox I needed to fix my wheelbarrow.  So, really this is my Mailbox/Wheelbarrow story.  I had a great big metal wheelbarrow that I had acquired many years ago.  A few years back one of its staves broke.  That is the proper term for a wheelbarrow handle, ‘stave'.  Me, being the impatient man that I am bought a new wheelbarrow. I soon discovered that the quality of wheelbarrows has plummeted in the intervening time and this new wheelbarrow was crap.  Very low quality.  After I worked that new wheelbarrow into the ground I decided to fix the old one this year.  I measured everything up and was able to procure the correct length staves on Amazon.  I had to spend a few hours getting the old rusted bolts out of the old wheelbarrow and buying the proper inventory of new nuts and bolts.  The new staves were the right length and of reasonably good quality.  But the holes were in the wrong places.  For the life of me I could not find my electric drill.  And I did end up buying a new electric drill on Amazon.  (I have since threatened my wife and children with painful and horrible death if they touch my new drill)  Change that to the mailbox/wheelbarrow/drill story.  I was able to find the full set of wood bits that I needed for the drill to drill the holes in the staves so that I could reassemble the wheelbarrow with the new hardware.  And it's a thing of beauty.  Then I went down to see if I couldn't dig up the roots of the old mailbox so I could drop a new one in.  It turns out that whoever put that mailbox in wanted it to stay there.  It was clasped on all sides by granite shards that I had to dig around and manually remove with my hands.  You see I had to dig about surgically as to not destroy the well-established lilies, clematis and irises flourishing there. I got all the pieces of the old mailbox out, measured it up. checked the official postal regulations online and headed off to one of the giant home improvement stores.  These mailbox posts come as one preassembled thing that you just stick in the ground so I thought I was close to the finish line.  However when I made my pilgrimage up and down the aisles and to where the post box posts were I was disappointed, ne thwarted.  They had two posts. Both of such poor quality as to be embarrassing.  Instead I hiked the extra kilometer down to the lumber section and procured a couple 8 foot pressure treated 4 by 4's.  So, I guess this is the mail box/wheelbarrow/drill/post story… Anyhow I was able to find my table saw and I crafted a beautiful post box post I set it nicely back into the ground with the granite chunks at the official height from the curb.  I then gave the box itself a new coat of matt black paint.  I have to tell you, it's a thing of beauty.  There is nothing as life affirming to your suburban male then to be able to craft something with your own hands and have it actually end well.  So those of you who have significant others who roll their eyes when you ask them to do some simple task – remember in suburbia there is no such thing as a simple task, but there is a job well done. I'll see you out there.   MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -

Today's episode is a tribute by Carla's guest, Vijay Mehrota, to a Real Estate agent who was very near and dear to his heart. On today's show, he tells her story.   Vijay Mehrota, from Oakland, is a scientist, teacher, writer, jogger, sports fan and an excellent storyteller. His day job is as a Business and Analytics Professor at the University of San Francisco. He holds a Liberal Arts Degree from St Olaf's College, a Ph.D from the Engineering School at Stanford University and very few grudges!   Today, Vijay pays tribute to his dear friend, Carol McNeill Bell, who lived from 1934 to 2016. His story with Carol begins on the Friday after Thanksgiving in 1986. Listen in and find out more about this wonderful and inspiring woman and Vijay's friendship with her that spanned three decades. Today, Vijay talks about: How he first arrived at Carol's house. How Carol invited him to dinner, little knowing that her house would become his home base for the next twenty years. Carol and her lovely arts and crafts house. How different Carol was to his parents. Carol's journey that led her back to the house she grew up in. Carol's profession as a Physical Therapist and her work with polio patients. Carol's great feel for Real Estate and her success as a Realtor. Carol's return to Minnesota. Carol's passion for first time home buyers and marginalized individuals. The level of loyalty that Carol engendered. Carol's deep belief in community and how she put her money where her mouth was. How Carol cared for her clients and honored her profession. Carol's children and her positive and consistent presence in their lives. (And in Vijay's) The technological changes during Carol's career. The biggest lesson that Carol taught Vijay.   R.I.P. Carol    

Tony Bodoh is a #1 best selling author and he’s the founder and co-founder of 5 companies ranging from Customer Experience Consulting to Small Business Training to Television, he easily navigates the International stage, speaking at both personal growth seminars as well as the Uber Nerdy Technology conferences. Tony writes his business blogs, personal growth essays and children’s stories. While he now coaches executives, he has taught High School for 1 year and in the Business Department of Aquinas College in Nashville, Tennessee for 7 years. As a passion believer in the power and possibility that is contained in each moment of the human experience to alter the course of history; Tony financially supports the building of sustainable villages in Africa and Haiti.  Tony learned at an early age the power of listening and letting people know they have been heard. He started a lawn care business at 11 years old, while his friends had 1 or 2 lawns to cut; Tony kept busy all summer with 16 clients including the local Post Office and Post Master’s lawn. He learned that while quality lawn care mattered, most people just wanted to connect and be acknowledged for who they are. Questions Tell us a little about yourself and your journey As a Customer Service Consultant, what do you think are 3 challenges that people face why their customer experience is not consistent in their business? What are some everyday solutions that you believe that can help improve customer experience on a global level? How do you stay motivated? What is one online resource, website, tool or app you cannot live without in your personal life or business? Do you think that customer experience is linked to a company’s bottom line? What are some of the books that have had the biggest impact on you? What is one thing in your life right now that you are really excited about – something that you are working on to develop yourself or your people? Where can our listeners find your information? What is one quote or saying that you live by or that inspires you in times of adversity?   Highlights Tony started by sharing that he grew up in Central Wisconsin, it was a place where there was not much exposure to the outside world. When he went off to college in Virginia, he began to see the world that he didn’t know existed and it lead him to start asking questions and really looking deeper into what he wanted to do with his life. He then got a Liberal Arts Degree as that was the path he was on. He shortly realizes that he wanted to run multiple businesses and went and got his MBA. He worked several corporate jobs for large companies where he built analytical systems. While on that journey building those systems, he learned things that he could do to look at data and understand behaviour from data. Tony was given the opportunity to take over the customer experience world in the hospitality company he worked for to do surveys and understand what the guests and meeting planners were saying. Tony started a consulting company in 2009, which focuses on customer experience and was able to bring growth to other businesses that he started. It has spread from the customer experience consulting to small business training and consulting and now building businesses in the television industry. Tony stated the challenges people face why their customer experience is not consistent in their businesses is the human connection – the shared experience that an employee has with a customer or a leader has with an employee is what drives the value for the customer. We talked about the customer’s side and that it starts with the leader and employee and the engagement they have with each other and how they are connecting. Also, the ability to listen, often times we are caught up in our own lives and our minds are distracted. The employee may come to work and because of the challenges in their life they get distracted and are not playing at the top of their game. They are not able to connect in the same way. He also mentioned that there is a disconnection if you don’t believe in the products or services you’re offering and you don’t have the confidence to speak boldly about it. If you don’t believe that you can solve a problem that a customer has, that is a huge disconnection as well. If you’re not unreasonable in your commitment to the product and services that you offer and commitment to solve a problem, you are not going to have a consistent experience over time.   On a global level, he believes that people need to experience the product that they are working with, the company that they are working for needs to be willing to invest in their people. Anywhere from 50% to 85% of a customer’s experience is based on the connection they make with the person. Connection is #1 and you have to hire the right people who know how to connect and you have to train them up from there. So you want to keep that skill set growing, keep finding ways for them to connect with challenging people, with people in different scenarios or even if they are having a bad day, how do they build up their emotional ability to connect and to take control. Mindset training is one of the biggest things a company can do.   Tony also stated that as a company, we should be asking what is it that our customers are feeling? What do we want them to feel? If we want them to feel this way, what benefit will move them there and what features create those benefits. Do that and we will end up with an amazing product that people will say, how did you do that? It’s because you started with the end in mind.   Tony shared that he keeps motivated by running multiple businesses; there is a lot of stuff going on, so one of the things he does every morning is visualization and meditation.   “Visualization is geared towards what is it that I am grateful for and what is it I want to achieve today, what are my intentions for the day. And a part of that is to always focus on the abundance around me. Sometimes we get easily caught up with everything, instead just allowing the abundance to flow.”   Tony shared that the one app/tool that he frequently uses is Evernote. He is a huge fan as he is able to put every idea, blogs, emails and anything he can in Evernote. It also enables him to upload video and pictures as well. He uses Evernote because he has a lot of ideas to pull from whilst dealing with his clients.   He mentions that customer experience is not about statistics, we can use it to measure but it is about a particular experience in the moment. As it is only in the moment that we have the power to change our trajectory whether it’s our personal life, as a leader or as a business. We can’t change it in the past, we can’t change it in the future, and we only have this moment.   Tony stated that Customer Experience is the opportunity to turn this world around in so many ways because when people have good experiences just even a smile or a connection with the person behind the counter, if we were all a little more empathetic, it would change the world. When someone experiences an act of kindness or another person sees an act of kindness or someone does an act of kindness all of this leads to a better world.   Tony shares that the book he is on right now that he absolutely loves is “Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics” by Richard Thaler, he is one of the leading behavioural economists, so it’s that link between psychology and economics. He talks about the many different cases where behaviour of the human person is irrational. He also shares that the book that really affected his life is “The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be” by Jack Canfield, he stated that was the first self-improvement book he read right around the time that he was told he was taking over the customer experience for the hotel company. It was his first step into the world of psychology and the understanding of how people think and feel and behave.   Tony shares that he is currently working on a project called Beast Mode Live. He is working with one of the leading mental performance coaches in professional athletics, who has worked with Olympians and they are taking the principles that he has taught for years to professional athletes and bringing it to corporate life and using it with team members in his company. They are now bringing it into the US military on a global scale. They are doing it where it is not funded by the Federal Government or the Politicians but by corporate sponsors so that they can help the military. Tony says, “We are really passionate about it because we have found that 35 - 40% of the military that have completed the service, end up leaving the service and they don’t have a job and many times end up homeless. The sponsorship will help them to touch every member of the military, so that they are at a higher level of performances and when they leave the service they will have control over the money and their emotions and can go out there and do something great because they have done such great service already. Most of them have never had a job outside of the military because they went in right after high school and college and so they don’t understand how their skill sets translate into the corporate life and they want to help them with that. They don’t understand how their skill sets translate into the corporate world. He says this is definitely a passion project and they are putting a ton of effort into it. Tony Bodoh believes that mindset is where everything starts at because that is how he changed his own life.   Tony says listeners can find him at tonybodoh.com and also www.twitter.com/TonyBodoh www.linkedin.com/in/tonybodoh   Tony shares that this is a quote he has been using lately and it’s from his mentor. She shared it with him in a time where he wasn’t seeing the results he wanted to see in a particular area of his life, he sometimes go back to it as he has it is on his desk. “If the thinking and actions you’ve been doing produced what you were in love with, I’d say keep at it but clearly it’s time to wire a new set of thoughts and then grow them through reputation into new and more expansive results.” We would welcome a subscribe, rate and review for the show and also that the listeners can come hang out at Navigating the Customer Experience Community on Facebook. This is a private Facebook group for our listeners and past guests to come over share insights and industry trending topics and discussions on business and customer experience – click here! New Online Course - Mastering Customer Experience and Increasing Your Revenue - 50% off for all who sign up in September.....A Must Have Course for all Business Owners, Entrepreneurs - http://bit.ly/50OFFMCXIR LINKS: www.tonybodoh.com www.twitter.com/TonyBodoh “Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics” by Richard Thaler   “The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be” by Jack Canfield

Ryan is joined by Dr. Adele Wolfson, a biochemistry professor at Wellesley College. They discuss the liberal arts and how beneficial they can be to everything! Links and Other Resources Full Episode Blog Post Dr. Wolfson’s essay “Science Matters” Dr. Wolfson’s study “The Liberal Education of STEM Majors” Related episode: Pros and Cons of the Liberal Arts for Premed Students Related episode: All About FlexMed (Formerly “HuMed,” Humanities in Medicine) Need MCAT Prep? Save on tutoring, classes, and full-length practice tests by using promo code “MSHQ” for 10% off Next Step full-length practice tests or “MSHQTOC” for $50 off MCAT tutoring or the Next Step MCAT Course at Next Step Test Prep!

Bob and Alex talk about what a liberal arts degree brings to your team and how leaders should expect them to be key contributors.

2015/01/13. Life After College Week. Founder and Career Launch Advisor at SilverFern Advisory.

2015/01/13. Life After College Week. Founder and Career Launch Advisor at SilverFern Advisory.