Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES!
This month’s episode is with Grace Bagunu. Grace is a Doctoral Candidate in the University of San Diego, and also has a host of other responsibilities across a variety of fields. We get into those things and a lot more in this episode.
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Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES!
This month I had a chat with Sarah Molitoris, who is a graduate student at UCLA. We met each other at USD, where Sarah worked as a Community Director. We talked about growing up in Michigan, finding student affairs through forestry, and going back to school to round out the formal dimensions of learning about student affairs. We also talk about mindfulness, yoga, Meet Up (and my one very odd experience with it) and making friends outside of work among many other things.
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Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This months episode features an interview that I did with Robert Brown, who works at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rob and I met while we were serving as faculty members for the Social Justice Training Institute Student Experience, and this was a great chance to catch up with him, hear more about his story, and get his take on how balance has been a part of his experiences throughout his life.
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Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES!
This month is the second part of the interview I did with Dr. Susan Komives. This month we talk about moving into a faculty role, retirement, and balance.
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Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES!
This month I got to chat with Dr. Susan Komives, who is one of the most prominent scholars in the topics of leadership and college students there is. Dr. Komives and I spent a good long time talking about her story, so this will be the first part of our conversation, and next month will be the second part. This episode covers the story of Dr. Komives from birth through transitioning from administrative roles to a faculty position. Next month we will cover the rest.
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Welcome to another episode of Life Work Balances, the podcast for and by student affairs professionals about the dynamic nature of balance. It has been a while since an episode has gone up, because I was finding my own sense of balance, but now the podcast is back. New episodes will be posted on the first Wednesday of each month.
This months episode features another great conversation with Nick Franco. Nick has been a guest on the podcast twice before, and it was really fantastic (as all conversations with Nick are) to reconnect and talk about what has been going on for the last year and a half. We talked about tennis, health, moving, roommates, job searching, allyship, and a whole lot more.
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Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES
Today I had the chance to interview Susan Taylor-Johnson. We met at this years ACPA national conference in Indianapolis, and had a great time getting to know one another and talking about how she got to where she is. We talked about reading, photography, finding connections on campus, building bridges and community, SJTI, counseling, supporting students, and much more.
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Welcome to another Wednesday and a new episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES!
Today I had the chance to interview Keith Humphrey, Vice President of Student Affairs at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Past President of ACPA. Keith and I had a very good time getting to know each other, and I am very excited for you all to get to hear the conversation we had. We talked about getting prepared for college, sports, greek life, family, children, reference checks, running, and a lot more.
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Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES
Today I had the chance to revisit with the very first guest on LIFE WORK BALANCES, Nick Franco. While Nick still holds the same position that he did 2 years ago, we had a lot to talk about in terms of what have changed, evolved, and grown in his life since the time that we sat down to record that very first interview. It was a really fantastic chat, and I am very excited for you all to hear it. One quick audio note: we recorded this conversation over lunch in a common area of campus, so there is a bit of background noise, but you should be able to hear Nick and I just fine. We talked about blogging, different platforms for expression, breathing, intention setting, research, multiracial identity, expanding responsibilities, finding passion, auto-ethnography, travel, tennis, exercise, and a whole lot more!
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Welcome to another Wednesday with LIFE WORK BALANCES
Today I had the chance to talk to Stacey Pearson-Wharton, who is the Assistant Vice President of Wellness at the University of South Florida. We had a great time connecting and getting to know one another, and I am very excited for you all to hear our conversation. We had a great time talking about dance, greek life, faith, mentors, normalizing college and graduate school, family, student involvement, growing up, and connecting passion and work. We also talked about music, books, reading, community building, friends, relationships, social media, partners, groupon, and much more!
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Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES!
Today I had the chance to sit down with Oiyan Poon, who is currently a faculty member at Loyola University Chicago. This is the first part of a conversation we had almost a year ago. When I went to put the episode together, my computer ate half of it when I tried to split it between two episodes. So it took some time to be able to sit down with Oiyan again, but I was finally able to do it recently, so now you can hear it this week and next week. This week we talked about growing up in New England, family, sports, school, dropping out of grad school, deciding to pursue a PhD, being political, culture shock, dissertations, and a lot more! This week’s conversation covers up to when Oiyan was getting ready to move to Chicago, and next week we will cover from Chicago to now, and some of the things that she tries to do to find balance and regain energy.
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Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES!
Today I had the chance to sit down with Christopher Newmann, Assistant Professor at the University of San Diego’s School of Leadership & Education Sciences. It was really great to learn more about how he got to where he is and what lead to his path to the tenure track and faculty. We talked about growing up, sports, siblings, running, visiting colleges, children, and writing. We also talked about comic books, quality time, the San Diego Zoo, office space, office culture, setting boundaries, scheduling time to write, and accountability.
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Welcome to another Episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES!
Today I sat dow with Onar Primitivo, Coordinator for Social Justice Initiatives at UC Merced. We had been planning this for a while, and it was an amazing chat to have. We had a great time catching up, talking about moving to the US, finding community, art, theater, design, feeling pulled between two paths, social justice, creating new opportunities and taking up new roles. We also talked about health, taking care of ourselves, dancing, vulnerability, contributing to our communities and leaving our places a little bit better.
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Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES!
Today I sat down with AJa Holmes, who is a PhD student at Iowa State University. We got connected through a mutual friend, and it was great o hear Aja’s story and get to know someone that I hadn’t met before we set up time to do this interview. We talked about choosing a PhD program, research, “fit” coded language, leadership practices, goal setting, finding new opportunities. We also talked about shaping curricula, finding new way to impact the field of student affairs through course work, better understanding supervision, travel, books on tape, the World Cup, social justice, and a lot more!
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Welcome to another great episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES, the podcast for, by, and about student affairs professionals.
Today I sat down to chat with RJ Holmes-Leopold. RJ is the director of the career engagement center at Cornell College, and we had a great time learning a bit more about each other since, although we know a lot of similar people, we had never had the chance to meet. We talked about sports, gifted and talented programs, ESL, being involved in student government, small colleges, connecting with administrators, and working toward values. We also talked about pets, partners, taking a break, writing a dissertation, running, exercising, being a visible staff members, reality television, and the changes in priorities that happen over the course of a year on a college campus.
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Welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES!
Today I sat down with Jenna Antoniewicz, Director of Community Standards and Student Conduct at Susquahana University! Jenna and I know each other through our work at InCheck.org, and she has been a frequent guest on Checking In With Conor, the podcast that I host over at InCheck. It was really fun to sit down with Jenna and hear a bit more about how she got to where she is, and all of the fun that she has doing her work. We talked about finding student affairs, how you can’t get a job you don’t apply for, the benefits of having a supportive supervisor and a department that believes in you, and how Jenna sees her offer growing in the future. We also talked about the fun of world travel, microbreweries, the Napa Valley and wine country, rescuing Boston Terriers, and taking road trips!
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Its another awesome Wednesday morning, and that means another great conversation on LIFE WORK BALANCES!
Today is a follow up to last week’s episode with Edwina Welch, and this week we get into all of the things that Edwina does in her free time to relax, relieve stress, and regain perspective in the world. We had a great time talking about photography, and then an amazing sub-conversation about permission and consent of people having their pictures taken, as well as the greatness of having phones with cameras just as good as most point-and-shoots. We also talked about Tumblr, blogging in general, and the different ways in which our perceptions of property and content have changes with the evolution of the internet and internet culture. And we had a great chat about Comic-Con, our love for it, and the importance of maintaining a critical lens on the things that you love.
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Hello there, and welcome to another fantastic Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES!
Today I am really excited for a LIFE WORK BALANCES first. Today’s episode is the first part of an episode that was so extensive and in depth it took two separate sittings to complete. I sat down with Edwina Welch, Campus Diversity Officer and Director of the Cross Cultural Center at UC San Diego. Today’s episode was recorded a few weeks ago, and after chatting for just under 2 hours we realized that we had other meetings to attend, and had not even gotten to what Edwina does to find balance and relieve stress. That conversation happened a bit later, and will make up next week’s episode. In total, Edwina and I sat for over 3 hours, and during this conversation we talked about social justice work, evolving job responsibilities, deciding on student affairs as a career path, community engagement, and the ways in which campus culture shifts can continue to make our work interesting.
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Hi Everyone! Welcome back to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES!
This week I sat down with Jeff Jackson, Director of Student Life at The University of Texas Health Science Center of San Antonio, and also the founder of Break Drink and the SACast, 2 other podcasts dedicated to student affairs. Jeff and I got connected through Julie C. Larsen, and it was really cool to get to know more about Jeff. We had a great time talking about sports, being prepared for college, figuring out a career trajectory while considering family,and working to engage non-traditional student populations in a college environment. We also spent some time getting into nerdy tech stuff, Eric Stoller, and of course podcasting. You can check out Jeff on twitter @jeffjackson, and all of the podcasts, news, and information over at Break Drink.
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Hello Everyone,
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES. Here is our conversation with Glenn Deguzman, who currently holds the position of Assistant Director of Student Conduct and Community Standards at University of California Berkley. Glenn and I spent a good amount of time talking about his various mentoring experiences as a mentor and a mentee, spending time with his family, playing soccer, working with his community in various ways, consulting, and working as a realty broker in his spare time.
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