Bouncing Back and Creating Your Best Life with Lisa Bien: Recent Episodes
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Bouncing Back and Creating Your Best Life with Lisa Bien is a self-empowering podcast series striving to help viewers be more confident in themselves, more positive, and help achieve more success.
Host Lisa Bien highlights the particular challenges former military members face when transitioning to university life. She invites former Temple University student and Marine Jim Miller of the Power Veterans Initiative and Laura Riddick, Temple’s Director of Veteran and Adult Recruiting, who coordinates veterans affairs, including enrollment, benefits and career services, to the set of her show. Together they discuss how difficult it may be for some returning veterans to choose a career path or adjust to civilian life, among other things.
In light of the increasing visibility of those who identify as transgender or non-binary, Bouncing Back host Lisa Bien speaks with Chris Dungee, an Associate Professor and counselor at Delaware County Community College, who transitioned from female to male in 2014, to discuss the trans experience today. Chris shares his story and explains what a gender transition is and how his life has changed. Together they discuss the issues facing the trans community.
Suicide is considered by some to be a shameful, selfish act, but guest Drew Bergman has decided to speak publicly about this issue to decrease stigma and perhaps save lives. Drew, now a marketing and business student at Temple University, suffered from depression since the 7th grade, and began to self harm. Eventually, he attempted suicide twice before bouncing back and finding his footing as a suicide prevention advocate. Joining Lisa and Drew is Dr. Mary Morrison, the Vice Chair for Research in Psychiatry at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple.
Bouncing Back host Lisa Bien discusses the risks and downsides of social media as well as the best practices and how to avoid social media pitfalls with guests Haniyyah Sharpe-Brown, Temple graduate and media relations specialist, and Dr. Kate Lewis Nolt, a health behavior expert who teaches at Temple, discuss these topics and more with Bien.
Lisa Bien brings Christa Hayburn to the set of Bouncing Back to discuss sexual violence, how it effects survivors, and advocating for other victims of sexual violence.
You may have heard the phrase “self esteem” before, but what does it mean, and how is positive self esteem sustained? On this new episode of Bouncing Back, Lisa Bien talks to Jullian Taylor, a senior and football player at Temple University, who works to inspire others and serve as a mentor to his younger teammates. He tells his story and how he started off as someone who was unsure of himself and not working to his full potential, but through hard work, he achieved healthy self esteem. To lend her expert knowledge, Monica Williams, a local life coach, also joins the set.
Lisa Bien examines how having low self esteem can negatively effect interpersonal relationships with Temple University student Erica DeAngelo, who speaks on her experiences being in a relationship with a man who controlled every aspect of her life. Since ending the relationship, Erica has found how necessary it’s been to build her opinion of her own self worth so as to avoid being susceptible to getting involved in another abusive relationship. Lisa and Erica also speak with behavior specialist consultant Allison Faust who offers advice on how to tell if you have healthy self esteem.
Lisa Bien talks to Gianna DeMedio about how she is coping with the death of her father through her website "So Sorry for Your Loss."
Saul Singleton won a football scholarship at a prestigious college, but in his first semester he lost sight of his goals. His mother passed, and his grades slipped. His scholarship was revoked. But eventually he refocused and started over with the advice of a recruiter who helped him regain his footing. Hear how Saul overcame failure and bounced back to achieve his goals once more.
Lisa Bien explores how to create strategies for success as an entrepreneur and bounce back from everyday doubts. Entrepreneur and founder of Perfumology, Nir Guy, discusses his journey from planning a career in finance to switching to entrepreneurship, founding Perfumology, and releasing his first scent. Dr. Michael J. Rivera, Academic Director of the Fox Executive MBA Program at Temple, also joins them to speak about not only his own tech start-up, but also his experience helping MBA students with their ventures beyond the classroom.
Lisa Bien brings to light the kinds of financial risks undertaken by those who own their own businesses. To talk about business and debt, she brings Cheldin Barlatt Rumer, CEO of I-G Creative and host of This Is It TV, to the show to talk about the struggles of making money even while getting steady business. Linda Farinola, an expert in investment advisory services and financial planning and founder of Sound Financial Solutions, Inc., also appears on set to give advice and identify common roadblocks.
Hear the amazing story of one Temple student who developed a traumatic brain injury, struggled with recovery, but finally pulled through to resume her education. Then hear from Lorraine Myro, the Senior Clinical Director of Brain Injury Services at Bancroft Neurorehab in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, who presents a wealth of information on the challenges those with traumatic brain injuries face.
Happiness, gratitude, and perspective are critical for making the most of your life. Host Lisa Bien explores this idea with Roy Kardon, a successful real estate executive. Kardon was not always happy and successful. Working for a family business, he struggled to make ends meet, but he managed to reinvent himself by having gratitude for what he had, rather than lamenting what he missed out on. Kardon sheds light on how he has used humor, enthusiasm, and joy to bring this to others and change his life.
Bouncing Back host Lisa Bien invited freshman student Jake Galli and TSG Student Body President Raymond Smeriglio to the set to talk about the many challenges as well as the exciting opportunities students face during their first year at college. Later, Lisa talks to Deidre Berry-Guy, Temple’s Healthy Lifestyles Program Coordinator and also herself an alumna of Temple, who is in charge of assisting first year students in acclimating to the University.
The road to redemption for two guests is the main focus of discussion this episode of Bouncing Back. By taking responsibility for their actions and empowering themselves despite adversity, they now join Lisa Bien to share words of wisdom to those that may be dealing with similar problems.
Chip Frenette, then a Temple student, became involved in a raucous lifestyle that landed him behind bars. But with a new life outlook he began a journey on the straight and narrow, with Temple as a foundation. Tyrone Werts was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, but with a commuted sentence he was able to turn things around. He now serves as a public relations consultant for Temple's Inside-Out program.
The final guest is Professor Jerry Stahler, a clinical psychologist working in the Geography and Urban Studies department at Temple University, who speaks on his work studying those that have grown up in difficult neighborhoods. In their discussion, the stigma of imprisonment is highlighted as a continuing cause of turmoil.
Ooka ("Richard") Lee is an international student from Dalian, China, who is majoring in Media Studies Production, a TSG member of the Main Campus Board, and an international resident coordinator. Before becoming so heavily involved in campus life, Lee struggled with isolation and finding a place to fit into. Lee tells his story to Lisa Bien: his journey of coming to America and becoming withdrawn from life around him, but slowly going on to find communities around Temple where he found companionship. Joining the program for the second half is Martyn Miller, the Director for International Services. Miller expounds upon assisting students through the process of coming the USA, introducing them to American culture, and how Temple students can forge stronger bonds with international students.
Host Lisa Bien speaks with Brandon Thompson, a senior Public Relations major, and Andy Esworthy, a senior Strategic Communications major, about their studies at Temple and how their hard work has prepared the them for life after graduation. Brandon and Andy give advice to underclassmen, discussing their job application strategies. The second half of the episode introduces Dr. Betsy Leebron Tutelman, the Senior Vice Provost for Strategic Communications at Temple University, who shares her top ten tips for job hunting and interviews.
Host Lisa Bien invites student Ethan Wasserman to share how his life has been impacted since receiving a diagnosis of ADHD in kindergarten. Ethan describes how this disorder not only made it hard for him to succeed academically, but also caused him to feel mentally inferior, which in turn damaged his self-esteem. Utilizing the Wellness Resource Center (HEART) on campus, he has since learned techniques to cope with ADHD, which allow him to help others as a peer educator and mentor at Temple.
Providing clinical and general insight into this condition, Lisa Bien also speaks to Lauren Highsmith, a Temple alumna and current Student Resources Coordinator for the University’s Disability Resources and Services department.
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About two million American adults, or about 1 percent of the population age 18 and older, have bipolar disorder, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Bipolar disorder can show up in many costumes. It can be happy or sad, euphoric or desperate, energized or exhausted. Lisa Bien invites Sarah Zigler, a Temple student that lives day-in and day-out with bipolar disorder. Opening up to Bien, Zigler touches on her paralyzing depression and her darkest moments dealing with bipolar disorder.
Later Bien brings in Kate Schaeffer, the Program Coordinator for Alcohol & Other Drugs, Interpersonal Violence, and Mental Health with the Wellness Resource Center, to speak about her work with Temple students fighting bipolar disorder, symptoms to be aware of when meeting someone with bipolar disorder, and what resources are available at Temple for students in any state of poor mental health.
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Host Lisa Bien helps bring light to an issue that is sometimes considered taboo: suicidal depression. Temple alumna Garden Wellington Logan expresses her feelings of grief and guilt after the suicide of her brother William. Garden looked to resources such as grief counselors and organizations like the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to answer her to gain a greater understanding of suicide prevention. Joining the two later in the program is psychiatrist Thomas Newmark who gives viewers a list of warning signs that may indicate if a person close to you is contemplating suicide.
Host Lisa Bien sits down with Temple student Bo to get his story on how he ‘bounced back’ after years spent trying to reconcile his sexual identity with his family’s conservative values. Bo shares how he learned to accept himself and build relationships outside of his family unit instead of choosing to live a life of self-hatred and duplicity.
Bien is then joined by Dr. Michael Plumeri, founder and director of Life Solutions, who goes into more detail on the importance of surrounding yourself with positive influences.
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Welcome to Boucing Back and Creating with Lisa Bien. Here's the first episode of our show.
Bouncing Back is an effort to give Temple students and other viewers insight into their own misgivings concerning self worth. In the pilot, Temple alumna Anna Tate shares her experiences with a debilitating eating disorder and explains how she fought her self-doubt to “bounce back” and regain her love for life and herself. Also appearing alongside Lisa is Temple professor of education psychology, Dr. Frank Farley. Farley, who has appeared on Good Morning America and The Today Show, shares his expert advice on the subject of self love.
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