Leadership Lessons: Recent Episodes
Peter Rusetmeyer
This podcast is designed specifically for leadership students while they are stuck at home. While created to help supplement learning, this is to also remind us all that just because we are being physically distant doesn't mean that we have to be socially distant either.
"The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Haze Extraordinary Impact" by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
This is the first part of Chapter 4, which helps us understand what it means to break the script and provides some examples.
"The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Haze Extraordinary Impact" by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
This is the second part of Chapter 3, which helps us understand what elements of peaks are and the idea of Perfect Days.
"The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Haze Extraordinary Impact" by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
This is the first part of Chapter 3, which introduces us to the idea of "filling pits and paving potholes".
"The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Haze Extraordinary Impact" by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
This is the second part of Chapter 2, which helps us understand the importance of filling pits as well as reminding us about transitions and milestones.
"The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Haze Extraordinary Impact" by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
This is the first part of Chapter 2, which helps us understand the importance of transition moments and introduces milestones.
"The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Haze Extraordinary Impact" by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
This is the remainder of Chapter 1, and helps us understand the four different elements of defining moments.
"The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact" by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
This part of chapter 1 helps us define the phrase of "defining moments" and provides some examples of what defining moments can be.
"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" by Tiffany Jewel and Illustrated by Aurelia Durand
This chapter provides us the ability to reflect on justice and all the topics we have discussed this year.
"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" by Tiffany Jewel and Illustrated by Aurelia Durand
This chapter provides us information on why it's okay to make mistakes and how to move on from there.
"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" by Tiffany Jewel and Illustrated by Aurelia Durand
This chapter provides us information on why loving yourself through the process of anti-racism is important.
"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" by Tiffany Jewel and Illustrated by Aurelia Durand
This chapter provides us information on why building relationships are important and what good anti-relationships can look like.
"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" by Tiffany Jewel and Illustrated by Aurelia Durand
This chapter provides us with a large list of ways that we can be ally and what allyship looks like.
"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" by Tiffany Jewel and Illustrated by Aurelia Durand
This chapter provides us with an idea of why we need to spend our privilege and ways we can do so.
"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" by Tiffany Jewel and Illustrated by Aurelia Durand
This chapter provides us an understanding of what it means to call someone in and call someone out.
"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" by Tiffany Jewel and Illustrated by Aurelia Durand
This chapter provides us an understanding of solidarity and what it can look like.
"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" by Tiffany Jewel and Illustrated by Aurelia Durand
This chapter provides us to view our abilities as superpowers to help us create change.
"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" by Tiffany Jewel and Illustrated by Aurelia Durand
This chapter provides us with examples on what taking action can look like.
"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" by Tiffany Jewel and Illustrated by Aurelia Durand
This chapter helps reinforce the ideas of what we have learned throughout our journey with this book and ways that we can help disrupts the system of racism in our current society. Silence is not the answer!
"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" by Tiffany Jewel and Illustrated by Aurelia Durand
This chapter gives examples of people who aren't often discussed... The ones who helped lead the resistance against racism while others were busy trying to keep building it.
"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" by Tiffany Jewel and Illustrated by Aurelia Durand
This chapter discusses specific examples in history which show the dark side of our past and how racism and society are intertwined within each other. Listen and learn to some the cruel history that influences society today.
"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" by Tiffany Jewel and Illustrated by Aurelia Durand
This episode describe the ideas of colonization and the history that we all carry, using examples like the rule of the English empire, lands conquered and colonized by Spain, France, etc. It defines words and phrases like systemic oppression, ancestral trauma, Chattel slavery, and colonizer.
"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" by Tiffany Jewel and Illustrated by Aurelia Durand
This episode describes types of prejudices (microaggressions, internalized racism, and person racism) and challenges us to be aware of the biases we hold and challenge them every day.
"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" by Tiffany Jewel and Illustrated by Aurelia Durand
This episode describes the different institutions that exist and how racism can be shown in those institutions.
"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" by Tiffany Jewel and Illustrated by Aurelia Durand
As you listen, think about our conversations on implicit biases and the relationship between bias and racism.
"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" by Tiffany Jewel and Illustrated by Aurelia Durand
As you listen to this book, consider the following: Who am I? What is race and what is my race? What is ethnicity and what is my ethnicity? How does my cultural identity affect how I interact with people from other cultural identities?
"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How To Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" by Tiffany Jewel and Illustrated by Aurelia Durand
As you listen to this book, consider the following: Who am I? What social identities am I a member of in society, and is my view of these social identities positive? Can I recognize traits of the dominate culture, my home culture, and other cultures? Do I understand how these cultures negotiation their own identity in multiple spaces?
"Oh, the Places You'll Go!" by Dr. Seuss
"This book is 98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed to inspire! (The rest is up to you.)"
As you listen to the book, think about the following: What part of the book stood out to you the most? Why? What lesson will you take from the book moving forward?
"What Do You Do With A Chance?" written by Kobi Yamada and Illustrated by Mae Besom
"What do chances become? New Friendships, exciting opportunities, and daring discoveries. Chances are invitations to grand adventures, tickets to unforgettable experiences, and doors to whole new worlds. Chances help you see who you are, what you want, and where you want to go. So, what will you do with your chance? Now that's up to you."
As you listen, please think about the following question: Have you ever had a chance that you let pass by because you were afraid? What made you afraid?
"What Do You Do With An Idea?" written by Kobi Yamada and Illustrated by Mae Besom
"What do ideas become? Big things, brave things, smart things, silly things, good things. Things like stories, artwork, journeys, inventions, communities, products, and cures. Everything you see around you was once an idea. So what will your idea become? Now that's up to you."
As you listen to this, think about the following: Have you ever had an idea and were afraid to say something about it? Why? | Has there been a time where you heard some one's idea and laughed at it? What was the result of that action on the relationship? | Why do you want people to listen to the ideas you have?
"Be Brave Little One" written and illustrated by Marianne Richmond
"When I look at you, shining bright as the sun, I wish for you this... be brave little one!"
As you listen to this book, please consider the following: How do you go about initiating, generating, and evaluating goals? Explain how your own talents, skills and resources are valuable assets and resources to you.
"After The Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again" by Dan Santat
There is a saying, "Life begins when you get back up." We're all going through some pretty weird times right now and each of us are handling things differently. When you get knocked down, what do you do to get back up?
As you are listening to this podcast, reflect on the following: How can you use your understanding of your strengths, areas of growth, biases and privilege to help others? What are some of your individual needs and triggers as it pertains to coping skills, self-care, stress, etc?
"The Seed of Compassion- Lessons from the Life and Teachings of His Holiness the Dali Lama" by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and illustrated by Bao Luu
Everyone child is born with the seed of compassion inside them. "The potential to build a more compassionate century and promote a greater sense of oneness among the whole of humanity lies within the children of the world." - His Holiness the Dalai Lama
While you listen to this book, please think about the following: Learn and practice techniques for building and strengthening relationships. Increasing opportunities, resources, and support for all students to lead. Develop a system where multiple perspectives are sought and utilize to to make decisions.
"Wilma Jean The Worry Machine" by Julia Cook and Illustrated by Anita Dufalla
Anxiety is a subjective sense of worry, apprehension, and/or fear and is something that each of us have felt as some point within our lives. In fact, anxiety is considered to be the number one health concern in America. While you are listening to this book, please think about the following:
Have you ever felt anxious? What are some strategies you use to help your cope with anxious feelings? How can we advocate for ourselves and others when handling anxious feelings? How do we go about respecting and accepting people who are dealing with anxiety AND respecting and accepting the way they are dealing with anxiety?
"Be Kind" by Pat Zietlow Miller and Illustrated by Jen Hill
How two simple words can change the world.
What does it mean to be kind? This children's book challenges its readers to think about what it means to be kind and how to think about acts of kindness they can show people around them. As you listen to this story, I challenge you to think about the power of words as it relates to microaggressions, biased language, sarcasm and humor. Think about how you can use kindness to help increase the opportunities, resources, and support of all students to lead in their communities.
"The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein
This parable for all ages helps describe an interpretation of the gift of giving and the acceptable of ones capacity to love in return. As you listen, I challenge you to think of the following:
Learning and practicing techniques for building and strengthening relationships. Learning and practicing techniques for resolving conflicts and repairing relationships.
"Have You Filled a Bucket Today? A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids," by Carol McCloud and Illustrated by David Messing
This is a heartwarming book encouraging positive behavior and helps show people of all ages how simple it is to express kindness, appreciation, and love. As you listen, I challenge you to think of the following:
- Why it should matter that we have an increased understanding in the power of words.
- How you can be a bucket filler in order to build and strengthen relationships.
- How bucket dippers may create conflict, and how to resolve that conflict and repair a relationship.