Life Work Balances: Recent Episodes
Conor M.
Conversations about the balance of life and work. A podcast for, by and, about student affairs professionals.
Welcome to the last episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES. This month it comes back to where it all started: a chat with Nick Franco about Balance. Nick and I talk about moving to new places, new understandings of self, work,life, and balance. We also talk about what has changed over the last 5 years and […]
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. Enjoy! ITUNES // FACEBOOK
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES. This month’s episode is a revisiting with Sy Simms. Sy was on the podcast a few years ago, and this was a great opportunity to talk about everything that has been happening since then in Sy’s life and in the world. If you want to get in […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This month’s episode features an interview I did with Erica Kirk. Erica is a graduate student at USC, and works in the LGBT Resource Center there. We met when Erica was an undergrad at UCSD, and it was really great to get to hear about all that […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This month I got to chat with Lan Yang, who is a graduate student in the Higher Education Leadership program at The University of San Diego and a Graduate Assistant in the Center for Inclusion and Diversity. We had a great time talking about sports, social […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This month’s episode is a revisiting episode that I did with Jessica Williams. Be sure to check out the first interview I did with Jessica on episode 105. This time, we talk about the things Jessica has been doing in a few new roles, defending her dissertation, […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This month we have the first part of an interview I did with Myra McPhee. We’ve been planning this for a while now, and it was great to finally sit down with Myra to talk about her experiences growing up in the Bahamas, going to college, leaving, […]
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 […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES. This months episode is going to take a slightly different format. I didn’t have the chance to conduct an interview this month, so I decided that I was going to do my own check in about what has been going on in my life lately, as well […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This month’s episode features a great chat that I had with Kyle C. Ashlee. Kyle is a PhD student, social justice consultant, author, and much more. We had a great time talking about mentorship, involvement, passion, cooking, music, and much much more! If you have questions, comments, […]
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 […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This month’s episode features an interview with Viraj Patel. Viraj works at The University of Pennsylvania as the Associate Director of the Pan-Asian American Community House. We had a great time talking about experiences growing up, family, the inspiration for getting involved in different activities, and finding […]
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. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, send an email to lifeworkbalances [at] gmail Enjoy! ITUNES // FACEBOOK // TWITTER
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 […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This month’s episode features a great interview with Ashley C. Barton. Ashley is the Director of the Black Student Resource Center at the University of San Diego. We had a great conversation about a number of fun things including reading sci-fi and fantasy, exercise, growing up, coming […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This month I took some time to sit down with Kafele Khalfani, who is the Dean of Students at Warren College at UC San Diego. We had a great conversation about discovering the field of student affairs through another career, how life events interact with career trajectory, […]
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 […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES. Today I got to catch up with Alfred Day, who was on the podcast a little over a year ago. In that time Al has taken on a new role as a Care Manager at UC Berkeley, moved, and had a whole lot change for him. We […]
Welcome back to LIFE WORK BALANCES. It was nice to take a break, and it is really fantastic to be back and having more of these fantastic conversations! Today I had the chance to sit down with Reeba Monochan, who works for the Gates Millennium Scholars Alumni program. Reeba and I have known each other […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to chat with Ryan Jasen Anders Henne, who is the Director of Residence Life at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Ryan Jasen and I caught up while at ACPA this year, and it was really great to get to talk with him […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to chat with Emily Roh, Program Coordinator for the LGBT Campus Resource Center at University of California, Los Angeles. Emily and I have gotten to know each other over the past few years and it has been really great! I was really […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to sit down and chat with Juan Carlos (JC) Rivas Espinosa, Assistant Director for the Changemaker Hub at the University of San Diego. We have known each other for a few years and have gotten to work together for a while, and […]
Welcome to another Wednesday morning and a new episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to sit down with Ivy Smith. Ivy is a grad student at Binghamton University in New York, and we had the chance to meet up at this years ACPA Convention in Indianapolis. We had been planning to […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES Today I had the chance to talk with Taj Smith, who is the Assistant Director of the Davis Center at Williams College. We got connected at this years ACPA Conference, and after getting to know Taj over lunch and hitting it off really well I thought he […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Welcome to another Wednesday with LIFE WORK BALANCES Today I had the chance to talk to Jessica Williams, who is a PhD student at the University of San Diego, and works in the Admissions and Outreach office for the School of Leadership and Educations Sciences, as well as being an Adjunct Faculty for the Counseling […]
Welcome to another Wednesday morning and a new episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Trying something new this week. Because my computer ate the episode I had planned, I had a conversation with a previous guest on the podcast about what things have been like since we recorded our episode. I got to chat with Heather […]
Welcome to another Wednesday with LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to sit down with Malinda Daniel, who is the Director of Academic Advising at South Piedmont Community College. We met a few years ago while attending the Social Justice Training Institute in Long Beach CA, and it was really great to catch […]
Welcome to another Wednesday with LIFE WORK BALANCES. Today I got to talk to Micahel Catanzaro, Director of Sustainability at the University of San Diego. Michael and I had a great time talking, and I am really excited to share this interview. I had wanted to interview someone working with sustainability on a college campus, […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES This week I sat down with Michael Lovette-Colyer, Assistant Vice President for Mission and Ministry, and Director of University Ministry for the University of San Diego. Michael and I have worked together for a bit on a few committees, and it was really great to get to […]
Welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES! This week I got to talk to Marcela Ramirez, who got connected to me through former guest and friend Sy Simms. We then ran into each other at the ASHE conference, and solidified plans to have a chat. It was a really great chat, and I […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES This week we wrap up our conversation with Windi Sasaki, Residence Life Liaison in the department of Housing Dining Hospitality for UC San Diego. Last week we talked about how Windi got to where she is now, and this week we were able to finish the conversation […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This week I had the chance to sit down and talk to Windi Sasaki, who is the Residence Life Liason for Housing Dining Hospitality at the University of California San Diego. This week we will cover how Windi got to where she currently is, and in next […]
Welcome to another Wednesday with LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I got to sit down with Diana Victa, who works as a Coordinator for the Cross Cultural Centers at CSU Los Angeles. We were introduced through mutual friend and former guest on the podcast Heather Lou, and it was really fantastic to get to know Diana, […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to interview Lizzy Gomez, who is a graduate student at the University of Vermont in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program. Lizzy and I worked together at UC San Diego, and it was really great to catch up with her, hear […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I got to interview Dr. Esteban del Rio, who is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of San Diego and also serves as the Associate Provost for Inclusion and Diversity and the Director for the Center for Inclusion and Diversity (which means he is […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES. Today I had the chance to interview Ryan Miller. Ryan and I used to work together, and it was really great to catch up with him and hear about what he had been up to in the past few years. We talked about family, friends, creativity, finding […]
Hi, and welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This week you all can hear the LIVE LIFE WORK BALANCES that was recorded as a roundtable at the Association for the Student of Higher Education Annual Conference in St. Louis. We had a great group of people show up to the conversation, and while […]
Welcome to another Wednesday with LIFE WORK BALANCES! This week I had the chance to finish up the conversation from last week with Oiyan Poon. We reconnected at the ASHE conference and got to talk about what she had been up to in the last year. We talked about living in Chicago, getting engaged, finding […]
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 […]
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 […]
Welcome to another Wednesday with LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I got the chance to sit down with Rosina McAlpine, who is a visit scholar at the University of San Diego. Someone had actually mentioned that we should chat, because Rosina is currently doing research on work life balance, and we were able to have a […]
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, […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to talk with Eugene Frier, who works in Residence Life at the University of North Texas. We met this year at San Diego Comic-Con, where Eugene was presenting as part of the Geek Ed Panel that also featured some past LIFE WORK […]
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 […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down with Lisa Slavid. Lisa works at UC Santa Barbara, and we met a few years ago when we both attended the Social Justice Training Institute. It was really great to catch up with Lisa, to hear about what she has been doing over […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down to chat with Shaun Simon. We met each other a few years ago while attending the Social Justice Training Institute, and it was great to catch up with her and see how her career has been going in those last few years for […]
Welcome to another Wednesday morning and another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I got to chat with Finn Schneider. Finn works and Cal State East Bay in Residence Life, and we had a great time catching up! We met through a mutual friend a few months ago, and this was a great opportunity to […]
Welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down with Carl Steidel, Assistant Dean of the Sophomore Class at Bates College. Carl and I knew each other from our work together at Cornell University, and it was great to catch up with him and see where his career has taken him […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down with Jody Kunk-Czaplicki, Associate Judicial Administrator at Cornell University. Jody and I worked together at Cornell a few years ago, and we saw each other this summer and had a great time reconnecting. This conversation was really great and a wonderful time for […]
Welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down with Mitchelle Greenlee, who is an Assistant Resident Dean at Thurgood Marshall College at UC San Diego. Mitchelle and I have known each other for a good number of years, and it was really great to get to spend some time with […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sit down with Brian McDonald, Director of New Student Orientation and Parent Programs as Rutgers University. Brian and I met up at San Diego Comic Con, where he was presenting a panel with past guest Alfred Day, and he was really excited about doing an […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down with Samantha Golden, who works at Western Washington in residence life, and we had a great time catching up. We met a few years ago at the Social Justice Training Institute, and its been a lot of fun to chat about Sam’s various […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Todays guest is Alfred Day, Director of Residential Experiences at Saint Mary’s College of California. Alfred and I met at San Diego Comic Con, where Alfred was presenting a GeekEd Panel. We talked about the podcast and a few other things, and I am really excited about […]
Welcome to another Wednesday episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES. Today I had the chance to chat with Lorena Marquez, the coordinator for the Cesar E. Chavez Center for Higher Education at Cal Poly Pamona. Lorena and I have been talking about doing an interview for the podcast since before the podcast began, so it was […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES, the podcast for, by, and about student affairs! Today I had the chance to chat with Eric Felix, who is an admissions counselor at the University of San Diego, and also a Doctoral Student at the University of Southern California. Eric and I have actually recorded two […]
Welcome to another Wednesday morning and another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down with Rachel Luna, who is the Assistant Director for the Center for Student Involvement at University of the Pacific. Rachel was a guest on the LIVE LIFE WORK BALANCES episode recorded at ACPA this year, and it was really […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to sit down with Ardith Feroglia, who is an academic advisor at Clark College. We connected over twitter, where Ardith is rather active, and had a great time chatting and getting to know each other. We talked about playing music, and taking […]
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 […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to sit down with Craig Elliot, who is the Assistant Vice President for Enrollment and Student Services at Samuel Merritt University. I was lucky enough to meet Craig through past guest and friend becky martinez at this year’s ACPA conference, and it […]
Welcome to another Wednesday morning and a new episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES. Today I had the chance to interview Wimer Alberto. Wimer works at Binghamton University in residence life, and is pretty darn popular on social media. We met (in person) at ACPA in Las Vegas, and we were able to make some time […]
Welcome to another Wednesday morning and another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down to chat with Peter Maribel, who is a PhD student at the University of San Diego who works in their Global Center. I’ve gotten to know Peter of the past year, and hearing bits of his story and seeing […]
Welcome to another Wednesday morning and a new episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the opportunity to chat with Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington, who is the president of the Washington Consulting Group, a founding faculty of the Social Justice Training Institute, and Assistant Pastor at Unity Fellowship Church of Baltimore. It was really […]
Welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down with Jess Pettit, a consultant doing social justice education at colleges and universities. Jess and I connected this year at ACPA, and we were able to get together to chat about how Jess got to where she is now. We have a […]
Welcome to another Wednesday morning and a new episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down with Jonathan Poullard, who is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Dean of Students at the University of California at Berkeley. We connected at ACPA in Las Vegas, and after a few schedule changes, colds, and […]
Welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES! This week I sat down with Maura Cullen, who is an educational consultant focusing on diversity and social justice at colleges, universities, and businesses. Maura is also one of the founding faculty members of the Social Justice Training Institute with past guests Kathy Obear, Vernon Wall […]
Hi everyone, and welcome to another Wednesday morning and another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today we have another grad student bonus episode, featuring a great chat with Dustin Ramsdell, who is finishing up his first year in the Student Affairs program at Rutgers University. Dustin was in the audience for the LIVE LIFE WORK […]
Hi Everyone, and welcome to antoher Wednesday and another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down with Amjad Abdo, who is a program coordinator at the Texas A&M Campus in Qatar. We caught up at this years ACPA convention in Las Vegas, and once we got home and settled back in we made […]
Hi there, and welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down with Heather Lou, who works at Smith College as an Area Coordinator. It was a lot of fun to sit with Heather, who I met for the first time at this year’s ACPA convention, and to get to learn more […]
Hi Everyone, and welcome to another great Wednesday morning and another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES. Today I had the chance to chat with Daisy Rodriguez Pitel, who is a program manager for student services at Pima Community College. Daisy and I have been working on having this conversation for a little while now, missing […]
Hi everyone, and welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALACNES! Today I had the chance to sit down with Erik Colon, who is an Academic Counselor at Binghamton University in the State of New York. Erik and got to chat at ACPA (where we also had a lot of fun adventuring to get […]
Hello, and welcome to another Wednesday morning and another great episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES. Today I had the chance to chat with Jennifer Ferrell, Director of Student Involvement at Keene State College. Jennifer and I got connected through a mutual friend at this years ACPA conference, and it was a great opportunity for us […]
Hi everyone, and welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to sit down with Matthew Kurz, the Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life at University of Idaho. Matt and I got connected through a friend of a friend that helped me out during ACPA and circulated my info […]
Hi Everyone, and welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today’s episode features Moses Davis, Assistant Director of Residence Life at Penn State University. Moses and I got a chance to catch up during ACPA’s national convention in Las Vegas, and we recorded a great chat before heading off to see Melissa Harris-Perry […]
Hi Everyone, welcome to another Wednesday morning and another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES Today I had the chance to sit down with Dan Ocampo, who is the Associate Director of Residential Life at University of the Pacific. Dan has had an amazing career in student affairs, and had some incredible experiences along the way, […]
Hi everyone, and welcome to a very special episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES on this wonderful Wednesday morning! Today is the first every LIVE episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES, recorded at the ACPA-College Student Educators International conference in Las Vegas. I sat down with past guests Dafina Lazarus Stewart and Glenn DeGuzzman as well as […]
Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES on this lovely Wednesday morning. Today I had the chance to talk to Kathleen Kerr, who is the Director of Residence Life at the University of Delaware, and also the Vice President of ACPA. Since I am at ACPA’s national convention right now, it […]
Hi Everyone, and welcome to another Wednesday morning and another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down with Mayte Perez-Franco, Director of the United Front Multicultural Center at the University of San Diego. Mayte and I have known each other for a while, and it was really awesome to connect on a deeper […]
Hi Everyone, and welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down with Khristian Kemp-Delisser, who is the Retention and Assessment Coordinator for the ALANA Student Center at the University of Vermont. Khristian contacted me a few weeks ago about being interviewed for the podcast, and it was a ton of […]
Welcome to another Wednesday, and another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES. Today I sat down with Kenrick Ali. Kenrick was the Assistant Director of Residence Life at San Jose State University at the time that we did this interview, but since then he has accepted a new position as the Associate Director of Residence Life […]
Hi there, and welcome to another Wednesday morning with another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to sit down with Kenyon Whitman, who is a Graduate Assistant with the Center for Awareness, Service, and Action at the University of San Diego. Kenyon and I are in the same PhD program, and […]
Hi Everyone, Can you believe its been a whole year of LIFE WORK BALANCES? I know, its hard to imagine. Every Wednesday for the past year I have given you a new story of a person that works with college students, and hopefully with them have been able to offer so new insights into how they […]
Hi Everyone, and welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I talked to Sherry Mallory, who is the Dean of Students of Revelle College at UC San Diego. We talked during the first week of Sherry’s second quarter at UCSD, and so on top of getting to know a bit more about her […]
Hi Everyone and welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES! This morning I got to sit down with Dan Tillapaugh, who is a post doctoral fellow at the University of Maine! Dan is also a graduate of the University of San Diego’s PhD program in Leadership Studies, and a great professional who is […]
Welcome to another Wednesday morning, and another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down with Kat Matic, Director of Student Rights and Respncibility at Elizabethtown College of Pennsylvania and CEO of InCheck! Kat and I went went to grad school together, and have staying in pretty close touch since then, so it was […]
Hi there, and welcome to another Wednesday morning and another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down with Julie Schell, who is an educational researcher for the Mazur Group at Harvard University. Julie was also my internship class instructor when I was a graduate student at Teachers College, Columbia University. We hadn’t caught […]
Hi Everyone, and welcome to a new year of episodes of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to sit down and chat with Erin Lovette-Colyer, Director of the Women’s Center at the University of San Diego. It was a lot of fun to talk to Erin, and to hear more about how she […]
Welcome to another Wednesday morning with another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to sit down with Vernon Wall, who is the Director of Business Development with Leadershape, an independent consultant, and a founding faculty member of the Social Justice Training Institute. We had a great time catching up, and it […]
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 […]
Hi Everyone, and welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to sit down with Joseph Allen Ruant-Ramirez, Fiscal Manager at UC San Diego’s Cross Cultural Center. We talked about Joseph’s experience being connected to UCSD since he was in grade school, how he first got introduced to the […]
Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today, I sat down with John Loggins, Associate Director for The Center for Community Service Learning at the University of San Diego. It was awesome to sit down and learn more about John, since most of our interactions had been around a class that […]
Hi everyone, welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down with Malik Ismail, Resident Dean of Revelle College at UC San Diego. Malik and I had talked about sitting down for an interview for a while, and it just nice to get a little bit of time with him for […]
Hi there, and welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES! This week I had the chance to sit down with Adriana Di Bartolo, Director of the Queer Resource Center at the Claremont Colleges. I had been talking to Adriana about doing this for a bit, and it was awesome to get time to […]
Happy Wednesday everyone, and welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down with Victor Betts, Marketing and Operations Coordinator for the Cross Cultural Center at UC San Diego. We had a great time chatting about Victor’s like, career, and experiences, and laughing about some fun stories and bonding over our love […]
Hello, and happy Wednesday. Its time for another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to sit down with Dr. Cat Thompson, psychologist with Counseling and Psychological Services and Liasan to the Campus Community Centers for UC San Diego. Cat and I had a great time catching up, and talking about Cat’s […]
Hi everybody, and welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today’s episode features a great interview with Aeriel Anderson, Assistant Dean and Pan Asian/Asian American Advisor at Dartmouth College. It was awesome to catch up with Aeriel, and I really enjoyed getting to hear her story and also reconnect with her. We talked […]
Happy Wednesday everyone! Welcome to another morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES. Today I had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with Raja Bhattar, Director of the LGBT Campus Resource Center at UC Los Angeles. Raja and I had been wanting to do this for awhile, and it was really great to have the chance to […]
Hi Everyone, Welcome to this weeks episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today is going to be the first in a semi-regular series of bonus episodes, focusing on graduate students that are in some way connected to the field of student affairs, and how they find balance. One of the things that comes up a lot […]
Hello there, and welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to catch up with Bernie Liang, Director of Student Activities at Seattle University. Bernie and I had a great time chatting, and it was a lot of fun to learn more about how Bernie got to where he […]
Hi there, and welcome to another Wednesday morning episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to site down with Hermen Diaz, Assistant Director of Involvement at Colorado State University. It was great to catch up with Hermen, since its been awhile. We had a great time talking about bike culture, growing up […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hello there! Welcome to another Wednesday morning episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to sit down with Jonathon Hyde, Associate Director of Residential Education at LSU. It was really great to catch up with Jonathon, as its been a few years since we last got to really talk, and we had […]
Hello There! Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the pleasure of sitting down with Kathy Obear, consultant, educator, and founding faculty member of the Social Justice Training Institute. It was really wonderful to catch up with Kathy, and it was also really great to hear her tell her own story. […]
Hello! Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to chat with Adam Bernot, who is an Area Coordinator at Spring Hill College. I met Adam when he moved to San Diego to attend grad school, and also while he was serving as the PACURH Director, a national student leadership […]
Hello Everyone! Welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to sit down with Violetta Gonzalez, Assistant Director at the Cross Cultural Center at UC San Diego. We had been trying to get this conversation scheduled for a while now, and it was really awesome to get to sit […]
Ahoy Hoy! Welcome to another Wednesday morning and another great episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to sit down with Nancy Tubbs, who is the Director of the LGBT Resource Center at the University of California, Riverside. We had a great time catching up, and we got to talk about some […]
Hey Hey! Welcome to another wonderful Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to sit down and talk with Sara Furr. Sara is an Assistant Director in the office of Multicultural and Student Success at Depaul Univeristy, a Doctoral Student at Loyola University Chicago, and also the current Co-Chair of ACPA’s […]
Hi! Welcome to another Wednesday morning and another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down with Marquis Bennett. Marquis is an Assistant Director of Student Engagement at Penn State Hazleton, and also the Past Chair of ACPA’s Standing Committee for Multicultural Affairs. Its been about a year since Marquis and I sat down […]
Hi Everyone, and welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had a chance to sit down with Z Nicolazzo. Z is a PhD student at Miami University. Z and I connected through my partner, who thought a conversation between the two of us would be fun, and it was indeed. Z […]
Hello, and welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today, I sat down with Matt Peterson, who is the Director of Student Leadership and Engagement at Naropa University. Matt and I met during the Social Justice Training Institute (we were going to be roommates) and it was really fun to catch up with […]
Hi! Welcome to another beautiful Wednesday morning, with a brand new episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to sit down with Emil Cunningham, who is a doctoral student at Penn State University, and a graduate assistant in the office of the Vice President for Student Affairs. Emil and I had a […]
Hello everyone! Welcome to another beautiful Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES, the podcast for, by, and about student affairs professionals! Today I had the opportunity to sit down with Diana (Di) Wong, who works as an Employment and Training Advisor for the San Diego Metro Career Center. I actually met Di over Twitter, and […]
Hello! Its another beautiful Wednesday morning, which means another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES is here! Today I had the chance to sit down with David Surratt, Dean of Students at Rosemont College in Rosemont, PA. David and I met a few years back at an ACPA conference, and finally found some time to catch […]
Hi Everyone! Welcome to another Wednesday morning on LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the chance to sit down with Michelle Murray, Resident Director for Gwynedd Mercy College! Michelle and I met my very first day of undergrad at Cabrini College, worked as Orientation Leaders together, and eventually, reconnected at the 2007 Joint Conference as […]
Hello everyone! Its Wednesday morning, and that means that a new episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES is here! Today, I had a great chat with Yvonne Hernandez. Yvonne is an Associate Director of Student Life & Leadership at San Diego State University, working specifically with Greek Life. Yvonne and I spent a while working together […]
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 […]
Hi Everyone! Welcome to another Wednesday morning with LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I was able to sit down and chat with becky martinez, who is an educational consultant with Infinity Martinez, and also a faculty member with the Social Justice Training Institute. It was really great to sit down with becky, to get to know […]
Hello Everyone! Its another Wednesday morning, so that means another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES is here for your enjoyment! Today I had the chance to sit down with Viktor Kerney, Assistant Director for Student Leadership and Development at The University of Southern California. Viktor was originally scheduled to be Episode 2 of LIFE WORK […]
Hi Everyone! Its Wednesday morning, and that means that its time for another LIFE WORK BALANCES episode! Today I sat down with Patty Witkowsky, who is the Interim Director of Student Development at Colorado State University-Pueblo, and also the Chair of the Commission for Wellness with ACPA! We actually got connected through Meredith Mickaliger, guest […]
Hi Everyone! Its Wednesday, which means it is time for another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Phillip Cockrell, who I and most people that know him call Flapp, who is the Director of Student Life at Mississippi University for Women. Flapp and I have known each other for […]
Hi everyone! Its Wednesday, which means another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Welcome back! Today I had a great conversation with Heidi Levine. In addition to being the Dean of Students at Cornell College, Heidi is also currently the Past President of ACPA. It was also a nice surprise to find that Heidi was the […]
Hi Everyone! Welcome to the final OUT AND PROUD WEEK Episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today, I had a great conversation with Shaun Travers. Shaun is a Campus Diversity Officer and Director of the LGBT Resource Center at UC San Diego, and is also my boss! Shaun and I had a great conversation about reading, […]
Hi Everyone, welcome back to LIFE WORK BALANCES for another OUT & PROUD WEEK Bonus Episode! Today I had a great conversation with Kara Devaney, PhD Student at Loyal University Chicago. It was really fun to catch up with Kara, since we hadn’t had much time to catch up since she moved to Chicago from […]
Hi Everyone! Welcome to another OUT AND PROUD WEEK Episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down with Rey Guerrero, Resident Dean of Eleanor Roosevelt College at UC San Diego. I have known Rey for a few years now, and it was really great to sit down with him and learn even more about […]
Hi Everyone! Welcome to another special OUT & PROUD WEEK episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had a great conversation with Tony Sclafani! Tony is an Assessment and Research Analyst in the Student Testing Assessment and Research office at San Diego State University. Tony and I worked together for a long time, and we […]
Hi Everyone! Welcome to a special week long set of episodes on LIFE WORK BALANCES. This week at UC San Diego, we are celebrating Out & Proud Week, and so I wanted to take this week and highlight a few stories of LGBT Identified Student Affairs Professionals. There will be a new episode posted every […]
Hi Everyone! It is another Wednesday, which means a new episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Here is an interview that I did with Deven Rembert, who is the Coordinator of Intramural Sports at Millersville University. We spent some time talking about sports, leadership, and community connections as well as Deven’s involvement in M.A.L.E.S while he […]
Hi Everyone! Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This week I had a great conversation with Meredith Mickaliger, who is a Community Director at Occidental College in Los Angeles. We had a really fun, long conversation about movies, Meredith’s Annual Oscars Party (the above picture was taken at this year’s), independent music and […]
Hi everyone! Its Wednesday, and that means that its time for another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This week I had a great conversation with Julie Larsen. Julie is an Academic Advisor at the University of Texas at Dallas, as well as a super fun person to follow on twitter and a maker of a […]
Hi Everyone, welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES. I’m very aware that it isn’t Wednesday, but I had a really fun conversation with Leah Wescott, editor in chief of the Cronk of Higher Education, and I thought April Fool’s Day was the perfect time for it to go out to you all. This […]
Hi Everyone, and welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This week I had a great conversation with Eric Stoller, blogger, speaker, consultant, and super famous twitter personality! We had a great conversation about growing up in a small town, finding a career path, moving around the country, watching movies, and balancing work and […]
Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES everyone! This week I had a great conversation with Kandi Custodio, who is also known as DJ Kuttin Kandi of the Anomolies Crew. Kandi currently works at the UC San Diego Women’s Center, and is also known around the world as a DJ and turntablist (HERE is a great […]
Hi Everyone, and welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This week I had the pleasure of talking to Colber Prosper, Coordinator of Multicultural Student Affairs at Keene State College. We had a great conversation about growing up in Florida, familial expectations versus societal expectations, his experience as a student athlete, and movies (Red Tails in […]
Hello! Welcome back to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES. This week I was able to interview diversity consultant, graduate student, SJTI alum, and all around awesome person, Victor Satana-Melgoza. We talked about classical music, playing the viola, Victor’s many different careers and hats, socializing, and finding community as one moves from place to place. […]
Hi everyone, As always its Wednesday, and so we have a new episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This week I spoke with Van Bailey, who works at UC San Diego‘s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center as the Assistant Director for Education. We talk about fashion both as a fun interest and as a political […]
Hi Everyone, Welcome to another episode of Life Work Balances. This week I had a conversation with Katie McAteer. Katie works in residence life at Cornish College of the Arts, in Seattle Washington. We had a great conversation about Slacklining (and Katie plugged the web site run by the person who introduced her to it), […]
Hello everyone! Welcome back to Life Work Balances! Todays episode features a great conversation with Dr. DL Stewart, Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program. We talked about a lot of things in this episode, and some of them include: Star Wars, Law & Order, spending time […]
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 […]
Hello, and welcome to the first episode of Life Work Balances. In this episode I sat down with Nick Franco, friend and doctoral student at University of San Diego in the School of Leadership and Education Studies. Today, we talk about Running, Tennis, Journaling, and a few other stories. Enjoy EPISODE ARCHIVED. To listent click […]