Failure Bites: Recent Episodes
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DeKalb business owner Nick Nagle talks about the break-neck speed at which he launched his career.
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In this episode we hear from Chely Lopez Zavala, one of the coordinators for “Universidad para Padres” (Parent University). She tells her story about how she learned how to take care of her self so she can in turn take care of others.
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Julie Patterson is a Registered Dietitian with a Bachelor’s degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Illinois- Chicago, a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from DePaul and a PhD in Nutrition Science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Northern Illinois University in the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Wellness. Her research area is exploring the relationship between health care practices and breastfeeding outcomes. Dr. Patterson also volunteers her time with the Illinois Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She has been on the board in various roles for 7 years and is currently the President of the organization.
You can connect with her on LinkedIn and learn more about her research and teaching experience at https://www.chhs.niu.edu/about/staff/patterson.shtml
Mad-City Record Ballet Nationals 2016 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUNNV9pMFj0&feature=youtu.be
Kristin Brynteson spoke with one of our favorite authors at C2E2 this year: John Scalzi. Scalzi is an American science fiction writer known for books like Red Shirts, Lock In, and many others. Check out his newest book The Last Emperox, coming April 2020!
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Join host Kristin Brynteson as she talks to successful people at Chicago's pop culture event: C2E2!
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Bianca Roman-Stumpff - https://biancaart.storenvy.com/ La Vie Cosplay – https://laviecosplay.com/ Pearlfire: Discovery - https://pearlfirerpg.com/ Chuck Costas - https://propstore.com/
Even financial advisors can find themselves in a spot of financial difficulty. Wendy West talks about how some money troubles eventually gave her the understanding she needs to be successful.
After spending too many years feeling stupid, Carmen Santiago-Keenon came to understand that failure doesn't make you stupid. Sometimes, outside factors influence success. The best thing to do is fail forward.
Retired professional soccer player Anne Poulin talks about the transition from athlete to retiree. Check out http://kidsplayintl.org/ and follow Anne on Twitter @AnnePoulin21.
Coaching For Geeks Overlord Robin Bates shares his hard-earned wisdom on this episode of Failure Bites.
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Tanya Kiefer has experienced success. A lot of it, in fact. But sometimes, success isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Skateboarder and business-owner Ariel Ries explains how integral failure is to progress.
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Failure isn't a destination. It's a journey, and every step gets you closer to where you're going. CEO of 3D Bear, Jussi Kajala, shares his struggles from start up to success.
Dr. Kristin Brynteson hosts AND shares her experience with failure, along with a tasty tidbit from educator/author George Couros.
Dr. Amanda Durik returns with more tasty information on how failure and our brains are connected. Stay tuned this fall for the second season of Failure Bites.
While we prepare for the next season, we still want you to have a little snack to tide you over. In this episode, Dr. Amanda Durik will walk you through how failure and your brain are related.
Sometimes, avoiding failure means changing our outlooks. George Couros discusses his attitude adjustment on the season one finale of Failure Bites.
Ryan Prouty worked hard to get to her current position within NASA, but the road wasn't as straight as she might have expected.
Vivek Mullick, senior manager at EY, discusses the opportunities hidden in failure scenarios.
Kristin Brynteson learns that success is contextual through an interview with Kim Likier.
Nobody is born an expert, or so host Kristin Brynteson learns from seasoned teacher Mike Jones.
Author Kiersten White explains the process of writing The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein.
When making a feature length film, there are so very many things that can go wrong. Tom Gustafson explains how he got things to go right.
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Being a big fish in a small pond can set unrealistic expectations. Dr. Anne Kaplan shares her experience with going to college.
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Transcript: KB: Past successes are awesome! It feels great to have a win, and those wins can help us build self-confidence. Self-confidence can be a great asset—except when it's not. I’m Kristin Brynteson, and this is Failure Bites, the podcast where successful people tell bite-size stories of failure, growth, and success. In this episode, we hear from Dr. Anne Kaplan, vice president of Outreach, Engagement, and Regional Development here at NIU. Dr. Kaplan talks about her lessons learned when she took the plunge from high school to college.
AK: Well, I would say my most spectacular failure at least psychologically was failing to test out of freshman rhetoric when I went to college. And the reason that was so alarming to me I suppose goes back to the fact that I grew up in a little town in the northwest part of the state. Its population was 1400, part of a consolidated school district where even with three little towns, we had a senior class of 50 and that included everybody. And I was something of a superstar in my class of 50. I was the class president, I was the editor of the yearbook, I was the lead in all the plays, I was the drum major... Anything that needed leading I would do, and anything that need writing I would do because everybody thought I could write better than anybody else, and I was so smitten by my own successes that I applied to one college, not imagining that anybody would turn me down. They didn't, which was something of a miracle after the fact, but when I got there, all students had an opportunity to test out of freshman rhetoric, which of course I thought I could do because I was an A+ student. I was going to college to be an English major. What's so hard about freshman rhetoric? Well, it was harder than I thought, and I did not test out of freshman rhetoric, which was quite a shock and set me on a completely different path through college where… for… the freshman rhetoric situation was only one example in many because the college was really very selective, recruited a lot of students cross country. So, I got there and had a roommate from Bronx High School of Science and was surrounded on my floor by kids from New Trier, people who had had all kinds of AP courses. My school didn't offer any AP courses, so, as a result, I was frankly terrified for about the first three terms, and I did nothing but study. In the end, I was probably very well served by that because the kids who came into school with far more robust academic backgrounds than I had were coasting, and in the end, I graduated with honors and I did quite a bit better than some of my more privileged colleagues. But I did learn this it's important to note the size of the pool when you think you're going to make a big splash, and really what had happened to me was that I was a very good student in a very small puddle. And that was a lesson that I took to heart and probably have used ever since.
KB: Success is contextual. Sometimes, success comes easy because we are not being challenged. The challenges we have faced in one context have become familiar; we have already conquered them. Just because you can do a lap in your small pond does not mean you are ready to take on the Olympic-size pool. Your first, second, or third attempts might feel like they end in failure, but that failure shouldn't stop you it just means you need to work harder, study more, or in the words of our favorite forgetful fish, “just keep swimming.” I'm Kristin Brynteson, and this was Failure Bites. For more stories, leave a review, and subscribe! This podcast was produced by NIU STEAM at Northern Illinois University. Your future, our focus.
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Host Kristin Brynteson talks to Dr. Marlo Barnett about the struggles of crossing the finish line of achieving a PhD.
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Transcript: KB: You are listening to the Failure Bites podcast, where successful people tell bite-size stories of failure, growth, and success. I'm your host, Kristin Brynteson. Big goals can be scary, not only are they big, but they can also be roadblocks and obstacles around every corner, ready to overwhelm us and prevent us from achieving our goal. In this episode, we hear from dr. Marlo Barnett, a graduate from Northern Illinois University with a PhD in educational technology. Dr. Barnett currently works for Chicago Public Schools as a K-8 technology teacher and an advocate for equity and diversity in computer science she shares her tale of how she looked a big goal in the eye and didn't back down until she achieved it.
MB: I am a graduate of Northern Illinois University, class of 2017 and 2012. So a time when I faced a challenge or a particular failure, since I am a recent graduate still, I am going to talk about the challenge of actually… successfully defending my dissertation. If you are a PhD student or in a doctoral program, you know that the challenges that exist with that and one of the challenges, I'm just going to say right out with my writing. I... my writing has always not been academically the best so I have had to reach out to the writing center and I also had to acquire getting a professional editor. So, I can remember all of the rewrites and rewrites and rewrites and then I had a graduation date and time all planned and I couldn’t graduate on time and it was because there were other challenges, but, it mainly... it was writing. So, to overcome that I, like I said, I went to… got professional help for my writing and also I got a professional editor and as a result of all of the rewrites and all of the challenges that come with the dissertation, I successfully defended my dissertation and graduate and I’m here to tell the story.
KB: You just heard Dr. Marlo Barnett talk about how she overcame challenges to achieve her big PhD goal. Being honest with ourselves about our strengths and our weaknesses is an essential step in achieving our goals. As we heard from Dr. Barnett, admitting that writing might be a roadblock for her and utilizing her resources helped her attain her goal of getting a PhD. When we are aware of our weaknesses, we can make a plan for how to overcome them and not let our short falls get in the way of reaching our goals. I’m Kristin Brynteson and this was Failure Bites. Leave a review and subscribe for more stories of successful people and the failures that got them there. This podcast was produced by NIU Steam at Northern Illinois University, your future our focus.
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Host Kristin Brynteson is on a quest to talk about failure. Joining her today is NIU president, Dr. Lisa C. Freeman.
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Transcript: KB: Failure. We all do it, but none of us like to talk about it. Failure’s hard to deal with. It can be painful. It can be embarrassing. Admitting we failed is like admitting we are the failure. In reality, that's not true. A wise teacher once told me “The greatest teacher, failure is.” Okay, that wise teacher was Yoda, and he didn't directly tell it to me. He told it to Luke, but I still heard it. Either way, our favorite grammatically challenged jedi makes a good point: failure is a teacher. Through failure we learn and grow. I’m Kristin Brynteson, and you're listening to the Failure Bites podcast, where successful people tell bite-sized stories of failure, growth and success. Today, we are honored to talk with Dr. Lisa C. Freeman, president of Northern Illinois University. Dr. Freeman is an accomplished academic and respected leader.
LF: So, I started veterinary college the same time that I started a master's degree that had a heavy field research component. I knew coming out of my senior year undergrad as the result of a very strong undergraduate research experience that I wanted to combine my professional training with additional graduate training. And I was very enthusiastic about doing that, but I was pursuing that opportunity at an institution which at that time had no pathway to facilitate that for students, and I just assumed that I would be able to persevere regardless. The veterinary school curriculum was very rigorous and very time-consuming, and I really struggled to manage my research time. My research lab was... Maybe contemptuous is not too strong a word of the fact that I also wanted a professional degree, that a graduate degree wasn't kind of good enough for me, so there was a lot of pressure not to ask for help in meeting some of my research goals. I became overwhelmed, and as a result, my academic performance in vet school slipped to the point where I was close to being academically dismissed from veterinary school. Fortunately, I was able to pull it together and rally and recover and then ask for help. And the lesson I think that I learned from my failure in the situation, although ultimately I didn't do the big fail of flunking out of vet school, I failed because I didn't get as much out of the curriculum as I could have. I didn't capitalize on the opportunity that I had. I also let a number of people down because I couldn't do anything well because I was trying to do too much and I failed because I looked at asking for help as a sign of failure when asking for help is actually a sign of strength. The ability to acknowledge that you're not a super person, a superhero, a superwoman, a superman, that there is no shame in saying I can't do everything myself and I need some assistance and support to accomplish my goals and I think I learned that the hard way in the situation but I think it was a very important lesson.
KB: You just heard NIU president Dr. Lisa C. Freeman. Her tale of failure might sound familiar. We all tend to overextend ourselves, set high--maybe even unrealistic--expectations, and then don't reach out for help when we need it. Luke did not defeat the Empire all by himself. He used his resources. He asked for help from his friends and tapped into the wisdom of some really smart ghost jedis. If you feel like failure’s looming, save yourselves and possibly the Galaxy by reaching out for help. I'm Kristin Brynteson, and this was Failure Bites. Leave a review and subscribe for more. If you don't know how, we'll be happy to help. This podcast was produced by NIU STEAM at Northern Illinois University. Your future. Our Focus.
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