Life Work Balances

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 […]