Bouncing Back and Creating Your Best Life with Lisa Bien

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.