Confessions of a College Grad

Many of us walk across the graduation stage excited for the accomplishment just to be met 6 months later with a HUGE bill for the student loans taken out. This becomes just one additional expense to everything else we’re bombarded with. Tune in this week for a conversation w/ Mel Borja about the importance of understanding your personal relationship with money, some insight on budgeting, and overall financial planning for the future.

We’re told before we get to college that having a college degree opens doors, but maybe not as many as we think. In today’s society a bachelors degree sometimes just isn’t enough. When you figure out that you need, you guessed it, more school to get to where you want to go it can be stressful. This episode features a discussion w/ Jessica Neupane about the thought process behind deciding to go back to school as well as the overall process.

The goal isn't always to lose weight, but it’s ALWAYS to be healthy. Your physical health is a HUGE factor is your overall well-being. In college you may have had access to gyms and healthy foods that you no longer have as a college grad. Or you may have spent hours on hours in the library and lived off of 2AM Cookout runs. Regardless of the situation, life is different now so we need to make sure we’re prioritizing our bodies. Tune in for this episode w/ Demetri Workman as we discuss different aspects of physical health and how we can navigate this time in a healthy way.

“It’s not the grades you make, but the hands you shake” is a college proverb. Understanding that building connections is essential for making it to the next stages of life is stressful because it means, you guessed it, you have to talk to people. Tune into this episode w/ Gabrielle Stanfield about tackling a dreaded aspect of post grad life, networking.

This episode tackles the conversation of what goes through your mind when you've gotten that degree, now it's time to find a job. Lauryn is a 2019 Global Public Health grad from the University of Virginia and we sit down with her to talk about all the intricacies of finding a job after college from financial stability, passion, as well as generational influences. 

This episode serves as the beginning of a much needed conversation. Rambert Tyree is a 2019 Commerce grad from the University of Virginia currently a 2L at UVA Law. We catch up with him to see how is life after deciding to spend 7 years in one place for school and also some dope habits he's picked up along the way for self care.