DevChen Symposium

This week we are more than thrilled to welcome our first guest speaker to DevChen Symposium! Leadership is always a classic topic and learning leadership during the pandemic is a whole new scope. A lot to learn from and a lot to hear!

Eddie is an International Certified Coach, an Affiliate Coach with the Institute of Coaching part of McLean/Harvard Medical School, a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) coach with the International Coach Federation, and an official ICF Mentor Coach. Of the more than 37,000 ICF members in 143 countries, Eddie Turner was selected as a 2020 ICF Coach of the Week. Eddie is one of Marshall Goldsmith's 100 Coaches and is the host of the Keep Leading!® podcast, which earned Apple Podcasts coveted New & Noteworthy designation.

This week we also have another important topic - when and how to speak up! We consider a lot of things before we choose when to have a courageous conversation and how to express ourselves with the best interest. So let's talk about the mechanism this time!

Hey everyone！！ This week we will be talking about beauty standards and the social definition of beauty as well as cultural significance. TUNE IN!

Do you know how to tell your story? Do you know what form/state/technique that is required or essential to do great storytelling? And how storytelling could be beneficial to your entire life as well as leadership? Let's talk about that!!

This week's podcast is about FOOD! We will compare and discuss food and culture across cities, states and countries!

What are the days like in high school? Is it crazy-busy-study days? Or is it crazy-having-fun days? This week we will be a bit nostalgic and talk about the days in high school. Let’s start the memories right here.

Social cues and social interaction are the keys to communication. Under lots of circumstances, there are way more intricacies and details play into the context of communication. Knowing where the boundary is and when to cross it or not is super important. Let’s talk about boundaries and what are the boundaries in race, social interaction, relationships, and the professional world.

Hey! We hope everyone is having a wonderful great labor day holiday weekend! Week 8 episode is officially out! This week’s topic is Religion. My favorite way of understanding religion is, without question, the playfully serious and seriously playful exploration of religion in life. Because certain symbols are universally resonant across time and space, they find their way into both religious practice and creative expressions like poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, television scripts, stage plays, and sermons. Go ahead and listen to our episode.

Hello Everyone! This week we'll be discussing the impact of the French New Wave film movement and the career of cinematic auteur Jacques Demy. We hope you enjoy!

This week we will be talking about The Plague by Albert Camus. Not surprisingly, this book, which was written 70 years ago, demonstrates that human beings tend to have the same uneasiness, ugliness, problems, and reactions under extreme conditions. We will connect how people react to cholera years ago with how people react to COVID in the current time. The interpretation of the color, phrasing, and narrative methods of the book and the break-down of Albert Camus’s Absurdism theory lead to a thought-process - “there is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide...Judging whether life is or is not worth living, that is the fundamental question of philosophy.”