Experience University Podcast

This is a special student spotlight featuring Juliette Davis, a University of Nebraska Lincoln student, who is sharing her top ten tips for your events based on her previous experience attending events, planning events, and researching events.  Juliette is a delight and her tips are amazing insight into how our future leaders (and future event attendees) think!

Reach out to us!  We want to hear from you!  Check out our website and all of our social media pages and connect!  If you are not following us on YouTube, you definitely don't want to miss all the amazing tips and tricks we are posting there!   https://www.extraordinaryeventsinitiative.com/

We interrupt our normally scheduled program to bring you this fun insight from a series we are running right now called Marketing Your Virtual Event! We are having SUCH a fun time with this series! In this episode you will hear the behind the scenes of how to market your virtual event, the importance of focusing on process, and some other tips and tricks to be able to truly empathize with your target market. You will also get to hear how I structured my seminar that allowed us all to internalize a seed of doubt into what we are doing currently which allows us to open our minds to the opportunity for change. This is an episode you definitely do not want to miss! 

From our website, you can link to all our social channels to include our YouTube channel and the videos described in this episode!  https://www.extraordinaryeventsinitiative.com/

Ally and Kenzie are both people who "found their way" into events and event education from completely different areas.  They discuss how they found events, hilarious stories from their internships, what their loved ones had to say about their change into events, common misconceptions of people about the event industry, the difficulties of managing people that are older than them, and their biggest takeaways in life so far.  You will learn a lot from these amazing individuals!

Reach out to us!  We want to hear from you!  Check out our website and all of our social media pages and connect with us!  https://www.extraordinaryeventsinitiative.com/

Want to do NaNoWriMo with me? How about if that accountability sets us up for an amazing event storybook? Today's episode is really all things random from my brain into my mouth and unfiltered out.  Listen in as I share stories of what we have been doing and what we are doing here soon that you can be a part of!   

Let us know your thoughts on this episode!  Send us a message or a comment on any of our social media channels and we will mention you on the podcast!  Tell us what you want to hear and we will build it in to a future episode!  Link to our website (and all our social channels) can be found here: https://www.extraordinaryeventsinitiative.com/

I don't fail students - they don't do the work and they fail themselves. While a simple concept, this can easily be confused and just thought of that the "teacher doesn't like me and failed me".  In reality I just assign the grade in the gradebook.  Once of the most interesting things in my courses because of my grading structure is that students realize their own lack of effort and take full responsibility for it. Many of these students have often gone on to become some of my best mentees and lifelong friends.  Enter: Alex Morehead.

This is probably one of the funniest podcasts on the EE podcast to date. Alex has an amazing balance of enlightenment, cynicism, and wit that always makes him a delight to talk with and listen to.  This podcast, Alex talks about how failing a class is not the end of the world - it can actually be the beginning of it.  He discusses high standards, growth, and mindset. 

We are working on a special project right now where we need your feedback!!!  Reach out to us - we want to hear from you!  Check out our website and all of our social media pages and connect!  https://www.extraordinaryeventsinitiative.com/

Spurred from last weeks episode, Ally surprised me when she said the thing she has learned the most from me was nothing physical - but a mindset. She shared several stories and said that she really thought we should do an episode on it - so here we are! An entire week of mindset!  In this episode, Ally shares some things she thinks that makes me a bit different from some of her past teachers and how some of the simple practices I teach in class and as an intern supervisor have helped to evolve her mindset. 

Listen in and as we laugh and share stories!  I hope this episode makes you think about life just a little bit differently....

Let us know your thoughts on this episode!  Send us a message or a comment on any of our social media channels and we will mention you on the podcast!  Tell us what you want to hear and we will build it in to a future episode!  Link to our website (and all our social channels) can be found here: https://www.extraordinaryeventsinitiative.com/

This is a special student spotlight featuring Rebecca Ellers, a University of Nebraska Lincoln student, who is interviewing industry professional Taylor Graham.  Rebecca is a true delight and you will find out a lot about her, her passion about this industry, and the behind the scenes life of a venue bartender here in Lincoln!

Reach out to us!  We want to hear from you!  Check out our website and all of our social media pages and connect!  https://www.extraordinaryeventsinitiative.com/

What I teach and practice in my life is the value and importance of reflection. Dedicated time to sit and reflect on where you have come from, what you have learned, what you can celebrate, and what lessons you can integrate into your life going into the future.  This is so important to me that I have integrated this into one of the values of the Extraordinary Events Initiative. 

We are two months into the podcast and it's time to reflect on things we are seeing and what we can do better. Learn from us and things that we could have done better up to this point! Hear what we have plans for in the future. And give us feedback on what you want to see and hear in the podcast!   

Connect with us! Send us a message or comments and we will mention you on the podcast!  Tell us what you want to hear and we will build it in to our offerings. Outside of the podcast we also offer Friday professional development power hours! To explore all of our offerings - connect with us on our website and through our social media pages!
Website: https://www.extraordinaryeventsinitiative.com/

This is a special student spotlight featuring Victoria Wehrman, a University of Nebraska Lincoln student.  Victoria talks about such an important topic in our industry - human trafficking. She points out that the majority of discussions around hospitality and human trafficking focuses in hotels, but another prominent sector for human trafficking is large male-dominated events. These are not just attendees, these are potential customers.  Victoria shares lots of information, great training points, and excellent resources.

The Extraordinary Events Initiative offers more than just a podcast!  We offer free weekly training webinars, a once a month listserv, and many other opportunities for you to get involved with us and for us to get involved with you. To explore all of our offerings - connect with us on our website or Facebook page!
Website: https://www.extraordinaryeventsinitiative.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eventinitiative

I am often asked if you need an events degree to work in events. The short answer is no. The long answer is - everyone who I have talked with that hasn't had formal event coursework says they wish they had it or that they would like to go back and take classes.  It will make life easier and help you excel more, faster. You will learn about resources and procedures you might not have known existed.

In this episode we talk about where events is, or could be, in your University. We talk about the important things to consider when pursuing formal event education. We talk about what what we hear.  We talk about all things formal event programs and event education.

Connect with us! The Extraordinary Events Initiative offers more than just a podcast!  We offer free weekly training webinars, a once a month listserv, and many other opportunities for you to get involved with us and for us to get involved with you. To explore all of our offerings - connect with us on our website and through our social media pages!
Website: https://www.extraordinaryeventsinitiative.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eventinitiative