Failing Forward

What happens when you don't like your internship? Why do so many MBAs take return offers? Why don't people re-recruit? Why does everyone become a consultant? In the first episode of Season 2, Dani and Sowmya dive into these questions and many others as they try to understand the allure of stability and the hesitation around risk.

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This week, we chat with our classmate Chard Milante, an international student from the Philippines about identity. In this two-part episode, we cover everything from cancel culture to cultural appropriation and explore the nuances of faith, belonging, and impactful allyship.

This week we continue the conversation with our Seth Ohemeng-Appiah about his recruiting journey, interview struggles, and how we can support one another. 

This week we kick-off a series of episodes dedicated to exploring the MBA journey from an international students’ perspective. In this episode, we chat with our classmate Seth Ohemeng-Appiah about growing up in Ghana, coming to the US during the Trump era, and risk-taking.

He didn’t choose the startup life; the startup life chose him. In this week’s episode, we talk interview bloopers and startup recruiting with our classmate Reece Rios and learn just what it takes to choose the road less traveled.

In this week’s episode, Dani and Sowmya are joined by classmate and friend Luke Blackburn to discuss his recruiting journey in consulting and how he built an incredible support network at school.

In this week's episode, Dani and Sowmya discuss their recruiting stats and reflect on the impact of feedback.

In part 2 of this special two-part episode of Failing Forward, Dani and Sowmya continue their conversation with Sima, who shares what she found at the bottom of the b-school dip… and the tools, people, and simple pleasures that helped her climb out of it.

In Episode 2 of Failing Forward, Sowmya and Dani chat with Sima, who shares her non-traditional path to Fuqua, and what she learned from the detours she took along the way.

Episode 1 of the Failing Forward podcast is here! - The one where we introduce ourselves

MBB recruiting has come and gone. IB aspirers have dusted off Plan B. And big tech may or may not have ghosted us. Net-impact peeps... we’re rooting for you! At this point, we’re all probably one rejection away from calling Steve and packing it all up, so it’s time for a pick-me-up.

Check out the first episode of Failing Forward, a new podcast by Sowmya Alla and Dani Dawkins where a Kellogg wannabee, and Sowmya, a failure-fearer, discuss the failures that landed them at Fuqua and the experiences that prompted them to start a podcast all about it.