The Grad School Bros wrap up 2025 with a special holiday episode full of reflection, laughs, and REAL talk. Christmas conversations, reflections from 2025 and also how to manage your mental your mental health during the holiday season. 

2026 GSBros will continue bringing the REAL talk and making sure everyone is entertain for 45 mins to a hour. 

Host 

Gary Lazard Jr. 

Vic Norris 

Alex Caston 

In this episode of Grad School Bros, we dive into the importance of looking ahead and planning for life beyond the day-to-day grind of graduate school. From setting long-term career goals to building healthy personal habits, we share strategies for staying motivated and keeping perspective when the present feels overwhelming. Whether you’re navigating uncertainty, mapping out your next steps, or just curious about what the future could hold, this conversation is about embracing possibility, preparing with intention, and creating a vision for what comes after grad school.

Host 

Gary Lazard Jr.

Alex Caston 

Vic Norris 

Professional Development. It's always good to enrich you learning in you career field. Often, PD's offer great opportunities to network and gain knowledge. However sometimes they're so full of bs you're better off putting your ear to the ground in a cow pasture. Nonetheless, let the Grad School Bros tell you about our experience.  

It's Holiday Season with the GSBro's. The brothers get together and talk about their favorite holiday memories.

Grad School Bro's 

Alex Caston 

Gary Lazard Jr. 

Vic Norris

If ya'll been rolling with the Grad School Bros ya'll know it'd been a journey! We're confident enough to say that we have been and are successful but man....it was not a straight line, the journey felt more like failure, quitting was tempting and finishing felt abnormal. However, the tough times on the road to success ARE normal because they taught us some lessons! Ya'll gon come on up in here and take listen real quick! 

GSBros 

Alex Caston - AJWAY 

Vic Norris 

Gary Lazard Jr. 

In this episode we touch on many topics:

-Our brother Alex Caston is Dallas ISD Promise Teacher (Congratulations). 

-How does conferences help you in the higher ed field.

-What was one thing we learned from working in our positions? 

Grad School Bros: 

Vic Norris 

Gary Lazard Jr. 

Alex (AJWay) Caston 

I ain't mad at cha: I tell ya, we've been through some changes since we left grad school and we are not the same! But the metamorphis process is necessary for the caterpillar to transform into a butterfly. 

When you have a relationship while building a career, you have to be able to relate to one another to elevate with one another. Ya'll come sit down with your Bros while we break this down. 

Do you have a space where you can go to escape reality? Or a place to go just to feel better? The GSBros are going to tell you why it's important to find a safe space and where is to best place to have one. 

We're headed in a new direction. The excitement, and the slight anxiety is real but hey that how it is when you step into something new. We walked to it but now we have to walk through it. Ya'll come and kick it with us real quick while we tackle this subject.