Elizabeth Kolmstetter, Director of Talent & Engagement Division at NASA, shares her experience transforming airport security after the 9/11 attacks. Following 9/11, Elizabeth worked on the team tasked to hire and train 55,000 TSA employees in one year to federalize airports and ensure they followed new security procedures. Elizabeth explains how this has impacted her career, how it ties into her background in Industrial Organizational psychology, and why she chose to share this experience. Tune in to this episode to learn about what went into the airport transformation after 9/11, how Elizabeth continues to serve and create change, and one easy but impactful request Elizabeth has for the listeners.

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Janna Lundquist, Owner and CEO of Janna Lundquist Consulting, dives into her experience completing an internship and studying abroad in Quito, Ecuador, her fall semester of Senior year. Janna participated in a program called Community Internships in Latin America (CILA) and interned at Casa de Refugio Matilde where she assisted women and children affected by domestic violence. Janna shares her motivation behind pursuing this opportunity, the children who impacted her, and what her Spanish proficiency is at today. Tune in for some great stories and how this experience has influenced Janna.

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Scott Burke, President of First Security Bank of Missoula, Montana, speaks about growing up in Montana and moving to California to pursue a career in corporate banking. Scott discusses his career success early on and some things he missed as he continued to work in California. After meeting his wife and starting a family, he faced an important question and had to make a pivotal decision. Tune in to hear about this question and how Scott made this decision.

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Ashley Wineman, high school English teacher, discusses her impactful experience student teaching abroad during her senior year of college. Ashley taught at Kodaikanal International School in India. During the episode she shares her journey as she experienced a wildly different community, learned so much from the people she met, and grew from the challenges she encountered.

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Dan Ortt, Certified Financial Planner at Ortt Financial, shares an impactful experience as a young wealth manager that completely changed the way he interacts with clients. Enter Mr. and Mrs. Smith, a couple with $5,000,000 in a checking account who were referred to Dan. During their first meeting things seemed to go well, but Dan was primarily telling the couple what they should do with their money. On the second meeting, Mr. Smith asked Dan, “Do you even know who I am?” Tune in to find out who Mr. Smith was, how this experience changed Dan’s perspective, and Dan’s lesson from this conversation.

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Jeremy Brown, Development Manager at Front Street Capital Management, dives into an impactful experience he had as a soccer coach. One tournament, Jeremy’s team was up 2-0 in a semifinals game and as the game was nearing its end. He knew he needed to give the team’s worst player some playing time, but he also wanted to secure their win. Less than ten minutes after putting that player in, the opposing team scored two goals. Tune in to hear how this player changed Jeremy’s perspective on life, solidified the idea of growth mindset, and affected his criteria for investing in businesses.

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Abbey Rhoderick, rock climber, documentary film student at Chapman University, and coffee enthusiast, chats about a crushing finger injury also known as popping a pulley. At the start of summer, as Abbey was envisioning her climbing goals and hopes for the summer before heading off to college, she injured her finger and was forced to stop climbing. Abbey discusses her current rehab process, how this injury (her first long-term injury) has affected her, and her passion for climbing.

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Noah Plasse, a student from Lille, France, studying at Pomona College, discusses how his college class titled “The Science of Life Changing Experiences”, led to his decision to pursue stand-up comedy full-time for a year before his Junior year of college. But, as his year off came to an end, he returned to college online due to the pandemic, and comedy stopped being a part of his life. As a result, the recent reopening of comedy clubs in France has become a light of excitement and nervousness for him in the past few weeks. In this episode, Noah chats about how his passion for comedy was revived, his upcoming stand-up performance, and all the dreams he is chasing.

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Kevin Wu, a Pomona College student from Chicago, IL, discusses a pivotal conversation with his father. One fateful morning in 2018, Kevin’s father asked if he had studied for the SAT that day, Kevin responded that he had not, and the rest is history. Kevin recounts how this conversation has thoroughly changed his perspective on life and his decisions ever since. Tune in to hear amazing pieces of wisdom, interesting but applicable analogies, and Kevin’s ideas on life.

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