Learn 2 Listen

Mariah Parsons and Justin Kopp share their experiences at small and all-male schools, highlighting the unique aspects of these institutions and the close-knit communities they foster. They discuss the advantages of attending an all-male college, including the opportunity for male students to form deep relationships and develop leadership skills. Justin also tells Mariah about how he explored the intersections of identity, community, and support within small and all-male schools, and share their insights on navigating complex dynamics and challenges in leadership roles, including mental health, event management, and questioning identity and purpose.

On this episode of Learn 2 Listen, we’re joined by Cat Salladin, a former national team swimmer and current D1 swimmer at Rutgers as well as Whole Being Ambassador for Athletes for Hope. On this episode of Learn 2 Listen, we talk about dealing with pressure, being overtrained and becoming injured from it, the validation that comes with a full diagnoses of injury, struggling with multiple diagnoses of mental illness (trigger warning), coming to terms with a different reality than your perception, and more.

This is a special recording from an in-person event with the Orr Fellowship. Our guest speaker is Allison Ehrhart Allyn, MA LICSW, a licensed social worker in the state of Massachusetts and Co-Founder of Ehrhart Singer Therapy Group. If you recognize her voice, that’s because she’s been a repeat guest on Learn 2 Listen, so be sure to check out those previous episodes should they interest you. The conversion is moderated by Annah Van Gheem and Danny Cuevas, two of my wonderful friends and teammates on the Orr DEI Team.

This conversation is tailored to young professionals, but we hope you can find many golden nuggets no matter what stage of life or headspace you’re in. We chat through how to be intentional when addressing mental health so we don’t minimize the experiences of people around us, the differences between mental health and mental illness, where and how to find value in our lives, how to define your boundaries and then share those boundaries with important figures in our lives, as well as many more topics!

On this episode of Retention Chronicles, we’re joined by Jenny Sichel, Paralympic silver medalist and three time silver medalist at the World Championships as well as the Operations Director at the National Council on Independent Living and Paralympic coach for USRowing. In addition to talking about Jenny’s career in the rowing world, we discuss her networking with the mindset of ‘what do i have to lose’, pursuing acting in film and talk shows, the lack of equity and equality of media coverage and medal payout for Olympic and Paralympic athletes, readjusting how we view success as an athlete, dealing with discrimination for disability, and becoming an advocate.

On this live audience recording of Learn 2 Listen, we team up with Big Brothers Big Sisters as well as Mike Leonard and Bud Boughton of ERPro Plus to talk about mentorship, listening to your mentee, and impacting the next generation by sharing life experiences. In this episode, we specifically talk about the importance of mentorship, the potential mentorship can have on an individual or a group, lessons learned through the years of raising kids and mentoring others, how to sift through uncertainties and insecurities as a mentor, and how to take the first step in becoming a mentor.

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Colton Haymon, Solutions Architect Manager at Range21 and Co-Founder of ColMonet, a feel-good lifestyle brand, joins us this week on Learn 2 Listen to chat about life. Specifically, we chat through not fitting in growing up and how that influenced our lives now, quickly being able to identify your own people, how we think we stand out, having friends that bring you out of your shell, investing in friendships, protecting your time, and starting your own brand.

On this episode of Learn 2 Listen we’re joined by Allison Allyn, MA LICSW, a licensed social worker in the state of Massachusetts and Co-Founder of Ehrhart Singer Therapy Group. We chat through Justin Suia’s podcast Losing Control with Dr. Colleen Hacker, what is the relationship between leadership, vulnerability, and confidence looks like, the connotation of vulnerability and weakness, identity and the self, and much more!

On this episode of Learn 2 Listen, Olivia West is a Brand Marketer & Global Launch Readiness Associate at Eli Lilly as well as founder and owner of The Speaking Company. She is an avid cyclist as well as a DEI advocate. On this episode we chat about Olivia’s past of showing horses and her journey in starting cycling, how cycling has become a point of pride for her, knocking down barriers that could stand in one’s way, and what impact Olivia would like to have on the Indianapolis community.

On this episode of Learn 2 Listen, we’re joined by Mario Leavell, Sales Representative at Stryker Surgical Technologies and VP of Evansville Bicycle Club. On this episode we discuss when Mario started cycling, why cycling and maintaining your physical and mental health is important to him, lesson learns from cycling, balancing work and working out, the inclusive nature of cycling (it welcomes all shapes and sizes), the community engagement cycling brings to riders, the impact community cycling can have, and so much more.

On this episode of Learn 2 Listen, we’re joined by Armando Sanchez, Notre Dame Alumni (2020), Orr Fellow Alumni (2020), and Product Manager at Multiply. We chat through;

• Being each other’s accountability partner

• Personal and professional development

• What we wish we knew about transitioning into the workforce

• What expectations vs reality look like in the workforce

• Navigating being a first-generation college student and graduate

• Completing mindset training & the power of your subconscious

• Mindless timelessness & dopamine detoxing