Season Premiere: Mary Chase, Vice Provost for Enrollment at Creighton University, kicks off the season from her fortress of solitude (which will make sense when you listen), and shares how growing up on a farm, being a college mom, and leaving the first footsteps of the day on a dewy fairway shape her approach to enrollment leadership.

Rapid Descent

• Walkout songs: You Time by Scotty McCreery
• Best recent read: Reality-Based Leadership: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, and Turn Excuses into Results, by Cy Wakeman
• Eager to read next: Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, by Chip and Dan Heath
• Favorite podcast: The Hank Haney Podcast
• Favorite thing to make in the kitchen: "For everyone's safety, I don't."
• What she uses to take and keep notes: iPad.
• Memorable bit of advice: "It's times maybe when I've lost where I've learned the most. So don't be afraid to lose. And learn from those losses." — John Klockentager
• Bucket list: Retirement.

Theme music arranged by Ryan Anselment.

The ALP is supported by RHB, a division of SIG. Music arranged by Ryan Anselment