The Pod is back and with a new segment. The Quad features 4 things on my mind at any given time. This week I discuss the following: 

1. My New Favorite TV Show

2. The Sixers Make a Move

3. An Epiphany Regarding Mental Health

4. Strategic Striving or Surviving? 

This week I sit down with Dana Martin, College Counselor at Mastery Charter School - Lenfest to discuss her recent blog post that garnered my attention. There is something plaguing students from Philadelphia, and it isn't Covid-19. What is it? We discuss here. 

0:00 - In Philadelphia, students aren’t afraid of Covid, they are afraid of something else……

2:00 - Tragedy in the school and outside community impacting students.

4:00 - When violence hits home/ How this impacts the way she advises students/ Changing her counseling style.

6:45 - What informs her counseling style?

10:00 - Building respect and rapport with our students.

14:00 - Disparity in how things are reported involving the Black/Brown community.

17:00 - Preparing students of color in transitioning to colleges and universities, some of which don’t really value and support those students.

19:30 - Planting seeds of self worth in students.

22:00 - Avoid sugar-coating things for students.

25:30 - Other post secondary options….. Duh.

28:00 - What Admissions folks need to know about resilience and trauma.

30:00 - The “Shared-Individual Experience”.

Happy NACAC Conference 2021 everyone! This week's pod features my good friend Joni Klopp of Millersville University. We take some time to catch up and then we talk about our approach to this fall's recruitment. How are we building our schedule? Does the in person high school visit still matter? What pieces are we bringing with us? How do we plan on meeting students where they are? All of that and more on this week's episode of The Beebo University Podcast. Timestamps below: 

0:00 - walking into Fall not knowing what is coming due to COVID.

2:00 - breakthrough cases causing trepidation.

3:40 - rebooking personal vacations.

9:00 - dusting off travel hat.

13:30 - where are you mentally with travel?

15:00 - having students back on campus.

17:30 - trying to schedule visits and not being able to lean on past experiences.

20:00 - Joni’s big three sticking points with travel so far.

21:37 - cramping a lot of travel/recruitment into a smaller window.

22:35 - making tough choices regarding where we visit this fall

24:20 - meeting students where they are - recruiting freshmen like transfer students

26:00 - let’s not completely poo poo the high school visit…… subsidize, don’t replace.

28:00 - battling nervousness.

30:00 - my high school visit hot take…… people talk about your visit.

35:30 - trying to balance our schedules with virtual and in person visits.

39:00 - building in time to breathe….. Literally.

42:00 - look good, recruit good.

44:00 - building in return to work flexibility; Millersville’s approach.

48:00 - lack of flexibility and its effect on high education employee retention moving forward.

52:00 - presenting virtually while in a staffed office was a disaster!

56:00 - self care/mental health and the value of STAFF at a university.

58:00 - what we have learned in the last two years that will always benefit us. EMPATHETIC RECRUITING

01:07:00 - make sure you are really listening.

01:17:10 - the QR Code… She Back….. What are we taking on the road?

01:19:30 - the uptick in bad student questions.

01:21:00 - trying new things this fall.

01:22:00 - the playing field is leveling for younger counselors.

The Beebo University Podcast is back!!!! This week features Justin Trewitt owner of Dapper Wood Works, an amazing menswear brand out of Texas. How did his business get started? Has it's growth been organic or strategic? What does he advise to others who are trying to make something out of their passion projects? All of that and more on this episode!!!!

1:38 - Making products out of necessity, or seeing a problem that he needed to fix

2:05 - Dapper Wood Works began…. With furniture?????

4:20 - learning skills outside of day job crucial to his beginnings

5:40 - you have to be in it for the long term in order to see success. It will not be overnight.

6:30 - when his menswear journey began. #menswear. 2010

8:00 - pocket square storage issue led to his first product. Created Etsy shop.

9:50 - Networking leading to collaboration with The Hanger Project.

11:50 - Lapel Pins

14:20 - Creating a product that leads to repeat customers.

18:10 - Strategy vs. Organic Growth

19:25 - Instagram as primary platform.

21:20 - Pride in the type of client he has.

23:00 - How I make use of the lapel pins.

24:30 - Business growth and expectations.

31:00 - Advice for turning passion projects into a sustainable business. Realistic long term goals.

News broke early this week that Nike and the Bryant Estate have gone their separate ways. What does this mean for Nike? For Kobe's Brand moving forward? Who is the only group that actually benefits from this? I talk about all of this on today's episode. 

More than any other year of my career, parents of high school seniors are proving to be a challenge. What has led to this? I have 4 theories. 

It took some time, but at the halfway point of the pandemic I realized something..... that disruption is a two-sided coin. What do I mean by that? Tune in to the latest episode of The Beebo University Podcast. 

This pod comes a day later than I anticipated, but better late than never. On this episode I talk about receiving my first shot of the Covid vaccine, NBA All Star Weekend's only win, and Bryson's win at Bay Hill. Thanks for tuning in!