The #InVinoFab Podcast

In this episode of #InVinoFab podcast, we were delighted to chat with Kristin Powers. Not only does Kristin have a superhero name, but we think she lives a superhero life. From our conversation about play, experimentation, nature, and creativity, we have no doubt that you will learn so much from her resilience and self-directed learning. Kristin encourages our listeners to develop a taste for failure with practice, like a fine wine or an exotic delicacy. She brings both art and science to her personal and professional life with her works at Coursetune Inc. as the Director of Storytelling and Client Engagement. Kristin’s original paintings can be viewed and purchased, and you can join her Artist’s Insider Circle newsletter at: www.kristinpowers.com  

Here are a few of the many things we chat about on this episode:

• Intentional Futures
• Fibromyalgia
• Burnout Book Club (last episode #80)
• Being Agile & Iterative
• Agile Faculty by Rebecca Pope-Ruark
• Self-Talk - The Story We Tell Ourselves & Reframing
• Why the KonMari Method™ Works
• Self-Efficacy for Resilience and Encouragement
• What is Rhizomatic Learning? 
• Foraging: A Beginners Guide
• Happiness is an Inside Job by John Powell
• Food Wars (Anime)
• Embodied Cognition
• 15 Ways to Build a Growth Mindset
• Brene Brown’s Books
• Call for Instructional Designers: Come tell your story to Kristin about the work you love!
• Kristin’s Mottos: Stay curious, Create opportunity for chaos (unexpected), practice
• Beverage: sparkling water with grapefruit juice and a slice of lime
• The Booksellers (documentary)
• Stuffed (documentary)
• Forged in Fire (TV show)
• Books:
  • Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind by Guy Claxton
  • Intelligence in the Flesh by Guy Claxton
  • How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
• Plant: Step outside and learn a new plant name!
• Joy: Snails and Snail Photography

“How do you invite more opportunities to invite chaos into your life?” asks Kristin Powers

Top 3 ways Kristin wants us to invite experimentation into our daily lives: 

1. Personal appearance/grooming style
2. Navigating to take interesting routes for discovery
3. Cooking experimentation

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In this episode, we have an #InVinoFab Book Club on Burnout (the book). Patrice talk about the lessons learned and a few concepts from the book that they are bringing into their daily life, with their work team, and more:

• Book Website: https://www.burnoutbook.net/ 
• Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Amelia Nagoski & Emily Nagoski
• Unlocking Us Episode: Brené with Emily and Amelia Nagoski
• on Burnout and How to Complete the Stress Cycle
• Burn-out an "occupational phenomenon": International Classification of Diseases from the WHO
• The 7 types of rest that every person needs via TED
• Download the Burnout Book Club Discussion Guides

What was your big takeaway from this book?

What was your favorite chapter?
What practice/intention are you going to work on to deal with burnout?

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Dr. Josie Ahlquist is a digital engagement and leadership researcher, speaker, and author. She teaches teens, young adults, education professionals, and campus executives how to humanize technology tools and prioritize building online communities. She also serves as a research associate and instructor at Florida State University, creating curriculum to build digital literacy and leadership skills for undergraduates up to doctorate level students. Her new book, Digital Leadership in Higher Education: Purposeful Social Media in a Connected World was listed as an Amazon #1 new release for college and university student life. As an “accidental entrepreneur” we chat about the realities of owning a small business, digital presence online, being selective for the projects to take on, and how building rapport is wrapped up in our own stories and values.

• The Lessons in Digital Empathy We Learned in 2020
• Subscribe & Listen to Dr. Josie & the Podcast
• Campus Leaders as Digital Storytellers
• A Values-Based Approach to Your Digital Brand
• Authenticity and Vulnerability as a VPSA
• Why You Should Become an “Intrapreneur” 
• Mindsets: What they are and why they matter.
• What is a Mastermind Group?
• How to Calculate Your Freelance Hourly Rate
• Adam Grant: Are you a giver or a taker? | TED Talk
• If you’re going to say yes to something, what are you going to say no to?
• Every Resource a Full-Time Freelancer Could Ever Need 
• Just a few (of many) resources freelancers might need: Healthcare, Accountants, Lawyer, Life Insurance, Retirement investing, etc.
• What Job Crafting Looks Like
• Stand Firm: Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze by Svend Brinkmann
• The Connected Exec Course Curriculum
• #DigLead Book Club
• Digital Community Building Cohort
• Wine: Rombauer Red Zinfandel
• Resource: PodHero app
• Story: The Crown +  Lovett or Leave It, Ep. Bill Barr, Deep State Warrior 
• Joy: Being the Best Auntie

What questions, skills, and communities are you looking for to support your own business start up or on-going hustle?

For more information about Josie Ahlquist’s research, speaking, coaching, and consulting, visit www.josieahlquist.com. 

Connect with Josie on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

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On this mini-episode of #InVinoFab Patrice & Laura reflect on the 2020 resolutions lost and share some intentions and practices they are considering for 2021. Are you setting any goals for this new year? What practices are you hoping to work on in 2021?

• Bullet Journal
• The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures
• Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career
• Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle 
• Brené with Emily and Amelia Nagoski on Burnout and How to Complete the Stress Cycle
• Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work

A few practices for this podcast are to invite new voices to amplify and share interests, communities, passions, and projects to share their story. Let us know! Schedule a time to talk to us or send us an email about an idea for a topic or guest we should reach out to at: [email protected]   

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In Vino Fabulum! In Wine, Story!

Subscribe to #InVinoFab podcast on Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you catch your pods. Follow us on Twitter @InVinoFab or IG: @invinofab  

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On this episode of #InVinoFab, we chat with Elissa Lappenga, who is a multipotentialite who spent the better part of a decade living with her family on college campuses in Southern California as a student affairs professional before transitioning geographically to the Midwest and professionally to the world of software startups. Elissa shares what it means to be a mom and breadwinner while supporting learners inside and outside formal education. Beyond systems thinking and the pandemic challenges, we talk about the opportunities to solve some of the issues that have been amplified last year, supporting communities who need it, roommate mediation/contracts, and how to pivot in your career when it is not in the plan.  

• What is Systems Thinking?
• Dean Tori Tunstall’s Design Journey
• What is Agile? 
• National Center for Women and Information Technology
• 13 Items You Absolutely Must Include in a Roommate Agreement
• The Great British Bake Off
• Grand Circus
• Family Hope Foundation
• Cancel Culture
• Moscato D’Asti
• Derry Girls - Rock the Boat dance
• Ted Lasso - Brené with Jason Sudeikis & Brendan Hunt on Ted Lasso

Connect with Elissa at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elissalappenga/

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In Vino Fabulum! In Wine, Story!

Subscribe to #InVinoFab podcast on Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you catch your pods. Follow us on Twitter @InVinoFab or IG: @invinofab  

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On this #InVinoFab episode, Patrice and Laura take pause to reflect on what happened on January 6, 2021 at the US Capitol. We process our feelings and share how we are talking to our teams, peers, and others at work. How are you talking about events like these with your staff? How do you create space for conversation and support at your organization?

• How to Talk with Your Team About the Violence at the U.S. Capitol via HBR
• The Lies We Tell Ourselves About Race by Sam Sanders asked: “What would happen if we decided to be more honest about race the next time our nation found itself at a racial flashpoint? What might be lost? What might be gained?”
• It’s Been A Minute: The Capitol, Mobbed
• How Democrats Won The Georgia Runoffs
• About Canada Beyond 150 Reconciliation Project

Let us know how you are offering support to others and ways you are dealing with this. We’re sending loads of love your way. xo
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In Vino Fabulum! In Wine, Story!

Subscribe to #InVinoFab podcast on Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you catch your pods. Follow us on Twitter @InVinoFab or IG: @invinofab  

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In this shorty #InVinoFab episode, Patrice and Laura share about how they are stocking up their wine for winter. We share the wine clubs and wineries we have been ordering from to keep our spirits bright -- while also missing the vineyards we enjoy visiting and supporting.

• Tensley Cellar Club
• Bright Cellars 
• First Leaf 
• Adam’s Bench
• Nantucket Food & Wine Festival
• Dream Wine Locations to visit: California, Willamette Valley, OR, & Kamloops, BC
• The Pack (TV show)

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In Vino Fabulum! In Wine, Story!

Subscribe to #InVinoFab podcast on Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you catch your pods. Follow us on Twitter @InVinoFab or IG: @invinofab  

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‘Tis the season… to feel burned out. Fa la la la la -- la la la la! 

In the last #InVinoFab episode of the year, Patrice and Laura share how 2020 has been SO MUCH. We talk about making time and space to reset, recharge, and find some down time or quiet space. With so much care and compassion we put into our learning design, we talk about ways to offer support for colleagues and peers who might be struggling with the overload of 2020 for the work and the invisibility of it all. We chat about how we will reset during our time out of the office and what we’re giving gratitude for before we close out 2020. Happy end of year, y’all. We made it!

• The Emerging Story of Burnout in Educational Design by Patrice Prusko
• Burned Out: Stories of Compassion Fatigue by Patrice Prusko & Whitney Kilgore
• Burning Out [Faculty in Higher Ed]
• Compassion Fatigue
• Higher Ed Needs a Long-Term Plan for Virtual Learning

We’re grateful for those friends, family, and colleagues who fill our hearts and are part of the community -- like you, dear listener! Thanks and have a relaxing holiday and/or break!

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For #InVinoFab episode no. 73 Laura chats with a couple of moms and past guests, Kristen Abell & Sue Caulfield, about their experiences this year with COVID-19. We discuss the reality of being a mom in the pandemic while trying to maintain a balance between work and life at home. Thanks to Sue & Kristen for sharing their candid perspectives about being a mom, identity shifts, expectations of their role, supporting mental health, and more when dealing being a mom in 2020.

• Episode #26: The Committed Project with @Kristen_Abell & @_SueCaulfield
• Stuck-At-Home Moms: The Pandemic's Devastating Toll On Women via NPR 
• What Kind of Screen Time Parent Are You? Take This Quiz And Find Out
• Episode #19: Mind the Gender Gap - Overworked & Underpaid
• The Pandemic Is Dragging On. Professors Are Burning Out. [in Higher Ed]
• Beating Pandemic Burnout 

“People parent in different ways. Just like people live in different ways, and that’s totally fine because diversity is good.” ~ Sue

“The problem is we keep trying to systematize the workplace, rather than individualizing it… we aren’t just our jobs. But so few workplaces are built around people, they are built around the work. That’s’ what makes it so hard for us to adjust right now.” ~ Kristen 

Parenting in a pandemic advice from Kristen & Sue:

1. Set your boundaries: for both work and home life.
2. Reset boundaries & check in with these limitations to take back control.
3. Negotiate your time/schedule with your employer - WFH, flexible hours, etc.
4. Ask yourself: What in your life is exhausting you & filling you up more? Find more energy
5. Practicing gratitude: pause to reflect on what you are grateful for these days.
6. Stay “in community” with those who support you and you also can support with real talk.

Connect with these fab #InVinoFab friends of the pod and their passion projects at:

Kristen: http://kristenabell.com/ 

Sue: https://thecommittedproject.org/toolkit/ 

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In Vino Fabulum! In Wine, Story!

Subscribe to #InVinoFab podcast on Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you catch your pods. Follow us on Twitter @InVinoFab or IG: @invinofab  

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In episode no. 72 of #InVinoFab, we are joined by Caroline Kuhn for a conversation of what it means to be “in transition” throughout our personal and professional lives. Caroline shares her interests in what shapes students’ reflexive engagement -their agency- with more sophisticated digital practices in research-rich contexts. And from her experience and background, we learn why she is thinking more about how we craft and construct the spaces we engage in -- for digital learning, work, identity, family, making “and vs. or” decisions, and finding your calling. 

“Who am I? What do I want?” ~@carolak asked these questions to find her own identity

• Global OER Graduate Network http://go-gn.net/ 
• Research with Judith Pete more to come for this collaboration
• Caol Ila Single Malt Whiskey (Scotland) 
• Silvia Federici
  • Wages for Housework 
  • Silvia Federici: The exploitation of women and the development of capitalism
• Nancy Fraser
  • Feminism in Neoliberal Times: An Interview with Nancy Fraser

“The hardest decisions are the best ones… that’s how you flourish. Enduring that struggle and finding resources to stay up, and also, to stand up when you fall.” ~@carolak 

Caroline Kuhn is senior lecturer at the School of Education at Bath Spa University, and she is leading a research project that aims at designing and implementing an OER to support educators in improving their critical data literacies so much needed in an increasingly data-driven society. Learn more about her work at: https://carolinekuhn.net/  

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In Vino Fabulum! In Wine, Story!

Subscribe to #InVinoFab podcast on Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you catch your pods. Follow us on Twitter @InVinoFab or IG: @invinofab  

Email us to be a guest or share a topic suggestion? [email protected] 

Connect with your co-hosts (she/her) on Twitter: @laurapasquini & @profpatrice