Ayanna Tweedy, Associate Director of Athletics & Samantha Current, Compliance and Business Operations Coordinator, joined the show this week. Lots of great nuggets from this conversation! While Stephanie and I have spent a lot of time on our ne

Episode 17 - Lamarr Pottinger | NCAA

May 27th, 2021 29m 58s

Lamarr Pottinger, Associate Director of Leadership Development at the NCAA, joins this week's show. We talk about his time as a student-athlete, his transition to student-athlete development, and his time as a participant and facilitator in NCA

Episode 16 - Jackie Kelly & Marc Dauphin | Rutgers

May 19th, 2021 24m 50s

This week Jackie Kelly, Director for Student-Athlete Wellness, Outreach and Inclusion, & Marc Dauphin, Big Ten Intern, of Rutgers join the podcast. We talk about the Rutgers Leadership program, leadership programs for credit, their experiences

Episode 15 - Chad Levesque | AIC

Apr 29th, 2021 16m 43s

This week Chad Levesque joins the podcast. Chad is an assistant coach for the AIC baseball team as well as working in the Student-Athlete Success department at AIC. He is also pursuing a masters degree at Western New England University.Links:

E14 - Cori Pinkett | Baylor

Apr 21st, 2021 39m 57s

After a short break, we are back with an interview with Cori Pinkett from Baylor University. Lots of fantastic information in the episode. This is an episode that we had to go back and listen to multiple times!Links:Cori: BU Bio | TwitterSte

E13 - Kayla Lee and Ryan Griffin | Bethune-Cookman University

Mar 17th, 2021 35m 58s

This week we are joined by Kayla Lee and Ryan Griffin of Bethune-Cookman. We find out who dragged who into the program, how their program is coming along and their thoughts of the NCAA LAW modules so far.Links:Kayla: BCU BioRyan: BCU BioSt

E12 - Formation Group Update!

Mar 3rd, 2021 12m 31s

After not talking about our formation group for 2 months, we give you an update as to what has been happening! Links:Stephanie: Twitter | AIC BioThomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

E11 - Shelby McKay and Derrick Mitchell

Feb 25th, 2021 25m 7s

We are joined by Shelby McKay, Assistant Director of Athletics, Student-Athlete Development, and Derrick Mitchell, Coordinator, Student-Athlete Development and Wellbeing from Washington State join us this week!In the episode, we the Cougar Pur

E10 - George Midgett and Ben Wilson | Kansas

Feb 17th, 2021 36m 12s

George Midgett, Director of Student-Athlete Development, Leadership and Outreach, and Ben Wilson, Director of Student-Athlete Development, of Kansas University join the show.We talked about their student-athlete development programs that are a

E9 - Jenn Cunningham and Nick Sailor | Providence College

Feb 11th, 2021 43m 20s

Jenn Cunningham, Assistant Athletic Director/External Relations, SAAC Advisor and Nick Sailor, Director of Training and Education For Diversity, Equity And Inclusion of Providence College joins us for our longest episode yet!We talk about thei

E8 - Amanda Ekabutr

Feb 4th, 2021 33m 27s

This week Amanda Ekabutr, Director of Student-Athlete Development/Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the University of Massachusetts (UMass). We discuss her road from Scottsdale Community College to UMass, its winding road, and the social justi

E7 - Dr. Jeff O'Brien

Jan 28th, 2021 34m 5s

This week Dr. Jeff O'Brien, Vice President of the Institute for Sport and Social Justice, joins the podcast. We find out how he went from a working class family in Upstate New York to Vice President of ISSJ. We discuss some of his favorite mome

E6 - Chad Allen, Morgan State

Jan 26th, 2021 27m 29s

Chad Allen, Director of Student-Athlete Development at Morgan State joins us this week. He talks about his time as college student-athlete, coach, and how he ended up in student-athlete development. Chad, Stephanie, and Thomas then talk about t

E5 - Recap of our first formation group meeting!

Jan 6th, 2021 19m 54s

This week we go over how our first formation group meeting went! We discuss how we finalized our mission and vision statement and the thought process that went into the process!

E4 - Needs Based Assessment

Dec 23rd, 2020 16m 14s

This week Stephanie and Thomas discuss what a needs base assessment is, why it is important, and we are expecting to learn from our assessment.

E1 - Who are we are why are we talking leadership?

Dec 11th, 2020 18m 42s

Stephanie Jarosik and Thomas Pool discuss their backgrounds and reasoning for applying for the NCAA Leadership Workshop Academy

E2 - The Formation Group

Dec 11th, 2020 16m 1s

This week Stephanie and Thomas discuss what a formation group is, how to put one together and why it is important!

E3 - Tobruk Blaine

Dec 11th, 2020 30m 53s

This week Tobruk Blaine, the Beyond Football Coordinator at San Jose State, discusses her time as a high school teacher, how becoming a mother helped her be a better leader and about the Beyond Football program at SJSU. You can follow Tobruk'

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