The Bolt Productions

Welcome back to season 2 of Girls Chat Podcast! Your host Daria Wilk will talk about what season 2 has in-store as well as why Women's History Month is so important. 

Advice from current college students for the class of 2025. We discuss the various aspects of college life, what's similar & different to high school, and things high school teachers say that isn't always true in college.

A Q&A with members of The Bolt Productions, a multimedia organization ran by college students. In this episode, we give advice and our perspective on all different aspects of college life.

An interview with the president of student government on St John's Staten Island campus, Roger Guevara.

We discuss how our lives have been during the year and how we adjusted to life with a pandemic and online learning.

New sports podcast, where our members Nick, Chris, and Matt get together to talk about sports. This is a strictly opinion based podcast where the guys talk freely on old, new, and present sporting events and athletes from the NFL to the NBA to MLB and so much more!

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A weekly podcast where members of the bolt discuss various topics. Today we discussed movies that should've been nominated for an oscar award. Check out more great content on our website https://www.theboltsju.com/ Be sure to follow us on Instagram for updates: https://www.instagram.com/thebolt.sju Subscribe to us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBQb0QVmK-VGlF2V02PCJSw/

Join Courtney, our Vice President and Host of Storm Chasers for an interview with a familiar voice, former President of The Bolt Productions, Brian Borgersen. Brian served as The Bolt Productions President from 2019-2021, graduated college in three years as a television & film major, and now currently works at NBC as a Digital Playback Operator. In this episode of Storm Chasers, we get an alumni update on what Brian's been up to since graduating St. John's. This includes his experience working at NBC Universal, a reflection on his time in college and how being a part of The Bolt has helped him professionally, going to college during the pandemic, and any advice for students that are majors within the mass communication department or are looking to graduate a year early themselves. We also say goodbye to our Vice President and Host, Courtney, as this is her final episode of Storm Chasers.

Join Courtney, our Vice President and host of Storm Chasers as she interviews adjunct associate professor, Anthony Paduano for our fourth and final part in our series "Student vs. Professor Perspective". In this last episode of the series, we discuss Professor Paduano's academic journey from being a student of the St. John's University Staten Island campus to now an instructor at his alma mater and doctoral candidate. Plus, some insight on what made him decide to initially pursue mass communication and a brief discussion on what elements in a design make it stand out.

Join Courtney, our vice president and host of Storm Chasers as she interviews Associate Professor of Business Law and Prelaw Advisor Joseph Kenny on how his academic background in education during his undergraduate years led to an unexpected career as an attorney and an educator in academia along with some advice for students who may be interested in a career in law.

Podcasts are back! Join Courtney, our vice president and host of Storm Chasers as she interviews Professor James Jannucci to gain some insight on what made him decide to pursue music and education, along with how Professor Jannucci structures his music courses and where he sees musical theatre headed in the future. Plus a discussion about what makes live musical theatre performances so uniquely special to its viewers.

Join Courtney, our Vice President and Host of Storm Chasers as she interviews Dr. Nancy DiTunnariello who is a professor, coordinator of the SJU-SI Communication Arts program and the faculty advisor of The Bolt Productions to gain some insight on what it's like being an educator at the postsecondary level, her approach when it comes to teaching a course, and what inspired Dr. DiTunnariello to pursue a career in communications and academia.  You can listen to her podcast No Shade, All Tea using this link: https://anchor.fm/nancy-ditunnariello 

Welcome back everyone! Our first podcast of the fall 2022 semester is with Jackie Lepore who graduated from St. John's University Staten Island Campus in 2021 as an English major and obtained a masters degree in English from St. John's University in 2022. She held multiple roles during her undergraduate years such as being the founder and president of English club, president of sorority Kappa Beta Gamma, senior senator in student government, and secretary of the Italian club. She held an assistantship during her time as a graduate student in the vice provosts office and is now an adjunct professor and assistant director of student life on the Staten Island Campus. Join Courtney (our Vice President and host of Storm Chasers) as we discuss Jackie's experience in these different positions during her time as a student along with what it was like for her studying English at different academic levels, what it is like to now teach English at her alma mater, the impact St. John's has had on her life what she aspires to do in the future. 

For our final podcast episode of the Spring semester, we are making a part two of a series we started last year where we interview the current SGI President of the Staten Island Campus. In today’s episode of Storm Chasers, Courtney (our host and VP) conducts an interview with the 2021-2022 SGI-SI President, Hanya Abdalla.

The time has finally arrived, the two communication department clubs on the Staten Island Campus have finally joined forces in the form of an epic podcast interview. Join our host Courtney as she interviews Luke and Isabelle, the President and Vice-President of the Communication Arts Club to discuss the St. John's Comm Arts program and the main differences between these two campus organizations. 

Join Courtney, our Vice-President and Host of Storm Chasers as she starts a new series where we interview E-Board members from different organizations on the Staten Island campus. In today's episode she interviewed E-Board members Matthew Kane and Mohamed Hussein from the Multicultural Student Organization (MCSO) and the Muslim Student Association (MSA). 

Last semester, two of our members (Courtney and Nick) interviewed the Editor-In-Chief of The Torch newspaper, Alicia Venter. 

This week your host Daria Wilk is back with Liz Petrillo for the last episode of season 1. Liz own her own small business (Ig: @lizzyscustomizations) and shares tips on how to start your small business, benefits and downsides of side hustle, and many more. So tune in and we hope you enjoyed this season!

For this episode your host Daria met with Jill Delaney and talked about everything travel. From the horror story of a sink hole next to the hotel to things we just wished we knew before we travelled, we got you covered!