What's Career Got To Do With It?

On today’s episode we will discuss an answer, or many, to the question, “ Where do we go from here? Breaking thru the block." Transcript: Michael "Rudi" ...: Hello and welcome to the What's Career Got to Do With It podcast, where we hope to provide a space for honest conversation and information that encourages the listener to take the next steps in their career journey. Wherever you are at in this process, we hope this episode will meet you with affirmation, guidance, and maybe some laughs along the way. On today's episode, we will discuss an answer or many to the question, where do we go from here? Breaking through the block. Nicole Mitchell: Duh, duh, dun. Michael "Rudi" ...: Immediately just had an image of the juggernaut running through a wall. I'm the juggernaut. Ängela Bonner: And I was in football pads, just taking out the defensive lineman. Okay. Nicole Mitchell: Welcome to your career advisors. Come see us. Brian Center, bottom level. Michael "Rudi" ...: Yeah, yeah. The conversations we have, from Marvel comics to actual helpful hints, I hope. Anyway, so this question, in many ways, makes me feel stuck. I think that's this ubiquitous feeling that we have is like uh oh, here I am. I'm in this environment, and I don't know what to do. And it's beyond that of finding purpose that we've touched on. It's beyond the identifying that next step or making a pivot. It's the space before that, perhaps, where you're just stuck in a scenario, a situation. So many different things that are impacting, and you literally feel like you can't go anywhere. So for us, what is that moment? What tunes us into that? Nicole, what tunes you into that feeling of being stuck? How do you know you're there? Nicole Mitchell: I think for me it's more questions than answers, where I've gotten to a point where I'm just asking myself question after question after question. I might answer one every now and then. But definitely when I get to the point of asking more questions than being able to give more answers, I know that I'm stuck, and that it's time to lean in to my mentors, my Career Center, my community to help guide me in the next steps. Ängela Bonner: I think I'm stuck when I'm not happy, and I'm always drained. That's my telltale that is it's kind of time to have some more conversations. Michael "Rudi" ...: Yeah, I think it's weird that there's like this physiological phenomena associated with this that we actually physically don't feel like ourselves. And when we're in that place, we can't actually do the things we typically like to do, or maybe we replace the things we typically like to do with other things that are not as helpful in our lives. And I think, for me, I'm a person that's constantly moving, and I notice if I stop moving, I'm typically actually stuck, and I'm like- Nicole Mitchell: Pun intended. Michael "Rudi" ...: Yes. What do I next? And so paying attention to those physiological signs, to those racing thoughts, those questions, if there's more questions, we don't have a lot of answers, and that puts us in a place of being stuck, the environment that we're in. Those all are things that help us tune into that. So that how do we get unstuck? What exactly are we supposed to do to get out of that place? Your doctor will tell you to go exercise. And doctors are very good at that. I mean, that is fruitful advice. Ängela Bonner: It helps. Michael "Rudi" ...: John Green talks about all the time on his TikTok channel of taking another stupid walk, my stupid mental health. And yes. Ängela Bonner: Oh my. Michael "Rudi" ...: No, it's good. We need sunshine. Those things are important. But how do we get unstuck? Where do you send students, I think, for trying to avoid that? Nicole Mitchell: I think, for me, the first thing is doing a little self exploration. So there's a reason why we're stuck. We're stuck because we're ready for our next move. We're stuck because we don't have enough informa

A replay from season 1

Transcript: - Hello and welcome to the "What's Career Got To Do With It" podcast, where we hope to provide a space for honest conversation and information that encourages the listener to take the next steps in their career journey. Wherever you're at in this process, we hope this episode will meet you with affirmation, guidance, and maybe some laughs along the way. - Joining us today is Jamie Byrd, director of Employer Relations at the Duke Career Center as we discuss and answer for many to the question, what are my strengths? And tell me all my weaknesses. No, that's not a question. And what are my weaknesses? - Uh huh. - Hey, Jaime. - Good morning! Thank you for having me. - My first true boss! You know I love you, Jaime. - Love you back. So good to be here. Thanks for having me. - So today we're talking about something that I think students often want to discuss in the interview process or just in general, even in networking of like, this is who I am, I know my strengths or I have no idea of my strengths. And then like I think in particular, having worked at Duke now, I've seen a lot of students who really want to focus on their weaknesses and be like, "How do I overcome this? This seems terrible. It seems like the worst thing. Like how do I even reframe that?" Because I think there's also a general understanding of like, oh you just reframe this weakness to turn it into a strength. That's what you always do. And I think it's a little bit more complicated than that. But Jaime, before we dive into those deep questions surrounding, how you can be a stronger person, what is weakness, what is failure, we'd love to hear from you a little bit about your career journey and how you got to where you are today. Yeah. - Well, good morning. Thanks again for having me. My career journey has been not a straight line. It's been kind of all over the map, but I have found my spot in student affairs and higher education over the last decade or so. When I was an undergraduate student, I was one of those kids that had multiple different majors. I was a business major for a while. Then I was an English major, then I was a communications major, which I stuck with. And then I added public relations and journalism to kind of round out some of that studying. But honestly, when I was in college, I went to a really small private school and I was involved in a lot of things, and I got to interface with a lot of student affairs staff, and I loved working with them. And so by the time I graduated, I thought, "How can I do what they do?" So I ended up going to get my master's in higher ed student affairs, and the rest is kind of history. I've been in student affairs ever since. So it's been 12 years, 13 years, and a decade of that's been here at Duke. So it's been a fun ride. Hopefully I'm not changing careers anytime soon. - You never know, you never know. - We won't let you go. We can't. - I always like to think like student affairs is like, a microcosm of the world outside as well, because like you have people trying to make it happen and trying to like be professional but then also you throw students in there and it just becomes like this whole background of a mess. But that's like the world. You get out there and you're trying to adult, you're trying to do the professional thing, but then life happens, people happen. There's maniacs on the road out there driving. - Who try to merge into the lane at the very last minute and won't get over earlier. - And for me on 147, - Oh okay, real. - It's a zipper merge. - No turning signal, no thank you. No, thank you.* But yeah, so we try to do all these things in our career. And Jaime, I appreciate you going through your trajectory to normalize the concept of finding something and going with it and just meandering and going in your path and just saying, "Hey, this is what I want to do. I'm gonna go give it a try. Oh, it seems to be working. I'm gonna stick with it. I'm gonna go with it." And I'm

Transcript: - Hello, and welcome to the "What's Career Got to Do With It?" podcast, where we hope to provide a space for honest conversation and information that encourages the listener to take the next steps in their career journey. Wherever you're at in this process, we hope this episode will meet you with affirmation, guidance, and maybe some laughs along the way. - Today, we discuss an answer, or many, to the question, "How scripted is too scripted?" Good job. - Yes! Welcome. - Who gave us technology? - We don't have a script. - George Washington. - Clearly. - What? Oh. - Ooh. - Welcome to an afternoon recording of "What's Career Got to Do With It?" folks. - We've got the giggles. - Oh yeah, it's three o'clock. It is. - So talking about scripts, as I read from our script, yes, we do write stuff here, but that's, what you just heard was the sum of it. That's all. We have nothing else planned. - The introduction, that's it. - So we're just gonna talk about being scripted in life and in interviews, mainly about interviews though. So how often do we meet with students that come in and they are gazing at their screens while they do a practice interview with us and they read, read, read, and then they look at us and they're like, "How was it?" And you're like, no. It was okay. Yeah. - Often. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I'd say pretty often too. I'd say you can, it's always the down and the up too. Like, you can tell they're reading from something as well, so I think that makes it a little more awkward as well. - Yeah. - Yeah and sometimes I pause 'em 'cause sometimes it's just, it's too intense and I have to remind them, like, "Hey, this is just a conversation. Like, you're just talking. Just breathe." - Yeah. - Please. And then, you know, just start over a little bit, 'cause they get so amped up. - Yeah. Or I'll get the people that have the questions they want you to ask them and they're like, "Hey, here are the 10 questions that I've already written out answers to. Can you ask me these questions?" And then they read from that sheet. That gets me every time. - Yeah. I once had a student that had some software program on their computer that directed their eyes back to the screen every single time. So they never broke eye contact with me. - Oh my. - Oh. - But I don't know what they were reading from I'm, so- - And it was a big interview? - Well, they, no, no, this was in a mock interview and they asked me if it looked weird. I didn't wanna use word weird. It was a little weird but- - Off putting, perhaps. - Yeah. Given this was for a military interview setting. And so- - Yeah. - There was probably a need to have a little bit more eye contact than normal. But at the end of the day, I think what we're getting at here is this should mirror life. This should mirror who you are as a person. And it takes a little bit to get there because this is not just an interview thing, it's a, when you go in and meet somebody, you're not gonna have a script with you. When you're doing an informational interview, you may have some questions, but you're not always gonna be able to read from that. I don't know. What's y'all's take on scripts? How to prepare 'em, when to use them, when to to prepare a little bit, when to prepare too much, or how to prepare too much, what does that look like? I don't know, I'm just kind of rambling. - I think scripting takes away from everything that we've discussed within this podcast over the past four seasons. And that's being your authentic self. I know we can tip into that world of AI where folks are using ChatGPT and all the other ones that are around now to kind of create cover letters and even, you know, tell me about myself. But what I found is in the last couple of conferences I've been to, employers are like, there is a huge disconnect between what you presented me on paper and how you are presenting yourself now when I'm interviewing you. So I think you can almost make it harder for

Transcript: - Hello, and welcome to the "What's Career Got To Do With It" podcast, where we hope to provide a space for honest conversation and information that encourages the listener to take the next steps in their career journey. Wherever you're at in this process, we hope this episode will meet you with affirmation, guidance, and maybe some laughs along the way. - Joining us today is Dr. Candace Watts Smith, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Professor of Political Science. As we discuss and answer or many to the question, how do we tell our own story? - Welcome. - Thank you. - Thank you for coming. - Much appreciated. - Woo. - You've already experienced this unrecorded, so I'll just- - It's super sidebar. - Okay, the way you introduced this episode, it was like, "Listen." - Listen to what I have to- - Listen. - Okay, all right. ♪ To the sound here ♪ - Starting off hot, y'all, welcome, good morning. - Welcome, that's all I can say. - We're happy you're here. - I am thrilled to be here with you. - And I think the first question in this entire thing just is in the title. So we would love for you to tell us a little bit about yourself and tell our listeners about you. - Yeah, sure, thank you for having me. I'm grateful for the invitation and to be in conversation with y'all. I wear many hats around here. This summer, I think really is indicative of that. So I started out, I had to take a trip to Louisville and DC and that was, you know, both of those were in my capacity as VPUE as the Vice Provost. The DC trip was amazing because I was meeting with founders of new universities. So, you know, Duke is turning 100, but meeting a university founder on day one or year one, just kind of what innovations are they doing at their school and how can we think about incorporating their insights here at Duke? I had to go to Rutgers as a faculty member, thinking about how can we incorporate strategies into our classrooms for difficult dialogues. And I mean, we got an election coming up. We got, you know, the AI chatter, we got conflicts all over the globe. We got a lot going on, and so how do we get students and faculty members to think critically and have productive conversations? I gotta spend a week in South Carolina on a writing retreat, trying to write a textbook that is not boring on American politics and a book about listening and listening to our fellow citizens to enhance democracy. And then I spent a lot of time on 85 going to Charlotte, to the National Whitewater Center with my family. We live in Southgate, where I'm the Faculty in Residence. And now I'm here with y'all. So just about myself, Ben, I'm Vice Provost, faculty member, faculty in residence, triple Dukie, and I'm grateful to be here with y'all. - Come on. - Ah. - Come on. - We're grateful to have you. I think hearing you just even begin to start with, all right, this is kind of what's been going on in my life and then hit the high points too of, this is a little bit about me as well. One of the things that we encounter on a day-to-day basis with our students is responding to a question like that and how to navigate that, how to tell stories. And even in your work, just hearing, listening to stories and how they emerge out of wherever they're coming from and how they're getting started. And also from the political sphere of how we tell our story in a politics standpoint. And as a country, how do we tell our story? That is such a big question that so many of our students have. And oftentimes, they get caught up in the very beginning and they want to list the resume, or they want to list a little bit about maybe an accomplishment too much, or talk about one accomplishment too much and forget all the other things that make them who they are. Maybe that life side of things, "Oh, I traveled down to the Whitewater Center with my family." These are important parts of their story that I often think they miss. And I would love to hear from yo

Joining our podcast team today is Ben Adams, Senior Associate Dean of Students for QuadEx, as they discuss an answer, or many, to the question how do we highlight our transferrable skills? Public Speaking, creative writing, juggling? We all have skills that we perform on a daily basis that inform the work we do, the question is, do we utilize them to tell our stories and advocate for ourselves when new opportunities arise? Transcript: - Hello and welcome to the "What's Career Got To Do With It?" podcast, where we hope to provide a space for honest conversation and information that encourages a listener to take the next steps in their career journey. Wherever you're at in this process, we hope that this episode will meet you with affirmation, guidance, and maybe some laughs along the way. - Joining us today is Ben Adams, senior Associate Dean of Students for Quad X. As we discuss an answer or many to the question, "How do we highlight our transferable skills?" ♪ Dun, dun, dun ♪ - I don't know what they are. I'm just kidding. They're on the website, maybe. - Not there on the website. - But Ben, thank you so much for joining us today. We really appreciate it having you here. - Yeah. - It means a lot. And we'd love for you to do a brief introduction of who you are and how you got here. - Awesome. That sounds great, y'all. Thanks again for having me. It's fun to be with you guys and just kinda chat a little bit about careers and life skills and transferrable skills and everything. So again, thanks to the team here at the career center for making this happen. Just a brief background of kinda who I am. Again, my name is Ben, senior Associate Dean of Quad X, which is a role that I've been in for wrapping up year one. Kinda stepping into year two is as we evolve, as with kinda what we're doing with Quad X. So a little bit of background about who I am. I am a Duke grad. We can start there. So I graduated from Duke in 2008 with a degree in public policy, but I have had very, very different roles, kind of, over the course of my lifetime. So I think that there's perhaps two ways of telling the story. One is just kind of what I've done and how I've evolved over the course of time, which if you do it through that lens, you know, I've kinda worn a number of hats. I've been a high school US history teacher. I was an admissions officer for Duke, and I ran all of our work around international student. I didn't run the international student recruitment process, but I was part of that team. But I also led what we did with first generation college student recruitment while I was at Duke. I have been a director of development and external affairs for an organization to help build a school in Durham. And so, I have strong connections to the Durham community and to North Carolina as a whole. I went to divinity school and became a pastor, and I was a pastor of a church, a United Methodist Church in Cary, North Carolina. So I know the Cary community well and kind of have connection to the faith community. And then now I am in this role in student affairs. So like from that, if you were to like map that life, this kid is all over the place. Like, he's keeps a job for like three years or four years and bounces around, and the career trajectory just kind of looks a little bit like a series of or game of shoots and ladders, right? Where you just kind of go one direction and then go back in a different direction. And that's one way of telling this story. And I think that's, you know, that's how people, when they look at resumes, the traditional resume, right? Might read it. But I think the way that I view it is a story of purpose and, like, what is your purpose in life? And if you can kind of begin to hone in on what that is, it can manifest itself in so many different ways. And so, the way I tell it to folks is, my purpose in life is to foster communities where everyone has the opportunity to thrive. Like, that's what I do. Now, what that has

Transcript: - Hello, and welcome to the "What's Career Got To Do With It" podcast, where we hope to provide a space for honest conversation and information that encourages the listener to take the next steps in their career journey. So, wherever you're at in this process, we hope this episode will meet you with affirmation, guidance, and maybe some laughs along the way. - On today's episode, we are joined by Meg Wilson, the Duke Career Center's Associate Director for Communication and Outreach. As we discuss an answer, or many, to the question, "How do we merge our purpose and future with our identities, goals, and everything else that makes us who we are?" Meg, how do we do it? - Oh wee, that's a big question, isn't it? Good morning. - Hey, Meg. - Good morning, it's exciting to be here. A little nervous, not used to talking about myself and my thoughts. I love communicating what you all wanna tell people. - Well just think, we don't have microphones, we don't have headphones. - We're just hanging. - It's 3:00 snack time in the office. - Beautiful. - Yes. - Beautiful. - No, I'm happy to be here with you all and thinking about this is an amazing question. - And I gotta tell a story, I think, before we even get into this. When I first started at Duke, so about two years ago now, or actually over two years ago, right Angela? - A little over, yeah. - A little over two years ago. Stacey, at the time, was walking me around the office and telling me about our coworkers, and she just looks at me and she goes, "I just love Meg. I just love Meg, the presence that she has. I wish I had that patience, that demeanor." And ever since then, I witness it every day. I know we all do, of this way about living and going about work and life that I think we all respect. And so to kinda shout out Meg for a second, and say, thank you, Meg, for carrying that around the office. We love you for that. We appreciate you for that. - Thanks so much, that's sweet of you to say. Stacey too. - Yeah, yeah. But yeah, I think for real, when we started this particular conversation, we were thinking about this common refrain when people ask how somebody's doing, and this is for what I've come to learn, is predominantly a response that comes locally to the United States of a response that is a, oh, I always have to say, I'm doing well. I always have to say that something good is happening. I always have to say that like, "Oh, it's good, it's going well, I'm living the dream." And that's where this comes from. And you know, I think some days we embody it, some days we don't, and I would love your take on that. - Living the dream, that's a thing, isn't it? And I suspect for everyone, the dream changes every now and then. I know it has for me. What comes to mind for me is Beyonce, of course. In "Pretty Hurts." - Yeah, okay, okay. - What is your aspiration in life? To be happy. And at different times in my life, happiness comes in different ways. I would say primarily, relationships with people, connections with other people on Earth that have the same worries and things that I have. And that's probably the most important. This, very important to me, also in my aspiration, is to have work where I can contribute and be a part of something big happening, and offer something to that. And I take away a lot of joy from that as well. So the happy is not always smiling, but having the strength to get through and having a moment to think about what I want. Having the resources to make some choices. That's about it for me. - What about everybody else? - I like when you said, just like, having the opportunity to make some choices, I like that. I think living the dream is like, again, making a choice to live the dream, regardless of if it seems like what the dream should be. So I like that. - Yes. - And what do you think, Rudy? - He gave Kai a microphone, he just puts people on the spot. - Yeah. - And then he passes it away. - Well, the only reason why

Ängela and Nicole have a talk with Nina King, Duke Vice President, Director of Athletics and Adjunct Professor of Business Administration and discuss an answer, or many, to the question how do we merge our purpose and future with our identities, goals and everything else that makes us who we are.

Transcript: Kai Kelley, Jr: Y'all, we're back. Hello and welcome to What's Career Got To Do With It? Podcast. Where we hope to provide a space for honest conversation and information that encourages the listener to take the next steps in their career journey. Wherever you're at in the process, we hope this episode will meet you with affirmation, guidance, and maybe some laughs along the way. Michael (Rudi) Rudisill: On today's episode, as we discuss an answer, or many, to the question, how do we merge our purpose and future with our identities, goals, and everything else that makes us who we are? We live the dream. Nicole Mitchell: Living the dream. Kai Kelley, Jr: I can't. Nicole Mitchell: It's been a while y'all. Ängela Bonner: I need another sip of coffee. Nicole Mitchell: I miss y'all in new setting. Kai Kelley, Jr: Ooh. Michael (Rudi) Rudisill: We're back and we found buttons. Ängela Bonner: Fun mag. Michael (Rudi) Rudisill: Okay, Kai. How do you live the dream? Kai Kelley, Jr: Oh my God, I sleep and dream of dreams undreamed and hope they come true. Nicole Mitchell: And dream of dreams undreamed. Kai Kelley, Jr: Ain't that a line? Nicole Mitchell: And hope they come true. Kai Kelley, Jr: I do. Because I believe in you and me. Michael (Rudi) Rudisill: Is that copywrited? Nicole Mitchell: All right, now. Michael (Rudi) Rudisill: Who's your ghost writer? No, I think this conversation started with Angela and I were planning, we were just sitting there and we had no idea what we wanted to do next. And we were trying to think through some ideas. We put some ideas out there. I don't know why, but I just thought of this phrase, living the dream, and how corny it is. How annoying it can be. There's always that one person you go up to and you're like, "Hey, how are you doing today? Living the dream." Nicole Mitchell: Living the dream. Michael (Rudi) Rudisill: Well, apparently Nicole says that. Yep. So living the dream. I know people ask me, I go, swell. Kai Kelley, Jr: Oh my God. Michael (Rudi) Rudisill: See? Kai Kelley, Jr: Swell. Michael (Rudi) Rudisill: Yeah. But I think it carries something with it and we don't often ask the question, what does that even mean? What are we doing when we say we are living the dream? Are we actually living the dream? Is there something behind it? Are we really, day in and day, out going out and carrying out what this means? Is it sarcasm? What does that phrase mean to you? I think there's so much nuance to this. I would just love to just put the question out there. What does it mean to live the dream? Nicole Mitchell: I think it all depends on the day, whether it's sarcastic or not. Be real honest with you. But if I have to answer seriously, I think living the dream is just trying to live to be the best me I can be in that space and time. What does it look like? Is it a good day? Am I going to get all my to-do list done, or am I doing good just to get one done and we'll figure it out the next day. But then on the sarcastic side of everything is just falling down, I will be the sarcastic behind and say, "Hey, living a dream, you can see it all crumbling". But I'm still good. Kai Kelley, Jr: Honestly, when I thought about the response of living a dream to how you're doing, I'm used to people saying, yes, I'm blessed and highly favored without not necessarily being religious, but saying that regardless of what day it is, whether it's a Monday or a Thursday, it's working out towards some sort of good at the end of it. So, I think that's what I think that and living the dream has in common. It's a continued, committed effort to making whatever you want to happen happen through strategic planning, goal setting and all that good stuff. Michael (Rudi) Rudisill: He just made me think of Abbott Elementary. Kai Kelley, Jr: You know it's coming back on. The new season is starting too. Nicole Mitchell: It's coming back. Why are y'all giving away a free advertisements. Kai Kelle

Join our hosts and special guest, Stacia Solomon, Director of Duke Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, as they discuss how to identify and affirm the forgotten superpowers in the workplace.  When someone says superpower – what do you think of? What about when it comes to work? When you think of putting together a team, what are some of the superpowers you MUST have? What do we do when we don’t see any superpowers in others or even in ourselves? Transcript: - Hello and welcome to the What's Career Got to Do With It podcast, where we hope to provide a space for honest conversation and information that encourages a listener to take the next steps in their career journey. Wherever you're at in this process, we hope this episode will meet you with affirmation, guidance, and maybe some laughs along the way. - On today's episode, we are joined by special guest, Stacia Solomon, director of the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture. As we discuss an answer or many to the question, what are some forgotten superpowers in the workplace? - Hey Stacia. - Hey y'all. Good morning. - I appreciate y'all doing that cuz I just jump in. What's up? What are the superpowers? - Rudi. On ramp, ease into it. - I'm sorry, I'm bad at greeting people. In person too, I just wave. I'm just like, ert. - Yeah. - Just quickly. - Literally quiet that is your wave. - I'm working on it. Welcome Stacia. Thank you for joining us today. - Thank you for having me. - Of course, of course. We are excited to have our guests today and we are excited to continue to dive into this topic Further Superpowers. We've talked about it in many different capacities in many different ways, and superpowers of course means something different to everybody, but Stacia, superpowers. - Hmm. - What are they? - Superpowers. - Do you need more parameters here? - I might, because, you know, you can go a lot of different directions with superpowers. - So let's see, let's be good hosts this morning and let her know kind of what some people have talked about. So some folks have talked about superpowers, hidden superpowers in the workplace. - Mm-hmm. - Folks have talked about superpowers and differentiating them between home and the workplace. - Hmm. - Superpowers in, superpowers that may not be realized for people, but they're valued within the workplace. - Mm-hmm. - How's that for you? - That works. - Okay. - That helps, that helps. - You're welcome. $22 please. - Okay, invoice me. So some of the superpowers I think of are maybe just some of those things that folks don't realize are unique to them. Like it might be your ability to take in large amounts of information and still remember it. Hello, as I'm like approaching a very significant birthday and that is no longer a superpower for me. - Me too. - Gotta write it down. Or maybe it's like that knack for people just to be drawn to you, you know, like, hello Rudi, like you just kind of naturally that person. But I think those are some of the things that I think of with superpowers, that it could also be some of those hidden things that maybe we don't consider as assets. Like maybe it's the fact that you come from a big family and that means that you really know how to handle many different personalities all at once and still hold yourself together. I don't think that's something that's brought out as a trait or an asset in a lot of different settings, but that definitely is a superpower cuz that means that when you get into a workplace where all those different personalities, if you allow yourself to kind lean into it, then you can be like, oh, you know what that's like Aunt Mae Mae, she's a little cray cray, I can deal with you. - Okay, Aunt Mae Mae. - I do have an Aunt May. - I don't know her, I don't know her. Okay, listen- - She's very sweet, but also maybe I don't- No, she's great. She will not listen to this. - Oh goodness. Okay. So Stacia, I got a question for you. - Okay.

When someone says superpower – what do you think of? What about when it comes to work? When you think of putting together a team, what are some of the superpowers you MUST have?

When someone says superpower – what do you think of? What about when it comes to work? When you think of putting together a team, what are some of the superpowers you MUST have? Forgotten superpowers of the workplace are often unspoken, sometimes forgotten, but never undervalued components of any flourishing team. They come in many different forms - from nontraditional skills to an endless supply of charisma. These superpowers can be found in anyone at your place of work but are most often found in the people that seem to make the workplace tick. From leaders to those who prefer to stay behind the scenes, we want to highlight these essential skills that make any workplace, a better place. Transcript: - Hello and welcome to the "What's Career Got to Do With It" podcast, where we hope to provide a space for honest conversation and information that encourages a listener to take the next steps in their career journey. Wherever you're at in this process, we hope this episode will meet you with affirmation, guidance, and maybe some laughs along the way. - On today's episode, we are joined by special guest, Marcus Shaw, Administrative Assistant, Operations and Logistics Manager for the Duke Career Center, or as Kay says, "the man with a plan." - Man with a plan. - Woot woot! As we discuss an answer, or many, to the question, What are some forgotten superpowers of the workplace? Yeah, and Nicole , thank you for sounding so cheerful. - I just flip it on. - You're welcome message. - Joy to the world. - I mean, I got the Christmas cup, I had to, on October 19th. - I love it. - All right, so we're gonna hop right in. I'm gonna start with Kay. - I mean, can we do, "Hey, welcome, Marcus! "We're so happy that you're here." We are so happy that you're here, operations and logistics manager. - Oh, it's gonna be a ride, folks, this morning, enjoy, buckle up. - Yeah, Marcus, if you don't mind introducing yourself beyond just this title that we've got here. I think there's so much more to that and to people beyond just the title that carries, so if you don't mind sharing a little bit about who you are and, yeah. - Well, the operations and logistics manager for the Career Center. I'm coming here after 23 years in the Marine Corps. So I started back in Duke in 2015. Again, I did a brief stint at a warehouse prior to coming to Duke, but then prior to coming to Duke, again, 23 years in Marine Corps, retired, so that's makes me retired almost 10 years now, or a little over 10 years. There's not really too much to say about me. Nothing in particular, I guess, it's just the way I look at it. - I just want to tell y'all, Marcus is lying. There is so much more to Marcus Shaw within this office, but I'm gonna let him finish pretending like he's not more than he is and then we'll bust open that. - Exactly. - I mean, at least that's how I see it. I just come in. I'm just happy to help where I can. Provide little tidbits of wisdom where I can, I guess. Again, I really don't think too much about, it's not that deep, I guess, you know? I just come in and happy to serve, I guess, I don't know. - I love that, and there's so many different encounters and so he does say, "provide a bit of wisdom." There's so many different encounters with Marcus in our office though that will just catch you off guard, 'cause you'll be like, "Man, that was good, that was good stuff." The other day he walked up, and I have the pleasure of having my office right next to Greg, who Marcus regularly goes and converses with, so I always overhear a thing or two. And I don't know if you knew I was gonna bring this up, Marcus, but you were talking about your experience and some acronyms that you use in the military. I think this captures it perfectly, and I'm not gonna spell out the acronym, because I don't want the FCC to give us a violation, not that they listen to this or do they? But the acronym itself is FITFO, so figure it out. Yes. - They grown, they don't say it.

Rudi, Ängela, Nicole and Kai discuss how to find balance in busy lives with Catherine Allen. They talk about: How do you separate what you do on day-today basis with who you are at home or in other capacities? What are some of the assumptions that you’ve encountered about the role of work in our daily lives? What are some helpful suggestions you have for people seeking to find balance in their work/life? Transcript: - Hello, and welcome, to the what's Career got to Do with IT podcast, where we hope to provide a space for honest conversation and information that encourages the listener to take the next steps in their career journey. Wherever you're at in this process, we hope this episode will meet you with affirmation, guidance, and maybe some laughs along the way. - On today's episode, we are joined by special guest, Catherine Allen, assistant director in the Duke Career Center. As we discuss an answer, or many, to the question, Who are we beyond the nine to five? Who are we beyond the nine to five? We've covered this in many different iterations, we've talked about this in a lot of different capacities. Kay's making fun of stuff right now. You hear, that was his breath into the mic. As we kind of dive a little bit deeper into this subject and we talk to different people and we think about different perspectives of who we are, when we take that work hat off, I'd really like to think of that hard hat, and just like, putting it down and going into a different mind or mental space. I think it was really interesting to hear from Mary Pat as she talked about like, there was like, a mixture of it, she has to, but then also, people have different types of boundaries that they enact in their life, and with our guest today, I would love to just start right off the bat with Catherine and be like, Catherine, what's it look like for you when that clock strikes five or whatever time you end up saying, "Hey, I'm done with work." What does that look like for you, that transition? - It's a nice, fun drive home. I usually to drive home to really, like, zen out, so either I'm listening to like, a podcast, or I'm calling somebody that I need to just like, catch up with, and just have a moment of like connection with someone that's not related to work. So yeah, that's what I do. That's my like, buffer, between work and home. - I don't know if we've discussed this as hosts either, like, what we do, how do we unwind? What do I do? - I'm really schedule-driven, so I think literally once I leave, like my mind's on the next like, to-do thing. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but like, as soon as I leave here, my mind's on like, "Okay, next I need to go to the store and shop for this stuff, or next, I need to call Mom and talk about this." Or next, I need to, like, my mind goes to the next thing until it's like, it's marked by time. So like, five, I leave, six, okay what am I gonna eat for dinner? Seven, going to the store, eight wash clothes, nine iron clothes, 10 be in the bed by that, like, that's where my mind goes to... - Wait. - And then repeats, repeats, repeats for five days until the weekend comes. - You iron immediately after washing your clothes? - Well, I mean you wash a set of clothes, and then you iron a set of clothes, so that you don't have laundry built up, so you have room. See, this is not what the conversation was about. - That's more efficient than I've ever been in my entire life. - Yeah, I'm really unfamiliar with that. I mean the the dryer, is the iron. - No, after you take it out the dryer, then you set aside what you're gonna wear, and then you iron that stuff out. Is that not a thing? - I mean, I plan it out, but I plan it such that I, lay my, I don't put it in most of my stuff in the dryer, I let it air dry. - Uh-huh? - But the dryer is the iron, unless it's a real bad wrinkle, like my jeans. - I gotta press... - I'm with you. - Everything. - Turns out Kay is not messy beyond, . Kay i

Join our hosts and special guest, Sh’Maughn Wright, as we discuss how to find balance in our busy lives and be confident that we are more than our 9-5. How do you separate what you do on day-today basis with who you are at home or in other capacities? What are some of the assumptions that you’ve encountered about the role of work in our daily lives? What are some helpful suggestions you have for people seeking to find balance in their work/life? Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate Does not make you THE BEST EMPLOYEE EVER – it makes you a healthier Where do these worlds collide? Transcript: - Hello, and welcome to the What's Career Got To Do With It? Podcast where we hope to provide a space for honest conversation and information that encourages the listener to take the next steps in their career journey. Wherever you're at in this process, we hope this episode will meet you with affirmation, guidance and maybe some laughs along the way. - On today's episode, we are joined by special guest Sh'Maughn Wright, career specialist, as we discuss and answer or many to the question, who are we beyond the 9 to 5. - Sh'Maughn? - Hey, Sh'Maughn. - Hey. - Top of the morning. Hey. - Good morning. - Do you mind introducing yourself real quick? Tell us who you are, where you're from. - Well- - For your people? - Well, I am Sh'Maughn Wright. I am, well, for one, a licensed clinical mental- health counselor associate and also a career advisor here at Duke. I'm from Goldsboro, North Carolina originally, if anyone knows where that is. - I do. - Wayne County? - So, yep, Wayne County. So that's the little town that I'm from. Been in the Durham area probably about 10 years now, so. - We're throwing up signs in here , the cool city sign. - Alright. - K didn't do it, but K should have been the first one, I'm just saying. - Oh. - See, when you're from here, you ain't gotta throw it up, it speaks. - We hear K in the background. - It's gonna be a day, y'all. Hang on. - Yeah. - So we, we've been talking over the past couple episodes and past couple weeks about people leading double lives. No, I'm just kidding. Not double lives , but people, people living beyond their 9 to 5 because that does take place. I think we so much, we focus so much on that 9 to 5 job, but there's also, people have other passions, other things that they want to get into. And, at the beginning, you, you talked a little bit about your credentials. Do you mind sharing a little bit more about that? Because we know you as the career advisor, but do you mind telling us a little bit more about what goes on beyond that? - Yeah, so outside of the career, being a career advisor, I am a therapist and I, I, I see individuals as well as couples. So I've been doing that for about three years now. About three years. So finally about to be fully licensed in that area. - Woo hoo! - Hey. I graduated from Central back in 2021, - Eagle Pride. - So, yes, yes, amplified. - OK. - My Camels, Campbell is playing them this weekend, so. - Yeah, they're good. - Oh yeah, yeah, definitely. So we'll be watching that. But yeah, so I, I've, I've been doing that, as well. So I do that kind of like part time. So that's been actually a real big help when it comes to me balancing my 9 to 5 because during my program, I was able to teach myself like, you gotta engage in like selfcare. You gotta make sure your, your cup is full at all times. So that's been, like, a priority for me for a good minute now. - That's awesome. And, and if you don't mind, just diving into selfcare, too I'd be curious and everybody else kind of chime in on that, too. Selfcare, like what, what are you doing? - So selfcare for me looks different, almost like, so it evolves. So, like, I feel like as we evolve and change your selfcare plans and treatments will, will change, as well. So for me, I of course try to work out at least five times a week- - Oh, sorry. - Trying to do- - Sorry,

Join our hosts and special guest, Mary Pat, as we discuss how to find balance in our busy lives and be confident that we are more than our 9-5. How do you separate what you do on day-today basis with who you are at home or in other capacities? What are some of the assumptions that you’ve encountered about the role of work in our daily lives? What are some helpful suggestions you have for people seeking to find balance in their work/life? Transcript: - Hello and welcome to the "What's Career Got To Do With It" podcast where we hope to provide a space for honest conversation and information that encourages the listener to take the next steps in their career journey. Wherever you are at in this process, we hope this episode will meet you with affirmation, guidance, and maybe some laughs along the way. On today's episode, we are joined by special guest, Mary Pat McMahon, Vice Provost and Vice President of Student Affairs, as we discuss an answer or many to the question, who are we beyond the nine to five? Woohoo! I don't know, who are we? What do we do? - We are the world. - What do we even do beyond the nine to five? Our guest has just hopped in here. - Let's start with good morning. Welcome. Welcome to the fun house. - Am I supposed to start answering that question? - Oh, sure, if you want to, yeah. - I mean, is this like the meta? Who are we really and does it matter? - Oh, it could be. - Is it? - We could dive deep in there, yes, absolutely. - Maybe a warmup conversation before the deep, deep? - Sure, yeah, like what do we do? - We, me? - Yeah. - Okay. So what do I do? So I always think that if I had a Twitter handle or an X handle, which I do not have, that I think of my little mom, you know, educator, and then I actually there is a media personality I really don't like, and I'd be like, person who really doesn't like this. As like my top three things. Yeah, so I'm sort of, I am, what do I do? So I run a household with young people, a cat, a dog, an older person, and a spouse. And so like Scent Comms at home, and then I try to be Scent Comms and a partner here on campus around everything related to the student experience. So it's a constant, for me, the integrator separator thing. Whereas, you know, are you at work right now? Are you at home right now? There is no way I could pull off the mostly effort to pull things off that I do if I didn't have a very integrator approach to it. I don't separate very much. - And I think that's almost, for me, I can't even think of doing that because my training is, I was an athlete, so it was always flip the switch. And so we had this metaphorical switch that we would go onto the field with, and we'd be a completely different person. How do you go about integrating life in that way? - So this morning, I needed my 83 year old mother to wake up, come over, and wait for the plumber. And this threw an extra degree of difficulty. All mornings are challenging. There's a seventh grader, there's a ninth grader, there are animals. And then when you add in go and get my mom who lives around the corner and getting her ready to go to sort of meet the plumber at 8:30, then we're really talking a different kind of, sort of stay focused on the goal and keep everybody moving, right? And so, for me, it's about anticipating and planning well week to week, having a moment on the weekend particularly of sort of here's the week, here's the night events, here's who's got school teacher conferences, here's the groomer appointment for the dog. And then not getting too committed to that schedule being perfect, right? And it's a real art. I mean, I'm looking and everybody's nodding 'cause everybody knows this. It is such an art to sort of plan well, prepare for the unexpected. I was a college athlete. It has always helped my entire life that I had the experience of the bus doesn't go until we're all there. The bus leaves at 5:45 in the morning, and you better be there at 5:35 so that there's no

Rudi and Ängela talk with alumni, Martavius Parrish '14 and Rezilience Williamson '21 about their best advice for students and discuss what one thing they would go back and do differently, individuals who have helped them, ways they have learned to ground themselves, their thoughts on successes and failures, and more!

Join Rudi, Ängela, Nicole and Kai, along with special guest, Dr. John Blackshear, as we discuss how to find balance in our busy lives and be confident that we are more than our 9-5.  We'll cover the separation, the role of work and hear suggestions about achieving that work/life balance.

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