Leah and Brian are faculty at George Fox University. Both of them are writers, scholars, and fellow podcasters! They are the host of a wonderful podcast called Weird Religion! Check them out at www.weirdreligion.com
Dec 19, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Grant and I talk about why education, leadership, and faith should embrace technology in 2020.
Dec 06, 2019•58 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Grant and I talk about the people who we are most thankful for in our journey into higher education.
Nov 28, 2019•57 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Austin O'Donnell is a senior psychology major at George Fox University.
Nov 18, 2019•51 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Grant Burns, Kristina Van Der Eems, and Min Soo Choi pick secret topics to bring to the podcast. Here's what we talked about!
Nov 18, 2019•55 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Danielle Korthuis is a junior accounting major at George Fox University.
Nov 18, 2019•46 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Taylor Hagstrom is a junior Christian Ministries major at George Fox. She has been a Resident Assistant in Residence Life at Fox the last two years.
Nov 15, 2019•55 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Grant and I celebrate Halloween by talking about the scariest topic imaginable... identity.
Nov 14, 2019•45 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Junior Elementary Education major Brianna is a first-generation college student who has a deep passion for teaching and mentoring young people. She talks about the difficulty of her first year in college and how she had to fight to overcome a lot to be a thriving student at George Fox.
Nov 14, 2019•46 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Faith Burns is a George Fox biology major pursuing her passion for medicine and surgery. She loves missions work as well as building a loving, thriving community.
Nov 14, 2019•44 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Tyler breaks down his life as an engineering major at George Fox University
Nov 07, 2019•40 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Satoshi Seth is a junior sociology major at George Fox University and talks about how he's grown from his college experience.
Nov 05, 2019•42 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Emily and I record a podcast for our scheduled one-on-one and she's just so fun and enjoyable to talk with. She's a civil engineer major and an RA this year. We talk about a lot of cool things! Thanks for listening to our Student Stories series on An Educated Life!
Oct 30, 2019•34 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Evan Engstrom came into college with a huge desire to learn, grow, and change. Over the last four years, he's experienced transformation including finding a calling to filmmaking.
Oct 17, 2019•35 min•Season 2Ep. 8
This is the first episode in a new series I am calling Student Stories and I am excited to kick it off with Kiale Palpant! She is a senior English major who loves to write, rock climb, and build community. She is an RA this year in her last year at George Fox University. And she is thriving as she thinks about her time at Fox and what the future holds for her.
Oct 16, 2019•43 min•Season 2Ep. 8
I wanted to share some insights with Romare about why I started An Educated Life podcast. I love the creative process and I love how creativity can help us innovate and change the way we can do our work.
Oct 14, 2019•32 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Hall directors are not babysitters. We are not chaperones. We are co-curricular, as Amy says it, in the educational journey of young men and women. We break that down. Min Choi, Grant Burns, Amy Reeves, Brett Meyers, and Mitzi Martinez rant and rave about their role in higher ed.
Oct 14, 2019•47 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Jenny Elsey is the Associate Dean of Intercultural Life at George Fox University. She has had a storied journey into higher education. She shares about her passion for students and education, her experiences at Azusa Pacific and abroad, her faith, her need for control and bringing down the systems!
Oct 04, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Rob Westervelt is the Chief Strategy Officer at George Fox University. He is a master problem-solver, innovator, and strategist when it comes to creating the education of the future. He talks about faith, undergrad, football, and other stuff that helped him get to where he is today!
Sep 29, 2019•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 4
Bryce Coefield joins the podcast in this episode and shares about his journey into higher education. He shares about his story, his undergraduate experience, and the importance of the anti-racist work that he does at George Fox University. We also have little Kyrie Coefield as our guest of honor!
Sep 27, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Our dear friend Kristi Welker comes and talks with us about her role as the Director of Commuter Life at George Fox University, her passion for education, and leadership.
Sep 20, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 2
We're back for Season 2! So glad to be with you again! We are so happy to be able to do this again this year and we take a moment to celebrate YOU, the audience, for your tremendous support! In this episode, Grant Burns and Min Soo Choi do a deep dive inside how we train student leaders to lead their peers well into a healthy, flourishing community.
Sep 13, 2019•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 1
Bruce is an amazing individual and leader. He has worked in Residence Life for many, many years and he is the current Director of Residence Life at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. I sit down and talk with him about his journey into student development.
Mar 12, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Caitlin Fettig and Matthew Peters, seniors at George Fox University, join me on this episode to talk about their college experience, why they chose to serve as student leaders, and how they have grown as people. They perfectly embody why Student Development is such an important part of an institution's ability to educate and develop young men and women.
Mar 07, 2019•1 hr 52 min•Season 1Ep. 15
I talk to my good friend and colleague Dr. Matt Dyment about how to connect learning, self-care, passion, future planning, parenting, and many other elements in order to thrive as a student life professional
Mar 07, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 14
One of the things you'll immediately notice about the three university pastors at George Fox is their deep love for each other. Jamie Noling-Auth, Jamie Johnson, and Rusty St. Cyr have been serving George Fox University students for quite a while. They love their work because they are incredibly passionate about college students. In this episode, I get to sit down with all three of them. They are fun. They are inspiring. They are incredible!
Dec 14, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 13
We talk to a good friend of ours, Neal Anderson, the Director of ResLife at Colorado Christian University about his new position, his doctoral program, leadership, and navigating organizational culture.
Dec 11, 2018•35 min•Season 1Ep. 12
We are at the end of the semester! Grant and I have a lovely chat, affirm each other after a long and beautiful semester, and then we proceed to pick apart Min's crazy brain. Just a couple of Student Development professionals needing to decompress!
Dec 11, 2018•51 min
Brad Lau is the Vice President of Student Life at George Fox University. He has been in higher education for over two decades and he shares a little bit of his experience, wisdom, and leadership with me.
Nov 27, 2018•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 10
George Fox University recently hosted the Voices Conference and Bryce Coefield, Grant Burns, and Min Choi come together to talk about all the cool things that came out of it. We dive deep into the good work of bringing redemption, reconciliation, equity, and justice into our world. But first, we talk about books because we are book nerds.
Nov 23, 2018•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 9