Lizness School Season 2 Premiere: New Life Choices It's all about choices now. Liz Dolan completed her year as a Fellow at Stanford's Distinguished Careers Institute and now she's back in the wild figuring out what's next. There are always lots of choices to make and she's got goals about work, community and wellness. Her millennial mentor Leah Sutherland is in the middle of her own transitions, so they've got lots to share. New this year is that Liz and Leah will be inviting guests to talk abou...
Aug 14, 2025•31 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Today's episode is special - a combination of the writing Liz did in her memoir class this spring and excerpts from favorite audio episodes throughout the season that include both Liz and Leah. Think of it as Liz's own Director's Cut - a season finale that brings her whole year at Stanford DCI together. Lizness School Season 2 will begin at the end of the summer. Liz and Leah will continue to tackle transitions and lifelong learning together with the lively, spicy intergenerational exchanges the...
Jul 03, 2025•34 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Liz finishes up her year at Stanford DCI and heads home to Santa Monica CA but first Leah delivers a commencement speech. They also discuss a special episode coming up next - a final cut that is a combination of audio highlights from the year's worth of podcasts and some of Liz's writing n her memoir class. Lizness School Season 2 will come back at the beginning of the new school year. It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she does a year as a Fellow at Stanford University 's ...
Jun 19, 2025•32 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Liz and Leah answer the question everyone is asking: Will there be a Lizness School Season 2? Well YES, thank you for asking! Hear all about the plan for the rest of Season 1 and the launch of Season 2 on this episode. Do you have thoughts and tales about your own life transitions? Email liznessschool@gmail.com. Also on this episode, Leah administers a final exam for Liz. Let's see what she learned. It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she does a year as a Fellow at Stanford Un...
Jun 05, 2025•38 min•Season 1Ep. 21
This was Liz Dolan's week on the hot seat in her law school class at Stanford. The class is The 14th Amendment. The professor is Constitutional scholar Pam Karlan. And it was Liz's turn to answer the professor's questions. How'd she do? As Meatloaf famously said, two out of three ain't bad. Also this week, Liz reports on the Stanford Longevity Project's Healthy Aging Conference. Plus, it's Top Chef Stanford! Liz has dinner at a frat and attends a cooking class for students taught by Stanford che...
May 22, 2025•35 min
Spring seems to be conference season at Stanford, so Liz attends a few and skips a few. The Stanford Data Science gathering might be over her head but the new art installation in the new CoDa there is definitely over her head but in a good way. The Healthy Aging 2025 conference is on her agenda. So is a follow-up session with Stanford's Dr. B J Fogg on Building Habits . Shifting gears into her Spring quarter Stanford Law School life, she will attend a legal conference on 100 Days of the Trump Ad...
May 08, 2025•35 min•Season 1Ep. 7
There’s been a big vibe shift on the Stanford campus and Liz wants to talk about it. Immigration issues, research funding, academic freedom - it’s all on the table, affecting students and faculty. Plus we’ve got tales of Leah’s travel. She drove from her old home in Los Angeles to her new home in Nashville! Read about Liz’s classmate Joyce Orishaba here and see her essay that was a winner in the New York Times Personal Narrative Contest here . Top NIH Nutrition Researcher Kevin Hall resigns over...
Apr 24, 2025•31 min
On the podcast today, it's the Battle of the Law School Movies: Paper Chase vs Legally Blonde. Liz is loving her law school class about the 14th Amendment. She also reports on fun with Nutrition! Leah is now on the road to Nashville, making a few colorful stops along the way. It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she does a year as a Fellow at Stanford University 's Distinguished Careers Institute . Start at Episode 1 if you are new to Lizness School. For more on Liz Dolan, go to ...
Apr 10, 2025•35 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Spring Break news from both Liz and Leah. Liz had a fantastic finish to her video production class. Leah has a new tooth gem. That's right. Tooth Gems! Meet Liz's Constitutional Law professor Pamela S. Karlan of Stanford Law School and her Human Nutrition prof Christopher Gardner of Stanford Med School , both top notch experts in their fields and favorites among students. Plus a return to Memoir Writing. Plus Leah's in the final stages before her move from Los Angles to Nashville. It's major! It...
Mar 27, 2025•34 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Liz decides to go with the tried-and-true course selection process: Pick the best professors! Meet Liz's Constitutional Law professor Pamela S. Karlan of Stanford Law School and her Human Nutrition prof Christopher Gardner of Stanford Med School, both top notch experts in their fields and favorites among students. Plus a return to Memoir Writing. Three solid pillars for her final quarter. Liz also participated in a design session at the D School to design a course that's a collaboration between ...
Mar 13, 2025•31 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Liz continues her winter quarter at StanfordDCI , passes a science quiz and has a few classes that have been overtaken by the news. Plus she wonders if she could learn to be silly. Leah has ups and downs on her big life change moving home to Nashville from Los Angeles. She asks for listener advice to the show email at liznessschool@gmail.com . The episode also includes some fascinating and surprising listener email. A listener recommends the Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes and Liz's high scho...
Feb 27, 2025•34 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Liz and Leah discuss some big life decisions this week. Liz has thoughts about what she wants to accomplish in the second half of her year at StanfordDCI and Leah has a big announcement about a big life change. It's the season of Ikegai for Liz and some intergenerational mixers. Does she have advice for Stanford undergrads and PhD's? She's not sure! But she knows for sure that she's the worst student in her Video Production class. It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts h...
Feb 13, 2025•35 min•Season 1Ep. 6
On Episode 12 of Lizness School, Liz Dolan and Leah Sutherland discuss Liz's Fancy Grunge Crawl to the Mission District of SF with other DCI Fellows. Plus Liz has news about some of this quarter's classes including whale news . It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University 's Distinguished Careers Institute . Start at Episode 1 if you are new to Lizness School. Liz's producer and millennial mentor Leah Sutherland gives her additional ...
Jan 30, 2025•36 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Liz and Leah talk about Liz's first weeks of classes in the winter quarter. She's taking Chinese History, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Oceans and Video Production. Plus they talk about Liz's side quests and the fires in Los Angeles. Leah lives there. Liz lives in Santa Monica when she's not at Stanford. Liz's Neuroscience Professor is Liqin Luo . Here's is a YouTube bio about Luo starting with his childhood in China. It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her y...
Jan 16, 2025•31 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Liz and Leah talk about their learning goals for 2025. Liz announces the classes she is taking this winter quarter plus a new wellness activity. Leah explains the concept of side quests and has a few for herself and for Liz. It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University 's Distinguished Careers Institute . Start at Episode 1 if you are new to Lizness School. Liz's producer and millennial mentor Leah Sutherland gives her additional ass...
Jan 09, 2025•31 min•Season 1Ep. 10
To send Liz your learning goals for the new year, email liznessschool@gmail.com. Any specific goals for Purpose, Community or Wellness? We want to hear them for our first show of 2025. It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University 's Distinguished Careers Institute . Start at Episode 1 if you are new to Lizness School. Liz's producer and millennial mentor Leah Sutherland gives her additional assignments about how to take it all in. Th...
Dec 19, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 6
On Lizness School Episode 8, Liz has the scoop on the many de-stressing activities happening on the Stanford campus during exam period for the undergrads. Therapy bunnies, anyone? Plus, if listeners want to take the same art history class Liz took this fall, it's being offered on Stanford's Continuing Studies platform this winter. Here's a link to How To Look At Art and Why with Alex Nemerov and here's a link to the whole Winter Quarter offering on Stanford Continuing Studies . To send Liz your ...
Dec 12, 2024•32 min
In Lizness School Episode 7, Liz attends a Stanford vs Cal water polo game, collects her thoughts on Designing Her Life and hangs out with some students from Stanford GSB for conversation, Chipotle and a dark fantasy feminist retelling of the Mulan story called The Night End With Fire by K X Song. Plus, Liz and Leah both take Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies Quiz and discuss the implications of being a rebel and a questioner. Thanks to Gretchen for mentioning how much she enjoys Lizness School o...
Nov 28, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In Lizness School Episode 6, Liz does her Life Transition Reflection and she likes it! Plus two death-defying wellness activities - pickleball and a hike in the redwood forest. In Liz's LTR, she explains her Cooking With Liz live Facebook show during the pandemic. Here she makes Ina Garten's Roast Chicken: https://youtu.be/Ghq-vZUM-4w?si=LWUy3T_V1xstCGoP It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University 's Distinguished Careers Institute ...
Nov 14, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 9
In Lizness School Episode 5, Liz settles into classes and has observations about her fellow students. Plus two big events on campus: Halloween and Democracy Day . It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University 's Distinguished Careers Institute . Start at Episode 1 if you are new to Lizness School. To watch a Stanford seminar by Professor Larry Diamond about the decline of democracy, go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlwoO_abLHo...
Oct 31, 2024•35 min•Season 1Ep. 5
It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University 's Distinguished Careers Institute . Join her! In this fourth episode classes actually start! She explains what she's taking and why. Upcoming bi-weekly episodes will follow Liz through her entire year of exploration in Palo Alto. Her producer and millennial mentor Leah Sutherland will give her additional assignments all year so she is sure to get out of her boomer bubble. Thank you to our...
Oct 31, 2024•35 min•Season 1Ep. 25
It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University 's Distinguished Careers Institute . Join her! In this episode she makes her move to a new apartment in Palo Alto and settles in with her dog Hooper. Upcoming bi-weekly episodes will follow Liz through her entire year of exploration in Palo Alto. Her producer and millennial mentor Leah Sutherland will give her additional assignments all year so she is sure to get out of her boomer bubble. ...
Oct 24, 2024•34 min•Season 1Ep. 11
It's Lizness not Business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University 's Distinguished Careers Institute . Join her! In this episode she explains her decision to spend this year at Stanford exploring her future and new ideas and provides her professional and personal backstory. Upcoming bi-weekly episodes will follow Liz through her entire year of exploration in Palo Alto. Her producer and millennial mentor Leah Sutherland will give her additional assignment...
Oct 24, 2024•23 min•Season 1Ep. 1
It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University 's Distinguished Careers Institute . Join her! In this episode she registers for classes at Stanford online in the middle of the night. Upcoming bi-weekly episodes will follow Liz through her entire year of exploration in Palo Alto. Her producer and millennial mentor Leah Sutherland will give her additional assignments all year so she is sure to get out of her boomer bubble. For more in Li...
Oct 24, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 13
It's Lizness Not Business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University 's Distinguished Careers Institute . Join her! In the upcoming Preview Episode #1, Liz explains her decision to spend this year at Stanford exploring her future and new ideas and provides her professional and personal backstory. Upcoming bi-weekly episodes will follow Liz through her entire year of exploration in Palo Alto. Her producer and millennial mentor Leah Sutherland will give her a...
Oct 24, 2024•1 min•Season 1Ep. 2
