Podcast Meets Purpose

Institute for Leadership and Service
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Podcast Meets Purpose is the premiere podcast by the Institute for Leadership and Service at Valparaiso University. Take Institute initiatives and interviews on-the-go with hosts Thais Carter and Ali DeVries. The Institute for Leadership and Service at Valparaiso University aims to help students discern what a life of leadership and service can include, by provided access to exceptional women and men who are contributing to the public good across the globe.

Episodes

  1. 02/18/2019

    S2E7: Purpose and Pop Culture - AKA: Ali And Thais Recommend...

    The books, movies and podcasts we're engaging with that inspire a more purposeful way of thinking about vocation, calling and work. Ali and Thais share their favorites.

    S2E7: Purpose and Pop Culture - AKA: Ali And Thais Recommend...

  2. 12/03/2018

    S2E6: What If My Plan Doesn't Work?

    This episode features interviews with Steve Lehmann, a 2009 Valpo Mechanical Engineering graduate who is now the Assistant Director of the University of Chicago Innovation Fund, and Rev. Pam Fickenscher, a 1990 Valpo graduate who is now Senior Pastor at St. John Lutheran Church in Northfield, MN and founding pastor of Spirit Garage, one of the first emergent church start-ups designed to reach younger generations. Whether it's a sudden change in plan or a shifting sense of call, these conversations explore how we approach our plans for engaging meaningful work - and how we handle it when things don't go as expected.

  3. 11/12/2018

    S2E5: What Can Calling Look Like?

    This episode features interviews with Bishop Emeritus Munib Younan, who served as the acting Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Jordan and the Holy Land from December 1998 to January 2018, and Dr. Mitri Raheb, Founder and President of Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture in Bethlehem. These conversations explore questions of ministry, peacemaking, reconciliation, and hope. Facebook | facebook.com/leadserve Instagram | ilasatvalpo YouTube | youtube.com/channel/UCkGzIe-LP7nbHI2DyYkK85A Intro and Outro theme by Hooksounds Music.

  4. 10/16/2018

    S2E4: Who Gets To Lead?

    This episode features excerpts from interviews with Evva Kraikul, Executive Director of GLITCH; and Nate Marshall, poet, MC, author and Director of National Programs for the Louder Than A Bomb Youth Poetry Festival. We explore questions of how to self-identify as someone ready to lead and how to help young people to see that potential in themselves.

  5. 09/26/2018

    S2E3: "You just take one step in another direction..." with Jason Hallman

    An interview with 2018 Valparaiso University Alumni Award Winner Jason Hallman '06, a mechanical engineering major who now serves as a Team Leader for Safety Research at Toyota.

  • 5 Episodes

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Podcast Meets Purpose is the premiere podcast by the Institute for Leadership and Service at Valparaiso University. Take Institute initiatives and interviews on-the-go with hosts Thais Carter and Ali DeVries. The Institute for Leadership and Service at Valparaiso University aims to help students discern what a life of leadership and service can include, by provided access to exceptional women and men who are contributing to the public good across the globe.

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  • Creator
    Institute for Leadership and Service
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2019
  • Episodes
    5
  • Rating
    Clean
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