Fraternity Foodie Podcast by Greek University Michael Ayalon

Corey Poirier is a multiple-time TEDx Speaker and was recently announced as one of just 15 SUCCESS Magazine Emerging Entrepreneurs. He is also the host of the top rated ‘Let’s Do Influencing’ Radio Show, founder of the growing bLU Talks brand, and has been featured in multiple television specials. He is a Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Apple Books and Kobo Bestselling Author, Award Winning Author, and the co-author of the Wall Street Journal / USA Today Bestseller, Quitless. A columnist with Entrepreneur and Forbes magazine, Corey has interviewed over 7,500 of the world’s top leaders, including everyone from Ken Honda, Lisa Nichols, Dr. Shefali, Deepak Chopra, and he has spoken on-site at events at Harvard, Columbia, MIT, UCLA, Stanford, Cambridge and more recently to Microsoft team leaders and at Kyle Wilson’s Inner Circle retreat which has featured everyone from Brian Tracy to Mark Victor Hansen. Corey is now releasing "The Enlightened Passenger" book with Morgan James Publishing.
In episode 449 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out how college student can find their purpose, how we can expand our comfort zone, how college students can double their personal income, how we can use meditation for manifestation, what are the common threads identified in terms of successful leaders, and how you can learn the practice of focus and being all in. Enjoy! 

Miss Charlynne Boddie is an ordained minister with a prophetic edge, seasoned media professional and Hollywood producer, author, international life coach for people of all ages and has served as a corporate, police and military chaplain in the US and Europe. She is a former lead press officer for the White House, Ambassador for Israel and recent Pentagon instructor who has worked for both the Clinton and Bush Administrations for several of America's largest national disasters.
In episode 448 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out more about Charlynne's life as a child, what made her decide to attend Oral Roberts University, what it was like to work as a press secretary in the White House for Bill Clinton’s administration, what it was like meeting Oprah, how she was able to meet Beyoncé, how college students can find their purpose in life, how major health scares has shaped how she approaches each day, and what are some tips for writing that will bring peace into your life. Enjoy!

Maria Maldonado Smith is the Chief Empowerment Officer of MMS Consulting and creator of the Executive Vision Imagery program. Maria joined Alpha Delta Pi at the University of Kentucky, and she is a former Miss Kentucky who made the shift from the Miss America competition to Corporate America. After 18 years of award-winning success in the corporate space working as a sales leader for Fortune 500 companies across three different industries, Maria brings her unparalleled combination of experience to her proprietary process and interactive trainings, helping companies understand the science and benefits of goal-setting for their employees. She equips leaders, employees and organizations to clearly define goals and create a roadmap to achieving them, which allows for better alignment with corporate culture, leading to increased productivity and profitability. Maria has served numerous national and international clients, including US House of Representatives, Disney and Paramount Studios.
In episode 447 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out if Maria was always thinking about big future goals with such optimism, what made her choose the University of Kentucky, what the experience was like in 2004 to be crowned the first Hispanic Miss Kentucky and then wun the opportunity to represent Kentucky at the Miss America 2005 pageant in Atlantic City, what made her decide to head into the corporate world, how does she create a vision for the future using Executive Vision Imagery, what college students should consider when making a resume, how to excel at the interview, and how students can motivate the members of their fraternity or sorority. Enjoy! 

Aaron Patterson has overcome years of roadblocks and failures so he leads vulnerably with his scars first, he’s been a youth mentor for over eight years and comes from the music industry so he has a knack for storytelling and connecting with students past the surface. His presentations challenge students to be more because they’re made for more. Leaving them inspired and ready to break free from any negative cycle stopping them from having a brighter future. We’re living in a day and age where young people are struggling mentally and suffering in silence, people are feeling hopeless and discouraged every day they wake up. That’s why Aaron strives to empower each student to harness the power of their pain, transform it into purpose, and thereby create a brighter and better future for themselves and the community.
In episode 446 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out how we can prevent students from dimming their light just to fit in with the crowd, what made Aaron decide to get sober, how to transform pain in your life into your life's purpose, how we can shift away from alcohol/drugs on college campuses, how to improve retention in your organization, how we can discover the leader that is inside all of us, what are some tips to improve your GPA, and how we can adopt a positive mindset. Enjoy!

Mike Starr managed a successful $100 million dollar a year manufacturing business. He is an avid adventurer who climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro & canoed 54 days from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. He is an executive life coach, former nuclear trained submarine officer, & seasoned problem solver. Mike empowered dozens of business improvement teams with “one simple question” to clearly identify obstacles & implement lasting solutions. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a B.S. in E.E. He is active in the NAMI & Al-Anon communities & has been married for 44 years; he lives in Conway, AR.
In episode 445 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out why he and a friend canoed 1850 miles from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, what it was like to go on a hitchhiking Odyssey for 5 months, how his time in the Navy impacted his life, why the foundation for success lies with conviction with our values, how organizations can do what we say we will do, why language is so important, what is "betterism" as described in his book "Journey into Peace", and how college students can design habits and routines to be better automatically. Enjoy! 

Mike Hassell is educated formally as an engineer (Georgia Tech BEE), humanist (Vanderbilt Master Liberal Arts & Sciences), and executive (Harvard MBA), Mike Hassell is a Renaissance man and a brother of FIJI, reflecting on the fruits from 50 years of curiosity and various pursuits in science, history, psychology, and philosophy. Mike co-founded and managed Knowledge Products, an audio publisher (1985-1998) of 140+ titles on the great ideas of history. During the next 20 years as a senior executive in startup/early businesses, Mike’s main hobby was reading widely in non-fiction – accumulating yet more ideas and resources to fold into the book called Deep Tradeoffs. Deep Tradeoffs packs in 315 quotes, from Aristotle to Stevie Wonder, in 200 pages. By thematically connecting these chunks of wisdom in a thoughtful, probing, conversational overview, Mike illuminates eternally conflicting values and truths. He shows how they’ve been conflicting for millennia -- and underlie today’s raging culture wars.
In episode 444 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out why Mike chose Georgia Tech, why he decided to join FIJI, how he knows which business ideas are good ones that are worth funding, what made him want to write the book "Deep Tradeoffs: Finding Balance and Respect In A Polarized, Angry World", when should we confront vs. accept, is it ‘idealistic’ to be earnestly optimistic or ‘realistic’ to be cynical and pessimistic, when is deception necessary, and what is the best way to manage conflict in our fraternity or sorority. Enjoy!