Month: August 2024

Can’t run. Now what?

Can’t run. Now what?

In this interview, Suzanne speaks about the incredible community that she has found in people who have the same rare lung cancer. She also speaks about how she loved to run before she had cancer. Now that she isn’t able to run anymore, she talks about how she came to peace with that.

Application Update 2024-2025

Application Update 2024-2025

At the start of the new admissions cycle, Karen joins Hannah and Mark for the third annual preview of the questions that will appear on Yale’s first-year application. The admissions officers discuss the types of responses that are more and less effective and what admissions officers hope to learn about applicants when reading their responses. This episode is an update to Episode 6: Essays: The Little Stuff, originally released in summer 2020.

Onward

Onward

Suzanne shares her story of having a rare form of lung cancer and the tools in her toolbox that helped her through including her Episcopal faith, her strong supportive family and friends, her love of running, and Smilow cancer hospital.

Leading the way | Amy Gallo | Changing the world through good conflict

Leading the way | Amy Gallo | Changing the world through good conflict

Amy Gallo is a workplace expert who frequently writes and speaks about effective communication, interpersonal dynamics, gender, difficult conversations, and feedback. She is the best-selling author of Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People) and the HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict, as well as hundreds of articles for Harvard Business Review. In this episode, Amy speaks about critical skills for approaching disagreement and generally getting along better with others; and how she is changing the world as a change-maker and system-changer.