Episodes

  • Asking Questions

    Asking Questions
    Sep 28 2022

    Your host talks about the importance of asking questions, how to ask them in class and outside of class, and how to schedule office hour appointments with your professors.

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    25 mins
  • Public Service Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Christina Ceballos, Part 2

    Public Service Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Christina Ceballos, Part 2
    Sep 21 2022
    Your host interviews Christina Ceballos a second time about her work related to Public Service Loan Forgiveness, in addition to other topics related to navigating higher education.★ Thanks to our sponsors ★You can become a supporter of the show and get your name (or your organization's name) here in the show notes. Sign up for a membership here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordwsLinks and things:In February 2018, Christina Ceballos founded the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Support Facebook Group after not finding any active groups on that platform. She has built a small but mighty team of 16 Administrators and Moderators which now serves 143,000 Members and growing! She has served in many capacities in public service in AmeriCorps, the U.S. Peace Corps, nonprofits, and government. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and two rescue dogs. A recent interview with Ceballos can be found here. She can also be found on LinkedIn. Her previous appearance on this program can be found here: https://www.yourshadowadvisor.com/episodes/public-service-loan-forgiveness-a-conversation-with-christina-ceballos-part-1The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Support (PSLF) Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pslfprogramsupportThe White House's PSLF landing page: https://www.whitehouse.gov/publicserviceloanforgiveness/?utm_source=pslf.govStudentAid.gov's PSLF page: https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service And be sure to see their page on the waiver here: https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/pslf-limited-waiverReally helpful webinar on PSLF by Ceballos and others from the Facebook group. The presentations slides are here. The video of the webinar is available on the CFPB's YouTube page here. Biden-Harris Debt Relief Program information: https://studentaid.gov/debt-relief-announcement/Like what you’re hearing? Then Buy Me a Coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws. Even better, become a member and unlock additional features like regular “ask me anything” events, bonus content, and more. If you think you'd like to be a guest on the show, email me at darrel@yourshadowadvisor.com.Transcripts are always on the website page for the episode and included as subtitles on the YouTube video.You can reply to this podcast here:Twitter: @YourShadowAdv Facebook: @YourShadowAdvisor Host on Twitter: @DoctorDWSQuestions: https://www.yourshadowadvisor.com/ask-a-question CreditsMusic from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/infraction/do-itMy hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)Interviews are conducted via Riverside.fm (Note: affiliate link)I use otter.ai to generate transcripts/captions for this show. (Note: affiliate link.)My podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which I can't recommend strongly enough. ★ Support this podcast ★
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Public Service Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Christina Ceballos, Part 1

    Public Service Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Christina Ceballos, Part 1
    Sep 14 2022
    Your host interviews Christina Ceballos about her work related to Public Service Loan Forgiveness and the current temporary waiver, in addition to other topics related to navigating higher education.★ Thanks to our sponsors ★You can become a supporter of the show and get your name (or your organization's name) here in the show notes. Sign up for a membership here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordwsLinks and things:In February 2018, Christina Ceballos founded the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Support Facebook Group after not finding any active groups on that platform. She has built a small but mighty team of 16 Administrators and Moderators which now serves 143,000 Members and growing! She has served in many capacities in public service in AmeriCorps, the U.S. Peace Corps, nonprofits, and government. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and two rescue dogs. A recent interview with Ceballos can be found here. She can also be found on LinkedIn. The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Support (PSLF) Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pslfprogramsupportThe White House's PSLF landing page: https://www.whitehouse.gov/publicserviceloanforgiveness/?utm_source=pslf.govStudentAid.gov's PSLF page: https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service And be sure to see their page on the waiver here: https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/pslf-limited-waiverReally helpful webinar on PSLF by Ceballos and others from the Facebook group. The presentations slides are here. The video of the webinar is available on the CFPB's YouTube page here. Biden-Harris Debt Relief Program information: https://studentaid.gov/debt-relief-announcement/Like what you’re hearing? Then Buy Me a Coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws. Even better, become a member and unlock additional features like regular “ask me anything” events, bonus content, and more. If you think you'd like to be a guest on the show, email me at darrel@yourshadowadvisor.com.Transcripts are always on the website page for the episode and included as subtitles on the YouTube video.You can reply to this podcast here:Twitter: @YourShadowAdv Facebook: @YourShadowAdvisor Host on Twitter: @DoctorDWSQuestions: https://www.yourshadowadvisor.com/ask-a-question CreditsMusic from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/infraction/do-itMy hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)Interviews are conducted via Riverside.fm (Note: affiliate link)I use otter.ai to generate transcripts/captions for this show. (Note: affiliate link.)My podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which I can't recommend strongly enough. ★ Support this podcast ★
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Academic Outsider: A Discussion with Victoria Reyes

    Academic Outsider: A Discussion with Victoria Reyes
    Sep 7 2022

    Your host interviews Dr. Victoria Reyes about her book, Academic Outsider, in addition to other topics related to navigating higher education.

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    • Victoria Reyes is an Associate Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies at University of California Riverside. She is a sociologist and gender scholar who studies culture, borders, and empires. Her research and teaching interests include culture, global and transnational sociology, economic sociology, urbanism, historical/comparative sociology, qualitative methods, race/ethnicity, gender, and law and society. Dr. Reyes is author of the multi-award winning book Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines (published in 2019 by Stanford University Press) and Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope, which was just published in July 2022 through Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press. 
    • You may be able to get a 20% discount on the book by using code OUTSIDER20 on the publisher's website. 
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    • My podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which I can't recommend strongly enough.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • All Aboard the Mentorship: A Discussion with Shantel Martinez and Bryant Taylor

    All Aboard the Mentorship: A Discussion with Shantel Martinez and Bryant Taylor
    Aug 31 2022

    Your host interviews Dr. Shantel Martinez and Bryant Taylor about mentorship dos and don'ts, in addition to other topics related to navigating higher education. 

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    • Shantel Martinez is the Director of First-Generation Programs and Enrichment for the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has a PhD in Communications and Media with an emphasis on Latinx Communication and Gender Studies from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. As a practitioner-scholar, she centers storytelling and narrative practices to examine cycles of intergenerational trauma/survival in both familial and educational spaces. She utilizes this research to inform her approach to build mentorship pipelines, form community, and cultivate narratives of survival. She can be found on LinkedIn, here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shantel-martinez-phd-358b8967/
    • Bryant Taylor is from the Bay Area, California, and is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Oregon in their inaugural Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies program. His research interests include Black queer home-making, oral histories, archives, and queer video game spaces.
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    • I'm going to upload weekly teasers, trailers, and reminders in the lead-up to episode 1 on August 24th. So stay tuned and reach out if you want a question answered. 
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    • Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/infraction/do-it
    • My hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)
    • Interviews are conducted via Riverside.fm (Note: affiliate link)
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    54 mins
  • The Hidden Curriculum, Structural Inequality, and Navigating Higher Education

    The Hidden Curriculum, Structural Inequality, and Navigating Higher Education
    Aug 24 2022

    In this first full episode of the show, your host explores why he's doing the show, how and why the "hidden curriculum" is useful and not, and how attentiveness to structural inequality is important -- plus some advice on making it through the start of the academic year.

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    Links and things:

    • The piece on first-gen students and hidden curriculum from Diverse is here: https://www.diverseeducation.com/opinion/article/15295583/admitting-firstgeneration-and-lowincome-students-is-not-enough
    • Jessica Calarco, A Field Guide ro Grad School (affiliate link)
    • Victoria Reyes, Academic Outsider (affiliate link)
    • Zachary Shore, Grad School Essentials (affiliate link)
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    • I'm going to upload weekly teasers, trailers, and reminders in the lead-up to episode 1 on August 24th. So stay tuned and reach out if you want a question answered. 
    • If you think you'd like to be a guest on the show, email me at darrel@yourshadowadvisor.com.
    • Transcripts are always on the website page for the episode and included as subtitles on the YouTube video.


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    • Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/infraction/do-it
    • My hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)
    • Interviews are conducted via Riverside.fm (Note: affiliate link)
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    29 mins
  • The Final Countdown

    The Final Countdown
    Aug 17 2022

    A brief episode in which your host talks about what comes next in this final countdown to Episode 1. 

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    • If you think you'd like to be a guest on the show, email me at darrel@yourshadowadvisor.com.
    • Transcripts are always on the website page for the episode and included as subtitles on the YouTube video.


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    • My hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)
    • Interviews are conducted via Riverside.fm (Note: affiliate link)
    • I use otter.ai to generate transcripts/captions for this show. (Note: affiliate link.)
    • My podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which I can't recommend strongly enough.
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    2 mins
  • Biden's PSLF Waiver (a Quick Primer and Story)

    Biden's PSLF Waiver (a Quick Primer and Story)
    Aug 10 2022

    A brief episode in which your host talks about the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and the elimination of student debt. 

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    • Read more about the PSLF here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Service_Loan_Forgiveness
    • Like what you’re hearing? Then Buy Me a Coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws. Even better, become a member and unlock additional features like regular “ask me anything” events, bonus content, and more.
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    • Interviews are conducted via Riverside.fm (Note: affiliate link)
    • I use otter.ai to generate transcripts/captions for this show. (Note: affiliate link.)
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    4 mins