Women Worldwide with Deirdre Breakenridge

Dr. Martha Saunders, the President of the University of West Florida, has worked in higher education for over three decades. She has served in academic leadership roles in Florida, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Mississippi, and is known for her ability to manage and navigate crises. 

She credits her ability to help move through tough times to her views on innovative learning and creating cutting-edge academic programs. Higher education is facing some big challenges these days and she’s passionate about creating innovative solutions to deal with them. 

Academic leadership was not her first stop on her career journey. She actually started out in communications and helped navigate the waters of creating proper communication channels during crises. 

Those years have served her well as she has worked to make UWF one of the top three public schools in all of Florida.

Listen as she shares her story, why they were already prepared for an instance like Covid, and what it takes to truly step into innovative learning. Dr. Saunders is a font of knowledge and her views on how to properly prepare for the unknown are unmatched. You won’t want to miss out on this discussion.

Show Notes:

  • [02:35] What led Dr. Martha Saunders to academia and innovative learning? 
  • [04:24] How is her university leading the charge in changing learning structures? 
  • [07:14] Dr. Saunders shares how they attract new students with their messaging and culture. 
  • [09:20] Some of the challenges they’ve faced as the narrative shifts around education. 
  • [10:33] Ways they’ve tackled all of the changes brought about by Covid. 
  • [13:24] They were ahead of the game when it came to crisis management due to the nature of their location. 
  • [14:20] Dr. Saunders shares a big AHA moment she had and how it’s helped her in her career. 
  • [16:50] It’s so important to paint a picture for yourself of the outcome you want. 
  • [19:42] What does her work/life balance look like? 
  • [22:16] There will never be perfect balance, but remember to recenter. 
  • [22:51] The things she does to alleviate stress when things pile on.
  • [26:04] How you can raise your level of innovative learning to achieve your passion and goals.
  • [28:14] Connect with Dr. Saunders.

Links and Resources:

University of West Florida

Dr. Saunders’ Biography

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For so many people, finding love is one of the most difficult things they’ve ever done. It makes you wonder, why do some people find love so easily and others have immense trouble? Venus Castleberg, author of Here to Forever: Finally Free to Be Me, joins me to chat about looking for love in all the wrong places, and where she finally found hers. 

Venus has spent much of her life jumping from modality to modality, practice to practice looking for something to fix her. What she finally realized was that she was never broken; she simply didn’t love herself. How can you find love with another person if you don’t have love for yourself? 

This realization changed so much in her life, her career, and her relationships. She’s now an Access Consciousness Certified Facilitator and coaches others in rediscovering their love for themselves. 

Writing Here to Forever: Finally Free to Be Me gave Venus even more insights into her own issues with self-love. It had always been a bucket list item to become an author, but she didn’t realize that the story she needed to tell was her own. As she wrote, rewrote, and rewrote again Here to Forever, she unearthed a love of the negative self-talk that was keeping her stuck. 

The adage that we teach what we need to learn has never had more meaning than in the process of writing a memoir. 

Listen in to hear Venus’s story and all of the advice she gives around finding love for yourself, within your being. Looking for love in the wrong places happens because you stopped trying to find it in the right one. Within you!

Show Notes:

  • [02:09] Learn about Venus and her penchant for looking for love in all the wrong places. 
  • [03:45] Is there a type of relationship that can’t be fixed? 
  • [05:03] How does somebody find the wholeness of themselves? 
  • [06:58] Why do we tend to repeat the same patterns over and over? 
  • [08:54] What did Venus want her readers to know when she wrote her book? 
  • [11:28] Did she ever reach a point while writing that she had to walk away from her story? 
  • [12:41] Venus’s encouragement to anyone who is trying to write a book right now. 
  • [14:01] Learn the tools Venus has used to fall in love with herself. 
  • [15:18] She shares her clairvoyant gifts. 
  • [16:56] What’s Venus’s definition of vulnerability? 
  • [19:29] How does she handle the stress of life and relationships? 
  • [21:34] Ways Venus stays true to herself when things get hard. 
  • [23:33] Her parting advice for everyone who’s trying to find love. 
  • [24:11] Connect with Venus. 

Links and Resources:

Here to Forever: Finally Free to Be Me by Venus Castleberg

Venus’s Website

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Have you ever been faced with a decision that could mean someone lived or died? Jillian Haslam, author of the new book, A Voice Out of Poverty, has faced life-threatening decisions, which kept her younger sister alive.

Jillian is an inspiration and her story is one you won’t want to miss. Listen as Jillian shares her inspirational story and learn more about the principles behind her decision-making process.

She took those words to heart and when her little sister was born and given only three days to live, she said no. Instead, she took a bowl to tea shops in the area and asked for milk. That one decision saved her sister’s life and now she’s happily married and thriving. 

Despite their poverty, her parents were unbelievably giving because no matter what they had they always had room to give. 

Growing up around such truly inspirational people helped her to never see the suffering in the situation. Instead, she and her siblings found happiness and joy. She’s now a successful author, speaker, and entrepreneur and her goal is to give back in huge ways. 

Jillian is an inspiration and her story is one you won’t want to miss. Listen in to hear all of her advice and the advice of those she’s learned from. 

Show Notes:

  • [02:30] Jillian shares her story and the decisions she made as a child that led her here. 
  • [04:55] “Your end is up to you.” - Jillian 
  • [05:51] How do we better trust and tap into our gut instinct? 
  • [09:50] Is any one principle more important than another? 
  • [11:29] What does she want readers to take away from her book when they read? 
  • [13:51] Has she had any lessons learned or aha moments as she’s built her career? 
  • [15:56] Does she have a self-care routine to keep herself balanced and centered? 
  • [18:10] Why isolation leads to depression. 
  • [19:14] As a child, how did she handle the stress of living in poverty? 
  • [22:34] Jillian shares her final bit of advice. 
  • [23:57] Connect with Jillian. 

Links and Resources:

A Voice Out of Poverty by Jillian Hazlam 

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Finding Your Voice - TEDx Talk

Jillian’s Website

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