Author: Scott Coykendall

For our final episode of this season, we speak with Jessie Chapman, a gifted teacher and director, about how sharing your own life creates authentic connections with students.

On this week’s episode, Meghan and I speak with two graduating seniors from PSU’s Ascent program who inspired us to create a podcast. Lilly Casto and Kelsey Haley came to Plymouth in the midst of the Covid pandemic and demonstrated that tenacity, and friendship, can get you through almost anything.

We have our first guest! In this episode, Dr. Cathie LeBlanc, a leader on PSU’s campus talks about how she found her voice and how she helps students to find theirs.

In this week’s episode, Meghan describes how being seen by a caring advisor can sometimes feel–at least at first–like being exposed.

In our first episode, Scott and Meghan talk about how an encounter with a poet–and their simple act of kindness–made a huge difference in Scott’s life.

In January of 2002, Scott was at a crossroads–he was a technical writer writing manuals for software users but he longed for a community of poets. An encounter with the poet Li-Young Lee helped him find himself and a new direction.

Scott previously blogged about this experience on his own blog.