Beyond The Venue with MG Hodge, Host & Future PhD
Hello! I'm MG, host of Beyond the Venue Podcast and a hospitality professional turned academic. I started this podcast in the Spring of 2021 to elevate stories from my friends in the hospitality and entertainment world whose careers and businesses were impacted by the pandemic. Season 2 features several of my colleagues from the hospitality and event industry, as well as teachers and professors from a variety of disciplines. I interview other podcast hosts, storytellers, bartenders, parents, and everything in between! After wrapping up the recording of Season 2, I returned to the classroom as an adjunct professor in the College of Education and Human Development at Temple University. This would help me create Season 3, for which I used clips from my students' podcast project (with their permission of course!). After completing my first year of my doctoral program this past year, I decided the summer of 2024 was the perfect time to wrap up this podcast with an inside look into life in higher education. Starting Friday, August 30th, 2024, we will be releasing episodes of our 4th and final season. Season 4 includes interviews with my fellow doctoral students, as well as a variety of other folks from the "academy". Qualitative research is all about sharing stories and lived experiences, and that's what I've tried to do over the last 3 years through this podcast. Thanks for listening!
Beyond The Venue with MG Hodge, Host & Future PhD
Empowerment Evolution & Bike Revolutions 406 with Kel Kroehle
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Kel and I met when they bought the house next door to mine! I was gearing up to start my PhD program, and I would learn that they were an “ABD” (all but dissertation). I would finally learn the “why” through this conversation! Our friendship is a prime example of where I have found myself - surrounded by folks from completely different life paths but coming together to form a community and learn and grow from one another. For anyone curious about what life is like as a passionate social worker who loves a two-wheeled life, this episode is for you!
Additional Topics Include:
- Recognizing When You Need to Walk Away from What’s Not Serving You
- Finding Organizations that Align with Your Values
- Supporting and Nurturing Youth Empowerment
- Adjuncting is Essentially Volunteering (from a monetary standpoint)
- The Power of Teaching and Creating Space
- Platonic Nesting in Your 40s
Thanks so much for listening, and enjoy the following episode “Empowerment Evolution & Bike Revolutions 406 with Kel Kroehle”.
About the Guest:
Kel Kroehle
Kel Kroehle is the Learning and Development Director at the Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing, a national capacity building organization dedicated to strengthening youth-led and intergenerational movements for transformative social change. Supporting the organization’s funder organizing and research and evaluation efforts, Kel is committed to identifying the lessons emerging from the field and weaving together youth organizing’s lineages, practices, and visions for the world. Prior to joining the FCYO team, Kel served for seven years as Director of The Bryson Institute at The Attic Youth Center in Philadelphia. In this role, they coordinated and resourced a youth-driven education and training program, working alongside queer and trans youth to advance anti-oppressive practices and just policies among the region’s youth-serving systems. Their experience also includes facilitating participatory action research projects on trans student equity and youth sociopolitical development. Kel earned their Bachelors degree in Gender Studies and LGBTQ studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before earning their Master of Social Work degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Beyond the workday, Kel can typically be found connecting with loved ones and other rabble-rousers, negotiating with their four-legged muppet-companion, TumTum Geraldine, or prepping for an upcoming crossword competition.
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This Episode has been produced in association with Gal Co Productions.