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
The Secret Ingredients to Service: Hustle & Communication with Will Monroe
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This week we’re jumping back into the hospitality industry with my friend Will, yet another former bar manager I sold beer to back in the day but kept a friendship with over the years.
Will left bartending in mid-February 2020 with the intentions of traveling over the following months. While that clearly didn’t happen, Will shares in this episode how he’s kept afloat over these last two years, and opens up about how he personally deals with anxiety.
Topics Include:
🍽 The Impact Covid Has Had on Anxiety Levels, Especially as a Bartender
🍸 Be Honest in Your Exit Interview
🎮 How Will’s Circle of Friends Relocated from Orlando to Philly
🚲 Dating Continues to be Rough, but Now’s the Time for Fully Vaccinated Fun
🍽 Hire for Attitude, Train for Success
🍸 We Miss Destination Dogs
🎮 Willdabeast - Best Nickname EVER
Thanks so much for listening, and enjoy the following episode, The Secret Ingredients to Service: Hustle & Communication with Will Monroe.
About Will
Will Monroe (he/him) has been living in Philly for the last 8 years. He works at Emmy Squared as their lead server and occasionally bartends. He’s a self-professed “geek who loves video games, anime & superhero films”, and he's also a great cook. His mission is to cultivate a positive work environment through training at Emmy Squared.
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