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Most students don't graduate because of one big moment. They graduate because of dozens of small ones, many of them happening in an advisor's office. Megan Lee has had thousands of those conversations. In this episode, the Season 1 finale, she walks us through how academic advising actually shapes student success. It's a side of higher education that doesn't get headlines, and it should. Megan talks about the pattern she sees again and again with students who get stuck, and the kind of communication that gets them moving again. We close out the season with a conversation about listening,...

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Competitive speaking sounds, from the outside, like a stage event. From the inside, it's a craft, closer to coaching than performing. The people who do it well end up communicating at a level that shows up everywhere else in their lives. Amanda VonGoodrich coaches UNO Forensics. In this episode she shares what the work is really about, what students gain from it, and why the discipline matters more than the trophies. Amanda reflects on her own path through forensics and what builds confidence in young speakers. Not the surface-level kind. The steadier kind that comes from knowing you've...

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Pop culture is never just pop culture. The stories we tell about who's strong, who's worth saving, and what counts as power say a lot about us. You just have to know where to look. Superhero research is one of those places. In this episode, Dr. Adam Tyma flips the script and lets us study him for a change. He takes comics and capes seriously, and he'll tell you exactly why that's real work. Dr. Tyma works in critical media studies. That means he digs into film, TV, and video games to figure out what they're quietly teaching us. And his range is wild. He's written on Alien, Blade Runner, and...

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Most students don't really know what a graduate teaching assistant is until they have one. Aly Holmberg has been on both sides of that desk. In this episode she walks us through what it means to be a GTA: the prep, the mentorship, the small daily acts of communication that turn a syllabus into a real class. We talk about teaching as a discipline you learn the same way you learn anything else. By paying attention. By being honest about what isn't working. By getting better, semester by semester. Aly came to UNO from Long Beach State in California, with a speech and platform background and a...

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Health communication only works when it actually communicates. Too often, the messages people most need to act on are buried under jargon, packaging, or assumptions about who's reading them. Allison Wakin works at the intersection of clarity and care. In this episode she breaks down why accessible health messaging matters more than persuasion, and what gets lost when public health forgets its audience. Allison reflects on her work [add specifics: her role, her area of focus, a moment where clear communication made a measurable difference] and what she'd want every student of communication to...

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The skills you bring from the court to the classroom. Morgann Gardner played basketball for thirteen years. Thirteen years of 5 a.m. workouts, 6 a.m. lifts, two-a-day practices, and the kind of discipline that follows you out of the gym. Now she's a graduate teaching assistant at UNO, teaching Public Speaking Fundamentals to a room full of nervous first-year speakers. Morgann came to UNO from Racine, Wisconsin, on a recruiting visit her mom drove her out for from a tournament in Iowa. She committed after one mini campus tour, and stayed for an undergrad degree in JMC Emerging Media, an...

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Welcome back to Lost In Your 20s with Karima Zhauatar, the podcast for everyone trying to make sense of an in-between decade and the version of themselves they're becoming. In this episode, we dive into the quiet reality of forced maturity. Being "mature" or "responsible" is often seen as a badge of honor, but we rarely talk about what that costs a person on the inside. We explore the gap between the life we imagined, filled with time to explore, make mistakes, and find ourselves, and the reality of being pushed into adult roles before we were ready. Featuring a deeply personal story from a...

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Welcome back to The Fangirl Archives with Jelly, the podcast where we go deeper into the stories, music, and cinematic universes that fandoms love. In this episode, Jelly dissects the extensive storyline of the BTS Universe, the cinematic world built across BTS's music videos, short films, webtoon comics, mobile games, and "The Notes" book series. With a storyline that goes far beyond pretty pictures and happy smiles, the BTS Universe (the BU) tells an extensive backstory for fictional characters that were originally introduced to promote new music. As the BU grew more complex, exploring...

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Welcome back to Elminster Answers, the podcast where the realm's most overworked wizard sounds off on the absurdities of fantasy life, from political to economic and everything in between. In this episode, Elminster speaks on why Wizard College is so expensive. He shares insight on his own education and what it took to make it through, including the absurd magical-item requirements that have left a generation of young wizards in deep debt. Elminster offers his two cents on where the funding for those magical items actually goes, and breaks down the skewed allocation between magic schools. He...

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Welcome back to 402 Eats with Quise Varoz, the podcast that takes you across Omaha's food scene one honest bite at a time. In this episode, Quise visits one of Omaha's most iconic and historic food destinations, Orsi's Italian Bakery and Pizzeria. Known for its Sicilian-style sheet pizza and over 100 years of tradition, Orsi's carries a reputation that sets very high expectations. Quise takes listeners through the full experience, starting from the moment he arrives and notices the upscale atmosphere surrounding the restaurant, to stepping inside and being immersed in the smells of fresh-baked...