ALP: The Admissions Leadership Podcast
Ken Anselment hosts a series of one-on-one conversations with people who have been climbing the leadership mountain in the world of college admissions. Some are nearing the summit. Some are already there. But how did they get there? And what can other climbers learn from their mindsets, habits, and experiences? © Ken Anselment 2024
ALP: The Admissions Leadership Podcast
Visionaries and Integrators: Complementary Collaboration
Tim Fields (Emory University) and Shereem Herndon-Brown (Strategic Admissions Advice)—co-authors of The Black Family's Guide to College Admissions: A Conversation about Education, Parenting and Race, and co-hosts of the podcast, Application to Admission: Understanding the Choices—provide a master class in leveraging complementary experiences, skillsets and mindsets in the collaborative process as they discuss how their groundbreaking new book grew from idea through process to reality.
Rapid Descent
- Walkout song: Got to Give it Up by Marvin Gaye (Tim); U Don't Know by Jay-Z (Shereem)
- Best recent read: Rocket Fuel by Gino Wickman (Tim); Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo by Rebecca Walker (Shereem)
- Eager to read next: The Shape of the River by William Bowen and Derek Book (Shereem): "I'll be reading a book a day [during application reading season at Emory]" (Tim)
- Favorite podcast(s): How I Built This (Shereem); Earn Your Leisure (Tim)
- Favorite thing to make in the kitchen: Enchiladas (Tim); "Mean chocolate waffles" (Shereem)
- What he uses to take and keep notes: Mohawk journals (Tim); "I'm a paper guy" (Shereem)
- Memorable bit of advice: "Life isn't fair; fair is a place where they judge pigs." (Tim); "Do hard things." (Shereem)
- Bucket list: Skydiving (Tim); Taking my wife to Italy to ride on a gondola, then do a Mediterranean/Northern Africa tour—also, have an intrusive pedicure (Shereem).
Theme music arranged by Ryan Anselment.
The ALP is supported by RHB. Music arranged by Ryan Anselment