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.