In this episode of Leading with Student Acitivities Bruce interviews Madelyn Giles, the Director of the Freshman Leadership Advisory Council (FLAC) the representative body that oversees the 20 Freshman Leadership Organizations (FLOs). FLOs account for more than 10% of the experience of each freshmen class at Texas A&M by providing membership opportunities to 1,200+ students a year and 400+ student leadership roles. One of many areas of FLAC is the coordinated recruitment process which in 2020 was handled 100% virtual for the first time and led to more than370,000 impressions on instagram and in the end there were 5,600 applications submitted! If you are wanting to learn lessons on how to recruit while remote listen in! Leadership Lessons: -Find your hobbies that fill your bucket -Bring your team together -Be intentional, make intentional choices -QR Codes on signs around campus -Know your audience and design your actions based on it -Get people to know you, not what everyone else is doing -Share successes to build confidence and empower Quote of the Day: “The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary” - Vidal Sassoon   Show Notes ------------------------------------ Episode Hosted by Bruce Brown, a Student Affairs Coordinator in Student Activities at Texas A&M University Special Guest(s) - Madelyn Giles - FLAC Director To learn more about Student Activities: Follow Student Activities on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tamustuact) Like  Student Activities on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/stuact) Visit https://studentactivities.tamu.edu/ To learn more about FLAC: Visit the FLAC website - https://flac.tamu.edu/about/ Like on Social Media - https://www.facebook.com/TAMUFLAC Audio Transcript (Generated by AI…Coming Soon, thanks for your patience)   ©2020 Texas A&M University | Division of Student Affairs

Episode Hosted by Bruce Brown, a Student Affairs Coordinator in Student Activities at Texas A&M University Special Guest(s) - Sarah Diebel & Sydney Duininck, Big Event External Outreach Executives Lessons: * Communicate, communicate, communicate * Create relationships * Being Humble, learning humility * Selfless Service * There is always something to learn Quote of the Day: “Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself” -Arthur Schopenhauer To learn more about Student Activities: * Follow Student Activities on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tamustuact) * Like Student Activities on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/stuact) * Visit https://studentactivities.tamu.edu/ To learn more about The Big Event: * Visit bigevent.tamu.edu (https://bigevent.tamu.edu/)   Audio Transcript (Generated by AI…Coming Soon, thanks for your patience)   ©2020 Texas A&M University | Division of Student Affairs

Episode Hosted by Bruce Brown, a Student Affairs Coordinator in Student Activities at Texas A&M University Special Guest(s) - Kelly Villarreal, The 12th Can Kelly's Leadership Advice * Give yourself grace. It may not be what you expect * Mistakes will happen it doesn’t negate the good work, just learn from it. Quote of the Day: "The truest test of character is...how we behave when we don’t know what to do." - John Holt To learn more about Student Activities: · Follow Student Activities on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tamustuact) · Like  Student Activities on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/stuact) · Visit https://studentactivities.tamu.edu/ To learn more about the 12th Can: * Visti https://www.the12thcan.org/ * Email [email protected] We encourage you to listen to the Patrick Lencioni Podcast (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://learningleadershow.libsyn.com/359-pat-lencioni__;!!KwNVnqRv!TsqQ10Otby79o5XtfaceXp27bUxFviYnXRjtESEEP3HXvDRw-PtsTE7IOh1Pb_vG1CLm$) mentioned in the show. Audio Transcript (Generated by AI) 00:00:10 - 00:05:03   Howdy and welcome to another episode of the key pleading with Student Activities podcast. My name is Bruce Brown and we're here to tell you that you've got this and we are a proud member of the Texas A&M podcast Network. And what we're doing is we're sharing stories from leaders around our campus if you encourage you and to inspire you by hearing their Amazing Stories. And so with that being said we have Kelly joining us today and Kelly's with the 12th can suck it Kelleigh introduced herself cuz there's so much cool going on. And so Kelly, why don't you take it away. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Yeah, thank you Bruce. So it's brief you mentioned. My name is Kelly. I'm a first-generation college student business owners major in management from Pasadena, Texas, which is a small town outside of Houston. I'm the executive director for the 12th can this year and I've been with the 12 can for the past three years going on like forth. So I'm very excited to be here. Yeah, we're so thankful to have you so you said you've been with 12 can for the last 3 and 1/2 years. That means you got plugged in like right away. So can you tell our listeners a little bit about what the 12th can is often? What inspired you to get involved? Yeah, the 12th can is Texas A&M on campus food pantry founded back in 2013. We serve all current students staff and faculty in need of assistance office and I got involved back my freshman year. I saw an email from FDA and they talked about this little food pantry on campus and having done work with the Houston I think back home.

In this episode Bruce is joined by Kourtnei Fong-Kutchins, the outgoing Fish Camp Director of Membership. Kourtnei shares the journey that her and the rest of her Director Team went through as they worked to continue operations of the extended orientation program that has a team of 1,200+ student leaders behind it. Kourtnei's 3 recommendations for fellow student leaders facing challenges: (more details about these are shared during the episode) * "Embrace the suck" * Get support (internal and external) * Develop and work towards goals Episode Leadership Quote: “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” -Helen Keller ------------------------------------ Episode Hosted by Bruce Brown, a Student Affairs Coordinator in Student Activities at Texas A&M University Special Guest(s) - Kourtnei Fong-Kutchins To learn more about Student Activities: · Follow Student Activities on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tamustuact) · Like  Student Activities on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/stuact) · Visit https://studentactivities.tamu.edu/ To learn more about Fish Camp: · Visit https://fishcamp.tamu.edu/ (https://fishcamp.tamu.edu/)   Audio Transcript (Generated by AI) 00:00:12 - 00:05:09 Howdy and welcome to another episode of the keep leading podcast with Student Activities. I'm here. I'm your I'm your host Bruce Brown a proud member of the Texas A&M podcast Network and send it today. We're joined by a phenomenal guests a phenomenal student leader Courtney and Courtney's going to be talking to us about fish camp and leading during this pandemic and leading the team to Absolute success said that let's Jump Right In Courtney. You're here. You're a student. Tell us a little bit about yourself groups and my name's Courtney. My name is Courtney from kitchens. If you want my first and last name, it is kind of a mouthful. I am a fifth-year student at A&M. So in the class of 2020, but I'll actually be graduating in May of 2021 with my master of science in marketing and I'm a Bachelor of Science in accounting and business honors. There's a mouthful to get all the things the things I've been an Aggie obviously. This is my fifth year, but I've been an Aggie Pretty much since I was born my dad is class of eighty-six. So yes, there are pictures of me and my brother and sister all in like a geeky jerseys. My brother was wearing a football helmet all throughout our cows. Oh my gosh, Aggie football is like a national holiday in my home and I am no stranger to Texas A&M. So that is a little bit about me. Perfect. Well, yes, I'm curious with that. Yeah, you send you your whole family had gone here. Like we have a lot of students are like that in some students that are not but I'm curious what made you want to come here?

In episode 1 of the Leading with Student Activities Podcast Bruce encourages us to do exactly that, to keep leading. We know that In a given year there will be an incalculable number of factors chipping away at the visions of success that ...