In the final podcast of the Spring 2022 Tepper Reads project, Academic Program Managers in Tepper's Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, continue their conversation about Sanjena Sathian's Gold Diggers. In this episode they talk about history and the importance of knowing where you come from, whose stories are told and whose are erased and why, and the first rule of leadership: "It's not about you."

Our discussion of Sanjena Sathian's Gold Diggers continues in the second podcast of the Spring 2022 season. Academic Program Managers in the Tepper School of Business' Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, talk about metonymy, how it's different from metaphor, and how it helps us make sense of the world around us. Also discussed is America's penchant for quantity over quality, how gold functions in the novel and in real life, and different ways of being.

In the first episode of the spring 2022 podcast season, academic program managers in the Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, discuss why Gold Diggers is the Tepper Reads pick for this spring. In the discusssion they touch upon how the novel helps one understand the motivations of others, relatability vs. empathy, upending stereotypes, the joy of reading the novel, and much more.

In the second and final episode of the Fall 2021 Tepper Reads podcast we speak with Leanne Meyer, Executive Director of the Accelerate Leadership Center in Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business about Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown. Leanne talks about her immigrant experience, the notion of "Be more," the model minority myth, John Denver, and the meaning of "home."

In the first episode of the Tepper Reads podcast for fall 2021, Accelerate Leadership Center program managers, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, talk about the genre mashups of Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown, what white space on a page means, how something can be both funny and important, and why this book works so well for building empathy.

It's our final podcast of the Spring 2021 Tepper Reads season, and it's a great one. For our final podcast we talk with Leanne Meyer, Executive Director of the Accelerate Leadership Center at Tepper, about what she's reading, leadership and identity development, and how it relates to The Vanishing Half, and a whole lot more. 

In this episode, Accelerate lead for Tepper Reads, Matthew Stewart, talks with Rhonda Fischer, Tepper's Chief Operating Officer, about colorism, the depth of Stella's deception, why understanding passing is important to understanding the racial landscape of America today, and so much more.

In this episode, Accelerate lead for Tepper Reads, Matthew Stewart, speaks with CMU School of English professor, Jane McCafferty about being seen vs. being unseen, the roles we play in families and society, the costs associated with changing your identity, imposter syndrome, and what all of this has to do with The Vanishing Half.

SHIFT Program Managers in the Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, dissect this spring's book, Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half. They talk about the cinematic qualities of the book, community and place in the book, Bennett's clear and accessible writing style, its classic fictional style, and how well it works to build empathy in readers (Hint: it works really well!).

For the first podcast of Spring 2021 we talk with one very recent Tepper MBA alum, Jillian McCarthy, one current MBA student, Cynthia Mills, and one May 2020 alum, Adeel Rind, about their experience with Tepper Reads. If you're not sure if Tepper Reads is for you, give it a listen. We think you'll be surprised about the impact a book club at Tepper can have on students. And if you're already all-in, this will be a good opportunity to hear from some of your past and present friends at Tepper.