SeroTunein

This week’s episode focuses on diagnosing complex problems in our lives and extending the right kind of help to others who may be struggling. We look at these topics through the lens of international aid and social entrepreneurship. Questions we discuss include designing solutions with community engagement, using observation to effectively see where issues lie and looking at poverty as a problem o...

This week’s episode focuses on navigating phases in our lives that are out of our control. What is productive when it seems like you can’t fix them on your own? Is everything in our lives really as DIY as we seem to make it? In this episode, we talk to Pastor Michael Lusk of Church on Grounds at the University of Virginia to give us insight on his worldview of handing some of our burdens to anothe...

People love certainty. It’s human nature to like having control over our own lives. Choosing what we’re going to wear, where we’re going to eat, when we’re going to bed. But sometimes in our busy lives, this certainty gets faded and the plans we make for the future starts getting more and more blurry. My guest today has spent years living in Silicon Valley, bouncing from tech company to tech compa...

Do we ever stop and observe our environment not just by how we interact with it physically, but how it makes us feel mentally? Our environment is more than a setting. It shapes your choices which ultimately shape how you feel. In this first episode of Serotunein, I interview Sally Dover, the former director of the University of Virginia's Stall Seat Journal to tell us a little bit more about creat...