SupportED Learning Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Cyndy McDonald, certified educational planner, founder of the Higher Education Consultants Association, instructor in UCLA Extension's College Counseling Ce https://www.instagram.com/dr_joe_ap_exams/?hl=en rtificate program, and creator of the first college planning software. Dr. Joe and Cyndy discuss...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Ann Garcia, certified financial planner, wealth advisor at the Mather Group, and author of How to Pay for College , known to many families as The College Financial Lady. Dr. Joe and Ann discuss why nearly every family qualifies for some form of aid and how to identify which scholarships a student is actuall...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Daniel Ryave, founder of SAT Prep Tutor Daniel , who taught high school sophomores in Togo as a Peace Corps volunteer and earned a master's in public policy at Carnegie Mellon before building a following of more than 275,000 students across social platforms. Dr. Joe and Daniel discuss how the digital S...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Philip Bates, director of college readiness at UWorld and a former teacher and principal who led elementary, junior high, and high school campuses before moving into educational technology. Dr. Joe and Philip discuss why taking practice test after practice test is an inefficient way to prepare and what imme...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with David Blobaum, co-founder of Summit Prep, board member and director of outreach for the National Test Prep Association, and a University of Chicago honors graduate who turned down a conditional CIA offer to build a test prep company instead. Dr. Joe and David discuss where test optional admissions actually...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe sits down with Mike Bergin, president of Chariot Learning, co-founder of the National Test Prep Association, and co-host of the Tests and the Rest podcast, who has spent three decades in test prep including leadership roles at Kaplan and Huntington Learning Center. Dr. Joe and Mike discuss why the test prep industry had no...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Steve Kirshenbaum, CEO of SAT Preparation Group, a one-on-one test prep practice in Miami that he has run for 25 years after coming to education from a corporate engineering career. Dr. Joe and Steve discuss why he believes group prep produces poor results and what he saw working inside those programs befor...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe sits down with Jean Burk, founder of College Prep Genius, who has spent more than 20 years teaching families to approach standardized tests as logic puzzles rather than content exams. Dr. Joe and Jean discuss how she went from homeschooling on one income with nothing saved for college to watching National Merit offers fill...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Mobin Naybin, a computer engineer turned test prep specialist and founder of DSAT Hackers, a platform built entirely around the digital SAT. Dr. Joe and Mobin Naybin discuss what "hacking" the SAT means in practice and why it comes down to pattern recognition rather than gimmicks, why students sho...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Brian Stewart, Princeton graduate, perfect SAT scorer, bestselling author of Barron's SAT, ACT, and PSAT prep books, and founder of BWS Education Consulting, to talk about what actually changed with the digital SAT and what actually moves a score. Dr. Joe and Brian discuss why the digital SAT's mu...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Mike Settele, Johns Hopkins graduate, author of the SAT Package Study Guide, and creator of one of YouTube's most trusted SAT prep channels, to explain what the digital SAT actually changed and how the adaptive format really works. Dr. Joe and Mike discuss why the digital SAT is not question-by-questio...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Cassie Olguin, alternative education content and events manager at Outschool, to talk about what actually works when a traditional classroom isn't the right fit. Dr. Joe and Cassie discuss why the most common mistake families make is recreating school at home and how long it took her to unlearn that he...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Amy Seeley, president of Seeley Test Pros, founder of the LEAP program, and a f https://supportedtutoring.com/ ounding board member of the National Test Prep Association , to unpack how SAT and ACT preparation actually works after 32 years inside the industry. Dr. Joe and Amy discuss why "tips and tric...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Chris Stapleton, co-founder of the eight-figure business Clients & Community and founder of the software company Client Genie, to talk about what school never teaches — and what parents get wrong about pushing their kids toward success. Dr. Joe and Chris discuss why a free passion project beats an expen...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe sits down with Michael Strong—founder of The Socratic Experience, author of The Habit of Thought, and co-founder of the Conscious Capitalism movement —who argues that the school system isn't broken by accident. It's broken by design. Dr. Joe and Michael discuss what real intellectual education looks like and why...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Andrew Cohen, founder and CEO of Brainscape—a smart-flashcard platform used by millions of students from AP through the bar exam —to explain why most of the studying kids do is a waste of time, and what the cognitive science says actually works. Dr. Joe and Andrew break down why highlighting and rereading f...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Dr. Cynthia Colón, who spent 25 years inside elite college admissions as a dean and school administrator and now runs Dream College Academy to help public school families access the insider knowledge private school families take for granted. Dr. Joe and Dr. Cynthia open up the "black box" of admis...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Evelyn Jerome Alexander—Certified Educational Planner, UC Berkeley instructor, and founder of Magellan College Counseling —whose whole philosophy treats college admissions as a family wellness challenge, not just a strategy problem. Dr. Joe and Evelyn discuss how to navigate admissions without fracturing th...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Dr. Jill Alexa Perry—executive director of the Carnegie Project on the Educational Doctorate and the first full Professor of Practice at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education —for a conversation that's personal: Dr. Joe earned his own educational leadership doctorate at Pitt, where Dr. Jill...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Mark Stucker, founder of School Match 4 U, co-host of the Your College-Bound Kid podcast, and author of College Admission: 171 Answers , to unpack why so many families approach college the wrong way—chasing prestige instead of fit. Dr. Joe and Mark discuss what students and parents need to understand about...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Christopher Hunt, a former Wall Street Journal and Economist journalist and founder of College Essay Mentor , to break down how students can write a personal statement that actually stands out—and sounds like them, not a robot. Dr. Joe and Chris discuss what students and parents need to understand about the...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe sits down with Elise Pham, a first-generation Harvard student on the premed track and founder of The Ultimate Ivy League Guide , to break down what top colleges actually want—and why most families get it completely wrong. Dr. Joe and Elise discuss what students and parents need to understand about college admissions , incl...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe sits down with Nelson Dellis, a six-time USA Memory Champion and founder of the nonprofit Climb for Memory, to reveal why memory is a trainable skill—not a gift you're either born with or not. Dr. Joe and Nelson discuss what students and parents need to understand about memory and studying, including how Nelson went f...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe sits down with Anthony Metivier, a world-renowned memory expert, founder of the Magnetic Memory Method, and a former university professor who rebuilt his own memory after a health crisis, to explain why most studying is broken—and what actually works instead. Dr. Joe and Anthony discuss what students and parents need to un...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe Sebestyen sits down with Esther Wojcicki—legendary educator, founder of the Palo Alto High School Media Arts Program, author of How to Raise Successful People, and the woman known as the "Godmother of Silicon Valley" —to unpack the parenting philosophy behind three of the most successful daughters in tech and sci...