Fraternity Foodie Podcast by Greek University

Welcome to our town hall event called Managing our Mental Wellness Amongst the Media Mayhem! With 6 days to go until Election Day, we are being bombarded with messages on social media, text messages from candidates running for office, and information overload. We have two panelists with us today to talk about Mental Wellness during this overwhelming time, Greg Vogt and Cassie Firebaugh. Some frigh...

Welcome to episode # 93 of Fraternity Foodie! Today we will learn about the Circle of Sisterhood Foundation with their Executive Director and Founder, Ginny Carroll! Ginny is also a consultant for inGiNuity where she does retreats, planning, skill development, and keynotes for businesses and students, and she also served Alpha Xi Delta Women's Fraternity for over 14 years in various roles includin...

Welcome to episode # 92 of Fraternity Foodie! Today we have on the show a long time friend, Dr. Colleen Coffey Melchiorre, who does business development for our good friends at PhiredUp. I asked Colleen to talk to us about why fraternity men and sorority women leave their organizations, as retention will be a key issue for our chapters in light of the pandemic. We find out why Colleen chose Belmon...

Welcome to episode # 91 of Fraternity Foodie! Today we are talking about physical disabilities on college campuses. We have with us two long time friends of mine, Shawn Humphrey and Joe Landicho. Both served as presidents of their Sigma Pi chapters (Carleton University and Rochester Institute of Technology), and both use a wheelchair. We find out what a student with physical disabilities should co...

Welcome to episode # 90 of Fraternity Foodie! Today we are talking about dating, love, and relationships in college with us a nationally recognized psychotherapist who has been practicing psychotherapy for over 35 years. Beatty Cohan has a Master's degree in Clinical Social Work from McGill University in Montreal, Canada and post-graduate specialization in marriage and family therapy and sexual dy...

Welcome to episode # 89 of Fraternity Foodie! Today we are talking about getting into colleges, scholarships, grad school, and so much more with our guest Michele Wolfson. Michele is the Founder and Executive Director of UPrep4College, an independent college Admissions Advisory that serves high school students and their families during the often confusing and competitive college admissions process...

Welcome to episode #88 of Fraternity Foodie! I'm your host, Mike Ayalon, CEO of Greek University. Today we are talking health and fitness with Emily Coffman, host of Girls Gone Healthy Podcast. Emily came up with the idea for the podcast when she realized how many women like her were struggling when it came to working out, eating right, and feeling confident in their body. Our bodies are constantl...

Welcome to episode # 87 of Fraternity Foodie! I hope you're buckled in for today's show. We have with us Carolyn Carpenter, Zeta Tau Alpha Foundation President! Carolyn served ZTA as National President from 2014 to 2018, and was elected President of the Zeta Tau Alpha Foundation at its biennial meeting during ZTA Convention 2018 in Orlando, Florida. She is proud to serve an organization of women w...

Welcome to episode #86 of Fraternity Foodie! Today we have with us Brenden Kumarasamy, host of MasterTalks, the YouTube channel dedicated to teaching people how to master their public speaking skills. We talk about his role at IBM as a Business Transformation Consultant, why it's important for college students to work on their public speaking skills, how we can get more confident speaking in front...

Welcome to our town hall where we discuss mental health for men of color. Our panelists include Edson O'Neale, Scott Marsden, and Greg Vogt. Some of the questions we seek to answer: Why are black men taught at a young age to not show their feelings? Why is it so hard for men of color to talk about mental health? What about the stigma that men do not get depressed? Are we in a time where men are mo...

Welcome to episode # 84 of Fraternity Foodie! Today we have with us Rudy Rochman, a Jewish and Israel Rights Activist and Social Media influencer on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter. He was born in Paris, moved to Israel at age 3, and then at age 7 he experienced Anti-Semitism after being removed from a bus in London. Since then, he has been focused on Jewish rights. Rudy is a brother of...

Welcome to episode #83 of Fraternity Foodie! Today we have with us Mariah "Modi" Fair, who is an author, blogger, and writer. A graduate of Fisk University with a degree in English, Modi fell in love with literature. She is the author of "Some Women Prefer Hell". Her passion for writing keeps her depression and anxiety at bay. Depression can be a crippling disease, but Modi was and still is resili...

Welcome to episode #82 of Fraternity Foodie! Today we have with us the great Mindy Sopher, a professional advisor and mentor to students in Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and at NC State University in Raleigh. Mindy is a proud sister of Kappa Delta! We find out why she chose Wittenberg University for her undergraduate experience, her experience in hiring speakers for the Greek community at Wittenberg,...

Welcome to episode #81 of Fraternity Foodie! We have with us a good friend and advocate for Greek Life with the experience one might expect from a seasoned executive and entrepreneur. T.J. Sullivan tells us why he chose Indiana University in Bloomington for his undergraduate experience, why he decided to join Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity as a founding father over other organizations, what roles he fill...

Welcome to episode #80 of Fraternity Foodie! We interview David Westol, an alumnus of Michigan State University and the Detroit College of Law, he has an extensive and impressive background in fraternity/sorority life and specializes in risk and crisis prevention/management and interventions. He has made more than 6,000 presentations regarding hazing, risk management, motivation, values, ideals, a...

Welcome to episode # 79 of Fraternity Foodie! All of our listeners want to hear from my next guest, Tina VanSteenbergen. Tina speaks on college campuses all over the country and she tears down the house. Tina knows that women need women, to be successful, to feel understood, to feel less alone. Tina gives women permission to open up, have honest conversations, and connect. We find out why Tina sel...

Welcome to an epic episode of Fraternity Foodie, this is episode number 78. Today we interview James Robilotta, someone who helps audiences pause and think about the way they lead, the way they connect, and the way they can impact their world. He creates moments that empower teams and individuals to realize they are the only thing standing in the way between the results they want and the results t...

Welcome to episode # 77 of Fraternity Foodie! Today we have with us Jessica Pettitt. Jess has been stirring up difficult conversations for over a decade, performing as a stand-up comic, speaking on stage as a diversity educator, and moving teams from abstract to action. We find out why she chose Hendrix College, why she's pursuing her MBA now, why her position at NYU as the LGBT Student Services P...

In today's webinar, we have three incredible panelists for you that are all firmly committed to hazing prevention, so I'm very curious to hear their thoughts on whether their work on hazing prevention changes at all given this new online class format that we find ourselves in for college campuses. Our expert panelists: Lawrence Ross, Dr. Elizabeth Allan, and Dr. Jason L. Meriwether. They have all...

Welcome to episode #75 of Fraternity Foodie! Today we interview Delaney Bosworth, an undergraduate member of Alpha Xi Delta at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. Delaney tells us about what happened to her at age 11 that caused her to be paralyzed, how everyone has their "wheelchair" - or that thing that holds them back and makes us believe we are not good enough, why Millersville University...

Welcome to episode #74 of Fraternity Foodie! Get ready for another incredible guest. Today we have on our show Adam Hollmann. Adam is the Assistant Director of Student Life – Programming at University of Detroit Mercy. We talk to Adam about why he chose Indiana University in Bloomington, his recommendations for other future higher education professionals about getting a Masters in Higher Education...

Welcome to our Town Hall discussion on Accessibility in Fraternities and Sororities for those with Disabilities. We have three expert panelists that talk about important issues such as the most practical way to address the issue of student in a wheelchair who wants to be a part of recruitment, working with students who have mobility impairments, the right way to market campus events to be more inc...

We interview Adam DeRito who enrolled in the US Air Force Academy in 2006 and eventually becomes an informant looking for misconduct from within the Academy. Adam was later a victim of a sexual assault and files a report of the incident with both the Academy and the local police in Fort Collins. Adam is then expelled just before graduation and the Academy asks him to pay a bill of over $200,000 fo...

Edson O'Neale and Mike Ayalon from Greek University hosted a session tonight called "Let's Be Honest, We Need Each Other". This was a conversation about the importance of communication, understanding, and relationships across Fraternity & Sorority Life councils. Thank you to our special guests including Jessica Snell representing NMGC, Clifford Temprosa representing NAPA, Jarred Pernier representi...

Welcome to our next episode of Making Hazing History with Mike & Hank! Our co-host today is Hank Nuwer, the Author of Hazing: Destroying Young Lives, Wrongs of Passage, High School Hazing and The Hazing Reader. Today Hank and I talk about hazing in professional sports, including the NFL and MLB. We discuss incidents with Andre Royal with the New Orleans Saints, Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin...