SupportED Learning Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe sits down with Steve Gardner, founder of the Ivy League Challenge, Harvard alumnus, and instructor for Leadership and Impact at Harvard Summer School, to break down why the standard “impressive résumé” approach to college admissions is producing invisible applicants and what actually gets students into the most selective s...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Dr. Torrey Trust, professor of learning technology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and award-winning researcher on how technology should be integrated into education, to break down what schools are getting right and wrong about AI and what parents need to understand right now. Dr. Joe and Dr. Tru...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with David Reynaldo, founder and CEO of College Zoom and a 17-year veteran of college admissions consulting, to expose what actually happens behind the admissions desk and why the standard checklist approach is failing families. Dr. Joe and David discuss the two-part admissions test most families don’t know exis...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Bara Sapir, founder and CEO of City Test Prep and MindFlow Speed Reading, to unpack why high-achieving students freeze on test day and what families can actually do about it. Dr. Joe and Bara discuss why knowing the material is only one of four pillars of test-taking success, how a single negative experienc...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Jeremy Schifeling, founder of Break Into Tech and The Job Insiders and former leader at LinkedIn, Apple, and Khan Academy, to break down what hiring really looks like in the age of AI and what families are getting wrong about career readiness. Dr. Joe and Jeremy discuss what actually happens inside an appli...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe sits down with Chris Lele, former principal curriculum manager at Magoosh and co-founder of Bespoke AI Learning , to break down what actually works in test prep, why most study habits are failing students, and how AI is changing the game. Dr. Joe and Chris discuss what Magoosh’s data revealed about students who watch video...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe sits down with Ryan Craig, managing director at Achieve Partners and author of A New U and Apprentice Nation, to unpack why the four-year college degree is no longer the safe bet most families assume it is. Dr. Joe and Ryan discuss the “great misalignment” between what colleges produce and what employers actually need, the...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast , Dr. Joe sits down with Mariya Pasheva, founder and CEO of Tutor Coach America, a Beverly Hills education agency working across K-12 tutoring, standardized test prep, executive function coaching, and support for neurodivergent learners. Dr. Joe and Mariya discuss why she treats academic struggle as two problems rather than one, co...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe sits down with Joel Butterly, co-founder and CEO of InGenius Prep, a Yale Law and Dartmouth graduate who built his firm around a large team of former admissions officers from schools including Harvard, Stanford, and MIT. Dr. Joe and Joel discuss his argument that roughly 70 to 80% of an admissions decision comes down to ju...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe sits down with Jayson Weingarten , senior consultant at Ivy Coach and a former assistant director of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania, where he evaluated thousands of applications and took part in the confidential committee deliberations behind Ivy League decisions. Dr. Joe and Jayson discuss how applications a...

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...