Your Sorority Journey

So you want to join a sorority? Have you thought about the impact your sisterhood might have on you BEYOND instant friends on campus? Taylor Coco, Phi Sigma Rho Vice President of Strategic Growth and founding president of the Arizona State University chapter in 2015, joins Cassie to talk about how the values of her organization made her the leader she is proud to be today! Tune in to learn how you...

Kicking off a new season with a new perspective for our future sisters: what you join does matter but maybe not for the reasons you think. I know looking back that joining the chapter that I did has changed the trajectory of my life - it's influenced my relationships, my career, my personal development, and confidence in myself. But what surprised me is that the lessons sorority taught me that...

No matter what role you may be playing in this year's recruitment, there's one common theme we can all keep in mind; recruitment requires respect. No matter what situations you run into throughout recruitment, how you successfully resolve those issues is rooted in the respect you show your sisters, your leadership team, the PNM's, and everyone in between. In our final episode of Recrui...

With all the advice thrown at PNMs throughout recruitment, many women just want to ask — "What can I do to be the best person I can be for recruitment?" Today, we're going to break down this idea of being the "perfect PNM" with advisors Molleigh Pompilio and Alison Burke. After advising multiple university recruitments, handling almost every possible PNM situation, and watching thousands of women...

During recruitment, most PNM's may only see the effort the recruiters and chapter leaders are putting into the process, but who else keeps recruitment running behind the scenes? This week's Recruitment Takeover episode focuses on the unsung heroes of recruitment — the Panhellenic roles, backroom girls, logistics coordinators, advisors, and so many more who are vital in the recruitment process. Tod...

Welcome to our 2025 Recruitment Takeover series! Over the next four weeks, we'll be covering recruitment topics for PNMs, recruiters, and everyone in between; from community development to social media, this series will provide you the resources you need to make a difference this recruitment season regardless of your role. Today we're learning all about chapter's social media platforms with our in...

You may know your university's Panhellenic council as the people running recruitment, but what other role do they play in your sorority experience? Today, we sat down with Hanna Mouhsin to talk all things Panhellenic; who makes up the council, what their role is year-round, and how they can support each and every Panhellenic sorority chapter on campus. As the Vice President of Recruitment Counselo...

Today we're talking about one of the biggest questions potential new members have prior to recruitment: What are the expectations of chapter membership? The time commitment, financial aspects, housing experience, behavioral expectations, and so much more that contributes to a meaningful commitment to your organization. Today, Cassie breaks down these expectations, both the myths and reality of the...

So what's the difference between joining a sorority or joining another campus organization? We're led to believe that joining a sorority prohibits us from joining any other campus organizations, but in reality, being a part of a chapter only empowers us further to be leaders in all kinds of communities on our campuses. What a sorority does is give us lifelong friendships, leadership experiences, a...

So you think you want to join a sorority? This month, we're exploring all the Greek life topics that may have you on the fence about registering for recruitment this fall. This week we're diving into the stereotypes surrounding Greek life, and helping you understand what a sorority is and what it's not. Today we talk myth vs. fact with Alyssa Ciango, the Associate Director of Fraternit...

Serving on a committee or in a leadership role within your chapter helps you develop all kinds of life skills within your sorority. Whether you serve on a recruitment committee, secretary, or even chapter president, the skills you learn through your sorority experience can translate to a professional workplace setting after your collegiate experience. How can we use the skills we've learned in our...

Hot Girl Summer is right around the corner! The transition into the summer months can be a great time to begin new habits and lifestyle changes, especially surrounding your personal health. Our social media platforms are flooded with fear-based marketing, unrealistic body standards, and unhealthy habits related to personal health . Today, we sit down with Katy Saltsman to talk all about these myth...

Your sisterhood is meant to be a lifelong commitment, but what does it look like to actually be active in our sorority after graduation? The alumni experience gives women the opportunity to not just meet sisters from other universities, but build new meaningful relationships with sisters they never knew in college to give back to the collegiate experience and support philanthropic efforts. Today,...

Are you tired yet? After the past three weeks of awards ceremonies, Greek Week events, scholarship banquets, and senior send offs, do you feel like your celebrating the community or competing for your place in it? As we end the academic year, I hope you find a breath of fresh air in this week's episode. Let's exchange our goals to be the best in our community (and consequently communicatin...

ICYMI: Our 2025 Summer Internship application is open! We are looking for two ambitious sorority leaders to drive Her Sorority Journey's social media strategy & educational resource development over the next few months. When one door opens, another closes. It's a bittersweet season to dream about our next intern team while celebrating the amazing work, investment, and personal growth o...

During Sexual Assault Awareness Month, you may feel overwhelmed with information, statistics, and more questions than answers in how to protect or support your sisters. We invited Megan Hatfield, Alpha Chi Omega's Assistant Director of Education and Leadership Initiatives, to share her insight into how chapters and their members can take the resources available to them to be the kind of sister...

Did you attend a fraternity & sorority life leadership conference this year? As you go into the final stretch of your spring semester, let's reevaluate how you've maintained that conference momentum. What progress have you made toward the goals you set? How have you used that inspiration to ignite meaningful change in your chapter or community? 2025 AFLV Central Intern, Madi Breedlove,...

We've all heard "Greek Life is for everyone" but is that being lived out daily? This week guest Kailey Couch a freshman at Missouri State University in Sigma Sigma Sigma shares her take on the topic of inclusivity. Kailey is visually impaired and actively making strides in her community to ensure every student feels invited to the fraternity experience. Kailey gives insight into what...

On our 5 year anniversary of the Your Sorority Journey Podcast, Cassie reflects even further back than the start of her entrepreneurial journey, to the start of her sorority journey. While sorority recruitment can feel like such an isolated experience, she reveals common experience of women forming beliefs about themselves from any moment of rejection and the need to dismantle the shame we project...

You're halfway through the spring semester... how many weekends or evenings have you had free recently? How much capacity have you had to invest in the sister relationships that really matter to you between the retreats, workshops, philanthropic fundraisers, and your academics?! Dr. Mari Ann Callais, Sr. Director of Strategic Initiatives for Tri Delta and passionate advocate for over 30 years...

Need a new recruitment strategy to retain interested future sisters into passionate, contributing members? Let's try authenticity . Our potential new members deserve to see clearly what membership would be like if they join, not what you want it to look like or feel like it should look like, but what it would actually be like. We invited Zafyre Turner, past chapter consultant for Alpha Chi Ome...

It's time to transform the cliche of "Panhellenic Love" from the topic of your community sisterhood event to a lived reality on your campus. We cannot effectively tap into the strength of our collective sisterhood while tolerating competition and comparison between our chapters. Joining Cassie to unpack these tensions is Her Sorority Journey's newest team member, Molleigh Pompili...

Forgot to hop on the New Years' Resolutions this year and don't have any goals for 2025? Good thing a new year, birthday, new academic year, or other milestone aren't the only days you can set goals! Regardless of your leadership position in your chapter or season of life in sorority, let's give you a helpful framework to set some goals that orient your decisions in the direction o...

If we want to sustain sorority, we have to start looking ahead. Heather Matthews joined Cassie to share the research findings from the Foundation of Fraternal Excellence's first Amplify Sorority Campaign that explored WHO are our future sorority members. The research revealed that the future of our chapters will be made up of women who fall into unique four personas, requiring four unique marketin...

COB season is here! Are you ready for it? Despite the stigma & stressful chapter conversations, continuous open bidding attracts amazing women to our organizations. The reasons that these future leaders and impactful sisters disregarded sorority because of the primary recruitment process are the very same reasons that they will be irreplaceable members. On today's episode, Lauren Stills, r...