Your Sorority Journey

Happy New Year, Your Sorority Journey listeners! As we step into 2025, we are continuing season 5 with an episode for newly elected officers + the advisors who support them to cultivate their leadership vision. Cassie will walk you through important considerations when casting your vision including what to sustain, where you can implement growth, and what currently exists that could be elevated! W...

Stepping into a leadership position or your titleless leadership potential and nervous about how your friends will respond to new boundaries in your life that come with that role? Let's talk about it. Join Cassie and friendship coach, Danielle Bayard Jackson, in unpacking pitfalls we often experience when sorority becomes a commodified community. Danielle's expertise from research she's done in fe...

Just got elected onto your sorority's executive council? CONGRATULATIONS! Once the reality of this privileged opportunity sinks in, you might find yourself leaning toward one of two extremes: 1) getting ready to change everything that's been done in your position before hoping for a different result than you've seen in the past or 2) preparing to replicate the plans you have seen executed in the p...

So you're coming to the end of your sorority officer position - what's next in your sorority journey? As your sisters in your chapter prepare to transition into the roles you and your friends have held this past year, let's get you ready to STEP UP as a leader in the chapter as you step down from your titled role. After serving for a year or longer, it is no easy experience going from the executiv...

So you're ready to run for a sorority officer position... have you thought about why? Have you mapped out what you hope to accomplish? Cassie believes that ALL interested sorority leaders need the take the time to imagine what they hope the chapter would look like as a result of their leadership - cast a clear vision for their leadership term. And it needs to be about impact. Sorority leaders are...

Upperclassmen Sorority Members! Did you know that you dictate the leadership culture in your chapter? The way you model membership, take ownership in your chapter, and empower younger members will be repeated! As sorority election season is upon us, let's talk about how to balance the need to elevate upperclassmen leaders and the value of fresh perspective from emerging leaders. We invited Aubrey...

How quickly it seems we go from stressing about recruitment to stressing about retention! If your chapter or community has set member retention goals, this episode is for you. Her Sorority Journey Executive Assistant and local chapter advisor, Maddy Wilson, joins Cassie to define what we're talking about when we discuss "retention", help us reset our goals to be rooted in the membership experience...

Welcome to Season 5! We are so excited to kick off the new season with an interview with Her Sorority Journey's 2024 Uncharted Grant Recipient. Valerie has been making moves to open a dance studio to inspire confidence and cultivate authentic community for women. In this episode, she shares her passion to empower others through dance and the role her sorority sisters played in motivating her to ta...

Calling all Pi Chis, Gamma Chis, Rho Gammas, and Recruitment Counselors! You play such an invaluable role in sorority recruitment regardless of your reason for being there. Whether you applied to skip your chapter's recruitment process or you’re actually really missing your chapter, your influence WILL shape the PNM experience so let's talk about how to reset your intentions if they are fo...

Attention to all returning recruiters feeling like you’ve done your time and your not needed. Consider this your pep talk to get your head in the game for recruitment season because you are apart of a team who needs YOU. Listen to find out how your energy and role elevates the chapters recruitment experience. For recruitment leaders use this episode to find inspiration on how to encourage these me...

You’ve been recruited and enjoyed a full year of the sorority experience but now it’s your turn to recruit and invite others into the sisterhood! Recruitment week doesn’t have to be what social media has made it seem and their truly is more that goes into besides posting TikToks. @Bewellwithbritt _ a mental health advocate, representative of NAMI and pilates teacher shares her vision for a restful...

Going through recruitment this fall and not sure who to believe? All the voices and sources of advice you’ve asked for or been offered involuntarily can be overwhelming! From parents & hometown friends to people you meet in class your first week of college to the internet, all these opinions have your best interest in mind but not always the most credible information. So let's talk about h...

Potential New Members! Have you picked out your recruitment outfits yet? Before you panic and go buy an all new closet, let's talk about how much what you wear impacts your opportunities to find your lifelong sisterhood. In a process that feels so uncertain, it makes sense to want to control what you want to control. But instead of focusing on what will make you fit in with a chapter or even t...

So you've heard that your sorority membership is “ not just four years, it's for life"... but what does that look like? On our 100th episode, we invited active chapter advisor and national volunteer, Kaitlyn Kirksey, to share with us her WHY behind staying active as an alumna! While moments of her collegiate sorority journey were a little less than glamorous and at some points dishear...

What do you think of when you think of ✨ sorority housing✨ ? Does it feel like a burden? Bring back fond memories? Regardless of the kind of facility your chapter has, the sorority experience is undeniably impacted by living in close proximity to sisters. Liz Toombs, founder of PDR Interiors, joined Cassie on the podcast to share how her experience living in her own chapter house influenced her...

Ready to love your day-to-day by ditching others' opinions and expectations of what your life should look like? As we head into the summer months, take some time to consider the impact your daily habits today are having on your long-term vision for your life! Professional guest speaker and certified life coach Brittney Tucker, or @brighterwithbritt, joins Her Sorority Journey to share her stor...

Curious where your sorority journey can take you? Our guest today wants to help you see how sorority membership can help you build your dream life or in her words "define your brand of beautiful." Bailie White is a motivational speaker with 7+ years of entrepreneurial experience and a heart for serving, motivating, and encouraging college-aged women. You will love her candid truth about...

This week, Her Sorority Journey & the Your Sorority Journey are celebrating 4 YEARS! In honor of their anniversary, Cassie, founder of Her Sorority Journey & host of the Your Sorority Journey podcast, shares WHY deep, vulnerable, honest relationships are required to be impactful. No matter what season of life or sorority you are in, YOU HAVE INFLUENCE. We hope you will learn from the lesso...

Happy Women’s History Month! As we approach International Women’s Day on Friday, here are a few ideas to consider in how to celebrate women on your campus both close to you & different from you💖

Two chapter presidents collaborated on their podcasts and left with an episode of tips, insight, and stories from their unique life stages and business experience that inform how they empower women in their professional life. Cassie joined Lauren Truslow, host of A Girl in Sweaty Sweatpants, boutique fitness and nail salon owner, and founder of The Plan by Lauren Truslow, to unpack their shared pa...

How is your sorority leadership journey going? Whether you are currently in a officer role, newly off exec, or aspiring to be in a leadership position in the future, we need to talk about how relationships in your chapter impact your influence - including the relationship you have with yourself. On this episode to unpack the role of curiosity & vulnerability in leadership is James Robilotta, a...

Happy Valentine's Day! While today is largely celebrated for couples, let's expand our imagination of love 💖 Cassie shares how we can intentionally show love to our sisterhood through specific types of sisters: those we love, those we have conflict with, and YOURSELF! Let's show the love to our sisterhood this month & all year long 💗

Is it hard to talk about drinking habits or alcohol culture in your sisterhood? We’ll let @tastefullybuzzed help you 🥂 Today, we invited Melanie on to share tips on how to u what matters most on a night out and drink to make MORE memories - not less. If you want to change the culture around alcohol in your chapter but are afraid to talk about it, you’re not alone. Just take one step at a time sta...

Heading to a national organization council, or regional fraternity & sorority leadership conference this season?! From Cassie’s YEARS of conferences both as a collegian & professional, this episode is packed with tips to make the most of your experience before, during, and after! Heading to AFLV Central, SGLA, or AFLV West?! Be sure to look out for Her Sorority Journey’s sessions on the program sc...

Kicking off a new academic term or officer term this January can come with a lot of uncertainty! How confident are you feeling this new year? If you're finding yourself questioning how you'll do in your classes, if your sisters will like the changes you make in the chapter, or where you belong as a member, you are not alone . So let's talk about how instead of comparing yourself to one...