College Financial Aid and Career Navigation

Joanne Kaminski

– College Financial Aid and Career Navigation with Tom & Maria Geffers and Seth Greene Episode 040 Joanne Kaminski

Joanne Kaminski spent three years as a classroom teacher and was quickly promoted to the Reading Curriculum Coordinator. As the Coordinator, she was in charge of all the reading interventions in the school and coached the teachers in reading strategies that would help bring their students to the next level. Joanne fell in love with teaching reading and went back to school to get her masters as a Reading Specialist so that she could help develop the most successful Reading programs for the readers of her school. As Joanne developed those skills, she became frustrated that most of her time was spent on classroom management coaching vs. reading instruction. 

In an effort to be more present for her own children, Joanne started her own online reading tutoring business. She didn’t follow the traditional method of starting an online tutoring company, which she believes has led her to the success that she now has. Joanne has worked with students in Australia, London, Canada, Dominican Republic and kids from the West coast to the East Coast in the US. and has been booked solid several times throughout the years. 

Joanne has now dedicated her life to teaching other people how to start an independent online tutoring business. She then helps them book their own online tutoring business solid so that they can be more present for their families and have the freedom and flexibility that they could have only once dreamed of. Joanne has created several programs to help other tutors start their online tutoring business. 

Listen to this informational College Financial Aid and Career Navigation episode with Joanne Kaminski where we talk about the opportunities for teachers found outside of the classroom.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

-Classroom management as a skill learned on the job

-Ditching authoritarianism and building relationships to gain the respect of a classroom

-Opportunities to teach teachers rather than students

-Failing at 5 different businesses and still believing the sixth one would work

-Faster results by tutoring online than in person

-Building a community of people to further your mission

-Leadership as stewardship

-The importance of, “You’re doing a great job,” and, “Thank you!”

-Reaching children all across the globe with online tutoring

-Home-schooling as empowering parents to have more choices regarding their children’s education

-Professional freelance education

Connect with Joanne Kaminski

Guest Contact Info:

Website: www.onlinetutorcoach.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/303391446535402

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Bolanle Williams-Olley

– College Financial Aid and Career Navigation with Tom & Maria Geffers and Seth Greene Episode 039 Bolanle Williams-Olley

Bolanle Williams-Olley is the chief financial officer and part owner at Mancini Duffy, a technology-first design firm based in NYC, where she oversees the firm’s financial and operational performance. She has over 12 years of experience working in the AEC industry with a strong background in financial analysis and strategic initiatives. At her core, she thrives on building relationships between finance and management teams to ensure the overall financial success of projects and her firm. She is also the author of Build Boldly: Chart your unique career path and lead with courage. Her clients include American Airlines, Soho House, Brooklyn Nets, Boqueria, Verizon, and NBC Sports Group. 

Listen to this informational College Financial Aid and Career Navigation episode with Bolanle Williams-Olley where we talk about cultivating your unique self and crafting your own career playbook.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

-Recalibrating your educational path when discovering interests more aligned with your passions after your first semester

-Allowing your unique self to come through in the interview process

-Being courageous and crafting your own career playbook

-How just one elective course can open doors for you that you may not have imagined

-What a CFO is and their relationship to all of the numbers of a business

-Architecture and the many ways it can be applied 

-Exploring all of our varied interests and passions

-All the ways in which you can give back to your community

Connect with : Bolanle Williams-Olley

Guest Contact Info:

Instagram: @bolanle_hq

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bolanlewo/

Website: https://manciniduffy.com/

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Chris Haack

– College Financial Aid and Career Navigation with Tom & Maria Geffers and Seth Greene Episode 038 Dr. Chris Haack

Chris Haack was named the Georgia men’s golf coach on July 18,1996 – and he has guided the Bulldogs to their highest levels of success. Haack has coached the Bulldogs to two national championships (the only two in school history), eight Southeastern Conference crowns, 66 team tournament titles, and virtually every squad and individual records.

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Listen to this informational College Financial Aid and Career Navigation episode with Chris Haack where we talk about what it takes to play athletics at a division 1 school.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

-Chris Haack’s path to coaching division 1 golf, including coaching Tiger Woods

-All the responsibilities that fall under the purview of a division 1 coach

-Scholarships for athletes and how, with academic assistance, that is spread out amongst a team

-How to stay close ads a team in an individual sport

-Tournament results and how they factor into landing a spot on a college athletic team

-How it’s not all about athletic ability that makes you attractive to a division 1 program

-Title 9 and how the regulation effects a college athletic department

-Learning how to manage your time as a division 1 athlete to keep up on your academics

-The resources an athletic department provides to set their athlete up for success

-The hard party of picking a lineup for a tournament

-How being a part of a division 1 program can contribute to success in any career

Connect with Chris Haack:

Guest Contact Info:

Website:

www.georgiadogs.com

Email:

chaack@sports.uga.edu

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Mark Belcak

– College Financial Aid and Career Navigation with Tom & Maria Geffers and Seth Greene Episode 037 Dr. Mark Belcak

Mark is a Senior Financial Advisor with MtM Financial Group providing quality financial advice to clients with significant financial concerns since 1994. He serves the needs of clients who appreciate counsel provided by an advisor who cares.

Mark’s career began in Philadelphia and has focused predominantly on trust and estate planning with major financial institutions, including Wells Fargo (formerly Wachovia), PNC Wealth Management and Merrill Lynch. Attention to detail, good listening skills and great empathy are symbols of his appreciation for his clients.

Mark coordinates the efforts of a team of seasoned professionals in creating and serving the long-term financial needs of his clients. Each MtM professional has the same objective—to provide outstanding service to their clients.

Listen to this informational College Financial Aid and Career Navigation episode with Mark Belcak where we talk about what it takes to be a successful financial advisor.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

-The evolution of financial advisement from buying and selling to a more all-encompassing role of financial planning

-Retirement planning as a large aspect of financial advisement

-The responsibilities of being a fiduciary

-Learning how to effectively work and communicate with other people regardless of the profession you pursue

-Public speaking as a helpful skill in any arena

-Financial advisement as all about building trusting relationships

-Differentiating between short-term irrational shifts in the market and fundamental shifts in the market

-Making the moment perfect as opposed to waiting for the moment to be perfect

-The gratification that comes with helping clients through some of life’s most trying times

-Internships as critical experience when investigating a potential career path

Connect with Mark Belcak:

Website:

https://www.morethanmoneyonline.com/

Email:

mark@askmtm.com

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Steve Cadigan

– College Financial Aid and Career Navigation with Tom & Maria Geffers and Seth Greene Episode 036 Steve Cadigan

An expert in the future of work, Steve Cadigan is considered a corporate culture guru, bringing winning insights from over thirty years of HR experience with industry titans like Google, Salesforce, The Royal Bank of Scotland, McKinsey, and the BBC, as well as venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia. Cadigan’s inspirational keynotes, seminars, and workshops at global conferences and major universities have garnered rave reviews.

Cadigan is renowned for leading LinkedIn’s first talent push and architecting its world-famous culture, now considered the gold standard. Throughout his twenty-five-year career, he has led teams, cultures, and organizations that have been hailed as “world-class” performers by the Wall Street Journal, Fortune magazine, and more.

Listen to this informational College Financial Aid and Career Navigation episode with Steve Cadigan where we talk about the future of careers and leadership.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

-Overseeing and developing LinkedIn’s culture during a period of tremendous growth

-Using internships to investigate future career possibilities

-Dynamics learned in sports and competition that translate to the professional world

-How the median length of tenure for professionals is continuing to shorten, providing opportunities for students entering the workforce

-The pros and cons of infinite choice when considering a career path

-Understanding new realities and fostering more authentic and mutually beneficial relationships between workers and companies in shorter periods of time

-A future where companies recruit based on your ability to learn more than for what you already know

-The ability to adapt and adjust as a premium skill in today’s job marketplace

-All of the valuable lessons learned outside of a classroom in college

-Tasting failure and letting it be a contribution to your success

Connect with Steve Cadigan:

Guest Contact Info:

Website:

https://stevecadigan.com/

Email:

steve@cadiganventures.com

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cadigan/

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Dr. Jenn McCluskey

– College Financial Aid and Career Navigation with Tom & Maria Geffers and Seth Greene Episode 035 Dr. Jenn McClusky

A higher education professional for more than 25 years, Jennifer McCluskey serves as Maryville’s vice president for student success. She leads Maryville’s Division of Student Success using a life-coaching model that takes a holistic approach to student success. Dr. McCluskey has led student retention initiatives at Maryville that resulted in a more than 15 percent retention increase. She conducts annual student satisfaction assessments at Maryville, which reveal above-average results in nearly all categories. Dr. McCluskey serves as the executive sponsor for the Digital Employee initiative, as Maryville develops 24/7 supports for students in academic, career, and onboarding through a rich visual experience with a Digital Coach. She also served as chairperson for Maryville’s successful Digital World initiative, providing technology that levels the playing field for students and faculty while preparing students for success beyond graduation. Additionally, she is passionate about facilitating Maryville’s commitment to partnering with parents in the journey to achieving optimal student outcomes and success.

Before joining Maryville, Dr. McCluskey served as director of student programs and Greek life at the University of Denver and assistant dean of campus programs at Arkansas State University.

Listen to this informational College Financial Aid and Career Navigation episode with Dr. Jenn McClusky where we talk about the ways in which higher education supports its students.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

-The office of student success as the bridge between academics and student life

-The national problem of students enrolling, taking out debt, and dropping out

-College-student personnel and higher education as a career

-The holistic approach to helping a student succeed that is the life coaching method

-Partnering with parents to help a student succeed

-Focusing on fostering your natural strengths and skills as opposed to dwelling on your weaknesses

-Setting short term goals to reach long term goals

Connect with Dr. Jenn McCluskey:

Email:

jmccluskey@maryville.edu

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Lindsey Wander

– College Financial Aid and Career Navigation with Tom & Maria Geffers and Seth Greene Episode 034 Lindsey Wander

Lindsey Wander is the Founder and CEO of WorldWise Tutoring as well as the Founder and President of the nonprofit, Educate. Radiate. Elevate. Both organizations provide services to students of all abilities in all subjects. Her mission is to provide quality instruction that is deliberately intertwined with learning and life skills so that their students grow into confident and independent lifelong learners who become competent and conscious leaders. Her highly educated and experienced tutors provide effective lessons that can be in-person or online, individual or small group, and cover a multitude of subjects in one session.

Listen to this informational College Financial Aid and Career Navigation episode with Lindsey Wander where we talk about how to create a resume and prepare for an interview.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

-Providing students with the opportunities, strategies, and resources to learn in a way that works for them

-Inequalities in learning between different demographic groups

-Educating not just a child’s brain, but also their heart, mind, and soul

-Looking at the bigger picture and addressing a student’s anxieties and stressors

-Approaching education holistically

-The evolution of resumes and what they can look like today

-Making your resume clear, concise, and compelling

-The time for uniformity and the time for creativity on a resume or an interview

Connect with Lindsey Wander:

Website:

www.worldwisetutoring.com

www.educateradiateelevate.org

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Oie Dobier

– College Financial Aid and Career Navigation with Tom & Maria Geffers and Seth Greene Episode 033 Oie Dobier

Basing her education and career on all the wrong things, Oie Dobier chose a path that others expected of her which led to changing her major, jumping from job to job, and finding herself always looking for the next big challenge. Then, in her early 40’s, she was passed over for a promotion which caused her to do some self-reflection. Although the pay was good, she realized she was tired, bored and unfulfilled. She had chosen a career that didn’t align with her values, passions or natural talents and felt it was time to be more purposeful with her life. What if there was a way to teach young people how to figure this out earlier; a way to help them start their career in something fulfilling, interesting and enjoyable? What if she could save them from the years of struggle and unfulfillment that she and so many others have experienced? As a result, “Project Who Am I?” was born, and she’s been helping young people learn about themselves and apply this knowledge to their educational and career pursuits ever since.

Listen to this informational College Financial Aid and Career Navigation episode with Oie Dobier where we learn all about Project Who Am I and talk about how to discover your true authentic self.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

-Realizing late in life what your true calling is

-Understanding your true natural talents early to build a successful professional foundation

-Giving your children the time to explore their interests

-The importance of a strong mentor and facilitator for an individual about to make education and career decisions

-Chasing your passions and watching everything else follow

-Cracking the nut of a disinterested student

Connect with Oie Dobier:

Website:

www.projectwhoami.com

www.projectwhoami.com/career

Email:

info@projectwhoami.com

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Jason Fitzgerald

– College Financial Aid and Career Navigation with Tom & Maria Geffers and Seth Greene Episode 032 Jason Fitzgerald

Jason M. Fitzgerald is President and a Partner with Penn Strategies, a consulting firm with expertise in grant writing, public relations and grassroots advocacy focusing on economic development. Fitzgerald serves as an economic development consultant for numerous municipalities and authorities throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He has assisted in writing and advocating for over 500 million dollars in grant funding for projects on behalf of municipalities, manufacturers, school districts, institutions of higher education, and private developers.

Prior to joining Penn Strategies, Fitzgerald was a top aide to Representative Steve Cappelli and worked for Impact Advertising, a national marketing and public relations firm. He also served as Pennsylvania State Director for the National Association of Home Builders campaign to increase awareness of the importance of home building on the overall health of the economy.   

Fitzgerald is a frequent contributor to several regional newspapers and serves as Host of Pennsylvania Now, which features interviews of prominent individuals in arts, entertainment, politics and thought.

Listen to this informational College Financial Aid and Career Navigation episode with Jason Fitzgerald where we talk about the positive impact you can make with a career in political science.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

·        Taking the skills that you are born with and making the best of them

·        Grant writing and how it can help a community

·        Lobbyists and the side of the you don’t usually hear about

·        Being an advocate for the positive changes you believe in

·        The importance of writing and research skills

·        The demand for professionals in public administration

·        The long-term dividends a liberal arts education brings

·        How a degree in political science doesn’t have to make you a politician

Connect with Jason Fitzgerald:

Website:

www.pennstrategiespa.com

Phone:

570-337-2028

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Mark Johnson

– College Financial Aid and Career Navigation with Tom & Maria Geffers and Seth Greene Episode 031 Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson is a wealth advisor with RBF Wealth Advisors in St. Louis, Missouri and is the founder of StudentLoansRx. Mark is a thirty-year veteran of the investment and financial planning industry and is a pioneer in helping emerging dental and other healthcare professionals with smart student loan repayment strategies as part of an overall financial plan.

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Listen to this informational College Financial Aid and Career Navigation episode with Mark Johnson where we talk about how much debt dentists and medical doctors graduate with have and how they repay it.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

-Why you shouldn’t buy a Lexus as soon as you graduate

-The amount of student loan debt a typical medical professional graduates with

-Why it’s never too soon to form a student loan repayment strategy

-Creating a living expenses budget with the right priorities

-The importance of creating an emergency savings fund

-Public Service Loan Forgiveness programs

-The different financial realities upon graduation for dentists and doctors

-Understanding the nuances of each of the federal repayment programs

-The lack of education surrounding student loans

Connect with Mark Johnson:

Website:

www.studentloansrx.com

Email:

studentloansrx@rbfadvisors.net

Phone:

314-997-1652

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