MUAA Podcast Episode 2_01 Fri, 8/13 8:33AM 34:43 SUMMARY KEYWORDS marshall, voice, alumni, students, called, campus, pandemic, neat, helping, year, favorite, radio, west virginia, herd podcast, script, hear, jarrod, nursing students, questions, thought SPEAKERS Kasey Stevens, Larry Crum, Amie Breedlove, Matt Hayes K Kasey Stevens 00:03 Hello, and welcome to the One of the Herd podcast, the official podcast of the Marshall University Alumni Association. On today's episode, we'll hear from our alumna Amie Breedlove. And you've probably heard her voice before, Amie has lent her voice to some of the most iconic brands and organizations in the world as a voiceover artist. And as always, before we get to the interview, let's check in with our alumni staff for an update of what's new on campus. 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Hello, and welcome to our second episode of the Marshall University Alumni Association, One of the Herd podcast, we are back here with our alumni relations staff getting ready to talk about what's happened since we've last chatted. M Matt Hayes 01:47 MUAA Podcast Episode 2_01 Page 1 of 18 Transcribed by https://otter.ai Yeah, it's been a quite a interesting time. You know, we're still wrestling through this season of this pandemic season. But we're seeing a lot of things changing and, and restrictions lifting. It's an exciting time on campus, because we're talking about a fall where we can return to in person classes and in person meetings. More more often, we're really excited about that. A new offering for alumni everywhere is our new insurance partner of simply affordable insurance through a company called Augeo. Simplyaffordableinsurance.com is linked to our website at HerdAlu.com And this is a great opportunity for our alumni to shop their home and auto insurance. In a matter of minutes, you'll get quotes back, and you can save hundreds on your insurance needs. So please go over to our website at HerdAlum.com. Look under the membership and benefits tab and look for simply affordable insurance and get give it a look. Give it a try. You'll be glad you did. What else is going on. L Larry Crum 03:00 You jumped in there with the simply affordable and they were back with you within a couple minutes, weren't they? M Matt Hayes 03:06 I did, you know just filling out some of the question questions and answers, you know, baseline information. In a matter of about 10, 15 minutes or less. I had almost a dozen quotes, and several of them were less than what I'm paying right now. So it's really worth your time. L Larry Crum 03:23 That's awesome. I mean, we all need to save money. But you know, speaking of events, things returning to normal. Man I'm excited for for a hopeful fall where we can get back together, gather in groups, enjoy some time together. I think that is what we're all hoping for expecting. Unfortunately, you know, it kind of impacted our spring a little bit more just like last year, we were talking a little bit early, our alumni awards banquet, which usually takes place in in the spring each year, we had to push to push to next year. So for anybody listening in April 9, 2022, is going to be the 83rd alumni awards banquet. And we have an incredible slate of awardees that we did not get to award this year or last year due to the pandemic but we're really excited to honor them and and have them in our events whenever we can return to normal, hopefully next year. But another fun thing that we've done is for anybody that looks for for the Alumni Association on social media, alumni related content. I know in the past, it's been a little bit harder to find us we've had a couple different handles for different social media. So we kind of fixed that. So if you're MUAA Podcast Episode 2_01 Page 2 of 18 Transcribed by https://otter.ai looking for alumni related content at Marshall University, it's it's all in one place @marshallualumni so if you're looking for us on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram, at Marshall, you alumni, you'll be able to find us it's easy to look up our stuff. There's a lot of fun things that we put together that if you haven't been you need to check it out. It's not just it's not just promotion and you know whatnot, there's a lot of fun photos, there's a lot of looking back. There's just a lot of neat things on our social media. So @marshallualumni for for all your alumni, social media needs. M Matt Hayes 05:11 Whoever thought of that deserves a promotion. I think that's a brilliant idea. I'm waiting, I'm waiting. Excellent. K Kasey Stevens 05:19 So that has been an update from our office, let's get into some things that have changed on campus. Since we last talked, some events that are happening, maybe in a little bit of a non traditional way. So one of those things is Empty Bowls 2021. I know it's something that I look forward to every year, this will be the 18th year, this is the 18th year for Empty Bowls. And last year, they raised a little over $9,000 for facing hunger Food Bank, in town. So they're selling bowls, for $20. Each and all of the proceeds go to facing hunger Food Bank $20 for a bowl feed 100 makes 180 meals which is wild to me. L Larry Crum 06:00 Yeah, I think that's pretty neat. The pottery place, as you mentioned, is hosting this here locally. It's really neat. I was involved with with facing with the Empty Bowls whenever I was a student here helping out with that helping out with promotion. But what I kind of thought was neat about this is just how innovative and creative our students and staff have been in the face of the pandemic, how they found ways you know, there's a lot of universities, there's a lot of places that just kind of when the pandemic came, they just said, well, we'll just have to cancel everything, and then we'll get back to it when we can. But you know, there's been so many things that they've picked up right where they left off, put together, and this is one of them, the you know, instead of canceling this, you know, last year, they did it this exact same way, partnering with the pottery place, as Casey mentioned, you know, they raised almost $10,000, which fed almost 89,000 provided almost 89,000 meals, and in the 17 years they've done this, you know, they've raised hundreds of 1000s of dollars. And, you know, they really didn't want to lose that momentum. And you know, it's just exciting that they're doing this, I also read for anybody that's able to participate that they're doing a discount a coupon at bam, Bahnhof and MUAA Podcast Episode 2_01 Page 3 of 18 Transcribed by https://otter.ai Black Sheep, for anybody that participates this year 10% of the first couple that participates. Really, really neat event. M Matt Hayes 07:20 Yeah, it really is it you know, this highlights the significance of community partnerships and involvement among the university with with the city of Huntington. You know, I just got to give major props, and congrats to the food bank, to Marshall University, and to the pottery place, you know, making this partnership last and stand the test of time and to continue giving back in a meaningful way. Congratulations. And we're really looking forward to seeing this partnership continue and continue to make a difference in our community. K Kasey Stevens 07:56 So one of the new things that's coming out of the College of Business this fall is the DBA program. It's the doctor of Business Administration, and it's going to launch this fall, and new students can start enrolling now. It's the only kind of program in West Virginia, which I think is very impressive for us to have here on campus. But I also believe it's available online. M Matt Hayes 08:21 Yeah, it is cool, because, you know, Marshall is, is the first, you know, we're the only one in the state. But we're the first of its kind with and you know what, what sets this program apart really distinguishes it is the accreditation by the AACSB.