Emerging Voices
Emerging Voices
Podcast Description
Welcome to Emerging Voices! This series interviews those within NACADA’s Emerging Leaders Program, which is meant to build a sustainable community of strong NACADA leaders representative of diversity across the membership. Emerging Voices is part of the Adventures in Advising podcast network.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes such as academic advising, student success strategies, and professional development, with episodes exploring topics like career integration in advising and the role of soft skills in education, highlighted by personal stories from program participants.
Welcome to Emerging Voices! This series interviews those within NACADA’s Emerging Leaders Program, which is meant to build a sustainable community of strong NACADA leaders representative of diversity across the membership.
Emerging Voices is part of the Adventures in Advising podcast network.
Join Bri and Matt as they welcome Jing Yao, an academic advisor within University of British Columbia's Faculty of Arts whose journey runs from teaching test-prep in China to immigration advising, community college work at Douglas, and now student success at a research university. Jing opens up about empathetic advising, navigating academic concessions, supporting students after withdrawals, and helping students find majors that actually fit. She also shares how maternity leave has not paused her growth as well as leveling up in NACADA’s Emerging Leaders Program!
You’ll hear:
- Two-year vs. four-year advising—what truly changes (and what doesn’t)
- Practical language for hard conversations that restore confidence
- Real talk on redefining “your best” as a parent and professional
- How to turn curiosity into leadership, writing, and proposals that stick
A warm, hopeful episode packed with strategy and a Canadian sparkle ✨.
*Emerging Voices is a spinoff of the Adventures in Advising podcast!
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