The Uplift Podcast

A podcast dedicated to elevating women leaders - at all levels - in higher education.

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The Uplift broadcasts the mission of The Clareo Group: to unleash the power of women’s leadership in higher ed. Each episode blends real stories, leadership philosophies, and actionable advice – all designed to help women amplify their voices and elevate their leadership. 

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The Uplift Podcast

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The Uplift Podcast

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The Uplift Podcast

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The Uplift Podcast

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Brimming with wisdom, experience, and a fierce resolve to shatter stereotypes, Mayra Olivares-Ureuta  captivates us with her mission to dismantle institutional barriers and create a more inclusive future in higher education.  In today’s episode we talk about Mayra’s passion for increasing representation for Latine students and leaders throughout higher education, how she approaches imposter syndrome, […]

“I’m not successful if my people are not sucessful”

two women face the camra. mayra is hispanic with dark shoulder-length hair, glasses, and a big smile. carole is white with glasses and short hair.

Episode at a glance Dr. Elizabeth Keating is a linguistic anthropologist who explores language — and more recently, narrative — to understand people’s daily experiences. In her new book, The Essential Questions: Interview Your Family to Uncover Stories and Bridge Generations, she explores the power of asking open-ended questions that create connections by revealing the […]

Bridging Divides With Stories (with Elizabeth Keating)

two headshots, each of a white woman with light colored hair, face the camera and smile.

Leaders have a responsibility to have empathetic conversations, even they’re uncertain about their language and they make mistakes.

On Empathy & Learning From Our Blunders

I tried to implement structure and systems while diving deep into who I am. The result? A systematically mystical summer that broke my brain.

My Systematically Mystical Summer

Teaching is an act of love. After thinking about this with recent guests and faculty Rand Park, Sidneyeve Matrix, and Stephanie Cawthon, I’ve come to wonder if we don’t expect far too much of our educators and far too little from our leaders. Teaching requires emotion: compassion, empathy, affection. Even love. These are necessary for […]

Teaching is an act of love. So is leadership.

In a college library, four students are sitting at a table. Their professor stands behind them, high-fiving one of the students.

Stephanie Cawthon is an expert teacher *and* stage manager who creatively engages students in class and also colleagues in meetings.

Planning for Access: Teaching and Leading for Engagement and Inclusion, with Stephanie Cawthon

Successful teachers, like successful leaders, engage people’s hearts. Sidneyeve Matrix is one of my favorite people to talk about this with. A marketing professor and graphic designer with a Harvard credential in Instructional Design, Sidneyeve devotes (I’m guessing) most of her waking moments to thinking about how to help people learn by surrounding them with beauty.  […]

Sidneyeve Matrix on Empathy, Learning, & Leading

Rand Park is a senior lecturer at UM’s Carlson School of Management. He joins us to share his insights into how extraordinary teaching and authentic leadership lead to both transformational learning and leading. 

Monday in the Park With Rand: Teaching, Leadership, and Why We Don’t Want to be College Presidents

Have you been a teacher? Then you have the leadership skills you need.

How Teaching Prepares You for Leadership

For our summer session we’re running a fan favorite playlist: a combination of the most-listened-to episodes as well as listener favorites. Our Summer Session gives you a chance to revisit episodes you may not have heard in a while or even to listen to episodes you might have missed. Today we’re replaying Episode 26: In […]

Summer session with Christina Holmgren & Jayne Sommers