Beyond The Venue with MG Hodge, Host & Future PhD
Hello! I'm MG, host of Beyond the Venue Podcast and a hospitality professional turned academic. I started this podcast in the Spring of 2021 to elevate stories from my friends in the hospitality and entertainment world whose careers and businesses were impacted by the pandemic. Season 2 features several of my colleagues from the hospitality and event industry, as well as teachers and professors from a variety of disciplines. I interview other podcast hosts, storytellers, bartenders, parents, and everything in between! After wrapping up the recording of Season 2, I returned to the classroom as an adjunct professor in the College of Education and Human Development at Temple University. This would help me create Season 3, for which I used clips from my students' podcast project (with their permission of course!). After completing my first year of my doctoral program this past year, I decided the summer of 2024 was the perfect time to wrap up this podcast with an inside look into life in higher education. Starting Friday, August 30th, 2024, we will be releasing episodes of our 4th and final season. Season 4 includes interviews with my fellow doctoral students, as well as a variety of other folks from the "academy". Qualitative research is all about sharing stories and lived experiences, and that's what I've tried to do over the last 3 years through this podcast. Thanks for listening!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 48
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2024
It's Not Goodbye, Just See You Later, Because That's a Wrap!
Thanks for listening to my guests and I over these last few years! It's been a wild ride, and I'm grateful to have had this opportunity! While this is the end of Beyond the Venue Podcast, it's certai…
Reimagining Hospitality in Education 408 with Cassy Pressimone Beckowski & Joey Eisman
Cassy and Joey met as doctoral students in Quant 2 in the Fall of 2020. Their friendship grew from a mutual passion for student engagement, community building, and professional development. Once I jo…
Equity in Literacy: A Multimodal Approach for Multilingual Learners 407 with Dr. Sabina Rak Neugebauer
Sabina is one of the many incredible faculty members in the College of Education and Human Development at Temple University. Her glowing reputation preceded her as we finally had a chance to meet thi…
Empowerment Evolution & Bike Revolutions 406 with Kel Kroehle
Kel and I met when they bought the house next door to mine! I was gearing up to start my PhD program, and I would learn that they were an “ABD” (all but dissertation). I would finally learn the “why”…
Motivation to Learn OWL-gebra 405 with Katherine Burke
Temple University’s mascot is the owl, and my guest this week is the math queen, my friend Katherine. We met in our Qualitative Analysis class that I took in the Spring of 2023, while I was still tea…
Research Approaches & Life Methodologies 404 with Kizzy Davis
Kizzy and I met (virtually!) in January when she joined a research project I had been working on for the previous few months. We learned during this podcast recording that she and I will have class t…
Making Meaning of Meaning Making 403 with Janine Conti, Youngseo Kim, & Drew Gingrich
Three Literacy & Learning doctoral students walk into a classroom…and they were super kind and wonderful to MG, the lone non-literacy doctoral student! The four of us shared every Wednesday night tog…
Philosophical Foundations of Friendship 402 With Amy Wasersztein
Amy and I met in our first semester as full-time PhD students in our Philosophical Foundations of Educational Research class. Our friendship is a prime example of where I have found myself - surround…
Reflections on Senior Year 401 featuring your host, MG Hodge
Beyond the Venue Podcast is back for a 4th and final season! Episode 1 is my reflection on the past year and a half, starting with my acceptance to Temple in January through my first year as a doctor…
Reflections on Junior Year aka 2022 with Professor MG Hodge
Only a few weeks left of the semester to go, so it’s fitting time to wrap up Season 3!
In Reflections on Junior Year, I share a part of my Statement of Goals that I have been working on over the last …
In Defense of the Dissertation 308 with Dr. Michael Sheridan
For our final episode of Season 3, we’re kicking it old school. We’re switching back to a classic interview style with a fellow academic, Dr. Michael Sheridan.
Dr. Mike and I have known each other sin…
Coaching in the Classroom 307 with Dr. Ben Torsney
This week, I’m joined by my friend and now colleague Dr. Ben Torsney.
Incorporating clips from the “podcast project”, the three of us listen to the clips and carry on the conversation started by my s…
Humanizing Leadership 306 with Alyssa Ryanjoy & Nicole Walberg
This week, I’m joined by my friends Alyssa & Nicole. We met through the Fulbright Program as English Teaching Assistants in Germany back in 2006!
Incorporating clips from the “podcast project”, the th…
DEI & Intersectionality 305 with Becky Yep
Thanks so much for listening, and enjoy the following episode, DEI & Intersectionality 305 with Becky Yep
About Becky: Becky Yep (she/her/hers) is a Senior Technical Program Manager for Diversity, Equ…
Empathetic Communication 304 with Daniela Galdi
This week, I’m joined by Daniela Galdi, an entrepreneur and business, arts, and wellness professional. She’s also the producer of Beyond the Venue Podcast!
Incorporating clips from the “podcast projec…
Mindful Ways to Make an Impact 303 with James Varughese
This week we have another return guest from Season 2! I’m joined by James Varughese, a part of the Customer Experience team serving small businesses that use Intuit QuickBooks Payments products.
Incor…
Entrepreneurship with Empathy 302 with Sarah Zero
This week, I’m joined by Sarah Zero, founder and facilitator of Wellstruck, a supportive community for small business owners who lead with empathy.
Incorporating clips from the “podcast project”, Sara…
Leadership in Hospitality 301 with Liz Einhorn
Season 3 of Beyond the Venue Podcast kicks off with Liz Einhorn, Founder of Experience Threee, a hospitality growth consulting firm.
Liz was a guest on Season 2 of Beyond the Venue Podcast, and I was…
Welcome to Beyond The Venue Season 3!
What better way to kick off Fall semester than with a brand new season of Beyond the Venue Podcast! Wait, did she just say kick off the semester? I sure did.
In the last few episodes of Season 2, I …
Reflections on Sophomore Year aka 2021 with MG Hodge
Reflecting on the past year has been a complicated task for many of us, because it’s incredibly difficult to differentiate 2021 from 2020. Even though 2021 brought us the vaccine and put an adult in …