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190. College Roommates, Dorm Room Snakes, & Self-Esteem, with Charles Smith, Recruitment Manager, PhD Candidate, & Lifelong Learner

190. College Roommates, Dorm Room Snakes, & Self-Esteem, with Charles Smith, Recruitment Manager, PhD Candidate, & Lifelong Learner

Author: Ashanti Branch - Taking Off The Mask
Published: Tue 23 Apr 2024
Episode Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/branch-speaks/episodes/190--College-Roommates--Dorm-Room-Snakes---Self-Esteem--with-Charles-Smith--Recruitment-Manager--PhD-Candidate---Lifelong-Learner-e2iporr

Charles is a Christian, a father of two, a Recruitment Manager, and Ashanti’s COLLEGE ROOMATE! Charles loves helping people advance in their careers and developing a strategy for life. He’s currently spending much of his time outside of work studying for a PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Topics include: being diagnosed with ADHD, leaving Los Angeles for Wisconsin and how changing environments can change lives, raising snakes in a college dorm, feeding snakes (with rodents!) in a college dorm, food stamps in college, negative self-talk and how it affects student behavior, 30 years of friendship, and self-esteem.

(0:00) Intro

(6:20) Charles introduces himself

(5:54) How Ashanti and Charles met

(11:30) Front of Charles’s mask

(12:49) Front of Ashanti's mask

(16:40) Ashanti’s snake story

(20:15) Food stamps in college

(25:50) Charles growing up in LA

(34:30) Back of Charles’s mask

(43:20) Back of Ashanti's mask

(48:00) Self-esteem and self-image

(51:35) California college tour memories