We have a new episode of the #PADpod for your summer listening pleasure featuring television producer, screenwriter, and author Nick Santora! Nick is an executive producer, showrunner, screenwriter, and author who has written for and/or produced The Sopranos, The Guardian, Law & Order, Prison Break, Lie to Me, and Scorpion. He has created and executive produced Beauty and the Geek, Breakout Kings, Reacher (Amazon Prime), and the soon-to-be-released this summer spin-off of Reacher called Neagley. Rob and Nick talk about his circuitous journey studying multiple subjects at #WashU, his graduate training and professional career as a lawyer, and how he spent a week of vacation writing his first screenplay that won Best Screenplay of the Competition in the New York City Independent International Film Festival. It was at this moment that his career as a writer and creator began! Don’t miss this inspiring episode loaded with sage advice. It really should be assigned listening for all students. ;)

Episode 27 of the PAD podcast features writer/author and performer Tracy Wise! After an international childhood lived throughout Asia because of her father’s aid work, Tracy Wise has spent her career in theatre, opera, and then higher education administration. She currently writes university presidential speeches, campus communications, and news stories in California’s Inland Empire. She has a BA in Theatre and Spanish from #WashU (which includes a year at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK) and an MA in Cultural Studies (a historiography degree) from the University of East London in the UK. Tracy talks to Rob about the many skills she learned as an official “Metzian” in the Performing Arts Department. Tracy learned local lessons that she leveraged into an international career. Don’t miss this one!

Episode 26 of the #PADpod features the very funny and engaging Joanna McNurlen! Joanna parlayed her Drama and Business background at #WashU into an interesting and exciting career journey that took her from positions at Deloitte and Spotify to her current role managing a team of Technical Architects at Salesforce and teaching Change Innovation and Management at NYU. Rob and Joanna talk about how the PAD taught the importance of failure and using that experience to leverage her way into a successful career of collaborating and presenting to large groups of people. We talk about the PAD classes that most shaped and (her word) broke her in a way that led her to a better understanding of the value of emerging from a struggle and understanding her true talents applied to business. Do not miss this funny, thought-provoking, and inspiring episode featuring the one and only Joanna McNurlen!