190. College Roommates, Dorm Room Snakes, & Self-Esteem, with Charles Smith, Recruitment Manager, PhD Candidate, & Lifelong Learner
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
(54:20) Charles is a “cactus friend”
(55:00) Closing and "main character syndrome"
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