Category: Campus

Episode 13: Founding TASC and Creating a Safe Environment for Teens in NWA, Featuring Dawn Spragg Life lessons are things that you have to experience to learn. In this episode of The Hope Matrix on Campus host, Avery Peel is joined by Dawn Spragg. Dawn is a co-founder of the Teen Action and Support Center,… Continue reading Episode 13: Founding TASC and Creating a Safe Environment for Teens in NWA, Featuring Dawn Spragg

Episode 12: Managing the Many Facets of Life During College, featuring Skye Jackson https://youtu.be/5Hyw-14Hz7I Life doesn’t stop when you get to college, how do you deal with everything all at once? In this episode of The Hope Matrix on Campus, Skye Jackson shares her experience and insights into facing the multiple facets of life. Skye… Continue reading Episode 12: Managing the Many Facets of Life During College, Featuring Skye Jackson

Episode 11: Making Friends During COVID and Meeting Your Forever People COVID-19 was a challenging time for everyone. There was loss, sadness, anger, helplessness, or hopelessness in everyone. Join host, Avery Peel, in this episode of The Hope Matrix on Campus as she shares her story in trying to navigate making friends as a freshman… Continue reading Episode 11: Making Friends During COVID and Meeting Your Forever People

Episode 10: Losing a Loved One in College, Featuring Avery Peel In this special episode of The Hope Matrix on Campus Podcast, Avery shared her personal experiences of grief, isolation, and mental health issues during her college years, emphasizing the importance of stress skills, happiness habits, and self-care. She also discussed her journey towards self-improvement,… Continue reading Episode 10: Losing a Loved One in College, featuring Avery Peel

Episode 9: Losing Loved Ones and PTSD, featuring Emily Brisben In this episode of The Hope Matrix on Campus, host Avery Peel interviews Emily Brisben. Emily struggled with the loss of her mother at a young age and then faced the reality of a PTSD diagnosis. She has handled her life with strength and grace… Continue reading Episode 9: Losing Loved Ones and PTSD, Featuring Emily Brisben

Episode 8: Deep Dive Into College Applications and Freshman Year, featuring Rick Yang In this episode of The Hope Matrix on Campus, host Avery Peel interviews Rick Yang, who is currently a freshman at Harvard University. Rick went to a competitive high school in Westchester County, New York, where he led projects focused on promoting… Continue reading Episode 8: Deep Dive Into College Applications and Freshman Year, featuring Rick Yang

Episode 7: The Challenges of Being a First-generation College Student, featuring Jennifer Aquino In episode #7 of The Hope Matrix on Campus Podcast, host Avery Peel sits down with Jennifer Aquino. Jennifer is a first-generation college student in her 4th year at the University of California Santa Barbara, majoring in Psychological Brain Sciences with a… Continue reading Episode 7: The Challenges of Being a First-generation College Student, featuring Jennifer Aquino

Episode 6: Choosing Majors and Minors, featuring Emily Brisben and Lindsey Young https://youtu.be/fnYtZiinRzU In this powerful episode of The Hope Matrix on Campus, host Avery Peel welcomes Sophie Straughan, who opens up about her journey with depersonalization—a dissociative disorder that Sophie began experiencing when she was a junior in high school. With openness and courage,… Continue reading Episode 6: Choosing Majors and Minors, featuring Emily Brisben and Lindsey Young

In this powerful episode of The Hope Matrix on Campus, host Avery Peel welcomes Sophie Straughan, who opens up about her journey with depersonalization—a dissociative disorder that Sophie began experiencing when she was a junior in high school. With openness and courage, Sophie struggled to find helpful ways to relieve her symptoms for months and… Continue reading Episode 5: Dealing With Depersonalization, featuring Sophie Straughan

In the 4th episode of The Hope Matrix on Campus, host Avery Peel chats with guests Stella Vance and Nicole Abudayeh about their transformative experiences studying abroad in Spain. Both juniors at Georgetown University, Nicole and Stella discuss their unique programs—Nicole in Madrid and Stella in Salamanca—and the different paths they took to choose them.… Continue reading Episode 4: The Challenges of Studying Abroad, featuring Nicole Abudayeh and Stella Vance