July 15, 2026 • 33 mins
In this inspiring and heartfelt episode of Teach Me Something, hosts DJ Prostyle and Penny Dellas turn the spotlight over to Berkeley College students, giving them the mic to share the powerful stories behind their educational journeys.
From a future crime scene investigator inspired by family, resilience, and a passion for serving her community, to an Army veteran and first-generation college graduate determined to earn a third degree, this conversation is a reminder that every student has a story worth hearing. Along the way, they discuss overcoming adversity, finding confidence through public speaking, balancing life and education, and using personal experiences to inspire the next generation.
The conversation also explores how meaningful human connections can still thrive in online learning, the evolving role of technology in education, and why authentic mentorship continues to matter in every classroom. Filled with humor, encouragement, and unforgettable moments, this episode celebrates perseverance, purpose, and the transformative power of education.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, what's up?
Speaker 2 (00:00):
This is DJ pro Style and this is Penny and
this is teach me something brought to you by Berkeley College.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
I truly believe that since the students have been so
vocal off camera, that we should bring them on camera
and we should flip this.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah. Yeah, I think we should do it. I mean,
right now, let's flip it.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
All right, students, this is your time to shine.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
What would say is what is it that you look
forward to the most when you head into class?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Ooh, trying to well?
Speaker 5 (00:33):
I would say, like, building off of what building off
of what I know already because I'm a criminal justice major,
so for me, like right now, I'm taking criminal law
and it's been helpful learning the different types of felonies
that New York City has because a lot of people
don't know what the justice system like the.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Type of law is here for New York.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
And for public speaking, I feel like that would help
me because I'm trying to be a crime scene investor
the gator, so I feel like when I'm talking to
other people, public speaking would help me not stammer over
my words, help me to try to navigate how I
want to say certain things to get my point across
the right way.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
So it's it's been a good experience.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
That's awesome. By the way, I definitely want to follow
your journey.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I would love to call us about it.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
What influenced that for you?
Speaker 6 (01:28):
Why?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Well, I grow I'm from I'm from Bedstile. Yes, Miami
runs criminal law. I'm not criminal law, Criminal minds.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Criminal Minds, Law and Order.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
SVU Dateline forensic files. But really it all started for me.
I like to help my community. Like I watched when
my mom was alive, my mom gave back to the community.
My dad, May he rest in peace as well. My
dad served in the army for twenty seven years as
a telecommunicator for the army.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
So seeing my parents.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Be so selfless and be there for other people who
are in need, that engraved in me like, oh, maybe
I can find something that not only am I interested in,
but I want to make a difference. And I feel
like when I go into this field, not only am
I helping you know, people of color, but I also
feel like I'm setting an example for the younger generation,
(02:26):
like despite what trauma or whatever life throws at.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
You, you can still get out on top.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I have my daughter at sixteen, and I'm showing her like, yeah,
mommy did make some mistakes, but you can still do
what you need to do despite whatever life throws at you.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's incredible. Got the weitpans. She's gonna sit next to
me for the rest of it. That's amazing. Well, God
bless you on your journey. I think that anything you
want to accomplish, you I can see you can accomplish.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
So thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I always tell people keep first because when you I
always tell people you give God thanks for the good,
the bad, and the ugly, because no matter what, it's
all a test to prepare you for what you know
you want to come to you. So I try to
be a motivation to everybody, like, no matter what you
go through, you can still be able to put your
(03:20):
best foot forward. It's not how you start, it's how
you finish. I got that from my dad, ken A Frasier.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yes, she'd be a great speaker.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I thought about starting my own podcast.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Well you can come back to the plot. I would
love you can have a corner and we can talk
about you know, it's.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
All the world.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, all right, we got.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
All right recruited. Why come all right? Now you get
to ask. My first question was amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well, yeah, like, what are you proud?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
If that's beautiful?
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Great, what are you going to follow that up with
any starts?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Someone wasting a couple of million people? It's not a
big deal. You know. What's that a big deal? What
motivates you every day to get up and continue going
to class?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Well, I come from from Dominican Republic, so I'm the
first one in my family to have two degrees. This
is gonna be my second degree. So my first degree,
I completed what I was in serf in the army.
So I spent four years my last semester for my
(04:43):
first degree, I completed what I was doing myself. Because
they they are more like, oh, we had to do
the army, the training, so I have my own sergeant saying, oh,
you don't have time for the school, school, don't te
you know anything. I was like, at this, you are
wrong because army is a great experiences and everything, but
(05:07):
it's not everything in life. For me, it's not everything
in life. So I was came here, I can't here
two United States? Where am I like? Oh I want
my degree, I want to study, I want work hard
because nobody in my family do that. So I'm just
twenty eight years old. So it's a problem for my
family to be the first one in the United States
(05:28):
to have two degrees. And I'm going to law school now,
so that's gonna be my.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Dirty That's amazing.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Yeah, I like the study. So my I had two nieces.
One is two years old. She doesn't understand work. I
always tell her. And the other one is twelve. So
at the twelve I told her, like, even if you
don't like the school or whatever, just keep going because
you don't know what life is going to throw to you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
So you're setting the standard. You're the new standard in
the family.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Yeah, a little bit, that's important.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
No pressure, you know, santi Wow and the building shout
out Torls.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
That's right, that's from Santiago.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
That's right. Yeah, you know, we keep them.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
This beautiful, This is great, This is great.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You love this. That's good. Come back you can right now.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
We don't take too much time away from you know,
you know, mastering the crafts that you're doing. Do you
have any questions for the students in here or do
you talk to them already? Are they in your class? So,
and I can't.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
So one of the things that's so interesting and I
was thinking about as both of you were talking and
telling your incredible stories, was just how human teaching can
be and learning can be. And so both Liz and Beyonca,
I've had you both just online, Joyce, Yes that's true, Yes,
choice too, but you know having these very very human
(07:10):
connections even in an online class. And so has that
been your experience that your online classes can be very human?
You get a chance to know the other students, the
other professors, Because for me, when I started to teach online,
I was extremely worried about it. I was petrified of
it because I felt like it's so hard to create
(07:31):
that human experience, that connection, that connection, And I worry
now that, especially with AI, despite all the things we
can do with it, that that's going to get worse.
It's going to become more mechanical, more automated. And so
I think one of the best things we can do,
and I love to be who are both of your
thoughts on this is to just make education such a
human thing. Right, we can connect with others, but do
(07:52):
you feel like you're connecting with other students online and
professor's online in a human way. Have you come across
barriers with it? What is your experience taking an online class?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Liam found his way back to the podcast.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I blame COVID for how certain people navigate online because
I graduated during the pandemic in high school, so when
it came time for online nobody was really logging in
on their computer, trying to wake up early just to
be in the bed to be on a computer screen.
So I feel like now being that COVID isn't really
(08:27):
big big like how it was, it did have a
negative impact on how people like me view online learning,
Like I feel like for me, it depends on the
professor and how they introduced the course and how it's
gonna go.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Like with Professor Jason, let me tell you something.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I love his curriculum, like I'm taking public speaking right now,
and I like how it was one assignment he had
us write down a list of goals that we wanted
to work on for this class that would also help us,
you know, outside of school. And one of my goals
was getting better at speaking without.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Stammering over my words.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
And I feel like I've been doing good with that
so far, and I need.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
To take speak.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Like it's it gets how do I put it?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Sometimes I do get nervous because I do have like anxiety,
so when I'm speaking in front of like other people, it.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Does get a little nerve racking.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
But I've grown to be comfortable because I want people
to know what I have to say.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
I want people to hear what I have to say.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Maybe it might be stupid, but I feel like anything
you say it may not it's not going to be
stupid because somebody can learn. Or if you even if
you're just venting, somebody who's been in your situation or
been in words, will take what you've said and use
that as motivation to keep going. And that's what I
want for people my age. I'm twenty three and navigating
life with no parents. It's hard, so I tell people
(09:55):
just be your best self. It's okay to make mistakes.
We're not perfect, but it's how you overcome those childs
and tribulations that really shape you into the future self.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
That is beautifully sad. And you are so profound and
so intellectual and so articulate, so you should remove the
S word from your vocabulary because everything you have said
has been anything but.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Continue doing what you guys are doing, continue inspiring, and Jason,
we see your legacy. We always end the pod with,
you know, describe your legacy in one word, but we
see it.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
I was loving when you say, back in my time,
it was like education evolution, evolution like us two. Because
in your time you have to go to the library.
I remember mom, my parents said we had to cross
the river, and I was like, what do you know?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
What is that?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
So for us is like E takes library. We have everything.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
No, we had we had tangible like you had to
go to the librarian school and they gave you credits.
You had you had like printing credits, right, and then
after that you had to pay five cents a copy
and you had to like yes, you had to photo copy.
So let's say this is the the guys where I'm
(11:23):
currently holding up a Berkeley College notebooks to give an example.
Let's say this was like the Encyclopedia or you know whatever,
the National Geographic and this is how you cited, right,
So you had to fold it and then the printer
was like a large contraption. You had to put it
on print, you know, like the printers now. But like
(11:44):
four times the size, and then you printed that only
in black and white. There was no color, and sometimes
the Xerox machine was just great, and then the words
would blurn. You would have to like with the magnifying glass. Anyways,
that is how the paper jams. Yeah, so that's how
we used to do things. Or when you printed out
(12:05):
moment twenty years and then half halfway through you would
be like, that was not the page I was supposed
to print, and then you got a way for it
to come out. Listen, we had internet on CDs.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Okay, yeah, what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Do you know what a CD is? Remember the als?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I'll tell you this.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
We had internet on CDs with cars.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I was just telling my son this the other day.
So like with navigation, like if you had a car
and you had a navigation in your car, like if
you had a newer car that had navigation in it,
the navigation had a DVD. Yeah, so you would have
to have the updated navigation or if you might have,
you'll bring you to a street that let's say it's
a new street, it's not there yet, yeah, and then
you have to go get the updated version of the naviga.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Remember when the Tom Tom came out with the sandbag.
Our publicist is sitting in the back like, what are
you guys doing?
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, do you remember when you created the wheel, Penny?
I do?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I do? I remember when we drive Bear?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Have you ever seen the memes on social media where
they walk around asking people their birthdays and as soon
as they start likeneteen when were you born? No? What year?
What year were you born? Nineteen? So they would have
put a dinosaur and they would have put the music
with you. Yeah, as soon as if they go nineteen
to they put a head on a dinosaur. That's so
(13:21):
that's you. Oh for sure, Yeah for sure. Oh yeah,
that's not you missed.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Go to the.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Library and you're older than I.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
That's fine. We're all like, you know, yeah, she could be.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I know that was grammatically incorrect.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
It was.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
It was meant to be funny.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Anyways, back to the ask me something segment of the pod,
we're bringing that back to season three. What would you
like to ask us?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
What was.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Your journey like? Did you become a published in radio
or it wasn't studying another another.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
For another Actually I almost went for forensic science, believe
it or not. To John Jay but I ended up
going into healthcare, and I did that, and then entertainment
was always like a side b. Because my dad, the
beautiful Greek soul, may he rest in peace. He always
said entertainment was not a plan A. You have to
do something as an a, and your hobby will eventually
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become what it needs to become, if it's meant to be.
So I did healthcare, and then you know, entertainment was
always there. But at Berkeley College, I actually did three
degrees in five years, many tiers, but so with it.
I studied business administration and management in marketing communications. So
I took the public speaking with Patty Cowan, not with Jason,
(14:45):
and then I taught public speaking. Yeah, I taught public
speaking five sections, I think during my tenure. So did
I always have this in mind? No, But it's always
we've done. And I think that you know, when your
purpose meets passion, you are where you're meant to be
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and you will influence through that modality. And then I
get to sit next to pro every other week, and.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Life take you to another Because I was a study
of criminal justice, that's my saying. So I gain injury
in the army and then I flip it to lega study,
so it's they're saying a little bit but never never,
And it was somebody from the the scholarship, the army
(15:33):
that was it. Because you can't get into criminal justice,
so why you don't think about lega story. I was like,
let me think, let me, you know, take a couple
of millions into see and then and the only legal
study because I didn't know what the study. For me,
it was like here, like I was watching I grew
up with my mom watching like Law and Order all
(15:53):
those programs, and then.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Not like sort of like.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Okay, okay, And then I was like, what are I'm
gonna do now? You know, like is that part of
your life? Like what I'm gonna do now? So? And
then I switched it to Leader Stories.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
And I like it. Listen, I love a rebrand. You know,
it's never slaty to reinvent yourself. We do that every week.
Pro Did you always dream of being on a podcast
with me?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Every day?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I know it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
How'd you end up on the dream is like a
nightmare and oh.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Wow, we're gonna cut that out with a third one
thirty six? How do you end up in communications? On
the ratios.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You asking me questions.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
No, that was her question.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
How I don't know? Okay, that was the question you
asked me questions. It was wow, Okay, how did I
end up on radio?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
She asked if we were if we studied to beings,
how we ended up?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
No? I I I was always passionate into music growing up,
got into DJing at a very young age. You know,
DJ'ed when DJing wasn't a thing to do. So everyone
in my who family was very against me being a
DJ and playing music and what is dad and da
da da dah. But stuck with it, as you know,
(17:12):
almost a hobby. But then from a hobby it became
actually something that started to work. And then when I
was in high school, I started just being in the
scene and being in music, falling around the right people.
I ended up going to like college colleges out there,
not into college, but as a young kid going to
college radio. So I started seeing them on radio and
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just being in the car outside and hearing them on
the radio, and then going in and seeing the people
that were talking and hearing it was just freaked me out.
So I was like, oh my god. So when I
finally had a chance. I got on radio. My first
time on college radio, I think I was like fourteen
something like that. Fourteen or fifteen, I was with Kalid
DJ Khalid, and we were all because we were all
in Orlando at the time, and I used to go
with them. They used to do a college radio show.
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So then after that, I just stayed DJing and that
you know, I stayed DJing through my whole through high school,
and I went on tours DJing for like, I was
doing concerts with my Deep and nas and a bunch
of people when I was like sixteen seventeen years old.
So my life journey's a little different as far as
I was on radio when I was when I was
a senior. So I already had a radio show when
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I was eighteen. So when I came out of high school,
I already kind of like just went right into I
didn't have a chance. Now I'm not gonna say I
didn't have a chance, because I could have gone to
college probably right, but I already go was like, this
is my career. And since then I've been on radio.
So I've been on radio on and off and TV
and stuff my whole life.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Insert dinosaur.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Got t Rex on the radio. So, you know, just passion,
you know, finding something you love to do and just
doing it. You know when they say if you love
what you do, is you know you'll never work a
day in your life kind of thing. That's that's kind
of like what my job has been. Obviously not as
easy as all times, you know, as it seems, and
there's a lot of downs, you know, but a lot
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of rough times you gotta get through, especially in any industry,
right so you know, as long as you have passion,
you'll get through them and you don't give up. And
here we are today now doing a podcast, which is
something I never thought I would do. I was actually
against podcasts. When not against them, I just people always
ask me to get on. I think it's just why
(19:21):
for me the dinosaur in the room right now. But
for me, I think it's because I do so much
already that the thought of doing a podcast, I was
just like, I'm not doing a podcast. It's like, you know,
people have asked me to do a bunch of things,
reality TV shows, like all this kind of stuff, and
I think that I'm in a space where I enjoy
what I do and I like having my me time
(19:42):
you know where I could spend with my family. It's
different now, you know, as you get out, like I
have wife and kids. Having a wife and then having
kids change my path of work in life and what
I'm willing to do. Prior to having a wife and children,
I would have done everything. So everything that came to me,
let's go, let's go, let's do it. Oh do this
stream this, da da da. I was taking whatever response.
(20:02):
You know, I'll take all those responsibilities on me because
it was just me. But once once you get a
wife and then you start having kids, you start realizing
that you do need your time to put to them.
So now it's more of a balance where I'm trying
to balance my career and being a good father and
being a good husband at the same time. You know,
if you lean too much into one, you forget the other.
(20:23):
If I'm just always with my kids, then how my
wife's not getting her time right or vice versa my kids.
And if I'm too much with my family, then I'm
taking away from my career. So I'm at a level
right now where I'm just trying to balance everything in
my life, you know. So then here comes Penny with
this podcast, like yeah, I gotta.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Tuesdays.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I'm just playing. So it's all great. So but like
you know, like we said earlier, you just you never
know what life is going to bring to you, so
you know it's gotta be ready for it.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Life is a balance.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
I feel like podcast is more realized, relaxed.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Relax It is for pro because I do I've been doing. No,
there's a lot of work that goes into it. I
mean PRO can speak to you know, being on a
live show and how that works in broadcasts, but with
the podcast, there's a lot of work that goes into
it in terms of strategy, production, target segmentation, all of
(21:18):
the market research. You have to look at that. It's
just a different type of work.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, if you over so. One thing I would always
say is because even from when I used to do
one on six and Park TV show and a bunch
of other things. Oh yes, I did sipart Park. Yeah
so I was, I was the DJ. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
So shout out to you know, I worked throughout the
whole time. After a j and Free, I got to
(21:43):
do one show with them, but I did all of
the Big Tigger Jalisa's shows, all of the Terrence and
Roxy shows, so you know, I got to work on TV,
so you realize it comes. Actually, i'd be more nervous
now standing in front of people speaking where back then
you you knew at that point that was the show.
There was three four million people watching, and I'm going
(22:04):
live on TV reading prompters with words as they you know,
go by, and you're talking to somebody didn't go to
college and didn't practice any of that kind of stuff
that you would think. And the reason I got through
it all is just not overthinking anything, not stressing myself out.
I'd literally just be laid back and still to this day,
I'm kind of like, hey, we need to do this,
this is and I'm like, all cool, just let me
know when it's time to do it. So trying to
(22:26):
just stay not let the moment overtake you, because then, yeah,
if you let the moments overtake you, you will get
anxiety and you will get a little crazy, and then
you'll you know, but TV is a little different than.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
The gems today.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, you just gotta yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
We've had a lot of the personalities from iHeart, our
brothers and sisters from ktu Z one hundred come by them, yeap.
So Crystal Rosas was here on the pod. Yeah, Josh
Martinez from Z was here on the pod. We also
had Maxwell Wendy Astro from Key to You, and everyone
(23:05):
kind of says the same thing. There's some good butterflies, right,
that little anxiousness before you go out on stage, take
a mic, whatever the case, but it kind of feeds you. Yeah,
you know a little bit.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Yeah, like this got me out my comfort zone. I
love it. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
I got a question for the both of you guys.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Okay, if you had one piece of advice to give
to us.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
What would it be?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
In general?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
In general? It could be anything.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
It goes back. For me, I'm always gonna just say,
and it's not to sound cliche and say, don't never
give up, right, but that really is it. I Mean,
you're gonna have good days and you're gonna have bad days,
and sometimes those bad days could be back to back
to back, and it could be a bad week or
a bad month. But that doesn't mean you're gonna have
a bad life, right, So you have to break through
and just keep going and then that could turn into
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a good day. Good week, good month, good year, and
good life. Right, So at the end of the day,
just keep doing what you love and what you're passionate
and what you want to do, and just stay true
to yourself and give it You're all. Like same thing
I tell my kids, like, if if the outcome, if
you don't give it your all, and the outcome doesn't
come out how you want it, then all you're gonna
think about is things you could have done better. Right,
(24:13):
if you just do what you're supposed to do and
give your all, you'll be happy with the outcome, no
matter what it is. That would be my advice.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Okay, Papa pro.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Now here comes Penny with her her college answer.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Why do you always have to be college answer?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Let's see your answer? Now, come on, pick some real
good words here I have it.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Now you know. I'm going to give you two nuggets
I see. The first one is be open minded. Always
be open to opportunity, Always be open to being in
the room. And what are you going to do once
you get in that room? Right, you're in the room
today and you're asking the questions that you want to
know answers to. You're taking control of that. So be
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open minded to the possibilities of what life has to offer.
And the second thing is, while you're being open minded
and while you're going through those trials and tribulations that
pro was talking about, give yourself a little bit of grace.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
And that's what I have to work on. Grace.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Give yourself a little bit of grace, Give yourself a
mindful hug, because through good, bad, happy, sad, those are
all moments and they all shall pass.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I mean both of you, guys for what thank thank
you for what you both have already accomplished and what
you've gone through at such young ages. You guys should
be very proud of this.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
As I'll be the first to have a bachelor's degree
on my mother and my father's side, and I'll be
the first grandchild to have a degree.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yes, there you go.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Listen. Y'all are our living walking proof that if you
set your mind to something, you can accomplish it. And
I'm so glad that y'all came and blessed us today
on the pod and gave us this this bonus episode two,
right this part two. Jason, how do you feel with
your students?
Speaker 8 (26:02):
I feel awesome again. This is the first time I've
ever actually met them in real life. I've seen them
both in videos, but.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
The pods bringing.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Is there any questions you want to ask them?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
We have to interesting, Jason, are you taking over the podcast?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
If they were with them right now in the online
classroom and you wanted to ask them something, just ask
them that, but now in person.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
Yeah. So advice to give your professors it can be
me just like advice, so you have the students side.
So something that you would like to see.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Or something you would like us to do Instagram advice.
Speaker 8 (26:39):
You would like to give your professors about what would
make your education more enriching, more interesting, more human, anything
you want to request that we do.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
I would say, as far as like what we're learning,
I would say open it more instead of just like
making it a lecture. I wish that a lot of professions.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Would make it more engaging, because if we're just sitting
in a classroom watching you talk, it's boring. We're not
I feel like me personally, I don't learn like that.
I like to be hands on. I like to be
more interactive, like always right, like action, more questions or
like say, hey, based off what we learned so far,
what are your thoughts of like does this relate to you?
(27:23):
And if so, if you're comfortable, how does that relate
to you?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
So you want more interactions kind of like Jason's class,
taking agency on pros, adjusting the phone, taking agency on
the curriculum, and having more input. Right, Jason, you were
speaking earlier about eight highlium. You were speaking earlier about
agency in the classroom and students having the ability to
structure their assignments.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
That one of the reasons that I love it is
that if you're if we're coding, designing things together is
always different, right. I get a sense of how you
are as people, what what your values are, what your
interests are, which just makes it more interesting for me too,
and make some more of a conversation less like, oh,
I'm teaching this class for the hundredth time. I try
to do that as little as I can. I try
to give you more controller of course, as much as
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I can.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
And how about you.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
The two kinds of professs. The one he's like him
like more human talk, like we talk with the videos
with more interaction, and they have the other ones it's
like just power point read and we don't talk. Yes,
but I feel like they have different times of style,
(28:33):
but everybody has a kind of way to connect. We
want with the one you like, if you like him.
Sometimes I don't like him. I'm sorry sometimes the way
because he makes no it's nothing. But it's just like
I told him that, like I'm probably speaking for me.
(28:55):
It's notice, I don't know how I'm doing this right now.
And he makesself to the videos and talks.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
You don't like the professor. Sometimes you're uncomfortable with the assignment.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Yes, but you push through.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
You pushed through and you got it. And now you're
on a podcast. You see how public speaking has gotten
you to.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Yeah, now you're here yet exactly what I say, you
have to get out here. That's another thing. Going back
to one thing I would say, back to my whole
journey we talked earlier, is I'm always somebody who thinks,
who has always my whole career thought outside the box. Right.
So if I thought, hey, I'm so passionate, you know
I love hip hop, I love rap music. That's that
was me as a kid coming up. If I ever
(29:35):
DJ a club, that's all I want to do. Then
I got to DJing clubs. Then I was like, oh,
I want to do ray. Then I got to doing radio.
Then then I started branching off and realizing there's so
much more to do playing. There's so much other music
to play, right, so I play this, I play now.
I'm an open forma, so I might. I'm just never
been scared. So I've been on my whole career. I've
been an urban radio right, hip hop, R and B reggae.
(29:56):
Now I'm on a top forty radio station. I've also
done Latin radio stations, so like, I've been on a
pluster of different kind of radio stations, you know, and
then done TV and done this, and then I've always
been open to doing whatever which has got me. Oh yeah,
I'm also you know, I program which is another lane
that if you're a DJ, you know sometimes you're not,
(30:18):
so I will, like even getting my own radio show.
Being a DJ is one thing, right being back there
just playing. Being the on air personality is another. There's
a lot of shows who have an on air personality
and then a DJ who DJ's on it for that
person where I've figured out a way to become both
right step outside your comfort zone and like she's saying,
then I got into programming well, you know, how about
(30:38):
the person who hired me, right and the person who's
putting the music into the system and learning how to
do that. I learned how to do that, and who
knows what? You know, I'll take upon myself to learn next.
You know, just step out now, I'm doing a podcast,
so stepping outside of your back to you, stepping outside
of your comfort zone is so important.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
I never like talk all that like I'm gonna the
first home of my boss, but I like I like
that bar he makes us, you know, think, yes, yes, yes,
it's my last semestery. It's my last semester anyway.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
That's why you told them, Okay, well this has been.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Kind of professors. They are they are really great, but
you just have to see which way is good for you.
That's what I say.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
In true teach me something fashion, Jason, if you could
articulate in one word what your legacy would be, what
does that work?
Speaker 8 (31:45):
Human?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I got some work we've got and it's spectacular coming
from somebody who uses it. Teaches AI technology trick. That's
a great answer.
Speaker 8 (32:02):
Be human. Most important thing. Highlight that humanity, humanity. Recognize
your own humanity. Just it's all about being human. That's
iheart's way.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Tangible. Yeah, do we know what tangible versus intangible is?
Marketing question? Oh come on, you're making me look so
here we go, Professor Penny tangible. DJ Prostyle is a brand, right,
that is a name, it's a logo. It's intangible. The
actual person. DJ Prostyle is tangible.
Speaker 8 (32:34):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Okay, yes, makes sense? Okay, great beautiful. If you didn't
learn something today.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Thank you guys once again for tuning in and watching
us over here at the Teach Me Something Podcast presented
by Berkeley College. I am pro Style and.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
I am Penny Doullas.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Till next time.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Don't forget to follow us pod dot teach Me Something
and listen to us on w R seven ten Sundays
at nine am and wherever you get your podcasts, including one, O,
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Tune in next week
Speaker 2 (33:09):
For all new episode of Teach Me Something, brought to
you by Berkeley College
Hey, what's up?
Speaker 2 (00:00):
This is DJ pro Style and this is Penny and
this is teach me something brought to you by Berkeley College.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
I truly believe that since the students have been so
vocal off camera, that we should bring them on camera
and we should flip this.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah. Yeah, I think we should do it. I mean,
right now, let's flip it.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
All right, students, this is your time to shine.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
What would say is what is it that you look
forward to the most when you head into class?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Ooh, trying to well?
Speaker 5 (00:33):
I would say, like, building off of what building off
of what I know already because I'm a criminal justice major,
so for me, like right now, I'm taking criminal law
and it's been helpful learning the different types of felonies
that New York City has because a lot of people
don't know what the justice system like the.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Type of law is here for New York.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
And for public speaking, I feel like that would help
me because I'm trying to be a crime scene investor
the gator, so I feel like when I'm talking to
other people, public speaking would help me not stammer over
my words, help me to try to navigate how I
want to say certain things to get my point across
the right way.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
So it's it's been a good experience.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
That's awesome. By the way, I definitely want to follow
your journey.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I would love to call us about it.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
What influenced that for you?
Speaker 6 (01:28):
Why?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Well, I grow I'm from I'm from Bedstile. Yes, Miami
runs criminal law. I'm not criminal law, Criminal minds.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Criminal Minds, Law and Order.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
SVU Dateline forensic files. But really it all started for me.
I like to help my community. Like I watched when
my mom was alive, my mom gave back to the community.
My dad, May he rest in peace as well. My
dad served in the army for twenty seven years as
a telecommunicator for the army.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
So seeing my parents.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Be so selfless and be there for other people who
are in need, that engraved in me like, oh, maybe
I can find something that not only am I interested in,
but I want to make a difference. And I feel
like when I go into this field, not only am
I helping you know, people of color, but I also
feel like I'm setting an example for the younger generation,
(02:26):
like despite what trauma or whatever life throws at.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
You, you can still get out on top.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I have my daughter at sixteen, and I'm showing her like, yeah,
mommy did make some mistakes, but you can still do
what you need to do despite whatever life throws at you.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's incredible. Got the weitpans. She's gonna sit next to
me for the rest of it. That's amazing. Well, God
bless you on your journey. I think that anything you
want to accomplish, you I can see you can accomplish.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
So thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I always tell people keep first because when you I
always tell people you give God thanks for the good,
the bad, and the ugly, because no matter what, it's
all a test to prepare you for what you know
you want to come to you. So I try to
be a motivation to everybody, like, no matter what you
go through, you can still be able to put your
(03:20):
best foot forward. It's not how you start, it's how
you finish. I got that from my dad, ken A Frasier.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yes, she'd be a great speaker.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I thought about starting my own podcast.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Well you can come back to the plot. I would
love you can have a corner and we can talk
about you know, it's.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
All the world.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, all right, we got.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
All right recruited. Why come all right? Now you get
to ask. My first question was amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well, yeah, like, what are you proud?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
If that's beautiful?
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Great, what are you going to follow that up with
any starts?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Someone wasting a couple of million people? It's not a
big deal. You know. What's that a big deal? What
motivates you every day to get up and continue going
to class?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Well, I come from from Dominican Republic, so I'm the
first one in my family to have two degrees. This
is gonna be my second degree. So my first degree,
I completed what I was in serf in the army.
So I spent four years my last semester for my
(04:43):
first degree, I completed what I was doing myself. Because
they they are more like, oh, we had to do
the army, the training, so I have my own sergeant saying, oh,
you don't have time for the school, school, don't te
you know anything. I was like, at this, you are
wrong because army is a great experiences and everything, but
(05:07):
it's not everything in life. For me, it's not everything
in life. So I was came here, I can't here
two United States? Where am I like? Oh I want
my degree, I want to study, I want work hard
because nobody in my family do that. So I'm just
twenty eight years old. So it's a problem for my
family to be the first one in the United States
(05:28):
to have two degrees. And I'm going to law school now,
so that's gonna be my.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Dirty That's amazing.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Yeah, I like the study. So my I had two nieces.
One is two years old. She doesn't understand work. I
always tell her. And the other one is twelve. So
at the twelve I told her, like, even if you
don't like the school or whatever, just keep going because
you don't know what life is going to throw to you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
So you're setting the standard. You're the new standard in
the family.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Yeah, a little bit, that's important.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
No pressure, you know, santi Wow and the building shout
out Torls.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
That's right, that's from Santiago.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
That's right. Yeah, you know, we keep them.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
This beautiful, This is great, This is great.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You love this. That's good. Come back you can right now.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
We don't take too much time away from you know,
you know, mastering the crafts that you're doing. Do you
have any questions for the students in here or do
you talk to them already? Are they in your class? So,
and I can't.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
So one of the things that's so interesting and I
was thinking about as both of you were talking and
telling your incredible stories, was just how human teaching can
be and learning can be. And so both Liz and Beyonca,
I've had you both just online, Joyce, Yes that's true, Yes,
choice too, but you know having these very very human
(07:10):
connections even in an online class. And so has that
been your experience that your online classes can be very human?
You get a chance to know the other students, the
other professors, Because for me, when I started to teach online,
I was extremely worried about it. I was petrified of
it because I felt like it's so hard to create
(07:31):
that human experience, that connection, that connection, And I worry
now that, especially with AI, despite all the things we
can do with it, that that's going to get worse.
It's going to become more mechanical, more automated. And so
I think one of the best things we can do,
and I love to be who are both of your
thoughts on this is to just make education such a
human thing. Right, we can connect with others, but do
(07:52):
you feel like you're connecting with other students online and
professor's online in a human way. Have you come across
barriers with it? What is your experience taking an online class?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Liam found his way back to the podcast.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I blame COVID for how certain people navigate online because
I graduated during the pandemic in high school, so when
it came time for online nobody was really logging in
on their computer, trying to wake up early just to
be in the bed to be on a computer screen.
So I feel like now being that COVID isn't really
(08:27):
big big like how it was, it did have a
negative impact on how people like me view online learning,
Like I feel like for me, it depends on the
professor and how they introduced the course and how it's
gonna go.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Like with Professor Jason, let me tell you something.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I love his curriculum, like I'm taking public speaking right now,
and I like how it was one assignment he had
us write down a list of goals that we wanted
to work on for this class that would also help us,
you know, outside of school. And one of my goals
was getting better at speaking without.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Stammering over my words.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
And I feel like I've been doing good with that
so far, and I need.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
To take speak.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Like it's it gets how do I put it?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Sometimes I do get nervous because I do have like anxiety,
so when I'm speaking in front of like other people, it.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Does get a little nerve racking.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
But I've grown to be comfortable because I want people
to know what I have to say.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
I want people to hear what I have to say.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Maybe it might be stupid, but I feel like anything
you say it may not it's not going to be
stupid because somebody can learn. Or if you even if
you're just venting, somebody who's been in your situation or
been in words, will take what you've said and use
that as motivation to keep going. And that's what I
want for people my age. I'm twenty three and navigating
life with no parents. It's hard, so I tell people
(09:55):
just be your best self. It's okay to make mistakes.
We're not perfect, but it's how you overcome those childs
and tribulations that really shape you into the future self.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
That is beautifully sad. And you are so profound and
so intellectual and so articulate, so you should remove the
S word from your vocabulary because everything you have said
has been anything but.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Continue doing what you guys are doing, continue inspiring, and Jason,
we see your legacy. We always end the pod with,
you know, describe your legacy in one word, but we
see it.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
I was loving when you say, back in my time,
it was like education evolution, evolution like us two. Because
in your time you have to go to the library.
I remember mom, my parents said we had to cross
the river, and I was like, what do you know?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
What is that?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
So for us is like E takes library. We have everything.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
No, we had we had tangible like you had to
go to the librarian school and they gave you credits.
You had you had like printing credits, right, and then
after that you had to pay five cents a copy
and you had to like yes, you had to photo copy.
So let's say this is the the guys where I'm
(11:23):
currently holding up a Berkeley College notebooks to give an example.
Let's say this was like the Encyclopedia or you know whatever,
the National Geographic and this is how you cited, right,
So you had to fold it and then the printer
was like a large contraption. You had to put it
on print, you know, like the printers now. But like
(11:44):
four times the size, and then you printed that only
in black and white. There was no color, and sometimes
the Xerox machine was just great, and then the words
would blurn. You would have to like with the magnifying glass. Anyways,
that is how the paper jams. Yeah, so that's how
we used to do things. Or when you printed out
(12:05):
moment twenty years and then half halfway through you would
be like, that was not the page I was supposed
to print, and then you got a way for it
to come out. Listen, we had internet on CDs.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Okay, yeah, what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Do you know what a CD is? Remember the als?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I'll tell you this.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
We had internet on CDs with cars.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I was just telling my son this the other day.
So like with navigation, like if you had a car
and you had a navigation in your car, like if
you had a newer car that had navigation in it,
the navigation had a DVD. Yeah, so you would have
to have the updated navigation or if you might have,
you'll bring you to a street that let's say it's
a new street, it's not there yet, yeah, and then
you have to go get the updated version of the naviga.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Remember when the Tom Tom came out with the sandbag.
Our publicist is sitting in the back like, what are
you guys doing?
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, do you remember when you created the wheel, Penny?
I do?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I do? I remember when we drive Bear?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Have you ever seen the memes on social media where
they walk around asking people their birthdays and as soon
as they start likeneteen when were you born? No? What year?
What year were you born? Nineteen? So they would have
put a dinosaur and they would have put the music
with you. Yeah, as soon as if they go nineteen
to they put a head on a dinosaur. That's so
(13:21):
that's you. Oh for sure, Yeah for sure. Oh yeah,
that's not you missed.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Go to the.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Library and you're older than I.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
That's fine. We're all like, you know, yeah, she could be.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I know that was grammatically incorrect.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
It was.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
It was meant to be funny.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Anyways, back to the ask me something segment of the pod,
we're bringing that back to season three. What would you
like to ask us?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
What was.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Your journey like? Did you become a published in radio
or it wasn't studying another another.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
For another Actually I almost went for forensic science, believe
it or not. To John Jay but I ended up
going into healthcare, and I did that, and then entertainment
was always like a side b. Because my dad, the
beautiful Greek soul, may he rest in peace. He always
said entertainment was not a plan A. You have to
do something as an a, and your hobby will eventually
(14:22):
become what it needs to become, if it's meant to be.
So I did healthcare, and then you know, entertainment was
always there. But at Berkeley College, I actually did three
degrees in five years, many tiers, but so with it.
I studied business administration and management in marketing communications. So
I took the public speaking with Patty Cowan, not with Jason,
(14:45):
and then I taught public speaking. Yeah, I taught public
speaking five sections, I think during my tenure. So did
I always have this in mind? No, But it's always
we've done. And I think that you know, when your
purpose meets passion, you are where you're meant to be
(15:06):
and you will influence through that modality. And then I
get to sit next to pro every other week, and.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Life take you to another Because I was a study
of criminal justice, that's my saying. So I gain injury
in the army and then I flip it to lega study,
so it's they're saying a little bit but never never,
And it was somebody from the the scholarship, the army
(15:33):
that was it. Because you can't get into criminal justice,
so why you don't think about lega story. I was like,
let me think, let me, you know, take a couple
of millions into see and then and the only legal
study because I didn't know what the study. For me,
it was like here, like I was watching I grew
up with my mom watching like Law and Order all
(15:53):
those programs, and then.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Not like sort of like.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Okay, okay, And then I was like, what are I'm
gonna do now? You know, like is that part of
your life? Like what I'm gonna do now? So? And
then I switched it to Leader Stories.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
And I like it. Listen, I love a rebrand. You know,
it's never slaty to reinvent yourself. We do that every week.
Pro Did you always dream of being on a podcast
with me?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Every day?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I know it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
How'd you end up on the dream is like a
nightmare and oh.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Wow, we're gonna cut that out with a third one
thirty six? How do you end up in communications? On
the ratios.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You asking me questions.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
No, that was her question.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
How I don't know? Okay, that was the question you
asked me questions. It was wow, Okay, how did I
end up on radio?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
She asked if we were if we studied to beings,
how we ended up?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
No? I I I was always passionate into music growing up,
got into DJing at a very young age. You know,
DJ'ed when DJing wasn't a thing to do. So everyone
in my who family was very against me being a
DJ and playing music and what is dad and da
da da dah. But stuck with it, as you know,
(17:12):
almost a hobby. But then from a hobby it became
actually something that started to work. And then when I
was in high school, I started just being in the
scene and being in music, falling around the right people.
I ended up going to like college colleges out there,
not into college, but as a young kid going to
college radio. So I started seeing them on radio and
(17:35):
just being in the car outside and hearing them on
the radio, and then going in and seeing the people
that were talking and hearing it was just freaked me out.
So I was like, oh my god. So when I
finally had a chance. I got on radio. My first
time on college radio, I think I was like fourteen
something like that. Fourteen or fifteen, I was with Kalid
DJ Khalid, and we were all because we were all
in Orlando at the time, and I used to go
with them. They used to do a college radio show.
(17:56):
So then after that, I just stayed DJing and that
you know, I stayed DJing through my whole through high school,
and I went on tours DJing for like, I was
doing concerts with my Deep and nas and a bunch
of people when I was like sixteen seventeen years old.
So my life journey's a little different as far as
I was on radio when I was when I was
a senior. So I already had a radio show when
(18:18):
I was eighteen. So when I came out of high school,
I already kind of like just went right into I
didn't have a chance. Now I'm not gonna say I
didn't have a chance, because I could have gone to
college probably right, but I already go was like, this
is my career. And since then I've been on radio.
So I've been on radio on and off and TV
and stuff my whole life.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Insert dinosaur.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Got t Rex on the radio. So, you know, just passion,
you know, finding something you love to do and just
doing it. You know when they say if you love
what you do, is you know you'll never work a
day in your life kind of thing. That's that's kind
of like what my job has been. Obviously not as
easy as all times, you know, as it seems, and
there's a lot of downs, you know, but a lot
(18:59):
of rough times you gotta get through, especially in any industry,
right so you know, as long as you have passion,
you'll get through them and you don't give up. And
here we are today now doing a podcast, which is
something I never thought I would do. I was actually
against podcasts. When not against them, I just people always
ask me to get on. I think it's just why
(19:21):
for me the dinosaur in the room right now. But
for me, I think it's because I do so much
already that the thought of doing a podcast, I was
just like, I'm not doing a podcast. It's like, you know,
people have asked me to do a bunch of things,
reality TV shows, like all this kind of stuff, and
I think that I'm in a space where I enjoy
what I do and I like having my me time
(19:42):
you know where I could spend with my family. It's
different now, you know, as you get out, like I
have wife and kids. Having a wife and then having
kids change my path of work in life and what
I'm willing to do. Prior to having a wife and children,
I would have done everything. So everything that came to me,
let's go, let's go, let's do it. Oh do this
stream this, da da da. I was taking whatever response.
(20:02):
You know, I'll take all those responsibilities on me because
it was just me. But once once you get a
wife and then you start having kids, you start realizing
that you do need your time to put to them.
So now it's more of a balance where I'm trying
to balance my career and being a good father and
being a good husband at the same time. You know,
if you lean too much into one, you forget the other.
(20:23):
If I'm just always with my kids, then how my
wife's not getting her time right or vice versa my kids.
And if I'm too much with my family, then I'm
taking away from my career. So I'm at a level
right now where I'm just trying to balance everything in
my life, you know. So then here comes Penny with
this podcast, like yeah, I gotta.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Tuesdays.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I'm just playing. So it's all great. So but like
you know, like we said earlier, you just you never
know what life is going to bring to you, so
you know it's gotta be ready for it.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Life is a balance.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
I feel like podcast is more realized, relaxed.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Relax It is for pro because I do I've been doing. No,
there's a lot of work that goes into it. I
mean PRO can speak to you know, being on a
live show and how that works in broadcasts, but with
the podcast, there's a lot of work that goes into
it in terms of strategy, production, target segmentation, all of
(21:18):
the market research. You have to look at that. It's
just a different type of work.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, if you over so. One thing I would always
say is because even from when I used to do
one on six and Park TV show and a bunch
of other things. Oh yes, I did sipart Park. Yeah
so I was, I was the DJ. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
So shout out to you know, I worked throughout the
whole time. After a j and Free, I got to
(21:43):
do one show with them, but I did all of
the Big Tigger Jalisa's shows, all of the Terrence and
Roxy shows, so you know, I got to work on TV,
so you realize it comes. Actually, i'd be more nervous
now standing in front of people speaking where back then
you you knew at that point that was the show.
There was three four million people watching, and I'm going
(22:04):
live on TV reading prompters with words as they you know,
go by, and you're talking to somebody didn't go to
college and didn't practice any of that kind of stuff
that you would think. And the reason I got through
it all is just not overthinking anything, not stressing myself out.
I'd literally just be laid back and still to this day,
I'm kind of like, hey, we need to do this,
this is and I'm like, all cool, just let me
know when it's time to do it. So trying to
(22:26):
just stay not let the moment overtake you, because then, yeah,
if you let the moments overtake you, you will get
anxiety and you will get a little crazy, and then
you'll you know, but TV is a little different than.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
The gems today.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, you just gotta yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
We've had a lot of the personalities from iHeart, our
brothers and sisters from ktu Z one hundred come by them, yeap.
So Crystal Rosas was here on the pod. Yeah, Josh
Martinez from Z was here on the pod. We also
had Maxwell Wendy Astro from Key to You, and everyone
(23:05):
kind of says the same thing. There's some good butterflies, right,
that little anxiousness before you go out on stage, take
a mic, whatever the case, but it kind of feeds you. Yeah,
you know a little bit.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Yeah, like this got me out my comfort zone. I
love it. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
I got a question for the both of you guys.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Okay, if you had one piece of advice to give
to us.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
What would it be?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
In general?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
In general? It could be anything.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
It goes back. For me, I'm always gonna just say,
and it's not to sound cliche and say, don't never
give up, right, but that really is it. I Mean,
you're gonna have good days and you're gonna have bad days,
and sometimes those bad days could be back to back
to back, and it could be a bad week or
a bad month. But that doesn't mean you're gonna have
a bad life, right, So you have to break through
and just keep going and then that could turn into
(23:52):
a good day. Good week, good month, good year, and
good life. Right, So at the end of the day,
just keep doing what you love and what you're passionate
and what you want to do, and just stay true
to yourself and give it You're all. Like same thing
I tell my kids, like, if if the outcome, if
you don't give it your all, and the outcome doesn't
come out how you want it, then all you're gonna
think about is things you could have done better. Right,
(24:13):
if you just do what you're supposed to do and
give your all, you'll be happy with the outcome, no
matter what it is. That would be my advice.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Okay, Papa pro.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Now here comes Penny with her her college answer.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Why do you always have to be college answer?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Let's see your answer? Now, come on, pick some real
good words here I have it.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Now you know. I'm going to give you two nuggets
I see. The first one is be open minded. Always
be open to opportunity, Always be open to being in
the room. And what are you going to do once
you get in that room? Right, you're in the room
today and you're asking the questions that you want to
know answers to. You're taking control of that. So be
(24:58):
open minded to the possibilities of what life has to offer.
And the second thing is, while you're being open minded
and while you're going through those trials and tribulations that
pro was talking about, give yourself a little bit of grace.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
And that's what I have to work on. Grace.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Give yourself a little bit of grace, Give yourself a
mindful hug, because through good, bad, happy, sad, those are
all moments and they all shall pass.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I mean both of you, guys for what thank thank
you for what you both have already accomplished and what
you've gone through at such young ages. You guys should
be very proud of this.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
As I'll be the first to have a bachelor's degree
on my mother and my father's side, and I'll be
the first grandchild to have a degree.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yes, there you go.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Listen. Y'all are our living walking proof that if you
set your mind to something, you can accomplish it. And
I'm so glad that y'all came and blessed us today
on the pod and gave us this this bonus episode two,
right this part two. Jason, how do you feel with
your students?
Speaker 8 (26:02):
I feel awesome again. This is the first time I've
ever actually met them in real life. I've seen them
both in videos, but.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
The pods bringing.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Is there any questions you want to ask them?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
We have to interesting, Jason, are you taking over the podcast?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
If they were with them right now in the online
classroom and you wanted to ask them something, just ask
them that, but now in person.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
Yeah. So advice to give your professors it can be
me just like advice, so you have the students side.
So something that you would like to see.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Or something you would like us to do Instagram advice.
Speaker 8 (26:39):
You would like to give your professors about what would
make your education more enriching, more interesting, more human, anything
you want to request that we do.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
I would say, as far as like what we're learning,
I would say open it more instead of just like
making it a lecture. I wish that a lot of professions.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Would make it more engaging, because if we're just sitting
in a classroom watching you talk, it's boring. We're not
I feel like me personally, I don't learn like that.
I like to be hands on. I like to be
more interactive, like always right, like action, more questions or
like say, hey, based off what we learned so far,
what are your thoughts of like does this relate to you?
(27:23):
And if so, if you're comfortable, how does that relate
to you?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
So you want more interactions kind of like Jason's class,
taking agency on pros, adjusting the phone, taking agency on
the curriculum, and having more input. Right, Jason, you were
speaking earlier about eight highlium. You were speaking earlier about
agency in the classroom and students having the ability to
structure their assignments.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
That one of the reasons that I love it is
that if you're if we're coding, designing things together is
always different, right. I get a sense of how you
are as people, what what your values are, what your
interests are, which just makes it more interesting for me too,
and make some more of a conversation less like, oh,
I'm teaching this class for the hundredth time. I try
to do that as little as I can. I try
to give you more controller of course, as much as
(28:09):
I can.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
And how about you.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
The two kinds of professs. The one he's like him
like more human talk, like we talk with the videos
with more interaction, and they have the other ones it's
like just power point read and we don't talk. Yes,
but I feel like they have different times of style,
(28:33):
but everybody has a kind of way to connect. We
want with the one you like, if you like him.
Sometimes I don't like him. I'm sorry sometimes the way
because he makes no it's nothing. But it's just like
I told him that, like I'm probably speaking for me.
(28:55):
It's notice, I don't know how I'm doing this right now.
And he makesself to the videos and talks.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
You don't like the professor. Sometimes you're uncomfortable with the assignment.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Yes, but you push through.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
You pushed through and you got it. And now you're
on a podcast. You see how public speaking has gotten
you to.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Yeah, now you're here yet exactly what I say, you
have to get out here. That's another thing. Going back
to one thing I would say, back to my whole
journey we talked earlier, is I'm always somebody who thinks,
who has always my whole career thought outside the box. Right.
So if I thought, hey, I'm so passionate, you know
I love hip hop, I love rap music. That's that
was me as a kid coming up. If I ever
(29:35):
DJ a club, that's all I want to do. Then
I got to DJing clubs. Then I was like, oh,
I want to do ray. Then I got to doing radio.
Then then I started branching off and realizing there's so
much more to do playing. There's so much other music
to play, right, so I play this, I play now.
I'm an open forma, so I might. I'm just never
been scared. So I've been on my whole career. I've
been an urban radio right, hip hop, R and B reggae.
(29:56):
Now I'm on a top forty radio station. I've also
done Latin radio stations, so like, I've been on a
pluster of different kind of radio stations, you know, and
then done TV and done this, and then I've always
been open to doing whatever which has got me. Oh yeah,
I'm also you know, I program which is another lane
that if you're a DJ, you know sometimes you're not,
(30:18):
so I will, like even getting my own radio show.
Being a DJ is one thing, right being back there
just playing. Being the on air personality is another. There's
a lot of shows who have an on air personality
and then a DJ who DJ's on it for that
person where I've figured out a way to become both
right step outside your comfort zone and like she's saying,
then I got into programming well, you know, how about
(30:38):
the person who hired me, right and the person who's
putting the music into the system and learning how to
do that. I learned how to do that, and who
knows what? You know, I'll take upon myself to learn next.
You know, just step out now, I'm doing a podcast,
so stepping outside of your back to you, stepping outside
of your comfort zone is so important.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
I never like talk all that like I'm gonna the
first home of my boss, but I like I like
that bar he makes us, you know, think, yes, yes, yes,
it's my last semestery. It's my last semester anyway.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
That's why you told them, Okay, well this has been.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Kind of professors. They are they are really great, but
you just have to see which way is good for you.
That's what I say.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
In true teach me something fashion, Jason, if you could
articulate in one word what your legacy would be, what
does that work?
Speaker 8 (31:45):
Human?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I got some work we've got and it's spectacular coming
from somebody who uses it. Teaches AI technology trick. That's
a great answer.
Speaker 8 (32:02):
Be human. Most important thing. Highlight that humanity, humanity. Recognize
your own humanity. Just it's all about being human. That's
iheart's way.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Tangible. Yeah, do we know what tangible versus intangible is?
Marketing question? Oh come on, you're making me look so
here we go, Professor Penny tangible. DJ Prostyle is a brand, right,
that is a name, it's a logo. It's intangible. The
actual person. DJ Prostyle is tangible.
Speaker 8 (32:34):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Okay, yes, makes sense? Okay, great beautiful. If you didn't
learn something today.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Thank you guys once again for tuning in and watching
us over here at the Teach Me Something Podcast presented
by Berkeley College. I am pro Style and.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
I am Penny Doullas.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Till next time.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Don't forget to follow us pod dot teach Me Something
and listen to us on w R seven ten Sundays
at nine am and wherever you get your podcasts, including one, O,
three five. K to you, Tyler Hey, thanks for listening.
Tune in next week
Speaker 2 (33:09):
For all new episode of Teach Me Something, brought to
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