Myers Mentzer, Seaver College Class of 2025 student and Student Government Association President, joined RISE Podcast Producer Owen Mirka at the RISE Roundtable. Myers shares her resilience journey as a student leader.
We also hear from three Pepperdine community members, who each share a person in their life whom they look up to as a leader who exhibits profound resilience.
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In this episode, we discuss the following:
0:00 Pepperdine community members share a leader they look up to
2:03 Introducing Myers Mentzer
7:03 What it means to Myers to be a leader—service
8:55 The importance of faith in Myers’s approach to leadership
11:09 Resilience in advocacy work
17:20 The life skills dimension of resilience, an approach to technology
19:44 Growing in the social dimension at International Programs
27:40 How faith plays a role in Myers’s life
30:33 Navigating grief as a peer and as a leader
