11: “Making Yourself Uncomfortable” with Tia D’Alessandro

Communications teacher Tia D’Alessandro joins the show to discuss Spring Break recovery, public speaking as conversation, and lessons learned at Costco.

Show notes for this episode:

• Heirloom Market
• Shrinking
• Severance
• CT State AI Presidential Fellows Program 2025 Cohort
• Rhode Island College
• Anthropology
• Public speaking
• University of Hartford
• Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
• Glossophobia
• "To the Student Who Used AI to Do a Paper" by Joseph Fasano | Poets.org
• Center for Teaching | CT State
• Dr. Miguel Cardona | Ed.gov
• Costco
• Victor Wooten: Words of Wisdom #9 | YouTube