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Welcome Back to the Wesley Word! · The Wesley Word

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_04: Welcome to the Wesley Word.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_04: Hi everyone, and welcome back once again to the Wesley Word.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_04: My name is Bailey Mian.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_04: It's been a while since I made one of these, and I'm super glad to be back.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_04: I had an absolute blast making the podcast last year, and I'm super fortunate that enough of you seem to like it enough as well that we've decided to come back for another season.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_04: I'm really excited about all the opportunities that this next year holds to bring a lot of different content to the podcast, get a lot more people involved, and hear a lot more voices of our students, alumni, community members, and everyone else here at Wesley.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_04: We're getting pretty close here to the beginning of the school year and things are starting to ramp up, so I called Steve to check in.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_04: I'm pretty sure by this point everyone knows who you are, but in case this happens to be the first time someone is listening to the podcast, can you introduce yourself?
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, thanks, Bailey.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, my name is Steve Simoneau.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_05: I'm the campus minister here for Clemson Wesley.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_05: I'm starting my 10th year here as director, 22nd year as a student and alumni and all that good stuff.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_05: So loving life being here at Clemson Wesley.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_04: So we're uh well into August now, getting close to the start of the new semester.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_04: Are you excited for uh school to be back?
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_05: I am super pumped.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_05: I had a meeting this morning with several of our leaders for next year to sort of get things organized for a welcome week.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_05: And it's I mean the energy is in the air, people are moving back already, and I mean I can't I can't wait to get started.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_05: It's it's go time.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_04: What are you most looking forward to with the new school year?
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_05: If you've known me before, last few years I've had a juggle with a lot of responsibilities.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_05: And going into this year, like Clemson Wesley is my only responsibility.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_05: I'm no longer preaching on Sunday mornings for a different church.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_05: I am you know all in on Wesley again.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_05: And so I'm just excited to reconnect with students.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_05: I feel like I've been crazy busy back and forth, and so being able to do more lunches, more coffees, and just really just engage one-on-one gets me excited.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_05: And of course, this time of year, you know, my leaders are excited and pumped about opportunities ahead.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_05: And so just sort of feeding and fueling that energy and seeing what's what's coming with you know new ideas, new ministries.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_05: Um, but for me personally, just being able to connect again, one-on-one with students is what I'm looking forward to.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_04: I can't wait to see what everyone does this year.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_04: So uh we are happy you have decided to uh renew us for season two here at the Wesley Word.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_04: What did you like about the uh first season of the podcast?
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_05: I loved and was surprised, I think, by the reach that we had.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_05: Um, hearing alumni who were listening to Sunday night talks, um, and then also hearing the voice that students had, um, talking about fun issues to complex issues and everywhere in between, and having a space to sort of just broadcast that and to be there and the people that were attuned to that.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_05: And so um, you know, last year was new for us, um, and it I don't know if I had expectations, but it exceeded whatever I thought it might be.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_05: And so I'm looking forward to whatever may come this year and allowing, again, more student voices to have a role in that, and also for whoever's out there to learn more about Clemson Wesley.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_04: Um, I'm not sure if you actually listened to every episode of the podcast.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_04: You don't have to expose yourself if you didn't, but did you have a favorite episode?
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_05: I, oh man, I didn't listen to every episode, but I listened to several of them.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_05: Um, I think the Larn and Bryson back and forth was most intriguing.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that was a really interesting episode.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_05: And I always cracked up at that was sort of, you know, more serious note, but I always cracked up at the um, you know, the retreats or sort of the the behind the scenes uh stuff at different retreats and mission trips.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_05: Um that was just sort of a fun, uh lighthearted, lighthearted deal there.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_04: So yeah, I really enjoy all those episodes too because I get to kind of step back and pass off both the episodes that Lauren did and also the uh retreat episodes, I get to kind of pass off the microphone to someone, and then I get this raw audio back and get to listen to it and edit it.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_04: Um it's especially fun, a little bit of behind the scenes, like that Lauren and Bryson episode.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_04: They uh like talk to me um in the recording.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_04: And obviously it's not in the final product, but uh kind of a fun little exchange I get to have.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it'd be interesting to get a um director's cut edition one day, maybe after after we get all that stuff done.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_04: So, do you have any suggestions for things that I should do on the podcast this year?
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_05: I think, I mean, I I love where we went last year.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_05: Um, I would encourage um the basic content is is still there with our Sunday night talks and different things, but just finding ways to hit relevant topics and student voices on that, I think, so that we get a more well-rounded view of where we are at Wesley, but also to see how we sort of wrestle with a lot of these things.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_05: I love the people at Wesley, um, some of those interviews and learning folks.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_05: But I think just continue to do what we do, but broaden that content and get more folks, more folks involved as we grow in popularity and folks know about us.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, sure.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_04: I uh was a little bit slow off the start last year um getting the podcast going.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_04: So we didn't actually start publishing episodes until the spring semester.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_04: So hopefully with the full year this year, we'll get to do a lot more content and get a lot more people involved.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_04: So you mentioned um that we have both students and alumni, potentially members of the community listening.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_04: What do you hope that people get out of listening to our podcast?
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_05: Great question.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_05: I hope that they, you know, what's sort of our you know, our mission statement, right?
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_05: A place where all are welcome.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_05: And I hope that they see that even in the podcast, um, that there are differing views within our community, that we're not we may lean in a certain way depending on how many students we have and certain thoughts and that that type of thing.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_05: But that's we have a lot of diversity of thought within our group.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_05: And so I hope that the podcast will sort of capture that, you know, whether folks are right or wrong, but that's there.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_05: I hope that they will find hope in it as they find as they hear some of the messages that are shared on Sunday nights or maybe Wednesday night, and will find some life in that um as well.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_05: But um hopefully there's a place where they can come, they can be entertained by some things.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_05: Um, again, those retreat outtakes, but also maybe it's a place for growth, hopefully, as well, where they maybe can wrestle with some of the things, or maybe they can connect.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_05: Hey, I've been wrestling with this question as well.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, somebody else is doing that, and sort of that that me too vibe as well.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_05: Um, hopefully be a helpful thing for people.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_04: Awesome.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_04: Do you have any questions for me as your podcast editor?
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_05: What are your big dreams for this year?
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_05: Any any behind the curtain, sneak peeks, things to come that I don't know about?
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, uh, like I said, I like when other students get to have their voice shared.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_04: I feel like you hear a little bit too much of me uh on the podcast.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_04: Um not that I don't like doing the work, but I enjoy listening to other people.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_04: I enjoy getting to be a listener to the podcast when I edit episodes that I don't make, right?
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm hoping to get more students involved, get more voices heard.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_04: Um, and then a big goal of mine is to make the humans of Wesley episodes even more interesting, ideally.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_04: One of the reasons that I did the humans of Wesley episodes is because I don't think I'm super great at talking to people or interviewing people.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_04: I wanted to get better at that.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_04: And I think that definitely shows a little bit.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_04: Um I they definitely kind of became pre-formulated by the end that had kind of a list of questions that I put into and uh I would ask.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_04: I think it'd be better if it's kind of a more free-flowing conversation, more entertaining, uh more fun.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_04: So that's my goal to see if I can actually pull it off.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I think it's awesome.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_05: And we've got some great stories out there of students, and so it'd be cool to get that to get that out there.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_05: All right, I mean, I really am jazzed about this this this semester.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_05: Like it's it's go town.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_05: So it's in the air.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_05: You may not be able to feel it where you're at now, but it's in the air here.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_05: So great.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks, Steve.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, man.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_04: When we decided that the podcast was something we'd like to keep going for the foreseeable future, we decided to include it into our Wesley leadership structure under the communications team.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_04: So let's go check in with all our great student leaders on the communications team.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_04: What's up, com team?
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_02: Hello.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_04: So a couple of you have been on the podcast before, and a couple of you haven't.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_04: So can everyone go around and introduce yourselves?
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, yeah, thank you for having us, Bailey.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_02: Um, my name is Brynn Beaton, and I'm the communications team coordinator.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_02: I'm a senior marketing major from Colorado and Texas.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and I am super happy to be working with an awesome team this year.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_01: My name is Ash Colliger.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_01: I am a junior, or no, I'm not a junior.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_01: Oh goodness.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not ready for senior year yet, as you can tell.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_01: I am a senior elementary education major from Charleston, South Carolina, and I'm really excited to be a part of Calm Team this year.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_03: My name is Julia Carino, and I am a junior marketing major from Wakefield, Massachusetts, and I'm so excited to work with these people.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Matthew Price.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a senior financial management major from Florence, South Carolina.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um that's me.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks everyone.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks for joining me on this podcast episode today.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_04: So this year we have decided to bring the podcast back and officially incorporate it into Wesley as part of the Calm team.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_04: So just to get to know Calm Team a little bit, I was wondering what you guys were planning to do with Calm Team this year.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_04: What are you excited about?
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_02: We are super excited to highlight all the awesome fellowship and worship events that we have with Wesley.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_02: Um, the past few years have been a little bumpy with COVID and just different transitions in life.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_02: And so we really we know that social team and connections team have a lot of great opportunities planned.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_02: So we really want to efficiently and uh well be efficient on our end with um getting lots of content as far as videos and photos go and then um displaying it in a creative way on our social media and also communicating with um the rest of the Wesley members in our big group chats or um story posts and things like that so that people can attend um as many events as they are available for.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_02: Um so overall, I I would love to just increase efficiency and awareness and use communication to bring people in Wesley closer together.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_01: That's such a good answer.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's such a great answer.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think for me personally, probably what I'm most excited about is to get back into taking pictures.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_01: When we went on winter retreat this past year, I decided to just bring my camera with me just for fun, and I ended up taking a lot of pictures.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_01: And this past was that on Saturday, we went on a little brief hike before all the welcome back events, and I took a bunch of pictures and it was a whole lot of fun.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm really, really excited to get back into taking a lot of pictures and capturing all the fun little moments that we get to have here at Clubson Wesley.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_03: So we're we're lucky to have you.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so overall, this is my first time officially.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_03: Well, my first semester mostly the last semester, so we're still pretty new.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm just really excited to get to be able to connect everyone through our social media and just be able to expand upon my skill set and be able to work with a team of people.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_03: That's just so great.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: This is um my second time on Calm Team.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um back to back.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: But um yeah, I'm excited to to see how we change up how we announce events, how we promote events on social media.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um I'm excited to, like Ash said, you know, take some pictures of everything and really just display how we do things at Wesley on the social media, since that's that's a big part of how we get people to come and keep coming back.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_04: So great, those are some awesome ideas.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_04: So I was fortunate to have a couple of you join me on the podcast last year as uh during our pilot season.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_04: Um and I'm not sure if you guys listened to literally any other episodes other than that, but I was just wondering um if there was anything you particularly liked or think I should do, if you have any ideas for the podcast this year, I would love to hear them.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_02: I definitely enjoyed being on the podcast um and working with you, Bailey.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_02: And I also loved how you brought on um individuals and then also um, you know, friend groups or people in the same leadership team and uh started conversations with with them, but also let those people choose the topics that they were passionate about and um have like free-flowing conversations um and podcasts from there.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_02: Um I think they were all very, very unique and interesting.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so I would love to see more of that and also um maybe some recaps of events as well, because I know we did like the retreat, um, the fall and and spring retreats, which were awesome.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_02: And so yeah, I think it's great to have as many members of Wesley featured on the podcast as possible.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I definitely agree.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_01: I well the um retreat podcast I think was super funny.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_01: We all were just going around in a circle, passing the microphone around, asking each other silly questions.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: So I think it's like having opportunities like at Wesley events to maybe like record something, just like a little short conversation with people, you know, get people if people come across our podcast and listen and they're like, hey, like this sounds like a really cool place to come, like hang out, have a conversation with these people.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and they might want to come hang out with us at Wesley.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I definitely I listened to a bunch of the podcasts last semester, and my favorite ones were the ones where it was like multiple people.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_03: I really like the one-on-ones because you got to know, I feel like the members so much more closely.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_03: But then it was really fun to see like how we interact with each other.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_03: So I definitely think bringing that together really shows people like this is a place that's fun and this is a place that's welcoming for all.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I like the um the individual, the humans of Wesley ones.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: It was it's like reminiscent of what we used to do for like Wesley worship, but it's like more in depth and you get to know people that you know, but like you know, you don't know fun facts about them.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: So that was it was really fun and neat.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um I'm I'm looking forward to seeing more of um of the the ones of groups of friends or um the retreat recaps.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: I think you know the ones we did on the retreat were good, but like have a few people on like after a retreat and see what what they learned or like what they had fun with so so other people can see, hey, this is what we did at retreat, and it's why why I want to come.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_04: So awesome.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks, guys.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_04: I'm really impressed that you actually took the time to listen to it.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_04: That makes me happy.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_04: So um with that great segue from Matt Price, too.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_04: Uh I will personally continue doing the Humans of Wesley episodes.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_04: Um, so I was wondering if you had any ide any ideas for people I should ask to be on Humans of Wesley.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_04: Anyone you want to throw under the bus?
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if he's already been on, but Griffin Webb is incredible.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_02: And I believe he's a freshly leader this coming year.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so I would love to hear him speak.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_01: That's a really good one.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, I think Griffin would be amazing on the podcast.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: Um goodness.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know who to throw under the bus.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um honestly, I'm gonna throw all of Calm Team under the bus, actually.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like we all should do like another check-in podcast at some time and like maybe go into all of the stuff that we do and like maybe do like a calm team behind the scenes or even other leadership teams, like a behind the scenes of leadership and what that looks like.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I would say I don't know if they've done it at all because like obviously I came in second semester, but I totally think you would have having Ava and Emma do it together, Emma Simon would be so fun.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_03: And honestly, Ava doing it alone too.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_03: I think that would be really cool because I feel like she has a lot of interesting stories to tell because she's lived so many places.
• 17:08
  unknown: Yeah.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh, I'm I'm kind of with Ash on on this where get some teams on here, like maybe you know, the individual Freshly leaders, but the entirety of the Freshly team to like check up on them and see how they're doing, but like you know, in a more chill way.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um but yeah, so something like that, and maybe um Adam Harvey would probably be a good one, I think.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: Him or Andrew Peel.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_04: Get some of our quieter boys in here and make them talk.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_04: Well, Matt Price is just laying down the great segues uh tonight.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_04: The next episode will be with all the freshly leaders, um, including Griffin Webb, but we'll have to bring him back for uh uh he is the only Freshly Leader who has not done a Humans Wesley episode yet, so we'll definitely have to get him in the studio sometime.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_04: So thanks for uh joining me.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_04: I'm looking forward to working with all of you guys on the podcast this year.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_04: Um, do you have any questions for me about me or the podcast before we head out?
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_02: Um well, would you ever be interested in being interviewed?
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_02: You know, uh some one of us could probably take over your role and then have you be a humans of Wesley.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: Bryn, if you watched the Humans of Wesley, you know he interviewed himself.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: Lauren.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_04: The very leader.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_04: The very first episode was me interviewing myself somewhat sillily.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_04: Um but I I would, I guess, maybe I'll add in like this a questions for Bailey segment at the end of every episode.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_04: I don't want you to get too tired of hearing me talk um because you're gonna be hearing me a lot.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_04: But maybe a little a little dose of Bailey every time won't be too bad.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I like that.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks for joining me.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks for having us.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks for having us, man.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for having us.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_04: The Wesley Word is a production of the Clemson Wesley Foundation.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_04: For more information about Clemson Wesley, check out our website or follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_04: Until next time, get out there and love your neighbor.