RISE With Myers Mentzer: Resilient Leadership

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