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Face Your Fears

Liz Norell

Face Your Fears is a podcast that features courageous conversations about doing that thing that scares the hell out of you. Listen in for stories and conversations and see what fears come up...

Episodes

20 of 45 episodes

Episode 44: Introducing The Present Professor

In December 2024, my first book -- The Present Professor: Authenticity and Transformational Teaching -- was released. There's an audiobook o...

00:09:33Mar 29, 2025

Episode 43: Reading recap - Thomas King & Michael Lewis

I'm back with another installment of What Liz Has Been Reading Lately, featuring Thomas King's excellent book, The Inconvenient Indian: A Cu...

00:11:17Nov 29, 2021

Episode 42: Reading recap - Aubrey Gordon & Isabel Wilkerson

In this week's episode of What Did Liz Read This Week? I talk about Aubrey Gordon's book What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat and...

00:22:34Nov 7, 2021

Episode 41: Reading recap - Radical Candor (part 2) and Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

This week, I talk about key insights from the second half of Kim Scott's revised edition of Radical Candor: How to Be a Kick-Ass Boss Withou...

00:12:02Nov 1, 2021

Episode 40: Reading recap - Radical Candor by Kim Scott (part 1)

It's been a long time since my last episode, mostly because COVID sucks and my anxiety has been spiraling for a while. But I'm back! And sta...

00:16:42Oct 24, 2021

Episode 39: Covid Convos with Gaytha

This is the fifth in a special series of "covid convos" -- conversations with women about how they've been navigating the coronavirus over t...

00:25:46Jul 19, 2020

Episode 38: Covid Convos with Stephanie

This is the fourth in a special series of "covid convos" -- conversations with women about how they've been navigating the coronavirus over...

00:27:48Jul 9, 2020

Episode 37: Covid Convos - with Rachel L.

This is the third in a special series of "covid convos" -- conversations with women about how they've been navigating the coronavirus over t...

00:48:04Jun 14, 2020

Episode 36: Covid Convos - with Amanda R.

This is the second episode in a special series of "covid convos" -- conversations with women about how they've been navigating the coronavir...

00:42:58Jun 7, 2020

Episode 35: Covid Convos - with Katie Hall and Julie B.

Covid Convos with Katie S. Hall & Julie B. I'm kicking off a special series of "covid convos" -- conversations with women about how they've...

00:28:28Jun 4, 2020

Episode 34: Why Bother? with Jen Louden

What if one question could change your life? Author Jen Louden has been helping women care for themselves and achieve their creative goals f...

00:41:25Apr 8, 2020

BONUS: 35-minute yoga nidra practice with Sho Higuchi

Yogi Sho Higuchi (E-RYT) generously allowed me to share this 35-minute yoga nidra practice with you, in the hopes that it might bring you so...

00:35:07Mar 25, 2020

Episode 33: Where our students are at (*RAPID RESPONSE*)

As all of higher education, basically, prepares to move its operations online, our students are struggling with life challenges, anxiety, an...

00:31:51Mar 23, 2020

Episode 32: A few musings about Glennon Doyle, body image, control, love, cake, and why we need strong women

After seeing Glennon Doyle (and her wife, Abby Wambach) on book tour earlier this week, I wanted to share something that I can't stop mullin...

00:20:37Mar 13, 2020

Episode 31: A teaching rant

Chris Emdin says, "You can't teach who you don't love. You can't teach who you don't respect." I couldn't agree more. In this solo episode,...

00:28:08Jan 18, 2020

Episode 30: Mental Health Roundtable

Four women, including host Liz Norell, gather to discuss their different relationships to mental health. Topics discussed include depression...

01:08:28Jan 9, 2020

Episode 29: Mikaila shares her coming out story

A former student, Mikaila, stopped by to talk to me while she was home on her summer vacation. This conversation has stayed with me for ever...

00:51:24Oct 24, 2019

Episode 28: Will Trump be impeached? How can we create a more civil politics?

Joined by friends and fellow political junkies Scott Foster and David Mabry, we dive into the hottest topic around right now -- IMPEACHMENT...

00:34:12Oct 2, 2019

Episode 27: What Colin McCormick did on his summer "vacation"

Two former students, Colin McCormick and Itzel Garcia, were visiting just before classes started up again in August. I hustled them into a r...

00:41:45Oct 1, 2019

Episode 26: (Re-) Introducing the Liz Cast

Welcome to season 2 of my podcast, which I've renamed The Liz Cast. Why the change? Mostly because I wanted to widen the circle of topics I...

00:04:21Sep 24, 2019