{"id":8694,"date":"2020-03-02T18:36:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T23:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/13\/class-e-podcast-furman-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-launches-this-week\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:30:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:30:14","slug":"class-e-podcast-furman-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-launches-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/class-e-podcast-furman-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-launches-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"New podcast focused on innovation in the Furman community launches this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are\u00a0more than 700,000 active podcasts<\/a> in the world, but none are focused on innovation and entrepreneurial thinking in the Furman community. With the launch of the\u00a0Class E Podcast Tuesday, March 3, however, that won’t be the case for much longer.<\/p>\n

Hosted by Mary Sturgill, media specialist and instructor in the communication studies department<\/a>, and Anthony Herrera, executive director of Furman Innovation and Entrepreneurship<\/a>, the podcasts are a partnership between the communication studies department and Furman Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Recording began in the fall of 2019, and episodes feature a variety of guests talking about their business ventures and pathways.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of our challenges is telling the story of our alumni, of our community, of our students, of our partners, of our faculty. We have to do it faster, quicker, and in a medium that the audience wants to receive it in,\u201d Herrera said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s a podcast.\u201d<\/p>\n

Herrera himself, hired in 2018<\/a> to launch Furman Innovation and Entrepreneurship, is one of the guests during the eight-episode first season. Others include Kenneth Fields \u201998 and Johannes Mutzke of BlueInc Strategies<\/a>, Furman Associate Professor of Health Sciences Meghan Slining<\/a>, Furman Entrepreneur in Residence Derek Pederson, Furman Associate Professor of Art Ross McClain<\/a>, Furman Trustee John Yates of Morris, Manning & Martin<\/a>, Amy Moore \u201997, and Furman Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Science Suresh Muthnakrishnan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe focus on people who have some kind of connection to Furman, whether it\u2019s an alumni or a professor or a student or a parent,\u201d Sturgill said. \u201cAnd we have all of those people from those backgrounds as guests on the podcast this first season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though this will be her first stint hosting a podcast, Sturgill is an award-winning former television news reporter with plenty of experience conducting interviews.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a range of potential listeners \u2026. because we talk about not just entrepreneurs, business, things like that, but also about innovative thinking and what that entails and how you can actually become a more innovative thinker,\u201d she said. “Although we\u2019re grounded in the classics, we want our students to graduate and be digitally savvy,\u201d Sturgill said. \u201cWe want them to be able to tell stories on every digital platform, and this is one of those platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nick Curcio ’22, Rachel Page \u201922 and Harris Wellborn \u201921, all communication studies majors, were hired to professionally produce the podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know where I want my career to go, but I figured building skills is never a bad thing to do,\u201d Page, a native of Richmond, Virginia, said.<\/p>\n

The Class E Podcast will be available for download on most podcast platforms. It can also be listened to on the Furman Innovation and Entrepreneurship website by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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