Welcome to our first of the failure stories this season. We're offering the chance to faculty and staff to tell their experiences with failure in higher education to make visible the experience and after-effects of failure. When students hear stories about those who are successful and understand that success is far more complex than it appears, they have the chance to gain perspective when they face failure.

Our first story is told by Public Speaking professor Elena Martinez-Vidal. She tells the story of a presentation she gave that fell far, far short of her own expectations of herself. And it was witnessed not only by the general attendance of the conference but by her advisor...and his PhD advisor. 

In this story, we'll do some thinking about the experience of failure in the moment and what it means to have failure witnessed by significant teachers in one's life. We'll also push forward and see what Elena made of this experience and how she thinks of it now, decades later. 

We also begin to appreciate the ethical ramifications of failure storytelling in our community.

Episode webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/iepod/s4-episode-3?authuser=0