The NetVUE Podcast
With episodes released every month, NetVUE’s podcast continues to provide new invitations into the discussion of vocational exploration with college students. Read below for brief descriptions of the latest episodes and find links to listen to each episode in full.
Vocational Advice for Undergraduates: Season 6 Highlights
Released August 17, 2026
At the end of every summer, Callings releases a highlights episode, which features excerpts from conversations that aired during the previous season. The highlights episode of season six is now available. In these clips, guests offer advice for today’s students and for anyone who teaches or mentors young adults. Listeners will hear insightful and interesting advice from Lee C. Camp, Michael Lamb, Willie James Jennings, Maria LaMonaca Wisdom, Barbara Brown Taylor, Angela Duckworth, Carlo Rotella, Anna Bonta Moreland, Jessica Riddell, and Almeda M. Wright.
Teaching to Live | Almeda M. Wright
Released June 4, 2026
This is a special episode of Callings for more than one reason. First, it represents the podcast’s first experiment with recording an episode in front of a live audience; it was taped at the 2026 NetVUE Conference in Kansas City. Second, it features Almeda M. Wright, who is associate professor of religious education at Yale Divinity School and the author of Teaching to Live: Black Religion, Activist-Educators and Radical Social Change. In this conversation, Wright talks about her academic and spiritual mentors, educational exemplars from American history, and her deep passion for teaching, student formation, and activism. The conversation is followed by meaningful comments and reflections from audience members who were present when the episode was recorded.
Hope Circuits | Jessica Riddell
Released May 13, 2026
Jessica Riddell is committed to cultivating hope in higher education. Her book, Hope Circuits: Rewiring Universities and Other Systems for Human Flourishing, offers innovative tools for educators that include stories of luminaries and a reconsideration of the assumptions with which we often operate. As such, Riddell helps us come to a clearer understanding of systems of governance, leadership, and institutional culture so that everyone in the university can flourish. In this episode, Riddell describes her own process of discovery and exploration that makes the book both a “love letter” to higher education and a challenge to reimagine our callings to support necessary change. Her goal is to move us from “nope” to “hope,” and encourage us to imagine renewal as a kind of rewiring rather than demolition.
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