Be. - A Loser Podcast

About Be. - A Loser Podcast

There are a lot of things that we can be in life. Ultimately, we should always try to be authentically ourselves. This is what this podcast aims to do

Publisher

Losers Unite

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 May 2020

Latest episode

2 Oct 2025

Latest episodes

49 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Oct 2025

   Build, don't break: Thriving in your career, thriving in your mind. A collab with Dr. S and Ntombi, WITS GRP Work Readiness Week 2025

   This talk is for everyone who is about to graduate and is contemplating their next career steps. In this episode, we explore the high-pressure world of graduate recruitment and the toll it can take on students’ mental health. With career goals, family expectations, and financial pressures weighing heavily, many students find themselves running on empty while trying to prove their worth. This conversation unpacks the real sources of career pressure, the hidden costs of burnout, and how stress impacts performance and well-being. More importantly, it offers a practical toolkit for thriving: cultivating self-awareness and adaptability, managing time and priorities, developing resilience, and embracing healthy daily habits that protect both career ambition and mental health. Whether you’re preparing for interviews, navigating job rejections, or setting long-term goals, this talk equips you with strategies to build balance—without breaking under pressure. Because success isn’t just about what you achieve. It’s about how well you sustain yourself while getting there.

2. 

   17 Sept 2025

   From Posters to Reels: Crafting Mental Health content that sticks. SAACDHE Workshop Audio

   In an era of endless scrolls, swipes, and algorithm-driven feeds, our messaging as student counselling units must evolve to meet students in the spaces they occupy. This interactive workshop equips student support professionals with the tools and frameworks to design multimedia content that captures attention, communicates key messages clearly, and encourages student help-seeking. Whether delivered through posters, reels, carousels, or flyers, content must now be more than visible—it must stick. This workshop draws on Richard Mayer’s Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (CTML), which offers a set of evidence-based principles that should help us communicate critical mental health information in ways that are accessible, emotionally resonant, and relevant for students. By applying CTML principles, namely, coherence (removing unnecessary detail), signalling (highlighting key ideas), segmenting (breaking content into manageable parts), and personalisation (using relatable tone and imagery), participants will learn how to create content that informs, engages, and empowers. The workshop is structured into four phases: 1.     Understanding the student mindset: exploring digital habits, stigma, and help-seeking barriers. 2.     The fantastic four: applying CTML to visual and verbal messaging strategies. 3.     Framework in action: presenting a step-by-step model for student-facing content creation. 4.     Create and collaborate: participants design mental health messages using accessible tools like Canva or mobile apps.

3. 

   16 Sept 2025

   Meta is always there: Rethinking Connection, Care, and Companionship in the Age of AI on South African Campuses SAACDHE conceptual paper presentation

   As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in the lives of university students, a growing number of young adults are turning to AI-driven platforms—such as Meta’s WhatsApp chatbot and ChatGPT—for companionship, emotional support, decision-making, and even therapeutic conversations. This conceptual paper explores this emerging trend through the ethics of care and an ubuntu-informed lens, reflecting on how it is reshaping the ways students navigate loneliness, care, and connection on campus. Drawing on literature, this paper examines the trends in how university-aged individuals use AI chatbots as a first line of emotional or psychological support. It also considers growing research on loneliness, disconnection, and the erosion of deep relational bonds among young people. From this literature, three key research questions emerge for further exploration: (1) Are AI platforms becoming substitutes for human care in environments where time and space for relationships are shrinking? (2) Does the anonymity and safety of AI discourage the vulnerability necessary for genuine human connection? (3) Are students experiencing emotional support while remaining relationally disconnected? Guided by Ubuntu Theory and the Ethics of Care, the paper argues that AI may offer convenience but cannot replicate the mutual responsibility, ethical accountability, and relational depth embedded in traditional care systems – family, friendship, and community. It cautions that the increasing personification of AI risks replacing the very human connections that Ubuntu compels us to nurture. The paper invites student support staff and mental health practitioners to reflect on how their services can evolve to remain relationally relevant while responding to digital shifts, without surrendering the communal principles that make healing possible.

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