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"Wake Women" is a podcast by and about the women of Wake Forest University. In each episode, fifth-generation alumna Mary Tribble (’82, MA ’19) sits down with a female Wake Forester who inspires her.
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- Aug 28, 2026
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Going Off Script with Mary Tribble '82 MA '19 and Ann Phelps: Final Episode (opens the original)
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This is it — the final episode of Wake Women. After two years, five seasons, and more than seventy conversations with extraordinary women connected to Wake Forest University, host Mary Tribble hands over the microphone for the last time. Her guest, Ann Phelps — director of programming for Wake Forest's Program for Leadership and Character — flips the script this time and she asks the questions. Ann and Mary have an intimate, wide-ranging conversation about the things that matter most at the end
What Makes a Wake Woman? Wonder (Bonus Episode) (opens the original)
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This is the fourth and final special guest tribute episode closing out the Wake Women podcast, which will air its series finale on August 28th, 2026. Each tribute explores a single question: What makes a Wake Woman? This episode's answer is Wonder — the discipline of staying curious, of refusing to assume you already have all the answers, of looking at the world with fresh eyes even when you have every excuse to stop. As Plato's dialogues suggest, bewilderment is not a sign of failure. It is the
Leadership & Character in our World Today with Agatha Graham '29, Carter Nesmith '29, and Ann Phelps, (opens the original)
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Leadership and character are two words that get batted around a lot nowadays — and increasingly, questioned. What does it actually mean to lead well, or to have character, in a world that feels more uncertain than ever? You've heard from academics, thought leaders, and seasoned professionals about leadership on this podcast. Today, we get to hear from two young women who are poised for the future — women who want to grab this world and make it theirs. This is our chance to hear from the leaders
What Makes A Wake Woman? Courage (Bonus Episode) (opens the original)
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This is the third of four special guest tribute episodes closing out the Wake Women podcast, which will air its series finale on August 28th. Each tribute explores a single question: What makes a Wake Woman? This episode's answer is Courage — not the absence of fear, but the decision to go anyway. To show up against impossible odds, to walk into rooms where no one looks like you, to stop hiding and be fully seen, to look unflinchingly at a painful history and claim it as your own. Six Wake Fores
Leadership, Character, and the Integrated Life with Ann Phelps (opens the original)
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Ann Phelps didn’t set out to run a character formation program at a major university — she set out to prove she could survive a cubicle job. A Nebraska native with a background in theology, the arts, and a decade as a professional musician, Ann arrived at Wake Forest in 2019 alongside her husband Kenneth Townsend and their mutual best friend Michael Lamb, the program’s founder, to help build something that didn’t yet exist: the Program for Leadership and Character. What started as a trio working
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