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The Pre-Made Podcast

The Pre-Made Podcast

Auteur(s): Matthew C Collins
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 In this podcast, you'll hear stories primarily from my Amherst College Class of 1994 classmates as we reflect on life 30+ years removed from graduation day. What have we been up to all these years? How has Amherst and a liberal arts education impacted our lives? What college memories have stayed with us? How are we thinking about the next 20 years? Art Divertissement et arts de la scène Sciences sociales
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  • Jessica Smith Sent Climate Instruments To The Edge Of Space. Now, She’s Reimagining Her Path.

    Jessica Smith Sent Climate Instruments To The Edge Of Space. Now, She’s Reimagining Her Path.
    Oct 23 2025
    Thirty years ago, a Boston Globe classified ad launched Jessica Smith into a career at Harvard, where she built bespoke instruments and launched them on NASA’s converted U-2 aircraft, flying at 70,000 feet to read the chemistry of our stratosphere. In this conversation, she traces the improbable path from Amherst’s machine shop to equipping these delicate high fliers for experiments over the Arctic winter, tracking ozone recovery, and measuring changes in and storm impacts. After a federally funded program cut led to a layoff in March, Jessica is candid about resilience, reinvention, and where that Amherst-honed knack for figuring things out might take her next: faculty life, lutherie (look it up), or starting a delightfully serious soft-serve ice cream business. Along the way, she reflects on a pivotal senior-year “academic blowout,” the joy of hands-on work, and what’s at stake when long-running climate data sets and training pipelines are disrupted. To get in touch with Jessica, email her at jessica.b.smith@hotmail.com or find her on LinkedIn.
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    47 min
  • Erin Cowhey Designs Spaces That Tell Her Clients’ Stories

    Erin Cowhey Designs Spaces That Tell Her Clients’ Stories
    Oct 16 2025
    Erin Cowhey is an Amherst College classmate and architect whose profession is awfully interesting its own right, but it interests me more than ever now that my daughter works as an interior designer. Erin runs her own firm in Brooklyn but wasn't always destined for the field. She enrolled at Amherst with every intention to go pre-med before pivoting to architecture. In this episode, she talks about how personal tragedy reshaped her career path and how she’s balanced running her own firm with raising a family in New York City. What emerges is a portrait of someone who designs homes with the same care she’s taken to designing a meaningful life. Highlights include: Pivot with purpose: Erin’s fascination with art and architecture led her to trade medicine for design. Resilience in loss: After losing her first child, she rebuilt her life and career by starting her own firm, prioritizing flexibility and family. Brooklyn life, fully lived: She reflects on the joys and contradictions of raising kids in the city she and her husband, a landscape architect, love so deeply. Design as storytelling: Erin views every project as a chapter in her clients’ lives: spaces that evolve as families grow and change. Looking ahead: With her children nearing college, Erin is eager to take on larger, collaborative projects and to keep exploring creativity on her own terms. Plus, Erin nominates two new guests to go next. To learn more about her practice and get in touch, email her at erincowhey@gmail.com or visit her website, erincowhey.com.
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    55 min
  • Brian Clark Heals Others – And Himself – From Trauma

    Brian Clark Heals Others – And Himself – From Trauma
    Oct 9 2025
    Brian Clark transferred into our Amherst Class of 1994 having emerged from a childhood marked by instability and deep family pain. Today he serves as Director of Partnerships in Technology at the Spiritual Life Center in Hartford, where he helps others find healing through faith, psychology, and honest self-examination. Brian talks about growing up in a home dominated by an abusive father, the moment he chose to break free from the cult his dad started, and what it means to be both a healer and still healing. We also talk about post-traumatic growth, the “second half of life,” and the role Amherst and music have played in his journey toward wholeness. In this episode, we discuss: How Brian’s relationship with his controlling, abusive father shaped his understanding of faith and identity The moment he chose to end generations of trauma and begin his own healing What post-traumatic growth looks like and how pain can lead to purpose Whom from the Class of '94 he wants me to interview next To get in touch, email Brian at bcurtisclark@gmail.com. You can learn more about the Spiritual Life Center in Hartford at https://www.spiritlifectr.org/ Additional resources: To learn more about spiritual companionship, click here. https://www.spiritlifectr.org/find-spiritual-support#IndividualSpiritualCompanioning To hear some simple recordings of the chants that Brian sings: https://audio.com/brian-clark-4
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    1 h
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