Welcome to Motivational Minute with Riley! The topic of this episode is consumerism. Thoughts and opinions from Riley. As always, Motivational Minute is separated into three segments. Segment one focused on Nia Berkeley’s article “Do You Love Yourself Or Is It Just Consumerism?” relating modern-day consumerism to “self-care”. Segment two consisted of an interview with Carmel High School AP Macroeconomics teacher Michelle Foutz, who gave professional insight into economics and consumerism. Finally, in segment three, host Riley Alderman gave her unprofessional opinion on everything from consumerism in the media to its projected development with the emergence of influences. This episode was sprinkled with consumer-related classics like “ Spend It” by Summer Walker and “ Common People” by Pulp. Unfortunately the stations logger was down during this episode, but don’t miss future live broadcasts on 91.3 WHJE Carmel, airing Mondays at 7:45 a.m. ET.
Motivational Minute: Consumerism. Thoughts and Opinions from Riley.
Riley Alderman is a senior at Carmel High School and a fourth-year radio student at WHJE. She is the 25-26 staff year Website Manager in addition to being an on-air host. Currently, she is the host of Motivational Minute, a talk show where Riley specializes in providing unprofessional advice. You can tune in to Motivational Minute on Monday mornings at 7:45 a.m. Outside of the station, Riley enjoys student government where she represents the class of 2026 as a senator, an executive dance marathon member, and a member of the Superintendent Principal Advisory Council. Riley’s passion is non-profit work, specifically with Twisted Pink to raise funds for metastatic breast cancer. You can check out some of her non-profit projects on Instagram via @beyondthecureinitiative and @jennysjourneychs. Riley is always up to something, whether it’s being the captain of Unified Sports, reading a classic novel, or simply surviving senior year.