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March 25, 2025

Season 2025: Episode 4. How Kristine Homann healed her life and her f…

Go ahead and text me! Kristine Homann has been through a lot. Stuck in a toxic marriage, she tried hard to find a way out. Eventually, she was able to free herself and her girls from the situation. But the scars it left were ...

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March 9, 2025

Season 2025 Episode 3. Diagnosed with a pituitary disease, Risa deci…

Go ahead and text me! Risa August is not your average human. When faced with a devastating pituitary disease diagnosis, she pushed through to find herself again. One of the things she did was participate in a bike ride from ...

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Feb. 24, 2025

Season 2025 Episode 1: Let Sean McMann teach you how to bust out of t…

Go ahead and text me! Recruited right out of college to work at one of the largest data firms, Sean McMann embarked on an eight-year journey from new grad to consulting director. Privileged to see behind the curtain of some o...

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Feb. 23, 2025

Season 2025: Episode 3. Nonprofit worker Matt Kazdan explains how acc…

Go ahead and text me! With a Master's degree in international affairs with a focus on international politics, Matt Kazdan could have headed to a think tank or Washington DC. But he chose instead to use his skills in policy-ma...

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Feb. 16, 2025

Season 2025 Episode 1: Let Sean McMann teach you how to bust out of t…

Go ahead and text me! Recruited right out of college to work at one of the largest data firms, Sean McMann embarked on an eight-year journey from new grad to consulting director. Privileged to see behind the curtain of some o...

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Feb. 13, 2025

Season 2025 Episode 1: Let Sean McMann teach you how to bust out of t…

Go ahead and text me! Recruited right out of college to work at one of the largest data firms, Sean McMann embarked on an eight-year journey from new grad to consulting director. Privileged to see behind the curtain of some o...

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Dec. 24, 2024

Season 5. Episode 8. Larry Jordan: From successful investment banker …

Go ahead and text me! Larry Jordan spent 25 years in investment banking, assisting companies, governments, and non-profit agencies in issuing over $10 billion of municipal bonds for capital projects and cash flows. In 2011, h...

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Oct. 28, 2024

Season 5. Episode 7. Ten Words to Explore and Live By with Lauryn Axe…

Go ahead and text me! When Lauren first starts talking about her Ten Words, they sound simple enough: Attention, Acceptance, Benevolence, Creativity, e.g. -- but as you ponder them, they start to lead you down a path of self-...

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Oct. 18, 2024

Season 5. Episode 7. Heart Transplant Recipient Jay Waddell's journey…

Go ahead and text me! Jay Waddell is a retired executive, college professor, and life coach. who has fought several health battles in his life, the last one was heart failure and he had to get a heart transplant! He explains ...

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Oct. 1, 2024

Season 5. Episode 6. Anika Pavel: From Iron Curtain Childhood to Inte…

Go ahead and text me! ANIKA PAVEL was born Jarmila Kocvarova in Czechoslovakia. What was intended as a one-year stay in England turned her into a refugee when the Soviet Union invaded her homeland, writing a bloody end to the...

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Sept. 8, 2024

Season 5: Episode 5 -- Jan Allen Ackley: From Appalachia to successfu…

Go ahead and text me! Jan Allen Ackley, author of "Searching for Change," shares his journey from growing up in impoverished rural Ohio to becoming a successful corporate finance executive. He highlights the impact of mentors...

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Aug. 14, 2024

Season 5. Episode 4. How Anabel Tonkovic left a corporate career and …

Go ahead and text me! Anabel's journey is a fascinating one. She left a successful career in corporate communications to pursue a career in energy healing using tools like Reiki, astrology, and sound. On the way, she reconnec...

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June 30, 2024

Season 5. Episode 3 Whitney Ellis talks about being a money life coac…

Go ahead and text me! Whitney and I met in person at a networking group event and I just liked her and her spirit right away. She has a fascinating story about making a major career change after 12 years as a very successful ...

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June 21, 2024

Special Solo Episode: Who were you at 8 years old? Is it time to brin…

Go ahead and text me! One of my favorite exercises in the Cathy Heller Zoom meetings leading up to her Podcasting class that I took was she asked us all a question: "Who were you when you were 8 years old?" There were many c...

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June 20, 2024

Season 5. Episode 2. How logical ex-lawyer Kristen Swinehart became "…

Go ahead and text me! She is an attorney. She worked in NYC booking comedians. She tried a bunch of things and ended up discovering that she is actually a medium. And she is a flight attendant, hence "The Flying Medium." Rece...

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May 31, 2024

Season 5. Ep 1:Therese "Tee" Forton-Barnes teaches us easy ways to de…

Go ahead and text me! Therese is a Healthy Home Advocate with Cancer Prevention in Mind; owner of The Green Living Gurus, LLC and Tee’s Organics. Podcast Host of Green Living with Tee. She helps people make the switch from ha...

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May 15, 2024

Season 5: Solo episode -- On banning books (facing people's fears)

Go ahead and text me! This is a short one, about a subject I have been involved in here locally in my state. I noticed when I was at recent Board of Ed meeting that both sides of the book banning argument were hostile, overly...

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May 9, 2024

Season 4.Episode 15.Greg Lawrence on the power of psychedelic integra…

Go ahead and text me! Greg Lawrence had experimented with psychedelics such as psilocybin before and had some great insights. But afterwards, he found that his behaviors did not change and the effects did not "stick." It wasn...

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April 16, 2024

Season 4. Episode 14: Renzo del Castillo: From Peru to America, a poe…

Go ahead and text me! Renzo's family was threatened when they lived in Peru by members of The Shining Path. Their lives were threatened repeatedly and even one of their nannies was found out to be a member of the terrorist or...

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April 1, 2024

Season 4. Episode 13: Susan Glenney: From Hospitality career to autho…

Go ahead and text me! Susan Glenney is a gentle soul whose story includes some horrific childhood trauma. She has made her way through that and teaches us a little about her methods in this interview. She started in the Hosp...

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March 18, 2024

Season 4. Episode 12 How Deece Casillas went from high paid consultan…

Go ahead and text me! Deece always loved comedy, in fact he would fake being asleep in the floor while his parents fell asleep on the couch so that he could stay up and watch comedy on TV. Growing up in a California neighbor...

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Feb. 26, 2024

Season 4. Episode 11 -- Meet Trent Brock-- 3 time cancer survivor-- h…

Go ahead and text me! Originally from the Deep South Louisiana, Trent considers himself a little rough-around-the-edges Southern gentleman! He’s a world traveler and small business international entrepreneur who introduced, ...

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Feb. 6, 2024

Season 4. Episode 10 James Guzzetta on sudden loss and how he complet…

Go ahead and text me! As a man who switched up his whole life and career, James Guzzetta has an interesting story to share. He had whole careers in IT and later running medical device companies (CEO of 2 of them), but a sudd...

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Jan. 25, 2024

Season 4. Episode 9. How Neurodivergent Spoken Word Artist Traci Neal…

Go ahead and text me! Talking with Spoken Word Artist Traci Neal is like breathing in a breath of fresh air. She is warm and full of energy. I listened to her spoken word poetry and it was the same, it pulses with a lifeforc...

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