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Author and coach Mary Elizabeth Murphy explains the RESET Your Buttons model, a practical approach to managing emotional triggers, improving communication, and building stronger personal and professional relationships.

Ep. 37 - How do you react when someone pushes your buttons?  This week’s guest, author and coach, Mary Elizabeth Murphy, shares her Reset Your Buttons model to help us identify what is happening and how to respond appropriately in the moment.  

Mary Elizabeth discusses each piece of the RESET model, helps us understand our personal triggers, how we can apply the RESET model and why her mission is to help people develop the introspection to respond in a way that helps us develop stronger personal and professional relationships.

The uncertainty of the last few years may have taken a toll on you, your loved ones and colleagues so don’t miss this episode!

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Tick and Lyme disease specialist Brian Anderson explains tick prevention, tick bites, DEET versus permethrin, pet safety, and practical ways to reduce the risk of Lyme disease while enjoying the outdoors.

Ep. 36 - This week’s guest, Brian Anderson, is the only full-time Tick and Lyme Disease Specialist in the US.  After seeing the devastating effects of Lyme disease, Brian has devoted several years to educating outdoor enthusiasts and outdoor workers on how to protect themselves from these little blood-sucking critters.

Brian shares with us how and why he took this path, the life cycle of ticks and what to watch out for, what to do if you get bit, the difference between DEET and Permethrin to ensure you are keeping yourself, your pets and your loved ones safe while enjoying the outdoors.  Brian’s passion for educating people on Lyme disease prevention and tick safety is evident through the stories he shares, the humor he injects into the conversation and clearly represents why he’s known across the country as The Tick Terminator!

Listen in to our lively conversation with Brian and yes, Maureen and Helen itched through the entire discussion!

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Ep. 6 - The Graphic Novelist Conversation - Emma Halloran

Ep. 14 - The Film Blogger Conversation - Rua Fay

Ep. 13 - The Ghost Tour Manager Conversation - Christy Parrish

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Full-time travel coach and bestselling author Heather Markel shares how she left corporate life to travel the world, prepare financially, avoid common travel scams, and embrace solo female travel after 40.

Have you ever wanted to just pack your bags and go wander around the globe?  This week’s guest, New York Times Best Selling Author and professional traveler, Heather Markel, left the safety and security of her corporate gig and did just that!  

Heather shares how she prepared herself, financially and emotionally, to make the leap into exploring the unknown; what she’s learned about herself and others through her travels and why she advocates for folks over 40 to do the same, even if it's for the short term.  Being a solo, female traveler, Heather also shares safety tips for overseas travel and resources to help ensure travel scams are avoided.

Through her learning process, Heather has now become an inspiration and a resource for others who aspire to live and explore a nomadic lifestyle, whether it's for a short term or a long term adventure.

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Jaimie Sherling shares an unforgettable story of surviving cancer, finding support in the Madison drag community, becoming an entrepreneur, and writing a memoir about resilience, identity, and choosing joy through adversity.

Adversity can make you bitter or you can choose to let it make you better.  This week’s guest, Jaimie Shearling, has chosen to make lemonade out of the lemons life has given and she’s added a splash of vodka!

She’s a cancer warrior-turned-entrepreneur helping her sister-breast cancer survivors, she has found acceptance and emotional support through her friends in the Madison Wisconsin drag community and has chronicled her journey of leaning into adversity and coming out stronger with her memoir, “From Queens to Queens:  How the Madison Drag Community Saved My Life”.

Truly an inspiration for anyone handling a rough time, regardless of the circumstances!

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You Do You Sweets Clothing Line

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Community educator Bonnie Jean Kuras discusses childhood trauma, family support, school partnerships, and how educators and community organizations can help children heal and thrive.

Bonnie Jean Kuras, has always had a passion for helping children.  Throughout her career she’s been an educator and school administrator, seeing and experiencing more than what goes on in the classroom and on the playground.  

The behind-the-scenes stressors began to affect her and those around her yet, thanks to a fateful conversation and a hard truth shared by her husband, Bonnie found a path to continue making a difference by helping children and their families deal with and recover from the effects of trauma.

The important work she does as a community educator reaches beyond the children and their families and involves schools, law enforcement, caregivers, coaches, clergy and more.  She educates on the behaviors that are associated with the effects of child abuse and neglect to empower communities to spot and advocate on behalf of the children.

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The Tedi Bear Children's Advocacy Center

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Home baker Christine Crisatelli shares nearly three decades of cake decorating experience, creative baking techniques, memorable celebrity desserts, and the rewards of turning a lifelong baking passion into a successful side business.

Home Baker, Christine Crisatelli, has been at her passion and side hustle for 29 years!  Although she had a dream to own her own bakery, she is no less satisfied with continuing to pursue her baking passion from the comfort of her own kitchen.  Her love of baking and the challenges of learning new decorating techniques to keep up with current baking trends are what have kept her motivated and inspired through the years.

She freely shares her passion with others which has led to some very unique opportunities like making Jon Bon Jovi his dessert after a show she attended and even getting advice on how to temper chocolate from the White House pastry chef!  

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Wilton - sign up for online classes, see the latest baking trends, buy baking tools/supplies

Wilton Cake Decorating YouTube Channel - basic techniques to kick up your decorating 

Tempering Couverture Chocolate - 3 ways to temper this high end chocolate

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Actor, writer, director, and producer Meirav Zur explains how humor helped her cope with infertility and inspired Inconceivable, her candid one-woman comedy about fertility treatments, relationships, and feeling less alone.

How do you cope with uncomfortable or stressful situations?  This week’s guest actor-writer-director-producer, Meirav Zur shares one of her coping mechanisms:  HUMOR.  When faced with infertility issues and struggling to talk about and share her experiences, she invited her close friends over for a night of “Wine and Hormones” and acted out what she was going through.  To her surprise, many of her friends were in similar situations and her impromptu performance opened the group up to talking and sharing a sense of relief that they were not alone.

Meirav went to work developing the stage show, “Inconceivable: The Totally True, One Woman, Semi Fertile Quasi Musical”.  Winner of the 2018 Best Interactive Show at the United Solo Theater Festival, her show has received rave reviews for getting discussions about infertility going.  Listen in as Meirav shares her first “producing gig”, why performing drives her, how she wears many hats being a one-woman show and what her plans are for continuing the journey!

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Massage Therapist, Christine Girouard, joins us this week to share why she’s passionate about helping others relax, de-stress or recover from injuries.  Through our discussion, Christine shares the benefits of massage, defines different massage techniques and identifies the time you should hold off booking a massage.

Additionally, she shares how she got started in the field, tips for helping your muscles recover, what her next area of focus will be to continue helping clients and her plans for continuing to provide care and comfort to others when her massage days come to a close.  Christine’s passion for providing the proper care to ensure relaxation and overall wellness shines throughout our entire conversation!

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Spatique Day Spa

Using a Foam Roller for Muscle Recovery

Compassionate Touch for Elders Article

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Custom wood carver Tiffany Marchand discusses wood carving, creative entrepreneurship, pricing handmade work, the maker community, and how she built Night Carver Designs while balancing work and family.

Ep. 29 - The Custom Wood Carver Conversation

This week’s guest, Tiffany Marchand, has turned a lifelong fascination with wood carving and design into a unique business, Night Carver Designs.  Her passion for her craft is only surpassed by her energy and innovation in continuing to explore ways for sharing her skills, knowledge and creations.

Join us to hear how Tiffany has practiced her craft, gives back to the “maker community” and how she has landed a hosting gig for Workbench Con!  She works a full time job, is a busy mom of two, a small business owner and custom wood carver, a podcast host and a social media presence to fellow wood carvers - this powerhouse accomplishes more by 9:00am than most, so get ready to be inspired!

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Night Carver Designs

Behind the Maker Podcast with Nickole Davis and Tiff Marchand

Behind the Maker Podcast on Instagram

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Trivia host Brian Kintz reveals how bar trivia works, what makes a winning trivia team, how professional game hosts prepare, and why live trivia remains such a popular social experience.

Brian Kintz, Stump Trivia Game Host, joins us this week and shares how he has lived out his passion for trivia which has shaped his path to becoming a popular trivia game host over the years.  Listen in to hear how an unexpected opportunity found on Craig’s List was the first step in Brian becoming a weekly trivia host at bars and restaurants, plus emceeing corporate trivia events. 

We have a lot of laughs as Brian tells us how to assemble a winning trivia team, what goes into being a top notch trivia host, why he’s so passionate about what he does and he shares some funny moments he’s experienced while hosting games and announcing team standings!  We wrap up this week’s episode with Brian hosting a competitive mini-round of trivia where Maureen and Helen go head-to-head….who will win? 

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Sporcle Trivia - The world’s largest trivia site

Sporcle Live - Find a local game, Compete on Zoom, Schedule an event, Become a Host

The Cottage Bar - Join Brian every Wednesday at 7:00PM at the #bestweepub for Stump Trivia!

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