By Mike Samuelson
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The podcast currently has 35 episodes available.
Adriane shares the story of how her experience as a Canadian teen in Japan led to a life of bringing together exchange students from across the world with host families here in the US.
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Adriane Wagoner's experience with international exchange goes back nearly 30 years, when she left her native Canada as a high school student to study abroad in Japan for a year. For the last 18 years, she has worked professionally in student exchange. Over the years, she has come to know the ins and outs of international exchange and all it has to offer for everyone involved. She has also personally hosted a dozen or so students during that time. She enjoys serving the students, host families, and area representatives.
Adriane is a Special Project Manager for ASSE International, Inc. ASSE is designated as an Exchange Visitor Program by the US Department of State, and maintains 38 offices in 31 countries where it accommodates more than 30,000 high school age students and host families in its programs in participating countries.
Find out more about hosting an exchange student at host.asse.com, or connect with Adriane directly on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriane-wagner
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Armed with a refuse to lose sprit, the flexibility of Gumby, and some wise words from her father, Dee has raced to the top of several high performance organizations, including a stint leading revolutionary work at NASCAR. She shares her story.
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Dee Jetton is the Chief Operations Officer for K2 Scientific, a medical refrigeration and cold-storage solution provider for the life science industry. The company has doubled its revenue year over year for the past 3 years and is one of Charlotte, NC's top 50 fastest growing companies for 2021. The company's mission is to disintermediate the life science cold storage market by selling directly to the end-user via e-Commerce avoiding traditional distribution channels.
Helping break barriers is a theme in Dee's 30+ year career. She founded Health & Sport Works, Inc in 1989. Starting as a sole proprietor, she, an exercise physiologist by training, was Charlotte's first official personal trainer. By 1991 her company had grown to more than a dozen trainers and became the first company to introduce health and fitness services to NASCAR drivers and their pit crews. Training the likes of Dale Earnhardt, Alan Kulwicki, Mark Martin, she and her team laid the groundwork for NASCAR'S transformation to a big-league, professional approach to health and fitness for drivers and over the wall crew members. Over the next 23 years, her company grew to more than 300 employees, and services expanded to broad scope wellness services to individuals, major industry, and government entities in multiple states.
Dee is a mother of two young men, 21 and 23, She is an active mentor to young professionals, and a member of the National COO Forum. She also sits on the board of the Frankie Mae Foundation., Having cared for aging parents, the foundation's mission is near and dear to her heart.
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You can connect to Dee through LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dee-jetton-6500a928
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Tammy tells her story of a life in aviation, from becoming a private pilot to being employee of multiple airlines, from ultra luxury to ultra-low cost.
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Tammy O'Neill describes herself as an aviation enthusiast, world traveler and music appreciator.
She took her first flight with her father at age 11, and decided to join her many family members in aviation, purposely earning her private pilots license before her driver’s license.
After completing college, she moved to Los Angeles and applied to all the major airlines at LAX, in person at each airline’s ticket counter.
She received multiple offers with several major mainline carriers and accepted her first offer, from TWA. But, a few days later she received a letter from Braniff Airways offering flight attendant training with an earlier start date. So, she eagerly chose Braniff Airways and has since loved every moment of her aviation life, having flown "around the world with Braniff". Along the way, she was fortunate to have worked and flown Concorde many times.
Tammy can be reached on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn as @TammyO'Neill
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Gina shares her journey of being a woman on the move. She's been taking calculated risks her whole life that have paid off in personal and career success.
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Gina Smith has worked for top international companies in the disciplines of Human Resources, Operations, Sales and Sales Leadership. Along the way, she decided to change her story from draining stress and dysfunction to one of wholeness by first taking care of her body and restoring health, then by enriching her mind and by paying attention to her spirit. Heading toward her transition from the corporate world to the life of an entrepreneur, Gina is a certified Health & Wellness Coach and Master Transformational Coach. Gina's purpose is to help people discover they have choice and can create the lives they want. She's a leader, teacher, athlete and long term risk taker. You can follow and contact Gina on Facebook at https://facebook.com/gina.smith.963.
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Funk Game Loop by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3787-funk-game-loop
Acid Trumpet by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3340-acid-trumpet
Roll The Intro by Alexander Nakarada - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4793-roll-the-intro
Loopster by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4991-loopster
Total Happy Up And Sunny by Sascha Ende® - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/555-total-happy-up-and-sunny
Summer by Liron - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6907-summer
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What does it take to be creative? Well, according to Art, acknowledging you already are, and he is on a mission to bring out the creative in all of us.
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Art Henson lives by the mantra, "Creativity is Life." He began his creative journey as a curious kid who built robots, doodled in class, and wrote fantastical stories. He followed his passion for creativity into advertising, where he freelanced and then opened a strategic marketing agency in Portland, Maine. Art has worked to solve marketing challenges for clients in a broad range of industries such as government, technology, higher education, retail, manufacturing, and even organic bison farming.
One of Art's most interesting entrepreneurial ventures was starting a small manufacturing company, serving the under-bridge utility industry. He created a more affordable fiberglass product that shields pipes from the wear and tear of the hanger systems. He designed and built his machines and hired his teenage kids to work with him on the production line. The shields, purchased by one of the largest subcontractors in the industry, can be found under bridges in Miami, Charlotte, Atlanta, and other cities around the country. Currently, Art is the CMO for K2 Scientific where he has the challenging task of marketing vaccine refrigerators and freezers during a pandemic. Since joining the K2 Scientific team, the company has seen over 330% growth.
Art keeps his creative juices flowing in his spare time by volunteering with Innovate Charlotte and working on his first book - all about the creative process. He loves the outdoors, is an avid kayaker, photographer, mountain biker, runner, occasional fashion model, and has two other written works in progress.
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Take Art's creativity survey or experience some of his work through his website, arthenson.com, and if you want to see some to those body paint pictures, look for jessicabstract on instagram.
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Music used in this episode supplied by filmmusic.io under standard license (https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)
Funk Game Loop by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3787-funk-game-loop
Acid Trumpet by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3340-acid-trumpet
Roll The Intro by Alexander Nakarada - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4793-roll-the-intro
Loopster by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4991-loopster
Total Happy Up And Sunny by Sascha Ende® - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/555-total-happy-up-and-sunny
Summer by Liron - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6907-summer
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Julie shares a moving story of navigating through life as the mother of children with special needs, including one who is profoundly disabled, all while experiencing incredible love and loss, but never failing to stay strong for the entire family.
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Julie Callahan is a widowed mother of 3. Her son suffers from Severe Autism that includes self-injurious and aggressive behaviors. His need for health and safety has taken the family on a heartbreaking journey. When government agencies are involved in your child’s health there are endless amounts of red tape, rules and headaches involved. This story is follows Julies efforts to be a mother to her family and her work to not only help her son but children like him. Despite the tragedies that have fallen on her family, they work hard to move forward and look forward to a bright future. Julie’s goal as with all mothers is for her children to be healthy, happy and independent.
Julie recommends the following resources:
Find out more about OhioRISE, which Julie discusses in her story at https://managedcare.medicaid.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/manc/managed-care/ohiorise/ohiorise or https://www.communitysolutions.com/research/what-is-ohiorise/
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Learn more about Autism from Autism Speaks: https://www.autismspeaks.org/autism-statistics-asd
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Michael shares his incredible journey from working in professional motorsports as a driver and team manager, to meeting and marrying his wife, who was a drag racer, to opening a coffee shop, to eventually helping lead an international non-profit.
Michael Rowley was born in Columbus, Ohio and graduated from Capital University. Michael has three children; Olivia, Isaac, and Asher and is married to Marcy. He brings a very diverse business background to the Significance of One including his involvement in professional motorsports and his current position as a project manager at The Ohio State University. While working in motorsports Michael found a passion for travel and meeting and working with people from different cultures. Many years later, after his wife talked him into going on a mission trip to Haiti, his old passion was brought back to life. Through the relationships he established on these trips, his love for Jesus, his passion for education and his love of kids lead to the formation of a child sponsorship program through the Significance of One with his wife Marcy.
Find out more about The Significance Of One's efforts in Haiti, along with initiatives here in the United States at www.significanceofone.org, or visit their facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/onewillingheart, because one willing heart can make a difference.
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Cassandra gives us a window into her world as an intervention specialist in a school specializing in educating students with autism. She shares how she enthusiastically takes on the challenge of getting to know the students and while using her intuition and musical talent to help that effort. And later, she invites us to experience her latest obsession, water color painting.
Cassandra Hoagland has been a special education teacher for over 25 years. She started her career teaching gang kids in Sacramento, and for most of her career, has taught the more severe and profound students. She has been lucky to work with some outstanding teachers and outstanding paraprofessionals or classroom teaching aids.
She is passionate and expressive and "not really able to hold in my emotions or my facial expressions" which has quite possibly made her a better teacher. She is the proud mother of Shannon who is 25, Robbie he was 20 and in his second year of college, and Thomas he was 18 in a high school senior.
She discovered a passion for painting less than a year ago, which almost equals her passion for singing, and she always tries to be positive and good because it is far easier than being nasty.
If you would like to see some of Cassandra's paintings, visit the Hear It Share It Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/HearItShareIt/. If you are interested in requesting one be made custom for you, feel free to reach out to Cassandra at [email protected].
If you would like to know more about the adventures of being a parent raising a child with a disability, Cassandra recommends Robert Hudson's Blog Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords, available at https://belovedmonsterandme.blogspot.com/
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Bhuwan shares a heartbreaking story of rejection and refugee for no good reason, followed by the heartwarming story of a community's resilience ultimately leading to opportunity in a new home half way across the world.
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The podcast currently has 35 episodes available.