In Her Words

Kim Matone first opened up publicly about her own mental health struggles on this very podcast.

Her personal story helped her and many others as she becomes an ambassador for Mental Health America and sound practices in mental wellbeing.

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Roshanda Pratt believes VISIBILITY doesn’t just happen - but it can be taught. And she’s just the one to teach it! 
Since our conversation (masked, during COVID) she’s taken off like a big ole ROCKET, teaching courses on LINKEDIN and online helping all kinds of women step into their power and use their real voices to change our world for the better. 
I worked with Roshanda back in the day at WCNC-TV and I’m proud to call her a friend. Coincidentally she helped me to develop and launch this very podcast as a consulting producer. THANK YOU RO! 

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LeAnne Feliciano has taken women on shamanic journeys to discover their sacred connections to spirit guides.

It’s every bit as wild and mystical as you might expect.

When a podcast starts with a prayer to the Universe, we’re in for a wild ride!

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I’m tremendously grateful to have worked with Allison Andrews on national award winning investigative reporting in my career in TV news. Then she was my go-to developmental producer who strongly encouraged (bitch slapped) me into starting this podcast almost five YEARS ago! 
Now she’s encouraging me to strategize and REBOOT this whole “man listening” thing - especially when I get down and just want to either mail it in or quit. She won’t have it. THANK YOU ALLISON!!! 
This is a repeat episode TBH but it’s worth repeating! 

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I admire Susan Andersen so much for creating ANSWER Scholarships to send dozens and dozens of young Moms back to college to graduate into higher paying vocations where they can make better use of their talents and earn significantly higher incomes over the course of a career. 
Often Susan finds a “Halo Effect” in the lives of the next generation of school kids who witness first hand what is possible through hard work and focus on a goal. 
I have personally donated to this cause and strongly endorse Susan’s work. 

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My long time friend and colleague Nancy Amons is being inducted into the Silver Circle by the Nashville (Mid-Atlantic) Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), the folks who bring you the EMMYS! 
Nancy is one of the greatest investigative reporters in the U.S. - not just the South, not just on TV, but in any medium. I admire her and I respect her and I congratulate her on a stellar career serving the people of Tennessee and our nation. Richly deserved! CONGRATS NANCY! 

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More than five years ago Nayla came to my 60th birthday party, an intimate dinner prepared by my favorite chef, my lovely wife.

I didn’t know her story. But no sooner than I pulled up a chair and began listening, I was inspired by the grit and work ethic of this lovely woman.

Not to mention her HUGE heart !

Nayla and her husband Dr. Carlos Rish own and operate Centro Medico Latino here in Charlotte, NC and along with their staff serve well over 50,000 patients, most of them immigrants.

That’s why her own story of becoming an American citizen and entrepreneur is so compelling.

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Kathleen Johnston is a world class investigative journalist who has worked for CNN and CBS. In this season of her life she acts as teacher, mentor, coach and example of what is right and noble about the calling of journalism at Indiana University. I’m proud to call her not just a colleague but a friend. 
Note this episode was recorded some five years ago in 2019 in Houston TX so before COVID and before the 2020 election and the subsequent attacks undermining democratic values in the US and around the free world. So while some of this will be dated, her commitment to democracy stands. 

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Lauren Strassner Russell is my FRICKIN HERO. She ain’t no “girl boss.” She is a BOSS WOMAN. The woman launched a US MADE Furniture company that did not just survive The Great Recession AND Covid and the ensuing economic woes. She. Has. THRIVED. Want to know her secrets? Mystical Manifesting, Synchronicity (Timing) plus a grinding work ethic that starts at 4AM and rarely takes a day off. Thank God she took time to talk to me. You will be the beneficiary. 

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As Fate (God? The Universe? Blind Luck?) would have it, I was destined to meet Lynn Murray Chavarria who just happened to hitch a ride with her old friend Mike Waterman when he picked me up at the Sanford/Orlando Airport on Saturday. 
Turns out she has quite the stories of her dad Bill Murray and how he developed an entire Christmas Tree Industry in the Deep South. 
So I hit the red RECORD button on my iPhone and YOU dear listener are the beneficiary of all the generations of lore from this amazing person! 

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