In Her Words

A USA Today editorial said NFL cheerleading is against women and antifeminist. Don’t tell Michelle Chernicoff that. She’s a proud feminist who tried out 14 times (FOURTEEN) before cheering for two seasons for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. She’s worth hearing.

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Roshanda E. Pratt lights up a room. She lights up a TV. She lights up any video feed, Facebook, Instagram, you name it. She’s written a book about it! But that’s not what she talks about here. Here we talk about what matters most: family, faith and justice in a lonely, faithless, unjust world. Ro has hope. Just listen.

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Marnae Costa’s daughter Torie was a poster child for pediatric cancer research, runway model beautiful. She died on Christmas day 2015. “She was an extraordinary human,” Marnae recalls, giving honor to her daughter’s life and wisdom, all of it packed into just 20 years.

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Dr. Octavia Cannon kept track of her first 5,000 babies. After that she lost count. The veteran OB/GYN has delivered more than a village, more than a town and she’s up to a small city by now. But even if you don’t particularly like babies and childbirth grosses you out, it’s hard not to love her stories. Wow! Just listen.

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Bernadette Joy is not Dave Ramsey - but she did wipe out $300,000 in debt in two years. Bernadette started out in the DR camp, but she’s started her own business showing millennials, women and people of color how to crush student loan debt in particular because - news flash - not everyone can relate to Dave.

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Sofia is hopeful (after considering the alternative). Sofia is 20 years old. She is post-millennial. She is aware the world faces many challenges. And yet she is bubbly, engaged and overtly optimistic. She believes in making manifest her hopes, and as you’ll hear, she’s already on her way.

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Ramona Holloway is taking care of her aging mother. That’s in addition to her full time job as half of the radio team “Matt & Ramona” on 107.9 the Link in Charlotte. So who will take care of HER when she gets older? Her nephew. Even though she has no siblings. Wait. What? How can she have a nephew with no brothers or sisters??? Interesting story….

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After a decade on News Talk 1110 WBT radio and years more on the TV side and books like WORLD’S WORST DIABESTES MOM and a podcast DIABETES CONNECTION, you might think Stacey Simms is a known quantity. Not so, she says. In this episode, you’ll meet a leader who builds strong communities by connecting people who need each other to survive. 

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Nayla Bitar stood up to her father. When he passed her up for a place in the family business, she left him. And she left her native Ecuador. She bought two plane tickets on the spot. Destination: USA. That’s where she made her own way.

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Colleen Odegaard at NBC Charlotte was a real friend to Stuart when some former colleagues wouldn’t speak to him. And he’ll never forget it. Colleen talks racism, ethnicity, her heritage Vietnamese and Norwegian, and how faith helped her marriage.

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