Love Maine Radio with Dr. Lisa Belisle

Jessie Dowling is a cheesemaker whose company, Fuzzy Udder Creamery, is based in Whitefield. She is also president of the Maine Cheese Guild and has a master’s degree in food policy.

Sam May is advisory board chair at Maine Harvest Credit Project, an organization aiming to open a credit union supporting small farms and food businesses. Sam grew up in midcoast Maine, where he co-founded Smith and May in West Rockport and helped his brother start Peter Ott’s, a restaurant in Camden. After earning an MBA in international business, he worked in Silicon Valley as an equity research analyst and managing director at Piper Jaffray Companies covering technology stocks worldwide. In 2005, he moved to Hong Kong and helped Chinese companies navigate US capital markets until his return to Maine in 2011. Sam currently serves on the board of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), where he sits on the executive, finance, and fundraising committees. He also serves on the steering committee of Slow Money Maine.

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Mitchell Lench founded Treetops Capital in 2008 to help small businesses succeed. He runs Treetops Capital's fund management businesses in sustainable agriculture and aquaculture. Lench is also responsible for co-management of the Gawa Microfinance Fund, which invests in rural and agricultural-focused microfinance and financial institutions focused on small and medium enterprises across the developing world. Prior to founding Treetops Capital, he was managing director in the structured finance group at Bank of America's investment bank in London. He then joined Credit Suisse in New York where he ran global syndicate and a multi-billion dollar trading book. He earned a master’s degree from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a BS from the State University of New York at Binghamton. More recently, he served as an advisor at the 2015 Fish 2.0 conference in San Francisco, where he helped select and pool viable, impact-oriented seafood businesses for investors to consider for investment. He moved to Maine in 2010 and lives in Cape Elizabeth with his wife, two children, and their dog, Skylar.

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Lauren Wayne loves music. As general manager and talent buyer for Crobo, Wayne promotes over 260 concerts in Portland every year. Crobo owns and operates the State Theatre and Port City Music Hall, and the company is the exclusive, live-concert promoter for the new outdoor music venue at Thompson’s Point. Starting as the company’s only employee in 2010, she has grown the company to include eight full-time staff and over 150 part-time employees, and she oversaw the largest music festival ever in Portland (with Mumford and Sons on the Eastern Prom in 2012). She is based in Portland.

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Al Miller was born and raised in Battle Creek, Michigan. Twenty-one years later, he got his BA from Williams College and later his MA from the University of Michigan. He taught for eight years in Lebanon before he moved with his family to Maine, where he and his wife raised five children who are now trying to raise him. Since then he has been working with the Theater Project, which he founded a long time ago, and teaching workshops in various states, as well as in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

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With more than 30 years of classroom and public speaking experience, Laura Gauld has earned a national reputation as a top motivational speaker on parenting, family dynamics, and character education. She has been featured on PBS, in her own parenting series on NBC in Portland, and in numerous television shows, radio programs, and publications throughout the country. After serving as head of school since 2006, she began her tenure as president of Hyde School in January of 2018. With her husband, Malcolm, she is the co-author of the groundbreaking book The Biggest Job We’ll Ever Have (Scribner). Unlike other education books that focus on the child, The Biggest Job We’ll Ever Have focuses on a child’s primary teacher—the parent. Laura previously directed the family education curriculum for Hyde School. In addition to Laura’s experience as a teacher, administrator, and parenting coach, she has created national programs for families, including Family Workshops in the Wilderness, a family renewal program at Hyde’s 600-acre Black Wilderness Preserve in Eustis, Maine. She has also created The Biggest Job workshops offering practical ideas and experiences in an informal, interactive format. She lives in Bath with her family.

Malcolm Gauld is recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on character education and parenting. He has been president of Hyde School since 1998, and he recently became executive chairman. Hyde’s program of family-based character education has been featured on The Today Show, 60 Minutes, 20-20, PBS, among other programs. An educator for four decades, he is an unapologetic speaker and award-winning writer on the decline of effective parenting. He has published articles on topics about inspiring children to develop their character, why good teaching cannot overcompensate for bad parenting, and why cheating is rampant in America’s schools. He and his wife, Laura, addressed these challenges in their acclaimed book, The Biggest Job We’ll Ever Have (Scribner), a unique educational resource that focuses on a child’s primary teacher–the parent. In their book, and in The Biggest Job Workshops that emerged from it, the Gaulds' articulate ten core beliefs to parents that address how families can raise successful children of strong character in an achievement-at-any-cost culture. He lives in Bath with his family.

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Born and raised on a combination of big city attitude and Midwestern sensibility, Chicago native Shay Stewart-Bouley, also known as Black Girl in Maine (or BGIM), had to learn a bit of Yankee ingenuity when she relocated to Maine in 2002. After a brief foray into education, she brought her socially-minded work from Chicago, where she worked with the homeless, to Maine by working with low-income and at-risk youth in southern Maine. She is currently the executive director of Community Change Inc., a nearly 50-year-old anti-racism organization based in Boston that organizes and educates for racial equity with a specific focus on working with white people. Shay has been blogging since 2008, frequently on matters of social justice and systemic racism, through her Black Girl In Maine website and, in 2011, she won a New England Press Association Award for her writing on race and diversity for the Portland Phoenix. Her writing also has been featured in a variety of Maine and national publications as well as several anthologies. In November 2016, she gave a TEDx talk called “Inequity, Injustice... Infection.”  She is graduate of both DePaul University and Antioch University New England, and even though she works in Boston now, she is indeed still BGIM, continuing to reside in Maine.

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Landscape architect Todd Richardson is the owner of Richardson and Associates in Saco.

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Architect Rob Whitten founded Whitten Architects in 1986 and has specialized in New England residential design since 1990. Over the years, Whitten has deliberately kept the size of the firm small so that he can remain involved in every project the team takes on. He attended undergraduate school at Middlebury College in Vermont and graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. A member of the Portland Society for Architecture and the American Institute of Architects, he believes that a well-designed home should fit into its environment. He and his wife, Robin, enjoy walking tours in Italy; Rob illustrates and Robin writes a daily travel journal. Their son, Denney, is also an architect and works for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York City.

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Russ Doucette is the owner of Russ Doucette Custom Home Builders. He comes from a family of craftsmen and went to college at Northern Maine Vocational and Technical Institute in Presque Isle, Maine. After school, he worked for several construction companies in the Portland area.

The owner of Midcoast Home Designs in Wiscasset, Teresa Simpson was born and raised on the coast of Maine and has been an architectural designer since 1988. Her design projects include residential homes and remodels, small commercial projects, construction project management, and 3D renderings for clients including home owners, contractors, and other architectural firms. She started Midcoast Home Designs as a teenager in high school when she was professionally designing spec homes for her building contractor family members. She has more than 26 years’ experience with commercial and residential drafting, design, and project management.

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Sisters Sarah Kelly and Leah Robert are the founders of SaltyGirl Boutique and a natural cosmetic line called SaltyGirl Beauty. At age 36 and 32 weeks pregnant, Sarah was diagnosed with stage three triple negative breast cancer, a cancer that is not hormone-driven or linked to her genetics. Following the diagnosis, Sarah and her sister Leah, an oncology nurse, started looking at the food they put into their mouths, as well as the products they put onto their skin. By opening a clean beauty boutique and launching their own cosmetic line, they are sharing clean beauty products, educating on the importance of clean beauty, and giving back to their communities. Through SaltyGirl, they also started a non-profit in which a percentage of everything purchased goes to Foundation4Love, which helps adults dealing with cancer.

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