Marilyn Russell's Remarkable Women

WOGL honored Julie Ertz as our Remarkable Woman of the Year last year and she continues to show how remarkable she truly is. You may've seen the emotional embrace she shared with her team mate Casey Short while the National Anthem played at the start of the the second game of the National Women’s Soccer League tournament in Utah last week. It was the embrace seen and heard around the world...2 players, one white, one African American, both wearing BLM tee's knelt, hugged and wept together to show unity in sports and in friendship.

Julie's statement is below. Just one more reason we wanted to share Julie and Marilyn's conversation on sports, love, life, support and giving back to the community.

“Currently, every time the national anthem is played, our country continues to become more and more divided on what the visual symbol of unity looks like,” Short and Ertz said in a joint statement they released Tuesday. “Through our continuous conversations we wanted to make sure that whatever we decided to do, it would not be an empty gesture. It would be a gesture that portrayed that we have heard those who needed to be heard, validated and loved.

“That moment during the anthem was difficult, very difficult. We are still searching but we are humbled by the outpouring of support.”

Marilyn also sits down with the President of St Hubert's High School for Girls, Lizanne Magarity Pando to learn how brick and mortar schools quickly adjusted to teaching digitally from home and getting the class of 2020 ready to graduate. The students, with the help of their sewing teacher,  leapt into action from home and helped make masks for hundreds of health-care workers in Philadelphia. Lots more to the story so listen in.

Teacher, Family Coach Coordinator, now Assistant Vice Principal at Agora Cyber Charter School, our guest this week is the very talented and cheerful Holly Allen. She's an absolute delight and because students are an essential part of the Agora family and story, Holly is joined by three 2020 graduating students, Michelle, Sarah and Theresa, each with their own compelling story to share.

Agora Cyber Charter School is an online public school that's been educating students K-12 for 15 years now. You're invited to their upcoming virtual Open House and all the information is available at agora.org.

This week on Marilyn Russell's Remarkable Women: Andrea Bowers, an orthopedic surgeon at Virtua Health in Mt Laurel Township, NJ.

Marilyn Russell sits down with Remarkable Woman Katie Grau, a Registered Nurse from Virtua Hosptial in Voorhees, NJ who has been working in the Intensive Care Unit in the midst of the Pandemic. Katie works on a pulmonary unit that is exclusively providing care for COVID-19 patients. Here, she shares how her work life has changed due to the pandemic and just how amazing the staff at Virtua have been through it all.

This week's show features Ginny Marino, the CEO of Girl Scouts of Central and Southern NJ. She is a dynamic leader whose career has been focused on the empowerment and advancement of women and girls. Ginny shares details on the launch of GSCSNJ's virtual learning portal, providing scouts and parents to stay

connected through virtual-learning materials and online sessions.

Marilyn also talks to the Executive Director of Magic Gardens - Emily Smith, because when we're all allowed to go back out again...we're going to need a little magic. Magic Gardens is featured in Jason Segal's "Dispatches from Elsewhere" and in fact, may have influenced his decision to film the show here in Philadelphia. PMG is an immersive mixed media art environment that's completely covered with mosaics and features an outdoor sculpture garden.

The first guest on this weeks show is Chef Jen Carroll from Spice Finch. She is working with the James Beard Foundation in a myriad of ways including a James Beard POP Up Dinner in April. 

Then, just in case anyone happens to be thinking about whiskey, we talk to Samantha Beedle. She is the North American Whiskey Ambassador from Breakthru Beverage and she is here to get us ready for St. Patrick's Day.

This weeks guests are Susan Campbell and Erica Spencer. They are both here to talk about the upcoming Change the Luck of a Child Telethon which is happening on March 24th from 6:00am to 8:00pm

Susan is the CEO, Ronald McDonald House Philadelphia and Erica is a volunteer who used to work for McDonald’s and would volunteer at the House. Then her son, Mason, needed a kidney transplant, so she and her family wound up spending many nights at the Ronald McDonald House as he received treatment. 

If you want to donate you can go to the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House Telethon website

The 3rd annual Women’s Day Conference, an educational and networking opportunity focused on professional development, peer mentoring and support for women in public service is coming up.  This week Lt. Lisa Desamour from the Philadelphia Fire Dept, Lt. Myesha Massey from the Philadelphia police department, and Angel Roebuck from The American Red Cross join Marilyn to share details of the upcoming Women’s Day Event. 

The second guest is Chef Jen Carroll from Spice Finch. She is working with the James Beard Foundation in a myriad of ways including a James Beard POP Up Dinner in April.

Since it's still Heart Month, first up on this week's Remarkable Women is Alin Gragossian. Alin shares a very harrowing story of heart failure. With no warning signs, and very few symptoms, this young lady nearly died of heart failure before her 30th birthday.​

On an up note...have you heard about WonderSpaces? Jenn McCreary joins Marilyn to share the details on a beautiful new Art Space in the Fashion District that immerses audiences in a myriad of ways including virtual reality. Listen to learn more.

Today's show features Melanie Corbman. She is the Manager, Clinical Genetics at Cancer Treatment Centers of America.  Melanie shares a fascinating story of how she came to the field of Genetics and genetic counseling and the great work that CTCA is doing with patients around that. 

Our second guest is Heather Annechiarico. She is the owner of Wine Dive, the first wine-focused bar and exclusive bottle shop with a seriously casual bent. The concept is simple, nothin too fancy but everything fabulous.