Welcome to Minerva’s Creative Conversations™, I am your host, Minerva Salles, and today my special guest is Dr. Diana Medina-Galvan, a board-certified Family Physician.

“You make things happen. The path to get here it’s not easy by any means. Most importantly is slow and steady; you win the race.” – Dr. Diana Medina-Galvan

Dr. Diana Medina-Galvan talks about the importance of preventive medicine and passionately explains direct primary care and its extensive benefits.

To learn more about Dr. Medina’s medical and health and wellness services, please visit her website at www.LuminousHealthandWellness.com.

To find a direct primary care doctor near you, visit www.DPCFrontier.com.

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Music by John Bartmann

Welcome to Minerva’s Creative Conversations™, I am your host, Minerva Salles, and today my special guest is Rosemarie Moyeno Matos, Esq., owner of Law Office of Rosemarie Moyeno Matos LLC in Hoboken, NJ.

“Legal is probably one of the areas that you should not cut corners on. I’d say legal and insurance before anything.” – Rosemarie Moyeno Matos, Esq.

Rosemarie Moyeno Matos, Esq., talks about the importance of protecting your business and how she overcame implicit biases in her legal profession.

To learn more about the services provided by the Law Office of Rosemarie Moyeno Matos LLC, you can reach her office at LinkedIn @lawrmm and via Twitter @law_rmm.

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Music by John Bartmann

Welcome to Minerva’s Creative Conversations™, I am your host, Minerva Salles, and today my special guest is Claire Cuccio, Ph.D., Colonel Retired and Signal Officer in the U.S. Army.

“You really have to make sure that what you submit represents what you can deliver.” – Col. (Ret.) Claire Cuccio, Ph.D.

Claire is currently the President and CEO of SNVC, a company that provides national security and defense operations support.

From on-location, she talks about her experiences as a military leader and the importance of self-education.

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Music by John Bartmann

Welcome to Minerva’s Creative Conversations, I am your host, Minerva Salles, and today my special guest is Evita Salles, Commanding Officer of the Phoenix Military Entrance Processing Station.

“Being a mom shouldn’t deter you. I think you can do both. You can be a mom, and you can serve.” – Navy Lt. Evita Salles 

Evita recently did a Ted Talk/DAU, where she talked about the silent observer in the U.S. Navy.

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Music by John Bartmann

Welcome to Minerva’s Creative Conversations™, I am your host, Minerva Salles, and today my special guest is La-Verna Fountain, Founder and President of Meaningful Communications Matter, and a passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion.

“I choose to be a human being activist. You know, we all deserve to be at the table, all of us.” -La-Verna Fountain

To learn more about La-Verna Fountain’s extraordinary work, you can visit her website at MeaningfulCommunicationsMatter.com

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Music by John Bartmann

Welcome to Minerva’s Creative Conversations™, I am your host, Minerva Salles, and today my special guest is Karen Antunes, a Five-Time World Champion in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and co-owner of Mayko and Karen Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Phoenix, Arizona.

“As soon as you step on the mat, you are the same. There is no rich, no poor, no black, no white, no women, no men, everybody is the same.” -Karen Antunes

You can learn more about Mayko and Karen Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu by visiting their website at MKBJJ.com.

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Music by John Bartmann

Welcome to Minerva’s Creative Conversations™, I am your host, Minerva Salles, and today my special guest is Lia Denner, an Italian-American from New Jersey who dedicates much of her time and efforts to helping the elderly through a U.S. national service organization.

“We do it all as a unit, one unit, you know, men and women working together giving each other a chance to help one another.” – Lia Denner

You can learn more about the UNICO National service organization by visiting their website at UNICO.org.

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Music by John Bartmann

Welcome to Minerva’s Creative Conversations™, I am your host, Minerva Salles, and today my special guest is Chef Sasha Raj, proprietor of 24 Carrots, a vegan restaurant in Tempe, Arizona, and she is a hands-on community leader.

“If you are going to dedicate 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 hours to a profession, you have to love it.” -Sasha Raj

You can check out Sasha Raj’s vegan restaurant 24 Carrots Cafe at www.24carrotscafe.com and the Arizona-based community organization called Wish Foundation at www.wishfoundationaz.org. 

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Music by John Bartmann

Photo credit: Mark Lipczynski

Welcome to Minerva’s Creative Conversations™, I am Minerva Salles, and today my special guest and dear friend is Pawel Ignatowicz, a guitarist, composer, and music producer hailing from Zywiec, Poland and now living in Brooklyn, New York.

You can find his music on iTunes Here and Now by Pawel Ignatowicz or on Spotify Here and Now.

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Music by Pawel Ignatowicz