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  • Ep. 20 - Cath McBreen Part 1: Overcoming Dyslexia to Become an IVF Nurse

    Working around the challenges of dyslexia and avoid the rampant instances of sexual harassment so often encountered by working women then and now, Cath McBreen, R.N. (retired), achieved her dream of becoming a Reproductive Nurse, helping couples achieve their dream of becoming parents.

     

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    27 min
  • BONUS Episode - George Dapra Part 1: Love in the Old Country

    Take a wild ride with former Witness Security Inspector George Dapra for a rare, insider’s look into the Witness Security Program. In this compelling human event story, Dapra takes us on a fascinating life journey, beginning with his childhood growing up in a large Italian-American family with immigrant parents who met in the “old country” of Sicily, Italy. From the military, college, and employment at the world-famous Hotel Plaza, Dapra shares vignettes of all life’s emotions. SHOP for his book, Non-Disclosure.

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    32 min
  • Bonus Episode - George Dapra Part 2: The War Against Organized Crime

    In the continuing bonus episode of Season 1, George Dapra provides a riveting account of the US Marshall Services’ Witness Security Division during the tumultuous final decades of the 20th Century in New York City—at the height of the government’s war against organized crime. Dapra also describes other protective details including the much-publicized Elian Gonzalez case and al Qaeda. Non-Disclosure is the first sneak peek authorized by the United States Department of Justice into the secret government program.

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    46 min
  • Ep. 20 BONUS - Cath McBreen Part 2: Are You a Good Match for a “Gestational Carrier”?

    In the continuation of Episode 20, Cath McBreen shares her first-hand knowledge of the emotional and physical challenges associated with In Vitro Fertilization.  

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    32 min
  • Ep. 19 - Frances O Johnson: Against the Odds:. Business, Divorce and Death

    With 30 years of franchise ownership Frances now looks in her rearview mirror to reflect on how much she didn't know when she took on the purchase of a franchise business with its deep trove of do's & dont's. She credits her father, who owned and  operated a half dozen businesses having achieved only an 8th grade education in the Mississippi of the 1930s, but determined to provide his family the best quality of life he could along with access to higher education. Later in life, her dad, and then her four siblings faced life threatening illnesses and disabilities.  Without the flexibility she was allowed as her "own boss" she shares "we would have all gone down; me included". 

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    42 min
  • Ep. 18 - Desiree Doubrox: Don’t Let Anyone Dim Your Light

    Defining and executing “My” business development model has been key to Desiree’s journey as an serial entrepreneur following in the footsteps of an entrepreneurial mother at the age of 12, and sharing how to know when you have reached the burnout phase and need to take the time to reassess and regroup.

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    40 min
  • Ep. 17 - Cathy Gibson: Youth Literacy

    Cathy Gibson left east Texas at age 18 to enter a Virginia girls college in the early 1960s as an “outspoken bigot” and graduated a Big 10 University four years later with a degree in Urban Education committed to increasing the literacy rates of inner city youth, and subsequently becoming a champion for adult literacy as the Executive Director of the Marion County (Indianapolis) Central Library, credited with launching what would become a statewide literacy program titled, Read Indiana! 

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    43 min
  • Ep. 16 - Lyn Burton: Live with Integrity and Joy

    Lyn Burton shares her journey from professionally accomplished to spiritually fulfilled.  With 25+ years of working to address the housing needs of families with low and moderate incomes, Lyn takes Her leap of faith to become a Unitarian Universalist Chaplain working with women who have struggled with drugs and need help defining that  pathway “back to finding themselves”.

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    46 min
  • Ep.15 - Teresa Harris: “What?!? Women Can Do That?”

    From a childhood of segregation, low-expectations of girls and women and the battle to define her sexuality, Teresa Ann Harris, shares her journey from military service, to homelessness, addiction and recovery with college graduation at age 40+ followed by a stellar civil service career with responsibility for negotiating multi-million dollar contracts with the nation’s largest providers of IT services.

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    41 min
  • Ep. 14. Monica Sussman: You Can’t Do It All!

    Monica recounts the struggle for acceptance as a female attorney,,,and, then as a pregnant female attorney during an era that never fathomed this could really happen in “our” place of work. Fast-forwarding, she recalls the later struggle to work-while-fighting-breast-cancer; two things her male counterparts could never relate to! The upside was a pregnancy that required her law firm to adopt a maternity policy benefitting she and other women; and the much later saving grace of cell phones for managing nannies and children!

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    45 min

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