What's Your Legacy?

Yvette talks with fellow estate planning attorney Lisa Bellet Collins about her new novel, Out to Pasture. The book was inspired by Lisa's amazing mother who, in her later years, was diagnosed with a rare neurodegenerative brain condition. But Lisa along with her brothers took care of their mother. Out to Pasture is a love story. It is an adventure of the most imaginative style that will leave you relishing the surprising ending.

This episode of What’s Your Legacy? is a message of hope for coping during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Yvette speaks with Priscilla Estes, a yoga instructor and the author of the "Best Day Hikes in New Jersey - Four-Season Guide to 50 of the Best Trails in the Garden State." All ages and all levels of fitness are encouraged to make hiking and yoga a part of their health and fitness for the new year. The added benefit of hiking: seeing up close the beauty of nature all around us.           

Yvette has an engaging conversation with organizing expert Rose Miller, of Rose Knows Where it Goes. Whether you are downsizing. Whether you are a packrat in need of de-cluttering. Whether you are ready to stage your home to get the best possible price at sale. Rose shares her expertise with Yvette to help listeners organize or let go of the clutter in their life.

Patrick Henry is a renowned Impressionist artist from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. His unique artistry depicts the scenic beauty of Maryland’s Eastern Shore with bold colors and the realism and magnificence of regional life. His artwork is impactful, leaving all who gaze upon it changed in their perspective of the captured subject matter.

As a retired Merck and Company employee and community activist, Ronnie spends her leisure time travelling and perfecting her golf game. In this episode, Yvette talks with Ronnie about her leadership of and participation in the Green’s Ladies Golf Club, which is the oldest African American women’s golf club in the Delaware Valley.

Yvette's guest, Robin Robinson, talks about her role as Bucks County Recorder of Deeds. Since being elected in 2017, Robin has brought her own unique, creative and energetic abilities to the task of the Recorder of Deeds with initiatives that support the public and preserve part of the rich history of Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Yvette talks with Susan E. Fisher, a Certified Financial Planner and a Certified Gift Planning Associate, about her work with charitable estate planning. 

As a financial planner, Susan works with high net worth and multi-generational clients throughout the Philadelphia, Bucks and Montgomery County regions. Susan has functioned as a senior trust advisor, a relationship manager, a planned giving officer and an executive director of a community foundation. 

Dr. Max Hilaire is a professor and chairperson of the Political Science Department at Morgan State University and a professor at the University of New York in Prague. He holds an M.A, M.Phil, and Ph.D degrees in International Relations from Columbia University in New York. His expertise includes public international law, international human rights, and international humanitarian law, United Nations Law, and U.S. foreign relations law. He is the author of four books.

Yvette chats with Dr. Hilaire in Prague after attending his most recent lecture at the US Embassy in Prague on How International Law and Human Rights inspired the Velvet Revolution - A Tribute to Vaclav Havel." Vaclav Havel was the first president of the new Czech Republic.

As an environmental educator at Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve in New Hope, Pennsylvania, Santino shares his passion and understanding of native plants and wildlife. As relates to his career, Santino shared a quote from a well-known Senegalese environmentalist, Baba Dioum: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."