Episodes

This week my guest is Kate Bech, VP of Mission Advancement for the Greater Somerset County YMCA. Kate recounts her journey from artist to non-profit leader, and how her Midwest upbringing instilled a sense of duty, justice an...

This week we're talking with Tawanda McCrae, a multifaceted and socially pro-active person, veteran, Vegan and a Vegan business owner, founder of the charity Red Queen Foundation, animal activist, a cannabis advocate. and arc...

This is the second session of a two-parter with Karl Reutter. He had so much to talk about it took two sessions! In this episode we circle back to learn more about Karl’s time in Japan and the promising relationship he develo...

This week’s guest is Ira Stanley, accomplished rock and blues guitarist, musician, and song writer. Currently Ira is the lead guitarist for the bands Checker’d Past and Blues Power. I was eager to learn how Ira kept his music...

This week’s guest is Alan Maimon, Pulitzer Prize finalist author of Twilight in Hazard – An Appalachian Reckoning and an investigator for Centurion, the nation’s oldest innocence organization. Alan shares with us the difficul...

This week we’re talking with Ed Klimek, Architect and Partner at KSS Architects. Our conversation with Ed covers a lot of ground, including changes in workplace and the future of robotics! But we start with family, including ...

This week’s conversation is with Lauren Krause-Malave who is blessed with a wonderfully tight knit multicultural family (African-American, German, Puerto Rican, Colombian, Japanese….! Oh and her dog comes from Harlem!) and sh...

This week we’re talking with Mel Gjonbalaj. Mel tells us how she actually found comfort and an opportunity for introspection while isolating during the pandemic. (Escape from FOMO!) Our conversation also (of course) covers th...

This is the first of a two-parter with Karl Reutter. He had so much to talk about it took two sessions! In this episode we talk about the confusion of being a front-line worker early in the pandemic. We also learn about his t...

In this episode we'll hear about how the pandemic derailed some business plans, but how Jeremy's perseverance, diligence and ability to create opportunities led him to the career (and relationship) of his dreams.

Today our guest is Blair Miller. Blair tells us how she parlayed the onslaught of pandemic derailments into the founding of The Mr. Rogers’ Neighbors Kindness Project, an organization serving local businesses and people in ne...

In this week's episode, we're talking with Julie Denny who describes herself as a serial careerist (actor, mediator, facilitator....the list is long!) The discussion ranges from how the pandemic has brought out people's adap...

This episode is the kick off for the podcast, explaining my own trajectory during the two years of the pandemic and what inspired me to start the podcast in the first place. I am accompanied by my sometimes co-host, Jeremy L...

This episode is the trailer to my new podcast, I'm Frickin' Lonely...How about You? Staying Connected in the Time of Covid! We've all been impacted by the pandemic in so many different ways. Listen as we talk to folks from ...