203 | Diane Pickles - Program Director, Project Singular at Additional Ventures When you have a child with a heart defect, you live with fear every day. And yet, you have to live your life and you have to lean into hope. - Diane Pickles Diane Pickles admits that a little voice inside her head thought something might be wrong with the unborn child she was carrying. The year was 1994 and she and her husband William had a healthy three year old son at home when an ultrasound r

202 | Christine Buckley - Executive Director, Brain Aneurysm Foundation I look at everyone on my team as a colleague. We’re all women, we’re all tough and we care. - Christine Buckley If you’ve ever had a really bad headache, the worst kind of headache that keeps you up at night and just won’t quit, keep listening because this episode just might save your life. All too often, severe headaches for women between the ages of 35-60 are all too often explained away as stress or

200 | Melissa Gilbo & Amy Pocsik - co-founders of the women’s business league What makes us different is that we lead with kindness. We lead with relationships first, and the business comes organically and naturally. - Melissa Gilbo & Amy Pocsik In the spotlight, two moms who were invited by a colleague to meet for coffee. That meeting would change Melissa Gilbo and Amy Pocsik’s lives because as they spoke and compared notes about their business careers, they realized what

199 | Tanya Holton - Director of Institutional Advancement at the Arnold Arboretum Every day is a chance to make the world a more beautiful place. - Tanya Holton The Arnold Arboretum is a treasure to Boston. Established in 1872 it encompasses 281 acres of land owned by Harvard University in an area of Boston called Jamaica Plain. The Arnold Arboretum is filled with 15,500 individual plants and is a benchmark for similar institutions all across North America. In this intervi

183 | Marci Bracken Interview I hope our reader’s breath is taken away as they read the stories in Living Crue. It’s a magazine, but it’s also a movement. - Marci Bracken Waiting rooms can be boring and they can be magical, because you just never know who you might meet! In the spotlight, a woman who joined forces with woman she met in the waiting room of a karate studio, only to realize that the two had so much synergy, they had to do something about it. Meet the powerhou

182 | Suzanne Picher Interview When I heard that the fastest growing segment of the homeless population are young moms with one or two children, I said: women would be up in arms to know about this. - Suzanne Picher Meet a woman who is doing what she can to make a real difference in the lives of homeless women and children in Boston. Suzanne Picher is the Chief Development Officer at a non-profit called Heading Home, Inc. www.headinghomeinc.org. This small but mighty organ

181 | Kim Miles Interview I’m very much a leap before you look kind of a gal. I encourage others to do the same as well because you are never going to know unless you try. - Kim Miles Being brave, venturing outside your comfort zone is the only way we learn new things. It’s also how we experience what we are capable of. This is how we grow, and Kim Miles is proof of that because she’s literally a one woman show. Kim has been taking chances and accomplishing great things

180 | Donna DePrisco Interview Jewelry is a symbol-an expression of our love for each other. Throughout my career as a jeweler, I have been blessed to witness this love every single day. -Donna DePrisco Known as “Donna Diamonds” and “Boston’s Jeweler to the Stars” Donna DePrisco was born into the sparkling world of diamonds and gems. Her parents, Frank and Marie DePrisco opened the doors to their first showroom in Boston just after World War II and expanded to locations in

179 | Jean Kanokogi, PhD Podcast Interview Success to me is my significance. How many people can I positively impact? - Jean Kanokogi When you are the daughter of a trailblazer, the bar is set pretty high. For Jean Kanokogi, PhD, accomplishing great things while doing good in the world has been her mission. Jean is the daughter of Rusty Kanokogi, the Mother of Women’s Judo whose life is chronicled is a memoir written by mother and daughter called Get Up & Fight. In this in

178 | Edra Toth Podcast Interview Freedom means the ability to be who you are, to say what you want to say, and to live the life you want to live without anybody telling you: you can’t, you can’t you can’t. - Edra Toth Imagine what it must be like to live under the control of an oppressive Communist government. Now imagine that you are only 4 years old and your parents decide it’s time to escape, knowing that if you are caught, you may be killed. You travel by night and hid

177 | Lily Isaacs of The Isaacs Podcast Interview Our main goal, in everything we do, is to bring hope to a hopeless world. - Lily Isaacs We’re on the road this week, just outside of Nashville, Tennessee for an interview with Lily Isaacs, co-founder & matriarch of The Isaacs, a multi-award-winning family group whose music is described as Southern Gospel, Country, and Americana. Born in Germany after World War II, Lily is the child of holocaust survivors. Her parents were

176 | Catherine Pisacane Podcast Interview Success is when you help somebody on a path to a better tomorrow. - Catherine Pisacane There is no shortage of women doing great things with their lives and Catherine Pisacane is proof of that. For her, success is not measured by fame or fortune, but rather, by the impact she makes on her community. After hearing a news story about 4 brothers who had been removed from their home by the police after it was discovered that they were

175| Beth Veneto aka "Ginger Betty" Podcast Interview This is all about heart, it’s about passion, it’s about giving back. -Beth Veneto “Ginger Bet Beth Veneto calls her bakery Ginger Betty’s www.gingerbettys.com and the cookies she bakes are filled with love. One of 8 children raised in Quincy, Massachusetts, Beth’s cookie story began when she was about 10 years old, while baking gingerbread under the watchful eye of her big sister, Karen. For Beth, baking gingerbread cookie

174| Dallas Reed, MD. Podcast Interview If I won the lottery, I would still come back and do this. To me, that’s success. - Dallas Reed, MD. Dr. Dallas Reed loves what she’s doing with her life and it shows. In this interview, she reveals that a tragic loss early in her life shaped her decision to focus on women’s reproductive health and perinatal genetics. Raised in Plano, Texas in a bi-racial home, Dallas was always at the top of her class. She attended Dillard Universi

173| Catharine Smith Podcast Interview Success is the opportunity to elevate what other people are doing. -Catharine Smith This week’s story is about a woman who has been leading others since she was in her 20’s. From her humble roots in the midwest to traveling to Argentina, Brazil and Uraguay on a Fulbright scholarship, Catharine Smith has always been focused on social action. The time she spent in these countries shaped her views about how economic cooperation can lead

172| Nancy Parshley Podcast Interview Success means doing something every day with purpose, that you love. The money is good, but that is such a small piece of it. If you love what you do, and you do it with purpose and you give it everything you have, that’s success. -NancyParshley In this inspiring interview, we meet another woman who was nominated by a friend to be featured on the show. Nancy Parshley is the co-founder of Infinite Media. She and her husband have been ru

171| Lainey Dionne Podcast Interview I hope to be successful in music and that doesn’t necessarily mean becoming famous. I just want to be able to be happy in what I’m doing, to make a living and to touch other people’s souls. - Lainey Dionne Talent is all around us, but only the very few achieve stardom. Meet singer/songwriter Lainey Dionne of Rhode Island. She’s a proud Berklee College grad with an interesting story about how she graduated from one of the most prestigious

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169| "Molly" the Army Wife Podcast Interview No matter what your politics are, there is a gigantic humanitarian crisis going on right now in Afghanistan. When the last plane left Kabul on August 31, 2021, thousands of people including Americans and Afghan interpreters and their families were left behind. Many news outlets are ignoring this story, but the truth is that acts of violence are being perpetrated by the Taliban as you are reading these show notes. Enter,“Molly”… t

168| Hildy Grossman Podcast Interview I hate the word “no”. I hate the words “you can’t do it” and I hate “its been done before.” -Hildy Grossman When she was just a little girl growing up in Cincinnati, Hildy Grossman knew that singing on a stage would be part of her life. Her father was the owner of a famous night club called The Beverly Hills Country Club and among the many A-list performers who appeared there, Lena Horne was her favorite. Years later, the jazz singer w