There is nothing like having Experienced VoicesTM to keep an entrepreneur on track to execute their vision. Check out our Podcast Series that delves into a wide range of of topics that bring to the forefront the critical details of starting and building a successful business.
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Aging Well: Finding Beauty in the Gray is a podcast for everyone in or approaching the retirement years. There’s a lot to unpack here apart from the financial planning component, and we’ll do just that. We’ll explore new interests, priorities and goals and finding purpose for ourselves and in our relationships. Join me each episode as I share stories and chat with guests learning to live their best next act, lives. Have a question or comment? Please reach out to me, Hugh Willard, at willowwa ...
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Machine Speed Innovation: DeepInvent Founder Marcus Weller is Revolutionizing the IP Economy
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35:54Marcus Weller is the visionary founder behind DeepInvent—an AI-powered platform that’s revolutionizing how intellectual property is created, scaled, and commercialized. By slashing the time and cost of invention, DeepInvent is accelerating innovation across industries and delivering transformative value to the global economy. With a background in c…
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Boost Sales with Consumer Financing: A How-To for Business Owners
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21:40Want to boost your company's sales? Consumer financing could be the key. In this episode of Experienced Voices, our “How To” segment features Eric Daugherty of Monterey Financial Services, who breaks down the fundamentals of consumer financing for small business owners. From understanding how payment plans influence customer decisions to setting up…
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International Entrepreneur George Gebhart Launches EV Truck Startup in U.S.
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29:50George Gebhart, CEO and founder of Voltu Motor, is a trailblazer in the electric vehicle (EV) industry, leveraging nearly two decades of expertise in engineering, innovation, and leadership to redefine sustainable transportation. A bio-engineer by training, George began his career conducting research in robotics and brain-computer interfaces (BCI) …
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Automotive Entrepreneur Nikita Bridan Shares Journey of Launching a Groundbreaking Limited Production Car
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32:04Entrepreneur twin brothers Nikita and Iliya Bridan forged their automotive careers based on their youthful passion for cars which began in Ukraine. Nikita shares how the brothers have lived their ultimate dream, founding an automotive startup that will introduce in 2026 its HF-11 limited production car priced at over $1 million. The HF-11 is being …
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Skyline Robotics' CEO Michael Brown: Successful Business Model Execution
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46:58Innovative technologies present great opportunities. Michael Brown, CEO of Skyline Robotics, shares how AI automation technology was developed to tackle skyscraper window cleaning. Our discussion weaves through the complexity of the technology, the market analysis that identified potential clients’ pain points, the importance of understanding the i…
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Innovative Entrepreneur Tim Huntzinger Launches 3-wheel On-Road EV Scooter Focusing on Safety and Fun
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29:32Automotive and aerospace designer Tim Huntzinger turned entrepreneur takes you on his journey of co-founding an EV startup called XOTO. The company recently introduced a 3-wheel on-road electric “scooter” built to have greater stability to avoid skids and front wheel drive for enhanced control and maneuverability. Hear how he gathered his team, wen…
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From Baja1000 to Breakthrough Entrepreneur: Colin Godby’s Journey to Revolutionize Electric Dirt Bikes
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35:20When an entrepreneur takes the road less traveled, it is literally true for Colin Godby, co-founder of Dust Moto, an innovative startup launching a high-performance electric dirt bike. Colin’s entrepreneur journey began as a young power sport enthusiast which led him to be an off-road co-driver in international competitive events including the Baja…
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Pickleball Entrepreneur Discusses Pain Point, Proof of Concept, MVP & Kickstarter Success
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34:41Josh Brown is an entrepreneur, inventor, founder, and CEO of Dropshot, a smart scoring platform designed to enhance Pickleball scorekeeping– the fastest-growing sport in America. Josh applied his 14 years of software engineering experience to address a pain point of passionate pickleball players like himself---how to keep score that easily eliminat…
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Entrepreneur Kasey Edwards Shares How Helpr Seized the Opportunity of Digital Technology to Achieve Global Success
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36:33Kasey Edwards, CEO and Co-Founder of Helpr, a global technology company transforming corporate caregiving benefits, shares how their company scaled its services using digital technology to achieve great success. Helpr now serves Fortune 500 companies such as Clorox and Snap through its enterprise platform and is in 45 countries. Hear how Kasey and …
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Entrepreneur Broc TenHouten Solves EV Charging Challenges
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31:00Broc TenHouten, Co-founder and CEO of Intrinsic Power, Inc., is a leading authority on the challenges of distributed energy and a technical leader and manager of electric vehicle technology commercialization. Hear how his startup identified and solved major pain points impacting consumer use of EVs, while addressing capacity challenges facing our c…
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Next Steps: Hugh Willard brings 3 years of the Aging Well podcast to a close...for now.
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14:43Send us a text The Aging Well: Finding Beauty in the Gray podcast has been privileged to share the stories and expertise of many Third Agers to an ever expanding, loyal and loving, international audience. At this time, Hugh is turning his time and energies to various writing projects. Stay tuned to hear more about Hugh's Substack page. Support the …
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One Step at a Time: Mike McKinney and the hiker's path to health and healing
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26:51Send us a text Mike McKinney is a retired first responder. He served in several capacities and roles over the course of his career. Originally from Springfield Illinois, he and his wife decided to move to follow their kids an grandkids to central NC at the close of his career. Mike is the co-director of the NC State Chapter of the 52 Hike Challenge…
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Finding and Following Her Bliss: Author Niamh McAnally Life's Journey
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36:08Send us a text Niamh McAnally is an Irish-born bestselling author, keynote & corporate speaker, former TV director, and youngest daughter of the late BAFTA award-winning actor, Ray McAnally, and actor, Ronnie Masterson. Niamh has traveled all over the world and lived and worked as a volunteer in many island nations in the Caribbean and the South Pa…
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NobleReach Foundation's $500M Endowment to Transform American Innovation
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30:23Climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic exemplify national challenges requiring a new approach to achieve the most effective technological solutions. NobleReach Foundation’s CEO Arun Gupta is taking on those challenges, heading a nonprofit startup with half a billion dollars in endowment. Founded as a spinoff of LMI, NobleReach offers a new and am…
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Great Trips: Dr. Carolee Duckworth and the value of presence in new places
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35:40Send us a text Dr. Carolee Duckworth is a talented and creative woman of numerous skills and interests. She is an author of many books and articles including Shifting Gears to Your Life and Work After Retirement that she co-wrote with Marie Langworthy. She is an expert trip designer, and co-author (with Brian Lane) of the books Your Great Trip to F…
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Hometown America Movie Magic: Professor Benita VanWinkle and her passion for historic movie theaters
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35:55Send us a text Benita VanWinkle is a national and internationally exhibited and award winning artist and photographer. She is also an Associate Professor of Art at High Point University in North Carolina. Her passion project for many years has been to photograph and chronicle historic movie theaters across the U.S. The culmination of this will be h…
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Keep, Donate, or Toss?: Jeannine Bryant and the Art of Rightsizing
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29:42Send us a text Jeannine Bryant is an expert at helping seniors and their families through times of transition. As the owner of Easyrightsizing and Changing Spaces SRS, a senior move management company in Lincoln, Nebraska, she and her team are proud to provide a valuable service that helps take away the stress when clients are rightsizing, moving, …
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Serial Entrepreneur Byron Bennett Started Young and Shares those who have supported his Entrepreneurial Passion
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37:54Serial entrepreneur Byron Bennett began his entrepreneurial journey in high school, never expecting that one day he would lead a venture called Zergratran to build in Columbia an alternative to the Panama Canal. He shares the challenges he is facing which include raising funds for a venture of significant scale. His stories of earlier ventures illu…
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Coming Back To The Land For The First Time: Bestselling author Jeanne Blasberg and life on the Flynn Creek Farm
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32:06Send us a text Jeanne Blasberg has always been a writer. She is the bestselling and award-winning author of Eden; The Nine; and her latest novel, Daughter of a Promise. Most recently, she has reinvented herself through regenerative farming with her husband in central Wisconsin. She joins us to talk writing, midlife pivots, and the arc of healthy fa…
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Entrepreneur Vitaly Golomb Automates Sales with AI to boost Qualified Leads and Reduce Costs
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38:57Vitaly Golomb is a seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor who most notably co-founded HP’s corporate venture arm. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sofielabs, the next-gen CRM that uses AI to automate the sales process. Hear how AI was applied to the costly weak link of sales and how their startup strategically emerged from stealth to take…
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"We aspire to inspire before we expire!": Sherry Cantrell and the Sun City Poms
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36:58Send us a text Sherry Cantrell is a child of the speedway and from Speedway. That is the town and the home of the Indy 500 where her stepdad and mom worked. Sherry did not follow in the family footsteps literally, but she has led a full life culminating in her involvement with the Sun City Poms, who are celebrating their 45th anniversary this year.…
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Hiking For You, Me, and the Whole Average Gang: Nicola Ross shows us the way.
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32:45Send us a text Never imagine yourself hiking the Appalachian Trail, The Pacific Coast Trail, or The Salt Path? Great! Nicola Ross is an environmentalist, National Magazine Award–winning journalist, and the bestselling author of six Loops & Lattes hiking guides, with over 50,000 copies in print. She lives with her partner in Caledon, Ontario. Her la…
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Entrepreneur Trevor Laudate shares how Startup took 1st Place for $300K Investment Award
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28:27Trevor Laudate heads the award-winning startup Ecodrive, a B2B climate tech platform connecting companies to measurable sustainability projects such as tree planting and harvesting plastic from the ocean. Customers find these environmental and social activities appealing which companies see as strengthening loyalty and yielding other desired custom…
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Life and Times on the Farm: Barbara McLean's 50-year odyssey with sheep, nature, and change
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31:56Send us a text Barbara McLean and her partner, Thomas, have a 50-year career overseeing their sheep farm, aptly titled Lambsquarters, in Ontario, Canada. Alongside the constancy of this farm’s work, Barbara is a spinner and weaver. She taught English and Gender Studies at Guelph University and has written 2 books about life on the farm: Lambsquarte…
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Soaring On Matriarchal Winds: Author and artist Mary Carroll Moore charts her second-act course.
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35:09Send us a text Mary Carroll Moore is a bestselling and award-winning author of 14 books in three genres, including the PEN/Faulkner and Lambda Literary Awards nominated young adult novel, Qualities of Light. This is the prequel to A Woman's Guide to Search and Rescue. Her latest novel is Last Bets, a story of second chances, extra-sensory abilities…
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Are the Stars Out Tonight? Vermadel Nienstedt and the Crystal Coast Stargazers
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26:48Send us a text Vermadel Nienstedt was raised in Beaufort, North Carolina. She and her husband Jimmy lived in Columbia, South Carolina for 30 years before returning to coastal North Carolina. In retirement, the pair have reinforced their love of the night skies. As a part of the Crystal Coast Stargazers, they help educate many groups and individuals…
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CEO Stacey Yudin l Fostering Innovation and the Digital Tech Transformation of Nonprofits
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25:38CEO Stacey Yudin has experienced the full arc of digital technology, leading NEP Services' Union and Non-profit clients from legacy processes and structure to specialized digital technology platforms. Stacey shares how NEP learned about their customers' pain points and established collaborative working relationships---that is ongoing with new techn…
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Keep Moving!: Maria Fernandez with Older, Fitter, Stronger
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28:56Send us a text Out of her own health challenges in her younger years, Maria Fernandez turned into the intentional path of greater health. For the past 18 years, she has been a Personal Trainer and Yoga teacher in the United Kingdom. She has a particular love for working with seniors in support of their own healthier lives. She now offers her own cl…
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Patricia Lizarraga | An Innovative Investing Approach for Women helping Women
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28:45Patricia Lizarraga is the Founder and Managing Partner of Hypatia Capital Management. Leveraging her 30+ years of experience on Wall Street, she and her co-founder launched in 2023 an ETF comprised solely of female-led publicly traded companies, WCEO. Hear how she navigated the launch of this unique financial model that highlights the performance o…
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The Legacy of Good People: Fred Surgeon's Dinosaurs Delight at the Sweet Valley Ranch
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29:50Send us a text Fred Surgeon is a man of many talents, all driven by his late father's desire that Fred and his siblings be "good people." Through his extensive involvement in the community, in mental health services, and in environmental education, Fred and his wife Anita now head the Sweet Valley Ranch in Fayetteville, North Carolina. This include…
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Steadying Roots: Hugh Willard reads a few essays from his book Finding Beauty in the Gray
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20:38Send us a text Have you read Hugh's book, Finding Beauty in the Gray yet? Join us on the Aging Well: Finding Beauty in the Gray podcast as Hugh takes time to read a few essays from his book that speak to our need for self- and other-care through these angular, stressed times. If you've read Hugh's book, please do the kindness of writing an online r…
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A Four Season Life: Marianne Borowski and the Cross New Hampshire Adventure Trail
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33:54Send us a text Marianne Borowski is a retired biochemist and lifelong biker. She has ridden cross country and on rail trails all over the U.S. In 2017, she developed the Cross New Hampshire Adventure Trail. Walkers, bikers, runners, skiers, and horse back riders alike all enjoy the 83-mile majesty that is the great New Hampshire outdoors. Marianne …
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Entrepreneur Daniel Daoura | Marketing an Innovative New Tech Product
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39:17Daniel Daoura, founder and CTO of Pebblebee, is a serial entrepreneur and visionary leader in the trackables industry. Daniel began his career at Boeing, where he spent over 10 years in lead engineering roles developing global software and hardware systems for military asset-tracking communication systems. Leveraging this experience, Daniel venture…
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All Aboard! Neil Bromilow and the Gibsonville Garden Railroad
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35:53Send us a text Neil Bromilow is a widower, father, grandfather, and twice retired civil engineer. "Retired" is a very relative term as Neil has remained quite active in a number of civic and community pursuits in the Central North Carolina town of Gibsonville, where he and Estelle raised their family. These days, Neil spends a good bit of his time …
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Funny Business Down on the Farm: Laurie Zaleski and the Funny Farm Rescue & Sanctuary
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32:23Send us a text For over 20 years, Laurie Zaleski has taken her late mother's dream and made it her own. Today, this graphic design small business owner, pilot, author, and founder of the Funny Farm Rescue & Sanctuary, heads a host of volunteers in caring for over 750 abused and abandoned animals of all ilk and breed. This magnificent, motely crew l…
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In Every Language, A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Filipino multimedia artist Eliseo Art Silva
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33:58Send us a text Eliseo Art Silva is a contemporary multimedia artist in L.A. who weaves his Filipino heritage into his art, fostering community connection and compassionate interaction. His passion and his mission are to share the Filipino experience and it's rich heritage and contributions to the greater world community. To learn more about Eliseo …
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A Considerable Age: Writer Alice Goldbloom and her journey through family stories.
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36:40Send us a text Alice Goldbloom, a longtime Montrealer, has been writing her whole career—mundane government, business, and consulting documents of every kind. In 2020, with a fulfilling career behind her and two children semi-launched into the world, she began writing stories to please herself and share. She writes about being a first-generation Ca…
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Earth Day Every Day with Naturalist Kim Hainge
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29:41Send us a text Join us as we celebrate Earth Day 2024 with naturalist, entomologist, and trail keeper Kim Hainge. Kim lives on a 36 acre United Plant Savers Sanctuary in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina with her botanist husband, Jim. Here she hosts talks, lead hikes, and in general shares her love of nature with any and everyone she see…
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The Alphabet Woods: Debut author Jenny Poelman and her enthusiasm for life.
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32:06Send us a text Jenny Poelman, 66, became a published author for the first time last year. Jenny spent most of her childhood in South Korea with her missionary family. Nowadays, she and her husband, Ken, divide their time between North Carolina and Montana. When not writing, Jenny and Ken can be found fly-fishing, hiking, traveling, and most of all,…
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All the World's A Stage: Actor, director, and professor Jonathan Ray and his latest turn in the lights.
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33:45Send us a text Jonathon Ray made his stage debut as a child at the historic Flat Rock Playhouse in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. He has taught theater and communications courses at several colleges and universities for many years, including Lenoir-Rhyne and Appalachian State. He recently decide to retire, but the theater rem…
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Two SDAC Angel Investors weigh in on funding Startups: "Jockey or Horse?"
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31:36First-time entrepreneurs often have great business ideas that provoke their passion to start a business. Our guests, Stacy Pena and Brian Engleman, are Fund Managers for the San Diego Angel Conference and they will share their experience as to how angel investors view founding entrepreneurs and the business ideas they pitch for funding. Don't miss …
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"Age is Just A Number, Not A Label.": Cheryl Beversdorf and the AGING MATTERS media
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38:29Send us a text Cheryl Beversdorf brings several of her talents together, along with her passion, to produce and host the AGING MATTERS weekly radio program, podcasts, and television show. Cheryl is a veteran, RN, not-for-profit association executive, and public communications specialist. Her shows feature interviews with experts discussing aging-re…
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Sugar Plum Fairies Emigrate to Western North Carolina: Chocolatier Steve Baxley and Legacy of Sweets
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37:17Send us a text In picturesque downtown Sylva in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, there is a three generation chocolate-making legacy that is Baxley's Chocolates. The middle tier of this legacy, Steve Baxley, son of Russell, husband of Beth, and father to Lauren, joins us to share more about this family's journey and magical operation. J…
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Warming Heads and Hearts: Edgemere Knit Wits Mary Ann Stover and Donna Powers
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31:40Send us a text Did you know that March is National Knitting and Crochet month? Across the United States, there are thousands of dedicated Knit Wits-groups of committed volunteers, many of whom are seniors, creating hats, scarves, even toys, to share with infants and children in need in their communities and across the globe. Join us as we welcome M…
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From Role to Soul: Dr. Connie Zweig and the path to greater meaning in the Elder years.
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35:12Send us a text Dr. Connie Zweig is a retired therapist and author. Known as the Shadow Expert, she has written several books on the spiritual path to health and wholeness. In this show, we talk about her book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul. Connie has many important insights for all of us as we cross numerous thresholds in the l…
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The Next Chapter: Heart of the Pamlico Poet Laureate Michelle Garren-Flye shares her passion for the written and visual word.
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27:08Send us a text Michelle Garren-Flye is the owner of the Next Chapter Books & Art in New Bern, NC. She is a multi-published author of romance, children's books, and poetry. Michelle was named the Heart of the Pamlico Poet Laureate in 2021. She is ever curious, and ever expanding her experimentation with various forms of poetry and other narrative st…
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Knitting Up Loose Ends with Love: Jennifer Simonic and Masey Kaplan and the Loose Ends Project
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38:10Send us a text Jennifer Simonic and Masey Kaplan are the founders of the Loose Ends Project. Both avid knitters, they realized they had a shared experience: Friends would often ask them to finish blankets, sweaters, or other projects left undone by deceased loved ones. They always do so enthusiastically, understanding what it feels like to wear som…
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Author Mark Atkeson I How Chinese Entrepreneurs moved China Forward
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46:52Join author Mark Atkeson on his 30-plus year journey of living and working in China, an eyewitness to China's great transformation into a superpower. As both an entrepreneur and investor, Mark shares his firsthand experiences in a country that lifted 800 million people out of poverty over that period, spurred in large part by innovating Chinese ent…
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Love Is In The Air: Dr.'s Gloria Horsley and Frank Powers and romance in the senior years.
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32:08Send us a text Two years ago, Gloria and Frank, both retired psychologists, met on Silver Singles (https://www.silversingles.com/), an online dating website for folks 50+. Since their first date, they have been inseparable and decided to share the secrets to finding love with other seniors through their new book, Open to Love: The secrets of senior…
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Student Entrepreneur Dominyck Bullard l Sports Passion leads to launch of Athletiverse, a funded scalable Startup
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35:40Not many college students can claim that their startup won $100,000 at a pitch competition held at the San Diego Angel Conference and then also gained seed funding. Student athlete Dominyck Bullard, now student entrepreneur, accomplished both soon after launching his digital media startup Athletiverse. His company manages the digital assets of coll…
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