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Ep. 20 - Cath McBreen Part 1: Overcoming Dyslexia to Become an IVF Nurse Jul 21, 2019

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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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BONUS Episode - George Dapra Part 1: Love in the Old Country Jul 21, 2019

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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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Bonus Episode - George Dapra Part 2: The War Against Organized Crime Jul 21, 2019

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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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Ep. 20 BONUS - Cath McBreen Part 2: Are You a Good Match for a “Gestational Carrier”? Jul 21, 2019

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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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Ep. 19 - Frances O Johnson: Against the Odds:. Business, Divorce and Death Jul 14, 2019

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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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Ep. 18 - Desiree Doubrox: Don’t Let Anyone Dim Your Light Jul 07, 2019

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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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Ep. 17 - Cathy Gibson: Youth Literacy Jun 30, 2019

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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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Ep. 16 - Lyn Burton: Live with Integrity and Joy Jun 23, 2019

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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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Ep. 14. Monica Sussman: You Can’t Do It All! Jun 09, 2019

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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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Ep. 9. Fay H. Williams | We Stand on Her Shoulders May 31, 2019

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We All Stand on the Shoulders of Fay H. Williams (and her “comrades-in-arms”)! Attorney Williams paved the way for women to enter political office as the chair, National League of Women Voters Women’s Education Fund, traveling the country, starting in the late 1960s, to organize political campaigns, teach women how to friend-raise, comply with federal campaign finance laws and raise money from people they thought didn’t have any!

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