Inspirational Women

2 dedicated members of PAWS from our Puget Sound area-- Eve Firestone is the Events Manager and gives a current overview of all the work being done at PAWS both with domestic animals, and those from the Wild. Eve has the first invite to the big event coming up, the PawsWalk! Dedicated volunteer and fund-raiser for the Paws Walk is Kara Gearhart, cofounder of the Cat City Bobcats team, a team that...

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk is a successful fundraising event, but there is still more need for research and support activities. We get the stats and details for the Walk from Emily Vega and Christina Kelly from The American Cancer Society. Christine Olson opens her life to us, just hearing the dreaded diagnosis less than 2 years ago. And she is alive due to the newest technology. Mo...

WOW--Washington Outdoor Women! Ronnie McGlenn, founder, Jen Syrowitz, Executive Director, have super info about this 21- year-old non-profit. WOW offers hands-on workshops from basic fishing to water-fowling, and survival skills, from archery to medicinal plants for trailside use, to snowshoeing, plus, plus and more! Throughout the year various day workshops are offered. Looking at the list you'll...

Jill Weisenberger is a registered dietitian nutritionist, certified diabetes educator and a Wellcoach®-certified health and wellness coach. These credentials indicate the passion Jill has to help us be well, get well, stay well. Jill is an author and shares the details for this life style in her important book. Prediabetes: A Complete Guide: Your Lifestyle Reset to Stop Prediabetes and Other Chro...

Deborah Santana is an author, seeker and activist for peace and social justice. She is founder of Do A Little, a nonprofit that serves women and girls in the areas of health, education and happiness. She's penned a memoir--Space Between the Stars, and now is the editor of a magnificent collection of stories in the anthology: All the Women in My Family Sing. 69 Women of color share experiences, tho...

Marie Unanue is a writer and now has turned this talent to writing children's literature. Her focus is on bullying, using a menagerie of pets and animals to demonstrate the character traits of kindness, gratitude, cooperation, empathy, self-control. The book: The Adventures of Phatty & Payaso is a chapter book, great for summer reading, great for parents reading with kids. It's also fun that t...

Jo Ann Simon is a corporate executive, a lifelong nutmegger. Jo Ann is also an author, and her new book....Rose Colored Glasses: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Hope is a result of Jo Ann's journaling after her husband died. Jo Ann opens up her life as a wife, a partner, a caregiver. Jo Ann's husband Tom suffered a tick bite, was alternately diagnosed with Lyme disease and ALS--they have similar sympt...

Maia Duerr a writer, organizational consultant, and coach for people going through life and career transitions. It's more typical for people to have several career changes in their life time. Maia conducts workshops, retreats, and online programs, drawing on her years of Zen meditation practice and training to help people discern their ideal work for a particular time. Maia shares this in a wonder...

Susan Wiggs is a popular and prolific NW author. Along with bringing us a great summer read, Susan's newest book "Between You and Me" brings us an opportunity to think about and discuss issues that are relatable to life. The story line takes us into Amish country as well as a big city medical center in Philadelphia, to a clash of cultures, family issues, not the least of which is parental expectat...

Bonnie Jane Hall is the author of "Reaching the Shore--A Story of survival, Courage and Endurance" along with contributions from her son Devon Jake Douma. This is one story of the juvenile justice system, a story of family, of the typical challenges, and a stark view into prison walls. I feel we can say the penal system if not broken, has many cracks. Devon's experiences told directly give us thes...

Debbie Reber is a NY Times best selling author, speaker, founder of TiLT Parenting, and a proud mom. Being a Mom has been a hands on education, as Debbie's son has been diagnosed with ADHD and Asperger's, but along with this came little or no direction or help in working with him. Ultimately Debbie's written "Differently Wired--Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World". Her experiences...

Joanna Charnas is a social worker and a licensed psychotherapist, and author. Her writing focuses on a condition, chronic illness that has been part of her life for the past several decades. Her latest book: 100 Tips and Tools for Managing Chronic Illness, is not just for those with illness of any sort, it really is a great handbook for just dealing with life. In it we feel Joanna's personality an...

Amber Rae is an author, artist, and speaker. Amber is an inspiration in her ability to analyze her life, and realize just what she felt passionate about, that she wasn't doing it, and then set about making it happen. It's a process, for any of us, and Amber Rae did the absolute great work of documenting her experiences to share with the world, those of us desiring to live our passion as well. We c...

Patricia Newman is an award winning children's book author, creating books that engage kids in great local and global projects--the environment, nature. And Patricia's latest book: Neema's Reason to Smile takes us on a journey to Africa to a Kenyan village to meet a young girl who's greatest dream is to go to school. Children have created fund raising projects to support the school in Kenya. Patri...

Rhonda Nelson is a writer--her new book is: A Different Life, and reveals the experiences that make her a motivational speaker as well. The book also provides interesting insights into her life as a wife...to Wayne Nelson, lead singer and bassist of LRB/Little River Band, insights into aging well, and continuing to live our life's purpose throughout our life--May is older American's Month. Rhonda...

Holly Adams and Chris Zanassi with MustLuvBoxers Rescue, a locally founded nonprofit that rescues this special breed, Boxers, often young dogs that are dumped because the cute energy is too much to handle as the dog matures. Holly discovered the love and support of a boxer when she was going through hard times and decided she needed to do something to make a difference for them. It all started jus...

In "Standing Up After Saigon", Sharon Orlopp documents the story of a young Vietnamese girl born during the Vietnam War, afflicted with polio at a young age, and there was no medical help available because of the communist takeover of the south. Thuhang Tran still had an amazing and hopeful outlook, spent her youth scooting across floors, but yet was determined to go to school. The family was fina...

Janelle Hanchett is the author of the new book: I'm Just Happy To Be Here...a Memoir of Renegade Mothering. Timing is great--with Mother's day coming up. It might be a great gift for someone, or for yourself.... because Janelle shares some important and interesting insights. She was a young mother at 21, just newly dating her boyfriend. They wanted to keep the baby, and as she shares in her book,...

Carina Chocano is a journalist who has written for the New York Times magazine, Elle, Vogue and numerous others. Carina is also a woman who, beginning in her youth, was questioning the way things were for women, the attitudes, the roles...seen in the media, found in books. And now she is the author of: You Play the Girl. On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Meassages...

Wilma Comenat is the local Regional Director of the Lupus Foundation of America and Michelle Morrison is a young woman living with the disease, lupus. The word 'mystery' occurs a lot when speaking of this disease because it manifests in many different ways, mainly affecting women. About 1.5 millions persons live with this disease in the US. Research is key, and funding is critical to supporting re...

Laurie McNamara has fun and great ideas to begin or expand a more healthy cooking experience in our homes. It's a perfect time to think and plan this with spring planting time, and even think about Earth Day coming up. Laurie recommends beginning with small steps. She began with a blog, which has expanded; a small garden, and it's expanded. The produce is used to create 'from scratch' meals for th...

WARM's Catherine Hall, aka 'the teddy bear lady' shares an overview of the nearly 3 decades of teddy bear gathering and distribution, and invites everyone to be involved. It's a way to be community, and part of The Teddy Bear Patrol. The heartfelt stories of those receiving the bears are great motivators, and it's made so easy during April when Bartells doubles the giving by matching each bear bou...

Amber Lindamood is in a Master's program in Social Work at the UW, and she is also a Case Manager at Selah Homes, part of Hand in Hand Kids, a nonprofit foster care organization. The thing the is so unique about Amber and this work and study, is the fact that she was in foster care at 6-years old. She suffered severe neglect, malnutrition, abuse, and because of a great family who fostered her, she...

Geneen Roth is a NY Times best-selling author, with a brand new book, one that is certain to support and encourage us on this great life journey--This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide. Geneen shares stories of her challenges, the personal discoveries to overcome them, and also includes stories from workshop attendees--all helping us to learn and grow. www.geneenroth.com See Privacy Policy at...

Susan Wise Bauer is an educator, writer, entrepreneur, mother, wife, farmer...and it all wraps up together in this woman passionate about education and providing the best available for every child. Susan knows we need our own education on the subject and so she's written this great new book: Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education. www.welltrainedmind.com See Privacy Policy...