Inspirational Women

Deanna Brown CFP has almost 20 years in the investment and financial services industry. And if we ever needed this education, this would be the time. We might be discovering our relationship with money is different and we might make some good, significant changes going forward, Deanna suggests. She stresses the need to communicate with banks and mortgage holders, landlords--make our case known. Sh...

Janet McKee is a high performance Success Specialist, and author of: Stressless Success: The Surprising Secrets to a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Prosperity. Janet comes to this new phase of her life from experiences of being a Corporate CEO, suffering a debilitating health crisis, and more. Her passion is to help others/us to face challenges, much as we are now. Janet provides direction, support...

Mental and Physical Health challenges during this time of CoVID. Dr. Sanam Hafeez is a neuropsychologist with a practice in New York City. It makes sense that the combination of her professional work, and being a mother of young sons, a wife, a daughter, a friend, provides a good foundation to look at our current circumstances and have a concern about the coping mechanisms. She addresses that some...

Amy Shira Teitel is a spaceflight historian, one of very few academically trained women in the field, an author, and public speaker. She shares about her new and exciting book: Fighting for Space--Two Pilots and Their Historic battle for Female Spaceflight. This is such a great and informative read...something to definitely help us during this time when we have more time for things like reading. A...

Anita K is a certified Executive & Life Coach and author of "Behaving Bravely: How to Mindshift Life's Challenges" . The title says it all--all of us can use a bit of shifting our mind during a challenging time--which is one description of our current reality. It's tough to do on our own, so to have a coach, collaborate with friends (virtually) we can surprise ourselves with a new sense of sel...

Vicky Durand is the author of "Wave Woman--The Life and Struggles of a Surfing Pioneer". That pioneer is Vicky's mother, Betty Winstedt. It's an amazing story--Betty was 40 when she decided to take up surfing in Hawaii, and go on to win championships. But this was the case with many things in her life, and she was a role model then and in reading her story we can capture a spirit and step out on a...

Hannah Kubiak, Communications Manager for Bartell Drugs gets us updated on all things Teddy Bear. First, to say this is now called: Operation Teddy Bear due to an expansion of reaching out to schools and counselors. Hannah also brings the good news that the time line has been extended--until Sunday April 12! What a great Easter gift, have our kids participate in donating teddy bear hugs to other k...

Sophie Egan a journalist who also holds a master's degree in public health with a focus on health and social behavior. It is the thing that drives her to write and educate and be a source of change for our world. She has a long list of credentials and activities, and now has a new book that is a wonderful guide and can help each of us make decisions on the food we eat and its impact on our planet....

Dr. Lois Frankel is the President of Corporate Coaching International, a sought-after speaker as she is a recognized expert in the fields of workplace behavior and female empowerment. Her newest book in her list of "Nice Girls...." books is only in audio format: Nice Girls Don't Speak Up or Stand Out--How to Make Your Voice Heard, Your Point Known, and Your Presence Felt. We might consider it an e...

Anne Devereux Mills can be regarded as a role model for transitions in our life. We are certainly individuals, but there is a commonality that we can all learn something from. Anne shares about some major shifts in her life--a recurrence of cancer, losing an executive position, her last daughter off to college--all at the same time. She was questioning herself and as a result created a program, an...

Robyn Whitmore is a filmmaker and author who is currently a member of the "working Homeless". As odd as this sounds, it is a growing population. Robyn lives in Atlanta, but we can see the same situation all around us in the Puget Sound area, and across the country. In her book "Your Battle Scars Are Beautiful" Robyn showcases the stories of numerous women who have found themselves homeless. Her ne...

Helene Berger is the author of "Choosing Joy: Alzheimer's, A Book of Hope". Helene wrote the book after collecting many notes she made during her husband's illness with Alzheimer's. And her book and insights have much relevance beyond this disease, and it really can help us live a good and connected life each day, everyday. It has a lot to do with respect, with patience, and from this feeling a pe...

Dr. Nicole Beurkens is the leader of digital safety and wellbeing for kids and families. Secondhand screen time is legit, and it’s being dubbed the “new” secondhand smoking. Thirty years after the EPA warned about the dangers of secondhand smoke, research now shows that people are addicted to their screens and without even realizing, adult screen time is having a negative impact on their kids. Dr....

Holley Moseley is an amazing bundle of energy--a mom, a nurse, an advocate, a champion, and now, an author. Holley brings us her incredible story filled with so much heart. "A Ray of Hope--A mother's story of Love, Healing, and the Miracle of Medical Marijuana"--captures the essence of Holley's life for the past 14 years, caring for Ray Ann who lives with cerebral palsy and epilepsy. There are man...

Dr. Melba Patillo Bales is a truly great figure in history and in this country. She is one of the high school students from 1957, the Little Rock 9, who played a significant role in desegregation. The Federal Court had ruled on integration in all schools. Even at a very young age Melba did not understand segregation, so she was a natural candidate for the group of black students selected to attend...

Kekla Magoon is an award-winning author of a number of books for young adults--the latest is "Light it Up", and she's an incredible storyteller. This book is very insightful and helpful and is timely as we consider both the birthday of The Rev. Martin Luther King whom we honor and recognize next weekend, and of Black History month, which is February. We can gain some insights and awareness for com...

Elizabeth Emens is a Law Professor at Columbia University, a mother of 2 youngsters, and now author of an important new book: Life Admin--How I Learned to do Less, Do Better and Live More. The book is important because it is an education--one that provides insight into the things /stuff of our own life, it presents experiences of others, and thus the means of making our life work more efficiently...

Beth Cramer is an accomplished editor and director of independent films. As a creative, Beth also had the dream of writing...and the result is a great first book: Why Didn't I Notice Her Before? A Memoir About Dying to Live. Beth's talent is quite evident as she takes us on this journey in her life...a health crisis as the launching pad for it. There's entertainment value, but really there's much...

Christy Crispin is an incredible woman. If you have heard the phrase about accomplishment and success--Find a need, and fill it. Christy is the embodiment of it. Before she and her husband married, they talked about children. She revealed her desire to foster, possibly adopt. And when they welcomed their first foster child just 7 years ago, she discovered how unprepared she was and set out to fix...

Chef Nancy Hughes is a cookbook author and a writer for the American Diabetes Association. So this is healthy, nutritious food for each and every one of us! Today Chef Nancy brings her newest production--The Instant Pot Diabetes Cookbook, so on top of nutritious, we now have a major time saver, something most of us need, most of the time, and during the holiday season much of the time. Also this i...

Tanya Zabinski is an artist, illustrator, and author, who brings us a wonderful book that is inspiration for life, and can be the ideal gift for really anyone--great for those hard to buy for, great for teachers, great for kids. A quote Tanya found to inspire her from Howard Thurman captures the essence of the book and a motivator for any of us: "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you...

Dr. Kelli Harding, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, NYC, specializes in Psychiatry and Neurology, as well as psychosomatic (mind-body) medicine. Based on her work and the goal to teach beyond the classroom she has written: The Rabbit Effect--Live Longer, Healthier, and Happier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness. 'The rabbit effect' is phrase related to...

Sasha Hendricks is the Education Curator at the Cougar Mountain Zoo, and she is living her passion, her dream. And she loves to talk about her furry friends and all the happenings at the Cougar Mountain Zoo. At this time of year, it’s all that revolves around the annual Issaquah Reindeer Festival. It’s a tradition for many northwest families, and might just become yours! Each year it just gets bet...

Michelle Hollomon is a mental health counselor in private practice in Seattle, and she is also an author. Michelle's new book "Losers, Users, and Abusers and the Women Who Love Them", is a great resource for each of us, really, because fundamentally it is personal growth work, and we can always be growing and becoming better. However, the sad truth is that abuse and domestic violence are at very h...