Inspirational Women

Friday, February 7 is National Wear Red Day - a day to raise awareness of cardiovascular disease, the #1 killer of Women. 2 wonderful women, both Go Red for Women Ambassadors bring important insights. Cynthia Granada experienced a stroke a few years ago and her emotional story reminds us that stroke pays no attention to age or gender. Cynthia is committed to bringing all the awareness she can to l...

Jane Lee Rankin shares insights from her memoir "Farm Family: A Solo Mom's Memoir of Finding Home, Happiness, and Alpacas." As Lee shares her experiences, her dreams, and the value of trusting her intuition, we find her the reasoning in her choosing to be a single mom, and to create a farm that has been fulfilling for her, her son, her community and then some. Apple Hill Farm is an award-winning f...

Arndrea Waters King is a passionate and compassionate leader, dedicated to making the world a better place. Together with her husband, Martin Luther King III, Marc Keilburger, and Craig Keilburger, they have written a great new book with stories and ideas about our own legacy, and the ways we can further build a strong community, the Beloved Community that Dr. King envisioned.  The book is "What i...

Julie Potiker is a mindfulness expert and author of "SNAP! From Chaos to Calm." She is a member of the teaching team at UCSD Center for Mindfulness. Learning and incorporating mindfulness into our lives is a great plan anytime but is a perfect fit for the beginning of a new year, with great new energy. Julie gives us ideas and practices for using mindfulness to overcome the stresses and anxieties...

Ali Katz is a lawyer, and the founder and CEO of Personal Family Law. Speaking from personal experience of philosophy put into action, Ali provides a fundamental look at life, and at death. She encourages us to see the opportunities in conflict, the lessons to emerge that guide us in living our best life, to be more of who we really are. Also to be aware there is an end time, so embrace it all. Al...

Caroline Topperman is an interesting and inspiring woman - an entrepreneur, a writer who at heart is a storyteller, one from a long line of storytellers. As discovered in insights from her newest book, entitled "Your Roots Cast a Shadow," a hopefulness emerges, that we are inspired to do some seeking of our own roots, and maybe not necessarily write a book, but find out about our past, and share i...

Corinne Cavanaugh writes contemporary fiction novels for book club readers. Corinne holds a master’s degree in international relations from Harvard University and has had a career in marketing. Now as she mothers her toddlers, she finds a perfect outlet in writing to explore topics of women's empowerment. She brings us her second book "An Audacious Partnership," delving into an evolving friendship...

Heidi Posnien and Rhonda Lauritzen speak about Heidi's life as a child in Berlin during WWII. This is the 80th anniversary of the beginning of that war. Rhonda had learned about Heidi who lived near her, and being an author spent time hearing Heidi's story and together they present the book "A Child in Berlin: The Poignant Story of Heidi Posnien and her Mother During the Fall of Germany." Heidi ha...

Ami Cullen is a former corporate law attorney who always had a deep connection with horses, going back to her earliest riding lessons. As an adult, a week's visit at a dude ranch brought the passion to surface again. Now, Ami is the Director of Equestrian Operations and oversees all aspects of the C Lazy U Ranch's Equine Program. This is an important story about following our passions to live a fu...

Jeanette Thebeau is the Executive Director and Chief Acceleration Officer for IWL Foundation (Integrating Women Leaders). Jeanette and her team have done a ton of research, and it's culminated in a White paper "It's Not Just 16 Cents: A New Look at What the Gender Wage Gap Really Means for Women". Important to keep in mind, it's not just for and about women of course, but really for society overal...

Kyla Cain is Education Curator at the Cougar Mountain Zoo, and she brings a sleigh-full of great information about the Issaquah Reindeer Festival, happening throughout the month of December, where and while the magic is in full force. Santa, his reindeer and loyal elves are all there, making for a memorable event, and a great gift. And a zoo membership can be that special gift that can truly last...

Sandy Robertson, RN, MSN, PH-CNS, is an author and Board-Certified Holistic Nurse (HN-BC). For the past 25 years, she has been a notable corporate and healthcare systems manager/leader/educator of wellness and obesity programs. Sandy has a new book entitled "Why Am I Eating This?," an empowering book which provides us with 7 Simple Steps for Transforming our relationship with food, the first step...

Janet Sherlund is the author of "Abandoned at Birth: Searching for the Arms that Once Held Me." Janet is an adoptee, and her book chronicles the deeply heartfelt rigors of her life's experience. The key element we all stand to gain from her text should be a clearer, more profound understanding of adoption in our world from an adoptee's perspective, appreciating the good home she had but still feel...

Shanisty Ireland is a food and lifestyle influencer and a mom of 5 active kiddos. She talks holiday fun and decorating, a focus on Friendsgiving, and shares some simple recipes and entertaining ideas. On socials @ShanistyIreland See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dr. Rosha McCoy is a Senior Director for Advancing Clinical Leadership & Quality with the Association of American Medical Colleges. She brings the latest information on vaccines, the covid-19 and RSV. www.vaccinevoices.org   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Linda Moran is the author of  The Perks of Hospice: Stories of Love, Life, and Loss.   Linda fills the book   with intimate personal stories as well as practical checklists for those facing similar journeys. Linda was married to Dean for 45 years and they did everything together, especially in their two decades as fiber artists, experimenting with an ancient paper process on fabric. Their art prov...

Lucy Ashe is an English and Drama teacher based in New York City and is also an author whose newest historical novel is "The Sleeping Beauties." Before moving onto teaching, Lucy trained at the Royal Ballet School in London, and the rigors of that training factor largely in her writing. Lucy wonderfully weaves the story of ballet and the arts during WWII, with variations of the Sleeping Beauty fai...

Sharon Lechter is a renowned financial literacy expert and New York Times best-selling author of "Rich Dad Poor Dad" and "How Money Works for Women." Sharon is also a motivational speaker with a focus on navigating the tumultuous landscape around us, particularly as Election Day draws close. Sharon has a list of 8 considerations for our lives to help us feel more balanced and peaceful at any time,...

Patti Wukovits, BSN, RN is Co-Executive Director, and also a cofounder, of the American Society for Meningitis Prevention. Patti's 17-year-old daughter Kimberley died of meningitis just a week before her high school graduation. She was instrumental in co-founding the group alongside Alicia Stillman, another mother whose teen daughter died of meningitis. Dr. Mary Beth Koslap-Petraco is Medical Coun...

Liz Kleinrock is an antibias/antiracist educator, consultant, and facilitator for schools, organizations, and companies across the country. She is a transracial adoptee, born in South Korea and raised in Washington DC, and has written a number of relevant books marking and teaching her experiences. She joins us this week to discuss her latest book, written in collaboration with Caroline Kusin Prit...

Geri Spieler is an investigative journalist and award-winning speaker. She is also an author, whose latest book "Regina of Warsaw" speaks to personal experience in a historical fiction based on the life of her grandmother, Regina. As a young woman with a toddler son, she made the courageous decision to leave Poland prior to WW1, due to the violence erupting against Jewish citizens. Many members of...

Blake Rabinowitz is a 16-year-old poet, an author who has already published a book of poetry serving as a tool to help others, ​teens and adults alike. Blake has in fact done so with teens in school classrooms, and also has held workshops at senior centers. Using writing and journaling, Blake encourages us to write ourselves; to release the burdens we carry within, and to become who we are meant t...

J.A. Jance is a best-selling mystery writer whose career spans decades, and her main characters keep pace with the decades that they have been her creation. One of these key characters is a private investigator, retired homicide cop J.P. 'Beau' Beaumont. Jance makes her home in the Puget Sound, the setting for Beau's life and work. In the latest entry of this gut-clenching suspense series, "Den of...

Dr. Helen McKibben is a seasoned clinical therapist with over 35 years of experience. She holds a doctorate in psychology, as well as national certification from the National Board of Certified Counseling. She uses neuroscience to help people retrain their brains to make better choices, trust those decisions, and erase self-doubt. Details of this can be found in Dr. McKibben's important new book  ...

Dr. Julie Gatza is a nutritional educator, and one of the nation's top chiropractic physicians with more than 30 years of clinical practice. In that time, as a co-founder of the Florida Wellness Institute, she has assisted thousands of patients in resolving a wide variety of physical ailments. Using her understanding of the nervous system, nutrition, and alternative therapies, Dr. Julie’s mission...