Inspirational Women

Sandi Gold is a New England-based artist who was diagnosed with a brain tumor and given less than a year to live. That was nearly four decades ago! Faced with recurring symptoms of radiation damage (including cancer) from her treatment, betrayal by a dysfunctional family, and myopic advice from the medical establishment, she taught herself to open her heart and trust her own body’s voice. Sandi sh...

Maria Liberati is an award-winning chef, and author of The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holidays and Special Occasions. Anytime is really the perfect time to either begin or dive deeper into cooking, and to explore hearty and healthy recipes worthy of engaging family and friends into the action. Maria shares some favorite recipes with origins from Italy, where her family roots were established, a...

Jane Lee Rankin shares insights from her memoir "Farm Family: A Solo Mom's Memoir of Finding Home, Happiness, and Alpacas." The roots of Lee's experiences stem from those at home, trusting her intuition as a single mom and business owner. The basis for the latter would create a farm that has been fulfilling for her, her son, and for her immediate community. Apple Hill Farm is an award-winning firs...

Ruth Chamblee is a publishing and marketing professional who leads the Content Marketing Strategy & Promotion team for National Geographic Kids Books. Across three decades, she has designed and carried out multifaceted strategic marketing initiatives for countless Nat Geo book releases. And her guidance has helped bring new voices to and fill key niches in the children’s book market. The visio...

Kisha Stewart is a wife, nurse, mother of three, and above all, a heart attack survivor, rather early in life at age 31. Her story is so important, knowing Kisha is also a black woman, thus marking her much more strongly as a target for heart disease, and for securing the best possible treatment. Kisha provides us with such a great gift, her story serving as the basis for her book "Sonata for a Da...

Carol Carpenter is a stunt woman, pro motorcyclist, entrepreneur and consultant through her company MotoVixens , and the author of "The Elegant Disruptor: Breaking Through Barriers & Limiting Beliefs to Success. Carol was told she was crazy for pursuing her racing dreams. And as she worked through her own self-doubt, she built a life she loves and now helps others do the same! Now in her many...

Regina Lawless has been the DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) Head at a number of tech companies, and lastly at Instagram (now Meta). Regina is the author of a new important book, entitled "Do You: A Journey of Success, Loss and Learning to Live a More MeaningFULL Life." The title captures the essence of this ultra important story that provides important insights for all of us both in self-und...

Joanna Ho and Liz Kleinrock are coauthors of "Eyes That Weave the World's Wonders" a marvelous children's book about transracial adoption.     Joanna, on her own, is a  New York Times  bestselling author of Eyes that Kiss in the Corners. Her passion for equity in books and education is matched only by her love of homemade chocolate chip cookies, outdoor adventures, and dance parties with her kids....

Looking ahead and preparing for American Heart Month with 2 women, both Go Red for Women Ambassadors, who have overcome major heart health challenges: Jessica Rogers Morton - who had a heart transplant before age 30, and Shana Penington-Baird - who underwent emergency heart surgery while on vacation in Ireland. They are alive and present to speak of their incredible experiences, due primarily to t...

Barbara Feigin is an amazing woman who has written about her life, just so that her children would know their history, especially since she would discover not having known much about her parents' history. Barbara's story is an encouraging one - of life, but also of sharing the venture of that experience with one's own family. Of immigration, and the invaluable contributions of immigrants to our sh...

Theo Boyd is a farmgirl at heart, living in Texas, where she taught high school English, raised her daughter, and actively served in various organizations, her community, and her church. After 30 years, she moved back to her hometown of Whitney, Texas, to adjudge the death of her mother in a tragic farming accident, followed three years later by her father’s suicide. She now devotes her time to wr...

Barbara Lane is the author of a new book entitled "Broken Water: An Extraordinary True Story." Barbara was born the 9th of 11 sisters who were separated while she was only age 3. What followed was a life in an orphanage and in foster care, a life with unspeakable abuse. As an adult survivor, Barbara sought, and later studied into, the field of ministerial counseling, on the path to reunite with he...

Angie Elita Newell is an indigenous author whose newest book is "All I See is Violence." A literary faction based on factual accounts, Angie weaves three historical stories - involving a professor, a soldier and a female warrior from different periods in time. It has us look through a different lens for an important view of our life, our country, and those origins. And, along the way, making us qu...

Sharon Cameron is a talented and inspiring author, the efforts of which occupy her second creative career.  Her genuine joy in writing belongs to spinning historical fiction for young adults, but her pages can be turned and enjoyed by all ages. Her 8th and latest book "Artifice" transports readers to Amsterdam in WWII during the Nazi occupation. It's an amazing story, one humbled by its ingenuity,...

Mimi Prunella Hernandez M.S., R.H. is a clinical herbalist and ethnobotanist with a Master of Science in herbal medicine. She is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild, serving as its executive director for 10 years. Now National Geographic has published Mimi's informative and beautiful art book "Herbal: 100 Herbs From the World's Healing Traditions." The book is filled with rel...

Linda Broenniman was raised a church-going Catholic, only to uncover a long-hidden family secret - that her father was Jewish. And thus began a years-long journey of discovery and research, tracing the family back eight generations to Budapest, Hungary with an amazing "cast of characters," including Adam Politzer, the father of Otology. Linda chronicles this epic journey in her book "The Politzer...

Jordana Halkett is the Executive Director of Hand in Hand Kids in Snohomish County. This long-time community support organization has been helping families with support for basic needs, and embracing children to provide some of the extras parents may be challenged to cover.  We're invited to be community, and to be extended family - particularly at this time of year.  Monetary donations make a big...

Suzanne Heywood was born in the UK, but for most of her childhood sailed around the world with her family, with limited access to formal education. At 17 she essentially escaped from her parents, returning to the UK and 'quite amazingly' won a place to study at Oxford University. After her PhD, she worked as a civil servant, and later a business executive.  She is the mother of 3 young adults. The...

Susan Wiggs is a #1 New York Times best-selling author from our own Puget Sound area. Susan has authored over 70 books, and continues to follow her passion for wonderful stories and great escapes. Susan joins us to share insights into her newest novel "The 12 Dogs of Christmas" - A perfect book for the season, a perfect escape on a gray autumn day. We'll also hear the inspiration for this story, c...

Elana K. Arnold is the bestselling and award-winning author of many books for children and teens. Her latest release, 'The Blood Years' takes inspiration from her grandmother’s childhood experiences in Holocaust-era Romania. It's a story whose tragedy mirrors that of true human conflict, but that also displays, without provocation, the resilience of the human spirit. She is a member of the faculty...

Dr. Catherine Athans is a certified therapist experienced in trauma, marriages and family dynamics. As we see a troubled, angry world around us, Dr. Athans helps to determine some causes, and more importantly what we as individuals can do. It's simple, not to say it's easy, but Dr. Athans shares that we do need to take care of our own health, eat nutritionally, get sufficient rest. We are bombarde...

Diane Height was a retired teacher who asked herself what she would do in her retirement. The answer was an amazing adventure... that led to her teaching in Mongolia! Diane's is a motivational story about all that we can do and be in our life, if we are simply open to it.  Diane shares this next life chapter, in her book "A Mongolian Memoir...  Living and Teaching in Mongolia," and Diane shared th...

Nadia Popovich is an inspiring and compassionate young medical student at the University of Washington. There are some people who're just obviously in the right field of work; Nadia is a terrific example Even before she has entered the medical profession, in her volunteer work, and in her attitude toward and about life and people, Nadia is a natural healer. Her heart is huge with the desire to hel...

Noelle Salazar is a wonderful local author, with a fondness for historical fiction. That fully presents itself in her latest book "The Roading Days of Zora Lily," set right here in the Puget Sound, specifically Ballard and Seattle... one hundred years ago! The story is so rich with local flavor of that bygone era - the fashion, the culture, the people, and the value of friendships and family. You...

Aubrey Zoli is the Senior Development Manager for the American Cancer Society, and through her work is leading the challenge for the annual 'Making Strides Against Breast Cancer' walk. It takes place at Seattle's Gas Works Park, the morning of Saturday October 21. October is breast cancer awareness month, and this non-competitive walk around a beautiful part of the city is a great way to shine the...