The Someone To Tell It To Podcast

Dr. Stephen S. Tang is a highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning chief executive officer, entrepreneur, and civic leader dedicated to the growth of innovation and entrepreneurship throughout the world. He was the chief executive officer of OraSure Technologies, Inc. from 2018 to 2022. In the face of the coronavirus crisis, Steve's focus on cultivating a compassionate workplace allowed his team to...

Beth Jones is the director of Deep Green Journey, an organization that provides guided backpack trips and walks as well as retreat and workshop experiences to help individuals and groups discover healing and wholeness through a restorative connection with the natural world.  A Certified Nature and Forest Therapy guide, she has over 20 years’ experience guiding hiking and backpacking excursion...

Through a life of seeing sounds and hearing color, 21-year-old electronic artist and producer Annie Elise is inspired by her synesthesia. Originally a classically trained violinist, Annie’s interest in electronic music stems from the neurological condition, even referring to herself as a “conductor for color” as she creates music that produces colors that she likes to see.  Join with us as An...

Anthony Johnson has a passion for helping others.  Based on his military experience, parenting two children, coaching, as well as his many life experiences, he helps others overcome their challenges by facing fears, expressing vulnerability, leaning into discomfort, and practicing discipline.  “My goal is to continue to grow personally, while helping as many people as I can thrive along...

What makes you come alive? What gives you life and fulfills you? What makes your life more like an enjoyable playground? We explore these questions and more in this episode with Colin Hunter, a London, England area-based leadership coach, author, mentor, the CEO of PotentialSquared - an organization that creates leaders future generations will be proud of - and host of the The Leadership Tales Pod...

Precious Martin is very community-minded and is experienced in mobilizing volunteers and diverse stakeholders for collective action and response to needs and disparities in the community. She describes herself as a motivated leader in developing innovative strategies to elevate teams and organizations. “I empower people to truly be their genuine self”, she writes. Precious is also an advocate for...

Brianna Campbell asks the question: “What would happen if we thought about what is right with people rather than fixating on what is wrong with them?” Her fresh perspective about leadership is the catalyst of our conversation about organizational culture. She knows that the more positive the culture we are in, in our work - and in our personal lives as well - the better, more content, and enthusia...

In the summer of 2021, we had an enlightening conversation with Timothy Shriver, who leads the Special Olympics International Board of Directors.  We are pleased to share this episode again today, as our nation just commemorated the life and legacy of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King’s work enabled barriers to come down for so many people, those who have been marginalized and hel...

Sharif El-Mekki is an award-winning educational leader in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Our conversation with him focuses on the importance of all of us holding up a mirror to ourselves to examine our racial and social biases, biases that hold others back. His work is raising vital questions and making valuable and needed contributions to the education of children of color, in particular, to allow t...

Rich Diviney is a bestselling author, leadership and human performance expert, and retired Navy SEAL commander. During his career in the US Military, spanning more than twenty years, Rich has completed more than thirteen deployments overseas. His book, The Attributes: 25 Hidden Drivers of Optimal Performance, explores the qualities that make us better at adapting in challenging and high-stress sit...

On September 6, 2021, at the age of 55, Jeannie Zappe completed a solo crossing of the English Channel from Dover, England to Wissant, France in 14:55 hours. She became the 707th woman since 1926 to do so, and was also 20 years older than the average successful Channel swimmer. Her story is riveting. Jeannie talks with us about why she did it and how vital it is for all of us to live our dreams. H...

2022 is Someone To Tell It To’s 10 year-anniversary so we want to re-share this episode between our co-founders Michael Gingerich and Tom Kaden. Michael and Tom reflect on how the mission began through their deep friendship, the ebbs and flows of non-profit work, why STTIT is so needed, and why it has had such a profound global impact. They believe that everyone needs someone to tell it to and tha...

Jennifer Marshall's life was going exactly as planned. Then, she turned 26 and everything changed. Jenn found herself unable to control her thoughts, spinning and struggling with reality. She was hospitalized and sent home to take some time and get some sleep. But, it would take yet a second hospitalization shortly after to reveal the fact that this was not about being overtired. It was about ment...

Born into a family of editors, Davis Holliday has always been driven by a desire to find and share meaningful stories. After graduating High School, Davis spent the next year partnering with nonprofits around the world through volunteering and video production work. After returning to Pennsylvania, he founded Searcher Films, a production company dedicated to lifting up powerful stories. SOMEONE TO...

Marisa Page is a citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and a descendant from the Ponca and Comanche tribes. She currently works for First Nations Development Institute, and lives in New Mexico.  She is an advocate for Indigenous peoples throughout the United States and around the world. Our conversation with her centered on what it is like to be an Indigenous person and how the communities...

“Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is a term used to describe policies and programs that promote the representation and participation of different groups of individuals, including people of different ages, races and ethnicities, abilities and disabilities, genders, religions, cultures and sexual orientations.” Monica O. Montgomery is a museum leader, (DEI) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion prac...

Jen Dalton is a personal brand strategist, international speaker, and author. Her most recent book - Listen: How to Embrace the Difficult Conversations Life Throws at You - shares intimate interviews and opens a window to conversations we may face in life. Our conversation with Jen explores the uncomfortableness we so often feel when need to have uncomfortable conversations, how we try to avoid th...

Today marks the start of the fifth season of the Someone To Tell It To Podcast.  We believe that to help the world to listen requires putting consistent, constant content about listening and its tremendous transformative power out into the world.  Inviting guests locally, nationally, and globally to join in conversations with us about the vital roles that listening plays in our everyday...

Stephen Shedletzky (Shed-Let’s-Ski) engages with people in meaningful ways so that we connect with depth and live in a more fulfilled world.  He’s said: “I imagine a world in which the vast majority of people wake up inspired, feel safe wherever they are, and end the day fulfilled by the work they do.”  We hope that Shed’s words will inspire you. Stephen Shedletzky is Head of Brand Exper...

Obama Foundation Scholar,  award-winning documentary filmmaker, TEDx speaker, and the creator of the Listen Courageously movement and workshop series, Juliana Tafur talks with us about listening to foster human connection.  We discuss her goal to find the “human side to every story,” what it means to “other” people, and storytelling’s impact in connecting us.  Her work is transforma...

Jane Adshead-Grant, of London, England, makes her second appearance on the podcast.  She is an author and an award-winning accredited executive coach with over 30 years experience in people-focused roles. In this episode, we talk with her about her newest book, and focus especially on her challenge she presents to listen to ourselves. She makes the point that to be a great listener, we first...

Pennsylvania State Representative Patty Kim joins us in conversation about leadership and public service, at the start of  Women’s History Month. Her leadership style has, at its core, a commitment to and belief in listening as a means to understand others’ perspectives and as a way to overcome differences and divisions. Her perspective is a refreshing antidote, one that provides hope and pro...

Garry Ridge is president and chief executive officer of the WD-40 Company. Maria Ridge is a philanthropist and social activist. We met both of them four years ago at a small dinner party in San Diego, California. Both Garry and Maria care deeply about human relationships and the cultures we create around us—in business and in our everyday lives.  Our conversation with them reflects their pass...

Designer, author, singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur Amma Johnson’s mission is to inspire the world.  Her passion, her creative gifts, and her desire to empower others shines through in this conversation.  Her mission is to inspire the world around her.  Most of all, she says, “I am a dreamer.”  She dreams of everyone living a more beautiful life.  You’ll be inspired as...

We reminisce with Vicki Halsey about a memorable evening we shared in her home outside San Diego, California, four years ago. That night we learned of her professional (and personal) mission as a vice president in the Ken Blanchard Companies to help others know their brilliance. Her energetic, infectious personality infuses every conversation you have with her with a true sense that you have speci...