The View In Your Mirror

We not only have a new episode for all of you, but we also have a new TV show series for you to become obsessed with!  Ella Engström, is an Interior Designer and Professional Organizer based in Sweden. With over 30 years of experience in retail as a concept developer, retail merchandiser, and space planning manager, Ella started her own company, Engsroom . Ella has now taken her passion to new hei...

THANK YOU! With over 20,000 listeners: we are so excited to look back over the last 3 years and celebrate all of the incredible individuals we have had the opportunity to learn from, share in, and bring into our community. Each guest brings out a little piece of the puzzle of life to make our days better! We are so thankful for all the YES! We are so thankful for listeners and followers! We sincer...

A Minnesota-born artist and author, Jodi Hills now lives, loves and creates in the south of France. Jodi started writing and painting when she was five years old. No matter what she was feeling, she would go into her room and put it down on paper. As Jodi says, “I guess it's not just what I do. It's who I am! C'est moi!” A graduate of the University of Minnesota, Jodi went into advertising for her...

Sally Mixon, the founder of Abijah’s on the Backside , has a passion for horses, horse racing, and mental health. With her Masters in Professional Counseling and certification in the ARCH framework, Sally has founded an organization that uses retired race horses to serve and help military, first responders and stable workers with trauma, depression, anxiety, PTSD, and more. As a young woman, Sally...

WHAT. CAN’T. SHE DO. This episode features award-winning, Minnesota based restoration experts and co-owners of Practical Home and Ungerman Inc , Lindsey Uselding and Kirsten Meehan. They are experts in responding to home emergencies and completing the restoration. Growing up watching, observing, and assisting their father in various home emergency projects, prepared Lindsey and Kirsten to take ove...

Lily Garfield is a beauty industry leader and pioneer, and the Founder of Cos Bar , the original multi-brand luxury beauty retailer. Lily started her career behind the counter at Bloomingdales in Manhattan, New York. Just three weeks in, she left Bloomingdales to become the first female account executive for a cosmetic brand. It wasn’t long before she left New York all together, moved to Aspen as...

You should be excited to buy your next swimsuit - yes, excited - and here is why! This episode, we welcome founder and owner, Jennifer Cermak, of Nani Nalu Beachwear Boutique , which was born of out a bad experience searching for a swimsuit for a honeymoon. After trying on countless options at various stores, Jennifer ended up in tears inside a department store fitting room. Upset from the lack of...

Anne Hed, a lifetime resident of Minnesota, began her career as a worldwide professional triathlete. Through the sport, she met her late husband, Steve. Together, they shared a vision to create and innovate some of the fastest, most aerodynamic bike wheels in the world. In 1984, from Steve's garage and funded in part by Anne's race winnings, HED Cycling Products was born. In this episode, we learn...

To most of the world, Michelle Young was a contestant on the Bachelor and Bachelorette; but, that was just a snapshot of who this incredible woman, educator, activist, public speaker, and friend really is. In this episode, we dig deeper. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Bradley University in 2015, Michelle began her career teaching in Minnesota. We discuss the tra...

When you walk into yum! Kitchen and Bakery , and you see the menu, there are so many different selections that depending on what your palate wants for the day, you can find something. Patti Soskin opened yum! Kitchen and Bakery 18 years ago, now operating three locations in the Twin Cities, with her husband, Robbie. Patti has been in the restaurant business for her entire career. yum! is first and...

Allyson Fanger is best known for her costume design work on the popular Netflix series, “Grace and Frankie,” and recent work with "Shrinking" on Apple TV, "80 for Brady" of Paramount Pictures and "Act Your Age" on Bounce TV/MGM. Born and raised in Minnesota, Allyson’s career as a costume designer was innate but developed over time, patience, and truly putting the work in from the ground up. This e...

Allison (Ali) Kaplan is a self proclaimed career side hustler, and that she is! With a “day job” in writing and journalism as Vice President of content for MSP Communications’ Cities Media Group, which includes Twin Cities Business Magazine, where she also serves as Editor in Chief and MplsSt. Paul Magazine , to her “hustle” as Founder of Mother Of , we are so excited to share her story, energy, a...

As CEO of the Women Presidents Organization (WPO) , Camille Burns champions the WPO’s vision to help a diverse and dynamic community of global women entrepreneurs to come together to work on their businesses, taking them to the next level, and creating a community of successful female entrepreneurs. At 44 years-old and twenty-three years into her career at WPO, Camille has not only grown individua...

Building on more than 30 years of experience as a board certified Internal Medicine physician, business executive, mother, and on-air medical correspondent, Dr. Archelle Georgiou brings a multi-dimensional, data-driven approach to understanding and taking action in your own health.  In this podcast, we discuss aging not a disease we need to cure or a process we need to change, but aging as a part...

Alexa Curtis is a speaker, podcaster, blogger, influencer who has been impacting the the lives of teens and young adults since she was 12 years old. What started as a fashion blog, in 2011, turned into a platform whereby she could discuss real issues around social media and growing up. She has done more in her 25 years than most have done in their entire careers. Not only did Curtis turn her littl...

Judy Wert, a graduate of the University of Michigan, has been working with the leadership of innovative companies for over 25 years. Her career started in Chicago, in 1983, as a young graphic designer. Through the process of publishing a children’s book, Judy fell in love and moved from Chicago to Los Angeles to Israel, and settled in New York where she became a recruiter. It was through this jour...

Did you know that from a revenue standpoint, the translating and interpreting industry is larger than the global music industry? It didn’t take long for Ingrid Christensen to fall in love with the profession of interpreting. From babies being born to people taking their last breath, she was present for some of the most profound moments in people’s lives. One job posting as a “scheduler” for a tran...

This episode is a true tribute of thanks. Greg Hoyt, owner of Rustica Bakery, has believed in our mission from the beginning as our first and longest sponsor of The View in Your Mirror. An entrepreneur born and raised in Southern California and the islands of Hawaii, Greg has a story that is best told in a coffeehouse. This special episode was recorded, live, in house at Rustica Bakery Edina.    O...

We’ve known Pat Miles Zimmerman through our TVs for a long time. Pat was a revered part of the Twin Cities media landscape for more than a quarter of a century as former TV news anchor for WCCO-TV and KARE 11. Now, we share her with you as the best selling author for a new book, Before All Is Said and Done . This is a book we truly believe EVERYONE should own, read, listen to, and have in their ho...

Lindsay Pinchuk is an award-winning entrepreneur, consultant, community builder, connector, storyteller, expert marketer, social media maven, spokesperson, on-air expert, small business champion, and MOM. TRULY she is all of those things. In this episode, we share with you an incredible individual who has truly impacted us personally and professionally. Lindsay is infectious in in all the best way...

Now a spry 72 years young, Melissa Davey can add filmmaker, director, and executive producer to her list of accomplishments. After almost 3.5 decades in both nonprofit and for profit legal services for the disabled, an interaction with M. Night Shyamalan changed everything. At 65, Melissa left corporate America to pursue her dream of film making. In 2018, Melissa Davey completed her first film, Be...

Heather Fleck exudes a "can do" attitude and an easy manner with a fierce heart. Her collaborative spirit and desire to work for the good of others is inspiring and noteworthy. As a coach’s wife she is part of a dynamic duo next to her husband PJ. She is also mom, 2nd mom, and stand in mom for student athletes on the U of M Football team. Heather donates countless hours curating opportunities for...

This special episode has been requested many times by our listeners and clients! Lisa Rubin gets many “emergency” calls on this topic as many of us are often confused or overwhelmed by what each of these categories mean. So, this episode explains what black tie, formal attire, semi formal attire, and cocktail attire mean for both men and women! From the clothing to the shoes, to the handbag, to th...

Anne Marie Rogers is first class all the way, pun-intended. She is the Director of Meetings, Incentives & Events for a company called Direct Travel where she oversees all aspects of client meetings and events, including sales, procurement, planning and operations for their corporate customers. What is incentive travel you may ask? Imagine the company that takes their Top 100 employees to Hawai...

Jennifer is just like us: she is a working woman, wife, daughter, sister, and mother. Yes, we also believe she is the most fabulous designer, creator and artist, but at the end of the day, her passion is building women up and making them feel and look their best. She is truly a woman's best friend that you can carry with you daily, especially if you have one of her pieces. In this episode, we delv...