Today is the Day Changemakers

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to season 2, episode 11. This week my guest is Olga Abinader Director of Environmental Review and Land Use Planning at Matrix New World Engineering . Olga is very proud of working for Matrix New World Engineering, as it is a growing women-owned business with offices in NY, NJ, CT, AZ, and Louisiana with project experience throughout the US and the Caribbean.  Olga was born...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to season 2, episode 10 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast This week my guest is Colleen Verriest, MSW, LCSW, Founder/Owner - Whole Heart Healing, LLC. Colleen has been nurturing change in individuals and organizations for nearly 20 years as a licensed clinical social worker and nonprofit leader. She launched her own private practice providing individual and fami...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Season 2, Episode 9 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This week my guest is Sylvia Morrison, an empowerment specialist and humanitarian. She is the Founder and Director of Links Across Borders, a registered non- profit organization that co-creates libraries in Ghana, West Africa. There is so much packed into this longer episode. We kept chatting because the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Season 2, Episode 8 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This week my guest is Tyler Mount, Founder & CEO, Tyler Mount Ventures, The Tyler Mount Vlog. Tyler is also a Producer. He is the recipient of three Tony Awards, a Grammy Award, a Drama Desk award and a GLAAD Media Award. The Tony award he received for 'Once on this Island' made Tyler the yo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to season 2, episode 7 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This week my guest is Catherine Curry Williams, co-founder of two non-profit (for-impact) organization, She Angels Foundation and Shane’s Inspiration. Catherine is also the podcast host of Wine, Women and Chocolate. Catherine is a true inspiration and has incredible energy to do all she can to make a diff...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to season 2, episode 6 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This week my guest is Jessica Varian Maldonado, an entrepreneur; Founder, Organista Home ; author of the book titled, 'She Had No Business'; and Partner, Inspired Girl Enterprises. While raising four children on her own and living in poverty, Jessica Varian Maldonado founded Organista Home that...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to season 1, episode 5 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This week my guest is Iulian Circo, Co-Founder of Hyfe , an acoustic Artificial Intelligience cough detector. He is a serial entrepreneur and recovering humanitarian operating at the frontier of technology and impact. Born in Romania and now living in Austria, Iulian has had an incredibly interesting jour...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This week my guest is Stacey Abate. Since becoming a grants professional in 1997, Stacey  Abate has raised over $60 million from all types of foundations and government agencies. Stacey is a staff writer for RWJBarnabas Health, has had her own grants consulting firm since 2000, and was the founding President of the Grant Profes...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to season 2, episode 3 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This week my guest is Martine Cadet, social media content coach and creator. She helps her clients convert viewers into paying clients, never run out of things to say, and are confident in connecting with their audience by mastering the skill of storytelling on their social platforms. Martine’s system hel...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to season 2, episode 2 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This week my guest is David Armstrong, also known as Sensei Dave Armstrong. At a young age Dave dealt with a lot of challenges and turmoil. He unfortunately watched his mother get physically abused by a man she was dating. He says that the experience hardened him so much so that he experienced his first a...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Season 1, Episode 1! We are so excited for what is coming up for this season. We are starting off this year with an incredible guest that has so many gems to share with you. This week my guest is Mark Levy, founder of Levy Innovation LLC , a positioning and strategy firm that helps organizations, brands, and thought leaders differentiate by using, what he calls, “a big...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode 59 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. The last episode of Season 1! This week the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast host becomes the guest. Jodi Grinwald is interviewed by Dennis Budinich who appeared as a guest on episode 10. Dennis is the Chief Culture Officer at Investors Bank. Dennis was instrumental in introducing Jodi to some of her podcast...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode 58 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This week my guest is Fred Wasiak, President and CEO of the Food Bank of South Jersey. Fred and I talk about so many different topics and the messages and lessons are in abundance during this episode. Some of the lessons that Fred shares include: When you are present in the presence of others, that is truly a pres...

Send us Fan Mail This week I am excited to share conversations I had with entrepreneurs from around the world.  A new episode each day from Monday, December 13 to Friday, December 17 will air as my guests share their journey to entrepreneurship. Being an entrepreneur takes tenacity, determination, motivation, and the ability to keep going even when it may seem like there are many hurdles to jump o...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode 56 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This week I am excited to share conversations I had with entrepreneurs from around the world.  A new episode each day from Monday, December 13 to Friday, December 17 will air as my guests share their journey to entrepreneurship. Being an entrepreneur takes tenacity, determination, motivation, and the ability to ke...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode 55 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This week I am excited to share conversations I had with entrepreneurs from around the world.  A new episode each day from Monday December 13 to Friday  December 17 will air as my guests will share their journey to entrepreneurship. Being an entrepreneur takes tenacity, determination, motivation, and the ability t...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode 54 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This week I am excited to share conversations I had with entrepreneurs from around the world.  A new episode each day from Monday December 13 to Friday  December 17 will air as my guests will share their journey to entrepreneurship. Being an entrepreneur takes tenacity, determination, motivation, and the ability t...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode 53 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This week I am excited to share conversations I had with entrepreneurs from around the world.  A new episode each day from Monday December 13 to Friday  December 17 will air as my guests will share their journey to entrepreneurship. Being an entrepreneur takes tenacity, determination, motivation, and the ability t...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode 52 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This week my guest is Tomas Alvarez III. Tomas is an award winning social entrepreneur and former nonprofit executive with 15+ years of experience leading social impact initiatives. He is the managing partner and strategy lead at Idea2Form. Tomas is a visionary thinker, cultural broker, and a transformational lead...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode 51 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This week I welcome my guest Vince Warnock who comes to us from beautiful New Zealand. He is an award-winning Business and Marketing Strategist, coach, author, and host of the Chasing the Insights podcast. Which is also the name of Vince's book. For information about Chasing the Insights go to Chasing The Ins...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode 50 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This week my guest is John Belizaire. John is the CEO of Soluna Computing . John Belizaire’s parents escaped Haitian dictatorship and potential death before reuniting and coming to the United States. Since the age of 14 selling floppy discs in high school, John has had an entrepreneurial spirit and interest in tec...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode 49  of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast.  This week's  guest is Pam Ahern, Founder of Edgar’s Mission in Lancefield, Victoria, Australia. Pam shares her incredible journey from packing lolli’s ,as she calls them in a factory, and being a champion equestrian, to providing shelter and direct care for homeless, abused, injured and abandoned farm anima...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode 48 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This week I am joined by my special guest Co-host Quentin Williams. Quentin is CEO and Founder of Dedication to Community. Together, we interview our Perry Tuttle.  Perry is a former Clemson football stand out from the early 1980s. He caught the winning touchdown pass in the 1982 Orange Bowl. His celebration after...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode 47 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This week my guest is Kiran Handa Gaudioso, CEO, United Way of Northern New Jersey and President of United for ALICE. ALICE means asset, limited, income, constrained, employed. We start off the interview talking about boxes to check when it comes to ethnicity as Kiran was born to a Dad who is from India and a Mom...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode 46 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This week my guest is Susan Slotnick. Susan shares her incredible journey from juvenile delinquency to college graduate, choreographer, artist, author, social justice advocate, and going into the prison system to teach dance twice a week to incarcerated men for twenty years.  Susan had a difficult childhood. As a...