The Paid Leave Podcast

 April is National Donate Life Month. Connecticut residents have applied for both Organ and Bone Marrow donations under CT Paid Leave benefits. As of April 25th, 18 people have applied for organ donation and 4 for bone marrow donation.  Host Nany Barrow talks with 4th term Connecticut Representative Jeff Currey, about his own journey to find a lifesaving kidney.  Jeff talks about his life openly a...

In this episode we are talking about one of the qualifying reasons for taking CT Paid Leave. You can receive twelve days of income replacement for family violence also known as domestic violence.  My guests are the Executive Director of the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence(CCADV) Meghan Scanlon. The Executive Director of The Network in Enfield Karen Foley O'Connor. And domestic...

March is Women's History Month, we celebrate by speaking with the highest ranking female in the state's executive branch, Lieutenant Governor Susan Bysiewicz. Host Nancy Barrow sat down with the  busy Lieutenant Governor and talked about women in government, the need for more women to participate in politics, and how to bridge the gender pay gap. She talked about importance of CT Paid Le...

March is Women's History month. In celebration of that Host Nancy Barrow got a chance to sit down with CT Paid Leave Board Member, and the CEO of the YWCA Hartford Region, Adrienne Cochrane. They talked about how important the CT Paid Leave program is to the community and workers in Connecticut. Adrienne Cochrane talks about how the YWCA has remained  solvent and consistent through the pandem...

Host Nancy Barrow talks to Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont about Paid Family and Medical  Leave, and why it is good for the state and it's workers. He talked about how this program would have helped some of his own employees in his business. He talked about why he chose to implement the program now and how it makes Connecticut a more family friendly state. He talked about how he wants to be r...

Host Nancy Barrow talks candidly with the CEO of the Connecticut Paid Leave Authority, Andrea Barton Reeves . They discussed how she became the CEO of CT Paid Leave, and the tools she needed  to get the program delivered on time and under budget.  Helping people was always part of her plan, and that guided her to become the CEO of a start-up state program, that helps people with income replacement...