How We Impact the World really means, how do people from Lake County, MN make a difference in the world. I want to share stories about world-renown surgeons, entrepreneurs that are solving water issues in Africa, and travel with former residents that have gone back to their ancestral countries of Sweden, Norway, and beyond. All these people and many more grew up in Lake County and then went off to impact the world. I want to bring them back one week at a time. My name is Eric Fransen, and I ...
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Episode 4: Fletcher Kasell, Fashion Designer and Owner of Tanner Fletcher
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Two Harbors native and now Brooklyn, NY fashion designer Fletcher Kasell was riding the subway last month with Tanner Richie, partner and co-founder of the fashion brand Tanner Fletcher, when their phones blew up with congratulatory messages. Turns out their photo was part of a Vogue article featuring emerging and new designers. The next week Tanne…
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Episode 3: Carl Ehlenz, Owner of Betty's Pies
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In 1983 Betty Lessard, founder and owner of Betty’s Pies sold her business and retired. Little did she know that fifteen years later the phone would ring and Carl Ehlenz, the newest owner of Betty’s Pies would be calling to find out what happened to her famous lost pie recipes. At closing, in 1998 Ehlenz was finalizing the paperwork for Betty’s Pie…
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Episode 2: Whitney Wasko Living in Stockholm, Sweden
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Whitney Wasko came back to the University of Minnesota after spending spring break in Sweden and told her Swedish professor, “I’m going to move to Sweden.” Her professor asked a reasonable question, “How are you going to do that?” The girl from small-town Two Harbors replied, “I don’t know, but I’m going to figure it out.” That was in March of 2017…
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How We Impact the World really means, how do people from Lake County, MN make a difference in the world. I want to share stories about world-renown surgeons, entrepreneurs that are solving water issues in Africa, and travel with former residents that have gone back to their ancestral countries of Sweden, Norway, and beyond. All these people and man…
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