This show takes time to pause life to focus on social good, social entrepreneurship, and social impact. There are enough people tearing each other down and apart in relationships, business, and all over the world. It is time to STOP. Shift the focus to the people who are making a difference in this world by creating and serving others in ways they have embraced. This show is aimed to connect people to listen, learn, and spark interest and empowerment in how they themselves see what they can ...
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CABW 072: Improving Communication and Quality of Life for Those with Hearing Loss
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Did you know that there are approximately 15% (~ 37.5 million) of adults aged 18 years and older who reports some trouble hearing and only 20-30% use amplification or hearing aid devices? In addition about 2-3 out of every 1000 children in the United States are born with hearing loss in one or both ears. Dr. Natalie Phillips spends time with Taylor…
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CABW 071: Loving Yourself Through Authenticity and Solo-Dating
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Holly Hartman is a motivational keynote speaker, best selling author, life and recovery coach, domestic violence advocate, and event and podcast host. In this episode, Holly shares her deep passion for connection to help guide and connect others to their authentic selves to enjoy the sweetness of life and create the life of their dreams and the lif…
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CABW 070: Finding Strength and Confidence with the Free To Be Movement
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Jaime Carden-O’Brien is a licensed professional counselor who saw the need for strength and confidence to be learned at a young age. She is the founder of the Free To Be Movement, a wellness studio for girls whose mission is to create experiences that invite self-acceptance, self-love, and empowerment in young women. Low self-esteem and lack of con…
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CABW 069: Because of Sam: Inclusion for Intellectual Developmental Disabilities
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"Don't be afraid to ask for help. It is not a sign of weakness, but rather of strength." - Dr. Sandi Eveleth Dr. Sandi Eveleth is an Optometrist, Certified Master Marketer, and a Certified Digital Business Consultant who had the opportunity to work on a "passion project" movie as the film's editor and associate producer called Because of Sam. It's …
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CABW 068: Guys In Ties: Raising Up Leaders of Tomorrow
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"Lead with character over credentials." - Anthony Waite Meet Naval Officer Anthony Waite, a husband, father, nurse, educator, and most of all a leader and coach who is dedicated to being intentional with how he influences those he leads and loves. Anthony shares his vision with us about a youth organization he developed dedicated to raise up the le…
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CABW 067: Living the Happier Life with Dr. Jason Koh
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Meet Dr. Jason Koh, endodontist, and creator of The Happier Dentist, a podcast dedicated to unlock hidden wisdom and insights on what it takes to become a happier, healthier, and more fulfilled dentist in areas of work, play, and in life. Come learn about Jason’s vision to bring it all together by providing environments to give back to the communit…
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CABW 066: From Dreamer to Creating Empowered Leaders
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“As a leader…people need to see who you are. Embrace who you are and step out.” – Betzy Valdez Meet Betzy Valdez, proud Dreamer, speaker, servant leader, and creator of Empowered Leader, a community organization dedicated to serve and transform individuals to become empowered leaders. For more information about Betzy Valdez, please visit: https://w…
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CABW 065: Living A Life of Confidence and Conviction with Rocky Garza
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"People want to be SEEN. People want to be KNOWN. People want to be UNDERSTOOD." - Rocky Garza Meet Rocky Garza, Truth-Teller, Change-Maker, and Belief-Creator…challenging the stories we tell ourselves so that we can experience the freedom to live. He is author of a new book: Kill Doubt, Build Conviction and host of the Be Known podcast. Rocky spen…
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CABW 064: Discovering and Transforming Your Life Through Self-Mastery
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Meet Carey Davidson, Founder, Author, and Human Capital Expert who believes in maximizing every interaction to make life and work feel more like adventure and play. As author of The Five Archetypes: Discover Your True Nature and Transform Your Life and Relationships, she shares her wisdom surrounding a new system for building self awareness, self r…
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CABW 063: Discover Your Purpose and Dive For Your Dreams
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“If you wouldn’t die for it, you wouldn’t live for it either.” Meet Ira Davis, a former Marine Corps Drill Instructor, is a skydiver, a dream development coach, and is the founder of The DreamDiver Company, an Elite transformational coaching company that helps business professionals & entrepreneurs who are searching for something greater, discover …
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CABW 062: Growing Leaders of Worth with The GLOW Getters Foundation
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“We believe the most impactful leaders empower and inspire other leaders.” – Sloan Reid Dr. Natalie Phillips spends time with Sloan Reid, Founder and President of the GLOW Movement and Co-Founder of The GLOW Getter Foundation. She and her husband Drew, founded The GLOW Getter Foundation, to lead by example, serve their community, and to invest in a…
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CABW 061: Helping Locals Connect in the Community with BRIDGE Local
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After meeting and connecting on Clubhouse, Dr. Phillips chats with Chrissanne Long, founder of a network called BRIDGE Local, created to help locals in her community connect. Started 10 years ago and out of the passion to help others, her Facebook community has grown to over 10,000 people. Chrissanne has connected to so many people doing meaningful…
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Imagine a world where Black boys become Black men who are Community Builders. "If you are not serving, then what are you doing?" – Gerald A. Moore, Sr On this episode, Dr. Natalie Phillips chats with Gerald Moore, speaker, best-selling author, and nonprofit founder whose vision is to create opportunities for Black boys to participate in the high-te…
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CABW 059: Changing the Experience and Outcome in Foster Care with Colorado Kids Belong
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Thousands of kids in the Colorado foster care system are unseen and suffering, left to feel like they don’t belong. On an average day in Colorado, 11 children or teens enter foster care because their parents need time to learn new skills to become the parents their children need them to be. When children age-out of the system at 18 without a family…
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CABW 058: Doing Business with an Empathetic Mindset
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Can having an empathetic mindset be taught and lead to your business success? On this episode, Dr. Natalie Phillips spends time talking with Natalie Jark, a web design coach, consultant, and speaker who is dedicated to help people do good in this world by empowering businesses to do good through their work. She talks about using an empathetic minds…
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Have you wanted or needed to give a gift and wished you just knew what the person wanted? Or wanted to share what you actually need or want? What about gifting supplies and needs to a non-profit organization? On this episode, Dr. Natalie Phillips chats with Kelly Keurzoneff, Founder and President of Givelist for Good, a nonprofit organization, and …
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CABW 056: The 14 Year Old Business Owner, Yuvi Dhindsa
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"Just put yourself out there and push yourself." Yuvi Dhindsa is a 14 year old entrepreneur, former TedX Youth speaker, and intern at an MIT start-up. A “typical kid”, he is inspired and has learned from YouTube, his friends, and his father and is passionate about making this word better by using technology and focusing on mental health. Yuvi share…
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CABW 055: Providing a Home for Foster Children
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“You never know how much you can do until you have an opportunity to do so.” Roman Prokopchuk is a 1st generation immigrant from the Ukraine who arrived in the US with 6 other family members and lived in a 2 bedroom apartment. He interned with the secret service and held a top secret government clearance. Due to the recession in 2008, he became a s…
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CABW 054: Inspiration, Stories, and Real Talk with Sarah Monares of The We Podcast
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On a very special episode of Connecting A Better World, Natalie chats with her friend and fellow podcaster Sarah Monares. Sarah is the founder and CEO of Monares Collective LLC and The We Spot, an online community designed to be “your go-to spot for learning, growth, encouragement, inspiration, authenticity, and connection”. Sarah is also the host …
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CABW 053: Developing the Next Generation of Digital Leaders
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Cyberbulling has increased 81% since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Negative online material and behavior are linked to higher levels of stress, anxiety, depression, and suicide in kids and teens. Just because students understand the mechanics of social media and digital technology doesn’t mean they know how to deal with issues like cyberbullying, ha…
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On this episode, we spend time with Kimberly Giles, Co-Founder of Little Willows, which she founded with her sister. Little Willows provides coordinated clothing boxes for young children in underserved families throughout Northern Colorado. With the conviction that every child deserves to look and feel their best in every season, Little Willows exi…
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CABW 050: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Exploitation
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On this episode, we spend time with Sarah Symons, Founder and Director of Her Future Coalition, an international charity who’s mission is to break the cycle of poverty and exploitation by providing education and services to survivors and the most vulnerable girls. Sarah is an author, former composer of music for TV and film as well as a former art …
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CABW 049: Rewriting the Story of Education
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Students in need should never be afraid to ask for help and success in school should not be dependent on your income bracket. We spend time with Matine Khalighi, an incoming freshman student at Harvard University and Executive Director of the youth-led nonprofit, EEqual, a 501c3 organization and movement dedicated to level the playing field for stu…
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CABW 047: Empowering Today’s Girls to Become Tomorrow’s Leaders
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Mothers and Daughters Serving Communities Together. The National Charity League is for mothers and their daughters, grades 7–12, to participate in a program that fosters the mother-daughter relationship through community service, leadership development, and cultural experiences. Established in 1925, NCL is a multi-generational philanthropic organiz…
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Aspiration. Inspiration. Discipline. Dan Pelino is the co-founder of Everyone Matters, Inc, a social impact enterprise dedicated to ensuring that everyone has equal access to citizen-based services, healthcare, and education. He is a regular contributor to the discussion on healthcare citizen based services on CNN, Bloomberg, the BBC, and other med…
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CABW 045: Providing Opportunities and Support for Disadvantaged Youth, Teens, and Adults with Dantiel Daniels
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“We were homeless, but not hopeless.” Dantiel Daniels, former Colorado State men’s basketball player and professional player in Finland, Uruguay, and China is now an inspirational athletic coach. He takes time to share with me about his story growing up and the continued motivation to take opportunities that were foreign to him growing up in his en…
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CABW 044: Transforming Victimized Youth into Leaders Through Public Speaking
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Warning: The following contains discussions of sexual abuse. Listener discretion is advised. On this episode, Dr. Natalie Phillips chats with Jackie Bailey, founder and director of the Speak Feed Lead Project. Jackie shares her story as an abused child who lost her self-worth, self-confidence, and the ability to empower her voice. When Jackie disco…
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CABW 043: Helping People Help Others with CareZare
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On this episode, our host, Dr. Natalie Phillips, spends time with Logan Wells, Co-Founder and CareChief of CareZare. Watching his parents and aunt take on the monumental task of caring for his grandmother after she was diagnosed with dementia triggered an entrepreneurial spark in Logan, who is the brains behind CareZare, and who created the CareZar…
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CABW 042: Providing Access for Survivors with Face Forward International
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Warning: The following contains discussions and images of domestic and sexual violence. Listener discretion is advised. “Take the first step. Even if it is a baby step. Find something that you connect with and just give what you can.” ~ Charmi Gosalia. Today we will be talking with Charmi Gosalia, who is on the Board of Directors with Face Forward …
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CABW 041: A Message of Courage and Grit with Lance Allred, the First Deaf Basketball Player in NBA History
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In this episode, Dr. Natalie Phillips spends time talking with Lance Allred, the first deaf player in NBA history, international and online keynote speaker, TedX speaker, leadership consultant, visionary, motivator, and best-selling author. Lance was born legally deaf, with 80% hearing loss, into a fringe polygamist commune in rural Montana, where …
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CABW 040: Inspiration through Action and Adversity with Derrick Coleman, Jr., Super Bowl Champion and the First Legally Deaf Offensive Player in the NFL
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In this episode, our host, Dr. Natalie Phillips, spends time with her friend and mission buddy, Derrick Coleman, Jr, Super Bowl Champion and the first legally deaf offensive player in the NFL. When they first met serving with the Starkey Hearing Foundation in India, they were able to bond over the service of others. Derrick shares his incredible st…
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CABW 039: Providing Safety for Victims with Alternatives to Violence
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This episode contains discussion of domestic violence which may be disturbing for some listeners. Listener discretion is advised. Home is not safe for everyone. 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men experience domestic violence. In this episode, Dr. Natalie Phillips spends time with Kari Clark, Executive Director with Alternatives to Violence as she talks ab…
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CABW 038: No Child is Forgotten with Realities For Children
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“What are the most important words a kid can say? There are no words, but there are ACTIONS.” ~ Craig Secher No Child Should Be Forgotten. On this episode, Dr. Natalie Phillips chats with Craig Secher, Founder and Executive Director of Realities For Children. Realities For Children was incorporated in 1995 and has been funding the unmet needs of La…
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CABW 037: Finding Help to Build Your Non-Profit Organization
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"Start with a connection first. My contacts in my phone are both my friends and those I do business with." ~ Alex Koenigsberg On this episode, Dr. Natalie Phillips chats with Alex Koenigsberg, President and Founder of Arula, Inc, providing consulting services for non-profit organizations. Alex truly believes in changing the model of nonprofit consu…
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CABW 036: Providing Opportunities for Social Justice in Guatemala with Brent Bromstrup and Top of the Lake Coffee
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Great Coffee. Greater Good. On this episode, we chat with Brent Bromstrup and follow his journey that began in 2013 to bring awareness of the social injustice and pay of coffee growers in Guatemala. Through his friendship, service in the community, and his passion to help with the inequities by providing a way to sell coffee directly from Guatemala…
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CABW 035: Raising Social Awareness Through Performance Art with Jessica Starr and MusEffect
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“Take a step back to look in and then take that ONE step forward.” – Jessica Starr On this episode, we chat with Jessica Starr, founder of MusEffect, a non-profit organization dedicated to raise social awareness through performance art. Jessica shares her story as a young dancer in competitions and conventions to attending college, and finally star…
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CABW 034: A Mission to Cure Blindness with Two Blind Brothers
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“Your disability does not preclude you from anything. In fact, your biggest challenge is your BEST empowerment!” – Bryan Manning On this episode, we spend time talking with Bradford and Bryan Manning, two brothers on a mission to cure blindness. At a young age, Bradford and Bryan were both diagnosed with a rare eye disease, called Stargardt Disease…
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CABW 033: Providing Basic Necessities with the Grace Upon Grace Project
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“1 in 8 women struggle to buy period products in the United States alone; this is called period poverty.” On this episode, we chat with Emily Jorgensen, as she shares her own, vulnerable story paired with her giving heart that led her to create the Grace Upon Grace Project in October 2019. The Grace Upon Grace Project is committed to provide under-…
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CABW 032: Ordinary Nurses Serving Malnourished Infants in Guatemala
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On this episode, we chat with Jeff and Karlie Ruiter, Founders of Ordinary Nurses. Jeff and Karlie founded the non-profit organization to bring health and hope to the starving babies of rural Guatemala. With infant mortality high and accounting for 25% of all registered deaths as well as knowing that within the villages of Guatemala, over 80% of ch…
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CABW 031: Fighting Human Trafficking with Rescue 1 Global
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“The world of human trafficking, both labor and sex trafficking, is not a new thing but the world of anti-trafficking is.” ~ Lacy Tolar. Human trafficking is the second fastest growing criminal industry in the world, trailing the drug industry. It has estimated an annual revenue of $42.5 billion and America is the #1 consumer of human trafficking d…
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CABW 030: From Coaching Athletes to Creating Environments for Father Figures
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On this episode, we chat with Jason Phillips, husband to our OWN host, Dr. Natalie Phillips, father of two, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Colorado State University, and Founder of DAWGS, a non-profit organization that provides dads, and other father figures, with opportunities to support, encourage, fellowship, and serve one another, thei…
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CABW 029: Uniting Community Through The Arts
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CABW 027: Mike O'Donnell of Colorado Lending Source
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“There are approximately 18,000 small business started every year in Colorado; 500 in Fort Collins. It is important to understand that it goes both ways…although there were about 270,000 jobs started in 2019, there were also 220,000 lost jobs – so, therefore, if there were no entrepreneurs, we would have lost more jobs than those that were gained. …
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CABW 026: G.L.O.B.A.L. Justice with Sosamma Samuel-Burnett
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Sosamma Samuel-Burnett, J.D, is Founder and President of G.L.O.B.A.L Justice, an international non-profit organization founded in 2014 that informs, impacts, and inspires the generations to learn, lead, and do justice together. With 30+ years of experience in human rights advocacy and 15+ years as a university professor, Sosamma has focused the wor…
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High Performance Dance Theatre is an innovative, alternative style, dance company that enhances Northern Colorado's cultural community. As a nonprofit educational organization, their mission is to combine dance and modern technology to provide high quality training and productions, while increasing the community’s knowledge of the arts. Today, we w…
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“It’s not just the homeless person on the corner...it’s sometimes your neighbor. It could be a job loss, sickness that causes them to have an interruption in their financial situation - Cherri Houle The House of Neighborly Service is a faith based and non-profit organization which provides a variety of programs from basic and emergency intervention…
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Engineering Brightness is a FREE after-school program, started by Tracey Winey and John Howe. With volunteers, they continue to provide an environment for kids to build and work collaboratively to solve problems in order to eradicate a global problem of free access to clean light after dark, healthy indoor air quality, and access to education for y…
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As a business owner and massage therapist, Clara Gonzales Santillan volunteers her time as she continues to follow her heart and uses the passion and skills of her hands providing massages to help support many non-profit organizations and their fundraising efforts. She specifically shares about her continuous involvement with the work of the Saruni…
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“I grew up seeing images of war. I grew up in an environment knowing how it feels to not have enough.” ~ Dr.Emily Letran Join our host, Dr. Natalie Phillips, as she talks with refugee, wife, mother of three, dentist, business owner, high performance coach, author, and speaker, Dr. Emily Letran, who started her own non-profit organization, The Emily…
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