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Kat Frati is the owner of Grown Up Girl, a blog dedicated to inspiring women of all ages to create sustainable happiness in their lives. The site offers life advice through practical tips and inspiring stories by focusing on the themes of health, wealth, love, gratitude, and bliss. The remarried mom of four kids, plus two stepchildren, is a cancer and open-heart surgery survivor, entrepreneur, musician, athlete, cribbage player, and often blissed out. A former computer engineer who designed air traffic control simulations for the Federal Aviation Administration, Frati founded grownUPgirl.com in 2013. She’s currently working on a new initiative of building an online resource of life skills lessons for young adults. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/kat-frati/

For many years, Brian Andreas, the creator of StoryPeople, has been writing and creating stories in many different ways, through many different mediums. He's been a playwright, worked with marble, mixed media, recycled barn wood, and has created tin sculptures and pen and ink and gouache watercolor prints. Fia Skye’s professional career as an actress and text/voice professor has allowed her to deeply dive into the intense study of human behavior, body, voice and believability in performance through theatre. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/brian-andreas-fia-skye/

Christina "Christy" Gardner is a 35-year-old retired Army veteran. She grew up in Auburn, but spent a lot of her childhood in New York City. She played sports growing up and loved to be outside, but was also rather artistic. After high school, she attended Long Island University in NY and earned a degree in photography, but had signed up to leave with the Army as soon as she graduated. She served as a military police officer and was injured overseas in 2006. She spent a year and a half rehabbing on active duty and three and a half years rehabbing at the VA Hospital. Due to her brain injury, she started back over at the third grade level to re-learn English, grammar, and math. After being discharged from the rehab programs, she was able to live on her own again and started participating in adaptive sports. She is now co-captain of the U.S. Women's Para Ice Hockey team. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/christy-gardner/

Owen J. Logue, Ed.D., is an accomplished leader with over 30 years of professional experience in the field of education. Dr. Logue currently serves as the executive director of the Maine Educational Center for The Deaf and Hard of Hearing. He has held faculty appointments at the University of Maine, Smith College, and Providence College. He was also an associate dean of academic services at the University of Maine at Orono for 11 years. He received a Doctorate of Education from Vanderbilt University (focus: Higher Education Administration); a Masters in Education from the University of Maine (focus: Secondary Social Studies and Special Education); and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Southern Maine (major: Social Welfare). A former cross-country and track and field coach, Dr. Logue also participated as a deaf Olympian representing the United States in track and field in west Germany and Los Angeles. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/dr-owen-logue/

Ari Solotoff is a business and entertainment lawyer with the Portland firm of Bernstein Shur. As a lawyer he focuses his practice on nonprofit law and copyright law, with an emphasis on music copyright and licensing matters. Solotoff represents a variety of musicians, ensembles, music publishers, and other creatives, as well as a diverse range of nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations. Solotoff earned his law degree from the University of Maine School of Law in 2015 and holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Before becoming an attorney, he served for over a decade in leadership positions within the classical music industry, including as executive director of the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra in Florida, and as executive vice president of The Philadelphia Orchestra. A native of New York and California, Solotoff lives with his family in Portland’s Back Cove. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/ari-solotoff/

Matt Chappell owns and operates Gather restaurant, a neighborhood eatery in the heart of Yarmouth’s village. As a proud native Mainer, Chappell has intentionally pursued ways to make Maine the focus of his restaurant. Whether it’s the food he procures from area farms, the musicians he books, the art he displays, or the vendors he chooses – all of it is meant to celebrate the bounty of the state. He credits his mother for his love and curiosity of food, and his father for modeling a community-centered business approach. He and his partner Wendy are currently blending families and building a new house in Yarmouth. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/matt-chappell/

Dr. Dan Landry trained and worked within the Harvard system in Boston as a pediatric anesthesiologist prior to joining Spectrum Healthcare Partners in 1994. Since arriving in Maine, Dr. Landry concentrated his practice on the care of both children and adults with cardiac disease. In addition to his clinical duties, he became active in practice administration and health policy. Over the past 15 years, he managed the largest division within Spectrum and served as president and chairman of the board. In addition to his role within Spectrum, he sits on numerous healthcare-related boards and advocates for healthcare reform, and he is a policy advisor during the governor’s transition into office. On January 1, he gave up his administrative positions within Spectrum Healthcare Partners to focus on his clinical practice and advocate for healthcare reform within Maine and throughout the United States. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/dr-dan-landry/

Emily Sharood is the sales and marketing director at Mousam Valley Mushrooms, a certified organic mushroom farm she started with her father and brother in 2012. The farm, located in Springvale, sells oyster and shiitake mushrooms throughout New England. Johnny Dickinson is the head molder operator at Longleaf Lumber in Berwick and also runs his own woodworking business, Winter Hill Design, located in Kennebunkport. He has a BFA from Maine College of Art in woodworking and furniture design. He designed and built the wooden structures that hold the mushroom blocks at Mousam Valley Mushrooms, and works on the farm on the weekends. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/emily-sharood-and-johnny-dickinson/

As a young child, Kim Swan was immersed in the family real estate and insurance business and as a freshman in college was encouraged by her father to get her real estate license. She joined the family company in 1981, selling homes through college summers before purchasing the company in 1994. Today, she is the sole stockholder of Trumpeter Inc., d/b/a The Swan Agency Sotheby's International Realty. Swan focuses on business development and selective brokerage of luxury and commercial properties. She has also produced Living Acadia TV for the last three seasons and is the founder and creative director of the Mount Desert Island Designer Showhouse. She was the executive producer of the 2017 film “The Fire of ’47” for the Bar Harbor Historical Society and is currently working on the next documentary in the series, “Consolidation,” exploring the 50th Anniversary of Mount Desert Island High School. Swan is on the board of the Bar Harbor Historical Society and previously served ten years as a Bar Harbor town councilor. In 2017, she was awarded the Cadillac Award by the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce. Swan has many business interests throughout Maine, focusing on lodging and real estate investment as well as her strong interest in art, interior design and music publishing. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/kim-swan/

Emily Wedick and her friend Louise are advertising account managers at Maine Media Collective. They each have young children who are transgender. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/emily-wedick-and-louise/

Novelist and screenwriter Richard Russo is the author of eight novels, two short story collections, and the memoir Elsewhere. Empire Falls won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2002 and was made into an Emmy nominated HBO miniseries starring Ed Harris and Helen Hunt. His most recent novel, Everybody’s Fool, is a sequel to the earlier Nobody’s Fool, which was made into an award-winning movie starring Paul Newman. Russo is currently vice president of the Authors Guild. He lives with his wife Barbara in Portland, where his daughter Emily recently opened a bookstore called Print.  He’s collaborated with his other daughter—artist Kate Russo—on the book Interventions and more recently on screenplays. His most recent book of stories, Trajectory, was published in spring 2018 by Knopf, and a collection of essays, The Destiny Thief, comes out in May of 2018. He’s currently at work on a new novel. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/richard-russo-2/

Sean Alonzo Harris is an editorial, commercial, and fine art photographer concentrating on narrative and environmental portraiture. Over the past 25 years his work has been included in a range of national publications, advertising campaigns and exhibitions. In these varied contexts Harris’s work focuses on human experience and identity, and examines how individuals visualize themselves and how they are portrayed. His images bear witness to often invisible or overlooked members of our communities, and create portraits that provide a counterimage and narrative of self worth and personal agency. Harris has also received critical acclaim for his fine art work. Recently, he was awarded a Kindling Fund grant from Space Gallery and the Warhol Foundation for his project, Visual Tensions. This collaborative photographic project and community dialog pairs people of color with members of law enforcement. Harris will create photographic portraits as a means to confront and question cultural and racial assumptions, stereotypes and fears. He has also been selected for the 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/sean-alonzo-harris/

Rachel Walls is the owner of the gallery Rachel Walls Fine Art, located in Fort Williams Park in Cape Elizabeth. The gallery is currently exhibiting the artwork of Dahlov Ipcar and Walls is also organizing exhibitions at the University of Cincinnati and Bates College, which will open this summer. Walls, who grew up in Cape Elizabeth, first encountered Ipcar as a child when the artist came to Pond Cove Elementary School through a visiting artists program. A skiing accident in 2010 brought Ipcar into Walls’ life again. She was seriously injured and had to re-learn to speak and write. When one of her doctors suggested looking at children’s books, she gravitated to the Dahlov Ipcar books she had loved as a child. And after much work, Walls regained her speech and writing skills, all the while never losing her interest in creativity and visual beauty. By 2015, Walls was representing Ipcar professionally and the plan to exhibit her personal collection was well underway when the artist passed away in February 2018 at the age of 99. Walls, who graduated from Bates College, began her career at the National Museum of Wildlife Art before becoming the director of exhibitions and design conferences at Western Interiors and Design magazine. After leaving the magazine, she executed the development of educational programming for the American Institute of Architects and the Town of Portola Valley, California using the first LEED Platinum Civic Center in the Untied States as a case study for architects as more efficient municipal centers began to be realized in 2008. She has curated design exhibitions for the U.S. Green Building Council, West Coast Green, and the Urban Land Institute featuring sustainably produced, non-toxic home furnishings and home building systems. Most recently, she curated fine art exhibitions featuring Marguerite Zorach, Ipcar and William Zorach at Samson Projects in Boston from June to August 2015; Ipcar at Frost Gully Gallery in Freeport from November 2015 to January 2016, and Ipcar: Stories at the Portland Public Library in Portland from October to December 2017. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/rachel-walls/

Danielle Devine joined the staff of Maine Home+Design as the managing editor in January 2018. She has been writing, editing, and managing art, design, and architecture magazines for the last 12 years. Before joining Maine Home+Design as managing editor, she contributed as a freelance writer. Devine has a masters degree in decorative arts and design from Parsons School of Design at the New School. She lives in Portland with her husband, two daughters, and dog, Merlin. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/danielle-devine/

Steve Rodrigue is the founder and owner of Maine Raised Gardens, a full-service vegetable garden company that designs, builds, and installs custom edible gardens for residential and commercial customers, plants the gardens with the vegetables and herbs of the customer's choice, and maintains the gardens. Their mission is to bridge the gap between farms and consumers by increasing food production on a smaller, more intimate and human powered scale. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/steve-rodrigue/

Eddie Woodin is the owner of Woodin and Company Store Fixtures in South Portland.  He has spent the last 40 years advocating for the environment and working with conservation and preservation groups, including Scarborough Land Trust, Maine Audubon, and Friends of Casco Bay. He founded Citizens for a Green Scarborough, which helped to pass a pesticide policy. Historic New England recently honored him with its 2017 Prize for Collecting Works on Paper in recognition of Woodin’s collection of bird art and memorabilia. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/eddie-woodin/

Fly fisher Evelyn King is a founding director of the Sebago Trout Unlimited’s Women’s Fly Fishing Group. She also serves on Sebago Trout Unlimited’s Board of Directors and volunteers with Casting for Recovery, a fly fishing instructional program for breast cancer survivors. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/evelyn-king/

Jennifer Hutchins became the executive director of the Maine Association of Nonprofits in July 2016, where she leads a member network of more than 900 charitable nonprofits and 150 private partners. Prior to joining Maine Association of Non-Profits, she led the city of Portland’s efforts to strengthen the creative economy as executive director of Creative Portland. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/jennifer-hutchins/

Paul Golding was born and educated in the U.K. before moving to the United States in 1990. He has served in a number of senior roles in public health advocacy, higher education, and social services. Since moving to Maine in 2002, he has worked at Day One, an adolescent substance prevention and treatment agency, The Center for Grieving Children, and Stepping Stones. He served as the president of the National Alliance for Grieving Children and currently serves as the executive director of Family Hope, a mental health resource agency located in Scarborough. Alexandra Sagov, who has a masters in social work and holds a Mental Health Rehabilitation Technician Certfication, has served with Family Hope since 2017. She holds a BA in political communications and public relations from Emerson College. She has served in a number of roles for the United Way, Catholic Charities, and the YMCA. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/paul-golding-alexandra-sagov/

Quincy Hentzel is the CEO of the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce. Hentzel has been CEO since July 2017 and previously served as interim CEO. She has spent most of her professional career working in government relations, including over a decade as a representative of Maine’s credit unions in both Augusta and Washington, D.C. She is also very engaged in her community and personally serves on many non-profit boards and committees, including Rippleffect, Community Financial Literacy, Center for Grieving Children, and cPort Credit Union. Before becoming CEO of the Chamber, she served on the Portland Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors for 9 years. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/quincy-hentzel/

Anne Heros serves as executive director of the Center for Grieving Children. She was appointed to that position in July 2001 after serving as the Center's outreach director and education coordinator for four years and facilitating the Center's Bereavement Peer Support Program as a volunteer for three years. As executive director, she spearheaded a capital campaign that began in 2005 and raised $2.8 million to provide a permanent home for the Center's vital programs. In 2011, she oversaw the Center's expansion of its bereavement support services into Maine's York County, establishing a satellite Center site in Sanford. Additionally, she was among the founders of America's Camp, a national summer camp provided a network of grief support "buddies" in its service to children and siblings of firefighters and police who died on September 11, 2001. In her career at the Center, she produced a significant expansion of the Center's program to train providers and volunteers nationwide in the volunteer peer-support model to help grieving children and families. Locally, she has guided the Center's leading role in providing grief support services to schools and civic associations; for example, the Center's Multicultural Program works with Portland middle schools to support refugee and immigrant students. As a founding member of the National Alliance for Grieving Children, she continues to participate on its Advisory Council and help shape its annual national symposium. She has presented at many national conferences on the topic of grief and trauma, and she was the recipient of the 2008 Advocacy Award from the New York-based National Foundation for Grieving Children, Teens, and Families. She has served on the cabinet of the United Way of Greater Portland, and she also been a member of the Auxiliary to Mercy Hospital since 1994, including two years as president. She continues to be a member of the Board's Compliance Committee. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/anne-heros/

Carol Schoneberg has been a hospice educator in Maine since 1992. She has served as an end-of-life educator, bereavement services manager, and grief counselor at Hospice of Southern Maine—Maine’s only free standing not-for-profit hospice—since its inception in 2004. Carol provides end-of-life education to staff, volunteers, healthcare providers, universities, and the community at large. Certified as an advance care planning facilitator trainer through the Respecting Choices program at Gundersen-Lutheran Hospital in La Crosse, Wisconsin, she believes strongly that helping people talk about their choices for end-of-life care can make a huge difference in the way families experience the dying process. Her experiences working with the dying and the bereaved have inspired and taught her much about the resiliency of the human spirit. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/carol-schoneberg/

Paul Cousins is founder, principal, and CFO at AtmosForecast, a consulting meteorologist company based in Portland. He has been analyzing weather in the Northeast for over 40 years. With degrees in both meteorology and geophysics, he has obtained broadcasting seals from both the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the National Weather Association (NWA). He was nominated as the outstanding graduate and distinguished alumni of his alma mater. He was also elected for several boards of the AMS and NWA, in addition to being appointed as a trustee for several philanthropic organizations. Over the years, he has been a keynote speaker for several scientific organizations and universities across New England. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/paul-cousins/

Marshall Taylor is the artistic director of Quisisana Resort, a summer resort in western Maine that specializes in musical entertainment. Over the course of his career, he has performed as Edna in Hairspray, Tony in The Most Happy Fella, Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, Horace in Hello, Dolly!, Harold Hill in The Music Man, and Senex in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Marshall served as artistic director of ShowCase Concerts in Phoenix, Arizona, where he developed operatic “informances” designed for young audiences, and he frequently appeared with the Phoenix Symphony and Oklahoma City Philharmonic. His operatic roles have included Papageno in The Magic Flute, Marcello in La Bohème, Gianni Schicchi in Gianni Schicchi, and Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/marshall-taylor/

With 16 years of not-for-profit and for-profit executive leadership experience, Donna Dwyer has a history of managing budgets, providing superior customer service, working on short and long term strategic initiatives, and business plan/grant writing. As the CEO of My Place Teen Center, she has cross-functional expertise in marketing, networking, problem-solving, and presenting to a wide variety of audiences. She is passionate about Maine—its people, geography, and lifestyle. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/donna-dwyer/

Debby Irving is a racial justice educator, author, and public speaker.  A community organizer and classroom teacher for 25 years, Debby Irving grappled with racial injustice without understanding racism as a systemic issue or her own whiteness as an obstacle to it. As general manager of Boston’s Dance Umbrella and First Night, and later as an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she struggled to make sense of racial tensions she could feel but could not explain. In 2009, Debby took a graduate school course, Racial and Cultural Identities, which gave her the answers she’d been looking for and launched her on a journey of discovery. Now, speaking and leading workshops around the country, Debby devotes herself to exploring the impact white skin can have on perception, problem solving, and creating culturally inclusive communities. A graduate of the Winsor School in Boston, she holds a BA from Kenyon College and an MBA from Simmons College. Her first book, Waking Up White, tells the story of how she went from well-meaning to well-doing. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/debby-irving/

Carolann Ouellette joined Maine Huts and Trails as executive director in January of 2017. Previously, Ouellette served as director of the Maine Office of Tourism. Under her leadership, Maine has benefited from multiple years of consistent growth in tourism. A graduate of Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration, Ouellette was previously chef and owner of an award-winning Maine restaurant in Jackman. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/carolann-ouellette/

Lori Parham is AARP Maine’s state director, leading the state’s advocacy and education efforts on health and financial security issues. She also oversees the organization’s efforts to engage cities and towns in creating livable communities for people of all ages, with a specific focus on economic development and aging in place. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/lori-parham/

Tracy Guerrette played on the women’s basketball team at the University of Maine, and she has now become an elite runner—in October, she won the Maine Marathon and hopes to qualify for the 2020 Olympics. She is also the Director of Faith Formation at Saint Paul the Apostle Church in Bangor. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/tracy-guerrette/

Bowdoin College student Hannah Cooke is the founder of the Bowdoin Athletes of Color Coalition, which brings together student-athletes of color to discuss their experiences of playing sports. Hannah was born and raised in Portland, and she is now a double major in Government and Legal Studies and African American Studies with a minor in Education. She participates in varsity squash, varsity basketball, and varsity track and field at Bowdoin College. She also works as a dialogue and conversation coordinator at Bowdoin College, investigating issues of diversity, and as a counselor, volunteer, and speaker at Seeds of Peace in Otisfield, Maine. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/hannah-cooke/

Judy Camuso has been the director of wildlife for Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife since 2013 and has been with the department since 2007. As director, Camuso oversees the management, protection, and enhancement of the over 500 birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians that call Maine home, and perhaps more challenging, a staff of 50 biologists. She oversees the development and implementation of policy decisions, legislative proposals, and rules related to the wildlife division, and she coordinates a budget of $ 12 million to manage Maine’s wildlife. She is the department’s voice on all matters regarding Maine’s wildlife. Prior to becoming director, she worked as special projects coordinator for the department and was a regional wildlife biologist. She has extensive experience with endangered species management and recovery as well as long-range species planning. She started her career at Maine Audubon as the environmental center director, where she oversaw wildlife education programs and conducted several bird banding projects. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/judy-camuso-maine-department-inland-fisheries-wildlife/

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree moved to Maine in the 1970s, and after graduating from College of the Atlantic, she and her husband started a small farm on the island of North Haven. In the early 1980s, she started a knitting business that grew to ten year-round employees, producing knitting kits and books that were sold in hundreds of stores across the country. She was elected to the Maine Senate in 1992. After serving four terms, including two as Senate majority leader, she went on to become the national president of Common Cause. In 2008, Pingree was elected to Congress to serve Maine’s 1st District, and she was the first woman ever to be elected to represent this district. Pingree is a member of the House Committee on Appropriations and has gained national recognition for her leadership on food and agriculture reform, improving assistance programs for veterans, supporting coastal communities, and other issues important to Maine and the nation.  Hannah Pingree was elected for four terms to the Maine House of Representatives, where she served as the house chair of the Health and Human Services Committee, House majority leader, and speaker of the House. In the Legislature, she represented eleven island and coastal towns in Knox and Hancock Counties. In Augusta, she focused on issues of health care and public health, economic development, housing, fishing, environmental protection, and access to broadband and alternative energy. After being term-limited from the legislature, she has worked as the business manager of her family’s inn, restaurant, and farm, and she manages North Haven Sustainable Housing, an organization that builds housing for year-round residents and island seniors. She hosts a weekly MPBN public affairs show and serves on her local school board. Pingree, her husband, two small children, and their black lab, Willie, all live on the island of North Haven. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/hannah-chellie-pingree/

Robin Alden is executive director of Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries (MCCF), a nonprofit organization in Stonington, Maine. Alden co-founded MCCF in 2003 with the goal of securing a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in eastern Maine and beyond. MCCF works with fishermen, regulators, scientists, and policymakers to develop new approaches to fisheries stewardship and economic vitality, approaches that are realistic, grounded, and adaptive given a changing climate. She also served as Maine Commissioner of Marine Resources under Governor Angus King, where she initiated the Maine lobster zones, a revered example of effective fisheries co-management. She also founded, published, and edited the regional trade fishing newspaper, Commercial Fisheries News, for 20 years. She co-founded the Maine Fisherman’s Forum, served two terms on the New England Fishery Management Council and worked with Maine Sea Grant. In 2017, Alden received the Peter Benchley Hero of the Seas award for her grassroots work integrating fishermen’s knowledge into science and policy, and in 2016 she was honored as a White House Champion of Change for Sustainable Seafood. She holds a BA in Economics from the University of Maine. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/robin-alden/

Joanna and Phineas Sprague are the co-founders of Portland Yacht Services. The boatyard currently has 12,000 customers, from rowboats with electric trolling motors to some of the biggest passenger boats on the Portland waterfront. After developing a love of sailing, the Spragues purchased in the Portland Company in 1978 and went on start building Portland Yacht Services in the early 1980s. Phin was also founding president of SailMaine, and he helped establish the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company and Museum. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/joanna-phineas-sprague/

Joseph K. Loughlin is the former assistant chief of police for the City of Portland. He served as the interim chief in 2008 and retired from service in January, 2010 after 30 years of police work. He has served in every sworn rank within the Portland Police Department. He is one of the original founders of the police peer support team and employee assistance network.  He also served as the commander of the Special Reaction Team and was a team member for over 20 years. He was a spokesperson for the department as the Detective Lieutenant in charge of the Criminal Investigation Division. He is the author of Finding Amy, a nonfiction account of the Amy St. Laurent homicide investigation in 2001, and Shots Fired, released in October 2017.He has authored editorials and magazine articles on the realities of police work. He currently consults for 3SI International Security Systems and functions as a regional coordinator of police trainings and special projects. He is also an entrepreneur and the creator of Loughlin’s Irish Steak Sauce. He currently resides in South Portland and continues to write and teach. Kate Clark Flora worked in the Maine attorney general’s office for several years. After some years in private practice, she decided to give writing a serious try. Eighteen of her books have been published. She is a founding member of the New England Crime Bake, the region’s annual mystery conference, and the Maine Crime Wave. With two other crime writers, she started Level Best Books, where she worked as an editor and publisher for seven years. She served a term as international president of Sisters in Crime, an organization founded to promote awareness of women writers’ contributions to the mystery field. Currently she teaches writing and does manuscript critiques for GrubStreet in Boston. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/joseph-k-loughlin-kate-clark-flora-co-authors-shots-fired/

Nancy Thompson is an insurance agent who lives in Cape Elizabeth. She has been married to Tim Thompson for 36 years. In 2004, she lost her middle child, Timmy, to suicide at the age of 18. Timmy took his life as a result of depression. Since that time, both Nancy and Tim have spoken publicly about their loss in the hopes of saving lives. They urge those with emerging mental health issues to not take no for an answer and to push harder for services. They also urge people to not be afraid to speak about their illness so they may be able to have others help them. Nancy has also been an active member of the Junior League of Portland for 21 years and served as president in 2004. She also served for seven years on board of the Center for Grieving Children board and served as president of the board in 2012-2013. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/nancy-thompson/

Jill Hinckley was born in Ellsworth and grew up in Southwest Harbor. Her grandfather, Henry R. Hinckley, started Hinckley Yachts in 1928. Growing up in Maine and participating in the boating community has given her the opportunity to meet and work with a variety of people. At Hinckley Introductions, her matchmaking and coaching agency, she focuses on connecting people on a personal and meaningful level. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/jill-hinckley-hinckley-introductions/

Dr. Robert Snyder is president of the Island Institute. He is responsible for working with island and coastal leaders in Maine to identify and invest in innovative approaches to community sustainability. He oversees the Institute’s efforts to share solutions with communities that are experiencing similar challenges to their sustainability elsewhere. His background is in cultural anthropology, and his research and writing have focused on community economic development and the cultural politics of natural resource management. He also writes a monthly column for The Working Waterfront. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/dr-robert-snyder-island-institute/

It took over 70,000 nautical miles—and some wayward adventures in between—before Matty Oates finally put down roots in Maine. At the age of 18, he began traveling the globe and taking on odd jobs (like standing in police lineups for cash in Scotland) to make his way, finally stumbling into the world of Tall Ship sailing. He eventually moved to France in 2007 to join and then run the deck of the iconic 1911 racing yacht Mariquita, widely considered to be one of the most beautiful sailing yachts in the world. In 2015, he saw his brother, Kevin, doing amazing work with his own nonprofit, the Maine Youth Rock Orchestra, and decided to return to the USA. Portland's ever-changing, vibrant scene was the magnet that drew him in, and soon after arriving he was brought aboard as the program director of Tall Ships Portland, a local 501c3 organization dedicated to youth education at sea. After a year-and-a-half, he left to join the marketing team at Shipyard Brewing Company as media manager. Outside of Shipyard, he is a partner with MMP, a data-driven marketing firm that specializes in omni-channel media planning, search engine marketing, and social media strategies with partner Chris Marine. When away from a computer, he enjoys standing sideways on any sort of board, and as a classical violinist, he publishes a podcast with his brother called Bach to Bock in which they discuss classical music and beer, breaking down barriers and getting his generation reengaged with this fascinating era of music. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/matty-oates-tall-ships-portland-shipyard-brewing-company/

Jessica Jordan was 34 when she was diagnosed with stage-two breast cancer. The lump was discovered two months after she became engaged. She went through almost a year of treatment and was only two months out of radiation when her mother, who had taken care of her during treatment, passed suddenly from a pulmonary embolism. To honor her mother’s memory, she completed the Tri for a Cure in July and was this year’s top fundraiser, breaking her goal by $44,000. As a tribute to her mother, she plans to dedicate the rest of her life to giving back. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/jessica-jordan-top-tri-cure-fundraiser-2017/

John Weston is a seventh-generation farmer that grows 60 acres of fresh vegetables, and two acres are certified organic. His farm is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. His family operates two farm markets in Fryeburg and Conway, New Hampshire, and they also produce maple syrup and grow 6,000 Christmas trees each year. For the past 20 years, he has coached Nordic skiing at Fryeburg Academy. He is a nationally certified Nordic ski race official and a trustee at the Fryeburg Fair. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/john-weston-westons-farm/

Birch Shambaugh and Fayth Preyer are the husband-and-wife team behind Woodford Food and Beverage, a neighborhood bar and restaurant in Portland. The two had dreamed of bringing the vitality of a neighborhood eatery to the former Valle’s Steakhouse in the center of Woodfords Corner. Now open for nearly two years, Woodford Food and Beverage continues to play a role in the dynamic off-peninsula hospitality landscape. As local residents and parents of a pair of young children, they are proud to contribute to that vitality by bringing another quality dining option to the neighborhood they call home. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/birch-shambaugh-woodford-fb/

Jessie Dowling is a cheesemaker whose company, Fuzzy Udder Creamery, is based in Whitefield. She is also president of the Maine Cheese Guild and has a master’s degree in food policy. Sam May is advisory board chair at Maine Harvest Credit Project, an organization aiming to open a credit union supporting small farms and food businesses. Sam grew up in midcoast Maine, where he co-founded Smith and May in West Rockport and helped his brother start Peter Ott’s, a restaurant in Camden. After earning an MBA in international business, he worked in Silicon Valley as an equity research analyst and managing director at Piper Jaffray Companies covering technology stocks worldwide. In 2005, he moved to Hong Kong and helped Chinese companies navigate US capital markets until his return to Maine in 2011. Sam currently serves on the board of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), where he sits on the executive, finance, and fundraising committees. He also serves on the steering committee of Slow Money Maine. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/jessie-may-fuzzy-udder-creamery-sam-may-maine-harvest-credit-project/

Mitchell Lench founded Treetops Capital in 2008 to help small businesses succeed. He runs Treetops Capital's fund management businesses in sustainable agriculture and aquaculture. Lench is also responsible for co-management of the Gawa Microfinance Fund, which invests in rural and agricultural-focused microfinance and financial institutions focused on small and medium enterprises across the developing world. Prior to founding Treetops Capital, he was managing director in the structured finance group at Bank of America's investment bank in London. He then joined Credit Suisse in New York where he ran global syndicate and a multi-billion dollar trading book. He earned a master’s degree from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a BS from the State University of New York at Binghamton. More recently, he served as an advisor at the 2015 Fish 2.0 conference in San Francisco, where he helped select and pool viable, impact-oriented seafood businesses for investors to consider for investment. He moved to Maine in 2010 and lives in Cape Elizabeth with his wife, two children, and their dog, Skylar. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/mitchell-lench-treetops-capital/

Lauren Wayne loves music. As general manager and talent buyer for Crobo, Wayne promotes over 260 concerts in Portland every year. Crobo owns and operates the State Theatre and Port City Music Hall, and the company is the exclusive, live-concert promoter for the new outdoor music venue at Thompson’s Point. Starting as the company’s only employee in 2010, she has grown the company to include eight full-time staff and over 150 part-time employees, and she oversaw the largest music festival ever in Portland (with Mumford and Sons on the Eastern Prom in 2012). She is based in Portland. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/lauren-wayne/

Al Miller was born and raised in Battle Creek, Michigan. Twenty-one years later, he got his BA from Williams College and later his MA from the University of Michigan. He taught for eight years in Lebanon before he moved with his family to Maine, where he and his wife raised five children who are now trying to raise him. Since then he has been working with the Theater Project, which he founded a long time ago, and teaching workshops in various states, as well as in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/al-miller/

With more than 30 years of classroom and public speaking experience, Laura Gauld has earned a national reputation as a top motivational speaker on parenting, family dynamics, and character education. She has been featured on PBS, in her own parenting series on NBC in Portland, and in numerous television shows, radio programs, and publications throughout the country. After serving as head of school since 2006, she began her tenure as president of Hyde School in January of 2018. With her husband, Malcolm, she is the co-author of the groundbreaking book The Biggest Job We’ll Ever Have (Scribner). Unlike other education books that focus on the child, The Biggest Job We’ll Ever Have focuses on a child’s primary teacher—the parent. Laura previously directed the family education curriculum for Hyde School. In addition to Laura’s experience as a teacher, administrator, and parenting coach, she has created national programs for families, including Family Workshops in the Wilderness, a family renewal program at Hyde’s 600-acre Black Wilderness Preserve in Eustis, Maine. She has also created The Biggest Job workshops offering practical ideas and experiences in an informal, interactive format. She lives in Bath with her family. Malcolm Gauld is recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on character education and parenting. He has been president of Hyde School since 1998, and he recently became executive chairman. Hyde’s program of family-based character education has been featured on The Today Show, 60 Minutes, 20-20, PBS, among other programs. An educator for four decades, he is an unapologetic speaker and award-winning writer on the decline of effective parenting. He has published articles on topics about inspiring children to develop their character, why good teaching cannot overcompensate for bad parenting, and why cheating is rampant in America’s schools. He and his wife, Laura, addressed these challenges in their acclaimed book, The Biggest Job We’ll Ever Have (Scribner), a unique educational resource that focuses on a child’s primary teacher–the parent. In their book, and in The Biggest Job Workshops that emerged from it, the Gaulds' articulate ten core beliefs to parents that address how families can raise successful children of strong character in an achievement-at-any-cost culture. He lives in Bath with his family. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/malcom-laura-gauld/

Born and raised on a combination of big city attitude and Midwestern sensibility, Chicago native Shay Stewart-Bouley, also known as Black Girl in Maine (or BGIM), had to learn a bit of Yankee ingenuity when she relocated to Maine in 2002. After a brief foray into education, she brought her socially-minded work from Chicago, where she worked with the homeless, to Maine by working with low-income and at-risk youth in southern Maine. She is currently the executive director of Community Change Inc., a nearly 50-year-old anti-racism organization based in Boston that organizes and educates for racial equity with a specific focus on working with white people. Shay has been blogging since 2008, frequently on matters of social justice and systemic racism, through her Black Girl In Maine website and, in 2011, she won a New England Press Association Award for her writing on race and diversity for the Portland Phoenix. Her writing also has been featured in a variety of Maine and national publications as well as several anthologies. In November 2016, she gave a TEDx talk called “Inequity, Injustice... Infection.”  She is graduate of both DePaul University and Antioch University New England, and even though she works in Boston now, she is indeed still BGIM, continuing to reside in Maine. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/shay-stewart-bouley/

Landscape architect Todd Richardson is the owner of Richardson and Associates in Saco. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/todd-richardson/

Architect Rob Whitten founded Whitten Architects in 1986 and has specialized in New England residential design since 1990. Over the years, Whitten has deliberately kept the size of the firm small so that he can remain involved in every project the team takes on. He attended undergraduate school at Middlebury College in Vermont and graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. A member of the Portland Society for Architecture and the American Institute of Architects, he believes that a well-designed home should fit into its environment. He and his wife, Robin, enjoy walking tours in Italy; Rob illustrates and Robin writes a daily travel journal. Their son, Denney, is also an architect and works for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York City. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/rob-whitten-2/

Russ Doucette is the owner of Russ Doucette Custom Home Builders. He comes from a family of craftsmen and went to college at Northern Maine Vocational and Technical Institute in Presque Isle, Maine. After school, he worked for several construction companies in the Portland area. The owner of Midcoast Home Designs in Wiscasset, Teresa Simpson was born and raised on the coast of Maine and has been an architectural designer since 1988. Her design projects include residential homes and remodels, small commercial projects, construction project management, and 3D renderings for clients including home owners, contractors, and other architectural firms. She started Midcoast Home Designs as a teenager in high school when she was professionally designing spec homes for her building contractor family members. She has more than 26 years’ experience with commercial and residential drafting, design, and project management. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/russ-doucette-teresa-simpson/