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Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Erica Gwyn.

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Erica Gwyn.

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Erica Gwyn.

Updating a brand across connected, yet independent organizations is no small feat. Farra Trompeter, co-director, talks with Omoiye Kinney, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for United Way Worldwide, about managing a global brand refresh across 1,000 local United Ways in 30+ countries. They explore how United Way conducted an 18-month data-driven process that centered trust and listening with network leaders and balanced brand consistency with local autonomy. Omoiye shares lessons on phasing brand rollout, empowering brand ambassadors, connecting brand to fundraising, and why your brand is more fragile than you think. Get practical strategies for any organization managing a nonprofit brand.

Alli K. joins Travis to talk about the United Way 2026 campaign that starts this fall!

It's the Graham Richardson Show - where we talk politics and also have a little bit of fun! You can catch Graham every single Friday from Noon until 2PM. On today's show: The Friday Five: The tariff clock ticks down with no word on a deal. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is the subject of leadership questions. A Conservative MP heads up a COVID vaccine injury inquiry. The Ford PCs were allegedly spying on Bonnie Crombie in Jamaica. Plus, a New Zealander canoes across Canada. The Big Conversation: CTV National News senior political correspondent Mike LeCouteur unpacks his week covering Canada-USA Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc in Washington. Life with Canada's Best: Frontenac Islands Mayor Judy Greenwood-Spence on the Wolfe Island Ferry saga. Despite better employment data, it's still a tough job market for Canadian youth. United Way of Greater Toronto CEO Heather McDonald joins us with the latest intel. Conservative MPs voice deep concerns with Pierre Poilievre's leadership. Tim Powers, the Chair of Summa Strategies, reacts. CTV News chief political correspondent Vassy Kapelos joins Graham to unpack the reporting on Pierre Poilievre's struggles. Dr. Suzanne Beno, a pediatric emergency physician and the co-medical director of the SickKids’ Trauma Program, discusses concerning new data on e-scooter injuries. Have Your Say: Conservative MPs worry about keeping their seats with Poilievre as leader. What made Graham smile this week: A New Zealander canoeing across Canada discovers Canuck hospitality.

Findlay City Schools Superintendent Dr. Andy Hatton shares his welcome back message to students, families and staff as the new school year begins (at 14:33) --- Community and Business Spotlight: From the kickoff of this year's fundraising campaign, the Fall Days of Caring and second annual Barrels and Bids event, September is shaping up to be a very busy month for the United Way of Hancock County (at 24:06) --- What's Happening: 50 North is coordinating plans for a special day of fun activities and programs for Senior Day at the Hancock County Fair (at 38:00)

August 13, 2026 - Debbie Bogle of the United Way joined Byers & Co to talk about Food Truck Frenzy, Caterpillar Family Day, the WSOY Community Food Drive, and concerts. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode features a conversation how the ALICE index provides a more accurate county-by-county analysis of true cost-of-living challenges, and what the 2026 ALICE Report reveals about financial hardship across New York's counties. NYSAC Communications Director Tom Oldfather is joined by Therese Daly, President and CEO of United Way for New York State. They discuss how county officials can collaborate with United Way and workforce boards to identify community needs, address barriers to food access, and advocate for sustainable solutions to financial hardship. ALICE Report and county-level data available at: www.uwnys.org

Jamie Saunders, President & CEO of United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes, joins us to discuss how the role of United Way has evolved far beyond workplace giving and why community connection has never been more important.From mental health and housing to volunteerism, leadership, and the future of Rochester, Jamie shares why she remains optimistic despite the challenges facing families and nonprofits across our region.Chapters00:00 Introduction & Becoming an Empty Nester01:33 How United Way Has Changed Over the Years05:31 Rochester After the Pandemic12:20 The Loneliness Epidemic & Rebuilding Community22:00 The Biggest Pressures Facing Families Today34:02 Why Nonprofits Need to Think Differently39:16 Leadership, Burnout & Empathy44:26 Jamie's Vision for Rochester's Future Explore more Rochester Living Podcast episodes:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT9MAsAiN2WUv-wSzGQssiEOLaZefmrdY#RochesterLiving #RochesterNY #UnitedWay #CommunityLeadership #Nonprofits #RochesterPodcast

Big J gave the movie, The Drama, big thumbs down! Nic and Big J get ready for tomorrow's live broadcast by talking with Savannah from The United Way of The Treasure Valley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Red River Valley Today with Jenny Wilson - United Way of Lamar County - Eric and Jenny cover the latest with the United Way of Lamar County, including an update on the Annual Breakfast Meeting, the 26-27 campaign kickoff, and a real look at the housing situation in Lamar County. The visit concludes with their take on reality TV. 

This week on bigcitysmalltown, we examine the latest ALICE data and the stark realities of financial hardship facing working families in San Antonio and Bexar County. According to a new report from UnitedforALICE and United Way, 44% of local households are struggling to afford basic needs—even when earning more than twice the federal poverty line.Host Cory Ames is joined by Stephanie Smith of United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County, and Jonathan Gurwitz, United Way board member and partner at K. Harvey Brand Partners, to break down what the ALICE numbers reveal and what they mean for the city's present and future.They discuss:What ALICE means, how this data set is developed, and how it differs from federal poverty measurementsThe specific challenges impacting working families, including childcare, housing, and stagnant wagesHow local factors—from citywide childcare initiatives to workforce training programs—are addressing, or failing to address, the needs of nearly half the countyThe complex causes and cascading effects of financial strain on mental health, physical well-being, and the broader communityWhat policymakers, business leaders, and citizens should take away from this data as San Antonio considers budget priorities, new legislation, and future investmentsFor a clear-eyed look at how economic realities are shaping San Antonio—and the responses underway to meet those challenges—listen wherever you get your podcasts, or visit bigcitysmalltown.com.-- --GET THE NEWSLETTER

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August 6, 2026 - Debbie Bogle of the United Way joined Byers & Co to talk about a week full of positive events in the community, expanding the ALICE team, and memories of events a long time ago. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Keri talked about another successful Let's Feed Our Children summer program, and a few events down the calendar coming up.

Ann sits down with Wendy Ellis (executive director of United Way of Waco) to discuss the 2nd annual Rhythm & Brew Karaoke Showdown, held at Waco's Backyard Bar Stage & Grill. Features musical performance by Dylan & Summer Smidgen.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

When people think of emergency response, they often think of the number 911. But there is another important resource that can help connect Kentuckians with the support they need: 211.In this episode of the Bluegrass Beat, we explore how Kentucky 211 serves as a bridge between individuals, communities and critical resources. Host Critley King-Smith is joined by Roberta Steutermann, Vice President of Kentucky 211 with United Way, and Andrea Brown, State 211 Director and former Louisville Metro Police officer, to discuss what 211 is, how it works, and why it is an important tool for law enforcement and telecommunicators.…The Bluegrass Beat is recorded and produced by the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training's Public Information Office, a proud member of Team Kentucky. Like what you hear? We appreciate everyone who takes the time to subscribe and rate this podcast.Have a suggestion? Email host Critley King-Smith at critley.kingsmith@ky.gov to share feedback. Music by Music for Creators from Pixabay.‍ ‍

Bob Stewart and Joe Berryhill have spent years helping Tulsa Area United Way review funding requests from nonprofit partners serving Okmulgee County. In this episode, they talk with TAUW Community Investments Director Donnie House and host Matthew Gleason about the experiences that shaped their service, what keeps them returning to the community investment process and what future volunteers should know about the work.

Louisiana ranks as the 3rd highest for food insecurity among adults in the country. We talk with Michael Williamson, CEO of the United Way of Southeast Louisiana about why this is such a big problem and about an upcoming event they have.

* We get the latest on the war with Iran and if we're any closer to a peace deal with Middle East expert Lindsay Cohn. * Louisiana ranks as the 3rd highest for food insecurity among adults in the country. We'll talk with Michael Williamson, CEO of the United Way of Southeast Louisiana about why this is such a big problem and about an upcoming event they have

In this episode of Dishing with Stephanie's Dish, host Stephanie Hansen speaks with Jordyn Stocks from Paragis Outfitters Bookstore about the impact of recent wildfires on the Ely community, the role of the bookstore in supporting local culture, and the hidden gems of Ely. They discuss the diverse offerings of the bookstore, including popular book recommendations and the importance of community support during challenging times.Visit Ely, Minnesota for fun things to do year-round! Whether you are looking for a place to stay, a delicious meal, a hiking trail, or an immersion experience, we have businesses ready to meet your needs.Stephanie Hansen (00:00.824)Hello, everybody, and welcome to Dishing with Stephanie's Dish, the podcast where we talk to people in the food space, but I also talk to other people too. And I've been doing a little mini-series here for VisitElyMN.com to help you get to know some of the cool Ely businesses. Ely is my second home. It is the place where I wrote the True North Cabin cookbook, and it's very near and dear to my heart. And you may have heard that theyHave experienced some wildfires in the Boundary Waters Canoe area and around that area this summer. As of this recording, I think the fires are about 40 to 50% contained. Some of the evacuation areas have been lifted. And the town has just really done a great job of keeping people informed and safe. And I'm here today with Jordan Stocks. She is from Piragis Outfitters.And she particularly runs the bookstore that opened gosh, it was last summer already, wasn't it, Jordyn?Jordyn Stocks (00:59.77)Yes, yeah. So in the new space, we've been there since last May, but the bookstore itself has been around in some version for over 20 years now. So it'sStephanie Hansen (01:11.286)So what happened is is there was in the Piragis store, there was the bookstore on the second level, and they used to have another building down the street that they did some surplus kind of sales, and they've merged a lot of that together inside this building. And then you guys have paddle boards and canoes also across the street. Piragis sort of owns this corner that has a lot of fun stuff going on in Ely andI know that with the boundary waters permits being canceled and just opening up more recently to daytime. And I imagine we'll get some more areas that'll open up here as the summer progresses. Has it been a hard time for you guys at the store?Jordyn Stocks (01:54.437)It's it's yeah, it's been a little bit different. It's been a little quieter as you can imagine, in outfitting particularly without having the boundary waters open. We've definitely seen some slowdown in traffic there.Stephanie Hansen (02:07.315)And when you think about the bookstore, yeah. WhatJordyn Stocks (02:11.732)Yeah, the bookstore and the store have maintained like we've still been busy. We've still seen traffic. you know, not as busy as it would normally be. Blueberry festival would have been this weekend, as you know. that didn't happen. But yeah, overall it's still been we're hanging in there. It's still been still been a good weekend, but yeah, quieter.Stephanie Hansen (02:35.286)It's a good example of how smart it is for businesses to kind of silo to. Like, you know, you start with one thing that maybe is your core competency, but then to support the business through non-trip times, you know, you've got the clothing store and then you add the bookstore, which is kind of a year-round service business for the town in and of itself. It's cool to have so many different facets. And I know you guys sell online too and have a pretty big online following.Jordyn Stocks (02:43.473)Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it it it does help that we have a few different things going on with the the clothing and the gifts and the gear and the books and the online presence. So that is that's been nice to have all of that going on. And we've definitely seen an uptick in in online sales and phone sales. So we're still shipping things out all over the country. We're still selling things to, you know, fire crews that are here, local folks that are out and about.People coming up for their cabins. Yeah.Stephanie Hansen (03:37.612)What is your history with Paragas and how did you get started and land in the bookstore component?Jordyn Stocks (03:41.76)well I've been here. This is my third no 14th summer here. So I started out just kind of part-time evening shifts in the retail store. And then the bookstore manager at the time, she was she was moving on to I think she was going back home to Chicago or somewhere. So I was excited about the prospect of working with the books and here I am.Thirteen years later. Stephanie Hansen (04:13.856)And you are an Ely resident. Are there some features about Ely in particular or locations that you feel are like hidden gems?Jordyn Stocks (04:23.909)Yeah, so I was actually born and raised here. So I don't know, growing up I kind of kind of probably took a lot of it for granted, but now you know seeing it with fresh eyes, I guess through people who were coming here for the first time and you know coming here repeatedly year after year. one of one of my favorite things is the the Ely Witten Historical Society. They have this cute little museum in the Vermillion Community College.It's it's free, they just feel like goodwill donations, it's self guided. But there's a lot of really interesting historical things there. They have a lot of a lot of books that were written by local folks about history and like very specific history, like the Birdside River or Winton and the lumber industry. So that's pretty fun local history. I love the sedan mine. It's it's open now for underground tours again, which I'm excited to do this summer. I haven't goneYears. Yeah, we just went.Stephanie Hansen (05:19.384)I'm trying to think.I did go to the Sedan Underground mine tour. It's super cool. I think I went, gosh, probably when I first started coming to Ely. So maybe, you know, like gosh, 20 years ago, but it was so cool to be taken underground and through the mine system. And you went with a original miner. So they would talk about like what their day was like. That seems like a uniqueaspect of being in northeast Minnesota because mining was such a pillar of what was happening here at the time. And just like being underground and the constant temperature, that was one of the highlights of one of the things I've done in town.Jordyn Stocks (06:04.049)Yeah, yeah, it's a it's a very cool experience. I'd highly recommend doing that. but yeah, other than that, we've got a lot of great hiking trails, places to canoe and paddle and swim and do all those things. Berry picking. there's always something to do. We've got a great yeah, we've got a great you know, local art scene with the theater and art shows, we've got the movie theater.It's just a lot of fun stuff to do, always always something.Stephanie Hansen (06:38.12)Absolutely. And I know you guys for such a smallish town, your bookstore has like a big footprint. You guys have sold a ton of the True North Cabin cookbooks for me, so thank you. Also, the Moon Tav the Moon Tavern.Jordyn Stocks (06:49.271)Yeah. Yeah, of course. Thanks for coming and Yeah. Yeah, the the new one's been popular.Stephanie Hansen (06:58.964)And also Kurt's book, The Barrens, the Canoe Book has still done well too. So I wanna thank you for that. And I know you guys have a lot of artists that come through and authors that come through. When you're stocking the bookstore, like who would you say is your ideal customer that you're stocking for? Because you have like such a great romance section, a good kid section.Jordyn Stocks (07:21.126)Gosh, that that's a tough one. and it changes, I feel. a lot of people are just are looking for a book to take out on trip with them. Something something that's gonna like be engaging right away, something that's engrossing. they don't want a lot of heavy reading necessarily. But we've also got people who want, you know, the latest best sellers, the things they're seeing on on book talk or theYou know, Reese's book picks or all those things. but also a lot of people looking for local history, things about the area, just something to kind of you know put them in the mindset of being here in the woods. Yeah. A lot of lot of different customers, a lot of variety.Stephanie Hansen (08:07.916) I imagine maybe that changes as you get into the winter months too and it's more of the regular town folk versus the though you have a big visitors that come in the winter too, ‘cause we come and go snowmobiling, we cross country ski.Jordyn Stocks (08:19.792)Yeah. Yeah, yeah, totally. Yeah, there's definitely people coming all year round. It's it's of course, you know, a little a little more mellow in the winter, not as much foot traffic. But yeah, definitely a lot of locals will they'll special order things, you know, they heard about on the radio or they read about in the paper, or you know, they've gottheir favorite Minnesota authors having a new book come out and they want to pre-order that. So yeah.Stephanie Hansen (08:49.877)Yes. I love that. if you could pick three books that you think are kind of buzzy right now that you see that people are excited about, we'll we'll throw them out there because I think I'm always looking for new reads.Jordyn Stocks (09:05.333)Yeah, so people right now are looking for Theo of Golden. I'm blanking on the author's name, but they're also looking for the correspondent and Calamity Club. And then the newest William Kent Krueger book, which won't be out tillAugust, but you know, they're always looking for his latest. Stephanie Hansen (09:29.815)I think I'm the only one in the world that didn't love that Theo of Golden Book, but you know, everybody's got their own vibes.Jordyn Stocks (09:34.01)I haven't read it, but I've definitely that seems like a book that people are either loving or they're hating. There's no in-between on that, as far as I'm hearing.Stephanie Hansen (09:51.192)I feel like that's also what is the name of the book? And I bought it at your store about the social media influencer who gets dropped into the eighteen hundreds.Jordyn Stocks (10:00.429)Yesteryear. That one's been really popular too. Yeah, that's another love it or hate it one. Yeah.Stephanie Hansen (10:02.347)Yes. Another book that I yes, like I totally hate read that book and read the whole thing and hated it, but kept going. It it was, you know how sometimes you don't love a book, but it's compelling enough to keep reading and sort of see what happens at the end.it's fascinating, I think, that that book got so much traction. But I don't know, like I I love the diversity of what you guys offer there. You have a ton of local too, like Abby Yaminez. I know you have a large section for her romance books. And romance is a big seller.Jordyn Stocks (10:36.246)We do. Yep. It is. We never used to carry much of it or like have much of a demand for it, but it's been like flying off the shelves lately. I I don't I don't know what it is, but and and that's not a genre that I typically read. So I I've been relying a lot on like s like coworker and customer recommendations, which has been fun. .Stephanie Hansen (11:09.793)It for your personal life, like you probably have to read a lot of books. Like how many books do you think you read in a month?Jordyn Stocks (11:17.462)And I I don't know. I also listen to a lot of books, but I don't know how many I read in a month. Probably like half a dozen, maybe. I don't I don't really know. I doStephanie Hansen (11:31.064)That's a lot. I listen to people talk about, you know, is listening to a book the same as reading or does it count? It's like who's keeping score number one? And yes, it counts. when you can think of a book that is narrated by someone that really makes it come alive, like I just listened to Whistler by Ann Patchett, which I don't know if I would have liked that book as much if she hadn't read it.Jordyn Stocks (11:58.966)Yeah, I totally get that. I I listen to more nonfiction, more memoirs and things, and I especially love when the author reads it. Like David Sederis will read his own, like Nick Offerman reads his own. They're both really great to listen to. And it's just I don't know, it it I think it brings a lot more to it in that circumstance. So but yeah. before we break here, I do want to mention that you guys have the catalog. And in the catalog are you have a lot of books in the catalog, a lot of the cookbooks, the seasonal books, there's also gear.Jordyn Stocks (13:16.393)We do. We do, yeah, and we have the website as well that's fully shoppable, the Boundary Waters catalog website. there's I mean certainly more than what was in the catalog, but not not as much as in the store. But there is quite a variety there and I'm I'm always happy to special order things too if someone's looking for something that they're not seeing in the store oron the website that's happy to look for things. Yeah.Stephanie Hansen (13:43.949)That's good to know. That's good to know because I know there's been a lot of interest in supporting Ely in particular. I'm going to link there's a fund that's been established that the United Way of Northeastern Minnesota is putting together and there's three pillars that you can donate to. One is nonprofits, one is Ely specific small business, which I appreciate. And also there is an opportunity to donate to the Wildfire Fund. SoI will put that in the show notes. Anything you want people to know specifically about Ely before we break?Jordyn Stocks (14:15.351)Great.gosh. it's just it's just such a great place to to live and to visit. There's you know great people here. Just the way you know you've mentioned people have been showing up for one another and supporting people during this just weird, uncertain wildfire time. It's it's been really cool. It's just a great place to be. Lots, yeah.Stephanie Hansen (14:42.423)I think so too. We're lucky. And we're lucky to have you, Jordan, be such a good supporter of books and reading. And I appreciate everything Piragis has done for our books. And I'm looking forward to seeing you soon. I always pop in to sign books and I'll see you, I'm sure, in the next week.Jordyn Stocks (14:59.62)Yeah, sorry I missed you yesterday. Hopefully we'll see you soon. All right. Wonderful. You too. Absolutely. Thanks for having me. Bye.Stephanie Hansen (15:02.34)Yeah. you will, you will. It's good to see you again, Jordan, and thanks for being a guest. Okay, bye-bye. Mm-hmm.Stephanie Hansen's @StephaniesDish Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stephaniehansen.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode of Dishing with Stephanie's Dish, host Stephanie Hansen speaks with Jordyn Stocks from Paragis Outfitters Bookstore about the impact of recent wildfires on the Ely community, the role of the bookstore in supporting local culture, and the hidden gems of Ely. They discuss the diverse offerings of the bookstore, including popular book recommendations and the importance of community support during challenging times.Visit Ely, Minnesota for fun things to do year-round! Whether you are looking for a place to stay, a delicious meal, a hiking trail, or an immersion experience, we have businesses ready to meet your needs.Stephanie Hansen (00:00.824)Hello, everybody, and welcome to Dishing with Stephanie's Dish, the podcast where we talk to people in the food space, but I also talk to other people too. And I've been doing a little mini-series here for VisitElyMN.com to help you get to know some of the cool Ely businesses. Ely is my second home. It is the place where I wrote the True North Cabin cookbook, and it's very near and dear to my heart. And you may have heard that theyHave experienced some wildfires in the Boundary Waters Canoe area and around that area this summer. As of this recording, I think the fires are about 40 to 50% contained. Some of the evacuation areas have been lifted. And the town has just really done a great job of keeping people informed and safe. And I'm here today with Jordan Stocks. She is from Piragis Outfitters.And she particularly runs the bookstore that opened gosh, it was last summer already, wasn't it, Jordyn?Jordyn Stocks (00:59.77)Yes, yeah. So in the new space, we've been there since last May, but the bookstore itself has been around in some version for over 20 years now. So it'sStephanie Hansen (01:11.286)So what happened is is there was in the Piragis store, there was the bookstore on the second level, and they used to have another building down the street that they did some surplus kind of sales, and they've merged a lot of that together inside this building. And then you guys have paddle boards and canoes also across the street. Piragis sort of owns this corner that has a lot of fun stuff going on in Ely andI know that with the boundary waters permits being canceled and just opening up more recently to daytime. And I imagine we'll get some more areas that'll open up here as the summer progresses. Has it been a hard time for you guys at the store?Jordyn Stocks (01:54.437)It's it's yeah, it's been a little bit different. It's been a little quieter as you can imagine, in outfitting particularly without having the boundary waters open. We've definitely seen some slowdown in traffic there.Stephanie Hansen (02:07.315)And when you think about the bookstore, yeah. WhatJordyn Stocks (02:11.732)Yeah, the bookstore and the store have maintained like we've still been busy. We've still seen traffic. you know, not as busy as it would normally be. Blueberry festival would have been this weekend, as you know. that didn't happen. But yeah, overall it's still been we're hanging in there. It's still been still been a good weekend, but yeah, quieter.Stephanie Hansen (02:35.286)It's a good example of how smart it is for businesses to kind of silo to. Like, you know, you start with one thing that maybe is your core competency, but then to support the business through non-trip times, you know, you've got the clothing store and then you add the bookstore, which is kind of a year-round service business for the town in and of itself. It's cool to have so many different facets. And I know you guys sell online too and have a pretty big online following.Jordyn Stocks (02:43.473)Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it it it does help that we have a few different things going on with the the clothing and the gifts and the gear and the books and the online presence. So that is that's been nice to have all of that going on. And we've definitely seen an uptick in in online sales and phone sales. So we're still shipping things out all over the country. We're still selling things to, you know, fire crews that are here, local folks that are out and about.People coming up for their cabins. Yeah.Stephanie Hansen (03:37.612)What is your history with Paragas and how did you get started and land in the bookstore component?Jordyn Stocks (03:41.76)well I've been here. This is my third no 14th summer here. So I started out just kind of part-time evening shifts in the retail store. And then the bookstore manager at the time, she was she was moving on to I think she was going back home to Chicago or somewhere. So I was excited about the prospect of working with the books and here I am.Thirteen years later. Stephanie Hansen (04:13.856)And you are an Ely resident. Are there some features about Ely in particular or locations that you feel are like hidden gems?Jordyn Stocks (04:23.909)Yeah, so I was actually born and raised here. So I don't know, growing up I kind of kind of probably took a lot of it for granted, but now you know seeing it with fresh eyes, I guess through people who were coming here for the first time and you know coming here repeatedly year after year. one of one of my favorite things is the the Ely Witten Historical Society. They have this cute little museum in the Vermillion Community College.It's it's free, they just feel like goodwill donations, it's self guided. But there's a lot of really interesting historical things there. They have a lot of a lot of books that were written by local folks about history and like very specific history, like the Birdside River or Winton and the lumber industry. So that's pretty fun local history. I love the sedan mine. It's it's open now for underground tours again, which I'm excited to do this summer. I haven't goneYears. Yeah, we just went.Stephanie Hansen (05:19.384)I'm trying to think.I did go to the Sedan Underground mine tour. It's super cool. I think I went, gosh, probably when I first started coming to Ely. So maybe, you know, like gosh, 20 years ago, but it was so cool to be taken underground and through the mine system. And you went with a original miner. So they would talk about like what their day was like. That seems like a uniqueaspect of being in northeast Minnesota because mining was such a pillar of what was happening here at the time. And just like being underground and the constant temperature, that was one of the highlights of one of the things I've done in town.Jordyn Stocks (06:04.049)Yeah, yeah, it's a it's a very cool experience. I'd highly recommend doing that. but yeah, other than that, we've got a lot of great hiking trails, places to canoe and paddle and swim and do all those things. Berry picking. there's always something to do. We've got a great yeah, we've got a great you know, local art scene with the theater and art shows, we've got the movie theater.It's just a lot of fun stuff to do, always always something.Stephanie Hansen (06:38.12)Absolutely. And I know you guys for such a smallish town, your bookstore has like a big footprint. You guys have sold a ton of the True North Cabin cookbooks for me, so thank you. Also, the Moon Tav the Moon Tavern.Jordyn Stocks (06:49.271)Yeah. Yeah, of course. Thanks for coming and Yeah. Yeah, the the new one's been popular.Stephanie Hansen (06:58.964)And also Kurt's book, The Barrens, the Canoe Book has still done well too. So I wanna thank you for that. And I know you guys have a lot of artists that come through and authors that come through. When you're stocking the bookstore, like who would you say is your ideal customer that you're stocking for? Because you have like such a great romance section, a good kid section.Jordyn Stocks (07:21.126)Gosh, that that's a tough one. and it changes, I feel. a lot of people are just are looking for a book to take out on trip with them. Something something that's gonna like be engaging right away, something that's engrossing. they don't want a lot of heavy reading necessarily. But we've also got people who want, you know, the latest best sellers, the things they're seeing on on book talk or theYou know, Reese's book picks or all those things. but also a lot of people looking for local history, things about the area, just something to kind of you know put them in the mindset of being here in the woods. Yeah. A lot of lot of different customers, a lot of variety.Stephanie Hansen (08:07.916) I imagine maybe that changes as you get into the winter months too and it's more of the regular town folk versus the though you have a big visitors that come in the winter too, ‘cause we come and go snowmobiling, we cross country ski.Jordyn Stocks (08:19.792)Yeah. Yeah, yeah, totally. Yeah, there's definitely people coming all year round. It's it's of course, you know, a little a little more mellow in the winter, not as much foot traffic. But yeah, definitely a lot of locals will they'll special order things, you know, they heard about on the radio or they read about in the paper, or you know, they've gottheir favorite Minnesota authors having a new book come out and they want to pre-order that. So yeah.Stephanie Hansen (08:49.877)Yes. I love that. if you could pick three books that you think are kind of buzzy right now that you see that people are excited about, we'll we'll throw them out there because I think I'm always looking for new reads.Jordyn Stocks (09:05.333)Yeah, so people right now are looking for Theo of Golden. I'm blanking on the author's name, but they're also looking for the correspondent and Calamity Club. And then the newest William Kent Krueger book, which won't be out tillAugust, but you know, they're always looking for his latest. Stephanie Hansen (09:29.815)I think I'm the only one in the world that didn't love that Theo of Golden Book, but you know, everybody's got their own vibes.Jordyn Stocks (09:34.01)I haven't read it, but I've definitely that seems like a book that people are either loving or they're hating. There's no in-between on that, as far as I'm hearing.Stephanie Hansen (09:51.192)I feel like that's also what is the name of the book? And I bought it at your store about the social media influencer who gets dropped into the eighteen hundreds.Jordyn Stocks (10:00.429)Yesteryear. That one's been really popular too. Yeah, that's another love it or hate it one. Yeah.Stephanie Hansen (10:02.347)Yes. Another book that I yes, like I totally hate read that book and read the whole thing and hated it, but kept going. It it was, you know how sometimes you don't love a book, but it's compelling enough to keep reading and sort of see what happens at the end.it's fascinating, I think, that that book got so much traction. But I don't know, like I I love the diversity of what you guys offer there. You have a ton of local too, like Abby Yaminez. I know you have a large section for her romance books. And romance is a big seller.Jordyn Stocks (10:36.246)We do. Yep. It is. We never used to carry much of it or like have much of a demand for it, but it's been like flying off the shelves lately. I I don't I don't know what it is, but and and that's not a genre that I typically read. So I I've been relying a lot on like s like coworker and customer recommendations, which has been fun. .Stephanie Hansen (11:09.793)It for your personal life, like you probably have to read a lot of books. Like how many books do you think you read in a month?Jordyn Stocks (11:17.462)And I I don't know. I also listen to a lot of books, but I don't know how many I read in a month. Probably like half a dozen, maybe. I don't I don't really know. I doStephanie Hansen (11:31.064)That's a lot. I listen to people talk about, you know, is listening to a book the same as reading or does it count? It's like who's keeping score number one? And yes, it counts. when you can think of a book that is narrated by someone that really makes it come alive, like I just listened to Whistler by Ann Patchett, which I don't know if I would have liked that book as much if she hadn't read it.Jordyn Stocks (11:58.966)Yeah, I totally get that. I I listen to more nonfiction, more memoirs and things, and I especially love when the author reads it. Like David Sederis will read his own, like Nick Offerman reads his own. They're both really great to listen to. And it's just I don't know, it it I think it brings a lot more to it in that circumstance. So but yeah. before we break here, I do want to mention that you guys have the catalog. And in the catalog are you have a lot of books in the catalog, a lot of the cookbooks, the seasonal books, there's also gear.Jordyn Stocks (13:16.393)We do. We do, yeah, and we have the website as well that's fully shoppable, the Boundary Waters catalog website. there's I mean certainly more than what was in the catalog, but not not as much as in the store. But there is quite a variety there and I'm I'm always happy to special order things too if someone's looking for something that they're not seeing in the store oron the website that's happy to look for things. Yeah.Stephanie Hansen (13:43.949)That's good to know. That's good to know because I know there's been a lot of interest in supporting Ely in particular. I'm going to link there's a fund that's been established that the United Way of Northeastern Minnesota is putting together and there's three pillars that you can donate to. One is nonprofits, one is Ely specific small business, which I appreciate. And also there is an opportunity to donate to the Wildfire Fund. SoI will put that in the show notes. Anything you want people to know specifically about Ely before we break?Jordyn Stocks (14:15.351)Great.gosh. it's just it's just such a great place to to live and to visit. There's you know great people here. Just the way you know you've mentioned people have been showing up for one another and supporting people during this just weird, uncertain wildfire time. It's it's been really cool. It's just a great place to be. Lots, yeah.Stephanie Hansen (14:42.423)I think so too. We're lucky. And we're lucky to have you, Jordan, be such a good supporter of books and reading. And I appreciate everything Piragis has done for our books. And I'm looking forward to seeing you soon. I always pop in to sign books and I'll see you, I'm sure, in the next week.Jordyn Stocks (14:59.62)Yeah, sorry I missed you yesterday. Hopefully we'll see you soon. All right. Wonderful. You too. Absolutely. Thanks for having me. Bye.Stephanie Hansen (15:02.34)Yeah. you will, you will. It's good to see you again, Jordan, and thanks for being a guest. Okay, bye-bye. Mm-hmm.Stephanie Hansen's @StephaniesDish Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stephaniehansen.substack.com/subscribe

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What if fundraising was never about money? In this episode of The Quiet Warrior Show, host and producer Dr. Tom Dutta sits down with Jeff Schreifels, Principal and Owner of Veritus Group, internationally renowned fundraising expert, keynote speaker, bestselling author, and pioneer of relationship-centred major gifts strategy. With over 30 years in nonprofit leadership, Jeff has helped organisations like St. Jude's, United Way, Seton Hall University, March of Dimes, American Cancer Society, GLAAD, and New York City Ballet increase revenue while strengthening donor relationships through what he calls the Veritus Way. But beneath the strategy lies something deeper. Jeff shares how listening to his inner voice at four to five pivotal life moments altered the trajectory of his life, shaped his leadership philosophy, and redefined what legacy truly means. This is a conversation about risk, intuition, leadership, and why the future of nonprofits depends on relationships over transactions. Learn more about Jeff and the Veritus Way at veritusgroup.com.

The United Way of Eastern Idaho hosts a summer concert series every year that provides educational opportunities for children and families. The community can also get involved.

Ron Hustvedt is in to talk all about GameFair in Ramsey opening August 7th, previews a few pieces he's written for Outdoor News and talks bass fishing. Plus his first Fast Five, and we check in with Denae and Halen for the Lueken's Village Foods United Way Fishing Tournament results.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Llegaste a este país. Te dijeron que aquí hay ayuda para todo, pero nadie te dijo dónde buscarla. Y cuando por fin te atreves a preguntar, aparece el miedo: ¿qué van a pensar?, ¿qué viniste a pedir?, ¿que no hablas inglés?, ¿que no tienes papeles?En este episodio, Sandra conversa con Rossmari Palomo, de Uniendo Culturas, corredora de seguros y creadora del blog donde miles de latinos encuentran recursos gratuitos en Estados Unidos. Ros lleva once años en el país y se dedica a investigar y compartir la información que nadie te explica cuando llegas.Hablan de todo lo que sí existe y que probablemente no sabías: cómo conseguir ayuda para pagar la renta, dónde encontrar bancos de alimentos, qué son los grants y por qué no son lo mismo que un préstamo, cómo aplicar a Charity Care cuando te llega una factura de hospital impagable, dónde estudiar inglés por treinta dólares el semestre y por qué las bibliotecas públicas son uno de los recursos más subestimados de este país.Si vives en Estados Unidos y alguna vez has sentido que estás sola resolviendo todo, este episodio es un directorio completo de recursos.Chapters: 00:00 Lo que nadie te dice cuando llegas a este país00:40 Bienvenida a Sandra Sin Filtro02:25 Quién es Ros de Uniendo Culturas04:15 Qué tipo de información encuentras en el blog08:20 Ayudar a una persona ya vale la pena09:55 Universidades gratis y de bajo costo en Estados Unidos13:05 Becas: toca la puerta y no te quedes con el primer no16:50 Cursos gratuitos de Harvard, Stanford y Google18:10 El síndrome del impostor del latino en USA18:50 Ayuda para pagar la renta: las tres opciones20:35 United Way y el número 21122:10 "Spanish, please": tu derecho a ser atendido en español24:45 Bancos de comida y despensas sin pena26:15 Ayuda para mascotas: despensa, vacunas y esterilización28:25 Dónde estudiar inglés gratis o por $30 al semestre31:15 Las bibliotecas públicas son oro en este país32:40 De dónde viene el miedo a hablar inglés33:15 Todo lo que puedes hacer gratis en una biblioteca38:10 Entradas a museos, robótica y estudios de pódcast41:20 Qué es un grant y por qué no es lo mismo que un loan43:00 Grants.gov, FedEx, Verizon y Amazon45:55 Cuentas médicas: el miedo a ir al hospital47:40 El 80% de las facturas médicas tienen errores48:15 La mamografía de $725 y el código equivocado49:55 Cómo pedir un descuento y qué es el Charity Care50:40 La factura de $117,000 que terminó en cero53:20 El 80% de descuento después del parto55:10 Cuándo NO usar un recurso que no necesitas57:35 El mensaje para quien está empezando de cero59:20 Sé tu propio cheerleader1:00:35 Emigrar en pareja y por qué la terapia importa1:01:25 Dónde seguir a Ros de Uniendo Culturas1:02:25 Despedida@uniendoculturasRossmari es agente de seguros especializada en planes de salud y vida, y fundadora de Uniendo Culturas, se define como “la guía #1 para hispanos en Estados Unidos.” Lleva más de 10 años ayudando a la comunidad hispana a encontrar recursos gratuitos verificados, y tiene más de 575,000 seguidores en redes sociales. Hello Engine es una plataforma impulsada por IA diseñada para ayudar a creadores a lanzar, gestionar y hacer crecer sus podcasts con confianza. Desde la estrategia y planificación de episodios hasta la creación de contenido y el crecimiento de la audiencia, ofrece las herramientas y la guía necesarias para construir un podcast exitoso.

As heard on The Morning Show with Ken & Friends, this is the weekly United We Thrive segment from United Way of Southwest Michigan. This podcast is your opportunity to learn more about the mission, vision, and programs of the local United Way organization and find out how you can get involved to make a difference! For more information: https://www.uwsm.org/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, John Roberts interviews Nancy O'Hara and Ellie DeLage from United Way of Grand Forks, East Grand Forks and Area about how local programs respond to summer needs. They cover donation drives, the Kids Closet, backpack food programs, volunteer opportunities, and upcoming events like Pack the Backpack, the French Fry Food Drive, and Trike Wars. The episode also shares practical ways to help or get help, including drop-off locations, event dates, and the United Way contact number. Show is recorded at Grand Forks Best Source. For studio information, visit www.gfbestsource.com – Or message us at bit.ly/44meos1 – Help support GFBS at this donation link - https://bit.ly/3vjvzgX - Access past GFBS Interviews - https://gfbsinterviews.podbean.com/  #gfbs #gfbestsource.com #grandforksnd #interview #local #grandforks #grandforksbestsource #visitgreatergrandforks @grandforksnd @THECHAMBERGFEGF #belegendary #followers #everyone

Visit Ely, Minnesota for fun things to do year-round! Whether you are looking for a place to stay, a delicious meal, a hiking trail, or an immersion experience, we have businesses ready to meet your needs.Stephanie Hansen (00:00:00)Hello, everybody, and welcome to Dishing with Stephanie's Dish, the podcast where we talk to people in the food space typically, but also in the wellness spaces and all the beautiful spaces. I'm here today with Kate Kalan and she is with Etoile du Nord, which is a new spa that is located in Ely, Minnesota. And many of you know Ely is my second home. it is the home of the True North Cabin Cookbook where I wrote the books. And also I have a cabin here.And it's been kind of a summer. So I typically go back and forth between the twin cities and here. And Kate, you and I have never met, but I'm really excited about your new spa. You guys opened, was it last summer?Kate (00:00:43)Last spring, yeah, Earth Day we opened. So we're on summer number two now. ⁓Stephanie Hansen (00:00:46)So so Kate, tell me about how you found yourself in Ely.Kate (00:01:40)So I was born and raised here. ⁓ I left to go to school, work in the cities for many, many years. ⁓ and then COVID happened ⁓ and I decided to come home. ⁓ So ⁓ I work remotely ⁓ up here ⁓ and I don't know, I think it was about a year ⁓ working remotely that I ⁓Don't know Stephanie decided to do something different. ⁓ And ⁓ it was yeah, it was one summer my mom and I were were I was trying to get us a pedicure appointment and it was impossible. So ⁓ I was like, I I don't know, let's do this. I don't know what sparked it. I think you know, my parents ran small businesses here when I grew up andStephanie Hansen (00:02:10)Ha ha ha ⁓Stephanie Hansen (00:02:32)Yeah.Kate (00:02:35)I think I had just been talking to like a lot of entrepreneurs at the time. I don't I don't even know, but ⁓Stephanie Hansen (00:02:40)It it it makes sense though, because ⁓ what I noticed during COVID, we would come up in the winter and stay ⁓ we actually spent kind of a lot of time up here that winter ⁓ of the first year of COVID, just probably out of boredom more than anything else. ⁓ And we had free time. So, you know, the Northwoods was so gorgeous and so beautiful. I think that a lot of people came to this area.Kate (00:02:48)Yeah.Stephanie Hansen (00:03:08)In the COVID times, people came from other parts of the country. There were a lot of houses that were purchased. A lot of entrepreneurs came in. And for a town like Ely that has so much of its historical roots in mining, it was pretty neat to see all these entrepreneurs coming to town. So I when you opened your spa, I was like, hooray. And at that time too, another spa, the pebble spa, that was here closed. So people really, I think, appreciated that. opportunity to ⁓ welcome you in. And it started just primarily as nails, but I've noticed you're doing more things now.Kate (00:03:45)Yeah. ⁓ we do manicures, pedicures. ⁓ this summer we brought on an esthetician. So she's doing facials and like light chemical peels. ⁓ and then just recently this month we welcomed ⁓ massage therapists. So Jessie Brooks massage is working out of our our cozy little space. ⁓ so yeah, people are people are excited and so that makes me excited.Stephanie Hansen (00:04:12)So in the summer the population here swells, ⁓ up to like six thousand people. So it grows by like six to sevenfold really. ⁓ is ⁓ like if you and you've only been doing this this is your second year, I would imagine summer is a big part of the business or not.Kate (00:04:25)yeah. ⁓ we made it through ⁓ the winter, ⁓ but summer's a completely different animal. I mean, the girls are are pretty booked and it's wonderful. You know, we have so many seasonal people, just even from last summer who are excited to come back, which is ⁓ awesome to see. ⁓ you know, and then just the regular tourists and visitors, obviously this summer's a little bit different. ⁓ but happy to say we're we're pretty steady, which has been awesome.Stephanie Hansen (00:04:59)It's pretty interesting. I mean, I feel like the city of Ely and the folks in Ely have done a lot to spur winter tourism. I mean, snowmobiling is a big thing. We've got great cross-country ski trails. I mean, there's things like Beard Fest ⁓ and they have the movie festival now. There's also a winter festival, ⁓ ice sculptures, snow sculptures. ⁓ What do you think it would take in your opinion to get more people interested in Ely in the winter?Kate (00:05:31)I mean, I keep saying they should film a Hallmark movie up here. Like ⁓ it's so, you know, it's so cozy in the winter and it's such ⁓ a special place to spend Christmas. ⁓ I just I always say this town has Hallmark vibes and so I really think they should come up here. But ⁓ you know, like you said, there's stuff going on throughout the year. Fall is a beautiful time to visit. We'll have the harvest moon hopefully this year, which will hopefully be bigger than ever. ⁓ they'll have the art walk during that time. Like you said, we have the winter festival, the film festival. We have a new dark sky festival. I mean, they're, you know, we're really trying to get people up here year round. ⁓ obviously it's beautiful right now and and wonderful. So I hope people still ⁓ you know, with respect to the firefighters and everything. ⁓ Yeah.Stephanie Hansen (00:06:20)Yeah, let's talk about that for a second because this will air in the next couple of weeks. And ⁓ on July, what was it, 7th, I believe, ⁓ there was a reignition of an older fire that had started through lightning called the campfire. But also concurrently, there were 14 other fires that were going in the Boundary Waters Canoe area has been really impacted. The small business in particular, they closed the boundary waters for it looks like it'll be a minimum of two weeks and probably a little bit longer. They are starting to open for single day permits near kind of the Tofty Lutzen area, which is ⁓ pretty far from us, about 90 minutes. ⁓ when it it's so hard to balance because I know you live here. I have a home here we have people that are friends we have that are evacuated and then are waiting to get back to their cabin spaces. And yet it's like you're living in this weird universe because I look outside. It's a gorgeous, beautiful day. It feels fine. This is supposed to be the start of the blueberry festival. But I also as I promoted art festivals myself for 25 years. And I know, you know, to bring 40,000 people to town during this whole crisis when you've got 850 fire people on the line trying to protect the town could be seen as irresponsible. It's a very mixed soup of feelings. What are your feelings as we're going into week two of this? ⁓ basically evacuation all around the town of Ely.Kate (00:07:58)Yeah, it's hard. Like you said, I mean, there were a few days where it has never felt like that here with the smoke and ⁓ it it was eerie. ⁓ but it it's beautiful now. The sky is clear. That's not to say we don't still have wildfires happening up there. Like you said, there's like 800 firefighters in town. We have to respect their space, ⁓ we have to respect, you know, the officials' orders.⁓ we have to make sure they have lodging and all of that. And it's it's a shame that Blueberry had to be canceled. But, you know, like you said, bringing thirty, forty thousand people into town on top of that. ⁓ just I understand why that decision was made. ⁓ I just hope we can make up for it, you know, like like you can visit Ely now. ⁓ I mean, the town the town is welcoming you very much so. ⁓And and I hope like I said in the fall and just when things calm down a little bit, ⁓ people will kind of make more of an effort and and think to to come up here and enjoy the leaves and ⁓ and plan some fall activities up here.Stephanie Hansen (00:09:13)We're getting good vibes, I think, from the city folks and the people in the surrounding areas. A lot of people wanna know what they can do to help. Is there something specific to you and your business that people could do to help?Kate (00:09:26)Come visit us, come make appointments. ⁓ yeah, our nail girls are are booking out and we're trying to fill up our esthetician schedule. ⁓ but yeah, we're lucky to have a lot of local clients ⁓ who are very loyal and and just summer visitors who haven't had to evacuate, thankfully. ⁓ but there's a lot of stuff going on in town. The Ely Community Response has a growing list of ways to help. I just saw right before we hopped on actually, ⁓ there's like a fund that that people are working on United Way, I think. ⁓ Yeah.Stephanie Hansen (00:10:03)Yeah, the United Way of the Northeast has established a fund that is accepting donations. I'll put a link to it in the show notes. There's three kind of pillars, and you can ⁓ sp specify your donation to go to one of the pillars, one being the small businesses in Ely, one being ⁓ nonprofits, and then the other one to wildfire fighting in the area. So that's pretty cool that they've established a line directly to small businesses.I know a lot of people are ⁓ encouraging gift cards. Do you have gift cards that people can purchase too?Kate (00:10:34)Yep. Yep. Yep. Online a lot of businesses do.Stephanie Hansen (00:10:38)Can you tell me three businesses ⁓ in Ely that you feel like you'd like people to know about?Kate (00:10:47)man, Stephanie, that's hard. ⁓ shoot. ⁓ let's see. I I love Insula. I I that's yeah, I figured you would. ⁓ I love Burnside Lodge. I think you would probably love that too. ⁓ I yes.Stephanie Hansen (00:10:48)⁓ I know it's like saying here, pick three of your friends.Stephanie Hansen (00:10:57)I do too.Stephanie Hansen (00:11:05)I do. Burntside Lodge is a historic lodge and you can eat there for dinner. They have a walk in bar area, gifts, and you can lodge there. It's historic lodges, they're very beautiful. Insula is a restaurant right in town.Kate (00:11:20)Yeah. ⁓ I have a friend who owns Five Pines Candle Company. She just moved into the new carbonation Ely space, which was the old pebble space. ⁓ I love this. ⁓ They are they have like arcade games, they have a co-working space, they are eventually gonna have, I think, like dirty sodas, which are all the rage. ⁓Stephanie Hansen (00:11:32)What is carbonation ely?Kate (00:11:45)The state theater I love. That's newly renovated. We have current movies playing, you know. I mean, just take a walk down Sheridan and Chapman Street. Like we're open and and everyone would be very thrilled ⁓ to see you. ⁓ So ⁓Stephanie Hansen (00:12:00)Yeah.Well, I'm looking forward to see you. If I showed you my ⁓ toenails or my nails right now, you'd be horrified. ⁓Kate (00:12:10)No. Me too. I tell my girls like I am a horrible spokesperson because I'm I talk like this. ⁓Stephanie Hansen (00:12:17)Yeah, ⁓ same. Like, please do not look. And I have a TV show that I do and I'm holding food all the time. So I really have to have my nails done. So like in this two week reprieve where I haven't had to do it, it's like, ⁓ it's so great. But they just look terrible. So ⁓ I appreciate you. And I also appreciate massage. ⁓ I am someone that really believes in the power of massage. I get massage every week when I'm home.And I just feel for like lymphatic purposes and just overall stress and well being it's really important. ⁓ And so I'm looking forward to visit with Jesse at some point.Kate (00:12:55)Yes, yes. And same with facials. I just, ⁓ you know, and I don't we try and take a really just kind of like holistic self-care approach. Like all of our products are non toxic, cruelty free, nearly everything is vegan. ⁓Our space is just like cozy and welcoming. Like we just want people to take a little bit of time for themselves. Obviously, there's crazy, crazy things going on in the world. And it's just like you said, that is ⁓ really important ⁓ just to kind of level set and and take an hour for yourself or whatever it may be. So yeah. ⁓Stephanie Hansen (00:13:33)Yeah, I love it. Well, I am a huge fan of what you're doing. I'm a huge fan of Ely and all the new small businesses that have opened up in the last five years since COVID. Can you believe it? ⁓ and there's just so many there's so many great things about Ely. I'm a I'm a big supporter and I'm hopeful that I in some ways I wonder if kind of looking at the positive side of things, that all of this wildfire activity will sign will bring a shine a light.on the community and how amazing it's been, how supportive of the firefighters, how the Ely community's response really mobilized. There what impressed me about them so much is everybody talks about like, let me know what I can do or how can we help. And they just like got a Google spreadsheet, got a substack going, got a Facebook page, like people just started matching literal needs with people that needed them. So if someone needed a place to stay, they found it. If someone needed a mattress for the back of a truck, because that's where they were going to be, they found it. They really talked about how you can build an inexpensive air filter for your home. It it was so just impressive how fast and how real the response and help was.Kate (00:14:50)Yeah, and social media, man, our WhatsApp Ely Facebook group is like ⁓ it's a godsend in in some ways, you know. ⁓ but yeah, so there's there's a lot available for people to do in town right now. And and I think that's important for for everyone to know. Yeah.Stephanie Hansen (00:15:10)Yeah, come visit Ely. There's whether you come spring, summer, winter, or fall, outside of there's beautiful lakes, ⁓ lots of lodging. ⁓ there's pickleball, there's gonna be a new brewery in town, there's entertainment in the park, ⁓ there is the big festivals, there's just so much happening all the time. So thanks for talking to me, Kate. I will come in and see you soon next time I swing through town. Okay.Kate (00:14:50)Thank you, it was great to finally meet you. Okay. Okay. Bye.Stephanie Hansen (00:15:39)Yes, you too, and we'll talk soon. Okay. Bye bye.Stephanie Hansen's @StephaniesDish Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stephaniehansen.substack.com/subscribe

What does it take to become a Community Health Worker? Leslie Clark from the United Way of Virginia’s Blue Ridge joined us to discuss CHW training and services.   During this episode we discuss the use of CHW’s to decrease medical mistrust. If you would like to learn more about this topic, check out the new book Medical Mistrust in Appalachia: Helping Patients and Providers Communicate with Cultural Humility, edited by Wendy Welch and Beth O’Connor.

Visit Ely, Minnesota for fun things to do year-round! Whether you are looking for a place to stay, a delicious meal, a hiking trail, or an immersion experience, we have businesses ready to meet your needs.Stephanie Hansen (00:00:00)Hello, everybody, and welcome to Dishing with Stephanie's Dish, the podcast where we talk to people in the food space typically, but also in the wellness spaces and all the beautiful spaces. I'm here today with Kate Kalan and she is with Etoile du Nord, which is a new spa that is located in Ely, Minnesota. And many of you know Ely is my second home. it is the home of the True North Cabin Cookbook where I wrote the books. And also I have a cabin here.And it's been kind of a summer. So I typically go back and forth between the twin cities and here. And Kate, you and I have never met, but I'm really excited about your new spa. You guys opened, was it last summer?Kate (00:00:43)Last spring, yeah, Earth Day we opened. So we're on summer number two now. ⁓Stephanie Hansen (00:00:46)So so Kate, tell me about how you found yourself in Ely.Kate (00:01:40)So I was born and raised here. ⁓ I left to go to school, work in the cities for many, many years. ⁓ and then COVID happened ⁓ and I decided to come home. ⁓ So ⁓ I work remotely ⁓ up here ⁓ and I don't know, I think it was about a year ⁓ working remotely that I ⁓Don't know Stephanie decided to do something different. ⁓ And ⁓ it was yeah, it was one summer my mom and I were were I was trying to get us a pedicure appointment and it was impossible. So ⁓ I was like, I I don't know, let's do this. I don't know what sparked it. I think you know, my parents ran small businesses here when I grew up andStephanie Hansen (00:02:10)Ha ha ha ⁓Stephanie Hansen (00:02:32)Yeah.Kate (00:02:35)I think I had just been talking to like a lot of entrepreneurs at the time. I don't I don't even know, but ⁓Stephanie Hansen (00:02:40)It it it makes sense though, because ⁓ what I noticed during COVID, we would come up in the winter and stay ⁓ we actually spent kind of a lot of time up here that winter ⁓ of the first year of COVID, just probably out of boredom more than anything else. ⁓ And we had free time. So, you know, the Northwoods was so gorgeous and so beautiful. I think that a lot of people came to this area.Kate (00:02:48)Yeah.Stephanie Hansen (00:03:08)In the COVID times, people came from other parts of the country. There were a lot of houses that were purchased. A lot of entrepreneurs came in. And for a town like Ely that has so much of its historical roots in mining, it was pretty neat to see all these entrepreneurs coming to town. So I when you opened your spa, I was like, hooray. And at that time too, another spa, the pebble spa, that was here closed. So people really, I think, appreciated that. opportunity to ⁓ welcome you in. And it started just primarily as nails, but I've noticed you're doing more things now.Kate (00:03:45)Yeah. ⁓ we do manicures, pedicures. ⁓ this summer we brought on an esthetician. So she's doing facials and like light chemical peels. ⁓ and then just recently this month we welcomed ⁓ massage therapists. So Jessie Brooks massage is working out of our our cozy little space. ⁓ so yeah, people are people are excited and so that makes me excited.Stephanie Hansen (00:04:12)So in the summer the population here swells, ⁓ up to like six thousand people. So it grows by like six to sevenfold really. ⁓ is ⁓ like if you and you've only been doing this this is your second year, I would imagine summer is a big part of the business or not.Kate (00:04:25)yeah. ⁓ we made it through ⁓ the winter, ⁓ but summer's a completely different animal. I mean, the girls are are pretty booked and it's wonderful. You know, we have so many seasonal people, just even from last summer who are excited to come back, which is ⁓ awesome to see. ⁓ you know, and then just the regular tourists and visitors, obviously this summer's a little bit different. ⁓ but happy to say we're we're pretty steady, which has been awesome.Stephanie Hansen (00:04:59)It's pretty interesting. I mean, I feel like the city of Ely and the folks in Ely have done a lot to spur winter tourism. I mean, snowmobiling is a big thing. We've got great cross-country ski trails. I mean, there's things like Beard Fest ⁓ and they have the movie festival now. There's also a winter festival, ⁓ ice sculptures, snow sculptures. ⁓ What do you think it would take in your opinion to get more people interested in Ely in the winter?Kate (00:05:31)I mean, I keep saying they should film a Hallmark movie up here. Like ⁓ it's so, you know, it's so cozy in the winter and it's such ⁓ a special place to spend Christmas. ⁓ I just I always say this town has Hallmark vibes and so I really think they should come up here. But ⁓ you know, like you said, there's stuff going on throughout the year. Fall is a beautiful time to visit. We'll have the harvest moon hopefully this year, which will hopefully be bigger than ever. ⁓ they'll have the art walk during that time. Like you said, we have the winter festival, the film festival. We have a new dark sky festival. I mean, they're, you know, we're really trying to get people up here year round. ⁓ obviously it's beautiful right now and and wonderful. So I hope people still ⁓ you know, with respect to the firefighters and everything. ⁓ Yeah.Stephanie Hansen (00:06:20)Yeah, let's talk about that for a second because this will air in the next couple of weeks. And ⁓ on July, what was it, 7th, I believe, ⁓ there was a reignition of an older fire that had started through lightning called the campfire. But also concurrently, there were 14 other fires that were going in the Boundary Waters Canoe area has been really impacted. The small business in particular, they closed the boundary waters for it looks like it'll be a minimum of two weeks and probably a little bit longer. They are starting to open for single day permits near kind of the Tofty Lutzen area, which is ⁓ pretty far from us, about 90 minutes. ⁓ when it it's so hard to balance because I know you live here. I have a home here we have people that are friends we have that are evacuated and then are waiting to get back to their cabin spaces. And yet it's like you're living in this weird universe because I look outside. It's a gorgeous, beautiful day. It feels fine. This is supposed to be the start of the blueberry festival. But I also as I promoted art festivals myself for 25 years. And I know, you know, to bring 40,000 people to town during this whole crisis when you've got 850 fire people on the line trying to protect the town could be seen as irresponsible. It's a very mixed soup of feelings. What are your feelings as we're going into week two of this? ⁓ basically evacuation all around the town of Ely.Kate (00:07:58)Yeah, it's hard. Like you said, I mean, there were a few days where it has never felt like that here with the smoke and ⁓ it it was eerie. ⁓ but it it's beautiful now. The sky is clear. That's not to say we don't still have wildfires happening up there. Like you said, there's like 800 firefighters in town. We have to respect their space, ⁓ we have to respect, you know, the officials' orders.⁓ we have to make sure they have lodging and all of that. And it's it's a shame that Blueberry had to be canceled. But, you know, like you said, bringing thirty, forty thousand people into town on top of that. ⁓ just I understand why that decision was made. ⁓ I just hope we can make up for it, you know, like like you can visit Ely now. ⁓ I mean, the town the town is welcoming you very much so. ⁓And and I hope like I said in the fall and just when things calm down a little bit, ⁓ people will kind of make more of an effort and and think to to come up here and enjoy the leaves and ⁓ and plan some fall activities up here.Stephanie Hansen (00:09:13)We're getting good vibes, I think, from the city folks and the people in the surrounding areas. A lot of people wanna know what they can do to help. Is there something specific to you and your business that people could do to help?Kate (00:09:26)Come visit us, come make appointments. ⁓ yeah, our nail girls are are booking out and we're trying to fill up our esthetician schedule. ⁓ but yeah, we're lucky to have a lot of local clients ⁓ who are very loyal and and just summer visitors who haven't had to evacuate, thankfully. ⁓ but there's a lot of stuff going on in town. The Ely Community Response has a growing list of ways to help. I just saw right before we hopped on actually, ⁓ there's like a fund that that people are working on United Way, I think. ⁓ Yeah.Stephanie Hansen (00:10:03)Yeah, the United Way of the Northeast has established a fund that is accepting donations. I'll put a link to it in the show notes. There's three kind of pillars, and you can ⁓ sp specify your donation to go to one of the pillars, one being the small businesses in Ely, one being ⁓ nonprofits, and then the other one to wildfire fighting in the area. So that's pretty cool that they've established a line directly to small businesses.I know a lot of people are ⁓ encouraging gift cards. Do you have gift cards that people can purchase too?Kate (00:10:34)Yep. Yep. Yep. Online a lot of businesses do.Stephanie Hansen (00:10:38)Can you tell me three businesses ⁓ in Ely that you feel like you'd like people to know about?Kate (00:10:47)man, Stephanie, that's hard. ⁓ shoot. ⁓ let's see. I I love Insula. I I that's yeah, I figured you would. ⁓ I love Burnside Lodge. I think you would probably love that too. ⁓ I yes.Stephanie Hansen (00:10:48)⁓ I know it's like saying here, pick three of your friends.Stephanie Hansen (00:10:57)I do too.Stephanie Hansen (00:11:05)I do. Burntside Lodge is a historic lodge and you can eat there for dinner. They have a walk in bar area, gifts, and you can lodge there. It's historic lodges, they're very beautiful. Insula is a restaurant right in town.Kate (00:11:20)Yeah. ⁓ I have a friend who owns Five Pines Candle Company. She just moved into the new carbonation Ely space, which was the old pebble space. ⁓ I love this. ⁓ They are they have like arcade games, they have a co-working space, they are eventually gonna have, I think, like dirty sodas, which are all the rage. ⁓Stephanie Hansen (00:11:32)What is carbonation ely?Kate (00:11:45)The state theater I love. That's newly renovated. We have current movies playing, you know. I mean, just take a walk down Sheridan and Chapman Street. Like we're open and and everyone would be very thrilled ⁓ to see you. ⁓ So ⁓Stephanie Hansen (00:12:00)Yeah.Well, I'm looking forward to see you. If I showed you my ⁓ toenails or my nails right now, you'd be horrified. ⁓Kate (00:12:10)No. Me too. I tell my girls like I am a horrible spokesperson because I'm I talk like this. ⁓Stephanie Hansen (00:12:17)Yeah, ⁓ same. Like, please do not look. And I have a TV show that I do and I'm holding food all the time. So I really have to have my nails done. So like in this two week reprieve where I haven't had to do it, it's like, ⁓ it's so great. But they just look terrible. So ⁓ I appreciate you. And I also appreciate massage. ⁓ I am someone that really believes in the power of massage. I get massage every week when I'm home.And I just feel for like lymphatic purposes and just overall stress and well being it's really important. ⁓ And so I'm looking forward to visit with Jesse at some point.Kate (00:12:55)Yes, yes. And same with facials. I just, ⁓ you know, and I don't we try and take a really just kind of like holistic self-care approach. Like all of our products are non toxic, cruelty free, nearly everything is vegan. ⁓Our space is just like cozy and welcoming. Like we just want people to take a little bit of time for themselves. Obviously, there's crazy, crazy things going on in the world. And it's just like you said, that is ⁓ really important ⁓ just to kind of level set and and take an hour for yourself or whatever it may be. So yeah. ⁓Stephanie Hansen (00:13:33)Yeah, I love it. Well, I am a huge fan of what you're doing. I'm a huge fan of Ely and all the new small businesses that have opened up in the last five years since COVID. Can you believe it? ⁓ and there's just so many there's so many great things about Ely. I'm a I'm a big supporter and I'm hopeful that I in some ways I wonder if kind of looking at the positive side of things, that all of this wildfire activity will sign will bring a shine a light.on the community and how amazing it's been, how supportive of the firefighters, how the Ely community's response really mobilized. There what impressed me about them so much is everybody talks about like, let me know what I can do or how can we help. And they just like got a Google spreadsheet, got a substack going, got a Facebook page, like people just started matching literal needs with people that needed them. So if someone needed a place to stay, they found it. If someone needed a mattress for the back of a truck, because that's where they were going to be, they found it. They really talked about how you can build an inexpensive air filter for your home. It it was so just impressive how fast and how real the response and help was.Kate (00:14:50)Yeah, and social media, man, our WhatsApp Ely Facebook group is like ⁓ it's a godsend in in some ways, you know. ⁓ but yeah, so there's there's a lot available for people to do in town right now. And and I think that's important for for everyone to know. Yeah.Stephanie Hansen (00:15:10)Yeah, come visit Ely. There's whether you come spring, summer, winter, or fall, outside of there's beautiful lakes, ⁓ lots of lodging. ⁓ there's pickleball, there's gonna be a new brewery in town, there's entertainment in the park, ⁓ there is the big festivals, there's just so much happening all the time. So thanks for talking to me, Kate. I will come in and see you soon next time I swing through town. Okay.Kate (00:14:50)Thank you, it was great to finally meet you. Okay. Okay. Bye.Stephanie Hansen (00:15:39)Yes, you too, and we'll talk soon. Okay. Bye bye.Stephanie Hansen's @StephaniesDish Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stephaniehansen.substack.com/subscribe

Oh, this was so fun! Kristina has been popping into the studio to talk about the United Way for YEARS - but now we just get to talk about whatever we want! Like, her stint as Queen of Litchfield or why she didn't get promoted at her first job at Pizza Hut! I think our takeaway... if you have time to lean, you have time to clean! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As heard on The Morning Show with Ken & Friends, this is the weekly United We Thrive segment from United Way of Southwest Michigan. This podcast is your opportunity to learn more about the mission, vision, and programs of the local United Way organization and find out how you can get involved to make a difference! For more information: https://www.uwsm.org/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We sit down with Tyler Dupey, the new Executive Director of Kanza United Way, to hear how he plans to lead with strategy, strong volunteers, and smarter use of data. We also dig into how local giving becomes local grants, plus the volunteer tools and literacy programs that help families across Manhattan and Riley County. • Tyler's path from western Kansas to Manhattan and into nonprofit leadership • Board governance, strategy, and stretching limited nonprofit resources • How workplace campaigns, payroll deduction, and employer matching build impact • Annual campaign timeline and the September 15 kickoff at the Shamrock Zone at Bramlage • How partner agency grants are reviewed and selected by volunteers • Volunteer hub basics, tracking hours, and what Stuff the Bus accomplishes for USD 383 • Dolly Parton Imagination Library details, including 140,000 books delivered and eligibility for ages 0 to 5 They can go on our website, conziunitedway.org GMCFCFAs

The bad news: With a dramatic drop in the available blood supply and an even steeper-than-normal dropoff in donations this summer, the American Red Cross has declared an emergency blood shortage... The good news: Fixing it is pretty easy (at 13:02) --- Throwback Thursday: Team USA's Round of 16 exit from the World Cup left many pointing the finger at our youth development program as the reason America lags behind in the global game... But the issues with youth sports in the US run much deeper (at 23:07) --- Community and Business Spotlight: While the rest of us are still in full summer mode, the United Way of Hancock County is already preparing for fall's campaign kickoff (at 40:40)

Jason Rylander has been busy working on the Lueken's Village Foods United Way Fishing Tournament, grabbing a top 3 finish in Lundmania on Ottertail Lake, catching BIG walleyes in Canada, guiding on the Turtle chain, and getting ready for a bucket list trip WAAAAY up north. We cover it all!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Janell Evans is the director of 211, the information and referral service operated by United Way of Amarillo & Canyon. Every day, her team helps connect people with the resources and support they need, whether they're facing financial hardship, housing challenges, mental health concerns, family crises, or countless other life circumstances. In this episode of Hey Amarillo, Janell shares what she's learned from years spent helping people navigate some of their most difficult moments. We talk about the most common needs her team encounters, the misconceptions many of us have about who needs help and why, and the realities facing individuals and families across our community. What I appreciated most about this conversation was how often it challenged my assumptions. Janell brings both the heart of a helper and the perspective of someone who has spent years listening closely to people's struggles and connecting them with solutions. It's an insightful, compassionate conversation about the needs that exist all around us—and the people working every day to meet them.

Host Dave Fiore sits down with Jim Hunt, founder of Serve Strong and a familiar presence in Tallahassee's business and civic community for nearly three decades. Jim will tell you he is a relationship person first. The job titles just kind of followed.  Jim grew up a military kid, moving every four or five years before his family settled in Melbourne Beach. He came to FSU planning on law school and took a part-time teller job at Capital City Bank that turned into a career that lasted two decades. Then one thing led to the next — the commercial internet before most people knew what a website was, time in marketing at the Moore Agency and 223, and even a stint helping bring cloud computing to Tallahassee. Along the way he chaired United Way of the Big Bend, led Leadership Tallahassee and served on boards across the city. Not because it was good for business, but because he watched his parents serve their community growing up.  Last year he launched Serve Strong, a leadership and strategic advisory, and landed his first client before he had told anyone what he was doing.  Dave and Jim talk about service, community and what it looks like to build a career around other people and then figure out what comes next.  Contact Information Serve Strong Website LinkedIn _________________________________ Thanks for listening to Tallahassee's Podcast. Enjoying the conversation? Please share this episode. Love the show? Please leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts.  About the Podcast: How I Got Here is hosted by Dave Fiore and features Tallahassee leaders, entrepreneurs and changemakers sharing the experiences and pivotal moments that shaped their journey. The show is produced by Fiore Communications, a Tallahassee-based strategic marketing firm that helps businesses build trust with the audiences that matter most. Visit hightlh.com for more great episodes and to suggest a guest or sign up for email updates.  Connect with Dave Fiore: LinkedIn Explore more local podcasts: Tallahassee Podcast Network Follow or Subscribe to How I Got Here Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube  

Brian sits down with Alan Turner to mark his two-year anniversary at USPSA. An army brat who grew up on bases from Fort Huachuca to Fort Drum, Alan has been around firearms his entire life and was a competitive discus and javelin athlete before blowing out his knees in the Army Reserves. His career wound through the Boy Scouts, New York State Assembly political campaigns, and CEO roles at multiple United Way chapters, along with authoring a leadership book for nonprofit executives. Alan came into USPSA in July 2024 during a turbulent period and immediately focused on the fundamentals: getting the finances under control, opening the books, and establishing structure. Two years in, membership has grown roughly 20% (from around 38,000 to over 46,000), quarterly unaudited financials are posted publicly, and initiatives like the new $35 junior membership, a scholarship bumped from $500 to $2,500, the club referral program, and a resource manual for clubs are all live. Alan previewed the first-ever annual Report to the Membership on August 5 at 8 PM Eastern — a virtual meeting where the board will answer grouped member-submitted questions and share audited financials. Discussion also touched on multi-year national dates being planned for 2027-2029, potential reduced nationals fees for juniors, and Steel Challenge's growth trajectory. Alan closed by emphasizing that the atmosphere has shifted from "sky is falling" to forward momentum, with a goal of eventually reaching 100,000 members while keeping the sport family-friendly and fun. Elevate your game with our trusted partners: Right To Bear Use Code HuntersHD10 When you sign up part of your contribution will go back to the Shooting Sports. Get Carry Insurance with a Company that Supports the Shooting Sports.  IWI Use Code HDG15 for 15% off your order  RealAvid Use Code RAHHDG for 10% off your order  Ghost HolsterUSA Use Code HuntersHD 15% off Jessie James JJFU Coffee Use Code HuntersHD for 5% off ACE Virtual Shooting Use Code HHDG for 10% off your subscription and physical handset. Imperium Roots Use Code HuntersHD for 20% off Speed Beez Use Code HuntersHD for 10% off

Tour operators are told locals won't buy tickets to see their own city. They're usually right. Jeanette Pierce built a twenty-year business by selling the tour to someone else instead: the employer, the university, the city government that already has that local on a list. The product isn't sightseeing. It's attraction and retention.Jeanette Pierce is the founder of Detroit's The City Institute, formerly Inside Detroit, which she launched in January 2006 after leaving a job at United Way, frustrated that outsiders were the only ones talking publicly about her city. Detroit was still years away from bankruptcy when she started and deep in it a few years later, and City Institute grew through that entire arc, not around a single moment of good press. Mitch and Jeanette break down how she built the business almost entirely on private, custom "learning journeys" sold to corporations, universities, and local governments, rather than tickets sold to the public.Jeanette explains her "peanut" method for customizing a single tour into dozens of different themes for different institutional clients, why she deliberately kept her team small after burning out at eight full-time staff and forty part-time, and how she chooses which community partners to feature and pays them for their time. She also lays out why locals discover tours through Eventbrite and HR departments instead of TripAdvisor, and how City Institute turns university orientation and corporate onboarding into recurring annual revenue. This is a full playbook for selling to a market everyone else assumes doesn't exist.Resources:thecityinstitute.com

It's Tuesday, July 7. Here are today's top stories around Central Indiana. Want to go deeper on the stories you hear on WFYI News Now? Visit wfyi.org and follow us on social media to get local news every day. WFYI News Now is hosted by Barb Anguiano and produced by Zach Bundy. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

As heard on The Morning Show with Ken & Friends, this is the weekly United We Thrive segment from United Way of Southwest Michigan. This podcast is your opportunity to learn more about the mission, vision, and programs of the local United Way organization and find out how you can get involved to make a difference! For more information: https://www.uwsm.org/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What if this was the summer you stopped measuring your life by how much you accomplished, and instead started measuring it by how fully you lived?For so many high achievers, summer comes and goes without ever truly slowing down. We tell ourselves we'll rest "when things calm down," but somehow that moment never arrives. Before we know it, we're heading into another season already feeling depleted.In this solo episode, I'm sharing why I believe your energy is your greatest leadership asset—and why learning to manage it intentionally is one of the most important skills you can develop. I'll introduce you to the idea of becoming the Chief Energy Officer of your own life and explain why rest, play, adventure, and joy aren't distractions from success—they're what make sustainable success possible.We'll explore:Why productivity isn't the same as fulfillment.How to stop living in constant output mode.The simple Energy Input/Output Loop that can help you recognize what's fueling you and what's draining you.Why your summer bucket list deserves a place on your calendar.Practical ways to recharge your energy so you can show up more fully for your work, your family, and yourself.My hope is that this episode gives you permission to choose yourself for a little while. To go hiking. To paddleboard. To camp. To read the book. To take the nap. To laugh more. To create moments that leave you feeling more alive.Because at the end of the day, success isn't just about what you accomplish. It's about the energy you have left to enjoy the life you're working so hard to build.If you're ready to stop running on empty and start living fully charged, this episode is for you.Marli Williams is an international keynote speaker, master facilitator, and joy instigator who has worked with organizations such as Nike, United Way, Doordash, along with many colleges and schools across the United States. She first fell in love with transformational leadership as a camp counselor when she was 19 years old. After getting two degrees and 15 years of leadership training, Marli decided to give herself permission to be the “Professional Camp Counselor” she knew she was born to be. Now she helps incredible people and organizations stop waiting for permission and start taking bold action to be the leaders and changemakers they've always wanted to be through the power of play and cultivating joy everyday. She loves helping people go from stuck to STOKED and actually created her own deck of inspirational messages called StokeQuotes™ which was then followed by The Connect Deck™ to inspire more meaningful conversations. Her ultimate mission in the world is to help others say YES to themselves and their big crazy dreams (while having fun doing it!) To learn more about Marli's work go to www.marliwilliams.com and follow her on Instagram @marliwilliamsStay Connected to The Marli Williams PodcastFollow us on Instagram: @marliwilliamsOur Website: www.podcast.marliwilliams.comHire Marli to Speak at your next event, conference, workshop or retreat!www.marliwilliams.comReally love the podcast and want to share it??Give us a review on your favorite platform and share this (or any) episode with a friend. Let's Lead Together and reach more people - we appreciate your support!!

On this FUSION edition of the ODPH, the panel sits down to discuss: - House of the Dragon is BACK for Season 3! We break down what we thought! Spoilers start at: 13:03 & end at: 30:50 - What we expect to see in the next entry of the DC Universe with Supergirl, which hits theaters THIS WEEKEND! - Plus we preview WWE's next PPV's, Night of Champions & NXT's Great American Bash! All that and much more! United Way of Broome County Knights Inn Relief Fund: https://uwbroome.harnessgiving.org/campaigns/21351 Local News Article about the accident: https://www.wbng.com/2026/06/22/major-fire-breaks-out-knights-inn-endwell/ Be sure to check out Fanlight Zone! For more #ODPH Content, check out our website! For #ODPH Social Media, here's our directory! ODPH Sports Edition Intro Music provided by Brian Wolff Find Your Comic Store: https://findyourcomic.store/