Truly Amazing Women Radio Show

We are here today with Clea Newman in Westport, CT. She is the Senior Director of External Affairs with the SeriousFun Children’s Network. Clea also serves as a spokesperson for the organization helping to elevate awareness of the brand and advance the legacy of her father and SeriousFun founder Paul Newman.

“Before my dad died, he asked me to carry on his legacy with this organization,” says Clea of the growing global community of independently managed and financed camps and partnership programs that have come together with a common purpose — to serve children with serious illnesses around the world, free of charge. read more...

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We are here today at the hq of SeriousFun in Westport, CT with Alyson Fox, Director of Global Partnership Program of the SeriousFun Children’s Network.

Founded in 1988 by actor Paul Newman, this incredible program serves more than 440,000 children who are suffering from illnesses in more than 50 countries. It has 30 initiatives worldwide, including 14 full member camps, 13 Global Partnership Programs, and 3 new camps in development.

Alyson (aka: Aly) has been with the organization since 2005, first as part of the New Camp Development team, supporting camp founders from their first inspiration of building a camp all the way to opening their doors for their first campers. In 2008, she transitioned to the new Global Partnership Program (GPP), building it from a pilot of three camp partnerships to a network of 13 camps and growing. She took on the role of Director of GPP in November 2012. read more...

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Born in Northern Illinois, award-winning playwright and screenwriter Darrah Cloud debuted her work on the American stage in 1982 with The House Across the Street. The success of her second produced play, The Stick Wife, secured her place among feminist playwrights of note in the United States.

Much of her work for the stage and screen focuses on the social concerns of women’s lives — so we are thrilled to have had the opportunity to interview Darrah for the Truly Amazing Women Radio Show on the Inkandescent Radio Network. read more...

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Yoga teacher Lisa Rueff is the executive director of the Do It For the Love Foundation, founded in August 2013 by rocker Michael Franti and ER nurse Sara Agah.

This wish-granting organization brings people to live concerts who are in advanced stages of life-threatening illnesses, as well as children with severe challenges and wounded veterans.

Before joining Do It For The Love Foundation, Lisa worked with Virgin Unite—the philanthropic arm of Richard Branson’s Virgin Companies. Her job included organizing trips to countries that Virgin focused on for cultural exploration and entrepreneurial sharing. read more...

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Holistic Doc Kimberly Muzinski takes a whole body approach to care, included chiropractic, nutrition and lifestyle management, and mind-body health to help patients achieve their individual health goals.

To help unlock emotional blocks that impede wellness, the magna cum laude graduate of the Logan College of Chiropractic uses Neuro Emotional Technique (NET).

It’s a mind-body stress-reduction tool that combines a number of techniques and principles from traditional Chinese medicine, chiropractic, and applied kinesiology to help improve behavioral and physical conditions. read more...

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Owning a string of hardware stores in downtown Washington, D.C., isn’t what you’d expect Gina Schaefer to say she does for a living when you meet the perky, petite 40something.

But she and husband Marc Friedman proudly stand at the helm of a $19 million company they founded in 2002, which owns and manages 9 ACE Hardware locations in DC and Baltimore.

Why did a woman who graduated with a degree in political science, and worked for a few years at the Children’s Defense Fund, get into the hardware business? “We were young and dumb,” told me when we first met. But the real answer is more likely equal parts necessity, opportunity, humility — and true grit. read more...

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Dr. Esther Sternberg is the Research Director for the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona at Tucson, founded by Dr. Andrew Weil — our Entrepreneur of the Month in the December 2013 issue of BeInkandescent magazine.

In fact, Dr. Esther was our Entrepreneur of the Month in June 2012, when she inspired us to write our entire issue about the theme of Business of Healing Yourself.

So we wanted to catch up with the former NIH researcher to see what she’s working on in the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, how the transition from DC to Tucson went — and what kind of work she’s doing with the Pope! read more...

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Acclaimed DC broadcaster Jan Fox’s four Emmy Awards attest to her stellar 30 year career in local network news.

But don’t ask her where she went to Journalism School. The only woman role model on TV when Jan was a kid was “I LOVE LUCY.”

Jan likes to say she came from a poor house in Shelbyville, Indiana, all the way to the White House and Hollywood interviewing many celebrities and US Presidents – a life she never could have imagined. So we were thrilled to talk with Jan about her amazing journey. read more...

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Do you have a budding entrepreneur in the house?

The founders of Tomorrow’s Lemonade Stand (TLS) think you do — and their community of little ladies and mini men promote and instill the spirit of entrepreneurship for girls and boys in America.

“We empower them at an early age to become confident, self-reliant and capable individuals,” explains Amanda Antico, an entrepreneur herself, who saw a spark in her daughter Kylee — and was determined to keep it alive.

“Our focus is to instill the joys of being creative, taking a risk and finding a passion for children ages 7-11 (2nd-4th graders). read more...

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