Trailblazers Impact Podcast Gov / Non-Profit Professional
Life in the Bricks Antonio McGinnis Ep. 80 – Where you come from should not define who you become. From growing up in Public Housing to becoming an international basketball star, Tony McGinnis knows that when you are determined to be different, you will overcome. Antonio McGinnis was recently named by AL.com as one of […]
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Resilience and Courage Ep. 108 – Leslie Andrews learned resilience and courage in facing life’s adversities, including being widowed at a young age, and in viewing the world. Exercising loyalty and community love comes easy for Leslie Andrews because it was instilled at an early age. Leslie Andrews is described as a Master Relationship Strategist
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Adoption, Hospice, End-of-Life Reflections Ep. 107 – Marcia Blum is an amazing person. She is a retired social worker and mental health therapist. Listen as she describes pioneering open adoption, finding your birth parents, hospice care, and grief programs. Listen to her gift to listeners as she gives us 4 end-of-life reflections to help a
Mrs. Washington America: A First! Ep. 106 – Visualize yourself standing on the stage, wondering who will be crowned, and then . . . they call your name. Neelam Chahlia tells us what it is like to win Mrs. Washington America and then to go on to the nationals. She created history by being the
I Lived in Two Different Worlds: Black and White Ep. 31 – How do you integrate yourself into a Black and White world where discrimination is the only language they speak? You learn to become a fighter for your own battles, pick the right people that help motivate you when the outside world doesn’t. That
Pass the Torch to a New Generation Ep. 13 – Carolyn May actually witnessed President John Kennedy’s Inaugural Speech on the steps of the Capitol to pass the torch to a new generation. She heard JFK beseech Americans to “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what You can do for your
What Do We Do with the Kids? Ep. 105 – What’s happening to children reaching an age to leave a foster home? What do we do with kids when there is not a good place to go? Ruth White is the Executive Director of the National Center for Housing and Child Welfare. Children need better
Quit My Job or Stay? Ep. 49 – Imagine being in a situation where your boss resigns, you’re chosen to replace him, but then he decided not to quit? Big decision to make, right? Well, that was Sharon Hirota a while back, at a crossroads whether to go back to her old job or just
Life, Discrimination, and Divorce Ep. 43 – What was it like as an African-American woman growing up in the U.S. in the 1960’s and 1970’s? Sharon Cossey, Gail Gillespie, and Nan McKay, long-term friends on a retreat in Las Vegas, have a candid conversation about a variety of subjects from growing up experiences to going
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Birmingham Church Bombing: I Was There Ep. 47 – As a young girl, Janice Stewart was walking down the street to go to her church when she saw flames shooting up. Her friends were already there and inside. They were all killed. The “Birmingham Bombing” was a white supremacist terrorist attack which occurred at the African-American 16th
