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MEET SUZANNE SAMPLES:Suzanne Samples lives in Boone, North Carolina, where she teaches English at Appalachian State University. She received a Ph.D. in Victorian Lit from Auburn University. Recently, Suzanne has been published by Firewords, Dime Show Review, Cardinal Sins, The Gateway Review, Atlas + Alice, and Glassworks Magazine. Currently, Suzanne’s book Frontal Matter: Glue Gone…

MEET TIHI RIZH: Tihi Rizh is a queer activist, writer, and storyteller. He currently works at Demand Progress, leading online campaigns against the overreach of government surveillance. Tihi has won consumer campaigns against Netflix, UPS, Rhode Island Lifespan Hospital, and led a coalition to remove David Koch from the Board of the Smithsonian and PBS.…

MEET DANIEL A DAYNO, MD Daniel A. Danyo, MD is the physician owner of North Atlanta Hair Restoration, a boutique medical practice solely dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of male and female hair loss. He is one of less than 400 physicians certified through the American Board of Hair Restoration servicing an estimated 100…

MEET TROY CHRISTOPHER PLOTA Troy Plota has been an award-winning Professional Photographer for over 30 years. His work has appeared in top magazines including Vanity Fair, GQ, Rolling Stone and many more. His advertising work has also appeared on dozens of billboards in New York’s Times Square, as well as on the Vegas strip. He…

MEET VALORIE HUBBARD Valorie Hubbard owns the company, Actor’s Fast Track, where she consults with working actors about their career paths. Having navigated her own career, she knows the pitfalls and successes of the path and how to avoid the one and create the other. She gives actors the tools they need to get recognized.…

MEET IRINA LEONI Irina is the enthusiastic and innovative founder of Power Portraits, best known for her vibrant photographic style and personable business portraiture. She’s made it her mission to educate small business brands on harnessing the power of photography to maximize the connection with their audiences. An unceasing optimist, she immigrated to the US…

Jordan Elizabeth Gelber -is an actress and entrepreneur from New York City, currently residing in Brooklyn, who has always been a lover of the performing arts–from putting on shows in her parents’ kitchen when she was a kid to playing numerous roles both onstage and off. She graduated from Marymount Manhattan College in 2010 with…

Thank you for tuning into my 100th episode! It’s been two years since I first started this and I honestly never thought it would last this long. In today’s conversation, I am joined LIVE and drinking wine with my friend Rachel Cossar. We cover a few backgrounds bits from my journey and check in with…

MEET TORAH BONTRAGER Torah Bontrager (BON-tray-grrrr), raised Amish, grew up with no electricity and cars, and speaks English as a second language. She literally escaped in the middle of the night at age 15, with only what she could carry: the clothes on her back and $170 in her pocket. She’s the author of An…

MEET BEKAH HAWROT WEIGEL After teaching in the humanities for ten years at the college level, Bekah’s life was hit with an unexpected trauma. While dealing with PTSD and recovery, Bekah was encouraged by her husband, a developer and live-streamer for Freecodecamp, to learn to code. She found that coding helped her manage her PTSD,…