Samantha Skelly: Visionary Leader, Daughter + Friend. What have you overcome? “I have overcome the fight and battle with my body and with food. I was a place where my world revolved around that obsession. I am now in a place where food is used for health and hungry, and my body is a love vessel…
Ginger Miller Has Chispa
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Ginger Miller: Wife, Mother, Sister, Daughter, CEO, White House Champion of Change + Friend. What have you overcome? “I have overcome homelessness. Like many of my brother and sister veterans, my husband and I did not transition well out of the military in the early 90s and became homeless. It was one of the worst feelings…
Linda Rossetti Has Chispa
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Linda Rossetti: Mom, Wife, Daughter, Neighbor, Friend, Author, Sister, Daughter-In-Law, Sister-In-Law, Coach, Volunteer, Colleague, Employee, Mentor, Customer + Client. What have you overcome? I’ve overcome a wrenching transition triggered by a personal unraveling that challenged me to the core of whom I am. I found myself at 45 not knowing the answer to some fundamental questions…
Summer Vasilas Has Chispa
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Summer Vasilas: Co-Founder + Director of Training, Waxing the City. What have you overcome? I’m right brained and more artistic. That means during my high school career, I really struggled with academics and I even ended up graduating a year late. My mother always jokes and calls it my “super senior year.” The extra year in high…
Being Loved by Dee Dee
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Better known as Dee Dee Huey by her family and friends is not your average girl. Full of adventure and passion; yes… adventure: she bungee jumped off of Bloukrans Bridge in the Western Cape of South Africa and swam with the shark in Cape Town. Yet, her heart shreds to pieces at the thought of other…
Beth Burns Has Chispa
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Beth Burns: Investment Management Consultant, a Passionate Business Owner of The (er) Factor, Caring Daughter, Sister, Niece and Compassionate Friend. What have you overcome? I had a stroke in March 2015. I was not supposed to have a stroke. It was not supposed to happen to me, but it did. I, like many of my friends,…
Five Gift Ideas for the Man in Your Life
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27,000,000 Slaves, and Counting
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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela Slavery is the second largest global organized crime, generating $150.2 billion per year. As noted by END IT Movement, that’s more than the combined revenues of Amazon, Google, and Ebay every year. The average cost of a slave…