Episodes

In this episode, Rich has a conversation with Tai Goodwin. Tai Goodwin is the CEO of That Marketing Team and the creator of the Liberated CEO Accelerator. She's an award-winning instructional designer with 20+ years of experience creating learning experiences and content for Fortune500 companies like Barnes & Noble and tech start-ups like Leadpages. A former teacher turned corporate trainer, turned entrepreneur, and author, Tai is passionate about marketing technology and lead generation. Afte...

In this episode, Rich has a conversation with Sheila (Sy) Tyson. SY Tyson is a mentor, author, and advocate for the rights of minors. She spent the last 30 years raising her kids and grandkids. Now that her kids are grown with their own families, her new goal is to help mold the next generation of kids based on the current climate in the world. Her need to help change the world led to the start of her organization called “Coming of Kings” an all-male mentorship program whose sole goal is to hel...

In this episode, Rich has a conversation with Mike Ulmer. After a 30-year journalism career, more than 10,000 interviews and 12 books with mainstream publishers, Mike Ulmer created Catapult: Start With the Story, a business dedicated to helping entrepreneurs tell their stories through a powerful business book. Mike's clients include inventors, business coaches and philanthropists. His latest book is Show and Tell Writing: A Great Short Business Book About How To Write A Great Short Business Boo...

In this episode, Rich has a conversation with Lindsey Pope. Lindsey Pope is passionate about sharing laughter and love through writing. A writer for as long as she can remember, she self-published an uplifting book entitled Found in Faith in August 2018. Her next book, Wisdom from the Womb, is more on the humorous side and aims to help give expecting moms something to laugh at during their pregnancy. Her first children's picture book, Sheldon's Time, was released August 2022. On a personal not...

In this episode, Rich has a conversation with the people of the Harford County Health Department and Corrie Reed of the University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health. In the United States, breast cancer is the biggest cancer killer of women, second only to lung cancer in terms of overall mortality. Screening for breast cancer is crucial since most women have no symptoms in the early stages, when the tumor is tiny and treatment is most effective. A painless lump is the most typical physical sym...

In this episode, Rich has a conversation with Teri M Brown. Born in Athens, Greece as an Air Force brat, Teri M Brown came into this world with an imagination full of stories to tell. She now calls the North Carolina coast home, and the peaceful nature of the sea has been a great source of inspiration for her creativity. Not letting 2020 get the best of her, Teri chose to go on an adventure that changed her outlook on life. She and her husband, Bruce, rode a tandem bicycle across the United St...

In this episode, Rich has a conversation with Matthew Scales and Jackie Seneschal. Matthew is the Executive Director of Visit Harford and Jackie is the Co-Chair of the Steering Committee for Harford 250. In the early 1770s, citizens and businesspeople from the middle and upper Chesapeake Bay were dissatisfied with the length of time it took to go to Baltimore Town to serve on juries and conduct other business. Soon afterwards, lawmakers submitted a petition in Annapolis to create a new county ...

In this episode, Rich has a conversation with Ashley Easter. Ashley Easter is a cult survivor turned Intuition Coach who helps people escape self-doubt and harness the science and practice of intuition so they can take control of their destiny by becoming Intuitive AF. She is also the founder of Courage 365, a non-profit for abuse survivors (especially those abused in faith contexts) and a television producer focused on highlighting stories of meaning and mission. Text the word "courage" or "...

In this episode, Rich has a conversation with Greg Moretz about Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Greg Moretz has worked with GIO Technologies for over 11 years in various roles. Currently, he serves as the Operations Manager. Working with GIO’s clients and educating them on Cybersecurity is a driving force for Greg and the entire GIO Team. Thank you to Greg Moretz for the conversation. Here are some links for Greg and other essential links for Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Websites: Managed IT...

In this episode, Rich and cohost Paige Mullhausen have a conversation with Zack Kauffman. Zack is a Leukemia Survivor and cofounder of Pursuit Of Hoppiness™ along with his friend Ethan. Join us for the 30 Days of Courage - October 1st–30th 2022 Join the Movement Courage 365 empowers survivors of abuse (and those who love them) to live with courage, every day. We are not just a support group. We are a movement. Together, we inspire real change and lift each other up. Join us for a powerful 30...

In this episode, Rich and cohost Jennifer Hathaway have a conversation with Claudine Marcin. Claudine Marcin is a Maryland-based award-winning author of the short story The Stairs and is also known for the four-part romantic sci-fi mystery series titled The Glory Box. She is a member of the Maryland Writers Association and the Harford County Writer's Group as well as a spirited football fan, poet, amateur photographer, and artist. Her book In the Wake of Spring, the fourth and final book of The...

In this episode, Rich has a conversation with Ms V The Storyteller. Valeria Elliott is better known as Ms V The Storyteller. She lost her voice at the age of six and didn't get it back until she was twenty-three. Ms V started sharing her personal stories and decided to turn them into a Podcast. Her podcast is for anyone who has lost their voice and wants to get it back. Her stories are personal, and she uses them as a tool to help others who may have gone through the same thing as she did. Ms ...

In this episode, Rich and cohost Wendy Beck have a conversation with A.y. Johlin. Fantasy author A.Y. Johlin is a young adult author and her first book is The Girl Who Wasn't Chosen. In a nutshell, her stories center on young protagonists who go on exciting journeys. For some reason, she never outgrew fantasizing about slaying pirates and soaring on dragons. If A.Y. isn't writing, she's probably reading. Her all-time favorite books are those written by Rick Riordan and Celeste Ng (she has a br...

In this episode, Rich has a conversation with Donnie Boivin. Donnie Boivin is an entrepreneur and serves as CEO and Founder of Success Champions and Success Champion Networking. Donnie is considered one of the leading global minds on sales, business development, and business growth. He is described as the first person to make sales and business development relatable and human. Donnie is a community builder at heart — he builds champions. Today he helps small business owners leverage sales and ...

In this episode, Wendy Beck has a conversation with Laura Dahl. Laura Dahl, LCPC currently serves as the Director of Family Services at Ashley Addiction Treatment. In this role, she oversees the family programs offered to both inpatient, outpatient, and the community. She previously served as a counselor in a women’s halfway house and prevention specialist for Harford County Government Office of Drug Control Policy. She received her Masters of Professional Counseling from Liberty University, an...

In this episode, Rich has a conversation with Kristine Keay. Kristine is an experienced Holistic Health Educator skilled in Mindfulness, Wellness Coaching & Programing, Yoga, Energy Healing, Workplace Wellness, and Public Speaking. She founded Inspire Me Wellness in 2006. She is also a Yoga Alliance Experience Registered Teacher (E-500 RYT), and she has been teaching all types of yoga for 16 years and have been practicing yoga since 2002. In addition, she is a Yoga Alliance Continuing Educatio...

In this episode, Rich has a conversation with Sara Webb. Sara Webb is an author, motivational speaker, and certified yoga teacher. She considers herself a spiritual activist, choosing this nomenclature as opposed to the traditional terminology of Coach. She advocates for clients and audiences to find their own power within by getting aligned with themselves spiritually, through introspection that begins with meditation. She inspires people to access the power within themselves by teaching pock...

In this episode, Rich and cohost Dani Pettrey have a conversation with Diane Wylie. Diane Wylie, winner of the Chanticleer Chatelaine Award, among others, is a Harford County romance author who loves books. She especially loves any book that will take her on an emotional roller coaster ride. Diane has published multiple historical and fantasy/time travel romances. Her latest release, Sister, Soldier, Spy, is the historical sequel to the popular Sisters in the Civil War. One reviewer wrote this ...

In this episode, Rich and cohost Dani Pettrey have a conversation with Denise Stout. Denise Stout is a hopeless romantic who dreamed of writing when she didn’t have her nose buried in a book. She grew up in Northern Delaware, is a graduate of the University of Delaware, and holds a paralegal certificate. She worked in the banking industry before focusing on her writing and her family. Denise was first published with “Christmas Miracle on Oyster Bay” in the award-winning anthology Then Comes Wi...

In this episode, Rich has a conversation with Joe Cozzati and others of the Harford County Health Department. Joe is in recovery and has done stand-up comedy to help with it. Joe tells his story about how he was a Straight-A student in school while in addiction and how it affected his life in college and beyond. Thank you to Joe Cozzati the wonderful people of the Harford County Health Department for the conversation. Here are some links for HCHD: https://harfordcountyhealth.com/ » Addiction R...

In this episode, Rich has a conversation with Ron Filling and Dr. Austin Hill. Ron Filling just retired after 42 years in the automotive industry, most recently as the General Manager of Thompson Automotive of Harford County. He and his wife Linda have been married for 38 years and have four children, fourteen grandkids, and two great-grandchildren, with a third on the way in October. Currently, Ron plans to devote all of his free time to charity work. In addition to working with Extreme Family...

In this episode, Rich has a conversation with Matthew Scales, Catherine Showalter, Megan Hallett, and Bob Bloom. These 4 are the staff of Visit Harford. Harford County's tourist attractions are promoted by Visit Harford, a non-profit organization whose mission is to increase economic activity and, in turn, improve the quality of life for all Harford County residents. The land area of Harford County is 437 square miles, while the water area is 90 square miles, giving the county a total size of ...

In this episode, Rich has a conversation with Linda Williams and Shawn Partain. Linda is the Executive Director of Addiction Connections Resource and was appointed to Governor Hogan’s Emergency Opioid and Heroin Task Force in 2015. In the five years prior to the establishment of ACR, Linda was engaged in the treatment of individuals who abused substances. Her residence ended up serving as a kind of unofficial halfway house. Linda was connecting folks to resources, such as transporting them to t...

In this episode, Rich has a conversation with Greg Derwart. Harford County native Greg Derwart has served as an executive-level operations and administration professional in both the public and private sectors for over 20 years. With a love of strategic planning, leading highly engaged teams, and celebrating personal and professional relationships, he knows how to focus on what’s important at work and in life. During covid, Greg published a book called The New You: Goal Mapping and Pivoting in ...