21 JUN 2022 · Anna Bonavita, founder of Esperienza.org – a totally immersive experience with small-scale, intimate tours where you interact with locals with unique experiences. All in the Italian region of Emilia Romagna.

10 MAY 2022 · Storyteller, children’s book author, columnist, former TV anchor/host, wife, and mother Leslie Means is the founder of the popular online community and motherhood website, Her View From Home (2.5 million monthly readers), which encourages women to share their heartfelt stories of faith and family and to connect with one another. Her View From Home is thriving submissions-based publisher millions turn to for positive inspiration and advice on motherhood, marriage, kids, grief, friendship, life, gift guides, and faith. In 2012, a group of former TV industry professionals and authors got together to dream up a plan to create a place for women to share stories. Together, they won a business plan competition from the University of Nebraska, Kearney which helped make their dream a reality. Leslie started Her View From Homeworking out of her tiny closet. The website now receives over 2.5 million visitors each month and offers readers insightful and encouraging advice on motherhood, marriage, relationships, grief, faith, and life, as well as a collection of faith-inspired clothing (best-seller So God Made a Mother t-shirt) and lifestyle products. Means is publishing a book called So God Made a Mother (pre-order available Fall 2022), which will be out from Tyndale next year. So God Made a Mother is full of 50-60 powerful stories of motherhood—written by women of all backgrounds, from all stages of raising kids—meaning every mom will find herself somewhere within its pages. Leslie Means takes the reader on a journey that will make you laugh and cry and nod along, all the while highlighting a mother's God-given purpose and worth, just as she is. Means currently lives in Nebraska with her husband and three children, and, when she isn’t managing HVFH or writing her monthly newspaper column, is likely shopping at Target.

12 APR 2022 · Anne Marie Gillen of the Gillen Group joins us today on Dream Possible. Anne Marie is a theater, film, and TV producer and screenwriter, former actress, and choreographer was born and raised in Minnesota and was very involved in the Children’s Theater, a jazz dance company, choreographing musicals and community theater… before moving to LA in the mid-1980s to pursue work in the film industry and where she joined the Producers Guild. She’s produced many projects and has some very interesting ones currently in process and on deck. I’m excited to have Anne Marie here today to share her journey from Minnesota to Hollywood and back again and her focus on Social Impact Entertainment.

1 MAR 2022 · Maria speaks with Founder & CEO at AddWomxn, a collaborative of creative entrepreneurs with a vision to advance racial and gender equity in marketing and advertising. AddWomxn's diverse and inclusive team is highly experienced and deeply vetted. We strive to offer clients exceptionally strategic and impressively creative work through our collaboration of brilliant women entrepreneurs. AddWomxn empowers entrepreneurial women in a safe and supportive environment. We believe deep human respect and high ethical principles should guide all our relationships. Simply, we attract women of substance and clients of distinction for their passion to create a better world – a world that advances both gender and racial equity. BRINGING DIVERSE CREATIVE TEAMS TOGETHER TO SOLVE PROBLEMS! If you are a BIPOC creative, please connect with me. I want to hear your story, advocate for you, and connect you with others. BRANDING AND DESIGN LEADER. Well-versed in both the agency and corporate world. Thrives in making a difference by elevating teams to creatively solve problems by valuing diversity, collaboration, and innovation. FOCUSED ON GENDER AND RACIAL EQUITY. As a thought leader and speaker in marketing to women, and a tireless advocate for gender diversity in marketing, I feel it’s past time to bring our BIPOC sisters to the table. Committed to bringing more equity to the design world and championing our BIPOC designers, illustrators, photographers, and marketing creatives to build teams that are not only top-notch but diverse. #WhereAreTheBlackDesigners #HireBlack COMMITTED ACTIVATOR-IN-CHIEF. Committed to giving back and a tireless advocate for making a difference in our community. Founder of PurpleRide. Created and branded the annual fundraising bike ride from the ground up that has raised over $2.5M to date (in the Twin Cities alone). The event – now Purple Stride – has become Pancreatic Cancer Action Network’s signature fundraising event and has grown to over 50 events nationwide.

11 JAN 2022 · Jennifer Gilhoi of JenGilhoi.com. Jen is a friend, a business partner, and an inspiration to me, and many, many others. She’s committed to helping people make healthier choices. 

14 DEC 2021 · Lillian Rafson, founder and CEO of Pack Up + Go, launched the business in January 2016 at 23 years old. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, and a graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School with a major in Consumer Culture, Lillian has always had a passion for travel and supporting small businesses. Without raising a dollar, Lillian has grown Pack Up + Go to a multi-million-dollar business. She has been honored as a member of the inaugural Pittsburgh Business Times 30 Under 30 class, a Tory Burch Foundation Fellow, a Travel & Leisure A-List Travel Planner, and a Top Woman in Hospitality. She is thrilled to share her love for exploration through Pack Up + Go’s mission of embracing the unknown and encouraging spontaneity in all of its travelers. Outside of Pack Up + Go, Lillian is a business coach, focusing on helping womxn entrepreneurs get their small businesses off the ground! 

2 NOV 2021 · Three Women and a Bottle of Wine Podcast provides an opportunity to delve a bit into my love of journalism with two other pros who are more than colleagues- they are friends. From the podcast website: When asked during job interviews, “Where do you see yourself in five years?”, I can’t stop myself from laughing. My plan WAS to be a sports broadcaster (Monday Night Football, to be exact), travel endlessly, and float home for holidays to visit siblings and parents. Hah! I spent 11 years in Montana as a reporter/news director, got married, had an amazing little boy (surprise!), got divorced, stayed to continue an amazing career leading two separate news stations, earned two Associated Press writing awards, numerous honorable mentions, but decided home was where my heart was. More than a decade ago, I moved back to my hometown of Stillwater and landed an amazing job covering the Minnesota Legislature. I won a Regional Emmy Award, had another son (another surprise!), and left broadcasting to work in the PR and communications fields - currently with the Minnesota Department of Health telling the stories of our partners to highlight positive areas in the horrific opioid epidemic (yes, there are positive stories). This podcast provides an opportunity to delve a bit into my love of journalism with two other pros who are more than colleagues- they are friends.

13 OCT 2021 · Claire Powell, owner of Bella Virtu Organics and former CEO of luxury leather goods brand and retailer J.W. Hulme.

15 SEP 2021 · Roshini is a strategic communication and crisis coach to C-Suite executives and a mainstage speaker. She hosts Discovers Minnesota with Roshini on Facebook. Roshini is a licensed attorney and former TV reporter called upon by media across the US for commentary about crisis management, leadership, political strategy, and PR blunders. She’s conducted thousands of interviews during 24 years in broadcasting. Roshini is a legal analyst for Court TV; a political analyst for KNUS Denver and WJR Detroit; and a success coach for Twin Cities Live on KSTP-TV in Minneapolis.

7 JUL 2021 · Vanessa is the founder of multiple startups and recently exited in the cannabis industry with Greenlight, the first mobile order-ahead cannabis app for dispensary purchases within 9 months of launching. She is now the Co-founder and CEO of Drop Delivery, an all-in-one compliant SaaS platform specifically designed for cannabis retailers to offer delivery services. The Drop Delivery platform offers advanced technology that empowers business owners to manage inventory, dispatch and driver logistics, marketing tools, digital loyalty programs, and provides them with their own white-labeled, e-commerce mobile app. With Drop Delivery, cannabis businesses can launch their own delivery services within hours.