French Toast Fridays

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Lisa Van Ahn is a fighter and champion, in many ways and for many people. As a teen, she found the hope and determination to reclaim her life through kickboxing, eventually becoming a member of the US National kickboxing team who won the North American championship and a bronze medal in the PanAm games. As an adult, she created the I AM Initiative to inspire/teach girls to love and protect themselves so they can b...

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Nick Tasler is an organizational psychologist, author, speaker and “thought leader” on how people make decisions and embrace change. He has published several books and his work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Bloomberg Business Review and The Atlantic. Nick and his wife are from Iowa, met while living in San Diego, moved closer to family and had four kids in Minneapolis, and then...

Tom Schaeppi is an environmentalist and whiskey enthusiast, an avid downhill skier, father, and an experienced marketing and communication professional. He is the founder of Lost Woods Whiskey, the first Minnesota-based spirits company to be awarded three consecutive Double Golds at San Francisco World Spirits Competition, but also a B Corp committed to giving a portion of their sales to local environmental projects and organizatio...

Moses Ehambe is a walking and talking source of encouragement, motivation and inspiration. The game of basketball has taken him all over the world (from college in Oklahoma to 15 different countries as a professional), and he is now committed to helping players of all ages succeed on the basketball court and in life by modeling his mission to ELEVATE. everything, everyday. Moses and his wife have seven kids and he is an assistant c...

Ellie Roscher is a writer, speaker and yoga instructor who supports people’s sense of wellness, belonging, leadership and resiliency. She is a wife and mother who believes tiny things can make a big change. Ellie holds an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence and an MA in Theology from Luther Seminary, and her published books include 12 Tiny Things, The Embodied Path, Play Like a Girl and How Coffee Saved My Life.

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Terry Esau is a musician, author and philanthropeneur who loves bikes and guitars and believes both can change a kid’s life for the better. As Terry says, “we’re all just storytellers,” and through the music and books he’s written, the nonprofits he has created, and the memories he and his wife Mary have made with their family, Terry’s life is definitely telling a good story.

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Eliza Wheeler is an illustrator-author of more than a dozen children’s books including the New York Times bestseller Miss Maple’s Seeds and Home in the Woods, which was inspired by her grandmother’s childhood in northern Wisconsin during the Great Depression. Drawing was her favorite form of play as a child and her emotional outlet as a teen, and as an adult she has found a way to combine her passion for drawing with her love of ch...

Paul Fletcher loves a lot of things, but none more than hockey, music (especially Pearl Jam) and his family. After spending his 20s changing the oil in people’s cars at Tires Plus, he has been an on-air personality for the popular radio station Cities 97.1 for more than a decade, which means he is one of the voices those same people hear on the radio when they’re driving to Target to get more tater tots. (That’s a Minnesota joke.)