Sipping on Stories
Grab a drink, sit back and prepare to be inspired. Sipping on Stories is a storytelling series that explores the secrets of empowered, successful people who turned challenges, fear, and passion into powerful recipes for happiness. Writer/host Rose McInerney features fascinating changemaker men and women from diverse geographies and industries. Conversational-style interviews in our entertaining lounge show you how-to live with greater freedom and purpose, and show how opportunities to change your life are possible.
Episodes
History may remember Georgia Simmerling for her as the first Canadian to compete in three different sports in three Olympic different Games. This summer will be Georgia’s fourth Olympics in Tokyo. But her success goes beyond podium finishes as a competitor in Alpine, Ski Cross and Track Cycling teams. Even her Bronze Medal finish in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio is just the tip of this...
Manny Osborne-Paradis is a four-time Olympic Downhill Ski racer with three World Cup Championship titles. He’s famous for winning both a World Cup Downhill and World Cup Super G Race but what’s most compelling about this Canadian from British Columbia goes well beyond his fierce competitive drive and need for speed. Manny is...
What if we could end the racial warfare and name calling in America, eliminate the angry finger-pointing and dispel some of our fears with one simple step: knowing yourself? It’s that easy for Lexie Brockway Potamkin, the author of six books, including her latest, Read more
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Pieces of Yara Zgheib’s heart are scattered in the many places she’s lived and traveled in the world, but there’s also a steady stream of new hearts flocking to her as readers celebrate her smashing debut novel, The Girls at 17 Swann Street. It’s impossible not to fall in love with Yara and the breathtaking beauty of her writing and gut-wrenching book. The protagonist, Anna Roux, battles...
What does it mean to be brave and to move away from fear, doubt and an unsatisfying life? Today’s episode is all about Margaret Davis Ghielmetti, the author of Brave(ish) – a memoir about exotic globetrotting, luxury adventures and the steady realization that Ghielmetti is extremely unhappy. The symptoms - loneliness, atheism, and addiction spiral out of control until Ghielmetti faces th...
Paul McBlaine’s first job assignment with the Navy was a station in Morocco. Tough conditions in a specialty field provided valuable lessons for creative career building throughout a life of more than 20 career pivots. Four continents and many years later, Paul has coached hundreds of professionals int...
The bestselling book Beyond the Pews: Breaking with Tradition and Letting Go of Religious Lockdown shares the personal story of Jillian Maas Backman. Jillian wrote the book years after years of study and greater understanding about her unique ability to communicate with angels and see colorful auras around people.
Equipped with this rare gift and the knowledge that the spiritual realm is...
How can we save kids from gun violence in America? Pearl Dick is the Artistic Director of PROJECT Fire, a healing arts program for victims of gunshot violence in Chicago...
What does it take for women to be financially independent? Wealth management expert Read more
Author Elizabeth Gilbert says the universe buries strange jewels deep within us. This helps to explain in part why broadcast journalist Sheree Franklin left a successful marketing career as an entrepreneur to become an intuitive coach and meditation teacher. She’s traveled the world, gone Down Under with Oprah Winfrey, and been featured on news outlets discussing the powerful wisdom of...
Today’s changemaker is an award-winning interior designer who left a career in the financial services industry to build the life she wanted. Armed with courage, tenacity, a paint brush and a few good ideas, Felicia Gimza built a new life and the interior design company, The Expert Touch Interiors.
Sip on some designer secrets and the story of how Felicia created a new life around design...
Micheal Lewis popularized the idea of blind spots in his bestselling book, The Blind Side. Blind spots can be anthing from a football quarterback not seeing the tackle spot, a hidden view in your rea...
Cristina Mittermeier is a world-class Fine Arts Photographer whose global influence extends well beyond her Mexico City roots. More than 1.5 million people recognize this award-winning Sony Artisan, National Geographic Woman of Impact and She’s Mercedes Empowered Woman. Cristina founded the International League of Photograph...
Lise Poulsen Floris is a Danish freelance writer currently based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her a...
Ching Tien grew up in Beijing in the 1960s with dreams of becoming a journalist until the Cultural Revolution changed everything. Ching’s father was jailed and her mother, a doctor, was forced to work in Gansu, one of the poorest provinces in China. For eight years, Ching labored in a factory and witnessed dire poverty alongside her mother - people living in caves with no running water o...
Adriana Bertini is a brilliant fashion designer whose innovative creation of condom art hangs in over 35 museums around the world. Her collections belong to some of the greatest celebrities and designers, even though Bertini left the haute couture fashion industry three decad...
This entrepreneur helps women to feel beautiful from the inside out. Words like confident, graceful and free are favorite expressions of Aradhana, a jewelry designer from India. She has lived in Indonesia and Shanghai, where she discovered the healing power of gemstones. If we are all the sum of our experiences and the nature that lives with...
She escaped a revolution only to build a new one. But this time, Shermin
Kruse is reimagining political and structural systems of leadership th...
Today’s changemaker is Arica Hilton, a poet, a visual artist, and a Chicago gallerist for Hilton Asmus Contemporary. She has traveled the world chasing creativity, from the peaks of the Himilayan mountains to the deep diving waters of Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Working to protect our waters from plastic pollution with art exhibits from North America to Europe, and the Middle East to Asia, A...
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