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Youthful dreams and personal journeys, disappointments and pitfalls, fateful choices, greatest accomplishments, proudest moments, what surprised and what motivated. The unvarnished truth about what it’s really like to do what they do.

[Finance Professional]
Mike LaRocco

30:01

“The high points for me are less about making a quarterly number or something like that. It was about the friendships and joy you have with the people that you work with.” As a former Chief Financial Officer and current Compliance Officer, Mike LaRocco’s...

[Creative Technologist]
Bo Bell

48:17

“A Creative Technologist is someone who uses technology and their creative self to solve problems.” Combining dual disciplines of creative arts and technology, Creative Technologist is a new and unique profession in our brave new world. Bo Bell’s intriguing journey has taken him from...

[Nurse] Linda Raftery

28:33

“One thing through my career is corporations taking over hospitals and when they’re trying to save money, they cut nursing staff. It just doesn’t seem there’s enough nurses to do the job.” Practicing Nurse Linda Raftery has seen much in her nearly 3 decades...

[Professor of Journalism & Media] John V. Pavlik

1:02:58

The author of 12 books on media, communications and journalism, Rutgers Professor John V. Pavlik not only gives us his take on working in higher education, but shares fascinating insights from decades of research into technology's effects on media, journalism and society, plus the...

[Pilot] Tanya Estes

1:06:31

“Have that crazy, larger than life goal, pursue it with a vengeance, and know that it’s going to end up being an amazing experience regardless of whether you achieve that one vaunted goal or not.” Military aviator, aerospace engineer, flight instructor, computer scientist, West...

[Legislator]
Nancy Montgomery

01:00:10

“I think the biggest challenge is trusting your own core and your own instinct to do the right thing. There are a lot of influences. There are a lot of people that want to tell you what to do and how to do it.”...

UPCOMING EPISODE
Thursday 12/26
[County Legislator] Nancy Montgomery

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