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Sipping on Stories

by Rose McInerney

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.

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Episodes

  1. Tracking Canada’s Olympic Great, Georgia Simmerling

    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...

  2. Manny Osborne-Paradis: On Olympic Success & A Well-lived Life

    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...

  3. Lexie Brockway Potamkin: The Power of Knowing Yourself

    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, Know Yourself: Develop A More...

  4. Fiona Davis: A Bestselling New York Icon

    The New York Times and Washington Post have called Fiona Davis’ work intricate, unpredictable, and stunning. All five of her bestselling historical fiction novels take place in storied New York landmark buildings like the Barbizon Hotel and Grand Central Station. Each wrestles with social…

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  5. Yara Zgheib & The Girls At 17 Swann Street

    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...

  6. Margaret Ghielmetti’s Brave(ish) & Storied Life

    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...

  7. Paul McBlaine on Winning The Job You Want

    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…

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  8. Jillian Maas Backman: On Leadership & The Spiritual Realm

    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...

  9. Pearl Dick: Glassblowing To Overcome Trauma

    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. As the flagship healing arts program at Chicago’s Firebird Community Arts (FCA) Program in East Garfield Park, it helps kids…

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  10. Tuula Jalasjaa: Women Owning Their Wealth

    What does it take for women to be financially independent? Wealth management expert Tuula Jalasjaa shares decades of industry experience and two very exciting online platforms helping women close the gender gap around financial knowledge and wealth creation. Tuula is the founder of The Women’s...

  11. Sheree Franklin, How To Use Your Intuition

    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...

  12. Felicia Gimza, On Designing Your Best Life

    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…

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  13. Marcus & The Blindside of Pain & Happiness

    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 rear view mirror or decisions made regardless of things unknown. Typically, we see blind spots as a...

  14. Cristina Mittermeier, Photographic Storytelling & Saving Our Planet

    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...

  15. Lise Floris, On Becoming a Writer and Traveling the World

    Lise Poulsen Floris is a Danish freelance writer currently based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her articles have been published internationally, most notably by ABC Australia, Global Times, Beijing KIds and Womanscape. She is a former EU worker turned writer, whose global travels have helped her to...

  16. Ching Tien, Educating Girls and Holding Up Half the Sky

    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...

  17. Brazilian Art-activist, Adriana Bertini: Radical Art & Passion for Good

    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 decades ago to work with...

  18. ARRA by Aradhana: The Healing Powers of Gemstones, Chakras & Freedom

    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...

  19. Shermin Kruse, On Transformational Leadership

    She escaped a revolution only to build a new one. But this time, Shermin Kruse is reimagining political and structural systems of leadership that actually work. As a corporate lawyer turned strategist, Kruse is a Northwestern Law Professor, entrepreneur, writer, and TEDTalk speaker and producer....

  20. Artist Arica Hilton: Diving Into Creativity & Protecting the Environment

    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...

  21. Candice Crane, Mompreneur & Botanical Alchemist

    Rose water is a centuries-old elixir for wellness and beauty. Cleopatra bathed in it for glowing skin as did Hollywood’s Elizabeth Taylor. The tradition continues with Candice Crane, a mompreneur, alchemist and the CEO behind Petal Sparkling Botanical beverages. Her unique blend of healthy…

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  22. Sue Britton: Fintech CEO, Innovator & Revolutionary Leader

    Today’s changemaker is Sue Britton, a revolutionary entrepreneur and CEO of Fintech Growth Strategies (FGS). Her company is a value-based, solutions provider in the Canadian financial and technology sector. When Britton decided to invest her talent, skills and thought leadership in today’s money...

  23. Timea Nagy, From Human Trafficking Victim to Fighter

    Today’s changemaker is a fighter, a knock-down, drag ‘em, get back up, fighter. Her harrowing story as a victim of an international human trafficking ring is both a warning about online predators as well as a story about forgiveness and redemption. Lured from her homeland of Budapest, Hungary…

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  24. Dr. Bronwyn King: The Accidental Activist Taking Down

    Imagine fighting a losing battle everyday as an oncologist before learning your retirement plan is funding what’s killing your patients. Meet Dr. Bronwyn King, an accidental activist and one of the most powerful, “butt-kicking” CEOs. Founder of Tobacco-free Portfolios, Dr. King is fighting for a...

  25. Dr. Jay Kumar & the Science of the Happy Brain

    Dear Happiness: I’ve been looking for you since forever. I see people suffering, huge economic and racial divides, and a world torn apart by fear, sickness and isolation. Is there a happy life? Renowned thought leader and doctor of happiness, Dr. Jay Kumar, is in. His book, The Science of the…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

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.

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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...

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