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Spotlight with Laurie Hardie

Each week host Laurie Hardie brings you the issues affecting the Pacific Northwest and the people making a difference in our community and sometimes beyond. Expect compelling conversations with local leaders and influencers. Spotlight is dedicated to presenting you with issues that matter - including education, health, mental health, and the environment.

Latest Episodes

Spotlighting #BingingSober Colleen Ryan-Hensley

Colleen Ryan Hensley #BingingSober talks about taking ownership of our healing starting with ourselves, then our family and community. She highlights the importance of focusing our energy on things we can control rather than numbing and escaping by focusing on things out of our control. Turning those unhealthy habits into heathly steps to healing, changing our self talk one word at a time. Recognizing how we are feeling and what we can do about it rather than isolating and running from the feelings. There is hope, there is help colleen@colleenryanhensley.com Check out her insta as well @Colleen Ryan-Hensley

Performance Coach & Mental Health Advocate
✨Founder #bingingsober

🧠💪Redefining mental toughness
⭐️#healingistough #consciousescape

Spotlighting “Shadowed: How I Became the Sex Trafficked Mother Next-Door”

Julie Whitehead is the author of Shadowed: How I Became the Sex Trafficked Mother Next Door. After a horrendous experience of being sex trafficked all while living another life of being a preschool teacher in an upscale community, she was brave enough to tell some one and get rescued. After years of therapy and de programming she is speaking up in her book to help others who may be in the same dangerous situation. She has shared her story in the “I’m On Watch” Sex Trafficking awareness training.

Spotlighting An End To Arguing with the Blooms

Psychotherapist/marriage counselors Linda and Charlie Bloom will be available for interviews to discuss their new best selling book  An End To Arguing: 101 Valuable Lessons for All Relationships. They talk about avoiding conflict, repairing relationships and how being in a relationship is the best way to enlightenment.
Bloomwork
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Spotlighting “Shadowed: How I Became the Sex Trafficked Mother Next-Door”

Julie Whitehead is the author of Shadowed: How I Became the Sex Trafficked Mother Next Door. After a horrendous experience of being sex trafficked all while living another life of being a preschool teacher in an upscale community, she was brave enough to tell some one and get rescued. After years of therapy and de programming she is speaking up in her book to help others who may be in the same dangerous situation. She has shared her story in the “I’m On Watch” Sex Trafficking awareness training.

Spotlighting Many “Things Under a Rock” with David Scheel

David Scheel is the author of Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses. He and his Laura were also in a PBS documentary called Octopus: Making contact. Masters of disguise and misdirection, octopuses have long been one of the most enigmatic animals on the planet, our understanding of them simultaneously shrouded and illuminated in mythology and legend. In truth, Octopuses lives are complex and often contradictory – notoriously solitary, they also have the potential for complex relationships. Octopuses are also powerful predators -their deceptively soft and boneless bodies can defeat even the most heavily armored animals in the sea.
Get Many Things Under a Rock: HERE

Spotlighting The Chayah Movement and Freeda the Frog

Zakiya Nicole is the founder of the Chayah Movement. They are a 501c3, non-profit focused on equipping the next generation of fashion professionals in ethical and sustainable practices through workforce and leadership development.
The Chayah Movement

Nadine Haruni is the author of Freeda the Frog. Freeda and her family are about to go through a difficult time. Follow along and learn how Freeda, Fred, Frannie, and Frank cope with the subject of divorce and learn that they are not alone.
Freeda the Frog

Spotlighting The Chayah Movement and Freeda the Frog

The Chayah Movement is making strides in upcycling and recycling clothing for fashion. They are a 501(c)(3), non-profit focused on equipping the next generation of fashion professionals in ethical and sustainable practices through workforce and leadership development.
We recruit Advocates-In-Training (AITs), between the ages of 16-24, place them with a sustainable fashion company and provide them with the tools to prepare them to make a positive impact within the fashion industry. 
The Chayah Movement

Feeda the Frog is a children’s book series helping little ones not only deal with divorce but life transitions. The author Nadine Haruni walks us through her process of creating this amazing resource for families.
The Freeda the Frog™ series talks to kids on their level and focuses on awareness and acceptance of different kinds of families.  The stories open doors to difficult conversations for children about relationships, tolerance, acceptance, and change. 
Freeda the Frog

Spotlighting Everett Pride

Ashley Scrupps and Ashley Turner both Real Estate Agents in Everett get you all the details about the first Everett Pride. The event is Saturday June 17th. It is the first annual block party and they are still looking for volunteers. The event promises to be fun for everyone, with food trucks, booths and entertainment.
Everett Pride

Spotlighting City Fruit

Bennett Walks is the Harvest and Public Stewardship Program Director, and Tiare Gil is the Education and Volunteer Programs Manager of City Fruit. They help tree owners and community orchardists grow healthy fruit, provide assistance in harvesting and preserving fruit. Promote the equitable sharing of extra fruit with neighbors, and work to protect public fruit trees. CF takes a holistic approach to their work and have programs form education and outreach to tree care and harvest advocating for equitable food policy and sustainable orchard car and food practices.
City Fruit

Spotlighting WA 529 College Savings Plan

WA 529 College Saving Plan Enrollment Ends May 31st.
Luke Minor with WA 529 talks about the collage saving plan and how it can set students up for success. College is one of the biggest expenses people face in their lifetime. 529 plans were created to help parents, future students, friends, and family save money tax-free for eligible expenses, like tuition, fees, room & board, books, and supplies.
There are two kinds of 529 plans, Savings and Prepaid. Families can choose to save in one type of plan or the other, or both to diversify their college savings:
529 Savings Plans, like the DreamAhead College Investment Plan, allow you to pick an investment option and save money based on the market’s performance.
WA 529
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