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Don’t Fly Solo [#OnMuddsMind]

Life isn’t meant to be lived alone. I’ve been thinking a lot about that lately. About self-reliance, about pride, and about how we operate as individuals in a community. And with the social landscape the way it is right now, there is a lot of division between people for a multitude of reasons, from political […]

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The Unbridled Spirit In Me [#TheFlyingMom]

I took my first drink at age 15. It was three years after my dad had died, I was heartbroken at what I perceived my family had become. It was a delay in grief for me. I can remember taking a bottle of wine from our refrigerator and proceeding to drink from the bottle and […]

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#502LeaderSeries Podcast: Priscilla McIntosh | CEO @ The Morton Center

Priscilla McIntosh wasn’t on my radar of guests for the #502LeaderSeries. Directly anyway. But the things that she’s doing is definitely on my radar. I think that it’s on all of our radars. Because she works with a disease that affects nearly every family, every home, every circle in our city and in our nation. […]

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#502LeaderSeries no. 60: Jean Manganaro & Mick Parsons | FedWithFaith.org | The Gratitude House

Look around our city and there is so much growth and expansion, businesses are doing well, things are happening. It’s all good…for the most part. But there is a subset of the population in any city that would be classified as homeless. They are without means, a place to live, and in many cases, depend […]