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Be Impactful by Impact Fashion Rivky Itzkowitz: Founder at Impact Fashion
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Hi, I'm Rivky Itzkowitz I’m the founder and designer at Impact Fashion and I’m the host here at Be Impactful, the show about women making an Impact in their own corners of the world. I started Impact Fashion in November of 2016 so that the modest minded women in my community could feel empowered to put their best foot forward every day, regardless of their size. In the process of growing my business I’ve been fortunate enough to connect with women of all different types and from all different fields. And the main lesson I’ve learnt is that we are all just improvising. We’re going around doing the best we can with what we’ve got, feeling self conscious about what everyone else is accomplishing. The truth is, the people who you’re looking over your shoulder at are probably doing the exact same thing to someone else.
So let’s talk about the real nitty gritty in our lives and journeys and lift each other up by being just a bit more open. Join me and my guests as we try to figure out what it means to Be Impactful.
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Intergenerational Resilience with Nechama Birnbaum (2023)
Rivky sits down with Nechama Birnabum, an author and fellow granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, to discuss her grandmother’s story. She shares why she saw her grandmother Rosie as a perfect character, why she felt it was important to tell the good parts of Rosie’s holocaust story, and the importance of centering a Jewish girl who saves herself.
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"I didn't ask to be strong" The IDF Wives Panel with Yaf Newman, Tali Wohlgelernte, and Anonymous Part 2
Rivky continues the conversation with Yaf Newman, Tali Wohlgelernte, and Anonymous, 3 women whose husbands are currently serving in the IDF. We discuss the financial side of living in a country at war, what they want those of us outside of Israel to understand, navigating mothering with a father on the front lines and what their own quiet moments after everyone’s asleep look like.
Tali grew up in Chicago and made aliyah in 2010. She lives in Givat Shmuel with her husband and 4 daughters.
Tali and her husband serve as the directors of Mizrachi OU-JLIC in Givat Shmuel and Bar Ilan.
Tali is also a professional makeup artist and kallah teacher and loves empowering women in both these areas!
Yaffy Newman is a current and past army wife who hails from Hollywood, FL. She has been living in Israel for the last almost decade with her Israeli husband and sabra baby. When they arent separated due to Miluim she works with her husband for Mizrachi-OU JLIC Givat Shmuel & Bar Ilan.
Click here to see the Impact Fashion collection of dresses.
Click here to get an Impact Fashion Gift Card
Click here to get the Am Yisrael Chai crewneck.
Click here to join the Impact Fashion Whatsapp Status
Click here to take a short survey about this podcast and get a 10% off coupon code as my thanks 💛 -
"I didn't ask to be strong" The IDF Wives Panel with Yaf Newman, Tali Wohlgelernte, and Anonymous Part 1
Rivky sits down with Yaf Newman, Tali Wohlgelernte, and Anonymous, 3 women whose husbands are currently serving in the IDF. They share what the first days of the war were like, the mental health aspect of having a husband at war, what it’s like to reintegrate a husband temporarily into a family into that functions totally differently and some misconceptions about how to help out the IDF wives.
Tali grew up in Chicago and made aliyah in 2010. She lives in Givat Shmuel with her husband and 4 daughters.
Tali and her husband serve as the directors of Mizrachi OU-JLIC in Givat Shmuel and Bar Ilan.
Tali is also a professional makeup artist and kallah teacher and loves empowering women in both these areas!
Yaffy Newman is a current and past army wife who hails from Hollywood, FL. She has been living in Israel for the last almost decade with her Israeli husband and sabra baby. When they arent separated due to Miluim she works with her husband for Mizrachi-OU JLIC Givat Shmuel & Bar Ilan.
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Click here to see the Impact Fashion collection of dresses.
Click here to get an Impact Fashion Gift Card
Click here to get the Am Yisrael Chai crewneck.
Click here to join the Impact Fashion Whatsapp Status
Click here to take a short survey about this podcast and get a 10% off coupon code as my thanks 💛 -
My Brother in Law Needs a Kidney/A Piece of Me with Aviva Breda (2020)
My brother in law is in urgent need of a kidney donor. To learn more about kidney donation or to see if you are a match, email R25992@renewal.org or call 718-431-9831 Ext. 209
Rivky talks with kidney donor Aviva Breda about the journey she took towards donating a part of her body to a stranger, she shares the common misconceptions around the backup kidney and what was going through her head the morning of her surgery.
Aviva Breda is a 38 year old mother of three. She lives in Teaneck NJ where she runs her own business, Aviva Breda Consulting, specializing in personal shopping and style consulting. When not working or busy with her family, Aviva spends her time reading, taking barre classes, and speaking about the importance of kidney donation awareness. To learn more about Aviva and her story check her out on Instagram @avivabreda or email her at avivabreda@gmail.com
Click here to see the Impact Fashion collection of dresses.
Click here to get an Impact Fashion Gift Card
Click here to get the Am Yisrael Chai crewneck.
Click here to join the Impact Fashion Whatsapp Status
Click here to take a short survey about this podcast and get a 10% off coupon code as my thanks 💛 -
What You Can Do with Nechama Wasserman (2023)
For this International Agunah Day, Rivky revisits her conversation with Nechama Wasserman, a woman who has been trying to get a Jewish divorce for over 9 years. She shares her first impressions of her husband David when they were dating, what happened when she told him she was leaving, the support he’s been receiving from his family for the past 9 years and why she believes David needs mental health support and is not acting out of malice.
Nechama Wasserman is a mom to 3 beautiful children and is currently an agunah, a woman chained to a dead marriage, because her husband refuses to give her a get.
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Click here to see the Impact Fashion collection of dresses.
Click here to get an Impact Fashion Gift Card
Click here to get the Am Yisrael Chai crewneck.
Click here to join the Impact Fashion Whatsapp Status
Click here to take a short survey about this podcast and get a 10% off coupon code as my thanks 💛 -
Real Life Pesach Cooking with Miriam (Pascal) Cohen
Rivky sits down with prolific cookbook author Miriam Pascal to talk about her newest book for Pesach. Miriam shares why she felt the need to make a Pesach cookbook, how her own restrictive Pesach customs growing up shaped her view on Pesach cooking, the changes she’s seen in the kosher food blogging industry over the last 12 years, and why she wanted to get the cover of her cookbook approved.
Miriam (Pascal) Cohen is the founder of overtimecook.com, one of the world's leading destinations for kosher recipes, with hundreds of thousands of monthly visitors. A self taught cook and baker, Miram shares her passion for recipes, food and photography on her website, as well as in her popular food column in Mishpacha Magazine's Family Table. Her work has been featured by numerous national magazines and other media.
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Click here to listen to Toras Chaim, a parsha podcast with Miriam and her husband R' Elchonon Cohen.
Click here to see the Impact Fashion collection of dresses.
Click here to get an Impact Fashion Gift Card
Click here to get the Am Yisrael Chai crewneck.
Click here to join the Impact Fashion Whatsapp Status
Click here to take a short survey about this podcast and get a 10% off coupon code as my thanks 💛