Finding Fertile Ground: Communicate for Change

Marie Gettel-Gilmartin
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Finding Fertile Ground: Communicate for Change

Host Marie Gettel-Gilmartin of Fertile Ground Communications delves into how we can use our words, practice self-care, and make the world a better place for all of us. 

  1. A Lament

    08/11/2024

    A Lament

    My mother-in-law died in early October, two days before my 60th birthday. We ended up spending almost three weeks in the UK, preparing for her funeral and grieving with family. And now, just after we were beginning to emerge from the worst of the grief cycle, our family and friends are plunged right back into deep grief after the election.I feel numb. My husband and I went to the Japanese Garden yesterday. It was a beautiful day in Portland. We were not alone in seeking solace in the bea...

    8 phút
  2. Four Strategies to Uplift People of Hispanic Descent

    11/10/2024

    Four Strategies to Uplift People of Hispanic Descent

    I’m rebooting my podcast to focus on communicating for change. This week we’re going to talk about how to uplift people of Hispanic descent. I share statistics about the prevalence of people of Hispanic descent in the U.S. workforce and why it's important to uplift them.In the U.S., National Hispanic Heritage Month is observed from September 15 to October 15. It’s a time to celebrate the histories, cultures, and contributions of Americans whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean...

    8 phút
  3. Dr. Ronnie Taylor: From ex-Mormon felon to Oregon’s first Black male occupational therapist!

    30/09/2022

    Dr. Ronnie Taylor: From ex-Mormon felon to Oregon’s first Black male occupational therapist!

    Dr. Ronnie Taylor was born to extremely young parents who divorced after a few years of marriage. His mom converted to Mormonism and moved the family to Salt Lake City to start a new life. Unfortunately, the missionary who converted and recruited her failed to tell the church Ronnie’s family was Black. They weren’t exactly welcomed with open arms.His mom worked and went to college full time, and eventually she remarried. Growing up in Utah as a Black Mormon was tough. Ronnie moved out when he...

    31 phút
  4. Melissa Jenkins Mangili: Neuropsychologist reinvented as a model

    08/09/2022

    Melissa Jenkins Mangili: Neuropsychologist reinvented as a model

    Dr. Melissa Jenkins Mangili is a neuropsychologist and medical school faculty member who has reinvented herself as a fashion and fitness model. Her life began with grit and resilience. She and her three siblings were was raised in poverty in rural Maine by a single quadriplegic mother. “The nice thing about being from a small town is that everybody knows each other…and rallied to help us. (My mother) couldn't drive at first. She had to relearn how to drive and get an adapted c...

    37 phút
  5. Vernita Bowe: Transforming grief and COVID into a zest for life

    20/07/2022

    Vernita Bowe: Transforming grief and COVID into a zest for life

    Vernita L. Bowe is a survivor. As a smaller-than-average child, she experienced bullying in school. When she grew up she married the wrong man and wasn’t able to get out of that marriage for 24 years, three kids later.Parenting has been about huge loves and losses for Vernita. Her middle son landed in prison, and four years ago her oldest son Byron died in a car accident.“You really don't wanna bury your children. But what I've learned is all of the promises are gone…all of the things that yo...

    29 phút
  6. Nicole Lee: Playing taps, coming out, a wild RV trip across country, and job discrimination!

    14/06/2022

    Nicole Lee: Playing taps, coming out, a wild RV trip across country, and job discrimination!

    Happy Pride! What better month to launch this fun episode and celebrate a wonderful queer story.Growing up in Germany, when Nicole moved to the U.S. as a teen she never felt like she fit in. Then she joined the military during Desert Storm, and she ended up playing Taps for 600 funerals of her colleagues. That nearly broke her. She married a man before coming out as gay, and her dad and sisters rejected her.Around the same time of that rejection, her beloved mom—the only family member who tru...

    52 phút
  7. Cheryl Parks: From Shyest Girl in the Room to Sales Coach Extraordinaire!

    12/05/2022

    Cheryl Parks: From Shyest Girl in the Room to Sales Coach Extraordinaire!

    This week on the Finding Fertile Ground podcast, I interview Cheryl Parks, sales and mindset coach. Cheryl works with my business coach, Liz J. Simpson, and has provided me invaluable advice and confidence boosts as I reboot my business. Cheryl and I immediately connected, and I was especially lucky to meet her in person in early March, since the Big Money Movement coaching program happens all on Zoom and social media. It was a delight to delve into her background and discover how many w...

    39 phút
  8. Michele Heyward: A hurricane and engineering camp made her an engineer

    27/04/2022

    Michele Heyward: A hurricane and engineering camp made her an engineer

    Michele Heyward is a civil engineer who built the U.S. power grid. Now she's a tech startup founder building the future of work at PositiveHire. Michele grew up in rural South Carolina in a three-bedroom house full of kids. She had four siblings. She describes herself as the weird kid, really good at math.Encouraged to pursue science and engineering, she went to engineering camp 30 years ago at 13 years old.“But what really got me sold on engineering was when I was 12, a Category Five hu...

    46 phút
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Host Marie Gettel-Gilmartin of Fertile Ground Communications delves into how we can use our words, practice self-care, and make the world a better place for all of us. 

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    Marie Gettel-Gilmartin
  • Năm hoạt động
    2020 - 2024
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    73
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    © 2024 Finding Fertile Ground: Communicate for Change
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