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Creating Connections with Glorious Hugs with Mary MacCarthy

Creating Connections with Glorious Hugs with Mary MacCarthy

Today’s interview is with Mary MacCarthy of Glorious Hugs. Mary is the CEO, founder, and hug liaison at Glorious Hugs, a company that creates beautiful and joyful caring packages for older persons. I was immediately touched and inspired by Mary’s mission with her company, which was named after her grandmother, Gloria. Founded in 2015, Glorious […]

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Logan Nickleson on Creating Music for Makers

Royalty-free Music for Podcasts and YouTube with Logan Nickleson of Music for Makers

This week, I’m interviewing Logan Nickleson about how he creates royalty free music for podcast YouTube creators at Music for Makers. Logan is a content marketer and strategist at an ad agency during the day, and he started Music for Makers about six months ago. Noting that there were very limited choices available for royalty free music, he wanted to create more options for small businesses and entrepreneurs that they could use on their podcasts and YouTube. Having a background in music himself, Logan set out to fill a gap in the industry. The result is an amazing, free, site full of original music that you can use for any project. Join me as I

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TRex Tuesdays interview on Jump Start Your Joy podcast

Trex Tuesdays on Having Fun and Making People Laugh

skating video (which you can see here). A dinosaur on ice skates! And s/he was REALLY good!
It turns out that the TRexes live in Minnesota, and they really love to spread joy and cheer to people. With over 400,000 Facebook fans, they are making quite a splash! Honestly, what could be more joy-filled than TRexes making awesome videos to share on Facebook? Join me as I interview TRex Tuesdays on having fun and making people laugh.

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Interview with Danny Wood about Look at Me on Jump Start Your Jo

An Interview with Danny Wood of NKOTB

Danny Wood of New Kids on the Block (NKOTB) has joined me this week on Jump Start Your Joy to talk about his solo career and album, Look at Me. Danny founded “Remember Betty” to support patients and survivors of breast cancer, in honor of his mother, Betty, who passed away in 1999. This is his seventh solo album, and the proceeds will all go towards the foundation. I hope you’ll join me for an interview with Danny Wood of NKOTB.

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Hope love and Serious Creatures - an interview with Amber and Brady Black on Jump Start Your Joy

Hope, Love, and Serious Creatures with Amber and Brady Black

Amber and Brady Black are a married couple currently living in Beirut, Lebanon, and they are a true inspiration. Having grown up and met in the United States, they decided to move to the Middle East to teach. The first five years abroad were not easy, and Amber found herself fighting depression, which she courageously shares about in our interview. After some discussion, they decided that they needed to leave the gulf region. In a series of synchronous events, a friend of a friend  mentioned that there was an opening at “Home Of Hope” in Beirut, which is a home for abandoned and abused children in Lebanon. Amber and Brady went for a visit, and knew in their hearts that they had to teach there. Join me as I talk about hope, love, and Serious Creatures with Amber and Brady Black.

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Matthew Wood General Grievous in Star Wars

Matthew Wood (the voice of General Grievous in Star Wars) on Crafting Joy in the Crossfade

I’m super excited to share this interview with Matthew Wood, who is the voice of General Grievous in the Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith and The Clone Wars. When he’s not doing voice work, he is also a supervising sound editor at Skywalker Sound, a job he’s had for 25 years. Matt has worked on a

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