Author name: Patricia Talbot

Before I met Deidra Mayberry, I was really in the dark about the disturbing statistics available on the breadth and depth of functional illiteracy among adults in this country. As Deidra puts it… In a matter of just one day, people go from children who struggle with reading to adults who struggle with reading. That makes sense because one day you are legally considered a child and the next, on your eighteenth birthday, you are […]

There’s nothing I enjoy more than when I meet someone and start sharing what I do and they suddenly say something like “Oh!  You must meet ‘so and so’!”   These connections and introductions often turn into the very best conversations I get in any given week.  Thus was the case when a new mutual colleague decided to connect me with Mia Pumo.  Mia’s passion for education is something we share at a deep level.  Like

Today we welcome Marcia Dawood, Angel Investor and Chair of the Angel Capital Association.  I first met Marcia in a program we’re both involved in with Heroic Public Speaking where we are learning with others to deliver speeches to “inspire and delight” our audiences.  I can tell you that I was both inspired and delighted when I heard Marcia share a part of her talk for the first time.  I’ve believed for a long time

Today we welcome Harriet Stein to the Blue Roads Changemaker Series that aired first on the WIN WIN WOMEN program “On Your Own Terms”.  Harriet shares her story of how she first became interested in the practice of mindfulness including how it has changed her own life and the lives of others around the globe.  I first met Harriet through “HPSGrad”.  It’s an amazing program offered by Michael and Amy Port through their business, Heroic

Have you ever experienced the delightful surprise of unexpectedly running into someone in person with whom you’ve recently had a meaningful conversation online?  That’s what happened to me recently when I heard the voice of today’s featured guest behind me at a meeting in Lambertville, New Jersey – far away from my home in Virginia and even further from Florida-based Thomasina Williams.  Thomasina was wearing a mask, but I knew right away who she was

This is the second time I’ve had the great privilege of interviewing the radiant and gifted Jeannine Rivers for this Changemaker Series.  She’s that amazing and positively LUMINOUS in her efforts to make the world work better for everyone she meets.  I hope you’ll check out our first interview from last summer here.  This time, I interviewed Jeannine for my new show, On Your Own Terms, on Win Win Women TV.  Again we used the

I met Tammy Ulrich when she joined my Changemaker Circle back in January of 2021.  It became clear to me early on that Tammy could actually lead that group at least as well as I could, if not better!  Her gentle wisdom is something I aspire to in my work to cultivate the efforts of people hoping to do their part to make the world work better for everyone.  Her specialty is helping the adults

Today we welcome senior fitness specialist, Mariah Kaye.  I met Mariah because she has kept popping up week after week as a wonderfully loyal viewer and participant in my new weekly show on the WIN WIN WOMEN network I call “On Your Own Terms”.  Because she always stays for the vibrant conversation after the show, over time I started to realize that Mariah is a “Big C – Changemaker” in her own right! Plus, I

I’ve long been fascinated by the potential of hypnotherapy to help people make necessary changes in their lives.  When I met Certified Hypnotherapist Jackie Maclean recently in a business class we took together, I was immediately drawn to her evident knowledge and passion for helping people who were suffering deeply.  The results she gets for her clients using hypnosis are simply astounding.  Learn about Jackie’s change-making work and her own Homegrown Solutions that ripple out

I met CJ Peterson, our special guest in this episode of the Blue Roads Changemaker Series, through a “matchmaking” service for podcasters.  When she was kind enough to interview me for her podcast “The Journey is Real” about my work to cultivate homegrown changemakers (airing in late June), we got to talking afterward about her own work as a Changemaker.  C. J. generously agreed to be a guest for the Blue Roads Changemaker Podcast so