Sierra Hillsman is a licensed Associate Professional Counselor and is credentialed as a National Certified Counselor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. Her platform, Legacy Speaks, focuses on increasing awareness of mental health issues, creating conversations with marginalized communities, and increasing access to local and national resources by advocating for both equality […]
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Interview with Stacey Renfro, CEO of mDesign Home Décor
Stacey Renfro is currently the CEO of mDesign Home Décor, joining in August of 2020. Stacey Renfro is a seasoned retail executive with more than 25 years of progressive experience in E-commerce, marketing, planning and merchandising. She has led highly successful teams, implemented game-changing strategies, and managed complex growth initiatives. […]
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Interview with James Wu, Founder of InnerSpace
James Wu is the CEO and Founder of InnerSpace. InnerSpace is on a mission to become the world’s leading indoor location platform. Delivering the most accurate WiFi-based indoor location data, the company gives clients unparalleled value with its easy-to-use API, out-of-the-box analytics, and workflow initiation solutions. The company’s Fortune 500 […]
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Interview with Ryan Scherf, Founder of Payment
Ryan Scherf is the founder of Payment, a suite of mobile apps for processing credit cards via the Stripe payment gateway. Where did the idea for Payment come from? Ryan Scherf: Back in 2014, Stripe was an up and coming startup out of YCombinator changing the way payment gateways were built […]
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Freedom Day, 1963: A Lost Interview with James Baldwin
James Baldwin’s first biographer was my aunt Fern Marja Eckman, a prize-winning feature writer and reporter for the New York Post. She died in 2019, at the age of a hundred and three. As her closest living relative, I cleaned out her apartment. Hidden in a concealed drawer of an old […]
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Chris Rock Tried to Warn Us
In a candid interview, the comic discusses America’s summer of strife, Trump, blackface and his dramatic turn in the new season of “Fargo.” Chris Rock wasn’t sure if he was hiding out or not. On the Friday before Labor Day, he was speaking by phone from Yellow Springs, Ohio, the […]
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Interview with Richard Kreitner. A New Look at the Often Barely United States
In “Break It Up,” his new book about the history of deep divisions and secessionist movements in the United States, Richard Kreitner recalls Hillary Clinton’s concession speech in 2016, when she said that the country must be “more deeply divided than we thought.” Kreitner suggests that Clinton and many others […]
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Interview with Dancho Dimkov, Founder of BizzBee Solutions
Dancho Dimkov is a growth enthusiast. He is inspired by growth. Growth in people, companies, relations, and businesses. By enabling and sharing his energy, knowledge, and curiosity in everything he puts himself into, he has had the opportunity to do just that throughout his career – make things grow. Helping […]
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Interview with Dr. Ken Gibson, Founder and CEO of LearningRx
Most programs dealing with learning difficulties focus on the symptoms. Dr. Ken Gibson wanted to deal with the root causes. After 17 years of research and testing, he came up with his learning system, LearningRx. Interview with Dr. Ken Gibson, founder, and CEO of LearningRx. Tell me about your current […]
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A Lifetime of Seeing the Good and the Bad Between Neighbors. Interview with Sarah Friar,Chief Executive of Nextdoor
Sarah Friar grew up during the Troubles. Raised in a small town in Northern Ireland, she saw neighbors turn against one another in violence, and also come together in solidarity. Now, as chief executive of Nextdoor, Ms. Friar is enmeshed in a different sort of unruly community. Nextdoor, a neighborhood-focused […]