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The UpliftersTaylor Scott is Nourishing Community One Fridge at a TimeWhat were you doing at 26? I was just barely figuring out how to adult. But, Taylor Scott is revolutionizing food access in Richmond, Virginia. What started as a simple desire to share excess tomatoes from her hydroponic garden has blossomed into RVA Community Fridges, a network of 14 community fridges serving food apartheid communities. Taylor's infectious enthusiasm and "delusionally optimistic" outlook have transformed the way her community thinks about food security, proving that sometimes the biggest changes start with the smallest seeds.In this episode, Taylor shares the whirlwind journey of RVA Community Fridges, from its...2024-10-0326 min
The UpliftersAre you a Head, Heart, or Hand Listener?Imagine that each of us is wearing glasses with differently tinted lenses. The color of your lens represents your background, culture, and beliefs, and influences how you see and interpret the world. Through your green-tinted lens, it might feel almost impossible to imagine my fuchsia-tinted world. So it was when Kym Dakin, author of Head, Heart, and Hands Listening in Coach Practice was hired by The Environmental Protection Agency to help their field operators, who were focused on environmental impacts and data, communicate with farmers and landowners who saw the land through completely different lenses. W...2023-09-0833 min
The UpliftersStop downplaying your gifts and make them your magicJen Liddy felt like she wasn’t making the impact she wanted to make as a teacher. The students weren’t engaged and the administrative work was tedious and exhausting. But the voice in her head in the shower every morning, asking if she should just cancel class for the day, just couldn’t be ignored any longer. She had a lot invested in her teaching job (her lesson plans, her retirement, her two master’s degrees) and part of her wondered if all of that was ever going to be of any use again. Ten years later, she...2023-08-1147 min
The UpliftersHow to live the best you can every day...even when it feels like the tough times will never endEver feel like the hits just keep coming? In this episode, you’ll hear how Terri Tomoff, nominated for The Uplifters by Julie B. Hughes, got by with a little help from her friends, family, and a global community of champions during her son’s lifelong battles with recurring cancer. When Terri Tomoff’s son Ryan was two years old, he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia with cerebral nervous system involvement. In the 27 years that followed, Ryan would relapse 3 times and survive tongue cancer twice as an adult. Their family essentially spent 8 years living in a hosp...2023-07-0720 min
The UpliftersA Mom, A Marathon, A Mission: Mindset Matters, People Pleasing, and Inner Critics With Julie B. HughesJulie Hughes, author of Staring Down A Dream: A Mom, A Marathon, A Mission, fell in love with running when she was just a young girl. It was the perfect antidote to the relentless urgency of farm chores. She started racing and winning early and kept going. She landed a spot on a competitive college track team, and while the Olympics didn’t feel like a realistic goal, she set her sights on following in the footsteps of the heroic women who blazed the Boston Marathon trail. Like the good girl she is, she trained her heart out. And in...2023-05-0552 min