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The Repivot ProjectWhen Strength Looks Different: A Story of Adaptation and HopeWhen life shifts in ways we never expected, how do we find new strength?In this episode of The Repivot Project, my friend Ed Hock shares his journey living with Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM) — a rare muscle disease that redefines what it means to be strong, resilient, and adaptable.We talk about early signs, unexpected lessons, navigating daily life, and why showing up — even when it’s hard — matters more than ever.Whether you're facing your own pivot or supporting someone you love, Ed’s story of...2025-05-0126 min
The Repivot ProjectWe Can Stop Trashing Animals - Paramount Planet ProductThe idea for better packaging first sparked when P3RD.EARTH Founder, Ariadne Dimoula, was a kid swimming in the Penobscot River and saw fast food litter everywhere. She went home and asked her mom, Claudia Lowd - a pulp and paper chemical engineer, if paper mills could make better packaging than the styrofoam forever trash. Fast-forward more than ten years to when Ariadne was in Mexico scuba diving with sea turtles and later drinking a coconut with a plastic straw on the beach, when it hit her again, harder. “We are feeding animals trash.” Just like everyone on her se...2025-03-2832 minThe Repivot ProjectS3E6 - Get Your Ticket To Change - The Ticket Tree RevolutionWho doesn't like a night out? Except when that night out comes with having to buy a ticket that comes with additional fees that can add up to 20% more to the price of a ticket. Add to that the chance that when you are buying a ticket, you may be getting scammed. There has to be a better way that addresses ticket costs, security and creates a unique and fun user experience in the way of transforming tickets into NFTs. Enter Ticket Tree that is quickly growing its own fan base!2024-11-0729 minThe Repivot ProjectSomething Important Is Coming (No, It's Not What You Are Thinking)On November 11th, we will reflect upon Veterans' Day. Follow the story of a WWI canteen and the impact all veterans have made for themselves and for us.2024-11-0103 min
The Repivot ProjectThere's Always A New Way of Looking At SomethingFrank McElligott, owner of Eire Wear, knew that there had to be a different approach to Irish clothing, beyond the stereotypical St. Patty's Day hats and "Kiss Me, I'm Irish" shirts. His knowledge of Irish and Celtic symbolism had him thinking there had to be an audience who also wanted more authenticity as well. Turns out Frank was right and Eire Wear has a growing fan base of people from all walks of life. That's the key to entrepreneurship...taking a different look at something and then taking a big leap of faith!
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The Repivot ProjectWhat's Making You Who You Are Today? - Dr. George BlountGeorge is a passionate advocate for financial education, helping individuals and families understand and manage money better. As a financial therapist and the founder of nBalance Financial, he focuses on money's emotional and psychological side. Think you don't have an emotional relationship with money? George's 20 years of experience will change your mind and possibly your future...for the better!
www.georgeblount.com2024-07-1737 minThe Repivot ProjectVulnerability Is A Superpower - with Mary VenturaWhat if you could reframe your relationship to emotional discomfort by the repeated act of acceptance and re engagement in all that this life has to offer you? My guest, Mary Ventura, proposes that by unlearning the habit of resistance, unwanted emotions cease to serve as barriers to realizing the enriching and fulfilling life that we aspire to lead.
Mary is currently an interior architecture student at Endicott College and recently stood on a TED stage to talk about her journey. She's a dedicated advocate for personal reinvention, mental health awareness, and about building...2024-05-2020 minThe Repivot ProjectRefined Graffiti - A Talk With Kyle WallackHe's caught the eye of Cardi B. and Missy Eliot. Art galleries up and down the East Coast show his work. In this episode, I talk with Kyle Wallack, a pioneer in refined graffiti. Its fair to say that Kyle didn’t start out as a graffiti artist, although he has always been a creative spirit. However, a significant health crisis, dogged determination, a strong work ethic taught by his family and an abandoned easel showed him that even though we may be here temporarily, we all have it within ourselves to create something that lasts forever.2024-02-0735 min
The Repivot ProjectS2E6 Tori Webster, A Digital StorytellerGo ahead...ask yourself a big question like Tori Webster did one day in 2018..."if you had one year to live, how would you be living life differently?" For Tori Webster it was to fully embrace her talent to digitally tell stories for her clients while living life traveling to the some of the most beautiful spots in the world.
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The Repivot ProjectS2E5 From Foodie to Consultant and TedX Speakers' Coach - Sheila Jones of Whicked ResultsChef. Restaurant consultant. Food scientist. Senior executive at leading global brands. It would seem like Sheila Jones could now rest on her laurels. That is just not to be. CEO of Whicked Results, Sheila works with businesses to help achieve all that they might dream can be possible...and then asks them to think even bigger. As if that wasn't enough to keep her busy, Sheila's work as a TedX speaker's coach has her helping individual clients reach their own pinnacles of possibility.2023-05-3040 minThe Repivot ProjectLindsey Singleton, founder of Lighthouse Coaching and Consulting: Know Your Why, Your How and Your WhoLindsey Singleton, a licensed mental health couselor and founder of Lighthouse Coaching and Consulting, knows a bit about making pivots in life. It's that authenticity that her clients seek her out for...she's value-driven and helps others get very clear on theirs. Whether in her private practice working with individuals or when she is speaking with high school and college audiences, Lindsey's no-nonsense way of culling out the "noise" that we all have in our lives provides the energy for discovering what is real...and good.
To discover more, go to https://www.lighthousecc.info2023-03-2030 min
The Repivot Project"I Just Want A Big Ass Iced Coffee" - Casey Arnold of Big Ass Iced CoffeeBig Ass Iced Coffee is a woman-owned online coffee shop for cold brew lovers. Impatient cold brew lovers. In fact, it is exactly that wonderful trait of "impatience" that drove founder Casey Arnold to launch this rising small business. She woke up one morning at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and thought, 'I just want a big ass iced coffee.'
From there, Casey bought her own equipment and started experimenting with different formulations. While creating a unique beverage, Casey was also able to nourish her need for creative and entrepreneurial challenges. Casey also works as a...2023-03-0642 min
The Repivot ProjectS2E2 Ken Nagy of Northeast Equity ResearchKen Nagy knew he enjoyed financial research. Working his way up from being an individual analyst to having a team that oversaw research in the semi-conductor industry, he often thought individual investors would enjoy having access to that expert research.
Enter his pivot.
Ken became a registered investment advisor and founded Northeast Equity Research. His firm takes the approach of institutional money management...but for individuals. Ken and his team manage assets for people who like to participate in their own investment journey.
In this episode, we talk about the head and tail wind...2023-01-1940 minThe Repivot ProjectS2E1 Rachel Wilson, CEO of ReprezentUFinding great employees has always been hard. First is the stack of resumes to sift through...a process both time-consuming and inefficient. What if there were someone who could help your HR department sift quickly through the stack and give you the short list of qualified candidates? Rachel Wilson, CEO of ReprezentU, helps you do just that.
"Deciding who will be the most effective employee occurs between the resume and the interview", Rachel states. "My company, ReprezentU, partners with small businesses and HR departments to quickly identify the talent they should be talking to for their job openi...2023-01-0219 min
The Repivot ProjectS1E10 Amanda Fox of Fenway Sports Group - Serving Up A Side of Wasabi (Wasabi Bowl at Fenway, that is!)"There are other dreams out there that you don't even know exist yet..."
Those wise words come from Amanda Fox, a special events senior intern at Fenway Sports Management. This episode is for anyone who dares to dream big and isn't afraid of recalibrating that dream to make it even more fulfilling. Amanda's love for all things Disney led her to believe she would one day work for Disney. In fact, she became an influencer as a teenager before the word "influencer" even entered the lexicon. Yet when presented with a situation beyond her control, she took stock...2022-12-0436 minThe Repivot ProjectS1E9 - Sarah Fenerty of Northwoods Brewing CompanyThrow in 1 part marketing maven, 1 part accomplished artist, 1 part Dead Poets' Society fan and add in a liberal sprinkling of family business and you get Sarah Fenerty, the marketing director of Northwoods Brewing Company. Northwoods Brewing is one of New England's most popular breweries and has a fan base as far away as Montana and growing! Sarah, aged 30, talks about her path to the family business which definitely was not a straight line!2022-11-1532 minThe Repivot ProjectS1E8 - Taking Off With Launch Partners! Nik Kasprzak and Ryan Curley"Nik and I pulled a 7pm - 4:30am long haul shift to make sure that when our client opened up his laptop at 9am the next day, everything was there that he needed from us", recalls Ryan Curley, who along with his business partner Nik Kasprzak, are the co-founders of Launch Partners.
The face of digital marketing is changing...what hasn't changed, however, is how a great work ethic trumps all. While the big agencies are still around, scrappy startups like Launch Partners are changing the rules of contemporary marketing. In this episode, Nik and Ryan describe go...2022-10-0531 minThe Repivot ProjectS1E7 - Make Room For Your Talent - Rich WeissmanSuccession planning. It can be a topic filled with drama. Or not. In this episode of the Repivot Project, Rich Weissman makes the case that all businesses, whether public or privately-held, small or large, have to be thinking about succession planning as a way of making a path for your talent. "Figuring out your talent pathways is a way to figure out the gaps and strengths in your organization", Rich states. A seasoned executive with a deep expertise in supply chain management, Rich saw, early on, the connection to a strong supply chain and good succession planning. Having worked for Fo...2022-09-1245 minThe Repivot ProjectS1E6 Zach Servideo and Value Creation LabsZach Servideo of Value Creation Labs is known for helping early stage businesses find their voice and for helping established companies navigate digital transformation. "We get picked over marketing agencies that have ties to the biggest media holding companies in the world...that's because agility always wins in today's fast-paced world". If you want to your business, big or small, to be agile in today's market, Zach will give you actionable insights in this episode. Zach is also the host of the popular "Boston Speaks Up" podcast.2022-08-2746 min
The Repivot ProjectWhat Style Becomes You? Lisa Ann Santin of LASSWardrobeLisa Ann Santin of LASS Wardrobe works with accomplished and aspiring career and second-act women longing to participate in a personal brand renaissance. Lisa Ann is committed to her client’s success, providing total image transformation to help women show the world what they feel in their heart and dream in their soul.2022-06-2038 minThe Repivot ProjectS1E5 Navigating Personal Change - with Ed Horack for National Myositis MonthAn accomplished athlete, senior technology executive and family man, Ed Horack felt, like most of us, that he could plan for the future. Life has a funny way of changing our plans and with one medical diagnosis of inclusion body myositis (IBM), Ed's future transformed.Everyone needs a tribe and perhaps more so when you have a disease that is so rare, only about 75,000 people in this country have it. Ed's perspective on the importance of family, friends and the tight-knit community of people afflicted with myositis is a lesson for us all.In a wi...2022-05-2828 minThe Repivot ProjectFinding Your Heart Motivation - with Jermaine Moore , a nationally recognized leadership coach and workplace expert in DEI initiatives at The Mars Hill GroupDo you want to be seen for who you are? Do you want to be recognized for the value you bring to your organization? As a leader, do you want a coach in your corner who helps you and your team achieve the greatness meant for you? Are you a leader "in the rough" wanting learn how to inspire and motivate empathetic workers?
Jermaine Moore is a nationally-recognized expert in leadership discovery and development. Principal consultant at the Mars Hill Group (www.themarshillgroup.com), he is sought after for his contemporary thoughts on how all organizations can embr...2022-05-1136 minThe Repivot ProjectCollege, Transition and A Tiny Dose of Ted LassoI recently sat with Daniel Chapman, Director of Student Transitions and Family Programs, at Endicott College. Part of the Student Affairs leadership team, Dan has responsibility for facilitating and deepening family and student connections to the college. This includes welcome and orientation programs, information and communication for families as well as deeply collaborative and intentional first and second-year programming.
I was intrigued that his professional practice entailed “transitions”…during our conversation, I Iearned that Dan practices what he preaches with a varied background in cultural and social anthropology, counseling and higher education leadership.
He’s also a b...2022-04-1235 minThe Repivot ProjectSeason 1 - Lexi Godlewski and The Power of Leading Businesses with Heart-Centered Marketing StrategyLexi Godlewski is a soultrepreneur, certified marketing master and a highly-sought after speaker where she often speaks about the power of heart-centered marketing strategies. Heart-centered marketing is more than just about feel-good business practices; it is an actionable methodology to help you land more clients, more clients and most importantly, more life satisfaction. Lexi talks about harnessing the power of 1...doing that 1 thing, making that 1 call, connecting with that 1 person...a power of doing that is often overlooked in our over-hyped and under-focused business world today.
This episode with Lexi will give you the c...2022-03-2541 minThe Repivot ProjectSeason 1 - Creating Career Inflections with Alicia Ramsdell of Mindful.Career.PathAlicia Ramsdell, the founder and CEO of Mindful.Career.Path shares how she helps both organizations and private clients create intentional and purposeful plans to align passion with measurable results. Having had a highly technical corporate career, Alicia talks about when she had her discovery moment...that instant when she realized the work she gravitated toward wasn't the work that she was doing. How does she end up giving herself permission to do that new work? Hearing her story and how she now helps others may just give you the spark you need to create your own alignment.2022-02-0231 minThe Repivot ProjectRepivot Project Podcast IntroductionHello! I’m Deirdre Sartorelli, the host of The Repivot Project, a podcast dedicated to giving you actionable strategies and tactics as we explore the art and science of change! It is our intention to bring you the brightest minds, the most curious in spirit and the courageous of heart as we explore the theme of “change”. Whether you are looking to change things up personally, launch a business or keep your brand relevant in today’s marketplace, our guests will give you the tools to push boundaries and take risks. Oh, and on this path of change that we are all o...2022-01-0501 min