
portraits
Meet Rebecca Wyatt
Spreading inspirational stories of love and gratitude, building connections, and raising money for a local nonprofit. Meet Rebecca Wyatt of CASCO Financial Group. Location: AZ In her words: "You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be...
Meet Kathleen Gramzay
Spreading inspirational stories of love and gratitude, building connections, and raising money for a local nonprofit. Meet Kathleen Gramzay of Kathleen Gramzay - Release Your Pain. Location: AZ In her words: "Prior to the pandemic, people were already overstressed,...
Meet Johnny and Pleaslyn Ransom
Spreading inspirational stories of love and gratitude, building connections, and raising money for a local nonprofit. Meet Johnny and Pleaslyn Ransom (Jarrett's parents!!). Location: SC In their words: "When other states were practicing stay home policies, our state...
Meet Catherine Scrivano
Meet Catherine Scrivano of CASCO Financial Group. Location: AZ In her words: "A really smart client calmly posed a question a couple of weeks ago: “When this is all over, what will I wish I had done?” The question so impressed me that I now refer to is as: THE...
Meet Lisa Tammen Smith
with The Peaceful Parent. In her words: "I am a mom and parent coach. I help transform frustrated parents -- who regularly default to yelling, threatening and punishing -- into peaceful leaders within their households. I know that parenting during this stressful time...
Meet Mary Patry
COVID-19 turned our lives up side down. The sudden isolation forced me to reassess commitment to my encore career choice of Executive Coaching while seeking personal balance. After deep self-reflection I found a deeper commitment to both my loved ones and the service...
Meet Jeanine Tripodi
I have been living more mindfully and in the present moment than ever before. But this isn’t a result of some enlightened expansion so much as a forced suspension of my daily life. I don’t think I am alone when I say this is a weird balance of feeling grief (for those...
Meet Karen Estrin
Like so many, we’re adjusting to the new normal of home school, social distancing and quarantine. We’ve chosen to focus on the quiet calm rather than isolation, the slower pace rather than stay-at-home orders and contribution rather closures. And quarantine has...
Meet Kate Thoene
Executive Director of Waste NOT. "I have the great honor of leading local hunger relief agency Waste Not. We specialize in collecting excess prepared and perishable food and delivering it to 60 nonprofits that feed those in need. During this pandemic, we have...
Meet the Project Creator: Karianne Munstedt
Spreading inspirational stories of love and gratitude, building connections, and raising money for a local nonprofit. Meet the creator of this project...me 🙂 "Some people have mentioned that their hesitation to joining this project is because they don't want to show...
Meet Lisa Coppola
I’m fortunate that my law firm team is comfortably remote, my little family is safe, and there’s plenty of wine in the basement! So while I’m home for a while, I decided to take time each week to send small notes to friends and colleagues. While I know they may...
Meet Wanda Baader
I admire the resiliency that I see all around me during these challenging times. I am so proud of those who have made such sacrifices to keep us safe, healthy, and fed. Like the grocery store and factory workers and truckers who get food to our tables, the restaurants...
Meet Sarah Grone
I've been blown away by the collective generosity in communities around the world. Once the wave of the first two weeks of social distancing was behind us and most of us settled into our new routines, there's been an upswell of people donating their time, money, and...
Meet Patti Lynn Mamalis
The coronavirus affected me quite suddenly. I was attending a chamber meeting and there was a mandatory 'no touching and no contact' rule at the meeting. I was upset and angry and not understanding as I thought "Why can’t I greet my friends and fellow business owners...
René Lovecraft
From Karianne: When I photographed René on Saturday, she was on Day 10 of symptoms of COVID-19. She hadn't been officially tested, but based on a virtual doctor's appointment, she was being treated as if she had the virus. I asked her why she would possibly want to...