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Release Date: 05/20/2020
Trending! LESSONFACE!
The Debbie Nigro Show
Lessonface is a platform that connects students with great teachers for live online lessons and classes in music, language, the arts you name it! It's so cool. (I can't wait to take harmonica lessons so I can jam with some random band when live music is legal again.) Lessonface Founder Claire Cunningham joins me to celebrate Lessonface's current wild momentum and also and recent partnerships. One with the 'MET' Orchestra Musicians for master classes. (Awesome) Another with the John C. Campbell Folk School (Double awesome). Lessonface connects students with highly qualified, excellent...
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Losing It With Clutter? Home Org Pro Offers Virtual Visit
The Debbie Nigro Show
Losing It With Clutter In Your Home or Home Office? Aging Parents Living Alone You Want To Prevent From Falling Over Stuff? Downsizing? Preparing Your Home for Sale? You Know I Always Got A Gal! Bobbie Burkhart is a PRO Home Organizer Who Can Help You Now 'Virtually' As Well As In Person ! People are struggling with clutter and concern more now than ever. Bobbie is an expert in helping people cut through the emotional attachments that keep them from throwing stuff away. She's also an expert in helping people 'downsize' and 'age in place safely'. Her happy clients are retired...
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Late "Hidden Figures' Hero Leaves Message For Next Generation
The Debbie Nigro Show
No Star is Too Far! That's the message left for the next generation of young women across the globe by the late Katherine Johnson, the genius African American mathematician whose work at NASA was groundbreaking and on who's life the hit movie 'Hidden Figures' was based. Katherine passed away last February. Her daughter Joylette Hylick joins me today for a short conversation upon the release of Katherine's inspiring autobiographical picture book of her journey to success. It's called "ONE STEP FURTHER My Story of Math, the Moon, and a Lifelong Mission". Katherine wrote it with 2 of her...
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Top Dating Guru Has Advice For Single People Home Alone
The Debbie Nigro Show
Many Single People Have Found Being Home Alone... Lonely. Dating Is Challenging Enough Without Throwing In A Pandemic! Finding a connection during COVID-19 is not simple but there is one gal who is making it simpler especially for all the single ladies 30, 40, 50 and up. My guest today is Andrea McGinty who has set up 33,000 dates, which have lead to 4,200 marriages! (Nice scorecard!) Before online dating, Andrea was the original founder of the mega successful matchmaking service 'It's Just Lunch' which I thought was brilliant. I mean come on how intimidating is meeting for 'lunch'? ...
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The Back Stories Of Powerful Women Are Usually Great Ones
The Debbie Nigro Show
Powerful Women Have Earned Their Power In Unique Ways And Their Back Stories Are Usually Great Ones. Take Chanterria McGilbra for example standing here in front of a hot Ferrari in the Wall Street Journal this week. Her story started when she was 12 and wanted pair of black and white Converse shoes her Dad couldn't afford. He told her if she wanted the shoes, it was up to her to find a job, make the money and buy them herself. So she did. Since that day, McGilbra, biotech consultant, entrepreneur and founder of the girls empowerment organization Prancing Ponies Foundation...
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Funny Thing About Money Most People Don't Talk About It
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The Funny Thing About Money Is Most People Don't Want To Talk About It Until They Have To Or Really Wish They Had. Often you trust that people who handle your financial matters know what's best for you and many do. Financial Advisors and Accountants may have good intentions but 'the devil is in the details' and not everybody is versed in those when it comes to retirement plans. If you're a small to mid size business owner you probably want to know about a passionate guy named Ronald Stair who most likely knows more than most and and more than you about protecting your own interests. ...
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Creative People Often Get Financially Screwed
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There are many creative souls out there who've done genius work during their lifetime but somehow never got the right people to surround them. Or make them famous. Or protect them to make money. One example is a soul funk group from the 70’s called '24 Carat Black'. Their story finally gets told all these years later by a curious journalist named Zach Schonfeld in his new book GHETTO: MISFORTUNES WEALTH. Schonfelds book is part of Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series. It's the fascinating story of the mysterious 1970s funk group and how they became one of the most widely sampled bands throughout...
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World Class Fine Artist Inks Deal For New Venue & Inks Med Tattoos
The Debbie Nigro Show
World Class Fine Artist Comes Full Circle Puts Out Call For Artists With Large Format Paintings, People Who Want To Paint Or Learn To Paint In A High Ceiling Covid Friendly Building, and Breast Cancer Survivors Needing Medical Tatoos. Whew! That's a LOT but so is the extraordinary talent of 'Catniss' Locati. She's so much more than a fine artist with international credentials she's a fine woman whose survived much and now is looking to support other creative and artistic talent with her new Galleri Way & Art Club in Ridgefiled CT. With huge 12 foot ceilings, masks and 14 feet apart people...
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People Are 'All In' On Card & Board Games - Customize Your Own
The Debbie Nigro Show
Yoo Hoo Here's What's Trending! Card Games and Board Games! Maybe You Should Think About Creating Your Own Branded Custom Playing Cards, Or Board Game? Cool idea right? You know I got a guy for that. Grandview Research reports playing cards will become a 7.18 billion industry by 2025, and board games 13.83 billion owing to rising number of board game cafes across the world. Who Knew? Charlie Levin President of Shuffled Ink knows as does his son Matthew who both join The Debbie Nigro Show today. Family owned & operated since 1999, Shuffled Ink has produced millions of...
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Jill Fiore Gives New Meaning To The Phrase 'Working from Home'
The Debbie Nigro Show
Speaking of Underdogs! Jill Fiore Gives New Meaning To The Phrase 'Working from Home'! Jill's a guitarist who lives on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She's caused a good stir playing music and entertaining people outside on her fire escape! Jill contracted COVID-19 in late March. She was scared she wouldn't have the wind to sing again. “On Day 11 of my quarantine, I finally had the energy to crawl onto my fire escape — and had a feeling of relief,” said the 47-year-old. “I decided then to make my music my top priority.” I read about Jill in the and LOVED her spirit and out...
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