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Episode 159 – April Davila – Meditation & Writing
Episode 159 – April Davila – Meditation & Writing Posted January 9, 2024 Finding an agent and publisher was easy for April Davila, an award-winning author who quit her job in 2016 to write full-time. Her debut novel, 142 Ostriches, won the WILLA Literary Awards for Women Writing the West. In this episode of the…
Episode 153 – Jewish Books, Jewish Authors
Episode 153 – Jewish Books, Jewish Authors Posted November 10, 2023 In a special two-part episode, Lynne Golodner interviews people who curate and promote Jewish books and Jewish authors. The first part features representatives from America’s longest-running Jewish Book Fair — Lauren Johnson, a librarian and consultant at the J-Detroit, and Brenda Brook, the 2023…
Episode 151 – Rochelle Weinstein – Writing Best-Selling Novels
Episode 151 – Rochelle Weinstein – Writing Best-Selling Novels Posted October 20, 2023 Rochelle Weinstein is a successful and talented author known for her emotionally charged novels. After leaving a career in the music industry in 2000, she started writing and has produced eight novels, with the latest coming out on Oct. 20th. Rochelle’s writing…
Episode 129 – Rosina Lippi – Author of the Wilderness Series
Episode 129 – Rosina Lippi – Author of the Wilderness Series Posted November 4, 2022 Rosina Lippi writes under her own name and under the pseudonym Sara Donati, and her Wilderness series of six historical novels is some of the most gorgeous fiction you’ll ever read. A former linguistics professor, Rosina has been writing for…
Episode 122 – Valoree Gagnon & Karena Schmidt – On the Food & Culture of Indigenous Gardens
In the latest episode of the Make Meaning Podcast, host Lynne Golodner interviews two important DIGs contributors: Valoree Gagnon, Assistant Professor in the College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science at Michigan Tech and Director for University-Indigenous Community Partnerships at the Great Lakes Research Center; and Karena Schmidt, an ecologist with the Keweenaw Bay Indian…
Episode 119 Roots – Israeli-Palestinian – Toward True Peace in the Middle East
In this first episode of 2022, the Make Meaning Podcast looks at one of the world’s greatest global concerns and begins to make sense of it by speaking to two inspiring leaders in the quest for reconciliation. Noor A’wad is a Palestinian whose family moved to Palestine after the Oslo Accords were signed in the…
Episode 118 – Elizabeth Gowing – How to Know a Place by Living its Stories
Episode 118 – Elizabeth Gowing – How to Know a Place by Living its Stories Posted December 15, 2021 Elizabeth Gowing’s life changed when she moved from London to Kosovo in 2006 for her partner’s job on what was supposed to be a six-month contract. Fifteen years later, Elizabeth speaks Albanian, teaches English and leads…
Episode 107 – The Hon. Jan Tinetti – How to Eliminate Period Poverty
Episode 107 – The Hon. Jan Tinetti – How to Eliminate Period Poverty Posted April 5, 2021 After 20 years as a teacher and school principal, Jan Tinetti knows the damage period poverty can do to young girls and women seeking to build a better life. Children as young as six would miss a week…
Episode 48 – Arthur, Ross, Jason, Steve, Shelli & Jeffrey – The NFHS Reunion Episode: Reflecting on 30 Years Since Graduation
Episode 48 – Arthur, Ross, Jason, Steve, Shelli & Jeffrey – The NFHS Reunion Episode: Reflecting on 30 Years Since Graduation Posted August 12, 2019 When you were an aspiring high school graduate, where did you think you would end up? Did you get there? Or did the path twist and turn over the years?…
Episode 44 – Kirstin Karoub, Lynne Golodner & Norman Cohn – Celebrating one year of the Make Meaning Podcast!
Episode 44 – Kirstin Karoub, Lynne Golodner & Norman Cohn – Celebrating one year of the Make Meaning Podcast! Posted July 1, 2019 We’re thrilled to announce a special milestone for Your People, LLC – the first anniversary of the Make Meaning Podcast! In this anniversary episode, our own Lynne Golodner and Kirstin Karoub highlight standout episodes from the past year – guests…
