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The ChangeMakers Podcast, presented by cityCURRENT, shares personal stories and insights from those who are giving back and making a difference so we can learn and do the same. We cover life lessons, business advice, passion, and purpose. Share the ways you're making a difference using #changemakers.

  • Nick Laparra - The Power of Less in a World of More

    • Friday, April 24, 2020
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    Nick Laparra is host of the Let’s Give A Damn podcast, an environmentalist, a speaker, an investigative journalist, and all-around seeker of adventures.
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  • ChangeMakers: Liz Murray

    • Wednesday, April 08, 2020
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    A story so powerful it was made into a movie, Liz Murray shares her fascinating, inspirational story of growing up with two drug-addicted parents who she began supporting at age 10. Homeless at age 15, the death of her mother was the wake-up call that made her break free of her circumstances.
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  • Dr. Keith Norman - creating change through a Christ led life

    • Friday, March 20, 2020
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    Dr. Keith Norman, pastor at First Baptist Church - Broad and vice president of government affairs for Baptist Memorial Health Care discusses life lessons and how we can inspire others and make a difference by living a Christ led life.
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  • ChangeMakers: Andrew Gieselmann

    • Sunday, March 01, 2020
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    Andrew Gieselmann is the founder and CEO of Capstone Sales Performance Inc., a Sandler Training Center. He is an executive coach and facilitator with over 20 years of sales success. Andrew's specific business development consulting and training experience includes a wide range of sales, management,
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  • ChangeMakers: Adam Markel - Pivot!

    • Tuesday, December 03, 2019
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    Adam Markel guides and empowers high achievers to navigate change, transform cultures and drive growth. Adam is an international speaker, author, entrepreneur, and sought after business mentor and strategist. Adam is also a change management expert and a specialist in helping individuals and compani
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  • ChangeMakers: Dr. Tracy D. Hall - closing equity gaps

    • Thursday, November 14, 2019
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    "Students are also citizens of the community. If they are failing to achieve, we all have a problem." Dr. Tracy D. Hall earned her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. Then in 2011, Hall’s academic journey led, for a third time, to St. Louis, where she served four years as vice president of academ
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  • ChangeMakers: Kyle Allen - Music City, Millennials +Talent

    • Saturday, October 12, 2019
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    Kyle Allen, Vaco Nashville's Managing Partner, talks to cityCURRENT CEO, Jeremy C. Park about placing top talent, the passion and purpose of culture in the workplace, and how to have effect work life harmony.
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  • ChangeMakers: Richard C. Shadyac Jr.

    • Thursday, August 15, 2019
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    Richard C. Shadyac Jr. became the president and chief executive officer of ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, in September 2009.
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  • ChangeMakers: Mary Latham - acts of human kindness

    • Friday, June 28, 2019
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    Mary Latham is traveling the country collecting stories of human kindness from all 50 states while staying with strangers, to compile into a book for hospital waiting rooms. Mary hopes to prove that there is more good than bad in this world.
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  • ChangeMakers: Bill Morris

    • Thursday, May 30, 2019
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    Legendary Shelby County sheriff, mayor, political figure, and humanitarian William N. (Bill) Morris Jr. recently published his autobiography, “Bill Morris: A Legendary Life.” In this episode of our ChangeMakers Podcast, host Jeremy C. Park interviews Bill Morris and talks about everything from Elv
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  • ChangeMakers: Chef Logan Guleff

    • Friday, May 03, 2019
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    Chef Logan Guleff has been named one of the Most Influential Teens by Time Magazine and a James Beard Blended Burger Winner.
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  • ChangeMakers: Meg Clarke - searching passion, purpose, + SEO

    • Thursday, April 04, 2019
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    Meg Clarke is an SEO expert and the owner + founder of Clapping Dog Media. After studying marketing and graphic design in college, Meg found herself working in boutique ad agencies where she developed her interest in attracting the ideal customer for her clientele.
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  • ChangeMakers: Victor Boutros - persevering against injustice

    • Tuesday, March 05, 2019
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    Victor Boutros is the CEO and Founding Director of the Human Trafficking Institute and co-author with Gary Haugen of The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence.
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  • ChangeMakers: Seth Mattison

    • Wednesday, February 06, 2019
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    Seth Mattison challenges conventional leadership thinking while introducing the super trends shaping the Future of Work. Supported with cutting edge research and category leading case studies Seth discusses how listeners can compete and thrive in the changing landscape of work.
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  • ChangeMakers: David French, Memphis Brand Initiative

    • Saturday, January 05, 2019
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    David French is the President and Chief Marketing Officer of the newly formed nonprofit The Memphis Brand Initiative. The organization has been launched to lead Memphis brand stakeholders in well-coordinated, best-in-class brand, marketing and communications practices, which spark civic pride and at
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  • ChangeMakers: Steve Hinkley - Adventure Science Center

    • Monday, December 03, 2018
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    Steve Hinkley is the President and CEO of Adventure Science Center (ASC) in Nashville, Tennessee. Alongside board members, staff and community leaders and volunteers, ASC is implementing a multi-year transformation to become a premiere hands-on science and innovation center.
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  • ChangeMakers: Grace Askew - the creative process

    • Wednesday, November 21, 2018
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    Grace Askew is an incessant songwriter. Each and every day of 2018 she has written a new song and performed it live for her fans on Facebook and Instagram. She maintains this practice while touring, collaborating on projects with Wrangler and Stetson in New Mexico, developing new sounds, and recordi
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  • ChangeMakers: Carol Coletta

    • Tuesday, October 30, 2018
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    Reimagining the civic commons through civic assets as community connectors
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  • ChangeMakers: Kurt Heinecke

    • Friday, September 28, 2018
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    Kurt Heinecke is best known as the Music Director for Big Idea Entertainment and their ground-breaking video series' “VeggieTales" and "3-2-1 Penguins”.
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  • ChangeMakers: Cameron Brown

    • Wednesday, August 08, 2018
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    Cameron Brown speaks to audiences around the world on how to thrive in an ever changing world. He worked with more than 80 strangers from 40 countries around the world in the lead up to the event (all through digital technology), creating an animated split screen music video.
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  • ChangeMakers: Joann Massey - Championing Equity & Diversity

    • Friday, July 13, 2018
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    Joann Massey is an experienced economic development and business consulting professional, leading equity and diversity efforts for the City of Memphis.
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  • ChangeMakers: Julie-Karel (JK) Elkin

    • Wednesday, June 20, 2018
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    Julie-Karel (JK) Elkin is a veteran in the legal industry with a proven track record of providing practical legal counsel to small and mid-size businesses and helping healthcare professionals and practice managers secure their office operations including regulatory compliance with HIPAA and HITECH.
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  • ChangeMakers: Dr. John Feather, Grantmakers in Aging

    • Wednesday, May 30, 2018
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    John Feather, PhD, is Chief Executive Officer of Grantmakers In Aging, the national society of grantmaking foundations and other organizations that work to improve the lives of older people.
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  • ChangeMakers: Jason Duncan

    • Wednesday, April 25, 2018
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    After founding Energy Lighting Services in 2010 in Nashville, CEO Jason Duncan and his team have completed four of the world's largest LED retrofits. The commercial lighting company has saved companies like Saint Thomas Hospitals, Gap stores and Adventure Science Center up to 33 percent on their ele
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  • ChangeMakers: Josh McManus

    • Monday, April 02, 2018
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    Josh McManus is a problem-solver working in post-industrial cities with entrepreneurs, corporations, and foundations to help people positively transform the places that they love.
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  • ChangeMakers: Rob Hughes

    • Thursday, March 15, 2018
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    As Porter-Leath’s vice president of development, Rob Hughes has many responsibilities, ranging from planning the annual Rajun Cajun Crawfish Festival to driving Toy Truck donations and assisting in a capital campaign for the organization’s Early Childhood Academy.
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  • ChangeMakers: Linda C. Hartley and Vivien Hoexter

    • Monday, February 12, 2018
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    H2Growth Strategies LLC, founded by Linda C. Hartley and Vivien Hoexter, advises executive staff and board members to improve performance, build leadership, and increase revenues for sustainable growth and impact. Working with mission-driven clients, H2Growth leverages its expertise and talents to c
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  • ChangeMakers: Michelle Gielan

    • Monday, January 08, 2018
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    Michelle Gielan, national CBS News anchor turned positive psychology researcher, is the best-selling author of Broadcasting Happiness.
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  • ChangeMakers: Carla Javits

    • Friday, December 08, 2017
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    Carla Javits is President and CEO of REDF (The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund), a pioneering venture philanthropy galvanizing a national movement of social enterprises—purpose-driven, revenue-generating businesses that help people striving to overcome employment barriers get good jobs, keep tho
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  • ChangeMakers: Sgt. Len Edwards

    • Friday, November 17, 2017
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    There is more than one way for a child to come up missing, at least in the eyes of Ret. Memphis Police Sgt. Len Edwards. As executive director of Memphis-based Commission on Missing and Exploited Children (COMEC), he works not only with parents to find children who go missing physically, but also ch
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  • ChangeMakers: Moira Forbes

    • Thursday, October 26, 2017
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    Moira Forbes is the President and Publisher of ForbesWoman, a multi-media platform dedicated to successful women in business and leadership.
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  • ChangeMakers: Nick & Giles English of Bremont

    • Sunday, October 01, 2017
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    Life for Nick & Giles English changed significantly one clear day in March 1995. This accident turned into an ah-ha moment for the two brothers to use their dad's passion to engineer and craft the world's most beautiful watches and do good.
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  • ChangeMakers: Jason Little

    • Friday, September 15, 2017
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    In June 2014, Jason Little became only the fifth person since 1912 to serve as Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation's president and CEO.
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  • ChangeMakers: Dorothy Gunther Pugh

    • Monday, August 07, 2017
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    Dorothy Gunther Pugh is the CEO and Founding Artistic Director of Ballet Memphis, which she founded in 1986 with two dancers and a budget of $75,000. Today, the Company has 25 dancers, a budget of more than $4.4 million, and is opening a new multi-million dollar administrative and studio space in th
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  • ChangeMakers: Ephie Johnson

    • Monday, July 10, 2017
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    Ephie has a heart for the Memphis community, she is committed to the plight of the elimination of poverty through her service at NCC.
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  • ChangeMakers: Dr. Justin Lawhead

    • Tuesday, June 13, 2017
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    Dr. Justin Lawhead is the Dean of Students at The University of Memphis. A Pittsburgh native, Dr. Lawhead's twenty year higher education experience is across five institutions across the nation and is on a mission to create an integrity based class of young professionals who support innovate change
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  • ChangeMakers: Sally Heinz

    • Wednesday, May 17, 2017
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    Sally Heinz came to MIFA in 2007 as Vice President of Development. In February of 2011, she became executive director, only the sixth person to hold that position in MIFA’s 43-year history. In 2016, her title was changed to President & CEO.
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  • ChangeMakers: Mauricio Calvo

    • Thursday, April 20, 2017
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    Mauricio Calvo serves as the Executive Director of Latino Memphis but his story begins in the bustling Mexico City, Mexico where he grew up among the 25 million residents who also call Mexico City home.
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  • ChangeMakers: Kayla Rodriguez Graff and Isaac Rodriguez

    • Tuesday, April 04, 2017
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    Kayla Rodriguez Graff and Isaac Rodriguez are Co-Founders of SweetBio, a Memphis-based medical device startup that will revolutionize healing because the world deserves to smile. Learn more about who they are as young professionals and entrepreneurs in our community.
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  • ChangeMakers: Ned Canty

    • Friday, March 10, 2017
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    Ned Canty is the General Director at Opera Memphis and has over 20 years of experience as an opera stage director.
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  • ChangeMakers: Cynthia Daniels

    • Thursday, February 09, 2017
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    There are few people who can match the drive and enthusiasm for social and community organizing that Cynthia Daniels has.
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  • ChangeMakers: Dr. John Smarrelli Jr.

    • Friday, January 20, 2017
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    Dr. John Smarrelli Jr. is the 22nd President of Christian Brothers University and its first permanent lay president. Over the past 25 years, he has served in senior administrative positions at Loyola University in Chicago, IL and Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY.
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  • ChangeMakers: Johnny Pitts

    • Friday, December 09, 2016
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    Johnny Pitts is Co-CEO of Lipscomb & Pitts Insurance, Founder of cityCURRENT, and community philanthropist.
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  • ChangeMakers: Dr. Manny Ohonme

    • Friday, October 21, 2016
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    Over 30 years ago, on a hot summer afternoon in Lagos, Nigeria, a missionary from Wisconsin approached a young African boy and invited him to enter a contest where the prize was a pair of shoes. That day, Dr. Manny Ohonme's life trajectory was forever changed.
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  • ChangeMakers: Reggie Davis

    • Friday, September 09, 2016
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    Reggie Davis is the Executive Director of Streets Ministries. On this ChangeMakers episode, Reggie shares the importance of his faith, racial justice, the world and unconscious biases, and how we need to collaborate to move our city.
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  • ChangeMakers: Jenny Koltnow

    • Friday, July 22, 2016
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    Jenny Koltnow is the Director of Communications and Community Relations and Customer Satisfaction for AutoZone, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. She manages everything from internal stakeholder engagement, to government relations, to corporate social responsibility.
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  • ChangeMakers: Bill Courtney

    • Wednesday, June 29, 2016
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    Business Owner, Author, Philanthropist, and Football Coach,as seen in the Oscar-winning documentary, Undefeated.
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  • ChangeMakers: Dr. Sarah Petschonek

    • Wednesday, June 29, 2016
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    Dr. Sarah Petschonek is founder and CEO of Volunteer Odyssey.
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  • ChangeMakers: Stacy McCall

    • Monday, May 23, 2016
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    Believing in the importance of the “two Cs” – culture and communication – Stacy, President & CEO of ServiceMaster by Stratos, has developed a strong internal culture at ServiceMaster by Stratos through open communication channels based on core values like integrity, accountability and respect.
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  • ChangeMakers: Daphne Large

    • Thursday, April 21, 2016
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    Daphne Large is President and CEO of the Memphis based Data Facts, which provides trusted information to make sound hiring, lending and other business decisions.
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  • ChangeMakers: Marlon Foster

    • Tuesday, April 05, 2016
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    Reverend Marlon Foster is the founder and executive director of Knowledge Quest, a Memphis nonprofit that equips youth to maximize their potential through intellectual and character development.
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  • ChangeMakers: Michael Drake

    • Saturday, February 20, 2016
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    Michael Drake is the founder, chairman and CEO of masterIT. As a native Memphian, Michael reflects on his roots, what he learned as a young professional, and his mission of inspiring young professionals, providing opportunity to those who need it most, and shining a light on mental health.
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