Episode 55: Tanvi’s Story: Birthday Parties for Children Who Are Homeless – No Birthday Left Behind
17-year-old Tanvi Barman is an incredible young woman who founded No Birthday Left Behind, an organization that throws birthday parties for children in homeless shelters. Tanvi joins the 1 Girl Revolution podcast to share her own life story, how her volunteerism at a homeless shelter as a child opened her eyes, and how No Birthday Left Behind came to be.
Episode 50: Jess’ Story: Headbands for Children Battling Cancer and Chasing the Brightside
Jess Ekstrom founded “Headbands of Hope”, a headband company that donates a headband to a child battling cancer for every headband bought, when she was in college. Headbands of Hope has continued to grow and evolve throughout the years, and has donated over 400,000 headbands to date. Jess is also a speaker, mentor, and author of the new book, “Chasing the Brightside.” Listen to this great and beautifully bright episode of the 1 Girl Revolution podcast!
Episode 41: Susan’s Story: Building Community and Love Around Children in the Foster Care System
Susan Ramirez, founder of Austin Angels – an organization that walks alongside children in the foster care system, as well as their caretakers – joins the 1 Girl Revolution podcast to share her story, the story of how Austin Angels came to be and the beautiful work that they do, and so much more.
Episode 38: Anne’s Story: From Simply Surviving to Auntie Anne’s Pretzels, Finding Your Purpose and Thriving
Anne Beiler, founder of Auntie Anne’s Pretzels, joins the 1 Girl Revolution podcast to share her inspiring story of brokenness, loss, courage, confession, innovation, creativity, triumph, and love. Listen to this episode of the 1GR podcast to hear the story behind Auntie Anne’s pretzels and the story that empowered this woman and made her become the 1 Girl Revolution that she is today!
Episode 33: Laura’s Story: Advocating for People with Dyslexia and Decoding It
Laura co-founded Decoding Dyslexia Maryland after her daughter was diagnosed with dyslexia. Laura joins the 1GR podcast to share her own personal journey with dyslexia, her daughter’s dyslexia and how she advocated for her, and now how she’s helping other parents and individuals educate the public and advocate for people with dyslexia.
Lily’s Story: Making Coloring Books for Kids in Hospitals
Lily Hake is the creator of The Lilypad Project, which makes coloring books and delivers the coloring books and crayons to kids in hospitals. Lily is 5-years-old and started the Lilypad Project to make sure that every kid in the hospital felt loved and had something to do.
Erica’s Story: Protecting Our Children from Child Abuse
Erica Hammel’s son Wyatt is a survivor of Shaken Baby Syndrome, and since her son was abused, she has dedicated her life to raising awareness about child abuse and working to pass “Wyatt’s Law” in Michigan and other states, which would created a registry of convicted child abusers. Child abuse is reported every 10 seconds and 5 children die a day from abuse in our nation. It’s about time we did something about it and this 1 Girl Revolution is leading the charge with Wyatt’s Law.
Bassie’s Story: Building Friendships, Serving People with Disabilities, and Finding Purpose
Bassie Shemtov is the co-founder of Friendship Circle, which builds friendships between teenagers and people with disabilities, builds community, and provides people with special needs and their families with recreational, social, educational and vocational programming, and more.