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TrailBlazers Impact Interviews is a program to guide you along the path as you start a new business or face challenges in your life or need a minute to relax a bit and listen to a story. Some days you want an uplifting, happy story. Some days you just want to survive. You wonder if anyone has ever faced what you are going through. Many of them - of us - have faced major obstacles and somehow have come out the other side on that issue. But we all still struggle every day. By sharing our experiences, we can bond together in a tribe that supports each other. By reaching out our hand to the next person and saying, "I'm here. I'll listen," we know we are OK because we are together.  

In TrailBlazers Impact Interviews, women and men share their secrets to success - and their heartaches -  in extraordinary stories. And some had very rough beginnings - but made it anyway. These stories touch your heart and soul and make you realize it is possible to prevail even in the face of gender bias and/or racial discrimination and to blaze your own trail when there is no clear path ahead. If they can do it, so can you . . . by following their light . . . and then creating a light for the person behind you. 

 If you are over 50 and want to pivot from a career or retirement to start a business, watch our new series, Pivot to SOAR, and look for my "how-to" book coming out soon! 

Do you know we also have a YouTube Channel? It's TrailBlazers Impact Interviews. You will see the full write-up and extra episodes that are not on YouTube on our website https://TrailBlazersImpact.com. Join us! 

Contact Nan at nan@nanmckayconnects.com. I would love to hear what you like about our podcast! Please write comments and SUBSCRIBE and FOLLOW US so we can stay together! 

May 29, 2020

Renowned for her financial advice to women, Jean Chatzky has spent most of her career writing for financial magazines and offering her business knowledge in the media. She has authored 11 books, produces podcasts and is a motivational speaker. Hear about her journey from the Midwest to her successful life on the...


May 22, 2020

Coping well with adversity is a learned skill. People need to not let emotions get carried away and gives several examples of people with adversities and how they have moved through it. Grieving is a lifetime event but Eileen Lenson helps people find a way to not let it destroy them and find purpose in the loss...


May 15, 2020

Andrea Campbell survived cancer not once, but twice. While such an experience could drive many to despair by fighting through the ordeal twice, she ultimately came to a place of catharsis, healing, and purpose.

The ordeal presented Campbell with stark choices about what to do. She felt she had been playing things too...


May 9, 2020

In this interview, Virginia W. Harris, National President, National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc., with 60 chapters and thousands of members nationwide, shares reflections of her start as a servant-leader that, more likely than not, was planted as a seed when she found herself as one of only three Black girls...


May 3, 2020

Emily Josenhans wants to help people ditch the artificial sweeteners. She started Domaine Santa Grape Nectar to give a healthier and more holistic alternative that adds a natural sweetener to food and beverages.

Building a healthy product is informed by her work as a nutritionist, where she helped clients make healthier...