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Meet Lisa Rubin and Katie Harms. They share a love of closets and the stuff in them. Lisa is a professional wardrobe consultant who has worked with hundreds of C-Suite clients to help them build their personal brand. Katie is a living spaces specialist who helps her clients find zen where they live. They join together to share stories and strategies for how you approach your day, your career & your life.
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Monday May 08, 2023
Monday May 08, 2023
When you walk into yum! Kitchen and Bakery, and you see the menu, there are so many different selections that depending on what your palate wants for the day, you can find something. Patti Soskin opened yum! Kitchen and Bakery 18 years ago, now operating three locations in the Twin Cities, with her husband, Robbie. Patti has been in the restaurant business for her entire career. yum! is first and foremost a family and community restaurant. You are a guest in her restaurants, not a customer - as if you’re a guest in her home.
This episode will leave you hungry for yum!: we learn how the business got started, how a passion turned business remains a passion, how the menu is curated and maintained, how they survived COVID, and just how to maintain a family-like business. Patti says she sells happiness and we can attest to this personally. Happiness is truly in her DNA: she loves loving people and it is so apparent in every way. Don’t miss the 4th location coming to Woodbury, MN summer 2023 and The Patti Wagon.
Our favorite yum! treats: Patti Cake & Coconut Cake
Our Non-Profit Spotlight is Open Arms St. Paul
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Katie Harms @katie@katieharms.com, www.katieharms.com or Lisa Rubin @ lisa@wardrobeconsulting.net, www.wardrobeconsulting.net .
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Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
Allyson Fanger is best known for her costume design work on the popular Netflix series, “Grace and Frankie,” and recent work with "Shrinking" on Apple TV, "80 for Brady" of Paramount Pictures and "Act Your Age" on Bounce TV/MGM. Born and raised in Minnesota, Allyson’s career as a costume designer was innate but developed over time, patience, and truly putting the work in from the ground up. This episode is full of fun: have you ever wondered where or how the clothes come together for a movie set or TV series? Allyson answers these questions and so much more. We learn just how integral Allyson’s role is in curating the various characters of a media piece: from reading a script, to assessing the actor filling the character role, to where she shops for the characters. We learn about her methods for putting together the message a character is trying to convey to the audience just as we as people are when we present ourselves out to the world. Allyson has mastered telling a story through clothing even down to details. She has been credited with bringing the notion as well as the visual psychology of truly ageless style into mainstream media, and that couldn’t be more apparent in our conversation with her! By the end of this episode, you will have learned that the only way to present your best self, is to be your best self - and she will provide some tools to do just that!
Learn more at theviewinyourmirror.com/allysonfanger.
Our Non-Profit Spotlight is Lady Freethinker.
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Katie Harms @katie@katieharms.com, www.katieharms.com or Lisa Rubin @ lisa@wardrobeconsulting.net, www.wardrobeconsulting.net .
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Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Allison (Ali) Kaplan is a self proclaimed career side hustler, and that she is! With a “day job” in writing and journalism as Vice President of content for MSP Communications’ Cities Media Group, which includes Twin Cities Business Magazine, where she also serves as Editor in Chief and MplsSt.Paul Magazine, to her “hustle” as Founder of Mother Of, we are so excited to share her story, energy, and insight into the retail industry and all things business journalism.
In this episode, we begin by talking about all things “Mother Of,” the go-to dress resource for mothers of the bride and groom. Whether you are that of the bride or groom, you too deserve to feel and look your best. Her business was designed to curate that list and access to dresses, cutting through the clutter, to find what works for you. We talk about how the business blossomed, functions, and serves the greater community at large. We discuss the woes of the fashion industry and how to curate your best wardrobe.
At heart, Ali truly is a writer, an editor, a speaker and a storyteller who takes an entrepreneurial approach to journalism—from the creation of her own Ali Shops in the “dark ages” before Instagram to the more recent development of TCB’s StartMN magazine focused on entrepreneurship, weekly radio show Shop Girls on myTalk107.1 co-hosted with her mom, and a TCB podcast about business leadership and innovation called By All Means. This episode takes you on the journey of how Ali became who she is in the business world and provides ways you too can lean on her insight and resources.
Our Non-Profit Spotlight is Neighborhood Development Center
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Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
As CEO of the Women Presidents Organization (WPO), Camille Burns champions the WPO’s vision to help a diverse and dynamic community of global women entrepreneurs to come together to work on their businesses, taking them to the next level, and creating a community of successful female entrepreneurs. At 44 years-old and twenty-three years into her career at WPO, Camille has not only grown individually, but has witnessed and curated a safe space for female entrepreneurs to grow together from 200 members to over 2000 members worldwide. In this episode, we explore what it really means to be women entrepreneurs. We discuss Adult Learning Theory, and how using this model forges success within a work space and community. Camille shares how entrepreneurship has changed over the years and how multi generational learning can truly bring greater success to a business and relationships. This episode opens by sharing the stories of how co-hosts, Lisa Rubin and Katie Harms created their respective businesses and closes touching on the pieces of Camille’s day that allow her to find her energy for a demanding work-life-balance and how she organizes her spaces living in NYC. This is an episode to celebrate and empower women everywhere.
Our Non-Profit Spotlight is Unicef
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Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Building on more than 30 years of experience as a board certified Internal Medicine physician, business executive, mother, and on-air medical correspondent, Dr. Archelle Georgiou brings a multi-dimensional, data-driven approach to understanding and taking action in your own health. In this podcast, we discuss aging not a disease we need to cure or a process we need to change, but aging as a part of life. We discuss ageism and how to not only overcome it, but celebrate it.
One of the biggest takeaways from this episode is Archelle’s book Health Care Choices: 5 Steps to Getting the Medical Care You Want and Need. This book teaches readers how to use her CARES™ Model, a five-step approach to making medical choices that are both evidence-based and aligned with personal preferences. Clinically trained professionals are experts in diagnosis and treatment. An individual is an expert in his/her/oneself. You need both the expertise of the clinician and that of yourself to come up with the best treatment plan and best outcome FOR YOU. This is a book for every age group, religion, race, and gender. As we learn in this episode, you need to learn this process when there is no urgency or life-threatening circumstance so that when those situations arise, it is second nature.
We finish the episode discussing ways Archelle prepares herself for the various audiences she speaks to: board rooms, students, media personnel, TV watchers, clinicians, etc. This is an episode everyone should listen to or re-listen to with notes on your phone or paper and pencil. You are your own best advocate and the only one who truly knows what you want out of life.
Learn more about or connect with Archelle Georgiou: Here
Buy her book: Here
Our Non-Profit Spotlight is CaringBridge.
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Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
Alexa Curtis is a speaker, podcaster, blogger, influencer who has been impacting the the lives of teens and young adults since she was 12 years old. What started as a fashion blog, in 2011, turned into a platform whereby she could discuss real issues around social media and growing up. She has done more in her 25 years than most have done in their entire careers. Not only did Curtis turn her little fashion blog into a full-time lifestyle platform for teens, through cold-pitching, but she held a show on Radio Disney AND in 2018, founded the Be Fearless Summit. This concept was later acquired by GrasshoppHer: a career road mapping platform with a membership model and reinvented career fairs available to women everywhere. She is an old soul with unbelievable positivity and fearlessness. We cannot wait share her energy, inspiration, and drive with all of you. We cannot wait to see what she is going to do next.
Connect with Alexa Curtis: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | GrasshoppHer | Life Unfiltered
Our Non-Profit Spotlight is Innocence Project.
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Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Judy Wert, a graduate of the University of Michigan, has been working with the leadership of innovative companies for over 25 years. Her career started in Chicago, in 1983, as a young graphic designer. Through the process of publishing a children’s book, Judy fell in love and moved from Chicago to Los Angeles to Israel, and settled in New York where she became a recruiter. It was through this journey that she found her voice, purpose, and true superpower: connecting with people. This is where Wert & Co was born: a firm that perfectly intertwines people, connection, leadership, and design. Judy has earned an international reputation as a pivotal force in executive search and has built partnerships that have shaped––and even reinvented––lives, businesses, and industries.
In this episode, you will learn just how multi-dimensional and non-transactional a career search, change, or path should be. We discuss the various chapters or stages of your professional career and how each one truly serves a different purpose both personally and professionally. We share tips and tricks on organization and keepsakes, and share the deep love of parenthood. The episode closes with some powerful words and advice from Judy on how to truly keep that view in your mirror a positive, purposeful, and humbling one.
Our Non-Profit Spotlight is Save The Children. Save The Children works in over 100 countries, doing whatever it takes — every day and in times of crisis — to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm.
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Connect with Katie Harms @katie@katieharms.com, www.katieharms.com or Lisa Rubin @ lisa@wardrobeconsulting.net, www.wardrobeconsulting.net .
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Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Did you know that from a revenue standpoint, the translating and interpreting industry is larger than the global music industry? It didn’t take long for Ingrid Christensen to fall in love with the profession of interpreting. From babies being born to people taking their last breath, she was present for some of the most profound moments in people’s lives. One job posting as a “scheduler” for a translating company led to a career in entrepreneurship, building INGCO International: a company whose mission is to provide a voice to the voiceless. Seventeen years into her business, INGCO provides services in translation and interpretation globally in over 200 languages.
Twenty-five years into her career, Ingrid still loves the art, job and profession of translation. So, in early 2023, she will be releasing her first book, The Language of Trust: The Art of Cultivating Leadership. Watch for it! Ingrid takes a deep dive into the crucial ingredient that makes businesses, cross-cultural communications, and human relationships tick: trust.
In this episode, we discuss just that. Have you ever thought how many languages have to be translated in order to get a banana picked from a tree into your local grocery store? We discuss the varying levels of trust, the importance of self trust and vulnerability, and how to live, embrace, and embody the best version of yourself every day. You will leave this episode inspired, educated, and ready to take on your world.
Learn more at INGCO International | Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter.
Our Non-Profit Spotlight is Fraser. A Minnesota based non-profit to provide s
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Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
This episode is a true tribute of thanks. Greg Hoyt, owner of Rustica Bakery, has believed in our mission from the beginning as our first and longest sponsor of The View in Your Mirror. An entrepreneur born and raised in Southern California and the islands of Hawaii, Greg has a story that is best told in a coffeehouse. This special episode was recorded, live, in house at Rustica Bakery Edina.
Originally a student of music, Greg’s career in entrepreneurship started in 1993 at Minnesota founded, Caribou Coffee, after learning that he had stage fright with music performance. It was through his experiences there that he was motivated and inspired to build something of his own as he watched Caribou build through a meaningful mission. In 2009, after a conversation over a baguette with the original Rustica Bakery owner, Steve, Greg joined the business to truly make Rustica the neighborhood craft bakery it is today. Greg opened the doors to specialty coffee and found a niche that became DOGWOOD coffee. In 2015, Greg became full owner.
Greg has expanded his passion for entrepreneurship in the food ecosystem space through his establishment Gather Venture Group. This investment fund provides resources for emerging food and beverage brands.
Though this podcast shares the story of our favorite local bakery and coffeehouse, it is so much deeper than that. This is an episode for all the emerging and established entrepreneurs, for the life-long learners, and for the individual who could use a reminder of how to look at failures as successes. This is truly a podcast for everyone. We are so thankful to Rustica and we wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving.
Our Non-Profit Spotlight is Bricks to Bread who help build brick ovens for Costa Rican families seeking a sustainable source of income, while bringing communities together.
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Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
We’ve known Pat Miles Zimmerman through our TVs for a long time. Pat was a revered part of the Twin Cities media landscape for more than a quarter of a century as former TV news anchor for WCCO-TV and KARE 11. Now, we share her with you as the best selling author for a new book, Before All Is Said and Done. This is a book we truly believe EVERYONE should own, read, listen to, and have in their home. Pat lost her husband Bucky Zimmerman to pancreatic cancer a few short months from the time the diagnosis was made. As Pat will tell you, she felt they were fully set for life, but quickly learned, they were not set for death.
Let’s be honest here: we all are fearful and/or uncomfortable talking about death, but the fact is, we all die. This episode is not morbid. This episode is not shared to create fear or sadness. Instead, it’s the opposite: this episode is to provide education, encouragement, support, and empowerment in this typically uncomfortable topic. It is shared to inspire all of you to be your own advocate and have your own voice before someone else has to speak for you. Listeners and future readers will appreciate this common sense guide to preparing for and dealing with one of life’s greatest challenges.
Our Non-Profit Spotlight is Brighter Days Grief Center
Learn more and buy Pat’s book (audio or physical copy) at: https://beforeallissaidanddone.com/
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