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Linda Hollander

Episode 25: Don’t Be Retired -- Be Refired, with Linda Hollander

Linda Hollander is often referred to as the Wealthy Bag Lady. She has been featured by Inc. and Entrepreneur Magazines as the industry leader in corporate sponsorship. She has over 20-years of experience as a business owner and does sponsorship and business consulting. Her clients and sponsors include Microsoft, FedEx, Citibank, Mattel, Bank of America, Marriott, Health Net, American Airlines, IBM, and Wal-Mart.

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Kelly Roach

Episode 24: Make the Decisions that are Right for YOU, with Kelly Roach

Kelly Roach is the host of the top rated podcast Unstoppable Success Radio, an International best-selling author, and the CEO of Kelly Roach Coaching.

As a former NFL Cheerleader and Fortune 500 Executive where she was promoted 7 times in 8 years, Kelly brings a powerful combination of proven and profitable business growth strategies coupled with the mindset, wellness and productivity practices required to help entrepreneurs build a profitable business around a life they absolutely love.

Kelly's passion and purpose is in helping entrepreneurs around the world achieve exponential profit, sales and income growth.

Kelly is on a mission to help 1 million people become financially free through her RESULTS coaching but also founded Campaign For Humanity, a charity initiative to support our global family with things such as clean drinking water, help for veterans, and food for those in need. You can check out Kellys philanthropy work and donate at www.kellyroachcoaching.com/givingback.

Kelly runs business coaching programs, mastermind groups, online courses and does private consulting with individuals and organizations.

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Dr. Cynthia West

Episode 23: Improving Life with Functional Medicine, with Dr. Cynthia West

After spending most of her life in western PA, Dr. West relocated to central PA in 2015. Her education, medical training and professional career have taken Dr. West from Erie where she obtained her undergraduate degree at Gannon Univ to Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine in Philadelphia where she received her MD. Dr. West completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh and fellowship training in Nephrology at the Univ of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Following completion of training, Dr. West remained in the Pittsburgh area to practice Nephrology. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology and was the medical director of a dialysis clinic in Washington, PA.

Several years ago, Dr. West discovered a passion for the philosophy and practice of functional medicine as a means to prevent chronic disease. Dr. West believes her experience in treating chronic conditions combined with a functional medicine approach provides her with a unique capability and perspective on what believes to be the medicine of the future. Dr. West feels strongly that education is fundamental to prevention and greatly enjoys her role of teacher-doctor.

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Kelly Hatfield

Episode 22: Fake It Until You Make It, with Kelly Hatfield

Kelly Hatfield is co-founder of Enginuity Advantage, Advantage Staffing Group, Enginuity Virtual Recruiter and Impact Real Estate Real Estate Group based in Everett, Washington. She has been in the recruiting and HR field for over 20-years and loves serving others. Kelly and her business partner have built three successful companies with the purpose of helping others succeed and delivering remarkable results. Kelly and her team strategically align themselves as The Partner of Choice with clients and strive to be the first place clients call when they are looking for extraordinary service, quality, and reliability. The resulting outcome has been an outstanding referral network that has built and continues to build their companies.

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Karen Arscott

Episode 21: Don’t Wallow in Gloominess, with Karen E. Arscott, D.O., M.Sc.

Karen Arscott graduated from The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and is Board Certified in Neuromuscular Medicine. Dr. Arscott had a private practice in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. From February 2004 through September 2012, she held the position of Program Director for the Physician Assistant Program at Marywood University. Since 2008 she has been a leader with the Northeast/Central Pennsylvania Interprofessional Education Coalition. Serving as Scranton Regional director and since 2014 as Chair of the coalition. In October 2012 Dr. Arscott was appointed to a full-time position as Associate Professor in Medicine at The Commonwealth Medical College (TCMC).

She has presented nationally and internationally on interprofessional education in addition to scholarly publications in medical education. In addition to her position at TCMC Dr. Arscott taught the Addiction and the Family segment for the Student Assistance Program in Lackawanna and Wayne counties for 5 years. From 2005 until 2010 she organized and ran Parent Forums in Abington Heights to help families touched by addiction. She is a delegate to the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association and is a Pennsylvania delegate to the American Osteopathic Association House of Delegates.

Dr. Arscott has been named a Patient Representative on the FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee; she has spoken on behalf of cancer patients to The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at The Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C., as well as at the Radiologic Society of North America conference. Dr. Arscott is a member of the Integration Panel for the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program Lung Cancer Research Program. She was a member of the Meals on Wheels of NEPA Board of Directors (6 years - serving as Chair, Vice-Chair, and Secretary), is co-chair of the PA Lung a division of Lung Cancer Alliance, was added to the Medical and Professional Board of Lung Cancer Alliance, was named Northeast Woman in June 2008, and received the Marywood Alumni Award for Excellence in Health and Human Services in June 2011.

In 2015 the students at TCMC nominated and voted her the recipient of the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Faculty Award and she was inducted into the The Arnold P. Gold Foundation. She honored with the TCMC S.T.A.R. award in June 2016. Dr. Arscott resides in Waverly with her husband, James T. Arscott, D.O. and granddaughter Sophia.

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Robin Koval

Episode 20: You Don’t Retire -- You Rewire, with Robin Koval

Robin Koval is the CEO and President of Truth Initiative, the national public health organization dedicated to achieving a culture where all youth and young adults reject tobacco.

A leader in the world of advertising and marketing, and a New York Times best-selling author, Koval joined the organization in 2013. She re-launched its award-winning and life-saving truth® youth tobacco prevention campaign and refocused its world-class research and activism programs to speak, seek and spread the truth about tobacco. The truth campaign has been voted one of the most influential campaigns of the 21st century and has been named a 2015 most effective brand of the year, best PR campaign of the year, along with numerous other awards. More importantly, with the help of the truth campaign youth cigarette smoking rates have declined from 23% in 2000 to an all-time low in 2015 of 7%!

Koval has deep roots in advertising and marketing. A co-founder and CEO of the Kaplan Thaler Group, she grew that company from a fledgling start-up in 1997 to a billion-dollar agency working with Procter & Gamble, Pfizer, Aflac and other cherished brands. She led the agency's integration with Publicis and was named CEO of the 700-person agency, Publicis Kaplan Thaler, which she led prior to joining Truth Initiative.

She and Linda Kaplan Thaler are co-authors of several best-selling books. Their most recent book is Grit to Great: How Perseverance, Passion and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary.

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Michele Stuart

Episode 19: When Are You the Most Creative?, with Michele Stuart

Michele S. Stuart, PMP, has performed management improvement, cost reduction, systems and statistical analysis for over 35 years. With a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Virginia Tech, Michele has an extensive background in project management, business process re-engineering, productivity and methods improvement, workspace/warehouse layout and redesign, inventory control, and staffing, scheduling and routing improvement.

She is President and founder of Efficiency Engineers, a consulting firm specializing in Business Optimization through Industrial Engineering and Information Technology formed in 1994.

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Carrie Hartunian Smith

Episode 18: There Are Season in Every Aspect of Life, with Carrie Hartunian Smith

Carrie Hartunian works with business owners and entrepreneurs to develop accelerated growth strategies in highly competitive industries. She creates and executes strategic growth plans, directing integrations and marketing automation, as well as manages projects and establishes benchmarks for success. Her expertise in fostering winning cultures, increased productivity, and reducing costs in mission-driven environments are just a few of her recognized talents as a talented and accomplished leader.

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Dr. Eliza Chin [Part 2]

Episode 17: Be Patient with the Process, with Dr. Eliza Chin

Dr. Eliza Chin is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF. She has been actively involved in AMWA for over a decade, serving as President during AMWA’s 95th Anniversary Year. She has a particular interest in the history of women in medicine and the stories of women physicians during all stages of their careers. She is the author of, This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine. Working with and collaborating with women physicians leaders is her passion and she is honored to be AMWA’s Executive Director, to serve the organization that has provided her with so much support. Dr. Chin is a graduate of UC Berkeley, Harvard Medical School, and Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health. She was Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia for many years before relocating to California where she continues to teach medical students and practice medicine part-time.

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Dr. Eliza Chin [Part 1]

Episode 16: Balancing Career and Family, with Dr. Eliza Chin

Dr. Eliza Chin is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF. She has been actively involved in AMWA for over a decade, serving as President during AMWA’s 95th Anniversary Year. She has a particular interest in the history of women in medicine and the stories of women physicians during all stages of their careers. She is the author of, This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine. Working with and collaborating with women physicians leaders is her passion and she is honored to be AMWA’s Executive Director, to serve the organization that has provided her with so much support. Dr. Chin is a graduate of UC Berkeley, Harvard Medical School, and Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health. She was Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia for many years before relocating to California where she continues to teach medical students and practice medicine part-time.

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