by Karen Creamer | Jan 1, 2019 | The BRAVE Interview Series
Here is this month’s BRAVE Interview with Amy Irvine!
1. WHO are you? By trade, I’m a financial planner. I use the term “planner” and not advisor because I think there is massive confusion around that title.
I grew up without wealth, but in a family with a strong work ethic.
The women in my family were amazingly ahead of their time. They had strong personalities. My great-grandmother and I were very close from birth. Perhaps that is because I shared her name and because I spent so much time with her. Her middle name was Grace, and she represented it in so many ways. She reminded me that I could do anything and neither my gender nor my economic status was never to be used as a limitation. I fell into my profession at 22. I was looking for something that would use my accounting degree, but didn’t know what that was and I was lucky enough to be hired by a small trust department. I am also a wife, a daughter, a volunteer and, hopefully, a trusted friend. This is my most important role, although right now the business I started in 2015 is “hogging” me. Keep reading
by Karen Creamer | Dec 1, 2018 | The BRAVE Interview Series, The BRAVE Interviews
Please enjoy this month’s BRAVE Interview with Jessica Michaud! Keep reading
by Karen Creamer | Nov 2, 2018 | The BRAVE Interview Series, The BRAVE Interviews
Please enjoy this month’s BRAVE Interview with Senator Susan Collins!
Public service is in my DNA.
Five generations of the Collins family have served in the Maine State Legislature. Both of my parents served as mayor of my hometown of Caribou. My father, a decorated World War II veteran, also served one term in the Maine House and four terms in the state Senate, and my mother has served on countless boards and commissions, always rising to leadership positions.
I had great role models at home who always taught me that I did not have the right to complain if I sat on the sidelines and did not get involved.
One specific experience that led me to follow in their footsteps occurred when I was a senior in high school and was chosen to participate in the U.S. Senate Youth Program. The highlight of my trip to Washington was meeting Maine’s Senator Margaret Chase Smith – the first woman elected to both the House and the Senate, and the first woman to have her name entered into nomination for President by a major party. Her courageous “Declaration of Conscience” speech took a stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy. Her integrity, determination, and bravery continue to inspire me today. Keep reading
by Karen Creamer | Jul 2, 2018 | The BRAVE Interview Series, The BRAVE Interviews
Please enjoy this month’s BRAVE Interview with Jane VanVooren Rogers!
Thanks to Karen Creamer for inviting me to participate in the Brave interview series!
I’m Jane VanVooren Rogers, writer, editor, and speaker. I have a poetry chapbook, “How to Avoid Being and other paths to Triumph,” and I’ve written hundreds of print and online articles in the last 20 years.
I’ve edited novels, memoirs, and personal growth books, helping clients polish their words before they release them into the world. I’m really enjoying helping people do that, and I’d love to follow in their steps and release more of my words into the world through nonfiction books and poetry. Keep reading
by Karen Creamer | Jun 1, 2018 | Being BRAVE, Catching women being brave, The BRAVE Interview Series, The BRAVE Interviews
Welcome to this month’s BRAVE Interview with Jane Fecteau!
WHO are you? Hi! My name is Jane Fecteau. I am a medical intuitive, energy healer and I specialize in helping people with chronic pain and chronic illness conditions using energy healing methods. Over the years, I have trained many practitioners in the same healing techniques that I use every day. These trademark techniques help my clients attain greater levels of health and balance in all aspects of their lives; physical, emotional, spiritual and Life Path. Although I taught many practitioners with in person classes, I wondered how many more people I could help if I had an on-line school! From this perspective I could help anyone in the world, from across all stages and phases of life, who want to commit their lives to healing others. In my 19 years of practice I’ve established a client base in all 50 states and a sizable amount from all across the world. As I served more people, I realized I could do even more if I had a school.
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Karen Creamer
