by SharonSpeaks | Feb 20, 2019 | Podcast
How does personal finance relate to doing good and being good? Inspired by an episode of Afford Anything by Paula Pant, Sharon shares her own experiences with saving money and using her financial independence to take a service-driven road trip. She also proposes a few...
by SharonSpeaks | Apr 11, 2018 | Podcast
Joseph Williams is back! In Season Two Episode One we learned about his time in AmeriCorps, now we hear the rest of the story. Joseph also worked at a wet shelter for people who are homeless in Flagstaff Arizona as well as working for the Southern Poverty Law Center...
by SharonSpeaks | Mar 21, 2018 | Podcast
Our host, Sharon Tewksbury-Bloom is on the other side of the microphone this week as the guest, while Gina Byars steps into the interviewer chair. Hear about Sharon’s view on why she serves and why she started this podcast as well as a story from her own term...
by SharonSpeaks | Mar 14, 2018 | Podcast
In running an AmeriCorps program for 15 years, Deidre Crawley faced many challenges, the greatest of which was a drastic cut to AmeriCorps programs in 2009. Deidre shares how they came through that difficult period as well as lessons in young adults supervising other...
by SharonSpeaks | Mar 7, 2018 | Podcast
While earning a Masters of Sustainable Communities, Michael Chizhov served in AmeriCorps at Grand Canyon Trust. He enjoyed the challenge of bringing theories into his work with conservation on the Colorado Plateau. Michael is originally from Ukraine and moved to New...
