A Fresh Story

A Fresh Story, season 2, episode 12

Larry Sprung is the Founder and Wealth Advisor of Mitlin Financial, and an Award-Winning Wealth Advisor and Financial Literacy Advocate, the host of the Mitlin Money Mindset podcast, and most importantly a father, and husband.

We chatted with Larry about how he became an entrpreuner, how his brother-in-law’s suicide propelled him to help others, fatherhood, marriage, and his beautiful perspective on the relationship between money and joy.

You can follow Larry on Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. You can learn more about Mitlin Financial on their website, and check out Larry’s NEW book: Financial Planning Made Personal: How to Create Joy And The Mindset for Success. Listen to Larry’s podcast, Mitlin Money Mindset. Check out our co-founder Olivia on Mitlin Money Mindset!

The net proceeds of "Financial Planning Made Personal" are being donated to the Keith Milano Memorial Fund at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Rob is a marketing executive with over 15 years of experience helping small businesses, startups and large household brands market their products and services to the masses. Most recently as the head of marketing and partnerships for a tech startup called ShearShare where he helped triple their active user as well as their annual revenue. In addition to navigating a successful marketing career, Rob has spent the same number of years building award-winning teams across a number of industries from banking and financial services to franchised restaurants. Rob enjoys coaching talent and helping individuals develop goals to achieve their own personal success in business and in life.

We chatted with Rob about growing up between two worlds, what it was like being a Black student at a predominately white high school, how he found his way into marketing, parenting daughters, marriage, and how he ultimately found himself through all of the fresh starts in his life. It’s a powerful episode about race, masculinity, parenthood, and writing your own story in life.

You can find Rob on LinkedIn, and check out his delicious food account No One Asked Eats!

A Fresh Story, season 2, episode 16

Megan Bowen is a dancer, actor, entrepreneur, and content creator. She likes to provide her audience with a balance of comedic, relatable, and entertaining content while also sharing stories about her day-to-day life. As an entertainer, Megan creates captivating content through creative storytelling all while including her personality, style, humor, and artistry. Megan has a close relationship with her followers and they look to her as a guide to help them create a better, more confident, more fulfilled life within themselves.

We chatted with Megan about the power of movement and dance, her Fresh Start journey in New York City, and major career pivots during the pandemic. Ever the entrepreneur, Megan had to completely pivot her entire career in dance overnight and founded her company Dance from Home, a platform to take live and on-demand dance classes with Megan and move your body and soul. We love Megan’s authenticity and storytelling, as well as her sense of humor about herself and her journey. We chatted about becoming a dancer in New York City, and a sneak peek into the behind the scenes of auditioning and the dance industry. And, we especially love her wise words at the end of the episode about intuition.

You can follow Megan on Instagram and TikTok. Learn more about the Dance from Home program on the website, and Megan’s newest venture, The Dancer Body Club here. The Dancer Body Club is an Elite Membership for ex-dancers who grew up hating their body and want to form a new, healthy, and consistent relationship with working out & dance to achieve the results they want. The DBC is redefining what it means to have your ideal “dancer body”. We help dancers transform into confident people who can live boldly, love themselves from the inside out, and form habits to create sustainable results that last a lifetime through Megan's Method of strength, tone & dance-based cardio classes that will make you feel like a dancer again.

Don’t miss Megan’s new podcast, Megan’s Mantras, too!

A Fresh Story, season 2, episode 17

Susannah B (aka Susannah Blinkoff) is an accomplished singer-songwriter, screenwriter and actor. A Los Angeles resident for most of her adult life, Susannah grew up in Manhattan as the daughter of well-known Broadway composer/lyricist Carol Hall. From an early age, Susannah was acting off-Broadway and singing professionally in NYC clubs. She is currently writing a comedic musical TV series and, as a singer, Susannah B has performed at many clubs in L.A., She has also released six albums of her own pop songs as well as an album of retro jazz standards. Susannah B has a lifelong passion and dedication to philanthropy. She has been involved for many years with Peace4Kids and Kidsave, two organizations based in L.A. that support foster youth. Susannah B lives with her husband, two teenage kids and their fluffy dogs in a newly redesigned house in Los Angeles, where she's converted the garage into a performance space that she hopes to soon use for charity fundraiser shows.

We chatted with Susannah about the power of singing and how transformative it can be to get your voice in the world. She took us through all of her career pivots in the career industry, from acting to screenwriting, to music, to musicals, and always with the intention of community and uplifting people with the power of song. As a singer-songwriter, lyricist, and composer, Susannah believes in the power of harmonizing together and using music as a tool in therapy and wellness. We had a lovely conversation with Susannah about finding yourself through music and song. We appreciated Susannah’s devotion to creativity, philanthropy, and bringing people together to make the world a better place.

You can follow Susannah B on Instagram, her website, and Twitter. You can check out her library of music on Spotify, too.

A Fresh Story, season 2, episode 5

Sometimes people come into our lives and change the course of it forever - Emily Helck is one of those people. We chatted with Emily, the founder of The Lost Bookshop, about her many fresh starts in life - including supporting her partner through cancer, a diagnosis and experience of breast cancer as a young woman, figuring out her career, pregnancy loss, grieving a parent, and ultimately - following her dream and opening The Lost Bookshop - Delhi, New York’s independent bookstore.

As she says about The Lost Bookshop, "Our name plays with the dual associations of the word "lost" when it comes to books —it’s a pleasure to be lost in a story, for example, and people in periods of change or transition (like leaving home, relationships ending or beginning, and grief and loss) who are perhaps feeling lost, can benefit from time spent with books. We offer books for getting lost and finding your way. Our carefully curated selection, which is guided by personal recommendations from our community, will place absorbing books in the hands of all readers, including those at crossroads in their lives."

Emily Helck is a writer and artist who divides her time between Philadelphia and New York's Catskill Mountains. She holds a bachelor's degree from Drew University, a master's degree from Fordham University, and is a graduate of Rutgers University–Camden’s creative writing MFA program. Her writing has been published by ABC News, Bustle, and other outlets. In addition to writing, she's proud of professional accomplishments in young adult cancer advocacy, and in the arts, having worked for iconic artist William Wegman for nearly twenty years. Emily is currently in the process of opening her own bookstore, The Lost Bookshop.

You can learn more about Emily and The Lost Bookshop:

website: https://thelostbookshop.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostbookshopny/