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Founding Your Way
Hosted by Maggie Ward and Lucy Luneva, co-founders of Pearl + Light, Founding Your Way is a podcast exploring the human side of building something meaningful.
Pearl + Light is a small business and nonprofit consulting agency inspired by good people doing good things. They partner with organizations rooted in service, creativity, and community, and are passionate about helping spread awareness of the people and projects uplifting local communities.
This podcast is an extension of that mission.
Through honest conversations with founders, creatives, nonprofit leaders, and community builders, Founding Your Way shares the stories behind the work — what inspired people to begin, what challenges them, what keeps them going, and what it really looks like to build something of your own.
Rooted in Boston and shaped by the people creating impact within it, the podcast highlights the ideas, relationships, and communities that make meaningful work possible.
Episodes
3 episodes
Everyone Belongs Here: Colleen Suhanosky on Building Rifrullo Café
What does it take to build a neighborhood café that becomes the heart of a community? In this episode of Founding Your Way, Maggie sits down with Colleen Suhanosky, owner of Rifrullo Café in Brookline, to talk about entrepreneu...
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Living Adventurously, Safely: David Trant on Building Trant Training
David Trant didn't set out to build a training organization.What began as a way to keep his lifeguards certified gradually evolved into Trant Training, a growing New England-based collective offering lifeguard, CPR, first aid, wilderness...
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Community as Medicine: Jeffrey Thomas on Building The Mandela Yoga Project
In the very first episode of Founding Your Way, Maggie sits down with Jeffrey Thomas, founder of The Mandela Yoga Project, to explore the deeply personal story behind the organization and its mission to make healing practices accessible to all....
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