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Fashion journalist and editor of SEELE Magazine Ally Portee lets you in on some of her conversations with inspiring people from around the world in fashion, faith, entertainment, music, and entrepreneurship. Basically, these are conversations from the soulful side of life about topics that will hopefully inspire your life.

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Episode 60: Nelson L. Schuman- From Banking to Inner Healing Ministry
Episode 60: Nelson L. Schuman- From Banking to Inner Healing Ministry

Nelson L. Schuman is an author, teacher, speaker, and founder and president of Restored To Freedom located near Dallas, TX. Before he does what, he does now, Nelson was successful in the banking world. But through family challenges, God guided him into full time ministry: helping people get free from soul wounds. Nelson’s focus is the restoration of lives and marriages, specifically helping people get healed from their past soul wounds and delivered from demonic strongholds. In this episode we talk about his calling and journey into inner healing, what inner healing is, how one can hear from God, and much more.

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Episode 58: Sara Murad- A Network Media Presenter and Perfumer
Episode 58: Sara Murad- A Network Media Presenter and Perfumer

Since 2013, Sara Murad has been a media presenter in the Middle East. She’s a Senior TV Presenter on MBC 1 and a founder of her own fragrance brand, By Sara Murad. In this episode we talk about her country of Saudi Arabia’s bourgeoning growth, her work in media, her fragrance brand, and she gives advice to women about discerning the right man.

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Episode 55: Mary Marantz- Author, Speaker, Podcaster Talks Her Book “Underestimated”
Episode 55: Mary Marantz- Author, Speaker, Podcaster Talks Her Book “Underestimated”

Mary Marantz is the bestselling author of Dirt and Underestimated, as well as the host of the popular podcast The Mary Marantz Show. In this episode we talk about Underestimated, and dive into topics around the book. Listen as Mary unpacks themes of what it means to be crippled by fear, but when we overcome, we are often underestimated by those around us.

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Episode 53: Deb Sofield- Keynote speaker, Author, Speech & Media Coach, and Crisis Communications Trainer
Episode 53: Deb Sofield- Keynote speaker, Author, Speech & Media Coach, and Crisis Communications Trainer

Deb Sofield is a global Communications Consultant, a Keynote Speaker, a former Radio Talk Show Host, a Podcaster, and President of her own Executive Speech Coaching Co. She’s skilled in training people for success in: speaking, crisis communications, presentation, media, and message development. In this episode we talk about her Lebanese roots, what makes for a good speech, she touches on the US president whose speaking style she admires most, and what doesn’t make for a good speech.

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Episode 47- Film Director Christine Swanson Talks Her New Film “Albany Road”
Episode 47- Film Director Christine Swanson Talks Her New Film “Albany Road”

Ally sat down over Zoom with Christine, who is known for her film The Clark Sisters, to talk about her newest film Albany Road, out on limited release on November 15th. Taking 23 days to shoot in Champagne, Illinois, it stars Renee Elise Goldsberry and cinema legend Lynn Whitfield

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Episode 15: Alessandra De Tommasi Gets Real On What It’s Really Like Being An Entertainment Journalist
Episode 15: Alessandra De Tommasi Gets Real On What It’s Really Like Being An Entertainment Journalist

Alessandra De Tommasi is one of the entertainment industry’s top journalists, writing for Vanity Fair Italia, Vogue Italia, Cosmopolitan Italia, and others. She talks about her journey from Lecce to where she is now, the hardships of being an entertainment journalist in these times, the exciting moments of the job, our private moment we had with Leonardo di Caprio and Casey Affleck, and no matter how stressful the industry can get, why she wouldn’t dream of doing anything else.

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Episode 14: From Discovering Lady Gaga To Modeling In Fashion Weeks Around The World, Wendy Starland Gets Candid About Her Journey
Episode 14: From Discovering Lady Gaga To Modeling In Fashion Weeks Around The World, Wendy Starland Gets Candid About Her Journey

In this podcast episode, Wendy talks about her music career and what led her to do modeling.  She also drops some practical life applications, something that we can all glean from.

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Episode 13: A Chat With Ellen Mirojnick, The Costume Designer For Oppenheimer
Episode 13: A Chat With Ellen Mirojnick, The Costume Designer For Oppenheimer

Ellen Mirojnick has been in the business of designing costumes for film and TV for over thirty years, and she’s known for inspiring men’s fashion in the early 90s, when she created bold patterned ties, colorful suspenders, and crisp suits for the 1987 Wall Street film.

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Episode 12: Hunter Clowdus, Grabbing Life By The Horns
Episode 12: Hunter Clowdus, Grabbing Life By The Horns

Full of joy, actor and motivational speaker Hunter Clowdus is a happy person. In this interview we talk about success and some of those wisdom nuggets he’s known for, faith, his clothing line, and briefly his TV show All American, on the CW. For someone still so young he has accomplished quite a lot, but he doesn’t boast about having obtained it all yet. But, in some ways it’s as if he’s just getting started.

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