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Colonel Tracey Meck is a retired Colonel from the Air Force, but she is also an author of “See You Along the Way”.
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Key Points of Interest:
- Where was Tracey born? And where did she grow up?
- What is her career background?
- What brought her to this area?
- Why did she join the Air Force?
- What was her position?
- Where was she stationed?
- What did she do while she was stationed in Iraq & Afghanistan?
- Why did she decide to attempt the Camino de Santiago?
- Why did she end up doing it twice?
- How long if the Camino?
- How long did it take her to complete it?
- Why did she decide to write a book?
- When did she publish the book?
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Karla Matzke is a Camano Artist and recently won Business Woman of the year for Stanwood Camano. She also owns the Matzke Sculpture garden on the south end of Camano Island.
Key Points of Interest:
- Where did she grow up?
- What did Karla Study in College?
- Why did she change?
- After College, where did she move to?
- How did she end up over here in Washington State?
- What drew her here?
- When did she move to Camano?
- How does she get started with stone carvings?
- How did she get started with the sculpture park?
- How many sculptures does she have on the property?
- What is the largest piece she has there?
- How has she adapted her classes during COVID?
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Episode Summary:
US Representative Rick Larsen is a WA state representative in the House in Washington DC.
Key Points of Interest:
- Where did Rick grow up?
- How many siblings did he grow up with?
- Why did he decide to get involved in politics?
- How does he feel politics has changed since being a US representative?
- What effect has technology had on his work?
- What are some of the positive changes he has seen?
- What changes would he like to see to help the black community?
- What is the current state of the COVID Relief package?
Episode Summary:
Marla Williams spent many years working with Genie Industries, and helped setup their HR department. She is now an intuitive life coach, and also has a new Book coming soon!
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Key Points of Interest:
- Where did Marla grow up?
- What did she study in college?
- Where did she work during college?
- How did that effect her career choice?
- What company did she get her start in the HR career?
- What were her first steps setting up an HR department at Genie Industries?
- How does Marla define the difference between counseling and coaching?
- How does she get started with new clients?
- What the general principles she uses when working with clients.
- Defining Natural Attributes (DNA)
- How did she go about writing her new book?
- B.E.I.N.G - Five Daily Steps
- B - Being: Stop, breathe (Get Calm)
- E - Energy: Grounding, standing barefoot on the ground
- I - Intentions: Know where you are going
- N - North: What is your true north, stating them as affirmations
- G - Guidance: Get guidance from a higher source
- What are some tools to help people deal with COVID?
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Episode Summary:
Donna is the owner of the Camano Beach Cafe, which overlooks the ocean and is located, surprise, in Camano Beach on Camano Island. She has owned multiple businesses, including another one in this area.
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Key Points of Interest:
- What generation Stanwoodite is she?
- What was her family history in this area?
- Where did she end up moving to after getting married?
- How did she end back up here on Camano Island?
- What was her store she ran in Vancouver, Canada?
- What other restaurant/Coffee house did she run in town?
- How did she end up getting in the spot she is in with the Camano Beach Cafe?
- What was her plan in opening the Camano Beach Cafe?
- Why were they unable to do take out during the start of COVID?
- What is the business owner’s perspective during the shut down?
- How has catering been going?
- What are some f her thoughts on COVID?
- How has that effected customers?
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Director of Fusion, and has worked at many of our elementary schools in both Stanwood and Camano.
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Key Points of Interest:
- Where did Rich grow up?
- How old was Rich when his dad passed away?
- How did Rich end up on Camano Island?
- What degree did Rich study?
- What career path was he planning on?
- What theater company did he end up working with?
- Eventually, Rich started what kind of business to support himself?
- How did he eventually getting into teaching?
- How did he get into music teaching?
- What school did he start teaching music?
- Which school did he move to after that?
- How many schools has Rich taught at here in the area?
- How did Fusion get started?
- What other projects did he work on?
- How did Rich and Lydia (from Ep 18) try and build their theater group?
- What is the story behind clown college?
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Episode Summary:
Mary Margaret is a Former Washington Sate Senator, who’s family has a long history with Camano Island. She has done so much for this island, and Camano Island would not be what it is today without her.
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Key Points of Interest:
- What made her decide to move for the senate?
- What committee did she become the chairman of?
- What is a Ranking Minority?
- Is the legislative full-time or Part-time?
- What issues does this cause?
- What was Mary Margaret’s starting salary as a Senator?
- How did Mary assist in getting Camano Commons built?
- What were the other projects that she assisted on here on Camano?
- Which project took 17 years to get it across the line?
- What was one of her other large projects that we cross every day?
- As well as what public transportation did she get approved for Stanwood?
- What ferry path was also saved by her while in office?
- How does she see politics has changed since her time in office?
- What does she think about everything becoming a partisan issue?
- What is the rule of 13 in the Senate?
- Of the 5 governor’s she served under, which was her favorite to serve under?
- What do women offer in the legislator as opposed to men from her perspective?
- How does she see how the legislative has dealt with COVID?
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Episode Summary:
Mary Margaret is a Former Washington Sate Senator, who’s family has a long history with Camano Island. She has done so much for this island, and Camano Island would not be what it is today without her.
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Key Points of Interest:
- Where was Mary Margaret born?
- When was she born?
- What State Park opening did she get to attend?
- How much did the Utsalady Ladies Aid Building Cost to build?
- What school had the first school bus on Camano Island?
- How many siblings does Mary have?
- What was Mary’s first career choice?
- Which other sibling had the same career choice here on the island?
- How did she get started in social and political career?
- When did her family first get here, and where did they land?
- What iconic businesses around the island were started by her ancestors?
- Why did she get started with the school bard?
- How did she decide which party she would run as a legislator for?
- Who was the first person to give her money towards her campaign?
- When she won the primary, what party finally backed her?
- What happened to the first mailing that party gave her?
- After she was elected into the Washington House of Representatives, what was the first big project did she start working on as a legislator?
- How many laws did she have to change in order to get the fire district of Camano Island combined from three into one?
- How many years did she serve in the House of Representatives?
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Episode Summary:
Mark is the previous owner of Mark’s Camano Pharmacy, and he shares his story of his career as well as how the pharmacy ended. Also, what is he up to now!
Key Points of Interest:
- Where did Mark grow up?
- What got Mark interested in Pharmacy?
- Where did he go to school?
- What does Mark view as the primary role of a Pharmacist?
- Where did Mark start his career as a Pharmacist?
- What was one of his hardest career decisions?
- How did Mark end up taking over the Pharmacy here on Camano Island?
- What ended up being the beginning of the end for the pharmacy?
- What does a pharmacist actually do?
- What was his general philosophy when talking with Patients.
- What is a new adventure that Mark is starting now?
- How has this helped him dive into history?
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Episode Summary:
Chantel Keller is the owner of three restaurants in the Stanwood Camano Area. She went from a waitress to restaurant owner, and continued to open more!
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Key Points of Interest:
- How many siblings does Chantel have?
- Where did she grow up?
- What did she study in college?
- What were some of the careers she tried before settling on Restaurants?
- How did she get started in Restaurants?
- Upon taking over Jasmin Thai, what changes did she make?
- How did she work on training her team?
- What other restaurants did she start after Jasmin’s?
- What was the reasoning behind starting Mammoth Burger?
- How did they make it unique?
- Does the restaurants move around team members?
- And how many does she employ?
- How has she responded to COVID-19?
- What’s Chantel working on now?
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