Bridging Chicago will be taking a short break before starting our new season in February 2020. Our gift to you is a song from our dear friend Molly Walburn.

In season 2 of the Bridging Chicago Podcast, we had the pleasure featuring several organizations and people who have transformative missions in efforts to help serve communities and contribute to the greater good.

On this week’s episode we had the pleasure speaking with Sara Jane Castro, the Marketing and Communications Manager for the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois.

As a mother, personal trainer, and a director in a non-profit organization, Ayesha Akhtar believes that everything you do in life is a stepping stone for something greater.

Lisa Hinton, the Executive Director of American Heart Association’s Metro Chicago, joins us in this week’s episode to talk about this non-profit organization’s combat against cardiovascular diseases and stroke through public health advocacy and education.

Our next Bridging Chicago Podcast episode features Lucas De Jong, a student-athlete and biology major that turned into a marketing guru who knows the value of following your passions, even when the path doesn’t seem clear at the time.

As a Wealth Management Advisor at Vestor Capital LLC, Thomas Egan has been helping individuals and foundations manage their finances by offering plans that will equip them in making wise financial decisions.

From being the CEO of Sam Zell’s Equity Office Properties Trust to reimagining spaces with living green wall products by founding Sagegreenlife, Kincaid’s story proves to show how thinking as an entrepreneur, taking risks and stepping out of one’s comfort zone can help lead to advancement and growth.

We conclude Teachers Appreciation Month with a professor who uses both Hip Hop music and theory as an invitation for her students to think of the world around them more critically.

Continuing Teachers Appreciation Month, Savannah Rountree sits down with Gerardo Rodriguez, a 5th and 6th grade science teacher at Darwin Elementary.

Kicking off Teachers Appreciation Month, Savannah Rountree sits down with Dr. Edward Podsiadlik, author of Anecdotes and Afterthoughts: Literature as a Teacher’s Curriculum, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at University of Illinois at Chicago.

On this episode of the podcast, Nathan Ciulla sits down with Michael Edwards, President and CEO of the Chicago Loop Alliance (CLA), an organization that aims to revitalize Chicago’s Loop to perpetuate the growth and development of its businesses and investments.

In the conclusion of our two part miniseries featuring Cara Chicago, Nathan sits down with Maria Kim, the nonprofit’s President and CEO.

In part one of our two part miniseries featuring Cara Chicago, Savanah sits down with Jesse Teverbaugh to discuss his life-changing involvement with the non-profit.

On this episode of the podcast, Nathan sits down with Thomas Dammrich, the President of the National Marine Manufacturers Association, to chat about his background growing up in southern Illinois, coming to Chicago for school, and lessons he’s learned in his career.

This episode of the Bridging Chicago Podcast features the father-son team of Ted Joseph and Justin Joseph, from Swap-O-Rama Inc.

As summer wedding season continues in full swing, Kate Lerman, the Owner and Lead Planner of Chicago Vintage Weddings joins us on this episode of the Bridging Chicago Podcast.

Teresa Ging, owner of Sugar Bliss Cake Boutique and Sugar Bliss Patisserie, joins us this week to share how she went from working in the financial services industry, to moving to Paris to attend the Le Cordon Bleu Patisserie School, to opening her own cake shop!

Our next guest to join the Bridging Chicago podcast is Allan Kaplan, Principal of a third generation family-owned business in Chicago.

Continuing the tech theme presented in last week’s podcast, our next episode features Dugald Hamilton, the founder of the Australian based law firm “23Legal.”