In the Kitchen featuring Caterina Maranghi
I wanted to start the new year with a fun, warm conversation about one of my favorite subjects, food! In this week’s episode, I sit down with Italian-American chef, Caterina Maranghi, to talk about her life growing up between two countries, raising her bilingual and bicultural kids, and how she built her career around her […]
Souls of Italy with Kirsten Hills
“I think what’s been an amazing part of this project in general but particularly with Rodolfo’s story was the comments. There have been thousands, the majority filled with a sense of sadness and very much connected to nostalgia and this sense that Florence is going through a huge transformation at the moment and he represents […]
Turning Points, part 2 featuring Andrea Zurlo
I live in an international community and that gives you a lot. If you’re open minded, love different languages, know how to interact and interface with people of different cultures it’s a very inspiring, very human place. Andrea Zurlo Join me and author and translator Andrea Zurlo for the second part of our conversation about […]
Turning Points featuring Andrea Zurlo
My guest this week is Italo-Argentinian writer and translator, Andrea Zurlo. In this first part of our conversation, we speak about Andrea’s journey to and first impact with Italy in the early 1990s. We also discuss the art of translating, how AI is changing that landscape, and the cultural nuances of language. We move on […]
Education is Freedom featuring James W. Keyes
Your brain is a supercomputer, but we don’t know how to program it. It comes out of the box pre-programmed for fear, and unless we rewire it, it keeps repeating that pattern. Jim Keyes In this inspiring episode of 15 with Fosca, I welcome James W. Keyes, global business leader, former CEO of 7-Eleven and […]
Back to Reality with Melissa Deep
My guest this week is Melissa Deep, CEO & Founder of Virtique Srl, a Tuscany-based company that creates virtual experiences that transform sales, marketing, and advertising through Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, E-Commerce, and Geolocated Mapping. Virtique creates superior digital content that replicates and enhances the intimacy of the brick & mortar store experience. Through Virtique, […]
It Takes a Lifetime to Learn How to Live with Libby Cataldi, Part 2
“When you break, you’re forced to open another door and that’s when I came back here and found my roots because Nonna was strong and I figured it had to be in me somehow. She was the key. A lot of bad stuff happened to us, but we’re still together, and a lot of that […]
It Takes a Lifetime to Learn How to Live with Libby Cataldi, Part 1
“My grandmother Carmela was my North Star, my safe port in many childhood storms. Strong. Independent. She swept the snow from her sidewalk wearing only a sweater, made her own wine, canned her own tomatoes, strung her own peppers to dry in the basement, and found edible dandelions for salads in the yard. She was […]
New Season Trailer featuring Fosca D’Acierno
As the podcast enters its third year, we’re changing things up a bit! The new season features another incredible lineup of guests and stories; but we’re broadening and widening the scope and taking 15 with Fosca a little outside of its niche to bring you conversations with writers, artists, and change makers exploring creativity, culture, […]
Aperilife featuring Sam Rich
I try to have one-on-one relationships, and I encourage them, because caring about a person and being kind is what I needed when I first came here because I was unsure. I fell in love with an Italian and I had to fall in love with Italy, with the good and the bad. Sam Rich […]