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 […]
Time, Again: A digital detox story featuring Sandrine Kom
Time, Again: A digital detox story – and a new way of being for solopreneurs, leaders, and seekers featuring Sandrine Kom Last month I participated in a retreat led by Sandrine Kom that aimed to transform stressed out superwomen into Zen superwomen. I embraced the opportunity, shut off my phone, and spent a glorious weekend […]
Pivoting for Success featuring Donna Scharnagl
A lot of people say, I want to go to Italy, I want to go to Tuscany, I want to live there and then they get here and they’re like, oh, I didn’t realize it was going to be so hard. Yes it is hard, and a lot of times I just trudged along anyway […]
Writing Florence featuring Lori Hetherington and Monica Sharp, The Florence Literary Society
The real value of the Literary Society is that information exchange and sharing. When you sit down at your computer or with your notepad or notebook, it’s a solitary activity, but so many other aspects of writing involve others. Whether it’s brainstorming an idea, getting feedback on a first draft, finding a beta reader, or […]
Beauty with a Twist featuring Louise Olko
What I look for in my street photography is the expression of people in everyday situations, their stories, something that’s got a little twist to it, that’s open-ended, so that people can step into a space and finish the story. Louise Olko Join me and this week’s guest, Louise Olko, photographer, figurative painter, and sculptor […]
We Do It Together featuring Chiara Tilesi
The repetition of images creates a belief; the ensemble of beliefs creates the cultural DNA of our society. If we change the images we will change the culture. Chiara Tilesi I have long been a fan of Chiara Tilesi and her work and was honored to interview her about her tireless efforts to transform the […]
Escape with The Sicilian Inheritance featuring Jo Piazza
My goal was to show that strength and to show their stories and to really illuminate that. I thought a lot about the stories we tell about women, the stories that we keep about women, and the things that are passed down. The Sicilian Inheritance is inspired by my own family history, it’s completely a […]
Dream Weaver featuring Vittoria Colonna
I am in search of freedom, and it’s led me to filmmaking, painting, singing. I’ve lived many lifetimes already in this lifetime and I’m in the pursuit of happiness, joy and freedom, and trying to understand what it means to be human and a woman and just to be, and sometimes I’ll create a fantastical, […]
Twin Peaks: Aspen & Abetone featuring Rolando Galli and Rosanna Cirigliano
“They share their lives, they go to school, do sports, and have experiences together. Ours learn the customs, traditions, and way of living in the States and theirs learn what we have in here in Italy and in Tuscany especially.” Rolando Galli on the annual student exchange program between sister cities Abetone, Italy and Aspen, […]