After a 2-hour, 100-mile, early morning motorcycle ride, I sat with Cristina Romagnoli at a pavilion by Lake Apopka and talk with her about how she quiets her mind, and finds mental stillness. Cristina works in the health care industry as a phy

Melissa Wiggins

Aug 1st, 2020 28m 24s

Melissa's son Cannon was 20 months old when he was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, at the time she was 38 weeks pregnant with twin boys. Melissa took me for a drive in her minivan — her quiet place — and told me the story of getting through this

Cole NeSmith

Apr 11th, 2020 21m 56s

Actor, musician, public speaker and creator of Orlando's "Immerse" festival, Cole NeSmith brings his usual calming perspective to Finding My Quiet Place. We talk about what creates stress in his life, and how he deals with that, both in the gy

Christie Miga

Mar 28th, 2020 31m 38s

Christie Miga is a teacher and artist in Orlando. She is trained in experiential learning, and is happy to be instructing middle-school students. She calls herself an introverted extrovert, and finds interacting with people in general exhausti

Phil Hoffman

Nov 9th, 2019 34m 11s

Get to know Phil Hoffman, and hear how he settles himself down when he's 'agitated'. We spend time in his quiet place, which is his media room at home. On the wall, he has framed his favorite albums of all time. On this episode, we talk (among

Evan Miga

Nov 2nd, 2019 32m 8s

Meet Evan Miga, lover of robots. A self-described tinkerer, Evan spends his spare time building things — mostly robots — in his garage workshop. We talk about the importance of giving yourself permission to play, create and make things that ser

Brendan Byrne

Sep 28th, 2019 35m 17s

This week, we sit down with Brendan L Byrne, space reporter for 90.7 WMFE in Orlando, and talk about why his quiet place is in the back of his house, making craft beer. He talks about how mental focus and detailed planning are required to follo

City Commissioner Patty Sheehan

Sep 21st, 2019 38m 8s

Patty Sheehan, the first openly-gay City Commissioner in Central Florida, takes time out of her busy re-election campaign to talk about the importance of quiet time. Her "garden of chaos" is a beautiful sanctuary of fruit trees, art, statues, w

Adam Scheinberg

Sep 14th, 2019 29m 46s

In this week's episode, we get to know self-described serial volunteer and self-taught musician Adam Scheinberg. He talks about how he quiets his mind, and the importance of arts and music education. One of his volunteer efforts is for Orlando

Kirt Earhart

Aug 31st, 2019 31m 2s

Co-owner of Maxine's On Shine, a popular restaurant in the Colonialtown South neighborhood of downtown Orlando, Kirt Earhart makes the job look easy. But the 40-hour weekends take a toll on mind and body, and Kirt has developed some methods to

Kay Rawlins

Aug 24th, 2019 30m 10s

Co-founder of Orlando City Soccer Club, English ex-pat Kay Rawlins leads a very busy life, with events, meetings and social obligations all the time. In this episode, we talk about how she manages to carve out quiet moments in her exciting and

Michelle Brady Palmer

Aug 17th, 2019 32m 8s

Michelle Brady Palmer: Episode 6, Aug 17, 2019 She learned about the importance of finding a quiet place during the time when her life burned down, at which point she says, “Gratitude became a discipline.” “I try not to take life for granted,

Jamie Joyce

Aug 10th, 2019 32m 58s

This week's conversation is with Jamie Joyce, founder and CEO of the Society Library, and the Internet Government. Here's how she describes her mission on www.InternetGovernment.org: "The Internet Government is a platform created to represent

Danya Shea

Aug 3rd, 2019 28m 23s

In this episode, I speak with Danya Shea at a picnic table under a tree. She's the co-founder and CEO of FervorWorks.com, and mom to two cool kids. She just spent the better part of a year traveling around the US in an RV with her two kids and

Bob Kodzis

Jul 27th, 2019 47m 2s

One of the quiet places that @bobkodzis finds regularly is his art studio. It’s anything but ‘quiet’, as he plays music while he creates his fantastical drawings, but it’s how he focuses his mind and centers himself. His studio also contains gu

Jenny Joy

Jul 21st, 2019 36m 21s

When Jenny Joy is finished with her day of running her residential cleaning company (which is a front for a women’s empowerment boot camp), she takes her mat to the dock a few blocks from her home, and practices yoga, meditation and mindfulness

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Jul 21st, 2019 9m 43s

The world seems to be getting louder. Not just louder in sound, but louder visually and mentally as well. Distractions abound. It’s almost impossible to carry on a conversation, concentrate on a single thought, or focus on an assignment or proj

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