Interrupted: Act 2 Reinventing Your Legacy

Grant funding can do much more than support a program—it can help a nonprofit expand its reach, strengthen its mission and change lives.
In this episode, Vasheti Quiros shares how she helps nonprofit organizations navigate the grant process and find funding for the important work they are already doing. She explains why grants can be essential to nonprofit growth, what organizations need to understand before seeking funding and why this work matters so deeply to her.
Vasheti also opens up about the personal passion behind her work and her commitment to helping mission-driven leaders turn their vision into sustainable community impact.
If you lead a nonprofit, support a charitable organization or want to better understand nonprofit grants, fundraising and mission-based leadership, this conversation offers encouragement, insight and hope.
Learn more about Vasheti Quiros:https://boldjourney.com/meet-vasheti-quiros/
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What happens when the person who has always known how to fix things faces something she can’t simply fix?
Farla Efros spent decades as a retail turnaround specialist, stepping into struggling companies, creating strategies, and leading through chaos. Then she was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer—and suddenly, the biggest turnaround of her life was her own.
In this powerful and refreshingly candid conversation, Farla shares her cancer journey and what she wishes more people knew about navigating a life-changing diagnosis. We talk about patient advocacy, asking better questions, building the right medical team, trusting your instincts, and why you don’t have to become a passive participant in your own healthcare.
Farla also opens up about the emotional side of cancer—the fear, grief, loss of control, changing identity, and the complicated reality of figuring out how to live while going through treatment and recovery.
Her book, F*ck Cancer: Commanding a Comeback When Your Body Has Turned On You*, is part memoir and part practical playbook for anyone facing a health crisis.
This conversation isn’t only about surviving cancer. It’s about finding your voice when life turns upside down, advocating for what you need, and choosing how you want to move forward.
Connect with Farla Efros:Visit Farla Efros’ website
Get the book:F*ck Cancer: Commanding a Comeback When Your Body Has Turned On You on Amazon
 
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Our thoughts become words. Our words carry energy. And the words we repeat can shape the way we see ourselves, our circumstances, and our possibilities.
In this episode, Mary Ann Robbat and I explore the surprising power of what we think and say—and how those words can either encourage us or become the very thing that keeps us stuck.
Mary Ann also opens up about one of her biggest life interruptions: becoming a mother to triplets. Her story reminds us that sometimes the moments we never planned for can completely change the direction of our lives.
Come listen, reflect, and consider: What are you speaking into your life?
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I get to chat with Bitsy Hamilton, transition coach, speaker, and author of Own It, about learning to trust yourself, embrace who you are, and create a life that actually fits YOU.
Bitsy shares the influence of her wonderfully extravagant mother and the lessons she learned about showing up fully as yourself. We also dive into the Own It Framework, Bitsy’s flexible approach to navigating life transitions with authenticity, vulnerability, accountability, and self-trust.
Because there isn’t one perfect formula for reinvention—and there shouldn’t be.
Bitsy explains how women can begin letting go of people-pleasing, perfectionism, old expectations, and the pressure to follow someone else’s definition of success. Instead, we can get clear about what matters to us, trust our own decisions, and move forward with confidence—even when we don’t have the entire path figured out.
If you’re in a season of change, questioning what comes next, or realizing it might finally be time to choose yourself, this conversation is your invitation to stop second-guessing and OWN IT.
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Imagine discovering that the story you’ve been told about your identity your entire life isn’t true.
Paul Jack Fronczak grew up believing he was Paul Fronczak—the baby kidnapped from a Chicago hospital in 1964 and later believed to have been found and returned to his family. But after becoming a father himself, lingering questions about his past eventually led him to DNA testing.
The results changed everything.
The man raised as Paul Fronczak was not biologically related to the Fronczak family. His search for answers would eventually reveal his true identity as Jack Rosenthal—and another stunning discovery: he had a twin sister, Jill, whose disappearance remains a mystery.
In this episode of Interrupted: Act 2 – Reinventing Your Legacy, Paul Jack Fronczak and his co-host Tracey Hastings share the extraordinary twists and turns of this decades-long search for identity, biological family and the truth about what happened to him.
But his story has become about much more than solving his own mystery.
We also talk about his work helping foundlings and others with unknown origins search for their roots, reconnect with biological family and find answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Where did I come from?
This is an unforgettable conversation about kidnapping, DNA, genetic genealogy, missing children, family secrets, foundlings, identity and the deep human need to know our own story.
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🎙️ The Fronczak Files Podcast:Listen on Apple Podcasts
🌐 The Fronczak Files:TheFronczakFiles.com
📖 The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me:The Foundling — Simon & Schuster
📖 True Identity: Cracking the Oldest Kidnapping Cold Case and Finding My Missing Twin:Learn more about True Identity
🎬 The Lost Sons documentary:The Lost Sons — CNN Films
🔎 The Search for Jill Rosenthal:Help Find Jill 
 
Jack & Jill Rosenthal Foundation for Missing and Unidentified Children  
 
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What happens when the parts of our story we’re most afraid to talk about are the very parts someone else needs to hear?
Crystal Renaud Day, founder of SheRecovery and author of What Drives Women to Porn?, joins Laurie for an honest conversation about women, pornography addiction, shame, recovery, infertility, and the healing that can begin when we stop hiding our difficult stories.
Crystal shares her own journey and why pornography and unwanted sexual behaviors are not simply “men’s issues.” Through years of research and working with women in recovery, she has helped bring an often-hidden struggle into the conversation and created a place where women can find support without shame.
We also explore Crystal’s SCARS Model™ — Surrender, Confession, Accountability, Responsibility, and Sharing — and why that final step, sharing, can be so powerful. Crystal opens up about another deeply personal part of her life: infertility, and what she learned about grief, identity, expectations, and telling the truth about experiences we might rather keep private.
This conversation goes beyond pornography. It’s about shame, secrecy, addiction recovery, infertility, emotional healing, vulnerability, and the courage to tell the stories that are difficult to tell.
Because sometimes sharing your story isn’t just part of your own healing. It may be the thing that helps another woman realize she isn’t alone.
Learn more about Crystal Renaud Day and SheRecovery at SheRecovery.com.
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What do you do when the clock is running out, the pressure is on, and failure feels like something you simply can’t afford?
In this episode, Laurie sits down with Julia Hurley, a dynamic entrepreneur, nationally recognized real estate broker, author, speaker, media personality, and former elected official who has built a career around leadership, reinvention, and creating opportunity.
As the owner of JustHomesGroup, Julia has made her mark in the real estate industry through innovative marketing, smart business strategy, and a commitment to serving her community. But her story reaches far beyond real estate. With a decade of political experience, a background in life coaching and personal development, and a sports management company helping athletes build their brands and expand their opportunities, Julia knows what it means to pivot, take risks, and keep moving forward.
We also talk about her book, Panic to Profit: The Playbook Every Agent Needs When the Clock Is Running Out Because We Can’t Afford to Fail Again, and the lessons she has learned about navigating uncertainty, building a personal brand, creating multiple opportunities, and turning pressure into purposeful action.
If you’re an entrepreneur, business owner, real estate professional, or a woman navigating your own season of reinvention, this conversation is a reminder that your next chapter may require courage, strategy—and a willingness to bet on yourself.
Learn more about Julia Hurley, her work, and Panic to Profit at TheJuliaHurley.com.
 
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What happens when the life and career you thought you were building suddenly disappear?
Henry Tolbert was in ministry leadership, building what he believed was his life’s work, when everything seemed to collapse at once. He lost his role, lost his income, and then his family’s home flooded—forcing them to gut the kitchen and spend six weeks living out of hotels.
One moment became a turning point: Henry stood in his backyard grilling hot dogs over a fire pit for his kids, looking at a house that was torn apart and a future he could no longer predict.
That’s when the question changed.
Instead of asking, “Why is this happening?” Henry began asking, “What am I supposed to build now?”
In this episode of Interrupted: Act 2 – Reinventing Your Legacy, Henry shares how losing the path he thought he was supposed to follow led him to entrepreneurship and the creation of Simple Systems Consulting. He started with no audience, no following and no guarantee it would work. Five years later, Simple Systems has reached more than 100,000 people and helped hundreds of pastors and entrepreneurs rebuild, simplify and grow.
We talk about starting over, career transitions, entrepreneurship, leadership, resilience, rebuilding after loss, finding purpose after an unexpected life change, and having the courage to build your own vision instead of chasing someone else’s.
Sometimes the interruption isn't the end of the story. Sometimes it's the redirection that leads you exactly where you need to go.
Connect with Henry TolbertFounder & CEO, Simple Systems ConsultingEmail: henry@simplesystems.cc
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