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Emotional Grit With Paul Ranelli: The Joys of Being Santa and Stories From North Pole, Alaska
Did you know there’s an actual place near the Arctic Circle called North Pole that has streetlights wrapped like candy canes and letters to Santa are answered there from around the world? Or that there’s a Christmas City Express train from Duluth, MN where familles can ride up the northshore of Lake Superior? Please join Jennifer and guest Paul Ranelli, aka Santa, as they discuss the positivity of such things, including stories of him serving as Santa, and ways the novelty an
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Dec 24, 20251 min read


Emotional Grit With Guest Scott Fernjack | Silent Discos: Dancing to Music Where Others Hear no Sound
Imagine a place where people are dancing to pop music, whereas others are enjoying the likes of hip hop, techno or rock, all the while a casual observer would say there is no sound. This is the innovative world of silent discos. Even the band Metallica’s 2013 “Freeze ‘Em All” concert in Antarctica was done as a “silent disco” that people continue to talk about to this day. Join Jennifer and her brother Scott as they discuss the novelty of such “discos” and ways they are chang
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Oct 8, 20251 min read


Emotional Grit With Paul Oliver | The Mysterious and Colorful World of Synesthesia
Imagine being able to see or taste sounds. Or perhaps hear or smell colors. These are examples of a neurological phenomenon called...
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Aug 6, 20251 min read


Emotional Grit With Doug Salisbury | Addiction to Advocacy: Tales of Struggle, Grit & Redemption
It's one thing to know of the Serenity Prayer, but it’s another to live it: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot...
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May 21, 20251 min read


Emotional Grit With Mary Palcich Keyes | Seeking the Comforts of Home: Cities That Had to Move
Have you ever wondered why kids at camp get homesick, business travelers look forward to sleeping in their own bed and the elderly want...
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May 7, 20251 min read


Daily Spark with Dr. Angela | How to Live Life and Not Let Life Live You! with me!!
Being brave doesn’t need to be the absence of fear. It can mean feeling afraid and being able to persevere anyway. Join Jennifer as she...
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Apr 24, 20251 min read


Emotional Grit with Manfred Alker | Tales from Behind the Iron Curtain: Fall of the Berlin Wall
Imagine visiting East Berlin during the Cold War. A place where western music was smuggled into underground clubs, people purposely gave...
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Apr 16, 20251 min read


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Apr 9, 20250 min read


Emotional Grit with John Kriesel | Turning Trauma Into Triumph: Stories of Hope from the Battlefield
Did you know hope can affect you physically? Imagine serving as a NATO peacekeeper in Kosovo and then volunteering to serve in Iraq, only...
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Mar 13, 20251 min read


Emotional Grit with PJ Dushkin | Rugged Tales of Living in Alaska: The Last Frontier
Imagine growing up by Dutch Harbor. A place on the coast of Amaknak island, one of the remote lands of Alaska’s Aleutian Chain. It’s...
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Feb 26, 20251 min read


Emotional Grit With Nancy Adams: A Mother’s Resolve & Unconditional Love in the Throes of Addiction
Imagine driving to a known drug house, opening the door unannounced, grabbing your son by the shirt, and pulling him to safety. Or...
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Jan 15, 20251 min read


Emotional Grit With TK Mehlhaff: The Scientific Beauty of Music in the D/deaf Community and Grit
Imagine being able to enjoy music, not because you can hear it; rather, because you can feel it. Or venturing into a world on your own...
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Jan 1, 20251 min read


Leveraging Emotional Grit in the Workplace Podcast with Regina Barr
Host, Regina Barr, and Guest, Jennifer Fernjack, author of "Greater Than: The Power and Strength of Emotional Grit” talk about her book....
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Dec 27, 20241 min read


Emotional Grit | Aurelien Bouche-Pillon: Epic Tales of Winter Surfing and the Power of Perspective
From European countries to China, Canada and the U.S., imagine surfing places around the world. Including the five Great Lakes - In the...
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Dec 17, 20241 min read


Ways to Address Emotional Labor in the Workplace With Science
Jennifer’s interview with the Minnesota Sales Institute, LLC’s WINNING AT SELLING podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/winning-...
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Dec 6, 20241 min read


Emotional Grit with Guest Ashley Corbett: Finding Strength Through Laughter
Imagine being diagnosed with cancer as a child and experiencing brain tumors years later that likely came from the radiation treatments....
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Nov 20, 20241 min read


Emotional Grit with Kelly Friesen, RN | Unsung Heroes: Stressors of Caregiving & First Responders
Imagine becoming a veterinarian because you want to help animals, yet having to put some down, because the owners can’t afford the...
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Nov 6, 20241 min read


Emotional Grit With Guest Katie Hannestad: Health Benefits of the Minneapolis St. Paul Airport
Join Jennifer and Katie as they speak to these initiatives and other ways the Airport Foundation MSP has helped the Minneapolis St. Paul air
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Oct 22, 20241 min read


Emotional Grit with Kevin Morgan | Stamina at the Starting Line: Ironman Races in the Face of Adversity
Imagine being in your 80s and competing in Ironman races with an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) stent. Or having the discipline and...
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Oct 9, 20241 min read


Emotional Grit with Stacie Beug: Surprising Facts About the Five Senses and Stories Behind Them
Did you know some people can’t cry tears, think cilantro tastes like soap or sneeze when they look at the sun? Or perhaps know about the...
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Sep 25, 20241 min read
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