Be Impactful by Impact Fashion
by Rivky Itzkowitz: Founder at Impact FashionHi, I'm Rivky Itzkowitz I’m the founder and designer at Impact Fashion and I’m the host here at Be Impactful, the show about women making an Impact in their own corners of the world. I started Impact Fashion in November of 2016 so that the modest minded women in my community could feel empowered to put their best foot forward every day, regardless of their size. In the process of growing my business I’ve been fortunate enough to connect with women of all different types and from all different fields. And the main lesson I’ve learnt is that we are all just improvising. We’re going around doing the best we can with what we’ve got, feeling self conscious about what everyone else is accomplishing. The truth is, the people who you’re looking over your shoulder at are probably doing the exact same thing to someone else. So let’s talk about the real nitty gritty in our lives and journeys and lift each other up by being just a bit more open. Join me and my guests as we try to figure out what it means to Be Impactful.
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Episodes
Art is for Everyone with Faigie Kobre
50m · PublishedI sit down with Faigie Kobre, an art teacher and early childhood educator, to discuss how we can bring better art into our kid’s lives. She shares her own journey into art and education, why so many of us think we’re not artistic, the problem with copycat crafts on a developmental level and good kid beginner arts for those of us who are mess averse.
Faigie Kobre is a professional development leader for early childhood art and an elementary school art teacher using the (TAB) method (Teaching for Artistic Behavior). Her journey in education began with a master's degree in early childhood education from Bank Street College of Education. Over the years, she's honed her expertise by working as both an early childhood director and an elementary school art teacher.
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Life After MLM with Roberta Blevins
56m · PublishedI sit down with Roberta Blevins, a former successful MLMer, to discuss her time in that cult like world. She shares What an MLM is, the tactics used in an MLM to maintain rank, and how the structure encourages bad behavior. Plus we discuss why personal accountability isn’t relevant in an industry with a higher failure rate than gambling.
Roberta Blevins was a consultant for 3 MLMs; It Works!, LuLaRoe and Modere, and a customer of many. A Trainer with LuLaRoe, Roberta had a team of 75 women under her, and made over $65,000 in bonuses alone. Definitely "successful" in the eyes of MLM, she was in the top 5% of the company, personal friends with many at Home Office, and invited to speak in company propaganda. She definitely "worked her business", and still came to the conclusion it was a losing game and a systemically run scam. She eft the MLM world in 2017 and began publicly educating and speaking out against it. Since leaving MLM, she has educated herself on the systemic structure of the business model, the psychological manipulation, the seedy underbelly and governmental ties, the cult indoctrination, and the history of Multi Level Marketing. She educates daily on TikTok, and podcasts in her "free time", talking to the survivors and victims of these commercial cults, disguised as the quickest route to the American Dream.
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Distillation with Bracha Goetz
49m · PublishedI sit down with Bracha Goetz, a prolific children’s book author, to discuss her work. She shares why she identifies as a six year old boy, the impact of her groundbreaking book Let’s Stay Safe, how she distills complex topics down to their simplest parts so children can understand, and how children in Israel are handling the war.
Bracha Goetz is the author of 42 books that help children's souls shine and a candid memoir for adults about her journey in Judaism,Nourish the Soul. You can meet her books in Jewish bookstores, on Amazon, and on her website:www.goetzbookshop.com
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Freelance Design with Sew Heidi
39m · PublishedI sit down with Sew Heidi, a woman who chose the freelance route in fashion and educates others. She shares why owning a brand wasn’t for her, why freelancing as a fashion designer has worked so well,the types of brands that are willing to hire freelance designers and how we can all overcome self doubt.
After running a brand she grew to hate and working 60+ hours in a toxic fashion job, Heidi almost burnt out in fashion. But then she found freelancing - real freelancing, where you're in charge of your own business, not temp job "permalancing" where you work 40 hours on-site for one brand. Heidi built her freelance career to $100k+ and was living her dream, working when she wanted, traveling, and never worrying about paying the bills. Since then, she's taught 1000s of freelance fashion designers (and TDs, PDs, patternmakers and more) how to work for themselvesin fashion AND make money. Successful Fashion Designer website Fashion Designers Get Paid podcast Freelance Accelerator : from Surviving to Thriving (FAST) Instagram LinkedInClick hereto get the Am Yisrael Chai crewneck.
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Cultivating Happiness with Avital Levene The Jewish Meme Queen
47m · PublishedI sit down with Avital Levene, The Jewish Meme Queen. She shares how she used humor through a challenging childhood, Her thoughts on independently figuring out her own religiosity, On dating while making dating memes, and how she cultivates her own happiness and defines success.
Avital Levene, the face behind the social media account “The Jewish Meme Queen,” is a thoughtful and creative individual who puts in her all whether she’s working her 9-5 marketing job or creating content for her Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok account. As an Orthodox Jew, Avital utilizes her platform to push for unity and acceptance of all people within the Jewish community.
Always looking for the next big thing, Avital puts herself out there with laughter and smiles, connecting people around the world through her unique lens of Jewish humor.
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Tying Up Loose Ends with Masey Kaplan and Jen Simonic
52m · PublishedI sit down with Masey Kaplan and Jen Simonic, the founders of The Loose Ends Project, who pair crafters with unfinished project of those who have passed. They share why they have so many more finishers than projects, how they pair the projects with the right finisher and how they preserve the work of the loved one.
Masey Kaplan is a graphic designer and voracious knitter. Knitting carried her through the pandemic, as she ravenously stitched below the Zoom line, where no one could see. She learned to crochet before kindergarten, learned to knit at the age of 15, re-learned knitting in her 20s, and has not stopped, even for a day. When she dies, her family knows to check the little book next to her bed, where they’ll find an illustrated guide to every project she’s making, and who gets what.
Jen Simonic has been knitting since she was 6. Her grandmother taught her on steel needles from WWII bandage making. She was the weirdo that knit under the desk in 6th grade. The first piece she finished for someone else was a sweater that a friend’s mom was making for her dad. That mom said “If I finish it he’ll leave me. You finish it and give it to someone who needs love.” Jen lives with her family in Seattle, WA. They love her even though her stash is taking over the house.
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It's Be Impactful's Fourth Birthday!
1h 56m · PublishedOn this special anniversary episode we celebrate the fourth birthday of this podcast! I’ll share my thoughts on this milestone and some of my favorite and the most important bits of the episodes from this past year.
Thank you to everyone who came on the show and listened over this past year. Without you, I'd just be a girl talking to her computer.
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Grounding Exercises with Esther Goldstein, LCSW
6m · PublishedIn this excerpt from a longer conversation with Esther Godlstein, she takes us through grounding exercises and image desensitization techniques.
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Esther Goldstein is a licensed clinical social worker in the Five Towns and surrounding areas. As a Trauma Specialist, Trauma Educator and Founder of Integrative Psychotherapy, her goal is to make sure that you are set up with just the right customized therapeutic experience to help you along your healing journey. While she is not accepting new clients, she has put together a team of talented therapists , who are each trained in advanced therapy methods to help you on your journey. My heart beats with hope for those who are hurting. I trust my team, with their individual expertise and wisdom to hold space and guide you towards real, wholesome healing.
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Processing Trauma with Esther Goldstein, LCSW
57m · PublishedI sit down with trauma therapist Esther Goldstein to figure out how to process a war on our people. We discuss why watching graphic photos and videos is so harmful, especially to children, the importance of regulating our nervous systems and practical exercises along with what to do if you’ve seen something you wish you hadn’t.
To find Esther's other conversation on Be Impactful, scroll back 3 episodes in your podcast feed.
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Esther Goldstein is a licensed clinical social worker in the Five Towns and surrounding areas. As a Trauma Specialist, Trauma Educator and Founder of Integrative Psychotherapy, her goal is to make sure that you are set up with just the right customized therapeutic experience to help you along your healing journey. While she is not accepting new clients, she has put together a team of talented therapists , who are each trained in advanced therapy methods to help you on your journey. My heart beats with hope for those who are hurting. I trust my team, with their individual expertise and wisdom to hold space and guide you towards real, wholesome healing.
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Life, Work and Loss with Miri Friedman
41m · PublishedI sit down with Miri Friedman, a mom, wife, and actuary to chat about her life and career. She shares how she knew she wanted to be an actuary, and how working through the actuary exams has changed her perspective on failure. We also discuss how her life was upended by a still birth and the organization she founded in her daughter’s memory, Kesser Menucha.
Miri Friedman is @mom.wife.actuary. The account was created to share the struggles and successes in a seemingly unknown corporate career path while also balancing a family. Miri currently works remote as an actuary and simultaneously takes intense actuarial exams to further her actuarial accreditation. She also started Kesser Menucha - a nonprofit to support families in the Baltimore community - with her husband in memory of their daughter.
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@kesermenucha
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Be Impactful by Impact Fashion has 242 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 195:11:40. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on July 29th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 25th, 2024 05:44.
