We Rise By Lifting Each Other

Host Michelle Beck welcomes Jacobsen Valentine, Executive Director of Feed The Mass in Portland, Oregon.

Feed The Mass aims to empower and connect the community through food. Feed The Mass promotes we…

Host Michelle Beck welcomes Brad Franklin, Executive Director of Every Body Athletics.

Every Body Athletics is working to create lasting impact on the physical, social, and emotional wellbeing of adul…

 
Host Michelle Beck welcomes Lindsay McDonnell, Executive Director of Project Lemonade, based in Portland, Oregon.

Since 2012, Project Lemonade has provided high-quality services to meet the needs of …

Host Michelle Beck welcomes MESO – Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon, Cobi Lewis – CEO/Executive Director & Joshua Jacobs – Business Development Manager. MESO’s mission is to elevate under-resource…

Host Michelle Beck welcomes Rachel “Rae” Crowder to discuss the company she founded, Black Health Lit.

Black Health Lit’s mission is to ignite a movement that promotes better health for Black American…

In this episode, Host Michelle Beck shares more about who she is, her book, I Never Liked Pink: Lessons Cancer Taught Me, why she started this podcast and the next step of her career on stage to help…

Host Michelle Beck welcomes Robert Washington-Vaughns to discuss how the Black Men Flower Project celebrates the Power of Flowers!

Black Men Flower Project is a non-profit program focused on the celeb…

In this episode, Host Michelle Beck looks back at her major accomplishments for 2023 and does a quick recap of each of the 23 episodes of 'We Rise By Lifting Each Other.'

In honor of the episode's New…

Host Michelle Beck welcomes Erik Conradson, Founder and Executive Director of Courage Incorporated, focused on helping individuals and veterans with physical disabilities and those dealing with chron…

Host Michelle Beck welcomes Mike Ball, Executive Director, & Gretchen Pleuss, Associate Director, to talk about Lost Voices – Saving Lives, One Song at a Time.

Lost Voices is an organization founded t…

Host Michelle Beck welcomes photographer and breast cancer warrior, Danyel Rogers, to discuss the Warrior Women Portrait Experience which she has created to celebrate the strength, beauty, and resili…

Host Michelle Beck welcomes Miss Oregon 2023 Allison Burke to talk about food insecurity and what she is doing to fight that in our community with Food Security 4 All.

Allison’s interest in fighting h…

Host Michelle Beck welcomes Allison Hancock, the Executive Director of Breast Friends.

Breast Friends mission is to ensure that no woman goes through a diagnosis of cancer alone. We strive to be relev…

Host Michelle Beck welcomes Elise Laubach from Family Promise of Tualatin Valley.

PFTV’s mission is to equip vulnerable families and individuals to end the cycle of homelessness through a community-ba…

Host Michelle Beck welcomes Claudia Valderrama, Co-Founder & Jessi Podd, President, of Portland based non-profit Youth Charity League to talk about how they are raising socially conscious kids.

Youth …

Host Michelle Beck welcomes her friend Luba Sasowski, SHE-E-O of Bryght, to talk about her journey to the top and how along the way she has supported and continues to pave the way for other women.

Lub…

Host Michelle Beck welcomes Dr. Julie Spaniel, Executive Director of One World Brigades, whose mission is two-fold: to assist international communities with dental care and education, and to open the…

Host Michelle Beck is on her own today for a minisode as she talks about a new study which links volunteering in the senior community to improved cognitive and brain health.
 
 For today's "Happy Hour"…

Host Michelle Beck welcomes Tobi Rates, Executive Director of the Autism Society of Oregon, to talk about how ASO and their mission to create connections, empowering everyone in the Autism community …

Host Michelle Beck welcomes Alicia Kabir, CEO of Kesem, to talk about how Kesem is committed to creating a world where every child who has a parent with a cancer diagnosis or has lost a parent to can…