Girl Power (#20)
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Wise women come from great girls! This week we explored how girls become great, with the help of a bevy of very wise women.
Our guests included
- Robin Hodgskin of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and Margaret O'Keefe of Pierce Atwood
- Joanne Arnold, Body, Mind & Sport Strength Trainer and Consultant
- Tara Treichel of Coastal Studies for Girls
This week our "Wellness Innovations" segment, sponsored by the University of New England, described recent studies on women's longevity, from the Scientific American website.
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Robin Lin Hodgskin, CFP® is a Senior Vice President, Family Wealth Director with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MSSB). She has fulfilled roles as Complex Business Development Officer and as Branch Office Manager of the Smith Barney Portland, ME office for 13 years, as well as serving on the CEO’s Diversity Advisory Board.
Robin has worked at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and its predecessors firms for over twenty four years, ten of these as a Financial Advisor in Boston before moving to Portland as the Branch Office Manager in 1996. Robin has a Bachelor’s degree from Bates College and an MBA from Boston University.
As a Family Wealth Director, Robin is among a select group that has access to the vast resources of a world-class financial powerhouse to help meet the complex, and often unique, needs of families with wealth. The specialized wealth advisory services include family governance and dynamics, philanthropic services, wealth preservation and investment management.
She is very active in the community and her outreach work has taken her to Honduras and to Guatemala where she worked with Safe Passage to support the education of children living in the Guatemala City garbage dump. Working with BuildOn, she and her family also built a school in Mali Africa. Robin has served on the board of the Maine Women’s Fund and the Ministerial Fund and as a Deacon at First Parish Church. She lives in Yarmouth, ME where she enjoys singing, skiing, golf, hiking, biking, kayaking, and the many other wonders of Maine with her husband Art Bell and their three children: Becca, Geoff, and Chris.
Robin has worked at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and its predecessors firms for over twenty four years, ten of these as a Financial Advisor in Boston before moving to Portland as the Branch Office Manager in 1996. Robin has a Bachelor’s degree from Bates College and an MBA from Boston University.
As a Family Wealth Director, Robin is among a select group that has access to the vast resources of a world-class financial powerhouse to help meet the complex, and often unique, needs of families with wealth. The specialized wealth advisory services include family governance and dynamics, philanthropic services, wealth preservation and investment management.
She is very active in the community and her outreach work has taken her to Honduras and to Guatemala where she worked with Safe Passage to support the education of children living in the Guatemala City garbage dump. Working with BuildOn, she and her family also built a school in Mali Africa. Robin has served on the board of the Maine Women’s Fund and the Ministerial Fund and as a Deacon at First Parish Church. She lives in Yarmouth, ME where she enjoys singing, skiing, golf, hiking, biking, kayaking, and the many other wonders of Maine with her husband Art Bell and their three children: Becca, Geoff, and Chris.
Margaret Minister O’Keefe is a partner at the law firm of Pierce Atwood. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Margaret's practice focuses on copyrights and trademarks, brand and product licensing, software and new technology licensing, privacy and data security, intellectual property asset management, and intellectual property protection and enforcement. Margaret was recently featured in the January/February 2012 issue of Maine Magazine.
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Our Maine Magazine Minutes featured Joanne Arnold. Joanne Arnold may be best known for her work as a strength trainer with swimmer Ian Crocker, Olympic Gold Medalist. Joanne Arnold is the country's first Body, Mind & Sport Strength Trainer and Consultant , certified by John Douillard, author of BODY,MIND & SPORT. She trains individuals of all ages and abilities focusing on core strengthening,proprioception, balance and postural alignment.
As a trainer she believes "We all work too much and need to remember the lost art of play." Joanne operates on the premise that "The body and mind are inseparable partners...who often need relationship work." She believes consciousness is the competitive edge and awareness our most powerful tool for developing strength and transformation. She is interested in disfranchising the stress recover modality of conventional training and supporting a program to create a body cell by cell, thought by thought.
Joanne will appear in the March issue of Maine Magazine.
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Our "Give Back" segment featured Tara Treichel of Coastal Studies for Girls (CSG). The country's first science and leadership semester school for tenth grade girls, they are now offering residential and wilderness programs in the Summer of 2012 for girls, women and educators. CSG is dedicated to 
those who have a love for learning and discovery, an adventurous spirit, and a desire for challenge. Follow the adventures through their facebook and blog links on the homepage of their website.
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As part of the Dr. Lisa Radio Hour we read our weekly quote from Our Daily Tread, the book created to support the organization Safe Passage. Our Daily Tread has raised more than $22,000 since 2008.
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Join us next Sunday, February 5 at 11 am for the next Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast on WLOB radio Portland 1310 AM/streaming online. Our topic will be "Health Wealth" and guests will include Tom Shepard of Shepard Financial, Susan Conley, author of The Foremost Good Fortune, and Linda Varrell and Frankee Chapa of Maine Youth Leadership.
Support for the Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast is graciously provided by Akari, Maine magazine, Tom Shepard from Shepard Financial, Mike LePage & Beth Franklin from ReMax Heritage, Robin Hodgskin of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Pierce Atwood, Booth Maine and Dr. John Herzog of Orthopedic Specialists.
