Best Erin DuPree Podcasts (2025)

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Aspire to Be Episode 8: Erin Dupree 15:35

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Erin Dupree has dedicated a two-decade career in communications, mastering the art of conversation and tell unique stories for the organizations she worked for. And now as the owner of Bobble’s and Lace Atlanta, Erin is turning what felt like a moonshot into a reality.By Julie Cropp Gareleck

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Aspire to Be Episode 7: Danny Umali 35:14

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Danny Umali is building a unique approach to college admissions with Game Theory College Planners. Our conversation could easily have focused on the sometimes-turbulent college admissions process, or even the impact of AI adoption. At the root, Danny is building a business where the model is continuously shifting (I can relate–marketing is similar)…

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Aspire to Be Episode 6: Diana Murphy 42:40

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Diana is a powerhouse. Not only does she help her clients navigate life and career, but she also hosts her own podcast, “The Leader’s Table.” Diana’s energy is unmatched, and I value her advice as a leader in this space. I hope you try the techniques and recommendations from this episode. I can guarantee you’ll be ready to enlist Diana Murphy Coach…

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Aspire to Be Episode 5: Mark Cropp 48:53

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I am excited to be able to document my father’s journey from a corporate career to becoming a business owner. Mark is a seasoned corporate executive, building a successful career at Westinghouse/Schindler Elevator, and ultimately investing in himself as he pursued real estate interests that led to the purchase of The Avenue Restaurant.…

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Aspire to Be Episode 4: Steve Gareleck 44:47

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Steve Gareleck is a professionally trained CEO and serial entrepreneur with more than 25 years and 20 companies contributing to his success. His portfolio includes work in telecom, professional services, real estate (residential and commercial), professional tennis, hospitality, and now nanotechnology. Steve’s impact goes far beyond the board room.…

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Aspire to Be Episode 3: Tiffani Utz 35:08

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Tiffani Utz sits down to discuss her career as a teacher, an elementary school principal and an administrator, and the importance of servant leadership. Tiffani didn’t initially set out to become an educator like the rest of her family, but there was no denying that education was her calling. The similarities between the educational system and busi…

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Aspire to Be Episode 2: Jeff Taves 40:11

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In this episode of Aspire to Be, Julie Cropp Gareleck interviews Jeff Taves, a long time friend and fellow business owner. Jeff has an amazing background, starting his career in radio broadcasting, and taking on roles in sales, development, marketing, and consulting. His career includes businesses you’ll recognize like IBM, Gartner, and Junction Cr…

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Aspire to Be: Episode 1 1:46

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Aspire to Be is a business podcast gaining popularity for providing listeners and viewers with authentic and inspiring stories from leading entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders. Julie Cropp Gareleck shares unique insights, perspectives, and strategies that are relatable and actionable. The host strives to provide an engaging experience from …

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Episode 33: Episode 33: Preaching Hope with Kayla August 36:21

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Kayla August is a vibrant, up-and-coming leader in the U.S. Catholic community. Maybe you heard her preach on Christmas Eve 2020 on Catholic Women Preach. Maybe you heard her speak at the 2021 FutureChurch Feast of St. Mary of Magdala. Maybe you heard her just last month at Saturdays with the Saints at Notre Dame University speaking about Thea Bowm…

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Episode 32: Episode 32: Catholic Climate Covenant with Anna Robertson 42:29

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You know how sometimes you hear someone talk about climate change… global warming, the island of plastic in the ocean, the destruction of forests around the globe, all that stuff and you feel just so weighed down, guilty, and well, hopeless? Get ready for a hope firehose…Anna Robertson is the Director of Youth and Young Adult Mobilization for Catho…

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Episode 31: Episode 31:: Priestess with Erin Duffy-Burke 49:33

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Trigger warning: Erin talks about her sister’s death by suicide in this episode. Please take care of yourself and maybe skip this episode if this subject will trigger you today. Erin Duffy-Burke is many things. She works as an independent minister, spiritual director, yoga therapist, birth doula, the list goes on. We talk about Mary and Jesus, birt…

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Episode 30: Episode 30: Modern Catholics with Maureen Day 51:05

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Maureen Day is a sociologist, specializing in American Catholics. She studies us, interviews us, and writes about us. Her most recent book is Catholic Activism Today: Individual Transformation and the Struggle for Social Justice. We’re talking data. We talk about models of Catholic activism in the 21st century. She is finding that Catholics are eng…

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Episode 29: Episode 29: Beauty in Broken Places with Elizabeth Bowler 56:17

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** Trigger warning ** the stories in this episode include intimate partner violence, suicidality, and other traumas related to being unhoused. Please take care of yourself as you listen and consider skipping this episode today if these subjects will trigger you. Elizabeth Bowler is a social entrepreneur in Oakland. After being away from the Califor…

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Episode 28: Episode 28: Raising Kids for a Just World with Lydia Wylie-Kellermann 51:33

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Today I’m talking with Lydia Wylie-Kellermann. She’s an author and activist I’ve admired for a long time, and I’m so happy to share her with you. Her latest book, The Sandbox Revolution, is a collection of essays from parent-activists around the U.S. It offers advice for raising children committed to social justice in the world today. Lydia offers …

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Episode 27: Episode 27: Called to Priesthood with Anne Tropeano 43:04

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Today I’m talking with Anne Tropeano! She’s also known as Father Anne, and will be ordained a Roman Catholic Womanpriest on October 16, 2021. She wants to see the Roman Catholic Church start ordaining women in her lifetime. You will love her down to earth way of relating to God, hear about her vision for ministry, and what she says about the role o…

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Episode 26: Episode 26: Discerning Deacons with Ellie Hidalgo 52:34

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Welcome back for Season 4! Today I’m talking with Ellie Hidalgo. She’s on staff with Discerning Deacons, a recent effort to promote dialogue around the issue of reinstating women deacons in the Catholic Church. We talk about this recent movement to recover the true memory of women in early Christianity - shout out to St. Phoebe- and about Ellie’s p…

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Episode 25: Episode 25: Catholic Leadership with Kerry Robinson 46:51

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My guest today is Kerry Robinson. She is an international leader in the field of excellence in Church leadership. She has spent the last 15 years traveling the world, bringing together outstanding leaders in the business and nonprofit worlds with the ordained leaders of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church to achieve excellence in leadership and man…

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Episode 24: Episode 24: Justice & Community in Central America with Kate Carter 48:43

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Kate Carter has lived a life dedicated to social justice. She became a Jesuit Volunteer in 1978, serving in Montana. She went on to work for JVC and became deeply involved in Central America solidarity work. She was a key member of a group that was bringing news of the oppression of the poor in Central America to faith communities in the U.S. durin…

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Episode 23: Episode 23: A Wild and Precious Life with Emily Win 48:41

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**Trigger warning: we talk about sexual violence in this episode; listen with caution.** Emily Win is a writer and podcaster who is navigating so many intersections. She’s a queer person, a person of faith, and a person of color. And now she’s a Californian too! I came to know about her through the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. It’s a volunteer program i…

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Episode 22: Work, Motherhood, and Spirituality with Maureen Dunn Fetscher 50:03

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Well, I did something different this week. See, I reached out to my old friend, Maureen Dunn Fetscher, to talk about her business, Mata Traders. We were best pals in middle school and then went separate ways for a long time. We’ve been in very loose touch, but we circle back about every 10 years… and this is our 10-year circle back. Maureen went on…

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Episode 21: Episode 21: Radical Catholicism with Abby Rampone 40:55

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Abby Rampone is the Communication and Activities Coordinator for Call to Action USA. It’s an organization dedicated to reform in the Roman Catholic Church. She grew up in a Catholic family in Vermont, but really became committed to her faith while in college, so much so that she felt called to attend seminary. She just finished her Master of Divini…

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Episode 20: Episode 20: Owning Your Value with Neha Sampat 57:05

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Today we’re talking to Neha Sampat. She is the Chief Executive Officer , founder, coach, and consultant at GenLead|BelongLab, where she focuses on building belonging and true inclusion. She is an expert on Imposter Syndrome and internalized bias, generational diversity, and BELONGING. “Cool, Molleen. How do you know her?” The short answer is that w…

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Episode 19: Episode 19: Getting Real with Gabrielle Blair 56:39

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Today we are talking with Gabrielle Blair. You might know her from blogging and social media as Design Mom. She is a powerhouse in the world of blogging and design. She has six (!) children and currently lives in Normandy, France where she’s renovating a couple of properties, blogging many times a week, and basically killing it as an entrepreneur. …

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Episode 18: Episode 18: A Radical, Eucharistic Life with Jamie L. Manson 46:41

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Jamie L. Manson wrote the column entitled Grace on the Margins for the paper for 12 years. She recently left that post to become the President of Catholics for Choice. We talk about her journey as an out-lesbian Catholic journalist. We talk about reproductive health as a human right. We talk about her deep sacramental spirituality. We talk about Po…

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Episode 17: A Queer Catholic Experience with Zinzy Nev Geene 41:41

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Zinzy Nev Geene is a Dutch queer Catholic activist and facilitator. She lives in Amsterdam where she has a day job as a digital designer and, on the side, she fosters safe places for queer people to “just be.” She calls it being a queer facilitator. She is on the board of the emerging organization Vine and Fig co, a online space for queer Catholics…

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Episode 16: Holy Boldness with Lydia Tinajero Deck 42:10

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Wondering what it would be like to have a woman deacon at your Catholic parish? One who has a day job as a medical doctor? Let’s daydream together while we listen to Lydia Tinajero Deck. This is On a Mission - Episode 16! Find links to all the cool things Lydia mentions at www.molleendupreedominguez.com…

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Episode 15: Doing the Work Your Soul Must Have with Casey Stanton 36:27

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Today is Casey Stanton Day! I first heard about Casey through the Catholic Women Preach movement. Her homily knocked me off my feet. It’s so good. She’s a community organizer, a pastoral minister, and a superb preacher. It was such a blast to talk with her. Be sure to check out the show notes for this episode at molleendupreedominguez.com where you…

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On a Mission, Episode 14: Gun Violence Activism with Anna Mahony 39:43

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Today I’m talking with Anna Mahony. She is an activist with Moms Demand Action and a mother of two. In our conversation we talk about the organization, which she calls just “Moms” and how setting gun violence activism as a priority in her life has focused her public advocacy. We also talk about setting boundaries and being a leader in your own life…

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Episode 13: Women's Ordination Conference with Katie Lacz 53:16

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Today I’m talking with Katie Lacz. She works for Women’s Ordination Conference, the United States branch of a worldwide movement to urge the Roman Catholic Church to reform and welcome women into ordained ministry. Find more details at www.molleendupreedominguez.com

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Episode 12: Writing our Prayers with Rev. Fran Pratt 56:48

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Did you ever come into prayer with so much heaviness, grief, or misery that you just couldn’t put it into words? You might just need Fran Pratt. She’s my guest today. She’s known online at The Litanist. That is, she writes litanies. They’re beautiful articulations of emotion and truth, giving individuals and communities words to pray about hard stu…

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Episode 11: Going Viral and Staying Dedicated with Cameron Bellm 54:16

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Today I’m talking with Cameron Bellm. About a year ago, she started publishing her writing on Instagram- and, y’all, it blew up! She started publishing prayers during the Pandemic of 2020… they resonated… and they were shared and repurposed all over the world. She collected those pandemic prayers in an ebook. And now she’s writing a hardcover book.…

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Episode 10: Living the Call to Social Justice with Brian Stanley 44:43

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Today I’m talking with Brian Stanley, an education nonprofit executive living in Oakland. He’s a Black Catholic man raising two Black boys, along with his amazing wife, Celeste. Our conversation covers the ways his faith influences his quarantine, why he thinks White people are waking up to racist policies in the U.S. NOW, and his work in the educa…

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Episode 8: Catholic Cartoonist and Writer Gene Yang 1:00:41

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Gene Yang is a Bay Area native, author, and teacher. While teaching computer science at the Catholic high school where I now teach he also casually wrote an award-winning graphic novel, American Born Chinese. It was a finalist for the National Book Award in the category of young people’s literature. It did win many awards outright. Let me list them…

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On a Mission, Episode 7: Dr. Kellie McElhaney 33:44

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Dr. Kellie McElhaney is the founding director of the Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. She started her career in banking, which she calls a heavily masculine industry, where women were compelled to exercise leadership in a masculine way. She is fighting the good fight in the corporate world to insis…

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Episode 6: Wisdom and Money with Rose Feerick 1:01:21

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Did you ever inherit money? Did you wish you did? This podcast is the story of what my friend Rose Feerick did when she inherited a bunch of money after college graduation. How do we face and deal with our wealth when we call ourselves Christians? When you inherit a bunch of money - would you invest it for your progeny? Would you give it all away? …

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Episode 5: Another pro-life movement is possible with Dr. Emily Reimer-Barry 57:36

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Today is a great for you, dear listener. Today I have the privilege of talking with Dr. Emily Reimer-Barry, associate professor of Theology and Religious Studies at University of San Diego. If you read my blog, you may recognize her name as someone who presented at Catholic Theological Society of America’s conference last summer - and received a st…

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Episode 4: Forging Paths for Moms with Xouhoa Bowen 1:50:44

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Today it’s Xouhoa Bowen. She is an activist, former PeaceCorps volunteer, and the founder and CEO of Community Impact Lab, a nonprofit organization in my neighborhood dedicated to taking action and to expanding opportunities for everyone, especially women and children. She’s a mom and talks about how becoming a mom made her more fierce in what she …

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On a Mission, Episode 1: Anne Symens-Bucher 1:13:27

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On today’s episode we chat with Anne Symens-Bucher, co-visionary behind Oakland, California’s Canticle Farm, a Franciscan-inspired community of activists, families and other folks growing food, sharing with the neighborhood, and building community. Our conversation went in a bunch of different directions - we ended up talking about the Enneagram, b…

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Episode 3: Living Catholic Social Teaching with Fumi Tosu 1:01:39

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Fumi Tosu and I went to school together at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. Since then, he has committed himself to following the spirit of God, which has glided him back across the globe to his home country of Japan to savor his cultural heritage, back to California to minister with people experiencing homelessness at the Catholic Worker…

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Episode 2: Faith and Capital with Chase Tibbs 54:50

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If you don’t know Chase Tibbs, host of the Faith + Capital podcast, I’m so excited to introduce him to you. He’s a pastor’s kid from Indiana, raised in a conservative White evangelical community… but he started asking questions. “Is there only one Christian interpretation of sexuality?” “What about the Bible? Is there only one way to read that docu…