Culture and Community Marcelo Jarmendia

Marcelo Jarmendia was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. He spent 10 years in Chicago, where he founded Brazil in Chicago, a language school and cultural center. Marcelo worked with different non-profits in Chicago and participated actively among the Brazilian community in Chicago. He still teaches online, from Estonia, where he currently lives and…

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Because Life is Too Short to Be Ho-Hum with Karen Putz

On this episode of Intercultural Spark we talk with Karen Putz, Passion Coach, Midlife Reinvention Challenge Mentor and founder of Ageless Passions. She’s also co-founder of TheDiversityAcademy.com, a diversity academy for interpreters for the deaf. Karen herself was born hard-of-hearing and became deaf after a barefoot skiing accident as a teen. But it was going back to that sport–in midlife—and competitively! — that changed everything.

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