Loudoun Impact
Episodes
28 episodes
Sharon Virts: Masque of Honor
Sharon Virts was born and raised in Loudoun County. She and her husband have spent the past few years renovating Selma Mansion that sits at the base of Catoctin Mountain. Sharon has just published her first book, Masque of Hon...
Frank Holtz: USMC Toys for Tots
Frank is a retired United States Marine Gunnery Sgt who now leads the Loudoun County effort for the USMC Toys for Tots Charity. Frank shares some of the challenges that Covid is presenting this year. On the...
Jennifer Breaux: Breaux Vineyards
Breaux Vineyards in one of the first wineries in Loudoun County and one of the first 50 in all of Virginia. Jen has taken the reins of this family run business from her father Paul Breaux. Jen talks about her fathers entrepreneuria...
Loudoun Serenity House: Melissa Hinton
Melissa Hinton is the founder and Director of Loudoun Serenity House. A local non-profit with a mission to provide supportive and affordable residential services to women striving for their best life, a sober life, free from ...
Mrs. Ketterman: Kettermans Jewelers
Mrs. Ketterman and her husband Dan have been operating one of the most successful jewelery stores in Loudoun over the past few decades.Mrs Ketterman talks about some of her guiding principles as well as her strong faith as a Christian. ...
Gregory Brown: Chief of Police, Leesburg VA
It was a privilege to interview Chief Brown last week. We sat on the back patio at Shoes Cup and Cork on a 90 degree day doing our best to social distance with masks. These are challenging times but Chief Brown emphasized that the ...
Ken Falke: Chairman and Founder of Boulder Crest Foundation
Boulder Crest Foundation is located right here in Loudoun County. They are a leader in the field of posttraumatic growth for combat veterans, first responders and their families. Ken Falke is the Chairman and Founder of Boulder Cre...
Chris Wadsworth: Founder of "The Burn"
If you are on Facebook in Loudoun County you probably are familiar with "The Burn" But do you know anything about the founder and editor, Chris Wadsworth. He is a really interesting guy and I had a lot fun chatting with him about h...
Memorial Day: Remembering Lt Tom Waterbury. April 15, 1992
I imagine everyone that has served has a similar story. Circumstances that allowed you to live through a twist of fate.Every Memorial Day for the past 27 years I think of my friend Lt. Tom Waterbury. Tom died off the coast of P...
Kristen Umstattd: Loudoun County Supervisor
Did you know Supervisor Umstadtt was a Naval Reserve Officer in 80's, where she translated Soviet naval documents from Russian into English. She later was a CIA analyst specializing in Soviet naval capabilities. Supervisor Umstad...
Kristina Bouweiri: President and CEO of Reston Limousine
From boarding school in Africa with the children of Nelson Mandela, to cold calling out of the phone book selling advertising, to growing a $200,000 company into a 30 million dollar powerhouse in Northern VA, Kristina Bouweiri has had quite the...
Phyllis Randall: Loudoun County Supervisors Chair
Chair Randall has had a long career in politics, both at the state and local level, however her original profession is as a mental health therapist. Born in Stuttgart Germany as one of 6 children in a military family, Chair Randall was ra...
Russ Seymour: Director Leesburg Economic Development
Russ lives just down the street from me but due to the Covid, we chatted over Zoom. Russ has previous experience working on long range planning in Stafford County and then with Economic Development in Williamsburg before taking his curren...
Keith Barrett: Vesta Settlements
What exactly do settlement companies do? Why are they so important to the process of buying a home or refinancing a mortgage? Keith Barrett is the founder of Vesta Settlements. Keith discusses how Vesta is still comple...
