Inspiring Lives with Dr. Shellie

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Dr. Shellie Hipsky is one busy woman! She juggles motherhood between her career as an educator/professor and her career as an inspiring author/talk show host.
Her show, Inspiring Lives with Dr. Shellie, hit the air this fall on NBC's Pittsburgh Cable News Channel on Monday at 7:30 p.m. The show features guests like Mariama Mounir Camara-Petrolawicz, the co-founder and CEO of There Is No Limit Foundation who takes the batiks created in her homeland of Guinea and puts them on the runway of NY Fashion Week. Moreover, Dawn Diaz with Milagros Day Worldwide has survived two generations of domestic violence and now helps others find their own dreams and goals.
Justin Brown is the executive director of The Education Partnership in Pittsburgh. He has raised over 40 million dollars worth of supplies and resources for the low socio-economic schools. He also works with the school where Hipsky was once the assistant principal.

Dr. Shellie Hipsky with her guest Dawn Diaz

Hipsky deeply connects with many of the guests through humanitarian work. Gertrude Matshe who works with HIV positive orphans in Zimbabwe, has distributed LuvMyWoobie.com blankets in Zimbabwe, and Hipsky has done the samee in the Pittsburgh homeless shelters. She is now co-teaching with Matshe at Robert Morris University since Matshe is RMU's International Rooney Scholar.
Hipsky describes her guests as all having a "tremendous impact" on her. As previously mentioned, she is very involved in the work of some of them, including Roy Juarez (Homeless By Choice), Matshe (Africa Alive), and Sally Powers (Treasure House Fashions) who have all joined her in her work in the homeless shelters. Moreover, Alicia Kozakiewicz, the first cyber predator kidnapping survivor, has worked in collaboration with Hipsky by working together on the National Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Dr. Hipsky with Andrea Kopach at the WPXI studio. 

Hipsky is also the vice president and co-founder of The Learning Mountain, an online tool for children learning to read. This company has now reached an international audience with customers from Europe and Africa. Kozakiewicz and Hipsky used this connection to host a national poster contest to see what safe looks like.
This Monday, November 12, Hipsky will be welcoming Powers as a guest. She is the president and founder of Treasure House Fashions, a non-profit organization aiming at empowering women by reselling fashionable clothes at great discounts. Power's organization has helped over 60 foundations.
Recently, Hipsky and her RMU students collaborated with Powers (who donated clothes, jewelries and shoes), Ashley Thompson's Elliven Spa (which did the makeovers), the Inspiring Lives Team, Dragonfly Studios to take the photographs of the single mothers with their children at the Adagio Healthy Start House for homeless mothers.
She then served as the MC for a successful Treasure House Fashions runway fashion show fundraiser.
Her mission for the talk show is to encourage her viewers to rise above challenges and to find ways to reach out to others through her guests. Her gratitude giving segment of the show co-hosted with Jennifer Hain features products that vie a portion of their proceeds to valuable causes.
Inspiring Lives with Dr. Shellie is also broadcasted on the Manhattan Media Network on Sundays at 10 p.m. and the chats have gone global with comments from Australia to Germany. The Triple Launch Party to showcase Inspiring Lives with Dr. Shellie featured over 400 Entrepreneurs and Professionals from EPN and was hosted by Dreams in Heels PR in NYC. We hope that you will tune in soon.
Here is a list of the remaining scheduled episodes with the dates and times.

Airdate PCNC MON at 7:30	MNN/Web SUN at 10PM	TOPICS	FEATURED GUEST
Nov 12	Nov 25	Divorce	Sally Powers & Nan Cohen
Nov 19	Dec 2	Domestic Violence	Maria Wall & Joel Jaro
Nov 26	Dec 9	Organ Transplant	Fer & Allie Iglesias, and Dr. Shellie’s Dad Dr. Jacobs
Dec 3	Dec 16	Parental Kidnapping	Scott Berne & Jill Zabinski-Berne
Dec 10	Dec 23	Super Mom	Dr. Summer Knight
Dec 17	Dec 30	Education	Justin Brown & Linda Hippert

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