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Retirement isn't just about reaching a certain age—it's about creating the freedom and financial security to enjoy the life you've worked hard to build. But what does it really take to retire with confidence? In this epi


Hosted by Italian Impact Weekly · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 105 episodes
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Italian Impact Weekly is a local radio show in the Pittsburgh area which streams regularly. The host, Steve ’Stefano’ Mancini, has a great variety of guests from all over the world. The show is very entertaining and leaves the listeners hooked!
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Retirement isn't just about reaching a certain age—it's about creating the freedom and financial security to enjoy the life you've worked hard to build. But what does it really take to retire with confidence? In this epi

This week, Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono sit down with former NBA and international basketball standout, and recent Coach of the Year for the Italian Sports Hall of Fame (Pittsburgh chapter) inductee, Mike Iuzzolino

This week, Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono sit down with the legendary Tom Pipkins. For 30 seasons, Tom held the WPIAL boys’ basketball all-time scoring record with an incredible 2,838 career points before continuing

This week, Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono interview the legendary boxing promoter Jimmy Burchfield. Jimmy, the president and CEO of CES Boxing and CES MMA, has promoted some of the biggest names in boxing and his hum

This week, Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono interview the legendary pitcher, Jim Rooker. Jim had a highly successful career as a professional baseball player, winning 103 games as a pitcher, and following up his playin

This week, Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono interview Kim Lengling. Kim is an author who shares her love of nature, animals, living with PTSD, and her mission of tossing Nuggets of Hope into the world through writing a

This week, Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono interview Melissa Marinaro. Melissa is the Director of the Italian American Program at the Senator John Heinz History Center where she oversees the Italian American artifact

This week Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono interview a wonderful person, Stratton Nash. Stratton is a very active member of the community but his current passion is a documentary, "Their Story", which chronicles the bl

This week, Steve Mancini interviews Marta Cappellini from Passione Italiana. As Marta says, "Italian is in my blood and teaching is in my heart." This episode shows how you can turn your passion into a business and as a

Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono interview former NFL player, Ron Coder. Ron has a very interesting route into the NFL starting with high school in Japan! Ron later went onto play at Penn State and then the NFL where h

This week, Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono interview Steve Vaccariello. Steve is a world renowned photographer who has photographed some of the biggest names in the film and music industry. However, Steve is also a ve

This week, Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono interview the Kenyon College Hall of Famer, Tim Appleton. Tim was selected selected by the Detroit Pistons in Round 8 with Pick 12 in the 1977 NBA Draft. In this episode, Tim

This week Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono interview Alex Guminski, Alex is a Pittsburgh native and the President of Pro Zone. The Agency. He is also a Licensed Contract Advisor and Agent for the NFL, CFL and FIBA has

This week Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono interview former professional football player and business and community leader, John Skorupan, John played 8 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). After retiring, Jo

This week Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono interview Fran Tunno. Fran is a writer and essayist with articles published in The Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and The Glendale News P

This week, Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono interview the hosts from the Italian Steelers Nation Podcast. This interview shows Italians are very much in tune with what is happening over here, especially in sports. As s

This week, Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono interview Doland White. Doland is a highly sought after speaker and leadership coach whose journey started more than 40 years ago in the trenches — fixing help-desk problems,

This week, Steve Mancini interviews Gianluca Cinelli and Patrizia Piredda. In this episode we have an absolutely enthralling conversation on the importance of people's stories. Gianluca and Patrizia are leading an effort

This week, Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono interview one of the greatest basketball players to come out of western Pennsylvania, Baron "B.B." Flenory. B.B. had an amazing career at Duquesne University in the Pittsburg

This week, Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono interview Jodi Velazquez. Jodi is an award winning author and her recent book, Know the Enemy: Preventing Weight Gain, Diabetes and Disease is a collection of 16 years of doc
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Claudio Reilsono
Carnegie Mellon University
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Vinny Fasline
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Stephen Riggio
Former CEO of Barnes & Noble
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