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  <title>Episode 9: Tammy Thompson, Executive Director, Circles of Greater Pittsburgh</title>
  <description>Empower by Example &amp;amp;nbsp; Episode 9: Tammy Thompson, Executive Director, Circles of Greater Pittsburgh http://circlespgh.org T3 Consulting and T3 Media: https://www.tammytthompson.com &amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp; Tammy is a Poverty Expert, Nationally Sought After Speaker, Executive Producer of We Wear The Mask, a documentary released in 2017&amp;amp;nbsp;highlighting the stigma associated with&amp;amp;nbsp;women in poverty and The Owner of T3 Consulting and T3 Media.&amp;amp;nbsp; Her work has been featured in The Pittsburgh Post Gazette.&amp;amp;nbsp; She is a mother of five and grandmother of 17.&amp;amp;nbsp; She now lives in Pittsburgh and is raising her granddaughter. &amp;amp;nbsp; In this episode, we question how much money has been wasted by continuing to address the issues of poverty in the same ways, year after year.&amp;amp;nbsp; What is the human cost of not getting this right?&amp;amp;nbsp; We should be ringing alarms. &amp;amp;nbsp; Tammy shares her own issues with food insecurity and how she worked to overcome her subconscious, trying to fill the void of never having enough to eat.&amp;amp;nbsp; She has found that many individuals she works with are experiencing food insecurity because of the time they spent as a younger person without regular access to food.&amp;amp;nbsp; We also talk about what it feels like to teach others a vital concept when you have not fully learned it yourself, and how important it is for you to go on teaching it anyhow. &amp;amp;nbsp; Circles USA has been working on an issue called The Cliff Effect, which penalizes people for taking steps to get out of poverty.&amp;amp;nbsp; Tammy explains the trap of government subsidies and how people are really being impacted by the “cliff”.&amp;amp;nbsp; She describes the very real situations facing many Americans living under the poverty line who are unable to break out. &amp;amp;nbsp; You can find Tammy on social media.&amp;amp;nbsp; Check out her events!!&amp;amp;nbsp; On Friday, November 8th Tammy is hosting an anniversary party for The Gallery on Penn.&amp;amp;nbsp; Join us there!&amp;amp;nbsp; https://www.facebook.com/events/621872778344035/ &amp;amp;nbsp; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tammy.t.thompson IG:https://www.instagram.com/tammytthompson/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tammy-thompson-22385532/ Tammy’s book, Spending Log: https://www.tammytthompson.com/product-page/spending-log &amp;amp;nbsp; Music by Buscrates (https://www.instagram.com/buscrates/?hl=de) </description>
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