Paige Vaccaro's guest appearances

Paige Vaccaro

Out Of The Blank

White People, Black Lives Matter!

Avi's First Podcast

Elon Musk

Nick Carter

Corey Peterson

Phil Smith

Chris Adams

Keith Carter

Andrew Parker

Andrew Peters

James Johnson

Rachel Smith

Michael Shermer

Mick West

Brian Dunning

Zoltan Istvan

Dave Thomas

OwlTail

October 10th is World Mental Health Day. In recognition of this Avi Grace sits down with Paige Vaccaro who is a mom, educator, poet, and activist. Paige tells the story of how working in gardens helped her heal her own Mental Health while also getting her community involved in gardening and excited about fresh food. This discussion about Mental Health includes personal accounts, observations, and poetry written while overcoming mental health challenges. Trigger Warning: This conversation talks about depression, self-harm, trauma, and sexual assault. Paige Vaccaro founded a community gardening organization called C.R.O.P.S. (Communities Revolutionizing Open Public Spaces) based in Southern Jersey.  She is also active in her local and national poetry scenes. Paige is the co-host of, “Black Poetry Matters,” a bi-monthly virtual open mic poetry showcase that is streamed lived on the Black Poetry Matters South Jersey Facebook page. Her work is also featured in an upcoming movie short called, “United We Heal”. Follow Paige’s work on Instagram @flybypoetry, @cropsnj, and @unitedwehealshort. If you or someone you know is having Suicidal Ideations reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255 or at http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/ Avi Grace is a Queer Non-Binary Woman, Poet, and Preacher currently living in the Charlotte Metro Area. Both a twenty-five-year Christian, and a twenty-five-year Stutter Survivor, Avi Grace has ministered to over 100,000 people in her almost twenty-year public speaking career. Her goal in life is to make manifest the Glory of GOD that is within her. More of Avi Grace’s story is available in her book, “True Colors: Retrieving My Rainbow”, available now on Amazon in both Kindle and paperback forms. https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B07GVS5FHR&amp;preview=newtab&amp;linkCode=kpe&amp;ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_zbgLFbP79C8BA Follow Avi Grace on Social Media: Instagram @avi.grace.proverbs Facebook @avi.grace.proverbs Mirakee @avigraceproverbs Twitter: @theavigrace--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/agjproverbs/support

October 10th is World Mental Health Day. In recognition of this Avi Grace sits down with Paige Vaccaro who is a mom, educator, poet, and activist. Paige tells the story of how working in gardens helped her heal her own Mental Health while also getting her community involved in gardening and excited about fresh food. This discussion about Mental Health includes personal accounts, observations, and poetry written while overcoming mental health challenges. Trigger Warning: This conversation talks about depression, self-harm, trauma, and sexual assault. Paige Vaccaro founded a community gardening organization called C.R.O.P.S. (Communities Revolutionizing Open Public Spaces) based in Southern Jersey.  She is also active in her local and national poetry scenes. Paige is the co-host of, “Black Poetry Matters,” a bi-monthly virtual open mic poetry showcase that is streamed lived on the Black Poetry Matters South Jersey Facebook page. Her work is also featured in an upcoming movie short called, “United We Heal”. Follow Paige’s work on Instagram @flybypoetry, @cropsnj, and @unitedwehealshort. If you or someone you know is having Suicidal Ideations reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255 or at <a href="http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/</a> Avi Grace is a Queer Non-Binary Woman, Poet, and Preacher currently living in the Charlotte Metro Area. Both a twenty-five-year Christian, and a twenty-five-year Stutter Survivor, Avi Grace has ministered to over 100,000 people in her almost twenty-year public speaking career. Her goal in life is to make manifest the Glory of GOD that is within her. More of Avi Grace’s story is available in her book, “True Colors: Retrieving My Rainbow”, available now on Amazon in both Kindle and paperback forms. <a href="https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B07GVS5FHR&amp;preview=newtab&amp;linkCode=kpe&amp;ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_zbgLFbP79C8BA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B07GVS5FHR&amp;preview=newtab&amp;linkCode=kpe&amp;ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_zbgLFbP79C8BA</a> Follow Avi Grace on Social Media: Instagram @avi.grace.proverbs Facebook @avi.grace.proverbs Mirakee @avigraceproverbs Twitter: @theavigrace--- Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/agjproverbs/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/agjproverbs/support</a>

Tackling Taboo Topics: A Candid Conversation about Mental Health with Paige Vaccaro

Paige Vaccaro was born on Long Island to loving parents who happened to come from different racial and religious backgrounds. Her mother, Paula is Jewish and of Russian and English descent, whose father Milton served as a pilot in WWII. Her father, Michael, was an African-American raised Baptist in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with family roots that traced back to slavery. He attended a segregated school and faced racism in the height of the Civil Rights Movement while on athletic scholarship at Tennessee State. The two met while teaching in the same elementary school, kindergarten and physical education respectively, just 7 years after the Loving case made interracial marriage legal.Paige began writing poetry in 7th grade and throughout her schooling was recognized as having a gift with words. The summer of her junior year of high school she took a journalism course at NYU for young women of color and that was where her passion for using her writing and eye for photography to promote social change. She went on to study English and Political Science at Rutgers University and graduated with honors as a Henry Rutgers Scholar. After college, Paige was accepted into Teach for America and completed student teaching in the Bronx before relocating to Baltimore where she taught 3rd grade and earned her MAT in Teaching from Johns Hopkins University. After 12 years of teaching in public schools in Baltimore, Brooklyn, Newark, and Ocean Township, NJ, Paige relocated to Atlantic County and set out to forage new paths to bridge the gaps within and between communities by founding the nonprofit organization, Communities Revolutionizing Open Public Spaces (C.R.O.P.S.). C.R.O.P.S. connects communities through farmers markets, community gardens, paid internships, and educational programming. www.cropsnj.org She has also penned a few blogs such as www.pushingthependulum.com and started a small business called Plant A Seed, LLC where she provides educational and garden consulting as well as yoga, meditation and Vedic numerology. Paige’s zeal for helping others parallels her deep-rooted connection to the earth, which she believes is a great equalizer. By empowering people to connect with nature and with one another, she believes that everyone benefits regardless of their age, socioeconomic status, experience, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or political beliefs. She believes with unequivocal faith that small, positive gestures have a deep and lasting impact on the community at large and the individual within. Her father used to say, “Girl, no grass grows under your feet!” That saying is true because you can always find her on the move with her four children right beside her, planting seeds everywhere she can and nurturing them with love.

Paige Vaccaro was born on Long Island to loving parents who happened to come from different racial and religious backgrounds. Her mother, Paula is Jewish and of Russian and English descent, whose father Milton served as a pilot in WWII. Her father, Michael, was an African-American raised Baptist in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with family roots that traced back to slavery. He attended a segregated school and faced racism in the height of the Civil Rights Movement while on athletic scholarship at Tennessee State. The two met while teaching in the same elementary school, kindergarten and physical education respectively, just 7 years after the Loving case made interracial marriage legal. Paige began writing poetry in 7th grade and throughout her schooling was recognized as having a gift with words. The summer of her junior year of high school she took a journalism course at NYU for young women of color and that was where her passion for using her writing and eye for photography to promote social change. She went on to study English and Political Science at Rutgers University and graduated with honors as a Henry Rutgers Scholar. After college, Paige was accepted into Teach for America and completed student teaching in the Bronx before relocating to Baltimore where she taught 3rd grade and earned her MAT in Teaching from Johns Hopkins University. After 12 years of teaching in public schools in Baltimore, Brooklyn, Newark, and Ocean Township, NJ, Paige relocated to Atlantic County and set out to forage new paths to bridge the gaps within and between communities by founding the nonprofit organization, Communities Revolutionizing Open Public Spaces (C.R.O.P.S.). C.R.O.P.S. connects communities through farmers markets, community gardens, paid internships, and educational programming. <a href="http://www.cropsnj.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.cropsnj.org</a> She has also penned a few blogs such as <a href="http://www.pushingthependulum.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.pushingthependulum.com</a> and started a small business called Plant A Seed, LLC where she provides educational and garden consulting as well as yoga, meditation and Vedic numerology. Paige’s zeal for helping others parallels her deep-rooted connection to the earth, which she believes is a great equalizer. By empowering people to connect with nature and with one another, she believes that everyone benefits regardless of their age, socioeconomic status, experience, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or political beliefs. She believes with unequivocal faith that small, positive gestures have a deep and lasting impact on the community at large and the individual within. Her father used to say, “Girl, no grass grows under your feet!” That saying is true because you can always find her on the move with her four children right beside her, planting seeds everywhere she can and nurturing them with love.

Paige Vaccaro in C.R.O.P.S. connecting communities through farmers markets and community gardens

Paige is the founder of a non-profit organization known as (C.R.O.P.S.) Communities Revolutionizing Open Public Spaces aims to foster real lasting change in individuals and communities. Through farmers markets, education initiatives, internships, and community gardens, C.R.O.P.S. has partnered with and supported countless small businesses, schools, and other local nonprofits to truly connect people to each other and more deeply to the earth. The world is something beautiful and the amount of damage that keeps increasing to it every year is awful and its about time people realize the damage we are doing because it wont be around forever.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/out-of-the-blank/support

Paige is the founder of a non-profit organization known as (C.R.O.P.S.) Communities Revolutionizing Open Public Spaces aims to foster real lasting change in individuals and communities. Through farmers markets, education initiatives, internships, and community gardens, C.R.O.P.S. has partnered with and supported countless small businesses, schools, and other local nonprofits to truly connect people to each other and more deeply to the earth. The world is something beautiful and the amount of damage that keeps increasing to it every year is awful and its about time people realize the damage we are doing because it wont be around forever. --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/out-of-the-blank/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/out-of-the-blank/support</a>

#397 - Paige Vaccaro (Community Non-profit Organization Creator)