Welcome to Spark Me!

Spark Me

For women whose lives are full in every sense of the word.

You may have to walk the path. But you don’t have to walk it alone.

Good thing we brought some wine...and a sense of humor.

Your life is full. 

Full of people who need you and people you’d do anything for. Full of a career that demands everything and that you worked hard to build. Full of aging parents, kids who aren’t quite launched, a body that’s changing in ways nobody warned you about. Full of love and noise and responsibility and, somewhere underneath all of it, you. Still there. Still trying to figure it all out.

Spark Me is for that woman. 

The one who wants answers. Permission to be imperfect, to make hard choices that sometimes put her first, to say “this is a lot” and hear the response “we get it.”

We see you.

Every week, hosts Michele Dempsey and Liz Graham sit down with women who have something real to give — earned expertise, hard-won wisdom, and resources you can actually use. The kind of conversations that leave you with something. Not theory. Not advice that evaporates by Tuesday. Something that actually moves the needle in your real life.

It doesn’t stop when the episode ends. There’s a community here, online and in person, where women share what they know, lift each other up, and stop walking this path alone.

This is where full stops being a warning sign and starts being a source of power.

We’ve been waiting for you. Pull up a chair and welcome to Spark Me.

 

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Oct. 8, 2026

I Couldn't Leave Without My Dog

Would you leave a dangerous home if it meant leaving your dog behind? Liz isn't sure she would be able to, and that's why this conversation stuck with her.
In this Spark Short, Michele and Liz unpack their conversation with Lisa Fuller of the SPCA of Luzerne County and everything it changed for them. Michele walked in picturing the cartoon dog catcher and the pound, and walked out with her view flipped a complete 180.


Liz was surprised to learn the SPCA runs almost entirely on community donat
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Sept. 30, 2026

More Than Rescue: What Animals Teach Us About Being Human

What really happens after an animal comes through the shelter door?
Lisa Fuller has been rescuing animals since she was a kid growing up with a dad everyone called Dr. Doolittle. Today she chairs the board of the SPCA of Luzerne County and opens her home to senior and hospice dogs so their last chapter is a happy one. She has seven at home right now.


In this conversation, Liz and Michele go behind the scenes of animal rescue, and it is a lot more than adoptions. Lisa walks through hoarding an
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Sept. 23, 2026

You Can Have Everyone and Still Feel Alone

What if a relationship check-in belonged on your annual physical, right next to everything else you dread?
In this Spark Short, Michele and Liz unpack their conversation with Dr. Christine Kiesinger and what stuck with them afterward.


Liz walks away with a genuine mindset shift — she's always known to schedule the physical and the colonoscopy, but it never occurred to her to check in on the health of her relationships with the same discipline. Michele focuses on the piece she didn't get from
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Sept. 16, 2026

The Connection Prescription with Dr Christine Kiesinger

What if your doctor checked your relationships the same way they check your blood pressure?
Dr. Christine Kiesinger returns as our very first repeat guest with an idea that reframes what we think we know about health. Commissioned by the George Washington Faculty Medical Group to write on the social connection pillar of lifestyle medicine, Christine argues that relational well-being belongs on the vital signs chart — right alongside weight, pulse, and blood pressure. She calls it the connection
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Sept. 10, 2026

Never Say Never: Can a Machine Actually Create?

What if the most important skill in the age of AI isn't technical at all — it's curiosity?
In this Spark Short, Michele and Liz unpack their conversation with Heather Cybulski, the transformation consultant helping companies bring AI into their teams. What starts as a debrief quickly turns into one of the most honest conversations they've had on the show — two women in their second act trying to figure out what this technology actually means for their work, their kids, their creativity, and thei
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Sept. 3, 2026

AI Is Moving Fast. You're Not Behind.

What if the thing standing between you and AI isn't the technology at all — it's just not knowing where to start?
Heather Cybulski helps some of the world's largest companies figure out what AI actually means for the people who work there. She's also built a twenty-year career at the front edge of technology while raising three kids in a small town in Northeastern Pennsylvania — which turns out to be its own lesson in designing a life on purpose.


Liz and Michele get into the thing most of us