r(E)volutionary Woman:
a podcast by and about women

Tes is a long-time blogger and foodie. For the past 10 years, she’s focused her blog and work around women’s issues. Soon, she’ll launch a long-form interview podcast. She’s lined up women activists and volunteers from around the world to tell their stories and the stories of the women they work with.


Tes Silverman

Tes is a long-time blogger and foodie. For the past 10 years, she’s focused her blog and work around women’s issues. This is her long-form interview podcast. She’s lined up women activists and volunteers from around the world to tell their stories and the stories of the women they work with.

Season 9 Ep. 15: Mary Fusillo: Fertility Care, Infertility Leadership, and Ethics in Reproductive Medicine

Mary Fusillo is a registered nurse and founder of Family Solutions International, with decades of experience in infertility care, egg donation, surrogacy, and third-party reproduction. Her work focuses on ethical fertility practices, patient advocacy, and helping families navigate complex reproductive decisions with clarity and care.

Mary M. Fusillo, RN, BSN, MS is the founder and CEO of Family Solutions International. Mary was introduced to the area of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility while facing her own challenge of having children.

As the Clinical Nursing Director of an Infertility clinic in Houston, she was instrumental in starting the Donor Egg program and recruiting their first donors. This program went from one donor in the Fall of 1999 to over 120 in 2004.

Moving to the greater Washington, D.C. area, Mary becomes the Clinical Infertility Nursing Director at one of the oldest and most prestigious infertility clinics in the United States. With over 200 cycles of donor egg per year, managing donors and recipients while introducing new recruitment methods was a challenge.

Recruited by one of the largest Pharmacy Benefit Management companies to run their Donor Egg pharmacy program, she traveled all over the country, consulting large and small clinics on issues that affect egg donation nationwide.

She is a member of the Nurses Professional Group of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, a former National Board Member of RESOLVE, Inc., as well as a member of ASRM and ESHRE. Her volunteer work in the field of infertility led her to found “Donor Moms, a network of support for mothers via egg donation”.

In 2007 Mary started The Donor Solution. On August 14, 2007, the website went live, and she started recruiting donors, and the company had its first match in October 2007. She started with only 19 donors but a short time later she had recruited 100’s of screened donors to meet a burgeoning need for alternatives to the small donor pools found in IVF clinics.  After feeling like The Donor Solution was doing well, Mary launched 3 Sisters Surrogacy in

2012, because she saw a need for people who needed both donor eggs and surrogacy. In 2018,Mary put The Donor Solution and 3 Sisters Surrogacy under the Family Solutions International umbrella as a bridge to the domestic and international community. In 2020, she started The Fertility Consultants with the mission to assist intended parents in navigating the challenges of 3rd Party reproduction and finally merged all the companies together under the FSI umbrella.

In the fall of 2019, Mary started a Ph.D. program in bioethics, over her 25+ years of infertility and 35 years in healthcare, she was constantly confronted with moral and ethical issues. Even now, a single embryo transfer is fraught with issues of people wanting twins. She decided to get her Ph.D. in bioethics because she wanted to understand the ethical aspects of this biological field deeper and felt there needed to be an ethicist who had a very deep background in infertility.

To learn more about Mary Fusillo and Family Solutions International:

Website: https://familysolutionsinternational.com/

@the_eggsplantion_pod

@thedonorsolution

@3sisterssurro

@familysolutionsinternational

@thefertilityconsultants

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Season 9 Ep. 14: Marilyn Cornelius- Behavior Change Specialist, Coach, Author & Founder of Alchemus Prime

Marilyn Cornelius is a behavior change specialist, coach, facilitator, speaker, author, and teacher.

She is the founder of Alchemus Prime, a multinational leadership and
wellness company. She integrates behavioral sciences, design thinking, biomimicry and meditation to support empowerment, change management, trauma healing, leadership development, and climate change resilience for diverse leaders.

Marilyn is the author of 48 popular books on topics such as self-love,
positivity, trauma, leadership, healthy eating, and meditation.

To learn more about Marilyn Cornelius:

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Season 9 Ep. 13: Grace Robinson- Product Manager for IBM

Grace Robinson is a Java Champion and Product Manager at IBM, having been at IBM since graduating from University with a Degree in Biology. Grace enjoys bringing a varied perspective to her projects and using her knowledge of biological systems to simplify complex software patterns. Previously, as a developer advocate for 8 years, Grace built POC’s, demos, sample applications and tutorials. Now, as Product Manager for the dev experience of IBM’s Java portfolio, she’s combining her experience and passion for development with her MBA and leadership skills to help drive the strategy and future direction of IBM’s Java tools.

To learn more about Grace Robinson:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gljrobinson/

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Season 9 Ep. 12: Jacqueline Ackerman- Director of Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI)

Jacqueline Ackerman is Director of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. WPI believes that gender matters in philanthropy, and that solving the world’s complex problems requires perspective, leadership and generosity from women and men. Jacqueline’s work centers on moving the institute’s research into action, delivering insights to donors, fundraisers and sector leaders that grow women’s giving and deepen fundraisers’ engagements with female donors. Over the last decade, Jacqueline has led WPI’s research agenda, including serving as primary author on most of WPI’s research reports. Jacqueline joined the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy in 2012 after earning a Master of Public Affairs from the Indiana University O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Bloomington. She was raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and resides in Bethesda, MD.

To learn more about Jacqueline Ackerman and Women’s Philanthropy Institute:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelineackerman

https://www.instagram.com/womensphilanthropy

https://www.facebook.com/womensphilanthropyinstitute

https://www.linkedin.com/company/womensphilanthropy

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Season 9 EP. 11: Michelle Petties- TEDx Speaker, Food Story Coach, Writer

Michelle Petties is a TEDx speaker, Food Story coach, and author of the award-winning memoir Leaving Large: The Stories of a Food Addict. She reveals how emotional wounds, cultural expectations, and personal history—not hunger—often shape how we manage food. After battling emotional overeating for decades and gaining and losing over 700 pounds, Michelle discovered that the key to lasting weight loss wasn’t another diet—it was rewriting the stories behind her eating.

With a background in media sales and leadership at companies like Radio One, Disney/ABC, and NPR/PBS member stations, Michelle now uses storytelling as a tool for transformation. Through workshops, retreats, and her ebook Mind Over Meals, she helps others uncover their food truths, rewire their thinking, and create lasting change from the inside out.

To learn more about Michelle Petties:

TEDx Talk, A Food Addict’s Lesson: Confusion. Clarity. Recovery. Please comment, like, and share it with your network. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJLr53XlIV4

Get your signed copy of Leaving Large: The Stories of a Food Addict, https://Leavinglarge.com

Subscribe to My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIbMxXOSCNH–MCNru4WuLw

Follow me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/iambrandnewnow

Follow me on Facebook: https://facebook.com/iambrandnewnow

Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-petties/

Read my essays:https://vocal.media/humans/loving-your-self

Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@iambrandnewnow?lang=en

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Season 9 EP. 10: Aspen Noonan- CEO of Elevate Holistics

Aspen Noonan is a young mom, entrepreneur and the CEO of Elevate Holistics – a rapidly growing telemedicine company making medical marijuana more accessible across the

U.S. Starting from the ground up, 

Aspen began by taking patient calls and handling support, eventually growing the business into a multi-state operation and stepping into the role of CEO.

 With a background in health sciences and a passion for patient education, Aspen

has helped thousands of people find natural relief through plant medicine. Her story is

rooted in grit, heart, and a mission to modernize healthcare with compassion and

accessibility for all.

To learn more about Aspen Noonan and Elevate Holistics: 

X – @elevateholistic

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aspen-noonan-242545110

YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/@elevateholistics9102/posts

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