Better Together with Kosta Yepifantsev
Better Together with Kosta Yepifantsev is a podcast about business, parenting and living life intentionally. We're here every week to bring you intentional conversations on making your own path to success, challenging the status quo, and finding all the ways we're better. Recorded in Cookeville, TN, Kosta joins guests from all walks of life to bring fresh perspective and start your week with purpose. We're better together.
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Join Kosta and his guest: Rick McDonald, Retired Tennessee Department of Transportation Operations Supervisor. In this episode: If you drive in Tennessee, you’re enjoying the hard work of TDOT. Like many state and government entities, we might be familiar with the department, but not know exactly what it is. What is T
Join Kosta and his guest: Wren Goedken, STEM Teacher at Algood Middle School and organizer for the Restoring Childhood Initiative. Restoring Childhood is a grassroots movement of parents, educators, and community leaders who want to help kids reclaim play, creativity, connection, and freedom by intentionally reducing
Join Kosta and his guest: GraceAnn Witt, founder of Mom Real Local, Your guide to young mom life in the Upper Cumberland area of TN! Connecting Moms. Sharing moments. Discovering places. In this episode: What’s the hardest part of being a mom that no one talks about? How does Mom Real Local help to ease those hardships
Join Kosta and his guest: Tom Savage, President of Cookeville-Putnam NAACP, Vice President of Tennessee Conference of the NAACP and Pastor at Greater Faith Church of God in Christ Livingston. In this episode: For anyone who doesn’t know, or isn’t exactly sure, what is the NAACP? At the time of this recording, earlier
Join Kosta and his guest: Steve Chatman, Vice President of Ministry Advancement and Pastoral Care at Rising Above Ministries and Co-Host of the Rising Above Dad’s podcast. In this episode: In the Upper Cumberland alone there are more than 70,000 individuals living with special needs. Putnam County Schools averages 1 in
Join Kosta and his guests: Dr. Kathryn DuBray and Dr. Erin Crouch Mekkaoui, Co-Founders of Anniston Academy, Cookeville’s first therapeutic microschool built for neurodivergent learners. In this episode: Most schools ask kids to fit the system. You built a system to fit the kids. What happens when a child actually feel