How We Impact the World with Eric Fransen

Mar 20 2022

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How We Impact the World really means, how do people from Lake County, MN make a difference in the world. I want to share stories about world-renown surgeons, entrepreneurs that are solving water issues in Africa, and travel with former residents that have gone back to their ancestral countries of Sweden, Norway, and beyond. All these people and many more grew up in Lake County and then went off to impact the world. I want to bring them back one week at a time. My name is Eric Fransen, and I want to tell their story.

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Episode 4: Fletcher Kasell, Fashion Designer and Owner of Tanner Fletcher

Mar 20 2022 36 mins

Two Harbors native and now Brooklyn, NY fashion designer Fletcher Kasell was riding the subway last month with Tanner Richie, partner and co-founder of the fashion brand Tanner Fletcher, when their phones blew up with congratulatory messages. Turns out their photo was part of a Vogue article featuring emerging and new designers. The next week Tanner Fletcher launched its Fall line

Episode 3: Carl Ehlenz, Owner of Betty's Pies

Feb 21 2022 49 mins

In 1983 Betty Lessard, founder and owner of Betty’s Pies sold her business and retired. Little did she know that fifteen years later the phone would ring and Carl Ehlenz, the newest owner of Betty’s Pies would be calling to find out what happened to her famous lost pie recipes. At closing, in 1998 Ehlenz was finalizing the paperwork for Betty’s Pies, which included the buildi

Episode 2: Whitney Wasko Living in Stockholm, Sweden

Feb 04 2022 39 mins

Whitney Wasko came back to the University of Minnesota after spending spring break in Sweden and told her Swedish professor, “I’m going to move to Sweden.” Her professor asked a reasonable question, “How are you going to do that?” The girl from small-town Two Harbors replied, “I don’t know, but I’m going to figure it out.” That was in March of 2017. Wasko graduate

Episode 1: Introduction with Eric Fransen

Jan 21 2022 3 mins

How We Impact the World really means, how do people from Lake County, MN make a difference in the world. I want to share stories about world-renown surgeons, entrepreneurs that are solving water issues in Africa, and travel with former residents that have gone back to their ancestral countries of Sweden, Norway, and beyond. All these people and many more grew up in Lake County and