About

Pearl + Light presents Founding Your Way, a podcast about the people behind the work.

Hosted by Maggie Ward and Lucy Luneva, the show explores the human side of building something meaningful through honest conversations with founders, nonprofit leaders, creatives, small business owners, and community builders.

Each episode goes beyond titles and polished success stories to uncover what it actually looks like to create something from the ground up: the uncertainty, the conviction, the pivots, the relationships, and the moments that make people keep going anyway.

The podcast grew naturally out of the work Maggie and Lucy do through Pearl + Light, a consulting agency that supports community-centered organizations with communications, storytelling, operations, and strategic support. Along the way, they realized the most inspiring part of the work was often the people themselves, their stories, ideas, and the courage it takes to build something that matters.

Rooted in Boston and shaped by the people creating impact within it, Founding Your Way highlights the local organizations, businesses, and initiatives helping strengthen their communities in thoughtful, creative, and deeply human ways.

Because meaningful work rarely happens alone, and sometimes hearing how someone else built their way forward reminds us we can too.

About the Hosts

Maggie Ward

Maggie’s path hasn't been linear. Corporate media sales, world travel, wellness spaces, coffee shops, and nonprofit leadership all came before she found her way back to community-centered work.

She spent years building something of her own before realizing the part she loved most was never the solo pursuit. It was the people and organizations she kept showing up for along the way.

That realization led her to co-found Pearl + Light, where she helps founders, nonprofits, and community-centered organizations clarify their story, strengthen their communications, and build systems that support the heart behind the work.

Lucy Luneva

Lucy is a model, actress, and communications specialist based on Boston’s South Shore. Her first career was in PR for tech startups in Manhattan for 5 years.

After suffering a health crash, she started pursuing various dreams. This took her from being a yoga trainee in the jungles of Costa Rica to the present day, where she is applying her skills to help people building meaningful and creative things while doing the same.