[windspeaker confidential] Jennifer Podemski

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Windspeaker: What one quality do you most value in a friend?

Jennifer Podemski: Honesty.

W: What is it that really makes you mad?

J.P.: Oh God, a lot of things make me mad. Littering, racism and intolerance.

W: When are you at your happiest?

J.P.: When I'm at home with my family.

W: What one word best describes you when you are at your worst?

J.P.: Fire.

W: What one person do you most admire and why?

J.P.: I admire my dad because in the worst of times he raised three girls on his own. And I think we all turned out OK. He sacrificed everything to raise us.

W: What is the most difficult thing you've ever had to do?

J.P.: The most difficult thing. Any decision I've made that I've completely taken a leap of faith and went with my guts.

W: What is your greatest accomplishment?

J.P.: Professionally, I would say my greatest accomplishment is Moccasin Flats. Personally, my greatest accomplishment is connecting and marrying the man of my dreams.

W: What one goal remains out of reach?

J.P.: I don't believe that any goal is out of reach, actually. The one that seems like a pipe dream right now would be writing, directing and starring in my own film.

W: If you couldn't do what you're doing today, what would you be doing?

J.P.: I would be working on street patrol or something like that, with the homeless and the hungry and the poverty-stricken.

W: What is the best piece of advice you've ever received?

J.P.: Work to make a life, not a living.

W: Did you take it?

J.P.: Uh-huh.

W: How do you hope to be remembered?

J.P.: I hope to be remembered by my integrity.