How to Keep Your Sparkle When the Lights Dim: A Tribute to Yolanda Cellucci

How to Keep Your Sparkle When the Lights Dim: A Tribute to Yolanda Cellucci

How do you keep finding joy when life gives you every reason to lose your sparkle?

Boston’s First Lady of Fashion, Yolanda Cellucci, knew both extraordinary success and heartbreaking loss. In this special tribute, Carrie Rowan revisits their 2024 conversation to celebrate Yolanda’s life, generous spirit, and wisdom about continuing to embrace life through its hardest chapters.

We open October’s resilience series with the voice of a woman who, at 89, was still learning, creating, and finding meaningful ways to give back.

Listen in to discover:

How a homemade prom dress sparked something far bigger than a fashion statement.

What Yolanda discovered about fulfillment that success alone couldn’t provide.

How she honored her daughter Linda’s memory while making room for joy.

The simple ways she kept purpose—and a little sparkle—in her everyday life.

This episode features a shortened version of our conversation. Listen to the full interview with Yolanda here.

Her sparkle lives on in the lives she touched—and in the stories we continue to share.

GET Yolanda’s book about her life, Beyond the Glitz and Glamour, here: Amazon