Podcasts
Podcasts
Tuesday, May 16, 202305/16/2023
Western Mass Business Show – 5.13.23 Amanda Mittman and Cara D’Anello
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Amanda Mittman and Cara D’Anello would like you to know that you are enough. Your weight doesn’t define you but your genetics and body composition have charted your course. We are all warped by the healthcare industry, diet culture, the patriarchy, and capitalism that we have lost all sense of what our body should be. No more! Let’s see what your body can be with support and wrap around services that break the ideals about what is fit, beautiful, and standard. Hint there are guidelines but screw the standards.
Tuesday, May 16, 202305/16/2023
Laughing & Crying Together
5/16/23: “Considering Matthew Sheppard” with Leslea Newman, Sheila Heffernon & Jon Solins (Da Camera Singers) – this Sunday only; the Comedy Quiz on cartoons with Scott Braidman, Maddy Benjamin & Julie Wagoner; Smith professor Carrie Baker & Tapestry Health CEO Cheryl Zoll on birth control & choice; Megan Zinn and Christina Lauren on “The True Love Experiment.”
Monday, May 15, 202305/15/2023
Searching
5/15/23: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle on the school superintendent search; Center for New Americans Exec. Dir. Laurie Millman and current and former students on Immigrant Voices –Sunday at the Shea; G’fld School Comm. Chair Amy Proietti on slashing the school budget; Megan Zinn with Perugia Press publisher and poet Rebecca Hart Olander on “Uncertain Acrobats.”
Saturday, May 13, 202305/13/2023
The Hustler Files Ep 15
THE ONLY WAY TO DO GREAT WORK IS TO LOVE WHAT YOU DO
The title of this weeks episode is part of a quote by the late Steve Jobs. The full quote says; “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” While it may take a village, behind the wall and beyond, to assist justice-involved individuals with recovery and re-entry back into society, it also takes a handful of extraordinary facilitators who have dedicated their lives to their secondary education and ensuing certifications, combined with a myriad of experience, to be a changemaker in the criminal justice system.
Friday, May 12, 202305/12/2023
The Easthampton School Superintendent Search
5/12/23: Rep. Natalie Blais on dangers to school children from motorists, legislation, the budget, and more; ArtBeat with Betsy Stone and Priya Nadkarni Green on Priya’s amazing show; MTA President Max Page and Professor Daniel Mulcare on our state universities & the Cherish Act; Dr. George Timmons, President-Elect, Holyoke Community College on his vision for HCC; Jeff Napolitano and Easthampton City Council President Homar Gomez on the school superintendent search.
Thursday, May 11, 202305/11/2023
Protests, Beavers, a Candidate & Musicians
5/11/23: Susan Triolo (Code Pink) & Marisol Pierce Bonifaz (Generation Ratify Amherst) on “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” & Saturday’s protests; Belchertown Selectboard candidate Lesa Lessard Pearson; Rabbi Riqi Kosovske on hunger & spring holidays; Brian Adams & naturalist Drew Johnson on beavers, ponds & pellets! Glenn Siegal with Smith College professor, musician & filmmaker Jake Meginsky.
Wednesday, May 10, 202305/10/2023
Sneak Preview
5/10/23: Alexandra Kennedy, Exec. Dir. of the Eric Carle Museum, on the search for her successor; Florence-based Larry Hott on the upcoming sneak preview of his new PBS film “The Niagara Movement; Todd Gazda, Dir. of Educational Collaborative, on abolishing MCAS; Wanda Bertram of the Easthampton-based Prison Policy Initiative on women behind the razor wire.
Tuesday, May 9, 202305/09/2023
Duffy, Blue, an LGBTQ+ School, & Affordable Housing
5/9/23: Rep. Pat Duffy on the Cherish Act, $ for schools, and much more; Duke Goldman “Talkin’ Baseball” — Sox, Yanks, Tampa Bay and the amazing Vida Blue; educators Allison Druin and Ben Bederson on a new school for LGBTQ+ students in western Mass.; CEOs Alexis Breiteneicher (Valley CDC), Keith Farey (Wayfinders), Gina Govoni (Franklin County Redevelopment Authority) on affordable housing.
Monday, May 8, 202305/08/2023
The Western Mass Business Show 5.6.23 – Look Park’s Justin Pelis and Matt LaCoille
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Join us for a look at Look Park with Justin Pelis Executive Director of the Park and Matt LaCoille Development Director. Justin is a Northampton native and former business owner of North County Landscapes. Matt comes from the region and has a sports and development background. The Park’s rich history helps keep the Park top of mind in peoples memories and hearts. Come take a walk down memory lane with us as we chat about the past, present, and future of this 413 gem.
Saturday, May 6, 202305/06/2023
The Hustler Files Ep 14
THE LIFE OF A CORRECTION OFFICER, IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK
The criminal justice system is in a recruitment crisis. Correction Officers (yes, those uniformed individuals who work inside the local, State, and Federal Prisons and have military titles such as Captain, Corporal, etc.) are retiring faster than new COs can be recruited to replace them. Considering that the intake of justice-involved individuals has barely slowed down, this puts the recruiting efforts of the system in crisis. Like with any career path, the more informed people are about what a career path as a CO encompasses, the better chance that local jails and State and Federal prisons will have in recruiting new hires.
