Podcasts
Podcasts
Friday, September 20, 202409/20/2024
Panorama — Episode 87 — Joy Baglio and Melenie Freedom Flynn, Pioner Valley Writers’ Workshop
In Panorama
Originally aired on September 7, 2024. Host Dan interviews Joy Baglio, fiction writer & founder/director of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop (PVWW), and Melenie Freedom Flynn, a local award-winning writer and regular PVWW instructor.
They discuss the creation of the Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop and how COVID-19 transformed the organization. Joy and Melanie share their stories as writers, read passages from their books, and tell us why we should all be writing.
You can learn about PVWW, Joy, and Melanie at
www.pioneervalleywriters.org/our-team
www.joybaglio.com/
www.meleniefreedomflynn.com/
Friday, September 20, 202409/20/2024
The Hustler Files Ep 78
MAKING A ‘WHAT IF’ A REALITY, Part 2
This episode is the second of a two-parter featuring Eva Hamilton, MBE, CEO and Founder of the very successful re-entry program, Key4Life. There was still so much to cover, including a very revealing conversation with Aaron White, a Senior Case Worker on the Key4Life program and a formerly incarcerated individual. If you’re wondering about Eva’s Key4Life blended program, well it’s seven steps and involves Equine Therapy, Behavioral Support, Music Therapy, Non-physical Football and Boxing, an introduction to Mentors, Mock-Interviews, and a Final Action Plan but there’s so much more to learn about Eva Hamilton, MBE with her 39 years in impacting the incarceral system.
Friday, September 20, 202409/20/2024
The Politics of Magic?
9/20/24: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa on NC GOP candidate’s nazi leanings, & affordable housing. MTA Pres Max Page on Teamsters Pres Sean O’Brien’s refusal to endorse. Betsy Stone w/ LOCULUS, Madison Palffy and Olana Flynn. Author Orenda Fink: “The Witch’s Daughter.” EMK CEO Adam Hinds on election integrity.
Thursday, September 19, 202409/19/2024
“You Can’t Handle the Truth” Or can you?
9/19/24: Exec Editor Dan Crowley on the importance of local news & thorough sourcing. Reverend Michael McSherry: speaking the lie until it becomes familiar does not make it the truth. Former MA Senate Pres Stan Rosenberg on the responsibility that comes with the political soapbox. Ruth Griggs w/ Argentine Saxophonist Julieta Eugenio, coming to Northampton Jazz Festival.
Wednesday, September 18, 202409/18/2024
Celebrating Community & The Cosmos
9/18/24: Co-owners Nancy Felton and Roz Kreshak-Hayden on Broadside Bookshop’s 50th anniversary party this Saturday; Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Cancer Connection ED Chelsea Kline on the annual Harvest Dinner, Gnfld Public Library’s Francesca Passiglia, & artist Malaika Ross. Brian Adams w/ CT River Conservancy ED Rebecca Todd & Events Mgr Stacey Lennard: Source to the Sea Cleanup. Astronomer Salman Hameed on our ridiculously large universe.
Tuesday, September 17, 202409/17/2024
Truth
9/17/2024: Buz and Dan on truth and politics. Comedy Quiz w/ Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman, & Jess Tyler. Professor Carrie Baker on our Feminist Future…Todd Barron & Sharon Margula: Northampton Neighbors’ DoozyDo Parade.
Monday, September 16, 202409/16/2024
Western Mass Business Show on 9.14.24 — Provisions’s Benson Hyde and Bruce McAmis
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Join us as we discover the Provisions legacy from one of the OG (original) founding owners Benson Hyde. He is joined by his partner Bruce McAmis who joined at the fortunate time of late 2019 replacing then owner Alex Feinstein. What began in 2011, with one store has grown into a 4-location operation. Listen in as we hear about the ups and downs of a small but growing business and how focusing on smaller producers, good employees, and community gets them through the tough times. Special shout out to Toni DeLuca the stores wine buyer (and Benson’s partner) and Elena the Cheese Monger for having such important roles in the business model. Tune into hear why Provisons was voted Business West’s Top Entrepreneur of 2022.
Monday, September 16, 202409/16/2024
Ceolchoirm Sunday
9/16/24: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle: Skate Park & a great piece of legislation thanks to Sen Warren. Archguitarist Peter Blanchette & vocalist Éilís Kennedy for Bombyx concert. Ashfield Filmfest’s Harry Keramidas & Tamara Sloan. Megan Zinn w/ Bernard Schwartz: literary programs for Authors Guild Foundation, & poet/novelist Luis Alberto Urrea.
Friday, September 13, 202409/13/2024
The Hustler Files Ep 77
MAKING A ‘WHAT IF’ A REALITY, Part 1
Eva Hamilton, MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire), is nothing short of a whirling dervish when it comes to seeing a challenge and then creating a solution. For 38 years, Eva has worked with some of the U.K.’s most marginalized groups. From her organization, Business Action on Homelessness to the program Seeing is Believing, a collaboration with HRH The Prince of Wales (now King Charles), Eva believes everyone deserves another chance. Her current crime prevention charity Key4Life offers what she refers to as ‘blended’ Seven Step program to rehabilitate young men in prison or at risk of going to prison and reduce the cycle of crime. Since its inception after the 2011 London riots, Key4Life has impacted over 1000 offenders and run 39 programs with more than 150 UK companies.
Friday, September 13, 202409/13/2024
The Future
9/13/24: Rep Natalie Blais: the presidential race & the divisions among us. MTA Pres Max Page & Northampton School Comm’s Gwen Agna: Vote YES on Ballot Question #2. Donnabelle Casis w/ A.P.E.’s Kathy Couch & Yanira Castro: “Exorcism=Liberation.” Ancestral Bridges Foundation President Anika Lopes on her upcoming GCC’s Senior Symposia. Elizabeth Hartmann on “Last Place Called Home.”
