Monday, August 12, 202408/12/2024

Our PILOTS, Ourselves

In Talk The Talk

8/12/24: Holyoke Mayor Joshus Garcia: a PILOT, the police chief, schools & receivership. UMass Afro-Am Prof Amilcar Shabazz: racism & the presidential. Sen Paul Mark: climate & economic development bills — now what? Nation Mag Defense Corr & Prof Emeritus Michael Klare: two major wars on the brink.

Friday, August 9, 202408/09/2024

The Hustler Files Ep 73

In The Hustler Files

REIMAGINING REENTRY SO IT FEELS LIKE A WARM HUG

Launching a social entrepreneurial venture is no easy task, and for Founder, President, and CEO of EDWINS Leadership & Restaurant Institute it was not an overnight success. Brandon conceived the EDWINS concept in 2004, with a three-fold mission: teach a skilled and in-demand trade in the culinary arts, empower willing minds through a passion for hospitality management, and prepare students for a successful transition home. The students who participate in this mission are all justice involved looking for a new life back in the community. But Rome wasn’t built in a day, and it took another three years for Brandon, a formally trained chef and sommelier, to build out the social enterprise model and then another four years before Brandon could launch the Culinary Club classes at the Grafton Correctional Institution. Brandon opened EDWINS restaurant in 2013 and here in 2024 EDWINS has a French Restaurant, Butcher Shop, Bakery, and a Second Chance Life Skills Center which itself is a campus with housing, childcare, library, fitness center, computer lab and more!  600+ have graduated from the EDWINS culinary programs and can boast that only 1% of students have recidivated. Like Brandon says, when asked, how he accomplished so much, his response, “just knock down one problem at a time”.

Friday, August 9, 202408/09/2024

Ticking Us Off

In Talk The Talk

8/9/24: Investigative reporter Dusty Christensen: UMass seeking felony riot charges against protesters. MTA Pres Max Page: Walz’s record on education & Mass legislature’s failures. Smith Gov’t Prof Howard Gold: misogyny in the presidential. UMass Microbiology prof Stephen Rich: serious threats from ticks.

Thursday, August 8, 202408/08/2024

America’s Consciousness & Retirement

In Talk The Talk

8/8/24: Tamar Fields—Friends of Standing Together; Michael McSherry senior pastor on retiring from Edward’s Church; Aaron Falbel & Mary Link remembering Randy Kehler; Ruth Griggs and Paul Arslanian on Northampton Jazz Fest.

Wednesday, August 7, 202408/07/2024

Take a Flyer * Recycle Those Flyers!! Take a Dip!

In Talk The Talk

8/7/24: Our D.A. David Sullivan: presidential politics, progressive law enforcement & crime here. Co-Dir of UMass Poll, prof Ray La Raja: Harris up 3%. GCC prof Brian Adams w/ N’hmptn Climate Action Dir Ben Weil: reliable green energy here NOW —really!! Amanda Nash & Gretchen Gerstner: Ashfield Lakehouse GRAND Re-opening.

Tuesday, August 6, 202408/06/2024

Justice and the Election

In Talk The Talk

8/6/24: Atty John Pucci: Will Trump be sentenced to jail next month? Amherst-based Amilcar Shabazz & Kathleen Anderson: Reparations Now? Reparations Now! A comedic break– Larry Hott reviews Albert Brooks’ “Defending My Life.” Mass. Democratic Party Chair Steve Kerrigan: how to elect Harris-Walz.

Monday, August 5, 202408/05/2024

Western Mass Business Show on 8.3.24 — Susan Elena, Director of the Iyengar Yoga Center of Western MA

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Join us as we speak with Susan Elena who is the Director of the Iyengar Yoga Center of Western MA. Located on the Parsons Block in Florence in the former Herlihey’s women’s clothing store. As we learned, it is not an easy feat to be designated as a Center and Susan-Elena has put her time and effort into learning the practice of Iyengar. Go to IYCWM.com for more information about the practice and her studio. Susan-Elena’s training as a dancer and artist helped her find the path of studio ownership along with the help of her studio administrator Sarah LeBeouf, they create an atmosphere for learning and growth in Florence. From a beginner to Rohan Bopanna’s path to Olympic Gold, Iyengar has been helping people find their strength and path to healing. Find out about upcoming events and Open Houses, how no 2 classes are alike, and how technology plays an important role in the classes at 76 Maple Street in Florence. Listen in as we discuss health and wellbeing from an ancient Indian tradition of fitness and wellbeing. 

Monday, August 5, 202408/05/2024

Western Mass Business Show on 7.27.24 — Rachel Martins

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Join us as we hear an update on Rachel Martins and her coaching business for parents. Bouncing off our first conversation from a year ago, Rachel helps us reimagine what a different relationship might look like with your kids. One where you are coming from a place of love vs. fear. How to talk so your kids will listen is not only the volume at which you speak but also the control and non-judgement that you show up with. How can you focus on self-care to have a full well so that you can be the best parent you can be? What do you have control over vs. what you are worrying about that you can’t control. As a Mom of 17, 13, and 11 she has real world and lived experience through her Master’s in Education and her work as a teacher in the classroom. What red flags will you hear from this episode that might make you reach out to her? How to break the cycles of overwhelm so that you can come out a better person and role model of self-care to your kids. To find out more tune in and go to www.rachelmartinscoaching.com

Monday, August 5, 202408/05/2024

Overwhelming

In Talk The Talk

8/5/24: Sen Jo Comerford: the failed clean energy bill, Umass protests, unfunded UMass contracts, Harris & Biden. Eric Reeves, Darfur Bar Ass’n Trustee: catastrophic famine in Sudan and & Darfur. Buz on GTMO, trials, the death penalty, & the just-killed plea deal. Megan Zinn w/ Marjan Kamali: “The Lion Women of Tehran.”

Friday, August 2, 202408/02/2024

Panorama — Episode 83 — The Return of Bob “The Great” Flaherty

In Panorama

Originally aired on August 9, 2024. It was recorded on July 18. Bob Flaherty, long-time WHMP morning host and Daily Hampshire Gazette columnist, talks politics, voting for RFK Jr., vaccines, nearly dying from COVID, and how his tenure as morning show host ended.