Tuesday, April 2, 202404/02/2024

Trial and Fire

In Talk The Talk

4/2/24: Atty John Pucci on Trump’s NY trial. Ryan & Sarah Voiland: the fire at Red Fire Farm — devastation & resilience. Dwayne Breger, UMass clean energy expert: Biden’s new EV regs. Musicians Charlotte Malin & Sophie Lippert on The Connections Concert at Bombyx.

Monday, April 1, 202404/01/2024

Dignity

In Talk The Talk

4/1/24: Sen. Jo Comerford on Death with Dignity & prohibiting Native people’s images as mascots. POP goes Northampton’s Main Street Redesign with Mayor GL Sciarra. Monte Dukes it out on baseball. Megan Zinn with Ilyon Woo: “Master-Slave, Husband-Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom.”

Friday, March 29, 202403/29/2024

The Hustler Files Ep 55

In The Hustler Files

CHANGING CULTURE IS YOUR MISSION, WHEN STORYTELLING IS YOUR POWER

Her team at NBC Universal Filmed Entertainment refers to her as an “inspiration for change”. She herself has faced prejudices throughout her life, but as a HR Professional in the entertainment industry for over 25 years, and now SVP of Human Resources, Globally, Hoai Scott, has played a key role in educating leaders in diversity and inclusion, leading with purpose and creating a culture of inclusion and belonging in the workplace.  Beginning in 2018, NBCU began a partnership with the Anti-Recidivism Coalition in Los Angeles to open a door to those who were justice involved but pledged to be crime free, gang free, drug free, enrolled in a school and volunteering in their community.  The fair chance hiring opportunities that Hoai and her team offer is a life changing career pathway, and one that celebrates and supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is at the very heart of the NBCU culture.

Friday, March 29, 202403/29/2024

Winners

In Talk The Talk

3/29/24: Presidents Marty Meehan (UMass) & Max Page (MTA) on diversity and money. Donnabelle Casis w/ Wistariahurst’s Megan Seiler: Nature/Nurture Exhibit – female & non-binary artists. Sara Gazarek of Grammy Award-winner säje with John Anz. Prof Carrie Baker & student Astrid Chen: feminism at Smith.

Thursday, March 28, 202403/28/2024

The Power of Truths

In Talk The Talk

3/28/24: Millicent Jackson, E.D., Voices from Inside, & novelist Ellen Meeropol on WriteAngles. Rapper Durch Rebelle & Michael Lawrence-Riddell, E.D., Self-Evident Education: The Power of Truths Festival. Rev. Carole Bull on Holy Week & our souls. Renown journalist Stryker Maguire on Gaza & antisemitism.

Wednesday, March 27, 202403/27/2024

Your Words Matter

In Talk The Talk

3/27/24: Amherst Prof Ilan Stavans with Merriam Webster’s John Morse. Sexologist Dr. Jane Fleishman: why do relationships last? Filmmaker Larry Hott: “The Karen Carpenter Story” & “32 Sounds.” Dr. Dan Siddiqui, Dir, the Cancer Center at Cooley Dickinson: treatments & realistic hope.

Tuesday, March 26, 202403/26/2024

Fires

In Talk The Talk

3/26/24: Josh Silver: third parties & the 2024 race. Prof. Kerstin Nordstrom (MHC) & Prof. Kate Follette (Amherst): taking photos of planets being born. Duke Goldman: Honoring Caitlin Clark & also, NFL players’ dementia. Sarah Weinberger & Mona Shadi: Easthampton’s Cease Fire Resolution.

Monday, March 25, 202403/25/2024

Unalone

In Talk The Talk

2/25/24: ACLU of Mass.’ Carol Rose: abortion & SCOTUS. Sec. of Housing & Livable Communities, Ed Augustus: in Nh’pton & Amherst today. Amilcar Shabazz & Pat Ononibaku: Amherst ARPA funds unfairly dispersed. Rich Michelson w/ amazing poet and Smithie, Jessica Jacobs. Megan Zinn w/ Jenny Hansell & Shoshana Marchand on “Dreams So Fleeting.”

Friday, March 22, 202403/22/2024

The Hustler Files Ep 54

In The Hustler Files

THE NURTURING FATHERS PROGRAM

Rewind 25 years, and for most men, their parenting role was that of bread winner and disciplinarian, like their father before them, and so on.  Mark Perlman, a licensed social worker, and councilor saw an opportunity to change that dynamic while the Executive Director of his wife’s counseling center.  As Mark so aptly puts it, “I started writing a program that would offer fathers a workbook guide, but as I wrote the program, I felt as if the subject matter was coming through me, rather than from me’.   Mark’s program, and soon to be passed on to one of Mark’s sons, Corey, is being facilitated through counseling agencies, the military, social work curriculums and behind the walls of minimum, medium or maximum prisons, across the United States.  Mark’s program takes the voluntary participants on a journey from understanding the roots of their own upbringing to developing attitudes and skills that will ultimately, over the course of the program’s 13 weeks, heal their father wound and change the trajectory of their relationship with their children.

Friday, March 22, 202403/22/2024

Western Mass Business Show on 3.16.24 — Andre Boulay from A2Z

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Join us as we welcome Andre Boulay to the show. Many know him from his A2Z fame while others may know him as a Yo-Yo champion. Growing up in the Hilltowns of the 413, Andre always saw Northampton as the place to be. It led him to the store and to Jack and Priscilla Finn who started the store many years before it moved to King Street in Thornes Market. There he and his wife Dev realized that their passion could become a reality and they purchased the store from the Finn’s. Now 2 businesses yoyoexpert.com and
a2zscience.com they are going strong. Pierce and Ella (their 2 kids) are the envy of other children I’m sure but the Boulays make sure to keep community in their focus as they give back to many nonprofits and school PTO fundraisers. Thank you for coming on Andre, we missed you Dev.