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Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present a visit with the one-and-only Professor Wham (Dr. C.S. Matthews). She is  a journalist and has also published poetry, short stories, academic papers, a textbook on New Religious Movements and most recently a survey of paranormal reports and experiences in the Hudson Valley, "Mysterious Beauty: Living with the Paranormal in the Hudson Valley." She is also the author of the novel "Final Season — A Lovecraftian Quartet." Professor Wham has studied religion, new religious movements, occultism and paranormal experiences for over four decades. She has advanced degrees in Religious Studies and American Cultural Studies and is an ardent environmentalist. She has practiced Sufism for two decades and has studied Swedish-Finnish runes/shamanism and Mid-Hudson Algonquin Indigenous traditions from native teachers. Professor Wham lives in the beautifully haunted Mid-Hudson Valley of New York State where she teaches at local colleges and works for a prominent non-profit organization. Her site: https://www.professorwham.com YouTube: ProfessorWHAMBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-paracast-the-gold-standard-of-paranormal-radio--6203433/support.

Strange and funny-ish is the paranormal world! Joining me is a great storyteller and Hudson Valley native, Thomm Quakenbush! Thomm was born in Cold Spring, NY. He is an American author of speculative fiction including his Night's Dream series. He lives and teaches in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. https://thommquackenbush.com/LIKE, share your thoughts, and subscribe to support the Mystic Lounge channel!Please leave a review on iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts. Thank you!Quakenbush grew up reading the works of Kurt Vonnegut, Neil Gaiman, Anne Rice, and Terry Pratchett. He later became a fan of humorous non-fiction, such as the works of David Sedaris and Bill Bryson, all of which has informed his style. He was raised in the Hudson Valley during the famous UFO Flap on the middle 1980s, igniting an interest in the paranormal, causing him to read widely about fortean phenomena. Additionally, he devoted himself to pagan religions in childhood, giving him a wide background in supernatural theories and the particulars of witchcraft, which he incorporates heavily in his works, most notably the Night's Dream series. In 2010, he received his contract for We Shadows. He subsequently published three sequels and has several others in the works. In 2011, SyFy Channel solicited the rights to We Shadows, though the deal did not proceed further. He has worked on comics with DC Comics artist Dezi Sienty under the now-defunct label of Cave Drawing Ink. He is known for askew takes on commonplace myths and the history of the Hudson Valley.PLEASE HELP THE YOUTUBE CHANNEL GROW ☕️ SUBSCRIBE, like, comment, and click the Notification Bell so you don't miss a show. Thank you! https://www.youtube.com/mysticloungeHALF LIGHT documentary: https://tubitv.com/movies/678744/half-lightCheck out other fantastic Un-X shows at https://www.unxnetwork.com/show

You're in for a treat with today's guest: Bob Beverley, minister-turned-therapist. He's on a mission to make his 70s his best decade yet, and to let his light shine. We talk about a little bit of everything, from chasing your passion at any age, to putting yourself out there when it's scary, to why you should give less f*cks. Can't-Miss Moments from This Episode:"It's too late for me, go on without me!" drama is not allowed here: Bob shares what put him on the path to becoming a therapist at 34 (and if you've been feeling like you're behind, this one will inspire you to keep moving)...What do you do when overwhelm shuts down your forward momentum? Bob and I have some tough love about what comes before confidence...Have you tried saying it out loud to someone? I reveal my "self-induced peer pressure" trick for keeping me honest and accountable (because otherwise I'd break all my promises)...How to conquer fears when they pop up (and no, this doesn't involve suddenly becoming fearless)...This one will have you fired up to get out there and light up the world with your gifts. Listen now!Bob's bio:Bob Beverley is creator of The Sharp Club and author of The Daily Sharps. He has been a psychotherapist for over 25 years in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. He works knee-deep in the trenches of despair, violence, confusion, hopelessness, and the human struggle for growth and well-being on a daily basis. The wisdom offered in this club has been road-tested in the emotional emergency ward he's always worked in. He has written several books including Dear Tiger: A Book for Tiger Woods and for Us All, How to Be a Christian and Still Be Sane, The Secret Behind the Secret Law of Attraction (with Kevin Hogan, Dave Lakhani, and Blair Warren), and Emotional Elegance, with a preface by David Allen.Resources and links mentioned:Bob's WebsiteBob on InstaBob on FacebookBob on LinkedInBob's books on Amazon:How to Be a Christian and Still be SaneEmotional EleganceSharp: Keen Living in a Tough WorldWhy Bother?Peace Etc.Sharp 2: Honing Your Emotional EdgeBob's contact info:bbever1008@aol.com(845) 417-5486Support the showLet's collab: Book a chat Work with Angie Get the PTKA book Let's connect: Angie's FB Page Angie on IG Angie on YT I find a lot of my guests via PodMatch. If you join via my link, I may get a small commission. If you dig the show and want to help bring more episodes to the world, consider buying a coffee for the production team!

Following a breast cancer diagnosis in 1992, Barbara Sarah left a 20 year career as a school social worker and chose to dedicate herself to work in Oncology. She was the director of the Oncology Support Program at Health Alliance in Kingston, NY for two decades. She then co-founded the non profit organization, Circle of Friends for the Dying and the Circle Home for the Dying, the first of its kind in the Mid-Hudson Valley. She speaks to ways in which to best prepare for death; embracing it with openness and clarity; Introducing the audience to resources to assist in the planning of ones death and supporting families in anticipation of this inevitable event. Questions of comments? Call 845-307-7446 or email comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org Produced by Jennifer Hammoud and Matty Rosenberg @ Radio Free Rhiniecliff

Welcome to the Co-Movement Gym Podcast! This is the second part of our talk with Brandon Roman. Brandon is a father, husband, therapist, teacher, business owner, and multisport endurance athlete from the Mid-Hudson Valley.   He found the sport in his 30's, initially developing as a trail runner, but has recently focused on the sport of triathlon.   All this is done recreationally; he is family and work oriented with three children and multiple businesses. These identities overlap with his interest in health/wellness, performance psychology, and the pursuit of purpose and human potential for himself and others. Brandon has completed the following races and adventures: Adirondack 46 Peaks, the Northville-Lake Placid Trail, Catskill Winter 35er, several 50k trail races, 5x Shawangunk Ridge Trail (SRT) and 3x Breakneck Point Half Marathons, 2x podium for the "Delta Double" at the Delta Lake Triathlon, S.O.S. triathlon finisher in 2023 with a time of 5 hrs, 47 minutes, and he holds the 15k course record at the Brookfield Classic.Instagram: @brandonjromanThe Co-Movement Gym Podcast is supported by Native Path Supplements, Lombardi Chiropractic, Home Sweet Home Cleaning and Thin Line Martial Arts.  Mention this podcast or use code COMO15 at checkout!Native Path: https://www.nativepath.com/Follow the link below to see all of Native Path's Pure Grass-Fed, Organic, Clean Supplements and use the CoMo15 code at checkout for 15% off!Lombardi Chiropractic: https://www.lombardichiropractic.com/Mention the Co-Movement Gym Podcast when scheduling your initial appointment for 50% off Initial Consultation and X-Rays!Home Sweet Home Cleaning and Gardening: https://www.cnyhomesweethome.com/Did you know a clean house reduces anxiety, increases your productivity, improves sleep, and decreases stress! Yes all those health benefits just from having a clean house. The problem is that no one finds cleaning fun, except for the great folks at home sweet home cleaning.Mention the Co-Movement Gym podcast and receive 20% off deep cleans for all clients who sign on for their recurring services and start enjoying a clean house today.Thin Line Martial Arts: https://www.thinlinemartialarts.com/Law Enforcement Officers have one tough job. While some calls may be routine, many are not, oftentimes putting officers in unpredictable situations. Thin Line Martial Arts is an apparel company that promotes defensive tactics training for officers, s

Welcome to the Co-Movement Gym Podcast! This week we talk with Brandon Roman. Brandon is a father, husband, therapist, teacher, business owner, and multisport endurance athlete from the Mid-Hudson Valley.   He found the sport in his 30's, initially developing as a trail runner, but has recently focused on the sport of triathlon.   All this is done recreationally; he is family and work oriented with three children and multiple businesses. These identities overlap with his interest in health/wellness, performance psychology, and the pursuit of purpose and human potential for himself and others. Brandon has completed the following races and adventures: Adirondack 46 Peaks, the Northville-Lake Placid Trail, Catskill Winter 35er, several 50k trail races, 5x Shawangunk Ridge Trail (SRT) and 3x Breakneck Point Half Marathons, 2x podium for the "Delta Double" at the Delta Lake Triathlon, S.O.S. triathlon finisher in 2023 with a time of 5 hrs, 47 minutes, and he holds the 15k course record at the Brookfield Classic.Instagram: @brandonjromanThe Co-Movement Gym Podcast is supported by Native Path Supplements, Lombardi Chiropractic, Home Sweet Home Cleaning and Thin Line Martial Arts.  Mention this podcast or use code COMO15 at checkout!Native Path: https://www.nativepath.com/Follow the link below to see all of Native Path's Pure Grass-Fed, Organic, Clean Supplements and use the CoMo15 code at checkout for 15% off!Lombardi Chiropractic: https://www.lombardichiropractic.com/Mention the Co-Movement Gym Podcast when scheduling your initial appointment for 50% off Initial Consultation and X-Rays!Home Sweet Home Cleaning and Gardening: https://www.cnyhomesweethome.com/Did you know a clean house reduces anxiety, increases your productivity, improves sleep, and decreases stress! Yes all those health benefits just from having a clean house. The problem is that no one finds cleaning fun, except for the great folks at home sweet home cleaning.Mention the Co-Movement Gym podcast and receive 20% off deep cleans for all clients who sign on for their recurring services and start enjoying a clean house today.Thin Line Martial Arts: https://www.thinlinemartialarts.com/Law Enforcement Officers have one tough job. While some calls may be routine, many are not, oftentimes putting officers in unpredictable situations. Thin Line Martial Arts is an apparel company that promotes defensive tactics training for officers, so that they can be

Lisa Glick,  a  retired  music educator from Mid-Hudson Valley,  NY - now living in Tucson, AZ.  She is an ultra-runner,  an avid hiker, fitness instructor and singer!   Her passion for the outdoors, music and community service  are tools she uses to stay well and grateful, along with good nutrition and of course,  IF! https://www.myzyia.com/8849/shop/catalog.aspx?eventId=E1586090&from=DIRECTLINKSupport the show

In a conversation with Current Editor Chip Rowe, Michael Groth, author of Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley, discusses the overlooked early history of Black people in our area and the African American struggle for freedom. 

Technology is simply the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. We typically think of a “tech stack” as a set of digital technologies stacked together to build an application or run a business. Silvopasture regenerative farming use multiple farming styles that integrate together to create one well-balanced eco-system. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Ariane Daguin, founder and CEO of D'Artangnan, and her daughter Alix Daguin, principal at Duck Duck Design, about their new farm All For One For All (AOOA). The 501c3 non-profit farm in the Mid-Hudson Valley is geared for visits and education, with events, cooking classes, and a farm stand.Photo Courtesy of Alix Daguin & Eleanor Kwei.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Tech Bites by becoming a member!Tech Bites is Powered by Simplecast.

This weekend's 1 in 44 guests are Michael Campbell and Brandon Drescher. Michael is the Regional Market Impact Representative for MHVFCU and Brandon is the Branch Manager for the Red Hook and Rhinebeck locations. MHVFCU is the first credit union in our local area to become an Autism Supportive EnvironmentSM (ASE). Also, MHVFCU visits Anderson's campus to meet with our newest team members in orientation and discuss financial tips, wellness, and more. Anderson Center for Autism & Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union have a wonderful and unique partnership, tune in to learn more!

Andrea Varga is an Associate Professor of Theatre Design, a member of the Honors Faculty, and a Sustainability Faculty Fellow at SUNY New Paltz located in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York.  She holds an MFA in Costume Design from Florida State University, and undergraduate degrees in History and Theatre from Utah State University.  For over 25 years she has worked as a costume designer and assistant designer on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in television and academia.  She previously taught at Montclair State and The Fashion Institute of Technology.  As an educator/artist Professor Varga works to incorporate sustainability education and practice into her craft, courses, lectures and leadership on campus and in her community.  She currently teaches sustainability courses in the Honors Program at New Paltz including Ethical Fashion and Intro to Sustainability, as well as adult continuing education classes for The Studios of Key West in Florida.  Her work is informed by years of working with textiles, doing laundry for theatre, working with and in the fashion industry, and growing up on a farm in a conservation-minded and activist household in Utah.  She firmly believes that change can be made by individuals, and that optimism is the way forward.Learn more about The Global Goals and for solutions visit Regeneration.Visit  andreavarga.com to connect to even more resources.  

June Kelley Pierce is a retired Special Education teacher with a Master's Degree in both Education and Special Education. She also has as an Undergraduate Degree is Sociology and Psychology. A native of Northern New York, Pierce has made her home in the Mid-Hudson Valley. This is Pierce's first book of short stories. She has three other novels to her credit—her first book, Keeping Secrets, its sequel, Restitution, and her latest novel, Misunderstood. In 2019, Pierce published her first book of poetry, Painful Truths: A Memoir in Verse. She has also published a series of seven books for children, each focusing on a different social skill, along with a life-skills guide for parents and teachers. Pierce is a folk artist and restorer and has worked in the Hudson Valley for the past forty years.  Neglected Cries is on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1663222762/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_8JF6K5KW64FJFE1J7NZE

We are reviewing what went on during the week with WWE, We review AEW Dynamite and Rampage. We also give our take of Impact, MLW and NJPW Strong. Plus we have a interview with Bulldog Pittman the Mid Hudson Valley ECPW World Champ.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/henry-valentin/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/henry-valentin/support

We are reviewing what went on during the week with WWE, We review AEW Dynamite and Rampage. We also give our take of Impact, MLW and NJPW Strong. Plus we have a interview with Bulldog Pittman the Mid Hudson Valley ECPW World Champ. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/henry-valentin/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/henry-valentin/support

We are reviewing what went on during the week with WWE, We review AEW Dynamite and Rampage. We also give our take of Impact, MLW and NJPW Strong. Plus we have a interview with Bulldog Pittman the Mid Hudson Valley ECPW World Champ. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/henry-valentin/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/henry-valentin/support

We are reviewing what went on during the week with WWE, We review AEW Dynamite and Rampage. We also give our take of Impact, MLW and NJPW Strong. Plus we have a interview with Bulldog Pittman the Mid Hudson Valley ECPW World Champ. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/henry-valentin/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/henry-valentin/support

Yesterday two very different visions for the future of New York's energy system were presented at a marathon 12+ hour long budget hearing on environmental conservation. On one hand, New York's regulators argued to stay the course and continue to let the market and capital be the primary drivers of building renewable energy, despite the state having missed it's renewable energy goals year after year and currently only 6% of New York's energy comes from wind and solar. Community advocates and DSA-electeds had a different view - one where the future is a public good- and renewables are being built at the scale the climate crisis demands and are publicly-owned. Tonight we'll continue our series of interviews with NYC-DSA's 2022 slate and are joined live by Sarahana Shrestha a candidate for Assembly District 103 in the Mid-Hudson Valley and member of the NY Public Power Coalition who is running under the slogan - the future is a public good. More info about Sarahana: www.sarahanaforassembly.comMore info about Public Power: www.publicpowerny.org

Happy New Moon, Lunar New Year, Imbolc and Black History Month!Today I am honored to welcome The Poet Gold, Artivist, Poet, Author, Teaching Artist and Radio Host, and Suprina, Sculpturist and Artivist. They are collaborators and the Executive Producers of the video "Say Their Names," premiering February 1st at 7pm eastern. (Poet Gold and Suprina's interview starts around minute 36)Like so many Americans The Poet Gold @_poetgold_ and Suprina @suprinasculpture struggled to understand the individual and cultural meaning of the murder of George Floyd. Through ordinary conversation, they found out they were each dealing with this issue in their own arts. Suprina was creating a ghostly and ghastly, ironic representation of the blind goddess of justice, Themis. Poet Gold was writing one of her poelodies addressing American racism and oppression, which ends questioning our individual and communal humanity. Poet Gold asks “What kind of humans are we inside?”These Hudson Valley friends broadened their original collaboration of a processional performance to producing a video, “Say Their Names,” spanning 500-years of American racism that ends with a hopeful possibility for our future.The screening is free, but you must RSVP. Afterwards, the audio will be available to download on Bandcamp or at www.poetgold.com and a portion of the proceeds will go towards bringing the Soundtrack of Life, an anti-gun violence program by the Sundog Theatre, to the Mid-Hudson Valley. Our conversation weaves through the subjects of hope, forgiveness, shame, justice, white privilege, and happiness. I hope you will consider supporting and shouting out their work!And here's the Art and Social Justice show Suprina mentioned happening through March 13th in Woodstock. Reception: Saturday, February 19 | 4-6pm.And earlier in the show I shared the New Moon Report from Tanaaz at Forever Conscious and Refinery 29's Report.For those of you who want to do something to celebrate Imbolc, this website is really great!Thanks to Ian Seda from Radio Kingston for engineering today's show!Our show music is from Shana Falana !!! We heard these additional songs during the show. Sorry, not boycotting Spotify at this time.Feel free to email me, say hello: she@iwantwhatshehas.org** Please: SUBSCRIBE to the pod and leave a REVIEW wherever you are listening, it helps other users FIND IThttp://iwantwhatshehas.org/podcastITUNES | SPOTIFY | STITCHERITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i-want-what-she-has/id1451648361?mt=2SPOTIFY:https://open.spotify.com/show/77pmJwS2q9vTywz7Uhiyff?si=G2eYCjLjT3KltgdfA6XXCASTITCHER: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/she-wants/i-want-what-she-has?refid=stpr'Follow:INSTAGRAM * https://www.instagram.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcast/FACEBOOK * https://www.facebook.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcastTWITTER * https://twitter.com/wantwhatshehas

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Albany NY 321 AM EST Mon Dec 27 2021 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ038>040-047>054-058>061-063>066-272200- /O.NEW.KALY.WW.Y.0023.211228T0000Z-211228T1200Z/ 321 AM EST Mon Dec 27 2021 WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 AM EST TUESDAY WHAT…Mixed precipitation expected. Total snow accumulations of a coating up to one inch and ice accumulations of a light glaze. WHERE…Litchfield County in Northwestern Connecticut, Mid Hudson Valley, and the Taconics of eastern New York and the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. WHEN…From 7 PM this evening to 7 AM EST Tuesday. IMPACTS…Plan on slippery road conditions due to a light accumulation of snow and ice. Your Robin Hood Radio Tri-State Forecast TODAY: MOSTLY CLOUDY, SOME LIGHT SNOW POSSIBLE – 30-35 TONIGHT: WINTRY MIX SNOW-SLEET-FREEZING RAIN LIKELY – 20'S TUESDAY: CLOUDS & SUN – LOWER 40S WEDNESDAY: LIGHT WINTRY MIX TURNING TO RAIN – LOWER 40S THURSDAY: CLOUDY, CHANCE FOR RAIN – 40-45

Photo courtesy of Mizuyo Aburano/Woodstock School of Art Polly M. Law is an artist, bricoleur, and mythologenist living and working in the Mid Hudson Valley of New York.  She explores attachment in both the literal and spiritual senses, humans and nature are her vehicles. Bricolage and monoprinting are her media which she exploits ignoring the boundary between art and craft- especially the traditionally feminine hand-crafts. She has been a craftswoman, illustrator- advertising and editorial, bricoleur, and printmaker. She turned her interest in language into a book: "The Word Project: Odd & Obscure Words- Illustrated," featuring over 100 of her "word-dolls." Ms. Law has an abiding interest in semiotics, the symbolism inherent in everyday objects; and an abiding and futile anxiety about entropy. "Numen I/ Greenman" 9"x9" Bricolage "Greenman D" 13.5"x11" Monoprint

Today I speak with Elizabeth Gross, an herbalist, bodyworker, meditation and yoga instructor, and end-of-life doula based in the Mid Hudson Valley of NY.  Her mission through Selkie Medicinals is to provide optimal comfort and care to people experiencing major life transitions related to birth, sex or dying. Her services include prenatal Thai Yoga herbal bodywork, sexual health focused herbal consultations with a specialty in hpv and cervical dysplasia, and end-of-life doula care focused on abortion and miscarriage support.Some of what we get to chat about today is the myth of the Selkie, masculine and feminine in the tantric tradition, the patriarchy, healing the patriarchy, slowing down, pelvic health and vulva gazing. Note, we do talk about men's and women's reproductive body parts!The Secret of Roan Inish: Film. Link HereSensing, Feeling, and Action: The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen Link HereFor The Wild Podcast Episode: Tricia Hersey on Rest as Resistance Link HereEmbodiment Matters Podcast: Embodiment and Social Justice: A Conversation With Reverend angel Kyodo Williams and Dr. Scott Lyons Link HereAlso: Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés Link HereALSO, as mentioned with respect to the current state of affairs for women and children in Afghanistan, here is a link to my past interview with Sonita Alizadeh, and here's a direct link to donate to her ongoing work with children and other relevant links from her.Today's show was engineered by Ian Seda of Radio Kingston.Our show music is from Shana Falana !!!Feel free to email me, say hello: she@iwantwhatshehas.org** Please: SUBSCRIBE to the pod and leave a REVIEW wherever you are listening, it helps other users FIND IThttp://iwantwhatshehas.org/podcastITUNES | SPOTIFY | STITCHERITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i-want-what-she-has/id1451648361?mt=2SPOTIFY:https://open.spotify.com/show/77pmJwS2q9vTywz7Uhiyff?si=G2eYCjLjT3KltgdfA6XXCASTITCHER: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/she-wants/i-want-what-she-has?refid=stpr'Follow:INSTAGRAM * https://www.instagram.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcast/FACEBOOK * https://www.facebook.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcastTWITTER * https://twitter.com/wantwhatshehas

In this episode, I'll be chatting with radio personality Mike Bennett, the popular co-host of Mike & Kacy in the Morning on WHUD, the radio station serving New York State's Mid-Hudson Valley, a region with seven counties and more than 1.1 million residents.Many of those residents listen to WHUD, and Mike's baritone voice has become a familiar part of their daily routines. If a snowstorm forces your local schools to close early, or it's National Nurses Day, chances are you'll hear about it from Mike first.Mike is also the author of “Don't Pay the Ransom, I've Escaped: Memories of a Life on the Radio.” I love Mike's book, which captures his gentle humor, his affection for the Mid-Hudson Valley, and his sheer enjoyment of being on the radio. I hope you enjoy our conversation! 

Journal News, lohud.com and Poughkeepsie Journal Sports Editor Josh Thomson looks back the 2020-2021 Section I and Section IX Lower and Mid-Hudson Valley high school sports year, focusing on the key elements that made the season possible, potential pratfalls that were overcome, lessons learned and how the 2021 fall sports season shapes up on Westchester Talk Radio, "The Sports Report" with host John Marino, produced by Sharc Creative

Welcome to the neighborhood, home of UFOs, Little People, Lights and Bigfoot.  CS Matthews covers other oddities in her book, including missing time and haunts along the underground railroad. About that up close and personal experience with Sasquatch. We talk about the night she was driving home and being extremely cautious, anticipating the ever possible deer encounter and hoping to avoid contact. Then she saw Bigfoot. Amazon Bio: Dr. CS Matthews has studied paranormal experiences and reports for over 4 decades, has advanced degrees in Religious Studies and American Cultural Studies and is an ardent environmentalist. She lives in the beautifully haunted Mid-Hudson Valley of New York State where she teaches at local colleges and works for a prominent non-profit organization. She has been a journalist and has also published poetry, short stories, academic papers and a textbook on New Religious Movements.  Mysterious Beauty: Living With The Paranormal In The Hudson Valley, Amazon. Amazon Review: A specific book in a field that often generalizes - "I love that this book has the courage to look at the weird and particular. It doesn't just go the usual "UFOs over [your state here]" route-- it really feels lived in and personal. It captures that inimitable, strange Hudson Valley magic." Brief reference to her dissertation - Taken: Constructions of Race, Biology and Colonialism informing the Alien Abduction Narrative in the United States.  568 pg. PDF. (Contact her.) Underscores the need to further explore the differences between cultures, Indigenous, African American vs White narrative in the UFO experience. Tons of reference material. Worth an update! Website: https://www.professorwham.com/ Previous Interview - Wendy's Coffeehouse - March 13, 2021

In November 2013, a veteran of Interep with time at Katz Radio Group and MacGavren Guild was promoted after 3 1/2 years as GSM, of a group of stations serving New York's Mid-Hudson Valley.Today, Bruce Feniger remains in command of the Pamal Broadcasting stations, including two 50kw heritage FMs that continue to command large audiences. In this exclusive conversation, Feniger shares on the latest InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM, how Pamal has carved a niche within the nation's No. 1 DMA -- and attracts advertisers and consumers in ways New York City-based radio and TV stations can't.

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Over the past several months, WYBN-14, a low-power TV station, has distinguished itself from other stations serving New York's Capital District by offering eight digital multicast networks including COZI TV, Buzzr and This TV to viewers.Now, that same value proposition is being made available to those in the Mid-Hudson Valley, a part of the vast New York City DMA that until now has been devoid of any over-the-air broadcast signals.What opportunities does this bring to the station's ownership? Dan Viles, the man in charge, speaks with RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson about that in this fresh InFOCUS Podcast!

Today, we're talking Black Lives Matter, multicultural community and UNITY!Joining me in the first hour is Jessieca McNabb, comedian, co-host of Harambee Radio,No One Like You and oft guest on My Kingston Kids on Radio Kingston... and an active member of the Harambee Coalition, a mid-Hudson valley coalition that supports and promotes the strength of our community through cultural and educational events that enriches the lives of youth and adults. You can also catch Jessieca's last appearance on "i want what SHE has" Episode #106, from February 5, 2020.Joining Jessieca is Monique Tinsley, Jessieca's "day 1," who is also a vital member of the Harambee Coalition, working with Jessieca on initiatives to protect and restore the African Burial Ground on Pine Street and the upcoming online Juneteenth Celebration taking place online this Saturday from 1-4pm.The Juneteenth holiday is considered the "longest running African-American holiday"[22] and has been called "America's second Independence Day". This Saturday's Celebration will take place live on Harambee's Facebook page to celebrate and remember the African-American Independence from slavery in America. This online festival will entertain, encourage and educate guests on parts of the African-American experience. This is a family friendly event which will include song, dance, spoken word, history, talk and more from various participants at locations throughout Kingston. This event is in loving Memory of Pastor Paul Worthington.Jessieca and Monique speak with me about the Black Lives Matter protests, Juneteenth, the African Burial Ground and the importance of self care. Words they shared that I want to amplify are the need for white people to really pause regularly and soak up the reality of the black experience in the past few hundred years so that we don't stop the pressure until there's real equality and appreciation for black lives.In the second half of the show I am joined by Sarah Litvin, PhD., Director of the Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History to talk about the Multicultural Festival that is happening online now. The online festival website is the host to rich content from our diverse history and community; performances, cooking instructional videos, greetings in various languages, a list of our diverse restaurant scene and a community quilt.Joining Sarah are three members from the band, Caprice Rouge, Laura Crimmins, Karen Levine, and Elena Erber, who are participating performers in this year's online festival.Caprice Rouge is an acoustic ensemble from the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York State playing Balkan, Roma-Gypsy and Klezmer dance tunes! Performing on traditional instruments including accordion, violin, bouzouki, gypsy jazz guitar, clarinet, and percussion, the band is happy to play for dancers, revelers, and listeners at taverns and cafes, festivals and farmers' markets, at weddings and other celebrations!Stay tuned for live performances by the band once we're safe for social distancing, and in the meantime, join in the online festival which will continue to have more content added to it in the coming weeks!Today's show was engineered by Nick Panken of Radio Kingston, www.radiokingston.org.We heard music from Caprice Rouge and Shana Falana.Feel free to email me, say hello: she@iwantwhatshehas.orgLeave me a voicemail with your thoughts or a few words about who has what you want and why! (845) 481-3429** Please: SUBSCRIBE to the pod and leave a REVIEW wherever you are listening, it helps other users FIND IT :)http://iwantwhatshehas.org/podcastITUNES | SPOTIFY | STITCHERITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i-want-what-she-has/id1451648361?mt=2SPOTIFY:https://open.spotify.com/show/77pmJwS2q9vTywz7Uhiyff?si=G2eYCjLjT3KltgdfA6XXCASTITCHER: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/she-wants/i-want-what-she-has?refid=stpr'Follow:INSTAGRAM * https://www.instagram.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcast/FACEBOOK * https://www.facebook.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcastTWITTER * https://twitter.com/wantwhatshehas

The Foundation for Community Health has awarded a $100,000 grant to the WebutuckCentral School District (WCSD) for construction costs for the first full-service, school-based health center(SBHC) in our community. The aim is to establish the clinic for the 2020/21 school... Read More ›

The Foundation for Community Health has awarded a $100,000 grant to the WebutuckCentral School District (WCSD) for construction costs for the first full-service, school-based health center(SBHC) in our community. The aim is to establish the clinic for the 2020/21 school... Read More ›

Long Island Will Enter Phase Two Tomorrow Unveils Daily Metric Dashboard to Track COVID-19 Current Test Results by Region State, in Partnership with Sean Penn and CORE, Has Established 11 Testing Sites in Communities Particularly Impacted by COVID-19 New York State Now Has More Than 800 COVID-19 Testing Sites State is Deploying 500,000 Cloth Masks & 10,000 Gallons and 100,000 2-oz. Bottles of Hand Sanitizer to Metro North Four Million Bottles of NYS Clean Hand Sanitizer Have Been Distributed Statewide to Date Confirms 683 Additional Coronavirus Cases in New York State - Bringing Statewide Total to 379,482; New Cases in 40 Counties

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It's The Roaring 20s, 2.0! To kick them off, we are joined by a man who knows how to quiet the roar in your head, Dr. Larry Dresdale. Larry has joined us before to talk about meditation and mindfulness, and today he and Neal discuss realistic New Year's resolutions. They cover holiday stress and expectations; why it's just so hard to change one's diet; forgiving yourself; how to de-escalate anxiety attacks; handling change; setting yourself up for success; plus Neal's resolutions for 2020, and we introduce a new segment - Neal's Unhealthy Habits.  If you're in the Mid-Hudson Valley and would like an appointment with Dr. Dresdale, call 845-331-2007  Please check out https://www.woodstockvitamins.com/ and https://drnealsmoller.com/ Twitter @BigmouthRPH, Instagram @woodstockvitamins Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WoodstockVitamins/  Email questions to podcast@woodstockvitamins.com  Blog https://www.woodstockvitamins.com/blogs/learn

BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE. Eve Picker: Hey, everyone, this is Eve Picker, and if you listen to this podcast series, you're going to learn how to make some change. Eve Picker: Hi there. Thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing. My guest today is Sadie McKeown, executive VP, and chief operating officer of CPC, the Community Preservation Organization. There, she oversees the company's construction, lending, and sustainability initiatives, and she also oversees the operation of its regional field offices located throughout New York State. Finally, she leads CPC's Agency Lending subsidiary, a full-service operation focusing on Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and FHA lending products.   Eve Picker: Sadie has been involved in community development for over 25 years. It's rare to meet someone who still loves their job and the company they work for after all that time, but Sadie does. No one understands the dynamics of community and the role that leadership and politics plays in whether a community thrives or dies better than Sadie.   Eve Picker: Be sure to go to EvePicker.com to find out more about Sadie on the Show Notes page for this episode and be sure to sign up for my newsletter so you can access information about impact real estate investing and get the latest news about the exciting projects on my crowdfunding platform, Small Change.   Eve Picker: Sadie, thanks for joining me today. You and I had started a conversation a few weeks back that was really pretty fascinating - the politics of community development. I'd love to explore that with you today. How much impact does politics have on whether a community thrives or not? First, just a little bit of background. How are you today?   Sadie McKeown: I'm doing well, thank you. Thanks very much for having me on your podcast. It's my first.   Eve Picker: It's a pleasure. I read that you've worked for Community Preservation Corporation, CPC, for quite a while now, so you must love it there. I'm wondering if you could tell me a little bit about the nonprofit and what you work on there?   Sadie McKeown: Sure. Yeah, it's been a long time. I started at CPC back in 1991, as an intern, and I really did-   Eve Picker: Wow!   Sadie McKeown: -I really did fall in love with the company and the mission. CPC occupies a very unique space. We are a not-for-profit, but we are fully self-sustaining, so we don't take grants or government assistance. We're a construction and permanent lender for affordable multifamily housing, primarily, but we also do a lot of economic development and downtown revitalization.   Sadie McKeown: We are mostly a New York State- and City-based company, although we have a mortgage company that does lending for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae on a national basis, as well as FHA. But today, I'll focus on our community development and the construction lending that we do. We started in New York City in 1974, at a time when the Bronx was burning and there was a tremendous amount of disinvestment in neighborhoods in New York City. Manufacturing jobs were leaving, there was white flight to the suburbs, and a lot of neighborhoods in New York fell on hard times.   Sadie McKeown: CPC was created by David Rockefeller, when he was the chair of Chase Manhattan Bank at the time [crosstalk]   Eve Picker: Really? I didn't know that. That's really interesting, yeah.   Sadie McKeown: Yeah, he got together with some of the other commercial bankers in the city and said, "We have to do something about this crisis and really stem the tide of disinvestment and abandonment in New York City." So, CPC was created. We started pretty small. Within a couple of stable neighborhoods, we were successful. Then, Mayor Koch came in and started the Ten Year Housing Plan, and CPC was pulled up to the next level to do a lot of vacant building construction, renovation, and permanent financing.   Sadie McKeown: The way it worked was that the banks would come together and make the construction loans on a pari-passu risk-sharing basis, and they would also forward-commit a 30-year permanent loan to take out those construction loans when the projects were completed and fully leased. It was great, and we started in Harlem, and the South Bronx, and Bedford-Stuy, and neighborhoods that really needed a tremendous amount of investment.   Sadie McKeown: It was decided that more was required to get at the scale of the need, so we worked in partnership with New York City, utilizing their tax-subsidy programs, their vacant building stock, and their subsidies, in conjunction with our first mortgages, to do the construction piece. Then, we went to the New York City and, eventually, state pension funds, and they agreed to buy our 30-year fixed-rate permanent loans because they were insured by the State of New York Mortgage Agency.   Sadie McKeown: So, we created this very special product back in the late '70s that has served the State of New York and the City of New York very well, because it's provided certainty in the financing world with a 30-year fixed-rate non-recourse loan with a forward-committed interest rate. We took a lot of the risk out of real estate, which was necessary - I should say the risk of real estate construction financing - which was necessary because we were in what banks would consider to be the riskiest neighborhoods; lots of vacant buildings, low rents, uncertain demand. We did that in partnership with subsidy programs in New York City, primarily, but then, we expanded to Upstate New York with all of the different municipalities across the state.   Sadie McKeown: We know community development on a large scale. We also know it on a really small scale because some of the municipalities we work in, outside of New York City, are pretty small. So, we have a pretty special lens, where we really go in, and meet with municipalities, and we talk to them about what their housing priorities are. We look at what they have in their housing stock and what they might need. You can imagine, it's Upstate New York, and New York City; there's a lot of historic buildings. There's a lot of old manufacturing buildings.   Sadie McKeown: We get to do a lot of really cool deals that preserve what was there a hundred years ago and bring it back as something new. We preserve the cosmetics of it, and the place of it, but we get to interject financing to make it something new - housing, offices, retail; the whole concept of live, work, and play in downtown, and transit-oriented developments. We've gotten to invest in a lot of communities that are focused on that. Like I said, it's a very unique company, CPC, because we're not a bank; we're not regulated the way banks are, so we have more flexibility; we're more nimble. We partner with government, but we're not burdened in the same way the government is burdened, and I don't mean-   Eve Picker: Sounds fabulous [crosstalk]   Sadie McKeown: Yeah, it's really cool.   Eve Picker: What's the most fascinating part of your job for you?   Sadie McKeown: I guess the most fascinating part of the job is when you go to a place, or you go to a project that a developer wants to do and it's a vacant building, or it's a distressed neighborhood, most people would only see the negative, and they wouldn't want to be in that place. I remember, early on, with my clipboard, as a loan officer at CPC, I would be on some of the worst blocks in the neighborhoods that we were making loans in, thinking every other person I know in my life would get in their car and drive away as fast as they possibly can.   Eve Picker: That's true. I love those places.   Sadie McKeown: Yeah, me, too, and yet, there I was waiting for an opportunity to make a difference, to create change. Lots of times, what CPC does is we're first in with our capital, and we create excitement with the first two, or three, or four projects. Then, all of a sudden, there's projects going up that we're not financing because other investment is coming in, so I think-   Eve Picker: So, your investments are really much more than an investment into a project. They're an investment into a community so that other developers feel more comfortable following, right?   Sadie McKeown: Absolutely. That's one of our big priorities is to create an investment environment, which will attract other capital, both equity capital, as well as other debt capital [crosstalk]   Eve Picker: That's really, really tough to do.   Sadie McKeown: It is tough to do, but that- I think that's my favorite part of the job is when you get to that point, and you start to see other investment coming in, you know you've been successful [crosstalk]   Eve Picker: What's your biggest success story?   Sadie McKeown: So, I mean, New York City is a huge success story for CPC, but it's too big for us to claim, so I'm going to go-   Eve Picker: I would just claim it!   Sadie McKeown: -I'm going to go further north along the Hudson River and talk about a small city called Beacon. Beacon, New York is a population of probably about 20,000. It's a former industrial city right on the Hudson River, which thrived before the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, before cars. It had a lot of manufacturing, and there was a lot of boat traffic up and down the river. Beautiful, historic buildings; a really interesting, long Main Street and interesting downtown; just a really neat place.   Sadie McKeown: When CPC started making loans there at the end of- in the beginning of the 1990s - '89, '90, '91 - it was all vacant buildings, prostitution, drugs. It was not a place that you wanted to be, and-   Eve Picker: Isn't this where Pete Seeger lived?   Sadie McKeown: Yes, in the Hudson Valley. Pete Seeger lived up that way, absolutely. So, the mayor at the time - and this goes to your point about politics and community development - was really focused ... Her name was Clara Lou Gould. She was really focused on trying to transform the downtown, and the Main Street, and bring it back because what often happens to Main Streets that don't come back - this is going back to urban renewal - sometimes, you can lose the history because you just get rid of the- you erase the problem by demolishing buildings, and you start over because you think that might be the best way forward. It's certainly one way forward, and you can do lots of interesting, and new, and exciting things, but in cities like Beacon, you want to be able to preserve that history because the buildings, themselves, are beautiful.   Sadie McKeown: We literally would go door to door, knocking on the doors, and these were all small multifamily buildings, two or three apartments above a store; figure out who owned the buildings, in partnership with the City of Beacon, because they knew who owned these buildings, as well, and we would sit the people down and say, "Okay, you can borrow money from CPC. We'll get money from Duchess County. We'll get money from the Federal Home Loan Bank, from the local utility company, and City of Beacon will give us a grant." We married together all of these subsidies, and we were able to do about 25 different projects in the concentrated Main Street area.   Eve Picker: Oh, that's a lot!   Eve Picker: Be sure to go to EvePicker.com and sign up for my free educational newsletter about impact real estate investing. You'll be among the first to hear about new projects you can invest in. That's EvePicker.com. Thanks so much.   Eve Picker: Well, it's actually a pretty long Main Street, but it's a small town.   Sadie McKeown: Yes, and all of the buildings, themselves, were really small. What we would do, uniquely there, that other banks wouldn't do is actually finance four units above a store that would take three, or four years to complete. We didn't make any money, as an organization, but because we're mission-driven, it didn't matter. CPC always does a blend of different types of deals, and we service all the loans that we underwrite and close, so that we're making money in other places, which allows us to go in and concentrate investment in places like Beacon.   Sadie McKeown: Over 10 years, we provided about $5 million of private financing from CPC in these different projects; very small average loan size, like $200,000 or $300,000. Then, another $3 million was leveraged in all different sources of public subsidy. We did about 32 storefronts with that $5 million, and about 120 apartments [crosstalk]   Eve Picker: -that's incredibly efficient, Sadie.   Sadie McKeown: Well, it didn't feel efficient at the time, but what happened was we created ... There were some pioneers. I want to give credit to Ron, and Ronnie Beth Sauers, who were a couple that lived up there and were the pioneers that did the first couple of deals. We started to create a buzz, and people started to come to Beacon because it's a beautiful place, and the Metro-North train from New York City stops there.   All of a sudden, people were coming in and buying up the other vacant buildings. Then, there were a lot of artists there. Then Dia:Beacon opened. Dia:Beacon is a large modern art museum that was put into a vacant warehouse down by the river. It's just fabulous. It's a fabulous, fabulous art museum. It attracted a lot of attention, and more, and more people came.   Sadie McKeown: We started in the early '90s; by 2004, or '05, say, we stopped making loans there because other banks were there. We were successful. We kind of worked ourselves out of a job. We still do some financing [crosstalk]   Eve Picker: That's pretty fabulous.   Sadie McKeown: -but we brought back a lot of other capital. Now, I hadn't been to Beacon, in Beacon, for eight years. My husband and I went for a hike across the river, and we were on our way back. I said, "Let's drive through Beacon. I hear great things, and I want to see it." When we parked the car and walked from one end of Main Street to the other, I was absolutely stunned at the activity, and the stores, and the restaurants, and the people. I literally had the chills because but for that initial capital that we took the risk investing there, it may not have happened, or it may have taken a lot longer to happen. So, that was a wonderful story for us.   Eve Picker: That is a wonderful story. You know I'm very fond of Newburgh; fond, and sad about Newburgh, which is across the river, which has enormous potential and is full of very beautiful, beautiful buildings; architecturally significant buildings. But that, in the same period of time, hasn't had the same story, has it?   Sadie McKeown: No, it hasn't. When CPC opened its Hudson Valley office in 1989 or '90, we decided to target cities because it's easier to target than to just spray small loans all over the place. We targeted Beacon, Newburgh, and Poughkeepsie, in the Mid-Hudson Valley, as our three cities where we would concentrate investment. You heard my story about Beacon. Well, I spent as much time in Newburgh as I did in Beacon, but without the same results.   Sadie McKeown: There's a couple of reasons for that, that I'll talk about, but before I talk specifically about Newburgh, because I, too, love Newburgh the same way you do, and I am very much a believer in Newburgh; it's just going to take a little bit longer. But, when CPC evaluates whether or not there's investment potential in a place, we look at five criteria.   Sadie McKeown: We look at the physical infrastructure, and we say, "What are the buildings like? Are there opportunities for us to be here and invest here?" Clearly, that's the case in Newburgh. Beautiful physical infrastructure - the streets, the river. There is definitely beautiful physical infrastructure. Then we look at the social infrastructure. Is there a 'there' there? Is there a reason why people would want to go there, and live there, and eat, and dine, and play there? A little bit less so in Newburgh, but certainly the potential was there [crosstalk]   Eve Picker: Yeah, the potential's huge. I mean, Broadway is an amazing street.   Sadie McKeown: Exactly. We checked that box - social. That's great. That's awesome. Then we said, "What does the economic infrastructure look like?" In that, it started to get a little bit more challenging in Newburgh because the economics were tough. Rents are low, and taxes are high, so it's very hard to leverage a lot of private debt to make deals work. But Orange County was committed to Newburgh. They had their home funds. This was 25-30 years ago, so there was a source from the federal government to use. So, we thought we could put deals together. The tax credit program was just coming online. We had some resources to help the economics, so that was good.   Sadie McKeown: Then, you look at the development infrastructure. Are there people there that are doing development, that care about the place, and that want to see things happen? This has always been true about Newburgh. Just like you, and me, Eve, people love Newburgh [crosstalk]   Eve Picker: Yeah, no, I think that's right.   Sadie McKeown: -there's always a core of people that are trying to make things happen. So, that gave us confidence, too. Now, that core has changed over time. There was a group called the Newburgh Development Association that used to host monthly lunches. We'd all get together in a little restaurant on Broadway, and we'd talk about the challenges, whether it was facades, or parking, or infrastructure; whatever it was. I mean, we'd talk about how to resolve the [soil]. Always felt good about the development infrastructure.   Sadie McKeown: But then you always have to look at the political infrastructure of a place, because if there isn't political will to do what needs to be done, it's a really- it's very challenging. I'll go back over to Beacon for a second, and say that Clara Lou Gould was the mayor, when CPC got started in 1990, and she remained the mayor for the next 20-23 years.   Eve Picker: Wow.   Sadie McKeown: So, her agenda for revitalizing her Main Street remained her agenda for that long. The more you do something, the better you get at it, and the more you can attract attention to what you're doing, the more resources come to you. So, politically, she was a stalwart, and she wanted this, and that very thing happened. More and more people came to Beacon; more and more people wanted to invest. They had a welcoming presence in the government of the city of Beacon, led by Clara Lou Gould. It's not easy to develop in these small cities. There's a lot of things to consider [crosstalk]   Eve Picker: Right, and I would say, as an architect and urban designer, if I look at those two cities, Newburgh is by far the more interesting, in terms of its building stock, and streetscapes. Beacon is not as interesting as Newburgh. So, that political piece has been extremely important for Beacon.   Sadie McKeown: I completely agree-   Eve Picker: Well, except for the fact that there's a direct train linked to New York, and that probably is really important, too.   Sadie McKeown: I was just going to say the exact same thing. The other thing that Beacon has going for it is that the Metro-North train does stop there. As crazy as that may seem to some people, people really do get on the train in Beacon and go to New York City for work every day, even though that train ride is more than ... It's probably an hour and 10 or an hour and 20-   Eve Picker: I've done it. It's an hour and fifteen minutes, but it's lovely. You can sit, and read, and work. It's really lovely. The crazy thing is ... This is where segregation comes into play a little bit, as well. I always wonder about the bridge between those two cities and why it doesn't land in the middle of Newburgh and over to one side, instead, because it's really very close. It's just across the river.   Sadie McKeown: It's interesting. So, back to the politics of Newburgh, I think in the time that the CPC was working there, maybe there were six different mayors. So, what you have is a lack of focus on what your agenda is and a concentrated focus on staying in office or running for office. Because you don't ... Without the continuity, there's uncertainty. People that would come in with all of the greatest ideas in the world never had the same kind of certainty because there was never one strategy led by a strong leader around how to redevelop the city.   Sadie McKeown: A couple of other things, similar to the train, that I wanted to say, because it's not just politics; didn't help, the Newburgh politics, but Newburgh also is much larger, geographically, than Beacon - the downtown.   Eve Picker: Yes. It's huge.   Sadie McKeown: So, you need more to have an impact, right? So, that was a challenge. And it's where there is the largest concentration of poverty in Orange County. Beacon didn't have the largest concentration of poverty, even though it had a concentration. Poughkeepsie did. This is going to sound wrong, but there was less competition for poor people in Beacon than there is in Newburgh, where poor people tend to migrate. So, you have to address that, also. In addressing that, you can't just address that with good housing, or with storefronts, and restaurants. You have to address that with jobs, and transportation-   Eve Picker: Yes.   Sadie McKeown: -and true economic revitalization. I think that that's even harder to do than housing. Physical infrastructure; making improvements to the multifamily building; the historic, beautiful multifamily building site that's there is really important, and that's one piece. But you need to be able to provide income for the residents that are going to live there, and opportunity.   Sadie McKeown: That's so much harder to get that. It's easy to change the physical infrastructure of your place, but to change the economic environment is that much harder; and if you don't even have political leadership that can get to the low-hanging fruit of the physical change, it's really going to be hard to get to the economic change. I think Newburgh has struggled a little bit more ...   Sadie McKeown: In Beacon, you had Duchess County, which had lost IBM and lost a ton of jobs. The county was very focused on diversifying their labor force and making broad change so that they weren't relying on one entity to support them, which was IBM, before IBM left Duchess County. So, you had a county-wide effort to change, and Beacon got to participate in that.   Sadie McKeown: That wasn't the case in Orange County because Orange County didn't suffer the same economic devastation when one employer left. Newburgh didn't have anything to grab on to, or to get help with. They were sort of on their own. So, over the last 30 years, you haven't seen that much change in Newburgh, but ... There's always a 'but' when you're talking about Newburgh.   Eve Picker: Yes.   Sadie McKeown: It does feel like things are really starting to happen-   Eve Picker: Well, when you talk about employers, that has really shifted in the last five- even in the last five years. More and more people are working remotely. I run a virtual company. I have people, really, all over the world for my company. It's really quite manageable and quite enjoyable because we have the technology to be able to talk, like we're talking on Zoom, now; in many other ways ... It's very simple. So, as people move towards the remote employment, the likelihood of a more remote place being occupied goes up a little bit, right?   Sadie McKeown: I couldn't agree more. I think Newburgh is well-positioned for that kind of opportunity, because if you need to get to the city, you can go over the bridge for a meeting, once a week, or something, but you can be extraordinarily productive, remotely. There could be small hubs of WeWork spaces or Regus offices that employ people so that they can come together in collaborative spaces. You don't have to be in New York City anymore to work for a company that's located in New York City, and I think Newburgh is well-positioned for that, but [crosstalk]   Eve Picker: -that actually may be one of the things that helps the affordable housing crisis - the fact that people can work from a more affordable place is a really good thing [crosstalk]   Sadie McKeown: Absolutely, and the fact that they don't have to spend money commuting helps their affordability.   Eve Picker: That's right.   Sadie McKeown: Remote working is one part of the solution.   Eve Picker: Years ago, there was a foundation here in Pittsburgh, where I live, that tried to start a ... They actually did a survey on the civic skills of elected officials, and what they understood about placemaking, and housing, and all of these things. The scores were extremely poor. So, one wonders whether elected officials shouldn't go to some sort of school that might help them a little bit. They're elected based on personality, and charm and really may not have the right skill set to help the community.   Sadie McKeown: Yeah, I agree with that. I live in a small village, just north of New York City, on the Hudson River, south of Beacon. I feel very blessed to live in the village that I live in. We've had the same mayor for 20 years, but we have a very forward-thinking agenda in- I live in Tarrytown, New York.   Sadie McKeown: We did a comprehensive plan, where we brought in the people from the village, and we got feedback on what our priorities are. Then, instead of having that sit on the shelf, we created a comprehensive-plan-management committee to look at what came out of that plan and make sure that we followed up on it. A village like Tarrytown has a part-time mayor, and one village administrator, who has an assistant, and that's kind of it. You have your village engineer, and your administrative people, but you don't- there's not a lot of people that can really move that agenda forward.   Sadie McKeown: So, you really need volunteers. I'm a volunteer in the village, on the housing committee, and on the comp-planning committee. You really need volunteers that care about a place to come forward and participate in its development and in what it becomes. I think that politicians need to do more of that. There's also a program in Hudson Valley called the Land Use Leadership Alliance, which is run through Pace University's law school, where they bring in all of the planning and zoning people from the various towns in the Hudson Valley, once a year, for a six-, or eight-part educational series-   Eve Picker: Oh, that's great.   Sadie McKeown: -yeah, teaching them about placemaking, about zoning, about architecture, about financing, so that when they're sitting behind a table evaluating whether or not a project should be approved, or a library should be extended, or whatever it is, they have a perspective and a sense of how that impacts the whole community and what it takes to get a development done, or to raise funds for a library, or a park, or whatever it is.   Sadie McKeown: I completely agree with you, the education ... There are mayors that go through the LULA program, and there are trustees, and all of the people that make decisions at the local level participate, and they participate with each other, so there's different people from different towns. It's actually a really cool thing [crosstalk]   Eve Picker: It is very cool-   Sadie McKeown: Yeah, I've been a speaker at it, and I've sat in on a number of their sessions. It's actually a very enlightened way to bring people together in a non-threatening environment that's not political at all, where they don't care about anything other than learning how to do best for the place that they live.   Eve Picker: You're working all over New York State like this. Is this the only example like this? You said you look at five things, when you evaluate- five criteria, when you evaluate whether to work somewhere, in order to invest in a project. Of those five criteria, what most frequently lets you down?   Sadie McKeown: Well-   Eve Picker: Or is it all over the place?   Sadie McKeown: It's all over the place. It really depends. If we are in a city just outside of New York City - in the suburban ring - Lower Westchester County, you have great economics, typically great physical infrastructure, social; there's population density. What you really need there is good politics and also good development infrastructure.   Sadie McKeown: In New Rochelle, New York, which is just north of the Bronx, in Westchester County, we had the good fortune of being brought in. New Rochelle was developed- one of the first cities developed outside of New York, a hundred-plus years ago, and it was like a summer community for people that lived in Manhattan. So, it was the first Bloomingdale's outside of New York City, and the Main Street was thriving with merchants and everything else. It was really quite a wonderful city. Then, fell on hard times. The offices went to office parks in Westchester County; stores, and large stores, in particular, went to malls. Downtowns, like New Rochelle - which made no sense that they fell on hard times because of their proximity to New York City - fell on hard times.   Sadie McKeown: When we were called in to look at the financing for this Bloomingdale's building, which had been vacant for 25 years ... We were pulled in by the director of their Business Improvement District, a guy named Ralph Dibart, who we knew; he had been involved when Soho became Soho, and he had been involved in some other cities, so we knew him well.   Sadie McKeown: We came in, and we looked at the Bloomingdale's building. They couldn't get financing. We said, "Well, why can't you get financing?" They said, "Well, the banks won't do it because there are no comps." I laughed and said, "That's the best thing about this project. There are no comps in the immediate area, but there are lots of comps ..." because the woman that bought it wanted to develop loft housing. She stole a design from Chelsea, New York, and was going to do the exact same thing on Main Street, in New Rochelle. Instead of it costing, at the time - this was the early 2000s - instead of it costing $850,000, she was going to charge $225,000. From my perspective, we had great comps because everybody wants to live in Chelsea, they just can't afford to.   Eve Picker: Right.   Sadie McKeown: If you wanted to be in that style of housing, it didn't exist in New Rochelle. That was a place where our lens of turning risk on its head really made sense. She built that project. She bought the building, and built out, and sold that project in 22 months. Incredible.   Eve Picker: I did a similar thing in downtown Pittsburgh, at a time ... I built eight lofts in downtown, in a vacant building, at a time when the bank actually said to me, "Aww, honey, no one's going to live down here." I sold them all before I finished construction.   Sadie McKeown: Exactly.   Eve Picker: People really- they want something more than cookie-cutter options for how to live. They deserve more. So, yeah, it's frustrating when banks, or lending institutions don't really see those innovative opportunities.   Sadie McKeown: Agreed. What was really, really cool about New Rochelle is that was our watershed deal. That was the first one that we did that put us on the map, if you will. Then, because Ralph Dibart was there, the president of CPC, at the time, said to me, "You can do this big deal, Sadie, but look around ..." and when we looked up and down Main Street, it was really small buildings. He said, "These guys have been hanging in here, in New Rochelle, owning their buildings, keeping their businesses alive, and they're the ones that are really struggling. We have to create a program that meets everybody's needs, not just the bigger deals."   Sadie McKeown: So, working alongside of Ralph, we created a facade-improvement program. We created a technical-assistance grant program, where we could ... Because, when they zoned for Bloomingdale's, they did blanket zoning for the entire Business Improvement District; as-of-right residential above the stores. But the store owner said, "That's great, and I have my store here, and I own the building, and I have vacant office space upstairs, but I don't know what I can do with it, and I don't want to spend money to find out." So, CPC did technical-assistance grants to bring in an engineer to say, "Okay, you have X number of square feet; you can do three loft-style apartments; they'll be this big, and ..."   Sadie McKeown: Then, as the loan officer, I could say, "Okay, so the rent for those three apartments will be X, and the rent from your store is Y, so we can leverage this much money in private financing; give you a construction loan to go ahead and renovate that empty office space and turn it into beautiful lofts." That happened, and that was really cool, but it was really Ralph, and I, together, over pizza, or coffee, or Indian food, talking about what would it take to get the facades to improve, the lofts to be developed? How could we work with the smaller owners?   Sadie McKeown: What was great about Ralph was he knew who was serious and had capacity to do it, and he knew who was a little too nutty, so he kept- he protected me from the nuts, because you can get ... You can get into a deal with a nut, and it could take ... Three years later, you'd come out, and your head is spinning. Not that they're not wonderful and creative people. They're just ... Even I can't bank them. So, it was great to have ... That's that development infrastructure piece.   Sadie McKeown: That, alongside of really good politics, you end up with real good boots on the ground, which is a thing that we talk about at CPC. In order to know your neighborhoods, you've got to have boots on the ground. I spent 20 years as a loan officer at CPC. I was boots on the ground, and I walked every block in the neighborhoods that I was in, and I knew them really well. I knew who owned what, and I knew where the opportunities were and where the problems were. Having that development partner, that infrastructure, I think, was really important.   Sadie McKeown: So, New Rochelle's another success story. We've done great things in Syracuse, and Rochester, and Buffalo. Those are the larger cities, and now, we're starting to see activity in some of the smaller-tier cities, like Utica, and Binghamton, and that's really cool, too. We have a great governor that has dedicated a lot of resources to housing; has a real interest in developing Upstate New York, and economic development.   Sadie McKeown: What we do is we look at where the resources are and how we can follow the money, if you will, to make things happen in conjunction with whatever resources are available in a place. A deal came to our mortgage committee the other day in Buffalo, and it was yet another vacant former industrial building, and it was a brownfield site. I laughed, and I said to the loan officer in Buffalo, "It's follow the contamination," because it's such a great resource, and there aren't that many resources, so you have to go where there are resources-   Eve Picker: Yeah, no, that's right. That's right ... Well, anyway, it's wonderful to hear you're so excited about this job after being there for such a long time.   Sadie McKeown: Yeah. Oh, I love my job [crosstalk] very, very lucky.   Eve Picker: Very lucky, yeah. So, just talking a little bit more broadly, I'm just wondering if you think socially responsible real estate is necessary today, in today's development landscape?   Sadie McKeown: Absolutely. I think it's necessary in every day, in every year, and, to the extent that we haven't done it, we should have been doing it. We certainly should do it going forward. I'm a little curious if your definition of socially responsible real estate is similar to mine, so why don't you tell me what yours is?   Eve Picker: Well, we have a definition on Small Change, which is kind of pretty broad and a little agnostic. I think socially responsible could mean an ugly building that's converted into a business incubator for startups in an under-served building. It could equally well, also, be a net-zero passive modular house that is built on a long-vacant site in a good neighborhood that is expensive.   Eve Picker: It's not always ... I mean, I know everyone talks about affordable housing, affordable housing, but I think, for me, impact in real estate can mean a variety of things. I think it's a level of thoughtfulness, so that you just don't spend money doing a deal for the deal's sake, but you add some value to the community you're in. Does that make sense?   Sadie McKeown: Absolutely makes sense, and it is definitely very consistent with my definition. I would say, at CPC, we really do do that. As it relates to sustainability, and passive house, and net-zero, we've been pushing to try to get the first mortgage market to incorporate energy performance of a building into their underwriting, so that they're recognizing how much less expensive it is to operate those properties, so that we can leverage additional net operating income, and-   Eve Picker: That's fantastic because that's really been missing.   Sadie McKeown: Yeah, it has been missing. It's been a real battle; a labor of love. We really believe in passive-house principles, and net-zero, and decarbonization, electrification because it makes housing more affordable, it makes it more resilient in the era of climate change, and it makes it a better living environment - better tenant outcomes, more tenant comfort. It's a much healthier environment for a tenant to live in, so for all of those people-   Eve Picker: -by the same token, housing that is close to transit is also pretty meaningful in the affordability game, right?   Sadie McKeown: Definitely.   Eve Picker: If someone lives somewhere, where they're close to some sort of transit hub, and they don't have to buy a car, and they don't have to drive their car to work, that's pretty meaningful, and that should also count in that [crosstalk]   Sadie McKeown: It absolutely does, and it totally counts ... Transit-oriented development, downtown revitalization, those are all things that we also focus on. Then, we do a lot of what we call 'Big A' subsidized affordable, like bread-and-butter government-subsidized, affordable housing for very, very poor people. We do homeless housing, supportive housing. We do all of that really good, deep, deep mission-based stuff.   Sadie McKeown: That's all really wonderful, but we also do ... When we're talking about downtowns, we try to do integrated housing so that it's not just mixed with retail and office, if that's appropriate, but that the incomes are mixed. We look very broadly at housing, and how it gets built, and constructed. We're very concerned about the rising costs of constructing housing, because there's not a rising subsidy pooled [crosstalk] alongside of it to offset those rising costs.   Sadie McKeown: So, to your point about modular, we are very interested in modular approaches that drive down the cost - the hard cost of construction, shorten the amount of time it takes to build, so that you're shortening your overall development time frame, and the ability to try to build some of that passive, or net-zero, so that you're delivering boxes to the site that are really the highest quality relative to their sustainability.   Sadie McKeown: If you can do that, and you can work with a municipality to get your approvals and to create a routine program, there are ways to integrate affordability into a building with maybe just a tax abatement, and maybe if you're buying land from a municipality for a dollar. Those two things, you can integrate 30-, 40-percent affordability into a market-rate project without capital subsidy. That's something else that we're very, very focused on because there's just not a lot of capital subsidy available.   Sadie McKeown: We will work alongside of any program. I mentioned brownfield tax credits before; historic tax credits. We're doing a deal in South Carolina that has textile credits. My idea has been, [crosstalk] with the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, we should add a boost for anybody that's going to make their building net-zero, or passive, or electrified and give them a little bit of extra credit to try to raise additional capital to make that building- to maximize its energy efficiency, its resiliency, and sustainability. We're always thinking about how to do things differently; not just doing the same thing over, and over again. I think that's consistent with your-   Eve Picker: It'd be wonderful. Are there any current trends in real estate that you think are the most important for the future of our cities?   Sadie McKeown: Well, when you look at the nexus of climate change, and the affordable housing crisis, I think that that will be a trend, depending on politics, of course. We were headed in that direction under the last administration, with President Obama, where we were in the Paris agreement. I've been to The Netherlands, where they take this very seriously. There are lots of creative ways for capitalism to go to work, making housing more affordable, and addressing climate crisis.   Sadie McKeown: I often want very much for the different departments of governments to collaborate on how to solve problems together, so the housing affordability, and sustainability, and the climate crisis really cross over. I really feel like the resources available to make housing more resilient ... Also, healthcare is another one. There's some really cool stuff happening in places like Connecticut around hospitals and healthcare providers participating in affordable housing.   Sadie McKeown: I think we're starting to see a trend, where it's not just a silo of, "We all do nine-percent tax credits, and let's just keep doing them." I think people, because of the looming affordable housing crisis, are starting to get out of the box, which I think is very exciting-   Eve Picker: Yeah, no, I agree. I think it's very exciting. Very exciting.   Sadie McKeown: One of the things that I think about all the time, people talk about infrastructure in this country, and they think roads and bridges. When I think about infrastructure, I think about money, and financing, and I think about financing being the infrastructure that underpins everything. If you can influence how things are financed, you can touch everything. You can touch every physical building in the country, because, not everyone, but the majority have financing. So, that's sort of [crosstalk]   Eve Picker: -that plays into a question I have to ask - do you think that crowdfunding has a role in that?   Sadie McKeown: I just love crowdfunding, and I love your approach, and I love your concept. I had the great privilege of listening to speak those few weeks ago [crosstalk]   Eve Picker: Oh, thank you.   Sadie McKeown: -and what I love most about the crowdfunding is that it opens the door for many, many, many more investors and people that live in places to invest in the place that they live. Right now, most people just have an opportunity to invest in their 401(k). They're not thinking about investing, so they just participate in their 401(k) at their job or whatever.   Sadie McKeown: I think people are starting to realize there's more to investing, and I think crowdfunding gives people an opportunity to participate in investing in a different way. Your platform really reaches deep into the community. When people are making a $100, or a $200, or a $2,000, or a $5,000 investment, they're not really that interested in how much money they're getting back, as if they were investing $50,000, or $100,000, or $1 million. It would be all about the economic return.   Sadie McKeown: When you drive down size of the investment, the returns are much more focused on the change that you're making with that investment in that community. That's one of the things I love about even the name of your company, Small Change, because you're putting in small change, and you're making small change, but small change, over, and over again, ends up with a huge impact-   Eve Picker: One can only hope!   Sadie McKeown: I think there's absolutely a place for crowdfunding far more broadly in this country and in real estate.   Eve Picker: Great. I'm going to ask you three sign-off questions that I ask everyone. I'm just always interested to hear what people have to say. What do you think is the key factor that makes a real estate project impactful to you?   Sadie McKeown: I think that the thing that makes a real estate project most impactful is that it made someone's life better, and there are so many people that can be impacted by one small real estate development. So, if you appropriately and responsibly renovate a building in a place, and you restore it to its historic integrity, and you put really nice apartments that have a beautiful place to live, the people that live there, particularly in neighborhoods that CPC is in, have a better place to live. They didn't have an option to live that well before, and you made their lives better.   Sadie McKeown: So many times, when we go to our ribbon-cuttings, the tenants will come to the ribbon and cry about how happy they are-   Eve Picker: Oh, that's wonderful.   Sadie McKeown: -to have such a lovely place to live affordably. So, I think their lives are impacted. But then, just the everyday lives of the people that drive by that building - they feel better. It's not vacant anymore. It's vibrant. Something's going on there. Then it happens that the next building gets invested in, and the next building. So, you really make change, and you impact- you improve people's lives. People, meaning the individuals that live there, but also people, meaning the communities that surround the real estate deals that you do.   Eve Picker: Yeah. Okay. This is a hard one, but if you were to pick one thing in real estate development in the U.S. that you'd like to see improved, what would that be?   Sadie McKeown: It is a hard one because I have so many thoughts on this. I'm going to go somewhere, which kind of sounds a little bit weird, but I'm going to go to the building code-   Eve Picker: Oh, I've heard lots of these, so it's not weird [crosstalk] thinking about building codes.   Sadie McKeown: I think that if you could change the code and make the code require the right elements of place, and housing, and resiliency, and sustainability, and address ... You can address so many things through the building code. I was in in Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Housing Finance Authority - a couple weeks ago, talking to them about their passive-house initiatives and all the cool things that they're doing. One of the people said that Pennsylvania didn't have a building code 20-25 years ago, and that was really shocking to me [crosstalk]   Eve Picker: No, they did. They [crosstalk]   Sadie McKeown: -not a state code that impacted [crosstalk]   Eve Picker: -maybe not a state. They were local; they were locally managed, that's correct, yeah.   Sadie McKeown: Yes, and so-   Eve Picker: But they were all slightly different. Yeah.   Sadie McKeown: But to have ... See, if you can start with a code that keeps everyone consistent, then all of the programs that grow up around real estate have to obey the code, and they can all be more uniform and more efficient. So, it's almost like the roots of the tree and then, the tree grows stronger because the roots are the same. It's a unique one for me. I could have gone to all kinds of things, but I, particularly with my sustainability and my climate-change hat on ... Change the code, and you can change the way people fundamentally address those issues in real estate.   Eve Picker: Well, thank you very much for your time. I've really enjoyed talking to you, and then, I plan to keep talking to you, Sadie. So, thanks for your time this afternoon.   Sadie McKeown: Oh, my pleasure, and I look forward to the ongoing conversation. Thank you, Eve.   Eve Picker: That was Sadie McKeown. That was a fascinating conversation about the impact that personality, will, and politics can have on place. Political infrastructure is just one of the five criteria that CPC uses before they decide to invest in a place. In addition, they review physical infrastructure - what are the buildings like? Social infrastructure - is there a 'there' there? Economic infrastructure, and development infrastructure.   Eve Picker: You can find out more about impact real estate investing and access the show notes for today's episode at my website, EvePicker.com. While you're there, sign up for my newsletter to find out more about how to make money in real estate while building better cities. Thank you so much for spending your time with me today, and thank you, Sadie, for sharing your thoughts with me. We'll talk again soon, but for now, this is Eve Picker signing off to go make some change.

Spine specialist, Dr. Nike Taylor shares a story along with her patient of a young man with recurrent chronic back pain who was determined to find relief. Dr. Nike Anne Taylor graduated from the National College of Chiropractic in 1989 and is the founder and director of Taylor Chiropractic located in New Windsor, New York. Her practice is enjoying its 21st year providing natural healthcare to Mid-Hudson Valley residents. As an active Holistic Health educator and advocate, Dr. Taylor has developed a Road to Wellness lecture series for the public including: Back to Basics, Meditation Clinic, Nutrition and Pain Control, Boosting Your Immune System Naturally, Exercise Ball Workshop, Back Tips for People Who Sit, Back Injury Prevention, and Maximize Your Health Potential. Dr. Taylor served as the treasurer for the New York State Chiropractic Association (District 9) from 2002-2005. She also served as the senior editor of New Windsor Health Online, a free local online health and news magazine serving residents living in New Windsor, NY and the surrounding areas. Resources: Contact Dr. Taylor Find a Back Doctor The Cox 8 Table by Haven Medical

Today I get to speak with 4 fine ladies from Health Care is a Human Right (HCHR), a 501(c)3 not for profit charitable corporation, founded in 2003 by Susan Weeks, Physician Assistant, Vicky O'Dougherty, Homeopath, Susan Bissonnett, RN, and Jill Elliot, DVM. Since its inception, Health Care is a Human Right has offered free clinics in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. NOTE: they are in the process of updating their website so if you come to a landing page with a red button saying "Learn More," click on that to be linked to the clinic info.  Joining the conversation is Susan Weeks, long time Physicians Assistant, Board President and co-founder of HCHR. Ida Rivera, Life Coach, Reiki Master and administrative assistant at HCHR, Jesse Scherer, Massage Therapist and volunteer coordinator at HCHR, and Wendy Wolosoff-Hayes, a practitioner of Spacious Heart Guidance, student of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, Matrix Energetics and several other energy healing modalities. We talk about why the organization was formed and how they all got involved with it, what they each do and why they do it. Plus we get to laugh a lot even though we're talking about some serious stuff...health care IS a human right. All are welcome to their free clinics, but if you have the means, donations are greatly appreciated! For a list of their upcoming clinics jump on over -> here. For the second hour, I get to sit down with the wise and magical Aemen Bell, a certified Western Herbalist, who also works with the healing power of food, movement, breath, and Earth energies in her practice. After spending nearly two decades in NYC studying herbs, shamanism, and people, she's delighted to now live in the mountains of Woodstock, New York. She teaches classes throughout the country on herbs and healing. She is currently writing several books & is available throughout the region for healing consultations and workshops in person and via telephone. Aemen is teaching a workshop on "Devaxing Our Kids" on August 8th at Woodstock Healing Arts. Aemen will share what to do before and after, including non-toxic, easy to use herbal remedies, as well as foods for the healing process. On today's show Aemen shares the mystical story of finding a fasting book at the age of 14 and then secretly embarking on her own 10 day water fast which healed a chronic health condition, leading her into a life of herbalism. We get devaxing tips plus props for Burdock and Raspberry Leaf for uterine health. She's pretty inspiring when it comes to personal wellness, awareness and the search for answers. I forget the exact quote (you'll have to listen to confirm), but when talking about how she moved from a state of panic when thinking about vaxing her daughter to one of solution mode, she says, herbs are one answer, there are always many answers. Thanks Aemen!  Next week I get to speak with Lila Lolling on moving past sudden divorce, healing epilepsy with yoga, yoga philosophy, yoga for the deaf community and eco-living. Today's show was engineered by Ben Benton of Radio Kingston, www.radiokingston.org. We heard music from our fave, Shana Falana, http://www.shanafalana.com/ Feel free to email me, say hello: she@iwantwhatshehas.org Leave me a voicemail with your thoughts or a few words about who has what you want and why! (845)481-3429 ** Please: SUBSCRIBE to the pod and leave a REVIEW wherever you are listening, it helps other users FIND IT :) http://iwantwhatshehas.org/podcast ITUNES | SPOTIFY | STITCHER ITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i-want-what-she-has/id1451648361?mt=2 SPOTIFY:https://open.spotify.com/show/77pmJwS2q9vTywz7Uhiyff?si=G2eYCjLjT3KltgdfA6XXCA STITCHER: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/she-wants/i-want-what-she-has?refid=stpr' Follow: INSTAGRAM * https://www.instagram.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcast/ FACEBOOK * https://www.facebook.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcast TWITTER * https://twitter.com/wantwhatshehas

Olivia Grimsland is building quite the name for herself in the Mid-Hudson Valley area with OG Yoga Studio, and has recently been stepping it up even further taking on the role of Head Coach and Co-Owner at Kingston Athletics. While she takes fitness very seriously, she was gracious enough to stop by and have a fun talk about what motivates her, how her business has grown, and what people can do to make good healthy choices in their lives.  No lawn mower this week, but eagle-eared listeners will notice a train halfway through... that's Kingston for you.  https://www.instagram.com/oliviagrimsland/ https://www.instagram.com/kingstonathletics/ https://www.og-yogastudio.com  

Girl Talking today with guest host Vanessa Benton aka Miss V while Shana is exploring her way through Italy. Miss V, a dancer, choreographer, teacher and all around wise woman who spreads love with her every move shares about her background and how she got into dance and how it helped her with her self esteem. Theresa and Miss V are joined by special guests, Mariel Fiori and Hillary Harvey. Mariel Fiori is a journalist, translator, educator and an entrepreneur. She co-founded and is the managing editor of the Bard-sponsored La Voz, cultura y noticias hispanas del Valle de Hudson. Since 2004 the award- winning La Voz is the only Spanish language magazine serving the 140,000 Latinos living in the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill mountains. She co-hosts the weekly radio show La Voz at Radio Kingston. Hillary Harvey is the host of the weekly civic issues program The Source with Hillary Harvey. Each Friday, she interviews people about their work, and takes Deep Dives into the issues with guests who are in the know.  Through regular segments like the City Meetings Report, Feminist News, and What Else Happened, she offers a wrap up of the week's hyper local news and politics to inform your civic engagement. Hillary Harvey is also a writer and photographer whose work has been published in Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Hudson Valley Magazine, Upstater, Ulster Publishing, and Red Tricycle.   The four of us discussed various issues such as how and why they do journalism, being a woman in a male dominated industry, race and the women's movement, self care and the value and the future of #metoo. These women are rich with experience, wisdom and passion for their work and their communities. Hillary is hosting a "What's Next for #MeToo: a panel of the future of organizing" in Kingston on March 24th. Check it out! Theresa and Miss V close out the show talking about LOVE. Today's show was engineered by Nate Brogan of Radio Kingston, www.radiokingston.org. We heard music from Shana Falana, http://www.shanafalana.com/, and audio from the film, RBG, https://www.rbgmovie.com Feel free to email us, say hello: she@iwantwhatshehas.org, Leave us a voicemail telling us who have you want and why: (845)481-3429 ** Please: SUBSCRIBE to our pod and leave a REVIEW wherever you are listening, it helps other users FIND US :) Follow Us: INSTAGRAM * https://www.instagram.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcast/ FACEBOOK * https://www.facebook.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcast TWITTER * https://twitter.com/wantwhatshehas ITUNES | SPOTIFY | STITCHER ITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i-want-what-she-has/id1451648361?mt=2 SPOTIFY:https://open.spotify.com/show/77pmJwS2q9vTywz7Uhiyff?si=G2eYCjLjT3KltgdfA6XXCA STITCHER: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/she-wants/i-want-what-she-has?refid=stpr'

Hello People!! Girls will be girls Talking and DOING a lot! We are giving a shout out to the film "No Choice" by Bill Moyers, it is screening here in NY at Upstate Films followed by a panel talk with these amazing humans: Ruth-Ellen Blodgett, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Mid-Hudson Valley; Robin Marty, author of Handbook for a Post-Roe America; and Susan Wong of the NYCLU. Lea Garnier is our first guest today. Lea has worked in the healing arts for over 20 years and is an accomplished practitioner in this field. She began her healing journey by making paintings that have been displayed, sold and published in Europe and New York State. Lea found Craniosacral Therapy in NYC after suffering neck and back injuries sustained in an auto accident. The relief she found from this work was so profound she put down her painting brushes to pursue training. She is trained as an Upledger Craniosacral Therapist and has a private practice at Sage Academy of Sound Energy / Sage Center for the Healing Arts in Woodstock, NY, a center she co-founded in 2007, and now directs. In 2008 she became a certified yoga instructor trained in the Desikachar linage, and specializes in teaching the integration of sound healing and sound awareness (nada) in a yoga class setting. Lea shares her thoughts on the feminine, how she was exposed to the strength of the feminine via her mom and sisters. Her deep wisdom of sound and how the body heals comes through in all that she shares. She hosts monthly sound baths in Woodstock, NY at Sage as well as her annual retreats at Menla and Ananda. She is like the legit embodiment of the Goddess, for reals. Dee Solin is our second guest today. Dee is An award winning American Abstract Color Painter. She is known for her highly charged chromatic oil paintings. Her work is in collections in Europe, Australia and the US. After living and painting in the South of France for 20 years, she returned home to New York to pursue her art and to become more involved in the New York art world. When she first arrived, she painted at the Art Students League. After leaving the league she opened a studio space in midtown Manhattan. Presently, she divides her time between her New York City and her new ‘barn' home in Rhinebeck. She is also the creator of several fine art Colour Guides that are distributed through artist material stores world wide under the name of “MAGIC PALLETTE.” Dee talked about the importance of staying in the place of positivity versus anger or frustration, and how that helps her to keep moving forward. Self care!!! It's astrology time...in honor of Monday's New Moon, Theresa shares this month's astrology from Astrology King...ready for it? "The New February 2019 astrology is the best of any moon phase for over a year. Sun, Moon and Mercury sextile Jupiter bring good luck, good news, optimism, generosity and happiness...and spiritual wisdom and help make your dreams come. This is a generous, charitable and philosophical new moon of hope and goodwill." Woo hoo! Enjoy it folks...embrace the love that surrounds! Today's show was engineered by Manuel Blas of Radio Kingston, www.radiokingston.org. We heard music from Shana Falana, http://www.shanafalana.com/, and audio from the film, RBG, https://www.rbgmovie.com Feel free to email us, say hello: she@iwantwhatshehas.org ** Please: SUBSCRIBE to our pod and leave a REVIEW wherever you are listening, it helps other users FIND US :) Follow Us: INSTAGRAM * https://www.instagram.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcast/ FACEBOOK * https://www.facebook.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcast TWITTER * https://twitter.com/wantwhatshehas

Rotarian Mike Polasek (LaGrange) reports to the RadioRotary team about a major effort on the part of local Rotary Clubs (LaGrange, Millbrook, Fishkill) to obtain a grant from The Rotary Foundation to fund awareness and prevention programs in the Mid-Hudson Valley, although Mr. Polasek emphasizes that opioid addiction is a worldwide program that affects all ages and all classes. Opioid abuse often starts with an original prescription for pain relief from an injury or surgical procedure, but the drug becomes a necessity for the person addicted, a person who then may seek out street drugs to replace the prescription. The result is not only the misery of addiction but often overdose and death. The grant from The Rotary Foundation, focusing on adolescents 15 to 10 years old, would support awareness through social media and prevention by working with agencies already in the field. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/radiorotary/support

RadioRotary hosts a discussion of Rotary in the Hudson Valley featuring District Governor (DG) 2014-15 Penny Byron (Patterson Rotary), Past District Governor (PDG) 2009-10 David Green (New Windsor-Cornwall Rotary), and District Governor Elect (DGE) 2015-16 Nick Constantino (Walkill East Rotary). DGE Constantino had just returned from training for his post in San Diego along with 531 other District-Governors-Elect. DG Byron tells that she has completed an obligatory visit to each of the 62 Rotary Clubs in District 7210, the district covering the Mid-Hudson Valley, including its E-Club, which has international membership. PDG Green tells of his plans for the District Convention in April. All three describe some of the ways Rotary International fulfills its mission of “doing good in the world.” --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/radiorotary/support

This week on the podcast, I want you to meet the smart, creative, and organized Aimee Gardner. Aimee is doing some socially impactful work in our shared neck of the woods here in the Hudson Valley/the Catskills. Aimee is the Operations Director for O+ (pronounced oh positive).  Over her time with the organization, she’s also helped launch spin-off festivals in San Francisco and Petaluma California. O+ works to build long-term relationships between creatives and health & wellness providers to help strengthen local communities. The O+ festival infuses medicine, art, and wellness in a uniquely engaging way. In addition to talking about O+, Aimee explains how we can trip into new and galvanizing experiences - sometimes unexpectedly - even as organized planners (ahem, my Type-A friends) and live to tell about it. We also chat about ways she’s dealt with burnout, the importance of setting bite-sized goals, and how she spends her “free” time at Disaster Mansion. Oh yeah, we’ll also discover the satisfaction of slaying a star-farting cat. (PETA friends: Don’t be alarmed. No real cats were harmed in this conversation.) We geek out over that topic and more, in this episode of Le vital corps Salon.  If you’re in/near Poughkeepsie, NY (in the Mid-Hudson Valley) between August 3-4, I urge you to check out the O+ Festival! If you’re not around in August, make plans to check out the 8th annual Kingston O+ Festival on October 5-7. Check out the full show notes for this episode at:https://www.vitalcorpswellness.com/blog/lvcs-0046-aimee-gardner  

About Jamie Levato Jamie Levato, Education Director of Poughkeepsie Farm Project, is a certified teacher with a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Education from SUNY New Paltz. Jamie has developed curriculum for, trained educators in, and led youth in, hands-on farm and garden-based learning. Under Jamies direction since 2010, PFPs education department provides enriching educational experiences for several thousand children, teens, and adults each year. Jamie has been gardening, cooking, and loving food since childhood and enjoys every opportunity to share her passions with like-minded individuals. About Poughkeepsie Farm Project: Poughkeepsie Farm Project is a member supported farm in the City of Poughkeepsie. They are on a mission to cultivate a just and sustainable food system in the Mid-Hudson Valley. They grow fresh vegetables and fruit for the CSA, train future farmers, provide hands-on educational programs, and improve access to healthy locally-grown food. Poughkeepsie Farm Project began in 1999 as a small community farm with a commitment to education and food justice. During the first season, 15 CSA shareholders enjoyed produce from 3 acres of reawakened farmland leased from Vassar College. Sixteen years later they have expanded to 12 acres and over 500 households take part in our CSA. They are leaders in cutting edge practices in today’s sustainable agriculture. They harvested 183,366 pounds of produce in 2015 and donated 34,555 pounds of it to those in need in our community. In addition to the work they do to bring our crops to harvest, we train and educate the community on healthy growing and eating practices year round. Learn more about Poughkeepsie Farm Project – Website Our Conversation: We discuss: What is the Poughkeepsie Farm Project? Jamie’s background growing up and how it influenced her career The beauty of community gardening How does community gardening work? Why “scripted” curriculums are inadequate for learning “Garden clubs” – what are they and how they could work What is the Poughkeepsie Urban Farming Initiative? The motivation behind having and participating in agricultural programs in Poughkeepsie What you can learn in agricultural programs Improving Poughkeepsie’s potential for healthier food businesses and meaningful wage work. What is the Farm-to-School Project ? and so much more! Love the show? If you love our show, please support us by: Sharing it with your friends Leaving a comment on the show notes Writing a review on iTunes or Facebook Subscribing Donating on Patreon Contacting us to learn about sponsorship opportunities Contacting us for a feature/interview

Having officially stayed in one place for almost a decade and a half (after many frequent relocations throughout her childhood and adolescence), Teal Hutton can say that she is truly at home in the beautiful Mid-Hudson Valley in Upstate New York. While Teal's daytime secret identity is that of senior producer for a small but feisty web development shop, her real superhero powers include independent study (of whatever strikes her fancy), self-taught journalism, print and web design, knitting, falling in love, and an as-yet-unmatched knack for memorizing song lyrics. She is equal parts accidental home chef, amateur seamstress, aspiring homesteader, student of integrative nutrition, and most importantly single mama to a quick-witted and insatiable 4-year-old boy. Consequently, in her 33rd year, she still doesn't know what she wants to be when she grows up. Teal's experience of her son's birth in 2007 — as a tremendous failure and her body's first major betrayal — colored her relationship to her body and to food for the coming years, and triggered a cascade of health challenges and emotional pitfalls. Shortly after, Teal was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease and secondary amenorrhea, and she's spent the years since learning the difference between trust and control, and the direct connection between self-love and physical health. Teal can be reached at teal.hutton@gmail.com.