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Caption: Jacob de Golish
Motown Rising with Jacob de Golish! This episode has a lot to do with building, construction, restoration and the skilled trades. Jacob walks us ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2017
  • Length: 31:15
Caption: Bamboo Detroit  Amanda Lewan
Bamboo Detroit Update with Amanda Lewan Romy catches up with co-founder, Amanda Lewan to hear about the most recent expansion of one of Detroit's ...

  • Added: May 26, 2017
  • Length: 27:36
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Detroit Horse Power lifts, heals, and empowers! David Silver shares an update on all of their expansion in the hearts and minds of the Detroit You...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: May 17, 2017
  • Length: 37:23
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Michelle Annet - avid pickleball player and librarian at Cascade Middle School
Michelle Annett loves being a librarian, but she also loves pickleball. She decided to combine the two into a fundraiser- she opens up the gym thr...

  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 05:29
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Kresse Wesling updates us on up-cycling used fire hoses and discarded leather for luxury use! Romy catches up with Kresse Wesling. Kresse shares i...

  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 44:33
Caption: Amy McIntire
City Girls Soap becomes a Farm: Let the Goat Scaping begin! Amy McIntire joins Romy for an update on the goat farm. Amy shares how the business ha...

  • Added: May 07, 2017
  • Length: 33:18
Caption: Khali Sweeney of the Downtown Boxing Gym Youth Program in Detroit
Khali Sweeney of the Downtown Boxing Gym Youth Program in Detroit Listen in to the powerful testimony of a great leader, his overcoming a poor edu...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 21:48
Caption: Overflow Coffee Bar - Brandon & Amanda Neely - Chicago
Overflow Coffee Bar - Brandon & Amanda Neely - Chicago Season 3 kicks of with a great social enterprise out of Chicago's South Loop. Get to know o...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 49:33

  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 13:19
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Mikael Cho is the co-founder and CEO of Crew, at one point in the business’s history, he says they were running straight towards a brick wall. They...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2016
  • Length: 08:16
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Lisa Johanon of Central Detroit Christian Listen and Learn from the great Lisa Johanon, for 22 years she has led Central Detroit Christian to larg...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 32:30
Caption: Coal miner Ronnie Johnson, with his lunchbox.
For decades, Ronnie Johnson woke up in the late afternoon, and fixed a lunch to bring with him 2,000 feet underground, as he worked all night in a ...

Bought by WMMT, KVLU, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 31:48
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Noam Kimelman of  Fresh Corner Cafe
Detroit-based founder, Noam Kimelman of Fresh Corner Cafe Romy interviews Noam Kimelman on his venture Fresh Corner Cafe in Detroit. They also d...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 30:26
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In this episode, host Mike O’Toole sits down with Linda Boff, GE’s Chief Marketing Officer, about the recent changes GE has undergone. They discuss...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 35:52
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On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we take a close look at all sides of a controversial land deal and that bitterly divided the Colorado Springs...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2016
  • Length: 58:58
Caption: Jessica Robinson
Bonfires on the Move! Technology solving mobility issues! Meet the new host of Bonfires on the Move, Jessica Robinson. Jessica and Romy discuss...

  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 30:53
Caption: Veronika Scott
Veronika Scott of The Empowerment Plan shares her missional journey of discovering her passion for creating employment for the homeless. She courag...

  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 40:51
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Marco Tempest is not your average magician. He uses robots to do magic tricks on stage -- but the real trick is in how easily he can get an audienc...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2016
  • Length: 16:56
Caption: Vimal Patel cooks inside -- and outside -- a room in the Day's Inn he operates in North Charleston. , Credit: Photo by Wade Spees for the Post & Courier.
We stay at them around the South and across the United States: Day’s Inn. Best Western. Quality Inn. But there is a food world behind the scenes at...

Bought by KVLU and WABE


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 28:49
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Melvin Major
Aristotle said it best: “Nature abhors a vacuum.” Whenever there is a void in our lives we fill it, consciously or otherwise. Too often, people tr...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2015
  • Length: 26:45
Caption: The SPLT Fares Team, Credit: SPLT
The Bonfires of Social Enterprise with Romy Gingras of Gingras Global visits Ford Field in Detroit, the home of mentorship technology program, Tech...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2015
  • Length: 29:44
Caption: The view looking west down Wisconsin Ave. in Tieton, WA. , Credit: Photo by Phoebe Flanigan
How a detour, a patch of goathead thorns, and a flat tire changed one guy's life, and brought an economic boost to a sleepy, little town in rural W...

Bought by WMMT, KALW, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 20:03
  • Purchases: 3
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Exotic dancers, on-call drivers and writers might have a different name for what they do -- freelancing, part-time work and independent contracting...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 14:51
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: John, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2015
  • Length: 27:05
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Financing a business plan or personal project usually means taking out a bank loan, but for many immigrants, there's another alternative. KFAI's Al...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 04:39