At Home Radio with Kate Jones & Friends

Investing in dividend-paying stocks makes your money work hard for you, and it will work even harder if you can find more money to invest. So, you might ask, how do you “find” money? David Hawkins, author of Ask the Mailman: A Simple Plan of High Yield Stock Investing for Uncommon Wealth, tells how.

Cleveland graphic artist Ben Small says that it’s a wonderful thing to create art, and that’s what he does outside of his day job. He spends up to 40 hours a week making drawings that on one hand are influenced by his interests in science fiction and animals, and on the other hand by his love for the colors and spirals of Art Nouveau. Products are for sale with some of his designs on the online shop Redbubble.

You can find Ben's Redbubble page by visiting https://www.redbubble.com/ and searching for bensmall (one word, lowercase). 

In this episode, David Hawkins, author of Ask the Mailman: A Simple Plan of High Yield Stock Investing for Uncommon Wealth, covers the fine points of compound interest. David’s book is available on askthemailman.com and Amazon. 

David Hawkins invests in stocks that pay dividends because, he says, that’s the best way to make compound interest work the hardest. In this episode, he gives step-by-step instructions on how to get started!

There’s a reason Kelly Gunther is known as the Comeback Kid. Setbacks don’t deter her. The Long Track Speedskater who competed in the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games shares her story to help others strengthen their resolve to be their own comeback kids. As Kelly will tell you, “How many times you get knocked down is how many times you get up.”

What do The Grasshoppers and Guy Lombardo have in common? They both appear in Sheldon Zoldan’s “Song of the Day” series. To find out more about the longtime journalist’s yearlong endeavor chronicling music, culture and history, tune in to Episode 10 of At Home Radio!

When Joy York was a girl growing up in northern Alabama, she and her cousins would sit on Mama Leavie’s front porch listening with rapt attention to ghost stories that had been passed down through the family for generations. Joy must have inherited her maternal grandmother’s knack for storytelling because Joy’s suspense novel Genuine Deceit, published in 2021, is a riveting tale with twists and turns and a lot of action. 

When the pandemic hit in March 2020 and weddings were canceled right
and left, wedding planner extraordinaire Caroline Creidenberg, CEO of Wedfuly, had an idea: Let’s do a virtual wedding! She found a willing couple and contacted Zoom to see whether the company would take on the challenge. Zoom did, the wedding came off successfully and the ensuing press coverage brought many more interested couples to Wedfuly. Since then, Wedfuly has done hundreds of such weddings and is now the virtual
wedding expert!

A healthy spine is something a lot of us take for granted until we have neck pain or a sore back. Then suddenly we’re very much aware of how spinal pain detracts from our quality of life. In this episode, listen to Dr. Andrew Bang, a chiropractor with Cleveland Clinic, talk about the importance of a well-functioning spine and how to keep yours happy and healthy.

Antiques dealer Steve Sherhag specializes in Early American furniture and artwork. Not only does he have a passion for the furnishings themselves, he loves to learn their stories. After digging through barns seeking out gems in the rough, he takes them home and lives with them for a while. Then, when he’s ready to let them go, he tells potential buyers all he knows about each piece and why it’s special. You can hear for yourself at the antique shows he runs or attends in Ohio, Vermont and New Hampshire.