In this episode we speak with Ethan Amos of Flagstaff Family Food Center. Over 30 years ago, local businessman and philanthropist George McCullough would give his business card to any person he met on the street who needed some help and tell them to head over to the Grand Canyon Cafe for a hot meal and use his business card as payment At the end of the month, he would square up with the restaurant owners, Fred and Tina Wong. McCullough’s generosity became well known around Flagstaff and eventually evolved into a soup kitchen, first opened in the basement of his church. More and more community members became drawn to the mission of feeding those in need and on Christmas Day 1991, the Flagstaff Family Food Center officially opened its doors.

Domino's Pizza came from humble beginnings in 1960, with just one store. Now, as the largest pizza company in the world, DOmino's proudly continues its legacy of delivering great-tasting pizza to customer's doors. In today's show we'll speak with Kelly Ramos Campos from Domino's Pizza here in Flagstaff.

Cornerstone Caregiving is a senior home care service that allows your loved ones to stay where they feel the most comfortable: at their home in Flagstaff. In today's conversation we speak with Michele Ortiz. Michele discusses Cornestone's Compassion by Design care model. Cornerstone stands apart in offering compassionate, authentic assistance, willing and ready to be with your loved ones whenever they need help, for as long as they need help.

The Aspen Room is a DIY event space that can accommodate up to 200 people for your next event or gathering. It comes complete with a large bar to serve food and/or drinks from stage, tables, chairs, high-tech audio, and lighting systems. In this episode we speak with Dawn Stroyer-Graham to get the story behind how this perfect gathering spot for all occasions came to be.

In 1972, a group of Flagstaff citizens met in the basement of the Weatherford Hotel to form a non-profit community theater. After more than a decade performing in a variety of venues throughout Flagstaff, Theatrikos found it's permanent home in 1989. Originally named the Flagstaff Playhouse, the Doris Harper-White Playhouse was renamed in honor of one of the groups founding members. Tune in to this episode to learn more about the origins and mission of northern Arizona's premiere theatre and Flagstaff cultural confluence, Theatrikos.

Abundant Family Financial Services preserves and protects retirement accounts, safeguards against taxes and penalties, helps optimize social security elections, grows retirement funds, and creates an income stream that will never be outlived. In this episode we speak with Jim Shweikert from Abundant Family Services about the common threads between being a coach, consultant and practice owner, guiding people to VERY GOLDEN retirement years, Jim's 40 years of community involvement and service here in Flagstaff and how Jim's approach to retiring well.

Wisdom Good Works is a collaboration of scientists, educators, environmentalists and philanthropists who believe in the potential of humane animal population control. For almost 30 years Drs. Loretta Mayer and Cheryl Dyer have worked to restore ecological balance through fertility control technology that is both organic and effective. In this episode we speak with Dr, Mayer on what Pilot Project Wisdom has going on right now with local business partners; WGW's recent grant from Open Philanthropy; the humane and most effective way to control rodent overpopulation; and data that demonstrates that fertility control is sustainable and far more effective and affordable than poison.

Organized in 1999, Quality Connections is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in Flagstaff. QC helps individuals with disabilities become independent, productive members of the community by providing them with employment opportunities, job training and practical life-learning programs. In today's episode we speak with QC's Doug Arnett about the important role that work plays in all people's lives, what workplace inclusion looks like, what employers can expect when hiring workers with disabilities and current challenges facing workers with disabilities in our community.

For 50 years Mountain Sports has taken pride in offering exceptional, helpful, hometown customer service with a deep commitment to the community and environment. As the only Patagonia shop in the region, Mountain Sports stands by their quality products and has adopted the 1% for the Planet program. Because of Mountain Sports' loyal customers, they have been able to invest more than $250,000 back into the Flagstaff community! Tune in to hear learn more about this northern Arizona-grown business in this conversation with Mountain Sports' Lisa Lamberson.

The Ecollectix Coins and Collectibles focus is "Getting Your Nostalgia On". With a large collection of action figures, comics, trading cards and video games, Ecollectix is a largely pop-culture focused shop with a vast knowledge of all things collectible. In today's show we speak with Ryan Moretti about his wonderful shop, passion for collecting and how Ecollectix can help costumers looking to both trade-up or trade-out!