Conversations with Coffey

Interview with Donna Barton Brothers, award winning NBC sports analyst, author, and former top jockey. Donna talks about her love of clean living, fast horses and good wine. The COO of Starlight Racing and Star Ladies Racing opens up about how she has established herself as one of the most respected and authentic horse racing analysts and her thoughts on being part of the Kentucky Derby Museum's newest exhibit, "Right to Ride".

Interview with Matt Jamie, CEO and founder of Bourbon Barrel Foods. Just in time for the Holiday Cooking Season, we are talking to Matt about his booming business. Bourbon Barrel Foods has championed the idea of combining Kentucky's skyrocketing bourbon biz with foods. His products range from bourbon smoked sea salt, paprika, and peppercorns, a wide variety of sauces to fresh cooked ready meals at his new Louisville marketplace. Everything he makes is either aged or smoked in bourbon barrels. He talks about how his business was uniquely positioned to survive COVID and how he sees cooking trends shifting to the one-pan trend he embraces in his own kitchen.

Interview with Dr. Wanda Minnis-Dyson. Dr. Dyson practices Regenerative and Transformational Medicine. Dr. Dyson is founder and director of the Change for Life Wellness and Aesthetics Center located on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The author and doctor gives tips for how to build your immune system this fall to protect yourself from COVID and the flu, three simple steps and how she shifted her business post-Covid to focus on her motto " Wellness and Beauty From the Inside."

Interview with the Chairman and CEO of Lunsford Capital, Bruce Lunsford. He is the former president and CEO of Vencor Inc., the predecessor To Kindred Healthcare and the Chicago-based health care real estate investment trust Ventas Inc. Lunsford shares his insights into when he sees the economy rebounding, businesses that he sees hitting a post-COVID boom and his personal investment in the future of public service at his Alma Mater, the University of Kentucky.

Interview with Katie Fussenegger, Vice President of the Kentucky Derby Museum. The busy tourism executive shares her secrets for creating a zen work-home balance, the lessons that the COVID pandemic taught her and a preview of KDM's newest exhibit "Right to Ride" opening October 16th.

Interview with Stylist and Brand Image Strategist Lauren Rothman.

She is the author of the Style Bible and featured in Vogue, Real Simple, O Magazine and Entertainment Tonight. The Inc. Columnist speaks with me about how she found success in the middle of a wild 2020. She also shares her tips for her fall and winter must-haves and how work-from-home is changing how we look at fashion.

Claudia interviews The Athletic Sports Writer Jeff Duncan about covering the NFL in the middle of a pandemic, that spectator-less first game, when he thinks Dree Brees will retire and the latest on his upcoming book, Payton and Brees - The Men Who Built the Greatest Offense in NFL History.