HyperLocal(s)

I met Emily D. when I was an eager mom who has since peaked at parenthood. Sign up for all the things. Take all the notes. Fill up the calendar. She was president of our pre-k board and patient with my onslaught of questions. At this time, Emily was laid up and recovering from one of MANY surgeries to repair and reconstruct the bones that keep failing her. 

 Listen as this Florida native, 4th generation in fact, talks about what brought her to the Midwest, her Certified Public Accountant background, her now passion and successful photography business, the risky moves she made to get to her new storefront in Mahomet, her one-and-done birth with crippling post partum, the multiple surgeries she has endured in the fight for comfort and mobility and finally the choice to move her family for a chunk of the year to the island of St. Johns. Work hard, play hard and hire the right team for support—keeps the Emily in Pixels by Emily innovating in photography like no other.

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What a pleasure it was to sit across from a professional in communications. I had a lot more in common than I expected with this old soul, wise-beyond-her-years, grounded girl. 

 Listen as this Champaign native talks purity before marriage, leaving the popular ciLiving local lifestyle show, maintaining uncompromisable roots while being flexible enough to travel for her husband's professional baseball career,  making your mess your message with her book "It's OK, Finding Peace in Unexpected Places," having a career in a business where appearance matters, dwelling on the social outskirts and reaching the goal of running a marathon and writing a book before entering holy matrimony. Her parents raised a good one with Grace. I can't wait for her next chapter. 

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Big personality. Red hair. Red lip. Huge heart. Her life ballooned beyond blue collar expectations into a higher education in performance. A built-in family and a special needs child lead her to a life of nurturing, advocating and creating a new normal.

 Listen to this Pontiac, Illinois transplant talk operatic music, singing as a learned skill, big age gap in sibling dynamics, her stage partner becoming her life partner, marrying an older man with two little ones, struggling to get pregnant and finally giving birth to her son.  Nicole refers to her family as the "1 percent family." If it could happen, it did. Enter Maxwell, the love of her life and the focus of her day-to-day. Stay tuned for the end of the podcast for future predictions.

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Electric. Energetic. Magnetic. He doesn't even drink caffeine anymore. He is high on life. Brett feeds off people, hard work, momentum and passion. New to his schedule and routine, is the hard-to-achieve concept of BALANCE. This is the only podcast I didn't have to edit and the only podcast guest that brought a professional videographer/photographer with them!

 Listen to this Champaign townie, Centennial graduate, and success, in every sense of the word, share his story. The loss of his mom changed the course of his life. Losing the person that provided unconditional love, warmth and affection was a loss of such magnitude that his entire life was forever altered. For the next decade, Brett would build wealth, clout and business experience with a foundation of unlawful practices and an unsustainable lifestyle. Addiction would follow. Recovery would come. A business would be created and rebuilt to unimaginable heights. Throughout it all, Brett would use his love of people, his dynamic personality and innate business sense to become the vibe setter that his friends and employees have come to love and appreciate.
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A farming family gave Nicole the foundation for a degree in agriculture, a husband in agriculture and a first job in agriculture. Two kids later, Nicole has traded in corn and soybeans for color analysis. This home-run business has kept her calendar full beyond her wildest expectations.
 
 Listen to this Ursa native, a town of 600 people, talk small town feelings at a big college like the University of Illinois, roommates and sorority recruitment, going from no fun to too much fun, cold calls to sell seed, golf cart dates and finally the resurrected world of color analysis. In the 80s my mom "had her colors done." Now, decades later, this process of draping women and men in various colors to determine what family of colors brings out the best in their features, is in FULL force. This UK company is leaving Nicole with a schedule full of bookings and the luxury of having to turn some appointments down. What's your season!? 

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My husband, Andrew Harrington, and I podcast from our Boston hotel room. Our third guest, the hotel housekeeper, makes multiple off-MIC cameos. We are in Massachusetts in an effort to follow the Illini Basketball Team through March Madness. This obsession (of Andrews) leads to an achilleas injury from overuse of the gas pedal during these 14-hour up and back drives.

 Listen as we discuss if the injury effect Andrew's marathon training? How did he fare in his past marathons?  How did hernia surgery go and was Andrew a good nurse? The beginning of this "Tales From Two Townies" starts out rough with a placating apology from my caretaker. Lastly, Andrew the vigilante strikes again when calling the police on a naked man walking around Savoy. And. Another. Basement. Flood. 

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I had the pleasure of meeting weekly with Airiel Sadler during the 2024 rehearsals of That's What She Said. She was shy, then sweet, then vulnerable, then funny then articulate. Each time I listened to her speak, her words became more dynamic and more meaningful. She got 7 minutes on stage. Here is the full story of her glorious mess. 

 Listen as this Champaign-born, Chicago-raised, Champaign-adulting sweetheart of a women talks about her formative years running around the streets of Chicago while her mom worked full-time as a nurse. This 14-year-old girl became pregnant and gave birth to the love of her life, Mae. She chose to raise her daughter with pride and strength and more love than one mother can hope to give. Physical pain, trauma and debilitating mental health struggles were only a few of the hurdles she faced while earning her licensed clinical social worker credentials. She is also an advocate for vulnerable populations and an author of multiple books. Now she faces her next chapter as her daughter prepares to fly the coop. She calls everyone, "family," and now she is part of mine.

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It's not easy to follow your dream, to start something from scratch, to hustle and practice and hone your craft in the hopes that you are talented enough, or lucky enough, to one day be discovered for the gifts that you have to share. 

 Listen as this local talks about her background in dance. This background would create a craving for the stage. She's a star. A funny star. A comedienne who has trained in Chicago, Australia, the West Coast and now she is back in our community! This funny girl hustles and "slashes" as a bartender/doula assistant/juice barista/yoga instructor/shoe salesperson. She pursues her dreams with no fear or worries about what others may think. Her only fear is being  stuck in an ordinary world of complacency with no creative outlets. Hear her talk about coming up with material, how living with an elderly woman in the pandemic effected her plans and performing in front of family. **Rachel is performing Saturday, April 13 at 7:30 p.m. at Yellow & Co. Events in Mahomet.**Visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/413-730pm-yellow-and-co-presents-comedian-rachel-lindemann-tickets-822607119037

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How did this once cubicle dwelling-ad salesman turn into the modern-day ice cream man? 

 Listen as this local talks about his college days: the good, the bad and the ugly, how these days led to a need to prove himself, how my own good, bad and ugly days overlap with his, his full circle return to his fraternity house as a mentor to the younger guys, buying a literal fleet of Kona Ice Trucks and his dad's reaction when he told him about his idea, his most recent endeavor: Travelin' Tom's Coffee Truck, employing family, the importance of his business being recognized as local and finally (most importantly) becoming a husband and dad. Not that anyone would ever thought he needed it, but Wes certainly got his redemption story by adding a well-recognized fixture of fun and family to our community. 

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This professionally trained chef, with wife Stef, fell in love with cooking food when he saw his cousin's face light up while eating his first solo dish. This passion won out over his second love, basketball, and would lead him to the pursuit of higher education at Le Cordon Bleu in Atlanta. This militant environment would widdle a thousand students down to a few hundred by the end of the year. 

 Listen as this Tennessee transplant talks about having three girls under two, cooking and eating the fresh catch of the day which earned him the nickname "the meat man," crying in the kitchen, the popularization of pressure cooker kitchens in popular media and art imitating life, having a vision that is clear only in your head, Stef stepping fully into a stay-at-home mom role while practicing and perfecting the baking side of their Dining With Dee business and finally the surprise interview that landed him his current job bringing fresh, elevated food to a local retirement home. This pair is the perfect combination of sweet and spice!

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