Cape Cod's only daily show, live from Mashpee on September 23, 2026.

TODAY: Jen Villa, Love Live Local in Hyannis. THIS WEEK ON CAPE COD: Habitat Blitz Build house finished, Sept 25, Falmouth / Dolly Parton Day, Sept 25 / Love Local Fest, Sept 27, Aselton Park, Hyannis

Two years ago today Jen Villa was named executive director of the organization she helped start in 2013. She sits down with Stephanie four days out from Love Local Fest, with about 100 Cape makers ready and a forecast that may not cooperate. This is the honest version of the shop local conversation: whether it is working, and what happens to a Main Street when nobody shows up.

IN THIS EPISODE

• The Little Beach Gallery, and a buy local shirt printed before anyone used the phrase
• From a weekly email to a nonprofit: status came in 2020, right before the pandemic
• The Cape Cod Resilience Fund, and grants that went out when things looked bleak
• Announced here: a new Small Business Support Fund, with grants starting in 2027
• Question of the day: one to ten, how often do you choose local?
• Is shop local winning? The phrase caught on, and so did the competition
• Shopping local counts as time, attention and intention, not only money
• The convenience myth: most local retailers sell online too
• The 10 percent shift, and the $112 million it would keep on Cape
• Road work and detours, with businesses reporting drops of 20 to 60 percent
• Watching a downtown disappear in Attleboro, and why the Cape cannot absorb that
• Advocating for small business while co-owning The West End in Hyannis
• Shop crawls: Osterville, Harwich Port, and Mashpee Commons on Nov 14
• Succession, and the owners with nobody to hand the keys to

LOVE LOCAL FEST AND THE WEATHER

Sunday, Sept 27, 11 to 5, Aselton Park, Hyannis. Free, about 100 vendors, food trucks, sweets, live music and a beverage garden with Devil's Purse, Truro Vineyards and Cape Tide Hard Tea. There is no rain date, and as of this recording the team was weighing the forecast with the town of Barnstable. If it moves, the loss lands on vendors who spent three months making inventory, so watch Love Live Local and this show for the plan.

STUDIES AND SURVEYS

Love Live Local's research finds that shifting just 10 percent of Cape Cod spending from corporate and online to independent local businesses would keep an additional $112 million in the local economy every year. Not spending more. Spending differently.

PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS MENTIONED

Jen Villa of Love Live Local (lovelivelocal.com), co-founded in 2013 with Amanda Converse and Kate Sheehan. The West End, Hyannis. The Love Local Card and online directory, and the shop at 539 South Street, Hyannis. The Mashpee Chamber of Commerce (mashpeechamber.com), Mashpee Commons, CCYP, EforAll, Ashley Irene, White Lion Bakery, Atlantic Soap Company, Weir Pottery, Chippy Design, Events on Cape Cod (eventsoncape.com).

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

• Fri Sept 25: Habitat Blitz Build house finished, behind the ReStore, Gifford St Ext, Falmouth
• Sun Sept 27, 11 to 5: Love Local Fest, Aselton Park, Hyannis. Free. Weather call pending
• Sun Sept 27: Mashpee Farmers Market
• Sat Nov 14: Love Live Local shop crawl at Mashpee Commons, locally owned businesses only
• November: the Love Live Local gift guide, expanding into a year round local catalog
• Sat Dec 5: December Love Local Fest, Hyannis Village Green

HELP WANTED

If the fest moves, share the vendor list and buy from those makers anyway. Love Live Local is adding part time help and looking for donors.

QUOTABLE

"It's not about survival. It's always about thriving." (Jen)

"With any nonprofit, your goal is to have your mission not be needed anymore." (Jen)

"Practice over perfection." (Jen)

"It's like playing checkers with people's lives." (Stephanie, on succession)

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Cape Cod's only daily show, live from Mashpee on September 17, 2026.

TODAY: Hank Sennott, Today Real Estate, live at Mashpee TV. THIS WEEK ON CAPE COD: The Wall That Heals, Sept 17 to 20, Yarmouth / Cotuit Center for the Arts volunteer trivia, Sept 18 / Cape Cod Canal Day, Sept 19, Buzzards Bay

Stephanie and Hank are at Mashpee TV for a Thursday that starts with Hank telling everyone not to panic about interest rates and ends with Stephanie begging stores to put the eggnog away.

IN THIS EPISODE

• The Fed raised rates, but that isn't your mortgage rate. Hank says don't believe the hype
• Route 151 construction: keep shopping at the businesses behind the cones
• Stephanie's South Shore Women in Business Network talk: don't worry how you look on video
• Question of the day: what's one thing you'd drop from your plate? Answers included a mortgage and the school pickup line
• The Mashpee EDIC is close to a full board, Stephanie's 2026 goal
• The Mashpee-Wakeby Pond boat ramp ribbon cutting and cleaner water
• The Cape Cod Gateway Airport noise roundtable
• Japan passes 100,000 centenarians for the first time
• Starbucks' $39.95 Snoopy cup is reselling for up to $200
• A Harriet Hosmer marble bust turns up as a Cotswolds garden ornament
• An 1894 magazine comes back to the Concord, N.H., library, 132 years late
• Windex hacks, from stuck zippers to whiteboards
• The Red Bandanna Game at Boston College honors 9/11 hero Welles Crowther
• The Wall That Heals is in Yarmouth
• Events on Cape Cod passes 15,000 members, plus a Gmail scam warning
• Halloweentown Market and Haunted Hallows, and a house full of Halloween lights
• Eggnog in September? Not yet

CRAZY CRIME

A Monticello, Minn., woman charged with stealing about $580 in power tool batteries went viral because her mugshot looks just like J.Lo.

STUDIES AND SURVEYS

• 54 percent of Americans say their mental load is at max capacity in a typical week, 67 percent of caregivers say they're at their limit, and 70 percent feel they don't do enough each day (Talker Research for Visiting Angels)
• Johns Hopkins fed 39 adults the same diet for 12 weeks. Eating within 10 hours or across 16 made little difference: a median 2.7 vs. 2.5 percent weight loss
• U.S. median household income hit a record in 2025, per the Census Bureau
• Bartenders say Sunday nights bring out the worst customers. Be kind to your server

PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS MENTIONED

Hank Sennott of Today Real Estate (todayrealestate.com), Mashpee TV, the South Shore Women in Business Network, the Mashpee EDIC, the Mashpee Chamber of Commerce (mashpeechamber.com), Cape Cod Gateway Airport, Visiting Angels, the Cotuit Center for the Arts (cotuit.org), Boston College, the Yarmouth Chamber of Commerce, Events on Cape Cod (eventsoncape.com), Roche Bros.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

• Thu Sept 17 to Sun Sept 20: The Wall That Heals, Parkers River Landing, 669 Route 28, Yarmouth. Open 24 hours, closes 2 p.m. Sunday
• Fri Sept 18: volunteer trivia at the Cotuit Center for the Arts
• Sat Sept 19, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Cape Cod Canal Day, Buzzards Bay
• Sundays: Mashpee Farmers Market
• Sat Oct 3, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.: SandwichFest, Sandwich Village
• Oct 9 to 31, Fri and Sat evenings: Haunted Hallows and the Halloweentown Market, Mashpee. Proceeds support the Mashpee Improvement Fund

HELP WANTED

Send us your crazy crime stories. Share your events in Events on Cape Cod on Facebook. Post your brunch recipes in Cape Cod Dining at Home and Anywhere Else for the brunch contest.

QUOTABLE

"Don't believe the hype." (Hank)

"People know what you look like." (Stephanie)

"The lies we tell ourselves not to do some things sometimes, it's astounding." (Hank)

"Keep your eggnog to yourself." (Stephanie)

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Cape Cod's only daily show, live from Mashpee on September 15, 2026.

TODAY: Hank Sennott, Today Real Estate, with Weird News Tuesday. THIS WEEK ON CAPE COD: Chamber Member and Volunteer Appreciation, Sept 15, Saga Hibachi / Music bingo, Tuesdays, The Local, Sandwich / Stephanie and Hank live from Mashpee TV, Sept 17

Stephanie and Hank are back at the Radio Ranch for a Tuesday that goes wherever the headlines take it: screaming at the ocean, a zoo tour with an unfortunate name, a big Emmys night, and a new face on the Mashpee EDIC.

IN THIS EPISODE

• A mystery power outage, and a 3D printer rebuilding a DJ speaker now called Frankenstein
• Over 100 people scream at the Pacific in San Francisco. Does Cape Cod need its own?
• Outdoor venues under fire again, Treehouse in Sandwich, and whether an abutter of an abutter should have standing
• The Sydney Sweeney betting ad and Olympian Ariarne Titmus's pushback
• Island Pickle's Bill Russell joins the Mashpee EDIC, which wants more good people, especially younger ones
• A brand new brunch contest on Cape Cod Dining at Home
• Stephanie's first job at Capron Park Zoo, and Chester Zoo's accidental Child Predator Tour
• RTV's Tip Tuesday: start with the end in mind, and mapping the whole Lemonadio universe
• From just Stephanie and Cliff to about 14 people running Lemonadio
• The Mashpee Chamber's new member platform is live. That email wasn't suspicious. It was us
• Emmys night: Matthew Rhys makes history, Widow's Bay cleans up, Mariska Hargitay hosts, The Pitt wins best drama
• Remembering Bob Mackie, and a headphones mishap Hank would like forgotten
• The new Cape Cod Food Connection, keeping good food out of landfills
• A full day on Martha's Vineyard
• Question of the day: the medical drama you can't leave alone
• Hank and Mari's anniversary, a real estate conference, and a robot, plus a slower housing market

STUDIES AND SURVEYS

• A Spanish study linked owning a cat at ages 4 to 5 with more behavior and mood issues by 7 to 8. Small pets were linked to fewer, dogs and birds to no change. A link, not a cause
• 58 percent of women take their bra off the moment they get home, and 63 percent have never had a professional fitting. Stephanie recommends KMhudson at Mashpee Commons
• Travelers' rudest destinations: Paris, Italy, Germany, South Korea, New York and Montenegro. Often it's culture, not rudeness

PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS MENTIONED

Hank Sennott of Today Real Estate (todayrealestate.com), Sharon Riley and StrokeMaster (strokemastergolf.com), Bill Russell and Island Pickle, the Mashpee EDIC, Car Seat Momma, Inc., Saga Hibachi, the Mashpee Chamber of Commerce (mashpeechamber.com), Matthew Rhys, Mariska Hargitay, Bob Mackie, the Cape Cod Food Connection, KMhudson (kmhudsonltd.com), the Cotuit Center for the Arts, Events on Cape Cod (eventsoncape.com), Mashpee TV.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

• Tue Sept 15, 5 to 7 p.m.: Mashpee Chamber Member and Volunteer Appreciation at Saga Hibachi
• Tue Sept 15, 7:30 to 9 p.m.: trivia at Shipwrecked
• Tuesdays: music bingo with Lily at The Local in Sandwich
• Thu Sept 17: Stephanie and Hank live from Mashpee TV
• Fri Sept 18: volunteer appreciation trivia at the Cotuit Center for the Arts
• Coming up: the Car Seat Momma event in Mashpee

HELP WANTED

The Mashpee EDIC wants new members, so send the Town your resume. The Mashpee Chamber wants new faces too: [email protected]. To book Lemonadio for a private party, email [email protected].

QUOTABLE

"Attention is attention is attention, Hank." (Stephanie)

"I'm dressing for 42 seasons when I leave the house." (Stephanie)

"I'm just here to provide comic relief." (Hank)

"Whatever it is, do it with a little bit of kindness today." (Stephanie)

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A stepfather who could not grip a golf club, a dream twenty years later, and a glove that is now on Walmart.com.

Cape Cod's only daily show, live from Mashpee on September 10, 2026.

TODAY: Sharon Riley, StrokeMaster and Get A Grip LLC. THIS WEEK ON CAPE COD: Trail Talk bird walk, Sept 11, Osterville / Biz Bites virtual networking, Sept 14 / Getting Started with AI for Business, Sept 16, Hyannis

No Hank today. He and Mari were out celebrating 38 years at a real estate conference, which is exactly as romantic as it sounds. In his chair: Sharon Riley, who sewed elastic and Velcro onto a golf glove twenty years ago so her stepfather could keep playing, put it in a drawer, and then built it into a product that is now on Walmart.com.

IN THIS EPISODE

• Twenty years ago, Ray. An avid golfer who played every day with Sharon's uncles, had a stroke, recovered his athleticism, and could not grip the club. He was also driving Sharon's mother crazy sitting in the house
• The first one was elastic and Velcro sewn onto a golf glove. It bought him close to five more years of golf until a second stroke ended it
• They named it StrokeMaster, loved the name, and shelved it, because the kids were little and Sharon was running a payroll company
• Winter of 2023. Sharon is in Maine, going through the hardest stretch of her life, and Ray comes to her in a dream and tells her to make the glove, because they need it
• The patent search and the viability study that came back with nothing else like it on the market
• The PGA Show in Orlando, the Invention Arena, two weeks to get ready, and a battalion of family and friends in Maine sewing like mad
• Discovering the adaptive community was far more interested than the golfers were
• The market she thought she was in versus the market she is actually in. Golfers say they are fine. Occupational therapists and physical therapists say yes
• Made overseas, because US manufacturing quoted eight to ten times more. The RFQ, the OEM search, and learning procurement and fulfillment from scratch at this stage of a career
• Walmart.com, and what it feels like to be walking around town knowing you made a thing that is on Walmart.com
• The boy with MS at a Maine adaptive golf clinic. He raised his hand, put on a glove made for adults, swung perfectly, his mother cried, the pro cried, Sharon cried, and the cousin with the camera was crying too hard to hit record
• Eleven and a half million golfers in this country are 50 or over
• Get a grip. Stay in the game, play with purpose. And the one she is not ready for yet: get a grip, give a grip
• Question of the day: what is your hobby? Nobody on this show has a good answer
• The third act. Starting over at an age nobody tells you that you are allowed to start over at, and the Chinese tradition of celebrating a woman at 60 because her life is finally her own
• What the invention taught her about herself: trust your intuition, and stop letting the people who love you dilute the dream
• Signs, coincidences, and a financial planner at trivia who turned out to sit on a golf association board
• Hard truth about patience, the finish line you can see, and being ready for the glory now, thank you

WHAT STROKEMASTER ACTUALLY IS

Two products, both built around the same idea: keeping a hand connected to a thing it can no longer hold.

• The Grip Assist Glove. A golf glove with the strap built in
• The Grip Assist Strap.
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Sold at strokemastergolf.com and on Walmart.com, with in-store still to come.

PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS MENTIONED

Sharon Riley, StrokeMaster and Get A Grip LLC (strokemastergolf.com), Karen, Hank and Mari, the PGA Show and its Invention Arena, the American Society of Hand Therapists, the Maine State Golf Association, Walmart, Mashpee TV, the Mashpee Chamber of Commerce.

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Cape Cod's only daily show, live from Mashpee on September 9, 2026.

TODAY: Jen Brann, Cape Women in Business. THIS WEEK ON CAPE COD: Trail Talk bird walk, Sept 11, Osterville / Biz Bites virtual networking, Sept 14 / Getting Started with AI for Business, Sept 16, Hyannis

Jen Brann joins Stephanie the week Cape Women in Business became an official 501(c)(3). What follows is an honest hour on why women stand at the edge of the room, what a networking event owes the person who walked in alone, and how you build an organization that outlives you.

IN THIS EPISODE

• The longest, shortest week of the year. Trivia is back at Shipwrecked, and the answer to "how was your summer" is "what summer"
• Why locals never make it to the beach, and the friend from off Cape who has to drive down and force you into a day off
• Provincetown dune tours have new vehicles, and the AI banner during Carnival that started a real argument about how much AI is too much in an arts community
• Cape Women in Business is officially a nonprofit, and what changes when you are mission based instead of bottom line based
• The nonprofit density problem. CCYP's breakdown surprised everybody, including the two people on this show whose organizations were not on the list
• Myra Quick and the Cape Cod Human Resources Association, around since 1984 and unknown to most of the small businesses that need it
• The croissant versus the bagel. A closed circle is a wall. An open curve is an invitation
• Intentional networking versus the business card handshake, and why a follow-up email with clickable links is the whole ballgame if you are bad at names
• Two memberships, soft launched: one built for networking, one built for the entrepreneur who needs a consultation and cannot afford a consultant
• Building processes so the next person can walk into your shoes, which is the actual job of a founder
• Question of the day: was life better before social media? A sensory memory, a friend who remembers what you wore on the bus in sixth grade, and the smell of diesel at the airport

• Imposter syndrome, self-efficacy and presentation skills, the three workshops that exist because we all doubt ourselves

CAPE WOMEN IN BUSINESS, THE SHORT VERSION

• Biz Bites. Virtual, second Monday of the month, 12 to 1. Free, and staying free. A guest speaker, introductions, and a follow-up email with everyone's contact information and clickable links
• Trail Talks. Outside, walking, talking, no pressure. Come for the steps if that is all you came for
• Coffee Connect. Morning networking, for the people whose brain is gone by 6:30 p.m.

Memberships and events are at cwbconnects.com. Following them on Eventbrite gets you a notification every time something new is posted.

PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS MENTIONED

Jen Brann and Cape Women in Business (cwbconnects.com), Beverley Roberts, Kim Marchand, Saraphina Churchill, Paula Lyons-Barry, Cindy Collings, Zavia Walker-Empey, Myra Quick and the Cape Cod Human Resources Association, Kristin McGillicuddy of Stonehill College, Sharon McDonald, the Cape Cod Women's Association, CCYP, Brooke MacKay, Kelly Washburn of Enchanted Florist, Michaela Colombo, Brian Lewis, Pink Door Catering, Shipwrecked, Cape Space, the Daily Brew, Mashpee TV, Mashpee Commons, the Cape Cod Jerk Fest, the Enterprise, the Mashpee Improvement Fund, the Mashpee Chamber of Commerce.

QUOTABLE

"There's a difference in networking between the croissant and the bagel." (Jen)

"Stop second guessing it. Stop trying to make it perfect. Stop worrying about what I'm going to think. Execute." (Stephanie)

"They're not going to remember the smell of the air. Don't worry. They're too busy on their phones." (Stephanie)

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Stephanie is back after a week off, and Lauren DeGregorio of O'playsis in Buzzards Bay pulls up a chair for grant season, chaos gardening, and the question nobody has a good answer to: where do you actually meet people in your 40s?

IN THIS EPISODE

• Coming back from a week away and the guilt of feeling like you missed everything
• O'playsis explained: a collaborative art studio and music lounge on Main Street in Buzzards Bay, where play has no age limit, plus Reddington the resident snake
• Shoulder squirrels, Shelby's souvenir magnets for the business owner brain
• Live show nerves, the aunt who thought everyone could see her, and why the answer is to do it scared
• Football mom season: front page bruises, the ER visit, and the last-season cry
• Canal Farmers Market wrap and the food truck family that showed up every single week
• Chaos gardening: pumpkins volunteering out of the compost pile and tomatoes reseeding themselves
• Pen and paper people versus the brand new Kindle that has never been opened
• Bourne Youth Council lands back to back $5,000 grants and moves the Witches Walk onto Main Street
• Question of the day: the best way to meet people in your 40s
• Wallet Hub's 2026 Money and Relationships Survey, where 26 percent are hiding an account and 75 percent say money fights beat political ones
• Brunch bingo, the bingo cards that ran out 30 minutes before start, and the art of the pivot
• Army Family Day back on base with Sergeant Major Asia, 42 tents and a dunk tank for the commanders
• Haunted Hallows Mashpee: volunteers wanted, 39 days to opening
• The celebrity death rule of three and why our brains insist on it

PEOPLE AND BUSINESSES MENTIONED

Lauren DeGregorio and O'playsis (oplaysis.com), Bourne Youth Council (bourneyouthcouncil.com), Jen Christian of Ask Jen and Carseat Mama, Brooke MacKay, Kono Pizza Cape Cod, Adobo, Bourne to Cater, Shady's, Kind Hearts for Kids, Sharing Kindness, Magic Mirror, Morrissey Manor, the Mashpee Improvement Fund, Mashpee TV, the Mashpee Chamber of Commerce, the Mashpee EDIC, Mass Cultural Council, Bourne Community Engagement Council, SCORE, Allison Reed (Sam and Frank), Indie Art by the Sea, Seaside Le Mans.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

• Mon Sept 7: SCORE segment with Mark on small business accountability
• Sat Sept 12: Seaside Le Mans, Mashpee Commons
• Sun Sept 13: Kindness Walk, Candyland theme, foam machine at the finish line
• Sun Oct 4: Kindness Festival. Nonprofit info booths, youth vendor tables and the Kids Zone are all free
• Four weekends in October: Haunted Hallows Mashpee. Tickets at hauntedhallowsmashpee.com
• Great Gables Witches Walk, moving to Main Street with a parade, a live band and a scavenger hunt

QUOTABLE

"It's scary stuff when you haven't done it. So just do it scared." (Lauren)

"You are the sum of the people you surround yourself with. So what kind of people do I want to be surrounding myself with in this season of my days?"

"I was like, neglect, neglect, neglect. This is how we get these grown."

"You have to be okay during lean months, and you have to be normal during flush months so that you can get through the lean months."

HELP WANTED

Haunted Hallows and the Kindness Festival both need hands. Actors, candy apple sellers, Kids Zone table hosts, vendors and nonprofit booths. Reach out through the show.

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What's New Cape Cod?? The Town of Mashpee needs to be present tonight at Mashpee Middle High School; why does this matter??? We have many articles that are being heard but the one we are focusing on today is water. You may have questions and our select board has been answering all weekend long. This is your moment to get curious and ask directly about why we need a YES on article 4!

What's New Cape Cod?? Dina BenDavid is on the show with us talking about her brand new practice that has come to Sandwich. "STILL" now open in Merchant Square, is a functional psychiatry and healing facility. https://thestillcenter.org Get you questions ready and let's have a healing Friday!

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What's New Cape Cod?? One of the Cape Women in Business co-creators, Jenn Brann, is here to talk about events —Biz Bites, Merry Sip & Shop, the Enterprising Women's Documentary screening Beyond the Gaze, and her Civic Community engagement committee with CCYP.Petal it forward today at Noon- Enchanted Florist, see StephanieWhat's your favorite cheese??