Food is one of the great connectors! A good meal can change moods, strengthen relationships and create bonds. Chef Bryant Wigger is Head Chef at my favorite restaurant in Kansas City Tavernonna which is inside the Hotel Philips. His attention to detail, strong Midwestern values and passion for cooking has literally taken him all over the world with his gift for cooking!

We're Bacccccccckkkkk! Season 2 of People, Places and Things podcast and it's a good one! Talking to my boss at the radio station, Myron D. He's worked at Hot 103 Jamz for 31 years and has so much history-BLACK HISTORY about the station and the city!

I call her the "Littlest Boss" but Tenesia Looney's business acumen is definitely on gargantuan levels. She came from a place where she could have easily been a statistic; to now being a successful business owner, owner of many properties, an employer, a visionary, a mother and wife. If you need inspiration and the "KEYS" to success, you've got to tap in!

Manifestation. Do you know what it's about, do you know how to bring good things into your life? In Episode 12, Shay talks to Kansas City native and personal hair stylist to iconic style maven and rapper Lil Kim. We talk about how used positive thinking to bring this opportunity into his life while living in KC. Tap and get inspired by this awesome 25-year old on the rise!

The reality is that your thoughts create your actions and your actions create the circumstances in which you live. Ryan S. Harvey is a native of Kansas City and he could have easily became a casualty of the environment in which he was raised. His conscious decision to live differently has created a life worth sharing. If you feel like your old mind set has held you back, you have the power to change it! Listen in to episode 11!

Heart of a hustler, soul of an entrepreneur that's how I describe my guest on Episode 10! Carletta Temple is a Kansas City native and an entrepreneur who has sold everything from jewelry, to party and concert promoting to opening CELT Realty Group; a boutique realty that bares the initials of her brother who was murdered in KC August 9, 2009. We talk the motivation behind her business moves, but then move into how she and her family are dealing with losing her twin Carleton Temple 10 years ago and still have yet to receive justice for that crime. There so much to learn and even more to feel on this episode.

Made Mobb Clothing has become a staple in the closets of movers and shakers in Kansas City, not by luck but by sheer determination and faith! Mark talks about his journey from a young man orphaned in American Samoa to the long journey to the States and the even longer journey to success. If you're a business owner or would like to be one, you need the jewels dropped in this episode!

Beauty, talent and a sweet spirit that makes you want to know more about this Kansas City native: who she is, what inspires the lyrics she writes, when she thinks her label deal will happen! Episode 8 is all about singer Love Mae C. and there's a special bonus we listen to my favorite song sung by her "Anxious" heard on Hot 103 Jamz!

Baseball has been called the nation's favorite past time, yet there was a time in the nation's history where though there was immense talent, because of the color of the players skin they were locked out of the sport. Bob Kendrick a baseball historian and president of the Negro Leagues Museum in Kansas City talks about our nation;s hard past, the pioneers and entrepreneurs of the Negro Leagues and so much more!

He's a MidWest guy with a big city laugh! Channel 41's Anchor Kevin Holmes is a guy with a lot of personality and a likeability that has served him well in the three years he's been delivering the news in Kansas City! We talk his marital status, books, 90's hip hop and whole lot more!