Jason Povlich is the owner of a small empire just north of the train tracks in Chelsea, Michigan. He is the owner of Jet's Pizza, the Rumpus Room, the Grateful Crow (coming soon) and Clocktower Comix (coming soon). In this episode, we have such an honest conversation about building a culture around purpose, their mission in Haiti, the lessons he learned from a failed business, and the new and exciting businesses he has in store for Chelsea!

Kelly has been practicing astrology and exercising her intuitive muscle for most of her life... and she's now sharing her gift with the world. Kelly tells us about her spiritual journey and invites us to explore our own intuition.

visit www.kellygoodell.com

In light of the Covid-19 Pandemic, Michelle Massey-Barnes agreed to let me narrate her story rather than interview her. I am honored that she let me be her voice. Michelle shares her story about her son Logan and his diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder, navigating our mental health system and the presenting challenges of the Covid-19 Pandemic of giving her son the care he needs.

"We just passed the one year mark of the month things started to completely fall apart. If I had known how deep and dark the year to come was going to be, I think I wouldn’t have made it through.

"I was away for work when the school called my husband and told him they were concerned about our 8th grade son, Logan. It was mid-Febuary, 2019, and Logan had not turned in any homework since returning to school after break. His attitude had completely changed and he was showing very little interest in school, friendships, or extracurricular activities.

"We were worried. We wanted help. In the year since then, we have honestly made very little process.

"I am sharing this story with you because I want you to know what it is like to navigate our mental health system. When people say our mental health system is broken, I want you to understand what it means. Although this is our story and the experiences of our family, I have talked with countless other families that have experienced similar and even more frustrating mental health situations.

"I'm sharing this story with you so you can begin to understand the incredible distances families need to travel in order to obtain services for their children. I want you to know because if everyone knows, maybe we can all play some small part and make change happen. If no one knows, nothing will ever change because no will know anything is wrong."

Message audio to text as follows:

Hello everyone this is Lynae MacLellan with RadioActive and Devil’s Haircut. I wanted to give just a brief message regarding Covid-19 and what the future can look like.

The salon has been closed for a little over a week now. For those who know me know that I’m a workaholic. People ask me what I do for fun? And I say that I love working. I love creating, networking, building businesses and designing brands, and cutting hair and talking to people. I’m a very passionate person. My highs are very high and my lows are very low.

I was just coming off of a very exciting February. The highest of highs. My salon won the business leadership award just a week before the nation started mumbling about Covid-19. My acceptance speech follows this message, for those who are interested. A line I used in my speech was “Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.”

Just one week later I was told we might have to close, and one week after that I was told we definitely have to close. That Saturday night I stayed at the salon and cried for about 3 hours. Sunday was a family day where I was an incoherent zombie and Monday I decided to get my tears in during the afternoon.

After those three very low days, I started texting a friend who is also a business owner in Chelsea and fed me the advice that I had given to the city just three weeks earlier. He said “Change your perspective and focus on the opportunities, the outcomes and the possibilities! What a great time to start building an empire.”

And then it occurred to me. What if you could freeze time and rearrange all of the elements of your life in a way that works best for YOU, and when it’s time to hit play again, you’ve got everything right where you want it? That’s what this time is. Time is frozen. Instead of concentrating on driving the car, it’s time to park it and work on the engine.

In the words of my friend. “This is THE time! When else are you or I going to have three weeks to mostly focus on ourselves and goals and dreams! Never again in this lifetime. What a gift.”

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

Seize the moment.

Up next is the audio clip from the Business Leadership Awards beginning with Anne Nauts with her presenting speech followed by my acceptance speech. Thank you Randy Lee for the audio.

This is my first episode where I am incorporating community events into the my podcast, as the story of Chelsea currently being written. For this episode, we sneak into this year's Annual Chamber of Commerce meeting and listen to the story of Craig Common, owner of the Common Grill in Chelsea. He was the recipient of the Large Business Leadership Award for 2019. He was nominated and introduced by last year's LBLA winner, Phil Tolliver of Smokehouse 52 BBQ. Their support, camaraderie and mutual respect as competitors is beautiful and endearing.... and as they explain a necessity for survival.

Thank you Randy Lee of RK Studios for the audio file and photos!!

Local Chelsea advocate and family man Paul Schissler shares his emotional story about his family’s mental health. He first takes us back to his childhood, being raised by a man who suffered from PTSD. Then pours into the raw emotion of raising a child with mental health challenges. Get the tissues for this one... it’s real.

The host of RadioActive Chelsea closes out her first season by sharing her most life-altering story. Lynae talks about her journey through pregnancy and childbirth. Told by doctors that her body couldn't sustain a pregnancy, she was shocked and scared when she found out she was pregnant. This story will make you laugh, might make you cry, and will definitely give you an insight into postpartum anxiety and depression. This episode is NOT for the easily offended.

Crystal Scott, Artist and Visual Arts Coordinator for Chelsea Area Festivals and Events, talks with me about what drives her love for the arts. What started as perception manipulation as a childhood coping mechanism became intense passion for artistic expression, interpretation, and creation.  Laugh with us as we fall down the rabbit hole of all that intertwines art, beauty, life, math and science.

I had the honor of interviewing Ben Fineman, President of the Michigan Broadband Cooperative.

He believes that everyone in the State of Michigan should have access to cost-effective broadband in their homes. For kids.  For work.  For quality of life. His mission is to help you get it.

Visit: www.mbcoop.org

Susan Brown is a very well renowned family law attorney in Chelsea, and she's also a passionate activist regarding gun control and safety.  Twenty years ago, the Columbine High School Massacre claimed the lives of 15 people (teachers, students and the shooters) and had become known as the deadliest school shooting in America.  Susan, a mother of two, became enraged, got informed, and got involved at the grass roots level.  She became one of the leading coordinators of the educational crusade that lead almost 1 million angry mothers and supporters to march on the mall at Washington, demanding stricter gun control laws.  Susan shares her story-  the inspiration, the gratification, the threats and the fears that all went into the largest and loudest word-of-mouth grass roots movement of its time.