Pasqualina Azzarello is an artist, community leader, and educator who works with others to cultivate generative spaces, initiatives, and partnerships that are innovative, collaborative, and inclusive of all participants. Her work has been featured and covered in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and other publications. Pasqualina also serves as City Arts Coordinator at Easthampton City Arts in Easthampton, MA, and is a graphic recorder and facilitator.

Connect with Pasqualina at:

• http://www.pasqualinaazzarello.com

If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out:

• Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com!

Fall is here!

In this episode, Jen and Brad talk about:

• October and death.

If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out:

• Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com!

Odin Goldman is the “Grand Papermancer” and owner of Susurrate Press, an independent small press focused on custom bookbinding and small publications, including short run artist books, (fan)zines, literary fiction, non-fiction and poetry.

Connect with Odin at:

• Linktree: https://linktr.ee/SusurratePress

If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out:

• Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com!

Lesa Lessard-Pearson is a candidate for Select Board in Belchertown, MA. 

Raised and educated in MA, Lesa plans to bring her deep well of experience and know-how in business, communications, and leadership to this important town leadership role.

This was a super-informative and fun conversation that covered, Lesa's love of Belchertown, the importance of inclusion, why she is ready to serve on the Select Board, pickle ball, and a whole lot more!

Connect with Lesa and her campaign at https://www.facebook.com/lesaforbtown.

Jen and Brad appear on Steven Opalenik's Break the Chains, Find Your Flame podcast!

We talked about a whole bunch of fun stuff, including comic books and movies; Jen and Brad's "origin stories"; how we started the Soft Serve Podcast; what superpowers we want; what things that most people think of as "normal," have been challenging for us.

Connect with Steve at:

• https://theprometheanproject.org

If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out:

• Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com!

Our guests this week are Claire Walton and Brent "The High Five Guy" Walton, the owners of Liberty Woods, a 75+ acre horse farm in the Western MA town of Belchertown. Claire and Brent offer horsemanship, boarding, yoga, meditation, life coaching, an Airbnb— and more!

Connect with Claire & Brent at:

• https://clairlydifferently.com/

If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out:

• Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com!

Fall is right around the corner!

In this episode, Jen and Brad talk about:

• The end of summer.

We also play a new installment of our Is it Maynard? game!

If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out:

• Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com!

Our guest this week is Scott Graves, founder of SM Graves Associates and host of the Are We Here Yet? Podcast, which is a part of his M the Media Project. We talked to Scott about Business Triage, a business program done in partnership with Valley Venture Mentors that is designed to assist businesses in getting beyond the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

We also talked with Scott about his podcast and some other really interesting stuff!

Connect with Scott and his projects at:

• https://www.smgravesassociates.com/business-triage/

If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out:

• Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com!

Brian Westbrook is the owner of PDP Productions and Sonic Titan Studios, and is one of the organizers of RPM Fest 2022, a heavy music and camping festival in Montague, MA that takes place over Labor Day weekend. RPM Fest features 50 + bands, entertainment, vendors, and lots of activities.  

Brian is also the drummer for Lich King, a thrash metal band.

Connect with Brian and RPM Fest at:

• RPM Fest: https://www.rpmfest.org

If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out:

• Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com!

Caitlin Sepeda is a candidate for Sheriff for Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Caitlin is a registered nurse with a decade of correctional experience, nearly all of it at the Hampshire County House of Corrections. As a well-versed, educated, and trained professional, Caitlin is ready to lead the Hampshire Sheriff's Office into the next phase of evolution in corrections and through the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with an eye towards the future.

Connect with Caitlin and her campaign at:

• https://www.sepedaforsheriff.com

If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out:

• Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com!