Sonstein Sessions

Original Air Date: September 14, 2025 Dave Charest work with Constant Contact, giving small businesses guidance to help them thrive See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: September 14, 2025 Bill Keegan was a Port Authority Lt. on 9/11 and was Night Ops Commander of the WTC Recovery. In 2007, he founded Heart 9/11, which draws together 9/11 first responders and family members who have since responded to 362 disasters in 16 states and 6 countries. Bill continues this work despite struggling with a stage 4  9/11 cancer. See omnystudio.com/listener f...

Original Air Date: August 31, 2025 September 7th will be the 35th year for the Susan Komen breast cancer run/walk in Central Park. Lina Aguilon is the Development Director of Komen NYC. She says Komen’s fundraising over the years has led to huge developments in the fight against breast cancer, including genetic testing and  targeted treatments for stage 4 breast cancer. See omnystudio.com/listener...

Original Air Date: August 31, 2025 After losing his brother, Glenn, as a voluntary responder on 9/11, Jay Winuk co-founded 9/11 Day, a day of service in honor of those we lost 24 years ago. It’s the largest day of service in the country! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: August 17, 2025 Elizabeth Melampy is the author of “Forget The Camel: The Madcap World Of Animal Festivals & What They Say About Being Human”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: August 17, 2025 John El-Maraghy of Jersey City  was recently honored for creating Arhangel Raphael’s Mission, Inc (ARM) which focuses on dignity for the unhoused, providing mobile showers, haircuts and more, See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: August 10, 2025 Eileen Kragie is on a mission to end light pollution, something most of us never considered to be an issue but endangers wildlife eco-systems. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: August 10, 2025 Oscar-nomnited director Laura Checkoway’s latest is called “ The Cat Man Eshete”, a doc about an Ethiopian refugee who is mostly unhoused, who cares for feral cats in Brooklyn. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: July 27, 2025 If you know of  a child who lost a parent, there’s a free grieving camp experience available  through Jersey Cares. Megan Muller had such a miraculous experience there, she turned it into a career! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: July 27, 2025 I swear by it: transcendental meditation: TM. Bob Roth  heads the David Lynch Foundation and explains  how it works See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: July 27, 2025 Sophia Brooks is the director and co-writer of the Gen-Z rom-com “Oh Hi”, which takes a look  at what it’s like to  form relationships in these crazy  times. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: July 27, 2025 Rebecca Blake is the producer of the Off Broadway musical “Rolling Thunder”, which  takes us back to the days of The Vietnam War. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: July 20, 2025 Dr. Haviva Maline heads The Keta Medical Center in Nj, which uses ketamine to treat various mental health issues when traditional meds fail. Among them: depression; anxiety; PTSD; OCD and bipolar issues. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: July 20, 2025 Jon Crowley is the executive director of the New Jersey Motion Picture & Television Commission. With the Netflix Studio now being built at what was Fort Monmouth and other studios on the way in Newark & Bayonne, Crowley predicts we are less than 5 years away from NJ being #3 in the nation, only behind California & NYS in film and tv production, which me...

Original Air Date: July 13, 2025 For almost 30 years, the nonprofit National Association of Landscape Professionals Renewal & Remembrance has organized a day of service to honor veteran and public servants by beautifying landmarks. This year’s projects: The FDR Memorial & Arlington National Cemetary. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: July 13, 2025 Candace Bushnell’s “Sex and the City” columns for “The New York Observer” inspired the iconic tv series “Sex And The City”. Candace is now tackling the dating world for women and men in their 60’s. Her most recent column is in “New York Magazine”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: July 6, 2025 Jana Wu is a licensed clinical social worker with The Mountainside Treatment Center. While the CDC reports a 24% decline in drug OD deaths, the addiction landscape is changing with new substance abuse on the rise: cannabis-infused gummies, chocolates, seltzers and other foods which are marketed for wellness. Plus there are the unregulated drugs like kratom, which yo...

Original Air Date: July 6, 2025 Krista Collopy says the Comfort Zone Camp totally changed her life. Years after she lost her dad to cancer,  Krista went for a free weekend at Comfort Zone Camp, which brings together children who have lost parents. Krista is now the Senior Regional Director of Comfort Zone Camp, which helps people up to the age of 26. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa...

Original Air Date: June 29, 2025 Carla Cooke was just months old when her legendary dad, singer/songwriter Sam Cooke was killed by a motel clerk when he was 33 in 1964. He was way ahead of his time, setting up his own music label, to make sure he and other artists would be fairly compensated for their work. Carla is following in her dad’s footsteps as a singer/songwriter herself, with a traveling...

Original Air Date: June 29, 2025 Regina Charles is the clinical services director of Center Path Wellness, which provides free in-person and telehealth  mental health services for people in NJ who are not insured, or underinsured, including undocumented people. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: June 22, 2025 Frank Sztuk of  The New York Alliance Against Insurance Fraud says insurance fraud costs every New Yorker 900 dollars a year. Among the scams: rear end car crashes! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: June 22, 2025 Louis Henry Mitchell is a Q104.3 listener who has one of the best jobs on earth: he’s the creative director of character design for Sesame Workshop. He’s out with a book to help people find their purpose. It’s called “Qreative Evolution”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: June 15, 2025 Michael Barasch, lawyer for the 9/11 community, fills us in on the latest on the job cuts at The World Trade Center 9/11 illness Health Program. Despite the, what could be, temporary restoration of jobs there, treatments are delays and so is certification of 9/11 illnesses, which is the only way survivors can get compensation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privac...

Original Air Date: June 15, 2025 Co-directed by iconic NYC tv journalist Perri Peltz and Matthew O’Neil, the doc “The Last Twins”  centers on the hero Jewish Auschwitz prisoner who became a parent figure & savior to twins boys, who endured torture experiments at the hands of Dr. Josef Mengele. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: June 8, 2025 Proving that one (or 2) can make a huge difference, Q104.3  Long Island listeners Frank Montana and Tommy Perniciaro each year raise money for a family affected by cancer, providing  support with groceries, appliances, mortgage payments and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.