B Inspired

Heather Chandler is intent on maintaining Sealstrip Corporation's status on Pennsylvania's list of best places to work, and it shows in the many ways the company cares about its employees' health and well-being. There's recess every Thursday. Tuesdays provide healthy snacks. Creative themed projects highlight the company's goals. Leadership teams work toward greater productivit...

While leaving his formal role as pastor, Lee Levengood, owner of Everything Printing, finds opportunities to provide care and support to his family, employees, clients, and the business and non-profit community.

Jody Dolansky, real estate agent with Zuber Realty, has another dream: expressing her life's experiences in song. Her band Steel Hemlock is making itself known in the area. Her poetry, transformed in her songs' lyrics, relay life's challenges as she's met them.

As Spotify closes out my option to record on their site, I am charged to learn to do so on another platform. I'm hopeful I will learn. But...if the transition is more difficult than I anticipate, you'll know why I have not dropped any new episodes. Let us hope I learn quickly and not give up!

Hardy Farrow brings a wide range of entrepreneurial experiences from the many places he's lived to Longacre Company as its new owner along with a deep appreciation of small-town life and the type of personal service he's determined to continue to provide.

Beautiful, energetic, and determined to make a difference, Aishah Hunter takes her leadership gifts into modeling, hosting, and coaching areas made just for her style.

An icon in the Boyertown community, Ralph Borneman shares his life's journey following the loss of his mother at 7 years old including his athletic and teaching years, his entry into the insurance world, and the many father-figures provided him along the way. "People helping people" is what he does for the love of it.

Oral surgeon and community leader Jack Lignelli reviews a lifetime of achievements that began with his father's expectation of A's in all subjects on his report cards. Commenting on his own efforts in the establishment of the Boyertown Sports Center and the Boyertown YMCA building, he acknowledges the many other community members who led their expertise toward the success of the projects....

Career vet, Corey Mason is a man of many passions and, now retired from his military service, is intent on pursuing as many hobbies as he possibly can: video production, spirit investigation, metal detecting, inventing mocktails and supporting spaces where folks can hang out together without numbing out with alcohol. His journey includes some tough challenges, but he's out on top!

Team Asylum coordinator Randy Renninger reports that Boyertown's first Pokémon Tournament was a win all around. Over 100 players and observers attended; celebrity players came from New York, Philadelphia, and Tennessee; vendors enjoyed sales and opportunities to meet players; families bonded during shared play. There are many more wins to the day! Listen and be inspired!

Tina Hartman shares that she's realized a dream-come-true in opening Boyertown's latest food venue offering creative choices of salads, paninis, soups, and wraps along with the choice to order your own combination of ingredients. A former home health care professional, eager to please, Tina enjoys mixing with patrons and staff, listening carefully to ideas for changing up the menu as seaso...

So many animals, so many places to visit and re-visit--camera in hand: Jeff Grabert can't get enough. Thousands of images from which to choose to print and frame and exhibit--locally and around the world. Africa on safari is his favorite location--closest to nature.

John Hanna recounts his journey from teen dishwasher in urban Atlanta, Georgia, to culinary chef creating Ironstone Restaurant's unique farm-to-table offerings in rural Boyertown, Pennsylvania. John shares challenges inherent in the demanding lifestyle of running a restaurant along with the rewards of pleasing diners experiencing offerings sourced locally but new to their palate.

Artisan Minna Aaparyti has memories of walks through the woods to get to and from school in Finland. Her art in many mediums showcases her long-held love of nature. Participants in her workshops will find her eager to share the creative processes in relaxing sessions. And they'll take what they've created home with them. Minna is eager to resume her artistic life close to nature in an upco...

Boyertown's Studio B Art Gallery announces the opening of "The Full Monty," on April 26, 2024, an exhibit celebrating all things male, featuring 13 gentleman artists: Albert Ciervo, Miles Decoster, Charles Emlen, Daniel Gaumer, Bob Hakun, Walk Hug, Barrie Maguire, Jim Meehan, Mike Miller, Jay Ressler, Peter Rampson, Bill Timmins, and Joe Szimhart.

Susan Grabert's home is rich with art in many mediums--her own, her photographer husband's, paintings and sculptures from local artists and from artists and fine crafts people from all over the world. Her artistic journey is rich in experiences and challenges whether creating a painting-a-day for 30 days or moving from hyper-realistic still lifes to paintings of African wildlife hidden in...

Robyn Burckhardt's friends want to spend time with her in her studio--creating, venting, relaxing--for they know that any time spent with Robyn will be full of energy and joy. She'll splash paint on your blank canvas, as needed, to get you started. And from there, anything goes. It's just so much fun. And healing, too.

Ashley had no idea following her high school graduation what she wanted to do with her life. She just knew she wanted to be creative. Beauty school followed; but in discovering a horse trailer she could transform into a business creating unique beverages for weddings and special events she recognized her "calling."

Jules Hull, familiar to many as an accomplished plumber, emerges as author in his memoir  Blessings Afforded a Common Man,  offering his experiences throughout his life allowing him to see God's presence and "direction" in his life. Common, perhaps, in an unpretentious lifestyle, yet Jules reveals an uncommon awareness of where the pieces of life's puzzle fit in building a life a...

Several days before he passed, Charles Haddad called to say he was willing to record a "B Inspired" podcast with me and Pastor Bob Machamer. In a wide-ranging conversation, Bob Machamer, pastor serving Charles' beloved St. John's Lutheran Church in Boyertown, shares his understanding of Charles' as community leader, role model, and personal friend. Pastor Bob illuminates Char...

Bill Cherkasky got "hooked" while touring the high school's "old building" before its latest renovations that would remove all the old wood found in its classroom doors and the framing of the classrooms' slate blackboards. Eager to preserve as much as he could, Bill created projects--video projects and visual art ones--raised funding to sponsor the projects, and found n...

 This “B Inspired” episode, recorded over a year ago is full of the “feels" and will warm your heart during winter's chill! If you love your fur babies, you’ll love the story of “Tyrone,” the miracle cat that overcame obstacle after obstacle and inspired neighborhood "saints"  Beth Ashcom and Maria  Trampé to establish the non-profit “All Souls Connected," a “trap, neuter,...

Jake McCoach taught me more about the world of video gaming--about assisting emerging players to find sponsors, about creating tournaments that provide gamers a place to play and meet others--all things about a world that is foreign to me but highly lucrative to talented players in today's world.

Melanie has never met a challenge she couldn't outperform. Her childhood dream as captain of her twirling team provided Melanie with the leadership skills, commitment, and drive to fill challenging roles within her community as teacher and executive director of the YMCA and continue to climb the corporate ladder of responsibility with the YMCA organization all while making sure her family'...

Captain Jim Boyer has served for 38 years in the business of helping those in distress--sometimes saving lives. He offers insight into his role with the Boyertown Ambulance as an EMT and Paramedic highlighting the unique ways the job is more than a job; it's a mission in bettering the community.