cityCURRENT Radio Show

Host Jeremy C. Park talks with Robyn Householder, CEO of the Better Business Bureau Serving Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky , who highlights the organization's mission and efforts to build a marketplace on trust and to point people to where they will have the best experience and improve trust between businesses and consumers. During the interview, Robyn talks about their inaugural Big Blue...

Host Jeremy C. Park talks with Dr. Cheryl Kelley-Henderson , Founder and Executive Director of Run 4our Life , who highlights the nonprofit and community of ladies that have decided running is not only a way to build physical health, but that running has the power to transform one's mind and heart. During the interview, Cheryl shares some of her personal journey and the transformation that has com...

Host Jeremy C. Park talks with Aly Sterling , President and Founder of Aly Sterling Philanthropy , who highlights her partnership-driven consulting firm and their efforts to help nonprofits, individuals and families, foundations and corporations meet their philanthropic goals and make a bigger impact. During the interview, Aly talks about some of the current trends in philanthropy, how philanthrop...

Host Jeremy C. Park talks with Dr. Justin Dodson , Owner and Primary Therapist of Navigating Courage Counseling and Consultation, who shares some of his personal story of getting into the profession as a licensed therapist and how his company provides Psychotherapy for adult men and educates organizations on suicide prevention, employee wellness and brain health. Dr. Dodson is a published author,...

Host Jeremy C. Park talks with Amy Thomas , Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Program Manager, Customer Satisfaction with AutoZone and Team Captain for the AutoZone Striders, along with Elizabeth Ennis , Senior Development Manager with the American Cancer Society , who both celebrate the AutoZone Striders being recently honored as the top national fundraiser for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer...

With the recent downturn in productivity across corporate America and the significant increase in remote work, Host Andrew Bartolotta sits down with Jim Gitney , CEO of Group50 Consulting and author of Strategy Realized - The Business Hierarchy of Needs, where Jim discusses ways to significantly increase employee engagement in the development and implementation of business strategy through his pat...

Host Jeremy C. Park talks with Doug Conant , who is an internationally renowned business leader, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, keynote speaker, and social media influencer with over 40 years of leadership experience at world-class global companies. Conant honed his leadership craft at the most senior levels, first as President of Nabisco Foods Company, then as CEO of C...

Host Andrew Bartolotta sits down with WKNO / Channel 10’s Education & Outreach Manager, Felicia Peat , to discuss her whimsical character, Teacher Teacher who produces and develops outreach programming for Mid-South youth through her early literacy platform. During the conversation, Felicia talks about their Excellent Effort Awards from the SEED office of Memphis-Shelby County Schools and the Inte...

Host Jeremy C. Park talks with Andrea Baird , Executive Director of Memphis Oral School for the Deaf , who highlights the nonprofit organization's mission and efforts to empower deaf children to listen, learn, and talk. Based in Germantown, Tennessee, MOSD has been serving families from all over the Mid-South and beyond since 1959. At MOSD, no sign language is used. Through early intervention and...

Host Andrew Bartolotta sits down with William A. Adams , award-winning D&I innovator, engineering trailblazer, and philanthropist. As co-founder of the LEAP apprenticeship program and the Technical Advisor to Microsoft's CTO, William has helped launch the training of more than 26 engineering cohorts around the world. He has also collaborated with the leadership of the U.S. Virgin Islands to establ...

Host Andrew Bartolotta chats with Elizabeth Cawein , a music advocate and strategist who founded Signal Flow Public Relations and launched Music Export Memphis in 2015. Music Export Memphis functions as an export office for Memphis music, creating opportunities for musicians to showcase their music outside of the city and drive tourism, talent attraction, and economic development. During the conve...

Host Andrew Bartolotta sits down with Kim Sorrelle , director of a humanitarian organization, speaker, and author of two books to discuss the meaning of love. During the conversation, Kim talks about her first book, Cry Until You Laugh , about her and her husband's battle with cancer after being diagnosed just four months a part. She also dives in to her second book, Love Is , which chronicles her...

Host Jeremy C. Park talks with Lar'Juanette Williams , Executive Director of Memphis Black Arts Alliance , who shares some of her personal story and background as an artist and someone who benefited from Memphis Black Arts Alliance, and then highlights the nonprofit organization and their efforts to improve the quality of life and economic wellbeing of Greater Memphis through the preservation, cel...

Host Jeremy C. Park talks with Sherry Deutschmann , Founder and CEO of BrainTrust , and Morgan Stanley , Vice President of Business Development, who both highlight the membership organization for ambitious women entrepreneurs. BrainTrust members use their Vaults to champion and challenge one another to grow their companies to their fullest potential. Women share experiences in a respectful, open,...

Host Jeremy C. Park talks with Dale Enderlin , Executive Director, and Morgan Sierra , Director of Operations, with Operation Red Wings Foundation who highlight the nonprofit organization that specializes in helping Veterans and their families heal from invisible wounds. Operation Red Wings Foundation provides relief, direction, and hope to military families with tools that provide relief fromthe...

Host Andrew Bartolotta sits down with HR Strategist and Workplace Culture Catalyst, Lori-Ann Duguay as she talks about how to help leaders pivot from command and control to a more people-centered approach to leadership through 10 Employee Engagement Drivers. During the conversation Lori-Ann Duguay discusses all things workplace culture, leadership and employee engagement through her work with The...

Host Jeremy C. Park talks with Dale Enderlin , Executive Director, and Morgan Sierra , Director of Operations, with Operation Red Wings Foundation who highlight the nonprofit organization that specializes in helping Veterans and their families heal from invisible wounds. Operation Red Wings Foundation provides relief, direction, and hope to military families with tools that provide relief fromthe...

Host Andrew Bartolotta sits down with Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge , a mental health trailblazer, founder of The Global Institute of Children’s Mental Health who is, what Forbes called her, “A thought leader in children’s mental health”. With her trademarked method, BrainBehaviorReset™ , Dr. Roseann has helped thousands address the most challenging conditions such as ADHD, executive functioning, anxi...

Host Jeremy C. Park talks with Dr. Peter Buckley , Chancellor of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center , who highlights the new $45 million Delta Dental of Tennessee building on the Memphis campus of UTHSC and how the state-of-the-art facility will benefit The College of Dentistry and the community at large. As Tennessee's only public, statewide, academic health system, the mission of...

Host Jeremy C. Park talks with Rev. Kenneth S. Robinson , M.D., President and CEO of United Way of the Mid-South , who highlights the nonprofit organization that's now celebrating 100 years of service to the Mid-South. As the Mid-South's largest public charitable foundation, United Way of the Mid-South continues to support area nonprofits with aligned grantmaking to the programs that address the r...

With the recent downturn in productivity across corporate America and the significant increase in remote work, Host Andrew Bartolotta sits down with Jim Gitney , CEO of Group50 Consulting and author of Strategy Realized - The Business Hierarchy of Needs, where Jim discusses ways to significantly increase employee engagement in the development and implementation of business strategy through his pat...

The Memphis Botanic Garden is celebrating its 70th year as an oasis in the heart of Memphis. This milestone marks 70 years of horticultural excellence, Memphis milestones, & community connections as the Garden revitalizes, revisits, & revels in some of their favorite initiatives from the history of the Garden. Memphis Botanic Garden's Executive Director, Michael Allen , talks with host Andrew Bart...

In our society, one of the most pressing issues related to social justice and Civil Rights is educational inequality. Too often, children are denied the opportunity to receive a quality education simply because of their zip code. However, there is hope on the horizon. Host Andrew Bartolotta sits down with Memphis Teacher Residency's Recruiter & STEM Camp Coordinator, Caroline O’Hare and past STEM...

Host Jeremy C. Park talks with Jared Barnett , CEO of Slingshot Memphis , who highlights the poverty-fighting center of influence that's igniting a movement to revolutionize the way we fight poverty. During the interview, Jared talks about how Slingshot Memphis has developed a new, standardized methodology to measure poverty-fighting effectiveness and works alongside nonprofits to understand which...

Host Andrew Bartolotta sits down with HR Strategist and Workplace Culture Catalyst, Lori-Ann Duguay as she talks about how to help leaders pivot from command and control to a more people-centered approach to leadership through 10 Employee Engagement Drivers. During the conversation Lori-Ann Duguay discusses all things workplace culture, leadership and employee engagement through her work with The...