Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast

Advertisement Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! Singer-songwriter Alex Radus joins Lehigh Valley with Love ahead of Songcraft in the Round at Godfrey Daniels in Bethlehem on Thursday, July 16 . The quarterly series, curated by Radus, brings songwriters together to perform original music and talk about the stories, influences, and craft behind the songs.   This July edition features Doug “Ol’ Moose”...

Advertisement Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! Conor Hepp, the new Executive Director and CEO of Da Vinci Science Center in downtown Allentown, joins Lehigh Valley with Love to talk about the power of hands-on learning, what brought him to museum and science center work, and what comes next for the Center. Conor shares how childhood visits to places like The Franklin Institute and Penn Museum helped sp...

Advertisement Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! End Citizens United President Tiffany Muller joins George Wacker on the Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast to talk about Citizens United, dark money, super PACs, outside spending, and how campaign finance issues are showing up in Pennsylvania races. Muller explains why the 2010 Supreme Court decision remains central to modern political spending, how outside g...

Advertisement Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! The Painted Petal is a restored 1910 Craftsman-style boutique guest house and event venue at 7809 Hamilton Boulevard in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania. Owner Maggie Fischer transformed the once-deteriorating historic home into one of the Lehigh Valley’s most unique places to stay, gather, create, and celebrate. Inside, the house is filled with restored woodwork...

Advertisement Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! The Yoga Loft of Bethlehem is celebrating 20 years in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Founded in 2006 by Jesse Thompson, the studio began as a third-floor yoga space in the former Cantelmi’s Hardware Building and has grown into a home for yoga, Pilates, teacher training, wellness, and community. Owner Rachel Abott , founder Jesse Thompson, longtime teachers...

Advertisement Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! The Saquon Barkley Alpha Invitational is coming to Whitehall High School June 20 and 21, bringing youth flag football, family fun, vendors, music, and community together where Saquon’s story began. We talk with Tonya Johnson, Saquon Barkley’s mom and Vice President of the Michael Ann & Saquon Barkley Hope Foundation, along with board member Rachael J....

Advertisement Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! Mike McGrath is signing off from You Bet Your Garden on WDIY with a final episode that looks back on 30 years in public radio, a career rooted in organic gardening, and the kind of advice that made him a trusted voice for gardeners everywhere. In the interview, Mike reflects on his time as editor of Organic Gardening , his years on public radio, and how th...

Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is celebrating its 35th anniversary season in 2026, and Artistic Director Jason King Jones joined the Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast to talk about the milestone, this year’s “Legends & Legacy” theme, and why Romeo and Juliet continues to connect with audiences generation after generation. Advertisement Founded in 1992 at DeSale...

Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! “People are social, and there’s not a whole lot of other opportunity to just go somewhere and socialize with all of your neighbors.” Lisa Surma Borick said it simply, and she’s right. Farmers markets are not just places to buy produce, baked goods, flowers, meats, soaps, coffee, mushrooms, or whatever else ends up in your bag on a Saturday morning. They are places where...

Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! Tired of swiping? Melissa Smith of Balance & Bloom joins us to talk about Date My Mate Lehigh Valley, a new singles mixer coming to Wanderlust Beer Garden in Easton. The event mixes speed dating, open mic energy, social networking, and a little friendly embarrassment as presenters take the stage to pitch their single friends with short, funny presentations. After th...

Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! Girls on the Run has the word “run” right there in the name, but this program is about a lot more than running. On this episode of the Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast, George Wacker is joined by his daughter Dahlia , a first-year Girls on the Run participant at her elementary school, for a conversation with Girls on the Run Lehigh Valley & Pocono Executive Director...

Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! Country blues guitarist and vocalist Todd Albright joins the Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast ahead of his Saturday, May 16 performance at Godfrey Daniels in Bethlehem . Todd is a Detroit-based twelve-string guitar player rooted in the pre-war blues tradition, drawing from artists including Blind Willie McTell, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Leadbelly, Mississippi John Hurt, Rev...

Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! Live in the Garden returns to Bethlehem’s Rose Garden for its fifth season this spring and summer, and this episode features three artists from this year’s lineup: Sir Dominique, Mariposas Galacticas, and Wood Flower. The conversation ties into Next Stage PA , the statewide artist development initiative helping emerging artists grow through performance opportunities, me...

Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! “It’s really like being dropped into a storm without a map.” In this episode of Off The Record, George Wacker and Jeff Warren talk healthcare in the Lehigh Valley through the lenses of policy, frontline care, and the patient experience. Guests: Mike Schlossberg, Majority Whip in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Denise Williams-Dianna, nurse at St. Luke’s Alyssa...

Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! Greg Piccolo is heading to Godfrey Daniels in Bethlehem on Friday, April 24, with something new. Greg Piccolo is not just another touring musician coming through Bethlehem. He is one of those rare artists whose career reaches back through decades of American roots music, with a sound and presence that helped define a generation of blues, jazz, R&B, and rock and roll...

Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! Hair by Harley in Emmaus, Pennsylvania feels like the kind of place that comes from years of figuring out exactly what you want your work and your space to be. For Harley Detrick, that path started with wanting a creative career that still felt practical. He talks about growing up in a blue collar family, wanting to be an artist, and eventually realizing hair gave him a...

Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! On this episode of the Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast, we talk with Gráinne Hunt and Jules Stewart ahead of their April 17 show at Godfrey Daniels in Bethlehem . Gráinne, an Irish singer-songwriter, talks about how she describes her music as “nu-folk” and explains why that label fits. The conversation gets into the difference between traditional assumptions...

Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! New York-born, Macungie based R&B and neo-soul artist Maniya joins us ahead of her April 11, 2026 performance at ArtsQuest’s Fowler Blast Furnace Room in Bethlehem. Known as “Songbird,” Maniya has been building her sound since childhood, performing with Harlem’s Emmy Award-winning Gospel for Teens choir, studying vocal performance at Berklee College of Music, and no...

Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! Become a partner or contact us Allentown City Councilwoman Ce-Ce Gerlach joins the Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast to talk about her run for Pennsylvania’s 22nd House District. After Josh Siegel left the seat to become Lehigh County Executive, Democrats held a special election process that ended with Ana Tiburcio winning the seat . Now, Gerlach is running in the May 19...

Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! Become a partner or contact us Bethlehem runner Alex Price is headed to the 2028 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials after running 2:15:24 at the California International Marathon. In this episode, we talk with Price about how he went from a Pocono Mountain East and Susquehanna University runner to one of the top marathoners in the region, and now one of the few athletes in th...

Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! Become a partner or contact us Moravian Academy has been named the first school in Pennsylvania and one of only five in the United States to partner with the Villars Institute in Switzerland, and that news is opening the door to a new global opportunity for students here in the Lehigh Valley. We sat down with Moravian Academy Head of School Adrienne Finley Odell to talk...

Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! Become a partner or contact us On this special series of the Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast, we sat down with candidates running for U.S. House in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District ahead of the May 19, 2026 primary. To keep this fair and useful, every candidate was asked the same core questions. Mark Pinsley is not included because he dropped out. We also reach...

Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! Become a partner or contact us On this special series of the Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast, we sat down with candidates running for U.S. House in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District ahead of the May 19, 2026 primary. To keep this fair and useful, every candidate was asked the same core questions. Mark Pinsley is not included because he dropped out. We also reach...

Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! Become a partner or contact us On this special series of the Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast, we sat down with candidates running for U.S. House in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District ahead of the May 19, 2026 primary. To keep this fair and useful, every candidate was asked the same core questions. Mark Pinsley is not included because he dropped out. We also reach...

Get More at LVwithLOVE.com! Become a partner or contact us We were lucky to catch up with Bethlehem native Daniel Roebuck while he’s back in town for the premiere of The Hail Mary. Written, directed by, and starring Roebuck, the film tells the story of a reluctant man pulled into coaching an all-boys Catholic football team and finding redemption along the way. For Lehigh Valley audiences, this one...