Yinz Are Good

In Part 2 of our LIVE Christmas show , we pick up after Intermission... Want to learn more about the podcast, including all of the guests who’ve been featured thus far? Check out our website: https://www.yinzaregood.com/ FOLLOW US on social media! Instagram: @yinzaregood Facebook: @YinzAreGood Have a story of GENEROSITY or KINDNESS to share with us? Email us at yinzaregood@gmail.com To request a K...

Part 1 of our LIVE Christmas Show recorded on December 16, 2024 ! Think late-night talk show meets TV Christmas Special... Special guests: Sally Power from Treasure House Fashions , Janis Burley Wilson from the August Wilson African American Cultural Center , and Emmy Award-winning rapper, artist, and community activist FRZY . Plus Christmas carols and other festivities... https://www.thfashions.o...

Tressa heads to Sharpsburg to sit down with Bonnie DeMotte , the Executive Director of the remarkable Second Harvest . What follows is a wonderful conversation about the true meaning of community via all that the Second Harvest team is doing for their neighbors, including a community fridge, Senior Breakfasts, and more. Second Harvest is a community thrift store and SO MUCH MORE. Second Harvest :...

Tressa takes a little trip to Pitcairn to chat with the gregarious, kind, and "just so darn easy to talk to" Milo Speranzo , owner of Brave Bean Coffee Company . Brave Bean's mission is to give back not only to the Pitcairn community, but to all who have served in our Armed Forces. And then, In Case Yinz Missed It: The Yinz Are Good team heads to a toy-wrapping party for the Best of the Batch Foun...

Get ready for one powerful, uplifting, and plain ol' fun conversation between Tressa and Roman Benty, the Community Partnership Coordinator at LIGHT Education Initiative . LIGHT's mission is to inspire, prepare, and empower the next generation of humanitarians. Yinz Are Good's LIVE Christmas Special Monday, Dec. 16, 2024 | Greer Cabaret Theater Lounge | For info and tickets: Click Here or visit ou...

What better way to ring in The Giving Season than to hear from these folks... First up, Tressa's fabulous conversation with McCaffery's Dean Welch about how The Terminal Building is kicking off 96.1 KISS FM's annual Stuff-A-Bus event. Then, Tressa travels to Greensburg Salem High School - where her cousin, Andrea, is a biology teacher - to sit down with remarkable seniors Grace Sybesma  and Anna S...

Our LIVE show and donation event recorded at The Oaklander Hotel, featuring the fabulous Tanya Vokes (CEO) and Sheena Hancock (volunteer) from Dress for Success Pittsburgh . And a chance encounter with the man behind One Dad's Mission led to him joining our lineup as well. Get ready for a great time for a great cause! Dress for Success Pittsburgh - https://pittsburgh.dressforsuccess.org/ One Dad's...

Because this episode drops the day before this year’s particularly divisive Election Day, we thought we could all benefit from taking another listen to the uplifting and joyful Sally Power, Founder of Treasure House Fashions. Sally and her team are changing lives and providing hope to every woman who walks through the doors of her non-profit resale clothing shop. Also, listeners fill in the blanks...

Over 1,500 volunteers, including dentists, clinicians, opticians, ophthalmologists, nurses, imaging technicians and general volunteers, will care for patients at Mission of Mercy Pittsburgh Free Dental, Vision and Hearing Clinic on November 1st & 2nd. Chairman Keith Young joins Tressa for a wonderful and inspiring chat about the incredible work that he, his team, and volunteers are doing to he...

Yinzers, you've got one fun and fabulous conversation coming your way. In celebration of Newsapalooza and in collaboration with award-winning arts journalist, Sharon Eberson, Tressa sits down with Sharon, Richard Parsakian, Clare Drobot, and Monteze Freeland to talk about how they build community - and so much more. Sharon Eberson: onStage Pittsburgh Newsapalooza Six Degrees of Richard Parsakian:...

Get ready to hear a joyful (no pun intended) and resonant conversation about making connections, creating a place of belonging, and ways to heal. Tressa sits down with the effervescent Kristy Joy, Founder/Co-Owner of The Village Center for Holistic Therapy and Founder/Owner of inJOY Meditation Studio. And Don joins Tressa - or rather, Tressa joins Don? - for another In Case Yinz Missed It segment....

Tressa welcomes a familiar face (or rather, voice?) to the show, Gene Walker , for a delightful and inspiring chat. Previously the Executive Director of Cafe Momentum, Gene is now President & CEO of the fabulous nonprofit, Tickets for Kids Charities . We're psyched to announce that two more countries have been added to our list of where yinzers are listening in from, bringing our current t...

Get ready, yinz, we've got a lot packed into this episode...Updates from our friends at EmployHER Pittsburgh and THRIVE Pittsburgh, notes from our Kindness Crate's visit to the Family House Polo Match, a special, more personal, In Case Yinz Missed It segment, AND interviews with some fabulous folks from Variety the Children’s Charity. With a mission to empower children with disabilities to...

Despite the featured organization's name, yinz needn't be teetotalers to listen in! Tressa has a fantastic chat with Executive Director & Co-founder Scott Page to learn all about the compassion, empathy, and downright kindness behind the mission of Teetotal Initiative - the first-of-its-kind recreational sober community. And Don joins Tressa for In Case Yinz Missed It, which features a...

Just before showtime, Tressa sits down with R&B singer/ producer/cinematographer Denzel (The Artist) Washington for an awesome conversation about music, art, and giving back to the community. His recent immersive experience, The R&B Open Floor Experiment: Garden of Art , benefitted the amazing folks at Young Adult Survivors United (YASU). Tressa also shares notes from the Kindness Crate&#3...

Tressa sits down for a remarkable conversation with Christopher Cochran, author of "What's GOOD About Today?", Co-founder of The Christian Cochran Foundation, speaker, dad, and husband. You'll hear about Christopher's beloved late son, Christian, and how Christian encouraged his family to create a Foundation in his name to continue his legacy of kindness, goodness, and joy. I...

Love  and  compassion  abound when Tressa sits down with  Rebecca Maletto-Cornell  and  Theresa Bolden  from  AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program . Rebecca is the program's Director of Volunteer Services and Theresa has been a foster grandparent for several years. This national AmeriCorps program is sponsored locally by  Wesley Family Services . ⁠⁠AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparen...

In an action-packed episode, Tressa visits DICK's House of Sport for DICK's Sporting Good's and On's surprise grant presentation to the Unified Sports Pittsburgh program. Then, Tressa sits down with sisters Casey and Janine Melvin, co-founders of The Future of Jewelry. TFOJ is a direct-to-customer startup that is revolutionizing custom jewelry and the sisters have also found a way to use their kno...

Tressa sits down for a thoughtful and fascinating chat with software engineer and Homestead native David Doswell about how he left corporate America (and California) to build a coding camp for teens right here in Pittsburgh. You'll hear all about David's life journey thus far and how it has inspired him to provide unique and life-changing opportunities for young people. Pittsburgh AI Camp is going...

Part 2 of our LIVE show, recorded on June 13th, 2024 at The Blitzburgh Hideaway! YINZ ARE GOOD LIVE: SPORTING GOOD! Guests: *Charlie Batch: NFL quarterback and Founder, ⁠Best of the Batch Foundation⁠ *LaTasha Wilson-Batch: Executive Director, ⁠Best of the Batch Foundation⁠ *Gene Steratore: Former NFL & NCAA basketball referee and current Rules Analyst for CBS Sports *Teresa Conn: Owner, ⁠Pitts...

Get ready for a whole lotta *good* fun! Here's PART 1 of our LIVE show, recorded on June 13th, 2024 at The Blitzburgh Hideaway. YINZ ARE GOOD LIVE: SPORTING GOOD! Guests: *Charlie Batch: NFL quarterback and Founder, Best of the Batch Foundation *LaTasha Wilson-Batch: Executive Director, Best of the Batch Foundation *Gene Steratore: Former NFL & NCAA basketball referee and current Rules Ana...

We're going LIVE again, yinzers! And wait til you hear this lineup... Yinz Are Good LIVE: Sporting Good! Thursday, June 13th | 7:00pm | The Blitzburgh Hideaway Link for TICKETS: www.eventbrite.com Join us for our version of a live late night talk show, complete with snacks, giveaways, a chance to win a $100 DICK's gift card, and more! https://www.yinzaregood.com/ Instagram: @YinzAreGood Facebook:...

Get ready to hear from 6 (!) different yinzers who are making their communities better places to be! First, Tressa stops by the dedication celebration for Pittsburgh’s first Rain Poetry installment to chat with wonderful teaching artist, Karen Howard , and then with phenomenal muralists and old pals Shane Pilster & Max Gonzales . What is Rain Poetry? Well…PA Humanities engaged children from tw...

Tressa first has a lovely conversation with The Chalking Dad (Erik Greenawalt) about how his toddler-aged daughters got him started on a career that now takes him all over the world. And then Tressa has a delighful and resonant chat with her older sister, Debbie Glover Jozwiak, who is the Chief Services Officer of the incredible Allegheny Family Network. AFN partners with families of children with...

Tressa has the honor and pleasure of welcoming Brandon Short, former NFL and Penn State linebacker, back to the show to talk about The Karli Short Better Tomorrow Foundation, which he co-founded with his wife, Mahreen. They created the Foundation in honor of their daughter, Karli, and her unborn child whom they lost to gun violence in 2021. This endowment helps students with financial needs who ha...