BusinessWest & Healthcare News: Business & Health Talk Podcast
1) Editor Joe Bednar interviews Emily Carlson, Owner, We Do Travel Right
Emily Carlson was a teacher who decided to make the jump in 2022 into a new career: travel — specifically, helping other people arrange great vacations. As the owner of We Do Travel Right, she has gro...Show More
2) Joe Bednar Interviews Lindsay LaBonte, Branch Manager and Senior Loan Officer, HMA Mortgage
With almost 20 years of experience in the mortgage lending industry, Lindsay LaBonte (a BusinessWest 40 Under Forty honoree in 2018) has become one of the Western Mass. region’s most prolific loan ori...Show More
3) George O’Brien Interviews Michelle Grout, executive director of the Springfield Business Improvement District
It’s called ‘Odyssey.’ That’s the art installation placed this summer in Tower Square Park in Springfield — the one featuring three pigeons around a Campbell’s soup can. It was placed there to turn so...Show More
4) George Interviews Jeffrey Fialky, Managing Shareholder, Bacon Wilson, P.C.
On his fourth time as a finalist, and 17 years after being named to the 40 Under Forty class of 2008, Jeffrey Fialky was named BusinessWest’s Alumni Achievement Award winner for 2025. On the next epis...Show More
5) George Interviews Jim White and Gary Stone, Founders and Partners, Go Graphix
Jim White and Gary Stone were working in sales and marketing for a medical device manufacturing company when they decided they’d had enough of the long hours, travel, time away from home, and large am...Show More
6) BusinessWest Editor Joe Bednar talks with Amy Royal, CEO, the Royal Law Firm
Employers are dealing with plenty of changes these days, whether it’s mandates from the state or policy shifts at the federal level, impacting everything from disability and leave to discrimination an...Show More
7) Joe Bednar talks with Marianna Litovich, Executive Director, All Our Kids Inc.
In 2015, Marianna Litovich had been a foster parent for seven years — and had adopted two children through foster care — when she began to recognize a lack of opportunities for foster and adoptive fam...Show More
8) Joe Bednar talks with Chris Thompson, owner of the Westfield Starfires
Chris Thompson, who already boasted a robust background in the sports business, namely hockey, took a big swing in 2019 when he and a partner launched the Westfield Starfires, a franchise in the Futur...Show More
9) Joe Interviews DJ Tucker, executive director at the Children’s Museum at Holyoke
DJ Tucker understands the value of the Children’s Museum at Holyoke — after all, he grew up in the city and spent a lot of time there as a kid. Today, as the museum’s executive director, he has a much...Show More
10) Joe talks with Megan MacBride, director of Marketing & Communications with the Better Business Bureau of Central New England
The Better Business Bureau has long promised value for both businesses and consumers: for companies, a reputation boost and access to member benefits, and for the public, trustworthy information and a...Show More