Mike Foster, Executive Director of Winston-Salem Street School, joins us for an inspirational conversation about this unique educational institution and its impact. The school’s mission is to serve students who have experienced challenges and hardships that prevent them from succeeding in traditional high school settings. Graduates reach a level of success that seemed previously unattainable… Read More »Episode 76: Winston-Salem Street School

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“Right now, no matter where you go, there is a lot of discussion about affordable housing, food insecurity, and workforce development. And so, we’ll be playing in those arenas to support those types of programs.” Truliant Federal Credit Union is headquartered in Winston-Salem and is the largest financial institution in the Triad. In this episode… Read More »Episode 75: Truliant Foundation

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“So that’s something that we’re really, really looking forward to because we have gotten to this point where we need to be pushing value-based care and tackling these issues to lower the cost of care for everybody.” In part two of our conversation with Ryan Blackledge, Vice President of Government & External Affairs at Cone Health, we discuss how… Read More »Episode 74: Cone Health – Part Two

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“I find a lot of people don’t know about the number of folks who are living in emergency departments because they don’t have any other place to go.” In this episode, we sit down with Ryan Blackledge, Vice President of Government and External Affairs at Cone Health, which opened its first Winston-Salem urgent care facility… Read More »Episode 73: Cone Health – Part One

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“Ninety percent of the startups fail. So, these are brave folks who are willing to go out there and take a major part of their life and put it behind the business.” Winston Starts, an admission-based accelerator in Winston-Salem, is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs successfully scale their businesses to new heights. They provide a development… Read More »Episode 72: Winston Starts

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STITCH Design Shop is an award-winning architectural and interior design firm based in Winston-Salem with offices across the state and a body of work expanding across the U.S. The premise the team lives by – “‘to find a better way,’ is something you can hear every one of our 23 employees saying on a regular… Read More »Episode 71: STITCH Design Shop

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“Important to me to unlock what’s already in them. It’s about putting a different frame around what people know, validating what people know, making connections between what people know, and putting that in the context of community work.” HandsOn Northwest North Carolina mobilizes people and organizations to inspire change within the community. Based in Winston-Salem,… Read More »Episode 70: HandsOn Northwest North Carolina

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COW is an award-winning UNC School of the Arts (UNCSA) short film about a cargo ship-piloting alien on his livestock abduction route confronted by an angry farmer who sneaks aboard the ship disguised as a cow, with a burning desire for vengeance. The film’s producer, Peter Arsenault, and directors Tristan Alkemper and Joe Appel, join… Read More »Episode 69: UNCSA’s Short Film “COW”

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