Business & Entrepreneurship Episodes

He's a businessman and a grandfather, she's a spirited young artist and mother. Different, yes, but with a shared passion. Henry Skier and Jill Carletti chat with Harmony TALK host Lisa Champeau about how they came together to grow Harmony Presents from a small performance space in an old silk mill to a successful, sophisticated yet rustic outdoor performance venue in Hawley, Pennsylvania, called Harmony in the Woods.

Harmony TALK host Lisa Champeau chats with social impact entrepreneur Jeff Abella, who co-founded a bar-to-bean chocolate and coffee business called Moka Origins. Hear Jeff reveal how his team helps farmers and the environment in developing countries and somehow gets all the cacao and coffee beans across oceans to the U.S. to roast, package and sell. A small company up against Big Chocolate and doing pretty well!

Host Lisa Champeau talks to Mark Hoover, former and longtime CEO of the Human Resources Center, a Northeast Pennsylvania-based nonprofit that provides services for adults with physical and mental challenges. Mark talks about helping young people who were languishing in front of their TV sets for 15 years or more because there was no place for them to go and ultimately, creating a Foundation to make sure there were would always be somewhere for adults with special needs to live and work in his co...