IMPACT OC

Impact OC-Meals on Wheels Orange County Serves nearly two million meals annually

How does Meals on Wheels Orange County serve nearly two million meals annually? Find out by listening to OC Talk Radio Public Affairs Director Dawn Kamber’s interview with Meals on Wheels Orange County CEO Holly Hagler. She also serves on the leadership council for the OC Strategic Plan for Aging, on the boards of directors for Meals on Wheels America and for Meals on Wheels California, and as co-chair of Partners at Home Network. She talks about her organization’s mission: to nourish the wellness, purpose and dignity of older adults and their families. Only on OC Talk Radio, Orange County’s Only Community Radio Station which streams live from the University of California-Irvine’s BEALL APPLIED INNOVATION CENTER. www.mealsonwheelsoc.org

 

 

 

Riding Around The World

Hear the conclusion of Richard Davis' years long, 24,000 mile ride. Which started when Richard realized he'd turned over the odometer on his 2018 Pedego Electric Bike for the second time. Meaning he’d already ridden about 12,000 miles (or roughly half way around the world). 

 

So being an engineer, he started tracking his mileage on a daily basis and turning that data into a spread sheet that plotted out exactly where he’d be if he really WERE riding all the way around the world. Plotting his path "back home". Learning about the exotic points on the map and places he crossed in his mind. And turning his daily exercise into an around the world adventure. 

 

A “fantasy ride” across the planet. All from the comfort of his home in Panama City, Florida.

 

Truly a flight of fancy. An armchair traveler's dream. And an amazing story filled with lots of imagination, drive and determination, on this week's PEDEGO PODCAST.

Impact OC- Empowering People to End Poverty

How does the Community Action Partnership of Orange County seek to end poverty by stabilizing, sustaining and empowering people with the resources they need when they need them? Find out by listening to OC Talk Radio Public Affairs Director Dawn Kamber’s interview with Community Action Partnership of Orange County President and CEO Gregory C. Scott. He talks about addressing the immediate needs of people in crisis and how the nonprofit provides the solutions they need to survive. Only on OC Talk Radio, Orange County’s Only Community Radio Station which streams live from the University of California-Irvine’s BEALL APPLIED INNOVATION CENTER. www.capoc.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Impact OC-Keeping Orange County Moving

How can the Orange County Transportation Authority keep Orange County residents moving? Find out by listening to OC Talk Radio Public Affairs Director Dawn Kamber’s interview with Orange County Transportation Authority Chief Executive Officer Darrell Johnson.  He talks about the Measure M, voter approved half-cent sales tax for transportation improvements. As well as freeway projects, Metrolink services, bus services and other OCTA programs. Only on OC Talk Radio, Orange County’s Only Community Radio Station which streams live from the University of California-Irvine’s BEALL APPLIED INNOVATION CENTER. www.octa.net

 

 

 

OUR COMMUNITY: Meet Paula Garcia-Arsenault, VP Community Relations CHASE BANK

Meet Paula Garcia-Arsenault, a Board Member of the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, an advisor for our Youth Chamber. As well as a Board Member of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce.

Paula is a native of Santa Ana and a long time advocate for this community. She brings that background to her full time job as VP Community Relations for Chase Bank. 

Learn more about the continuing community outreach she does in all her roles.  On this week's OUR COMMUNITY podcast. Powered by the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Orange County's only community radio station, OC TALK RADIO.

Meant to Be

Hear the amazing story of two high school sweethearts, Patrick and Wendy Reilly who not only seemed destined to be together, but somehow destined to be in business together as well.

Though you wouldn't have thought so if you watched the first 30 years of their life unfold as they got married in 1992 and started raising a family. As Wendy began work as a Behavioral Therapist and got her Masters in Special Ed. While her husband Patrick started down a long path as an engineer for Comcast.

But all that changed in 2017 during a family trip to Bar Harbor, Maine. When Patrick (who'd developed a bad back from too many injuries on his job) stumbled into a Pedego EBike store and discovered that (for the first time) he could join Wendy on her long hikes with their boys.

Enthralled with the fun they had that day, they went back home and began imagining "what if WE opened a store back in New Jersey"?  Going so far as to actually contact Pedego and explore the idea. But careers and kids kept getting in the way. 

Then COVID came and changed everything. Stuck at home in 2020, they drove to the Pedego store in Spring Lake, NJ and bought two bikes to celebrate their 28th wedding anniversary  And then destiny stepped in and altered the course of their lives (or maybe corrected the course to where they were always meant to be). 

Because shortly after buying the bikes, Patrick had a question and decided to call the local store, but instead dialed the Pedego corporate HQ in CA by mistake.  Even more miraculously, they remembered him and said "hey, if you're still interested in opening a store, we're looking for someone in Haddenfield" (where they lived)".

And thus began this new leg of their journey together that finds them not with just one store but two (with a second location in  Princeton, NJ as well).  Where they are working with that famed University to possibly purchase a whole pack of Pedegos for faculty and staff to pedal around campus. With all three of their sons now working with them as well.

Whatever you call this strange twist of fate, it sure seems like something that was somehow meant to be. As the family that first rode together is now blazing a new trail together. As accidental Electric Bike Entrepreneurs driving the EBike Revolution. On this week's PEDEGO PODCAST. 

Impact OC-Addressing Orange County’s Mental Health Crisis

How does Vanguard University address Orange County’s mental health crisis? Find out by listening to OC Talk Radio Public Affairs Director Dawn Kamber’s interview with Vanguard University Director of the graduate program in clinical psychology Dr. Brenda Gesell. Vanguard University launched Journeys at Vanguard to enable graduate clinical psychology students, supervised by licensed Journeys Counseling Ministry therapists, to provide mental health services to all seeking it. Only on OC Talk Radio, Orange County’s Only Community Radio Station.

https://journeyscounseling.com/locations/journeys-at-vanguard

 

A Look at Latin America’s Authoritarian Rise

Authoritarians are on the rise again in Latin America from left wing Socialist rulers like Maduro in Venezuela, Xiomara Castro in Honduras and former guerilla Gustavo Petro in Columbia to right wing populists like Bolsanaro in Brazil.  Listen as Chapman professor Dr. Kyle Longley breaks it all down and talks about the implications for the whole region. Summarizing the recent talk he gave here in Orange County on behalf of the World Affairs Council. On this week's OC SPOTLIGHT.

Latest Case Law on California’s Controversial Private Atty General Act (PAGA)

Here one of the best breakdowns I've ever heard about California's controversial Private Attorney General Act (PAGA) that basically deputizes plaintiffs to sue employers on behalf of the State of California for any and all workplace violations from simple paystub mistakes to more serious issues.  And how this law may be seriously impacted by the US Supreme Court's recent ruling in Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana

Our host, Attorney Teresa McQueen breaks it all down with her guest Neil Pederson of the Today’s guest is attorney Neil Pedersen, a Plaintiff’s Employment Law Attorney at Pedersen Law.

Every employer (big or small) should listen to this one! On this week's WORKPLACE PERSPECTIVE PODCAST.  Here on OC TALK RADIO.

Discover THE POWER OF ONE

Meet one man, Andre Roberson, who took his grandmother's advice to heart that "it all starts with one" and turned that into his life's mission as Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Power of One Foundation.  Which so far has fed over 2,000,000 people in our community. And will continue to do so "as long as my hands can help" (as Andre so humbly puts it).

True inspiration for all of us that see so many seemingly insurmountable problems and simply throw up our hands in resignation or defeat saying "what can I do?"

Hear the story of one man who simply did what he could. And in the process showed us all the unbelievable POWER OF ONE. On this week's OUR COMMUNTY PODCAST. Powered by the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. And the OC's only Community Radio Station, OC TALK RADIO.