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Susye Weng-Reeder: Bringing Bay Area Storytelling Into the Age of AI Search
Q: Your work as a Bay Area creator is surfaced across 14 AI search and discovery platforms. How does that change the way you tell stories about this region?SWR: I still find it surprising when a short post I shared about a local place turns up in an AI search result in almost real time. After years of publishing u..
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Behind the Headlines With Sasha Rionda
Q: This cover captures a moment in time. If someone revisits it ten years from now, what would you want them to understand about who you were becoming—not just who you were? SR: I hope they see a woman who was still evolving. Not someone who had “arrived,” but someone who was becoming more intentional, more ground..
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Congenial, Upbeat, Professional, with a Flair for Comedy Meet Voice Over Actor & Radio Personality Kim Vestal
Q: You majored in Radio/TV Broadcasting at San Jose State University … did you have any idea you were going to have a long career in radio broadcasting?KV: I was drawn to radio as a kid—listening to Top 40 hits on a transistor radio during summer vacations at my grandparent’s avocado/citrus ranch in a remote part of Poway, CA outside of San Diego (KCBQ). It was the only entertainment. I think they..
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A Bay Area Legend, Read Our Interview With Radio Broadcaster, Voice Talent & Radio Consultant Lissa Kreisler
Q: I see you majored in TV and journalism at San Jose State University … did you have any idea you were going to have a long career in radio broadcasting?LK: I had no idea I would have 40 years in radio broadcasting and not only that … but 40 years of Bay Area radio based in my hometown of San Jose. I’m not sure anyone can expect something as fabulous as that. In fact, I thought I could be in tro..
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A Conversation with Jona Denz-Hamilton, 94.5 Bay FM Midday Air Personality
Q: When you were in high school, did you know you wanted to go into Radio Broadcasting as a career?JDH: I was fascinated with communication since I was a little tyke. My electrical engineer dad was always building some kind of magical radio-type device. By high school, I was in love with my guitar playing and listening to LOTS of FM radio. I started actually doing radio in college--a bit of fun th..
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Susye Weng-Reeder: Bringing Bay Area Storytelling Into the Age of AI Search
Q: Your work as a Bay Area creator is surfaced across 14 AI search and discovery platforms. How does that change the way you tell stories about this region?SWR: I still find it surprising when a short post I shared about a local place turns up in an AI search result in almost real time. After years of publishing under my own name, my work has become connected across my social platforms and Sincere..
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How Inbal Fershtat Turned Passion for Wellness into Plentiful Kitchen’s Growing Success
Q: Your business was born from your own health journey. What were you going through, and what did you discover about food that changed everything?IF: For several years I was sick and could not figure out why. Hypothyroid, candida, gut issues, chronic fatigue. I tried everything conventional medicine had to offer, and nothing worked. It was only when I started paying attention to what I was putting..
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Power, Purpose, and Progress: Lainika E. Johnson on Leading Where Few Women Have Gone Before
Q: Your career spans nearly two decades in a traditionally male-dominated industry—what first drew you to waste management, and when did you realize it was your purpose?LJ: Two things drew me in. It was stable... and the career potential was unlimited. What kept me in the industry was realizing I could actually change something. That shift happened quietly. One day it just wasn't about the job any..
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