HarmonyTALK

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!

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Days for Girls founder Celeste Mergens talks with hostLisaChampeau about how she has been able to help girls around the world fight the stigma of menstruation-- menstruation inequity-- by tapping into her own impoverished youth and refusing to take no for an answer. She is joined by Olivia Scartelli, a young woman just out of grad school in international development, who helped raise funds for Days for Girls and shares Celeste’s passion.

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Harmony TALK takes a look inside Dear Highlights with author Christine French Cully. Hear what kids have to say over the past 75 years-- you may be surprised!

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Harmony TALK hostLisaChampeau interviews Erin Hill, a singer-songwriter-harpist with a diverse repertoire that covers everything from opera to science fiction! Erin’s favorite, though, is pop-rock. Hear her music and how she realized her dream of becoming a renowned harpist.

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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 community.

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Singer-songwriter Pete Muller shares the creative process behind his melodies—and his math-- with host Lisa Champeau. Pete is not only a musician, but also a successful quantitative hedge fund exec and founder of a quant investment firm. He talks about forming his band, the Kindred Souls, traveling with his late mother to her homeland in Brazil and how he almost made it to the Olympics by playing piano. Listen to his story and his songs-- and enjoy!

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Well-known portrait artist Oliver Johnson sits down with Lisa Champeau to discuss his art and tumultuous youth in and out of reform schools and prisons, and how during these confinements he always painted. Prison provided him with the tools he needed: Canvas, paint, and, of course, plenty of time. Oliver talks about his journey of teaching art to his fellow inmates, and how, by the time he was paroled, he had a waiting line to attend his classes.

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Neil Genzlinger, writer at the New York Times sits down with Lisa Champeau to discuss writing obituaries, how he got his start in storytelling ,and his event Firelight: An Evening of Storytelling in the Woods at Harmony In The Woods.

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Lisa Champeau interviews Dreamer, Entrepreneur and Choreographer Rebecca Davis. Learn how she turned her passion for dance into a globe-spanning tool for social change.

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In this pilot episode of HarmonyTALK, Lisa Champeau interviews the band opening the first season of Harmony in the Woods: The Gold Magnolias. They talk about their southern roots, their New York City dreams and the magic of performing.

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