Happy Black Restaurant Week, Memphis! With a small idea and 100 boxes of macaroni and cheese, Pops Kernel popped onto the scene. Then, April Childs-Potter of The Greater Memphis Chamber catches us op on the local economic sector including a revamp of the economic development program.
Trey Carter of Olympic Career Training Institute saw a need for training employees for the jobs at hand, so he created it. Likewise, Imani Jasper of Neighborhood Preservation Inc. makes it her job to turn blight into beauty for our city.
Local entrepreneur TyRon Wells shares his love of carefully curated experiences with Memphis (and the world) through Wells Design Co. Rachel Knox stops by to chat about all of the ways to fill you culture cup with art events over the next few weeks.
Catch up with James Dukes (aka IMAKEMADBEATS) of Unapologetic and Tonya Dyson of Memphis Slim House in this extended cut episode of Meanwhile in Memphis!
Jeremy Calhoun and Alton Cryer of STS Enterprise join us to talk about how having a life coach is a two-way street and explain why their motto is "make excellence the norm." We also have New Memphis' own Anna Wohrman in to share about how we're setting the next generation up for success through our Launch work.