Feedback with Toni Reece · 830 WEEU "The Voice of Berks and Beyond"

Feedback with Toni Reece and Guests Caroline Hill, Meghan Krick, and Cindy Fortunado and Amy McIntyre

April 3, 2026·1 hr 23 min·5 clips

Toni Reece describes stopping to help a woman who fell outside Target, her shattered glasses and broken nose secondary to her frantic worry about a car payment.

The hour starts close to home. Toni Reece welcomes listeners into a WEEU conversation built around local stories, open phone lines, and people whose work reaches past a business card. The focus is women helping women. Caroline Hill, president of Vanscoy Jewelry, joins Meghan from Honey Pop, and the mood is less about shiny success than the support that gets people through the hard part. Caroline remembers the flat, awful feeling of having a dream run into rejection, with loan doors closing and the business suddenly feeling much harder to make real. Then a friend called. Lunch turned into the right introduction at Tompkins Bank, a rate sheet within a week, and an appointment with the Small Business Association. That is where the episode finds its pulse. Not because the problem vanished, but because one person listened, made a connection, and helped her find a route that fit. Toni hears the lesson and turns it toward young business owners, especially women. Rejection, he suggests, is one of the first muscles a business owner has to build. Caroline agrees plainly. A no did not mean she was wrong, bad, or a failure. It meant the match was not right yet. So she kept digging. She calls the people around her an army, the network that helped her buy and build the business. The room feels thankful without getting syrupy. Meghan then gets space to talk about her own challenge, with the renovated camper and Honey Pop sitting inside the same larger story of starting something before everything feels settled. By the end, Toni comes back to women helping women and women supporting women. Even when people have responsibilities and challenges of their own, they can still steady someone else. The episode lands warm and local, with small proof that encouragement, timing, and persistence can keep a dream alive.

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Women supporting women anchors a warm hour of business grit and community.

The episode works best when it keeps its attention on women backing women. Caroline Hill of Vanscoy Jewelry comes through as someone who wants other women business owners to do well, and Meghan Crick's move from a shell of a camper to a cafe gives the startup path a grounded,…

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You want a local two-hour conversation about women supporting women, startup grit, and Ocean City memories.

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