Amanda Veneziano & Ernie Eldridge
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Local business, civic help, real voices.
Business Connections works like a community notice board with microphones on. Chamber updates, sponsor programs, local events, nonprofit needs, veterans services, and small-business resources sit beside relaxed interviews with people doing the work nearby.
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Business Connections is a chamber program with the texture of a small community keeping itself informed. It is local first. The show regularly opens with sponsor acknowledgments, chamber announcements, event dates, registration details, and reminders about programs such as Energize CT and Connecticut Paid Leave. Those calendar sections are not filler. They establish the show as a practical service for residents, employers, nonprofits, vendors, volunteers, and small-business owners who might actually act on what they hear. After that, the conversations tend to loosen. Ernie Eldridge and Dan McClintock ask guests plain questions about what they do, who they serve, how a person signs up, and what makes a program useful. The answers cover a wide community map. Recent episodes touch veterans gatherings, food pantry and soup kitchen work, problem gambling prevention, women’s business support, pitch competition funding, health council organizing, real estate lending, and chamber networking. The tone is warm without being packaged. A discussion about unloading food pallets can sit next to a Maple Fest memory, and a serious conversation about veterans can make room for a joke about weather, parking, or live radio timing. That looseness gives the show its value. It does not try to turn local service into a brand story. It lets people explain the work at human speed. Some episodes are dominated by repeated program copy, especially around energy assessments and paid leave assistance. Others become fuller interviews that show how many organizations are sharing responsibility for the same region. Business owners looking for funding or networking will find concrete leads. Residents looking for help with food, leave, health resources, or veterans services may find a local doorway. Community-minded listeners will hear how chamber work actually functions between meetings, festivals, breakfasts, fundraisers, and calls for volunteers. Business Connections is best understood as a weekly civic check-in, not a national business advice show. Its appeal is in the specificity: the room, the names, the practical questions, and the sense that someone nearby may be able to help.
Made for: Business Connections is for Wyndham-area business owners, chamber members, nonprofit workers, volunteers, and residents who want practical local information. It also suits listeners who prefer direct community conversation over polished business coaching.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by treating chamber logistics, public programs, and neighborhood service work as the main event. Its interviews keep returning to practical access: who qualifies, where to go, how to register, and what help is available.
Windham Chamber of Commerce discusses local business.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Business Connections makes local economic infrastructure legible through practical interviews about funding, services, housing, networking, and community programs.
Business Connections follows the practical machinery of eastern Connecticut's business community. Ernie Eldridge and Dan McClintock move between interviews, Wyndham Region Chamber of Commerce announcements, and conversations with people working in business support, housing,…
A pitch winner's funding waits on a lease; Ernie Eldridge asks the questions you'd ask next.
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Energy help, veterans, and housing advice kept in plain local-service language.
The episode starts with sponsor talk and energy-assessment services, then moves to Christine, chaplain at the Eastern Connecticut Veterans Center, and the issue of problem gambling among veterans.
A chamber update with concrete dates, useful programs, and clear community follow-through.
Business Connection focuses on Dan McClintock and the Wyndham Chamber of Commerce, with Energize CT and Connecticut Paid Leave presented as the main sponsors.
A useful local hour that favors service and utility over polish.
The segment leans on practical details listeners can act on: sponsor acknowledgments, energy-saving guidance, fee-waiver timing, and plain contact options for residents and businesses.
A plainspoken chamber-radio segment that explains funding without drifting into abstraction.
This chamber-radio segment stays plainspoken and local, which makes the funding discussion easy to track. R.T. Brown and Laura Blake move through milestone-based releases, safeguards, and the line between for-profit and nonprofit eligibility, so the money side never gets too…
A chamber-radio hour that pairs energy-savings guidance with civic updates and a practical look at veteran community life.
This chamber-radio hour blends energy-savings guidance, chamber contact details, and community event notes with a plainspoken discussion of veterans and the support around them.
A plainspoken chamber hour that pairs practical support info with a full local events rundown.
The episode keeps its feet on the ground. It spends most of its time on Energized CT and Connecticut Paid Leave, with practical details on energy savings, money savings, home and business upgrades, and application help for employees and owners.
Real talk for veterinary practice leaders.
Sales systems for serious electrical contractors.
Business Connections, the Windham Region Chamber of Commerce radio show, features Christina D'Amato of Energy Resources explaining the Energize CT small business program and its no-cost assessments.
The show opens on Willie Radio, with Ernie Eldridge and Dan McClintock introducing the chamber hour, thanking sponsors, and teeing up Christine from the Eastern Connecticut Veterans Center before Michelle Garabedian from Home Selling Team joins after the break.
Dan McClintock sits in for Ernie and opens with sponsor thanks.
This episode introduces sponsors and programs like Energize CT and CT Pay Leave, offering energy savings and paid leave assistance for businesses and residents in Connecticut.
This episode features the Wyndham Regional Chamber of Commerce discussing their sponsors Energize CT and CT paid leave programs, highlighting energy-saving incentives for businesses and residents, and explaining employee leave benefits.
The show opens with chamber updates, sponsor thanks, and a quick note about rough weather before the guests come on.
The program opens in familiar chamber-radio fashion.
This episode features an interview with Christine Guarnieri discussing problem gambling, while also promoting sponsors Energize CT and the CT Paid Leave Program for energy savings and leave benefits.
Business Connections opens with sponsor thanks and chamber housekeeping.
Ernie Eldridge and Dan McClintock open the hour with sponsor thanks and chamber housekeeping.
This episode features announcements from the Wyndham Region Chamber of Commerce, including details about an upcoming ladies' luncheon and a veterans coffeehouse event.
This episode of Business Connections features host Michelle Garabedian introducing the show, sharing personal anecdotes, and announcing a grand reopening event for the Farmers Cow Cafe in collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce.
This episode of Business Connections features host Michelle Garabedian discussing upcoming chamber events, including a presentation on sole proprietors and gig workers eligible for Connecticut paid leave, and promoting a wellness expo and local garden party.
This episode of Business Connections, hosted by Michelle Garabedian, features announcements about upcoming events like Third Thursday and a garden party, with a focus on supporting local tourism and business in the Wyndham region.
This episode of Business Connections Radio discusses recent Chamber of Commerce activities including a financial management workshop series and an upcoming Business After Hours networking event.