Aurora, heard up close.
Good Morning Aurora treats local news as a conversation with the people doing the work. Recent episodes move from mental health advocacy and women’s boundaries to real estate, roller derby, med spas, and Bible teaching.
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Good Morning Aurora works like a daily window into Aurora, Illinois, through the people who keep showing up there. It is local news, but not in a clipped headline style. The program is more interested in conversations that explain how an organization started, why an event matters, and what someone has learned from doing the work. Recent episodes bring in guests from mental health advocacy, wellness spaces, real estate, roller derby, med spa businesses, and Bible ministry. The range is broad. The center stays local. A conversation with Deborah and Peyton from 71 Reasons and More Foundation turns toward suicide prevention, community openness, and the need for people to reach out. Aurora Health Hustle episodes use casual back-and-forth to talk about stress, boundaries, multitasking, women supporting women, and the quiet cost of always saying yes. The real estate segment with Martha Bernal frames brokerage work through community service, clients with ITINs, investors, and people dealing with credit issues. Roller derby guests explain sidekicks, team culture, and how a poster or tryout can pull someone into a new sport. The Sharing The Bible Ministries segments are more sermon-like, with Minister Deyon Washington teaching on scripture, Satan, grace, tribulation, and the rapture. The show often starts loose. Then it finds the serious point. Its best moments come when a guest’s story becomes a small map of Aurora’s civic life: who is organizing, who needs help, who is opening a room, who is inviting others in. The production can carry some intro or sponsor bleed, and the conversation is not overly polished. That lived-in texture is part of the point. Good Morning Aurora suits listeners who want local identity, practical community information, and interviews that sound close to the people they cover.
Made for: For listeners who care about Aurora’s community networks, local businesses, neighborhood events, faith conversations, wellness work, and grassroots advocacy. It suits people who prefer direct local voices over distant civic summaries.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its closeness: guests are not treated as sound bites, but as neighbors explaining the work, stress, purpose, and backstory behind local life. It can move from light banter to serious community need without losing its conversational ease.
Good Morning Aurora is the first daytime morning show covering Aurora Illinois and live each day from Downtown Aurora. With an emphasis on highlighting social justice, we cover local and national headlines and deliver the best information to our listeners. Tune in with us Monday thru Friday from 8 to 9 am on Anchor. You may also subscribe, like and follow us on Instagram & Facebook, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and all other podcast platforms. The newest and coolest morning show in Illinois.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Good Morning Aurora makes local housing policy, community organizations and workplace pressures understandable through patient, practical conversations.
Good Morning Aurora treats business as a matter of how a city works. Its guest conversations connect housing supply, zoning and municipal costs with the organizations and working relationships that shape life in Aurora.
Single-family zoning and suicide prevention get the practical questions you wish local news asked.
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A candid conversation about stress that can surface only after the work is done.
Good Morning Aurora looks at stress as something built into daily responsibilities, not just a private reaction on the side. The episode connects the pressure of coordinating a large event with the overload of teaching while carrying ten or twenty tasks at once.
A dense but structured prophecy lesson tracing Satan from tempter to powerless figure.
Good Morning Aurora treats Satan as a demanding theological subject, but gives the episode a clear organizing idea: sequence matters. The discussion tracks Satan's role as tempter through a prophetic timeline in which, by the speaker's account, Israel rejects and crucifies its…
A grief-rooted local conversation that turns remembrance into outreach.
Good Morning Aurora presents Deborah and Peyton from 71 Reasons and More Foundation in a local conversation about suicide prevention, grief, and remembering Mark Chappas Jr. after his death in 2021.
A boundary-setting conversation about service, judgment, and what keeps someone moving forward.
Aurora's Health Hustle settles into a discussion of boundaries, service, and the moment an answer becomes no. It opens with birthday-month banter for Felicia, who is turning 50, and a Women's History Month check-in before moving into how quickly women judge one another, how…
A plainspoken look at how zoning shapes housing.
The episode treats housing as a practical civic problem, with David and Hayley tracing how single-family zoning and denser housing shape what cities can build. It stays grounded in Aurora and links post-World War II planning to the housing patterns that still show up now.
A candid episode about turning painful losses into reasons for people to reach out.
Good Morning Aurora gives 71 Reasons and More Foundation a clear frame: mental health awareness, suicide prevention, and the steady work of making hard conversations feel less impossible.
Stress, multitasking, and a practical reminder to identify stressors.
Good Morning Aurora turns a familiar morning chat into a steady look at stress, multitasking, and execution. It follows the strain of juggling a class, a long list of tasks, and the pressure of splitting attention across several demands at once.
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Good Morning Aurora interviews Deborah and Peyton from the 71 Reasons and More Foundation, a mental health organization founded after the 2021 suicide of Mark Chappas Jr.
Good Morning Aurora hosts a conversation with Lynda White of Dance Fuze Studio for Stress Awareness Month.
Aurora is back on mic after a couple weeks off and a spring break pause.
Good Morning Aurora starts chilly and a little tender.
Good Morning Aurora revisits Satan’s identity, arguing that Satan is a created covering angel rather than the ruler of hell.
Martha Bernal discusses her day as a realtor, focusing on broker tours, networking with industry professionals, and her boutique brokerage's community-focused approach to real estate.
Members of the Aurora 88's Roller Derby team discuss their involvement in the sport, including how they started through the sidekicks program and their roles on the team.
This episode features Minister Deyon Washington and guest David McClelland discussing their Bible teaching ministry that focuses on presenting scripture authentically without selective interpretation.
This episode of Good Morning Aurora features an interview with Tatiana Skokan of Lux Lulu Med Spa and Brooke Minton of Bella Lux Med Spa discussing the upcoming Sisterhood Spa Series event.
The show starts light, with birthday month teasing and Felicia turning 50.
David opens the Thursday segment with Haley beside him.
This episode interviews Sholonda Smith and Cashmere Bell about their upcoming Roses Dipped In Spring all-white edition fashion show event on March 7th at Bell Cell Banquet Hall in Aurora, Illinois.
This episode features an interview with Nayeli Perez, discussing her background as a longtime Aurora resident, her brokerage Realty of America, and the debut of her new venture SmartTax.
This episode features an interview with Celia Elizondo and Amra Mitrovska from European Service LLC, discussing their in-home health care services and programs.