Central Virginia business, neighbor by neighbor.
Talk Local To Me mixes Central Virginia Business Coalition updates with relaxed interviews about the people behind area businesses and nonprofits. The result is practical, chatty, and rooted in local relationships, from farm beef and fashion to disability-focused nonprofit work, insurance, donuts, picnics, counseling, and lake events.
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Talk Local To Me is a Central Virginia business-and-community show with a deliberately local center of gravity. It is built less like a polished magazine interview and more like a familiar table conversation before the next event starts. The Central Virginia Business Coalition provides the frame. The episodes bring in business people, nonprofit representatives, and local organizers to explain what they do, how they started, and where people can find them. The show is practical first. It cares about event reminders, local expos, food, contact details, and which organizations are trying to get people in the same room. That practicality is softened by banter. A sick dog, a loose dog at an expo, a new theme song, a spilled drink in the studio, cold spring weather, and an April Fool's prank can all become part of the path into the main conversation. The guest segments usually land on relationship-building. The Kidd Team Insurance discussion turns referrals into a question of trust, not just name-swapping. Chapel Creek Farms brings in family meaning, retiring cattle land, beef shares, agriculture education, and customers who make long drives for the farm's product. CABBI is framed through women's confidence, shopping with friends, and a registered nurse finding a fashion business during COVID. Puzzled Foundation adds a nonprofit thread, with autism, disability-focused work, volunteer work, car shows, and personal experience shaping the story. Other episodes point toward donuts, counseling, picnics, lake events, home care, and community hardship support through Love Heals. The show's rhythm is informal, and sometimes messy in a useful way. It lets announcements and digressions stay in the room because those details are part of how local business actually works. Listeners get names, places, causes, and small proofs of trust. They also get the wider mood of an active local network where commerce, charity, family life, and community events constantly overlap. The strongest moments come when a guest's business story turns into a reason for neighbors to care. It is friendly without becoming slick. It is boosterish, but grounded in specific people and everyday needs.
Made for: For Central Virginia listeners who want to know which local businesses, farms, nonprofits, and community events are active around them. It also fits small-business people who value referrals, relationship-building, and practical local visibility.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by leaving the community machinery visible: announcements, side jokes, event logistics, guest backstories, plugs, and referral talk all stay in the mix. It feels like the business coalition's table conversation, not a packaged entrepreneur interview.
Talk Local to me is presented by the Central Virginia Business Coalition and is a live show on Wednesdays at noon!
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Local business interviews reveal how Central Virginia owners explain their services, build trusted referrals and turn community relationships into commercial momentum.
Talk Local to Me turns Central Virginia commerce into a series of neighborly conversations. Heather Alto and Mike Norfield move easily between business owners, community organizations and local events, asking how enterprises operate and how relationships help them grow.
This is where your beef-share math and contractor hunt come with the names behind the businesses.
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A loose local-business chat about trust, referrals, and the people behind them.
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A warm local agriculture profile about farming, trust, and keeping good land working.
Tea Time uses a local farm story to sketch a business that still feels close to the ground. Melody Divers talks about how Chapel Creek Farms got its name from her boys, how a retiring cattle farmer helped open the door, and why keeping the land in production mattered as much as…
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A plainspoken beef-share conversation with enough local texture to feel useful.
Talk Local to Me frames Chapel Creek Farms as a practical small-business story about how local beef buying actually works. It gets into beef shares, cut preferences, packing choices, and the kind of one-on-one help that keeps the process clear for customers.
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Talk Local To Me keeps its focus on local business ties, community events, and the Elves for Elders effort. The birthday week conversation moves through sponsor mentions, parade memories, coalition membership, and a steady reminder to make and keep the memories that matter.
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Tea Time sits down with Melody Divers from Chapel Creek Farms and digs into the story behind the farm name, the family, and the land.
This episode of Talk Local to Me features solo host Heather Alto discussing upcoming local events, picnics, and lake activities while sharing personal anecdotes about gardening and weather frustrations.
This episode features an interview with Sherry McNamara, who shares the story of how she started her business with CABBI, a fashion brand focused on creating a better shopping experience for women through community and relationships.
The hosts discuss April Fool's Day pranks, sharing funny and inappropriate ideas while reflecting on the podcast's future.
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An interview with a board member of a nonprofit supporting children with disabilities, discussing the organization's story and her personal journey.
A live talk show highlighting local businesses and community events in Central Virginia.
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An interview with a small business owner about the story behind her bookkeeping service.
Talk Local to Me opens with its familiar local-business welcome and a reminder that the show streams live each week and stays available on demand.
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Talk Local to Me starts with a quick local check-in.
Hosts Heather and Mike discuss the aftermath of an ice storm and local business needs, including a call for gravel companies.
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This final episode of 2025 for Talk Local to Me features hosts reflecting on the year's end with holiday greetings, personal banter about birthdays, and a brief mention of local business services.
Talk Local To Me opens with sponsor reads and the usual local-business chat.
A live local business show promoting Perimeter Remodeling and Restoration, with a content warning about suicide discussion.
Hosts from the Central Virginia Business Coalition interview local business owners about their services and community impact.
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A live show featuring local business stories and sponsored segments from the Central Virginia Business Coalition.
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A live talk show promoting local businesses in Central Virginia, featuring a remodeling company and a home care agency.
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A live radio show promoting local businesses and services in Central Virginia, featuring advertisements and community-focused content.
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