Laguna Beach business, told from street level.
The Business Link is a Laguna Beach business show built around local openings, closings, property fights, and civic chatter. Its center of gravity is practical neighborhood knowledge: who moved, who is reopening, what changed downtown, and why residents should care.
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The Business Link is a Laguna Beach show about business, but its real subject is the town underneath the transactions. It listens for change at the storefront level. A flower shop leaving its visible location, an ice cream shop facing permit fees, a boba place moving into an old chocolate factory, a health club nearing sixty years, or Hotel Laguna sitting inside a bitter property fight all become pieces of the same local story. The show’s rhythm is relaxed and conversational. It often begins with weather, the day of the week, a little community news, and the sense that the streets themselves are giving off signals. From there, Heidi Miller appears repeatedly, mixing personal business memory with questions for guests who know the properties, venues, gyms, galleries, and restaurants being discussed. The voice is praise-first when possible. New openings are welcomed, longtime businesses are respected, and owners are given space to explain how they will keep serving customers even when a storefront changes. But the show is not just a booster bulletin. It also gets blunt about permit costs, empty spaces, local politics, term limits, unpaid taxes, receivership, alleged fraud, and whether residents are being told enough about decisions that reshape Laguna Beach. That civic edge gives the show its bite. Conversations can wander, restart, and circle back, yet they keep returning to practical questions: who owns what, who is moving where, what is opening next, and what the change means for locals. Guests such as Mo Honaker, Doug Shuline, Adele Atkins, and Black Iris voices bring in the lived details that broad business coverage usually misses. The Business Link is strongest when it turns gossip, memory, and concern into usable local context. It is not a detached market report. It is town-square radio for people who track Laguna Beach through leases, sidewalks, landmarks, and the businesses that make daily life feel familiar.
Made for: For Laguna Beach residents, business owners, civic watchers, and regular visitors who want detailed local context behind storefront changes, property disputes, arts venues, and longtime community businesses.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by treating small-business news as neighborhood intelligence, not generic entrepreneurship talk. It names streets, buildings, owners, openings, closures, and civic tensions with the familiarity of someone watching the town change in real time.
As a 45 year resident and 45 year business owner in downtown Laguna Beach you could say I have my ear to the ground and my finger on the pulse. Business owners ask my opinion and residents give me theirs. I speak my mind but keep a Switzerland stance of staying neutral. I find out more that way. I listen more than I speak. I’m a problem solver and try to look at all options before I speak. I have the credibility that comes with decades of business ownership and share what I’ve learned to anyone who asks. I pride myse...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Business Link makes college football strategy legible by connecting fourth-down choices to risk, arithmetic and player psychology.
Heidi Miller runs The Business Link through guest-led conversations about Laguna Beach businesses, property disputes and community changes. Its clearest Sports material turns to college football's increasingly aggressive tactics, including fourth-down attempts and two-point…
Laguna Beach storefront drama meets your coffee, with Heidi Miller tracking permits, ownership battles, and civic fallout.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A local business move framed as continuity rather than loss.
The review reads the Black Iris move as a handoff, not a clean ending. The business is shifting spaces, but it still plans to make custom arrangements and flowers, and the new place will keep the mix of gifts and art under familiar hands.
A focused Laguna Beach update on Mo Honaker's property dispute, with concrete numbers and persistent civic tension.
Heidi Miller's Thursday business-link hour with Mo Honaker stays tightly focused on Hotel Laguna, the hostel takeover, and the properties he says he owns in Newport, Dana Point, and Palm Desert.
A Laguna Beach business update built on permit costs, vacancies, and a few new openings.
On a bright Thursday in Laguna Beach, The Business Link stays close to the ground. Heidi Miller moves from summer-like weather to city momentum, tax pressure, and the cost of opening new businesses.
A local property dispute told with urgency, detail, and real neighborhood stakes.
This episode stays with Hotel Laguna, but it also opens onto a wider fight over ownership, control, and what happens when a landmark gets pulled into conflict.
A Laguna Beach business conversation about steady banking, local change, and staying viable.
The conversation centers on Laguna Beach as a local business community under pressure, with Heidi Miller tracing decades of ownership, changing conditions, and the work of opening and keeping a business alive.
Real talk for veterinary practice leaders.
Sales systems for serious electrical contractors.
Heidi Miller opens The Business Link with Laguna Beach business news, including Rainbow Cone's $5 happy-hour cone, Oliver's Osteria reopening August 8th, and gallery closures.
Heidi Miller opens with football risk and analytics.
Heidi Miller opens the hour on Thursday at two o'clock and welcomes Mo.
Heidi Miller opens with a sunny Laguna Beach check-in and says the warm weather has clearly lifted spirits around town.
Heidi Miller returns to her business-focused radio show to discuss local updates, including Bet Handicrafts' relocation, and introduces her guest Adele Atkins from Laguna Playhouse.
This episode discusses a petition-driven proposal for Laguna Beach residents to vote on imposing term limits on city council members in 2026.
This episode covers local Laguna news including pickleball players donating to the food pantry and implementing quieter equipment to address noise complaints, followed by a weather forecast.
Heidi opens with her familiar warm Thursday rhythm and quickly turns to Mo Honaker and Hotel Laguna.
Heidi Miller interviews Doug Schulein, owner of Laguna Health Club, discussing the gym's history, community impact, and small business insights on a local radio show.
Heidi Miller hosts the Business Link show, introducing an interview with Barri Johnson from the boutique PICNIC in Laguna Beach to promote local business.
Heidi interviews David Ellenstein of the Laguna Playhouse about the theater's productions and community events.
Heidi Miller talks with a guest from Farmers & Merchants Bank.