Local business stories with practical momentum.
Tower Talk Business Radio puts entrepreneurs, consultants, creative business figures, app founders, and local business owners in a conversational radio format. The show favors origin stories, business lessons, and plainspoken advice over polished keynote-style talk.
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Tower Talk Business Radio is a local-radio business interview show with a wide definition of entrepreneurship. It is not limited to storefronts, finance, or startup talk. One episode may follow Dave Huey from marketing work into Par for Peace and relationships around New Edition. Another may focus on Tiffany Rivera and the way online communities can extend conversations around culture, learning, and shared interests. The show is most comfortable when a guest explains how an idea became a real operating thing. It asks for the backstory. Then it asks who benefits, what partners are needed, what mistakes show up, and how the work actually gets done. Ray Schwetz and Denisha Boston-Hill guide those conversations with a warm, lightly joking radio rhythm. The interviews feel human and slightly loose. That is part of the appeal. Guests repeat themselves, hosts affirm a useful point, and the conversation often circles back to a practical takeaway after a side road. The range is broad, but the center stays recognizable. Beth Granger brings LinkedIn habits and the pain of the quick pitch. Daniel Gomez and Dario Gonzalez explain Wander's Travel Together as a social travel-planning app. Karmisha Superville and Gary Bahabir bring event planning, agency work, and fitness for men over 40 into the same business frame. Bobby Heckman turns fan-made horror films into a discussion about passion projects, background extras, and making a screen world feel convincing. Gina Falke brings writing, modeling, invention, book art, and creative persistence into the room. Michael Williams connects GO3 Vodka and Jubilee Spirits to fundraising relationships and an HBCU foundation story. The result is a useful show for people who like business advice attached to names, places, projects, and lived examples rather than generic frameworks.
Made for: Best suited for small business owners, consultants, founders, community organizers, and creative professionals who like conversational interviews with clear takeaways. It also fits listeners interested in Long Island business culture and grassroots entrepreneurship.
What sets it apart: The show mixes business utility with local-radio warmth, giving room to marketers, app founders, fitness trainers, filmmakers, authors, and community builders. Its strongest moments come when guests explain the real-world use case behind their work.
Tower Talk highlights the best of Long Island by providing “all access” interviews with the NCC Foundation Business Leaders Council, top entrepreneurs, and local business owners who will discuss a range of topics that impact both owners and executives alike.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Its screen-culture value lies in treating creative work as a practical career, with guests explaining how projects and communities take shape.
Tower Talk Business Radio turns each guest's working life into a practical conversation about choices, setbacks, and execution. Co-hosts Ray Schwetz and Denisha Boston-Hill favor direct questions about how an idea began, whom it serves, and what comes next, giving the interviews…
This is the business show where your next rabbit hole might be a screenwriter's edited selfie.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A candid business conversation finds its strongest notes in friendship, community service, and the discipline of showing up.
Dave Huey's Tower Talk Business Radio appearance ties his marketing work to the relationships that have shaped his view of business, from his early start to his work with Par for Peace.
Tiffany Rivera makes a grounded case for online communities as places where shared interests can keep turning into real conversation.
Tower Talk Business Radio's conversation with Tiffany Rivera, Community Director for Membership Organizations with Beyond the Community, frames online communities as more than digital holding rooms.
Bobby Heckman makes a case for horror fan films by looking at the people who bring a scene to life.
Bobby Heckman talks horror fan films with business radio hosts who ask why anyone would make a film outside a franchise's canon. He describes the work as non-profit and a labor of love. The conversation gets most interesting when he turns to background performers.
A grounded look at Wander's Travel Together and its push to make group travel planning easier, more social, and locally connected.
Tower Talk frames Wander's Travel Together as a practical business conversation about building a social travel app around trip planning, activities, and shared plans.
Gina Falke discusses the cover of The Vampirous, her daughter's dragon drawing, and a possible reading.
Screenwriter and author Gina Falke joins Ray Schwetz on Tower Talk Business Radio for a conversation about how The Vampirous is presented. Falke says the front cover uses an edited photo of her.
Beth Granger takes on the "connect and pitch" and explains how she chooses LinkedIn connections.
Beth Granger has a name for the LinkedIn habit that gets under her skin: the "connect and pitch." Someone sends a connection request, then follows it with a sales pitch. She recalls a financial planner she did not know who put the pitch in the invitation itself.
George Pickney, Jr. connects student training with the pressure of a difficult financial market and the habits of proactive leadership.
George Pickney, Jr. gives the episode its clearest shape by treating a difficult financial market as a place where discipline gets tested. In conversation with Ray Schwetz and Denisha Boston-Hill, he looks back on entering the business during COVID and building a team through…
A boxing frame gives honest self-evaluation and adult decision making a grounded starting point.
Tower Talk Business Radio frames mental conditioning as a practical matter of self-knowledge, with boxing giving shape to a conversation about work, education, and adulthood.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Elliot Allen, co-founder of the Mental Conditioning Movement, shares his journey from computer engineer and NYPD officer to mental conditioning trainer.
Denisha Boston-Hill and Ray Sweats interview Michelle Grant, author of 'The Power Dressers,' about her journey as an executive business consultant and the importance of professional style.
Interview with Maura Brush, president and CEO of Old Westbury Gardens, discussing the preservation and interpretation of the early 20th century American country estate.
Ray Schwetz interviews Michael Caprio, core programmer at the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, about his work and background.
Hosts Ray Schwetz and Denisha Boston-Hill interview George Pickney Jr., CEO of Evolution of S&G, along with his Nassau Community College interns Johanza Blaze and Preekarn Singh.
Tower Talk Business Radio features Danisha Boston-Hill talking with Dave Huey, CEO of Viap Marketing and producer of Par for Peace, about his path from selling sports memorabilia at Hofstra University to building Dada Supreme and Viap Marketing.
Tiffany Rivera, Community Director for Membership Organizations at Beyond the Community, tells Tower Talk Business Radio hosts Ray Schwetz and Denisha Boston-Hill how Circle can replace volunteer-heavy chamber work with private member communication, courses, and subscription billing.
Tower Talk Business Radio speaks with filmmaker Bobby Heckman, who says he has spent 25 years writing, acting, directing, and distributing films while working full-time in public safety at Stony Brook Hospital.
Michael Williams, CEO of GO3 Vodka and Jubilee Spirits, discusses his journey from fundraising at an HBCU to launching a vodka brand.
Ray Schwetz and Denisha Boston-Hill introduce guests Karmisha Superville of EBK Events and Gary Bahabir of Mahabir Fitness & Sports LLC, discussing their upcoming collaboration and business insights.
Ray Schwetz and Denisha Boston-Hill talk with Daniel Gomez and Dario Gonzalez, the co-founders of Wanderers Travel Together, plus Melissa Willis, who is named as the third co-founder.
Tower Talk Business Radio with Ray Schwetz and Gina Falke centers on Falke's mix of screenwriting, modeling, inventing, and book publishing through GLF Creations.
Beth Granger calls the "connect and pitch" approach a mistake, including a financial planner asking to review her finances.
Elliot Allen discusses the Mental Conditioning Movement, a framework for building mental strength and resilience using four key principles.
Robert Perfusek, founder of Digital Harvest Media, discusses his professional journey and the formation of his media company on Tower Talk Business Radio.