Local stories with real momentum.
Your Morning Drive pairs Logan Lewis with guests who have built businesses, projects, farms, clinics, venues, and community ties from lived experience. The show favors warm banter, practical backstories, and the kind of local detail that makes a conversation feel close to the ground.
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Your Morning Drive is a conversational profile show where local ambition gets treated as story material. Logan Lewis usually starts loose, with quick jokes, follow prompts, sponsor mentions, and a little behind-the-scenes housekeeping. Then the guest gets room. The episodes are built around entrepreneurs, practitioners, civic figures, creatives, and community builders explaining how they arrived at the thing they now do. Melissa Hergert talks through neurofeedback, brain health, business growth, rebranding, and the pressures that came with expansion. Seth Lytle frames VinoBarrel through hospitality, family influence, real-world connection, and the desire to make small celebrations feel less disposable. Scott Allen’s episode moves outdoors, using animals, farm tours, old equipment, sorghum syrup, camels, pumpkins, and family pride as the center of the conversation. Wendy Cone brings a real estate and relationship-building angle through Pacific Law Group. Matt Santini’s appearance turns toward Cartersville, local leadership, arts education, radio, and the long discipline of public service. April Aguilar’s story follows a move from difficult work circumstances into mobile bartending and event service. Anne Say’s episode points toward portraits, local relationships, and the social world around creative work. Kacie Proctor’s episode is framed around functional medicine, though the excerpt here mostly captures the studio and sponsor setup. Across these conversations, the show is not trying to sound like a hard-news interview or a polished business seminar. It is more like a familiar local meeting that happens to have microphones on. The pacing is quick, but guests are allowed to wander into anecdotes. That wandering is part of the appeal. The practical lessons come through stories about money, timing, faith, family, burnout, branding, resilience, and finding the right room to work in. Sponsor copy and social calls are frequent, so the show can feel community bulletin-like at times. Still, the best moments come when a guest explains the emotional logic behind a business or public role. Your Morning Drive is built for listeners who like people, place, and purpose in the same conversation.
Made for: For listeners who enjoy relaxed interviews with entrepreneurs, civic leaders, creatives, wellness practitioners, and community-minded locals. It especially suits people drawn to origin stories, small-business grit, and local personalities.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its lived-in local texture: studio chats, on-location visits, sponsor shout-outs, and guest stories all share the same conversational space. It feels less like a formal profile series and more like a community network talking out loud.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Personal business stories become practical accounts of starting small, changing direction, learning new tools, and building through community relationships.
Your Morning Drive follows the practical decisions behind small ventures through relaxed, one-on-one conversations led by Logan Lewis. Guests explain how they moved from an idea or career change into neurofeedback, mobile bartending, social media marketing, wine hospitality,…
From a $4,000 business start to a 525-pound anvil, your curiosity has room to wander.
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A grounded founder story about $4,000, rebranding, and building a neurofeedback business.
Melissa's story gives this episode a clear business spine. She describes starting with $4,000, renting a room inside an existing office, and growing Brain Train from its Marietta beginnings into a company with multiple offices.
A founder story about using technology and hospitality to make wine feel more social, accessible, and grounded in everyday connection.
Vino Barrel lands as a founder-led look at hospitality shaped by a practical idea: use technology to make wine service easier, more inviting, and more social.
A grounded farm episode about preserving craft, maintaining old machinery and building repeat visitor experiences around working traditions.
Scott's farm is presented as a hands-on operation where inherited craft, old machinery and seasonal events all work together. The episode moves from a rebuilt blacksmith shop and heavyweight anvils to an 1800s sorghum cane mill, using the process of feeding cane, cooking juice…
A grounded look at turning a remembered mobile-bar idea into a more independent working life.
April's move toward mobile bartending starts with a question many small-business hopefuls recognize: what comes after a job that no longer feels worth keeping?
A warm local conversation that points listeners toward Anne Say's photography work and services.
Anne Say's conversation with Logan Lewis works best when it settles into the photography talk and lets the practical details breathe. Lewis says he will put Say's website in the episode description so listeners can see her work, learn more, and reach out if they need her…
A grounded conversation about referrals, likability, and the stubborn tools behind one marketer's work.
Ashley Kievit frames social media work as a trust business first, with the technology always close behind. Much of her momentum has come through referrals and people who already know her, and she links that foundation to the daily work of studying reels, exploring more AI, and…
A grounded episode about building a dessert business while teaching, family work and bills remain part of the picture.
A dessert maker's shift from restaurant management into her own business gives the episode a sturdy, practical center. After nearly a decade with Eric and Laura's business, including time as a manager, she is clear-eyed about what going full time really means.
Herbal medicine mapped through stars and plants.
Logan interviews Ashley Taylor, a custom cake baker who started Southern Gal Desserts and Bakery.
Logan Lewis interviews Angel Lewis about her journey from medical field to Texas Roadhouse and her community involvement in Bartow County.
Logan Lewis interviews country artist Mary Kate Farmer about balancing her music career with family life.
Logan Lewis interviews Lee Meyer about overcoming challenges and starting a video company.
Logan interviews Ashley Kivett, a former model turned boutique social media marketer.
Taylor Van Pelt, a workforce development professional at the Bartow chamber, tells Logan she believes college is not a requirement, citing a 2035 prediction that trade workers will out-earn master's degree holders.
Melissa starts small.
Seth Lytle says Vino Barrel exists to make wine service simpler, more enjoyable, and more accessible.
Your Morning Drive visits Pettit Creek Farms with Scott Allen, a Bartow County native who turns a family property into an animal-focused attraction.
Host Logan Lewis introduces Wendy Cone, director of marketing at Pacific Law Group, discussing her background in real estate and the importance of authenticity and networking.
Mayor Matt Santini discusses his journey from New York to Cartersville and his roles in community service, arts education, and city leadership.
Host Logan Lewis interviews April Aguilar, founder of the Georgia-based mobile bartending business Shake, Stir, Serve, tracing her path from a difficult Midwestern upbringing to entrepreneurship after her divorce.
Host Logan Lewis interviews Anne Say, a brand and portrait photographer in Cartersville, Georgia, whose Say Photography business emerged unexpectedly in 2020 after her husband Terry was diagnosed with bladder cancer and she set down her virtual coaching practice.
Logan interviews Kacie Proctor about functional medicine and healing from within.
Logan introduces an interview with Miles Rubin about using NLP and hypnosis to navigate life's challenges.