Host Paul Gilman speaks with entrepreneur Eddie Martinez-Cunion for ‘Stories from the Center of the Universe’ podcast.
Looking back at 2022, we celebrate Stories from the Center of the Universe podcast as a highlight! The podcast featured Downtown Ashland Association businesses in August 2022.
Each interviews tells the business’s story from founding to today. In conversation with host and Ashland native Paul Gilman, we learn some of the behind-the-scenes stories that make Downtown Ashland quaint and quirky.
LISTEN NOW
The 2022 Downtown Ashland Association podcast series spans Episodes 174 to 180 of Stories from the Center of the Universe.
Episode 174: Ederis Martinez-Cunion, Your Path Counseling Center
Episode 176: Kitty Barnes, RED VEIN Escape
Episode 178: Michelle Hollender, MH Studios
Episode 180: Mac McManus, Mac’s Tire Pros & Auto Repair
The Downtown Ashland Association podcast series of 2021 serves as a prequel to these interviews, including seven entrepreneurs and the Association’s executive director.
Episode 94: Maggie Beal Longest, Downtown Ashland Association
Episode 104: Chris Ray, Origin Beer Lab
Episode 106: Dawn Beninghove, Companion Extraordinaire
Episode 108: Carolyn Hemphill & Kelli Payne, Hanover County Black Heritage Society
Episode 110: John Working, Railside Law Group
Episode 112: Suzanne Wolstenholme & Kim Mills, Homemades by Suzanne
Episode 114: Rusty Stone, Iron Horse Restaurant
Episode 116: Jamie Grant, FoodiO
THE SHOW
Stories from the Center of the Universe is available for free download on all major podcast outlets, including Apple, Spotify, and Google.
The podcast introduces its audience to each guest’s life story with reflection on their past, present, and future. The interviews demonstrate that people around us are more than what they seem, and the recordings preserve the mini autobiographies for future family and oral history.
Of course, the podcast’s name is adopted from the nickname for Ashland, Virginia, where in-person recording takes place. There is no measurable Center of the Universe, so it is nowhere and everywhere at once, and we feel free to claim the title.