Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast Episode 85: Festival UnBound Discussion with JP Jordan, Artistic Director of Touchstone Theatre

Touchstone Theatre Artistic Director, JP Jordan, sat down with us to discuss the upcoming “Festival UnBound” event, growing up in Tamaqua, and how art can directly affect a community.

Festival UnBound is based on “Celebrating our home, Bethlehem, the Lehigh Valley, and commemorating twenty years of change since Touchstone’s Steelbound: Art of an Industry. Touchstone will, with our Community, National, and International Partners, forge a vision — through art — for our future,” according to the festival’s website.

JP has has helped produce over seventy productions since arriving at Touchstone, serving in multiple capacities including director, designer, composer, actor, and playwright.

Get more information on Festival UnBound here and watch a preview video below or link here.


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Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast Episode 84: Celtic Thunder’s Emmet Cahill (and a lot about America)

Emmet Cahill is a Sony recording artist, renowned Irish singer, and member of Celtic Thunder. He stopped in with us a few hours before his show to talk Ireland, why people love Irish music, how he isn’t famous at home, his favorite foods, and much, much more!

We have to extend a huge thank you to Emmet for not only coming to the area, but finding time to come hang with us.

Please find more information him at his website!


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Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast Episode 83: Football, Gambling, and Gambling Badly

So, we don’t want you to think we phoned this one in, because we didn’t. This is a shorter episode where Tyler and George talk local football, big football, trains, marathons, and like super bad idea gambling.


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Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast Episode 82: Valleyfest

We welcome Mat and Chris from Valleyfest to get you pumped up for their September 7 event in Allentown.

Learn what motivates these college students and what they are trying to accomplish with this new festival.

Be sure to get your tickets before the event!


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Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast Episode 81: Professional Cuddler Lisa VanArsdale

We welcome professional Cuddler, Lisa VanArsdale, to set us straight on exactly what goes down in the industry in the area.

Lisa gives us some insight on the cuddling, comedy, tabloids, and a lot more. This is a fun one.


This Podcast is brought to you by Walter Investment Partners, 81 Highland Avenue. Suite 100. Bethlehem, PA 18017. Call them at 610.865.9550 or Toll Free 800.685.2160.

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That is where Judd Walter of Walter Investment Partners can help. Judd is a Financial Advisor at Janney Montgomery Scott, located in the Bethlehem office. He will take the time to answer all of your investment questions and help you develop a personalized financial planning strategy with the flexibility to adapt to your changing needs. Judd can also help you with estate planning, setting up trusts, income for retirement and legacy planning for the next generation.

Call or text Judd today for a complimentary portfolio review at 610 609 8001 or visit WalterInvestmentPartners.com.


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Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast Episode 80: IndyCar Driver Sage Karam

We welcome IndyCar driver, and Nazareth native, Sage Karam to the Podcast just before the ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway.

Sage talks his history in racing, training, family, overcoming an incredible tragedy, and looking toward the future in one of our favorite episodes to date.

We deal with a few sensitive topics in this podcast. We’d like to provide the information for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or Live Online Chat.

If you or someone you know is suicidal or in emotional distress, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Trained crisis workers are available to talk 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Your confidential and toll-free call goes to the nearest crisis center in the Lifeline national network. These centers provide crisis counseling and mental health referrals.


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This Podcast is brought to you by Walter Investment Partners, 81 Highland Avenue. Suite 100. Bethlehem, PA 18017. Call them at 610.865.9550 or Toll Free 800.685.2160.

It’s easy to do a Google search for financial information. But what happens when you run into conflicting articles and need to separate fact from fiction?

That is where Judd Walter of Walter Investment Partners can help. Judd is a Financial Advisor at Janney Montgomery Scott, located in the Bethlehem office. He will take the time to answer all of your investment questions and help you develop a personalized financial planning strategy with the flexibility to adapt to your changing needs. Judd can also help you with estate planning, setting up trusts, income for retirement and legacy planning for the next generation.

Call or text Judd today for a complimentary portfolio review at 610 609 8001 or visit WalterInvestmentPartners.com.


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Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast Episode 79: Comedian Paul Spratt at ComedyPlatz

Thank you to everyone who came out to our 14 shows at ComedyPlatz at the Ice House during Musikfest! We had about 3,000 total people at all the shows!

We were able to sit down with comedian Paul Spratt backstage for a quick, but memorable, episode of the Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast.

A bit about Paul Spratt: Paul born in Boston but grew up in Pennsylvania brings a unique and different outlook to the world he lives in through his comedy.

Knowing both the crowded city life but also the quiet country life leads him to have a different view on everything happening in his own life and around him. Paul brings a honest truthful in your face kind of honesty about what a lot of us take for granted in the everyday world. Comedy therapy where someone says what you were always thinking. Paul also loves to take time to donating to charity events, running, and working his own events for one of his favorite charities B4BC.org where he’s raised over $10,000 for breast cancer.

Rising through a relatively unknown comedy scene in Scranton, PA to becoming an up and coming comic now in the New York city scene. Paul has been seen working in a lot of the clubs in the tri-state area and also finished high in some well regarded comedy competitions and festivals.

Multi-time semi-finalist in the March Madness Comedy competition at the Stress Factory Comedy Club Laughing Skull Comedy Festival Winner of New Jersey’s funniest comic at the Stress Factory Semi Finalist in Helium’s Philly’s Phunniest Semi- Finalist in Last Comix Standing at Comix at Foxwoods Winner of Wisecrackers comedy competition Semi- Finalist in the Comedy Cabaret comedy competition Cape May Comedy Festival Paul regularly opens on the road for comic Joe Matarese but also has opened for many other big name comedians such as Dom Irrera, Dave Attell, and many more.


Walter Investment Partners

This Podcast is brought to you by Walter Investment Partners, 81 Highland Avenue. Suite 100. Bethlehem, PA 18017. Call them at 610.865.9550 or Toll Free 800.685.2160.

It’s easy to do a Google search for financial information. But what happens when you run into conflicting articles and need to separate fact from fiction?

That is where Judd Walter of Walter Investment Partners can help. Judd is a Financial Advisor at Janney Montgomery Scott, located in the Bethlehem office. He will take the time to answer all of your investment questions and help you develop a personalized financial planning strategy with the flexibility to adapt to your changing needs. Judd can also help you with estate planning, setting up trusts, income for retirement and legacy planning for the next generation.

Call or text Judd today for a complimentary portfolio review at 610 609 8001 or visit WalterInvestmentPartners.com.


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Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast Episode 78: A Lesson in Polka with Robbie Lawrence

Robbie Lawrence is the 25-year-old front man for Robbie and The Steelworkers, the newest polka band in the Lehigh Valley.

We talk all things Bethlehem, polka, and music in general with the Bethlehem native, who is also a local music teacher.

Be sure to catch Robbie and The Steelworkers at Musikfest on Saturday, August 3 at Noon at Plaza Tropical and then at 6 p.m. at the Yuengling LagerPlatz.

Lehigh Valley with Love ComedyPlatz starts Friday, August 2! We have a ton of shows, so find which one you can make it to and we’ll see you there.

ALSO, don’t forget that you can win a ton of prizes at Musikfest just by grabbing our free LVwithLOVE Straw!


Walter Investment Partners

This Podcast is brought to you by Walter Investment Partners, 81 Highland Avenue. Suite 100. Bethlehem, PA 18017. Call them at 610.865.9550 or Toll Free 800.685.2160.

It’s easy to do a Google search for financial information. But what happens when you run into conflicting articles and need to separate fact from fiction?

That is where Judd Walter of Walter Investment Partners can help. Judd is a Financial Advisor at Janney Montgomery Scott, located in the Bethlehem office. He will take the time to answer all of your investment questions and help you develop a personalized financial planning strategy with the flexibility to adapt to your changing needs. Judd can also help you with estate planning, setting up trusts, income for retirement and legacy planning for the next generation.

Call or text Judd today for a complimentary portfolio review at 610 609 8001 or visit WalterInvestmentPartners.com.


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This episode features the Song “Goodbye Syndrome” by Sunsets North. (www.sunsetsnorth.com)

Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast Episode 77: Comedian and ArtsQuest Programing Director, Ryan Hill

Just in time for Musikfest 2019, we welcome ArtsQuest Programming Director, Ryan Hill, to the Podcast.

Ryan tells us a little bit about his history in comedy, advice for those starting out, and gets us ready for a ton of comedy at the ‘Fest!

Be sure to check out Lehigh Valley with Love ComedyPlatz AND all of ArtsQuest comedy programming before, during, and after Musikfest!


Walter Investment Partners

This Podcast is brought to you by Walter Investment Partners, 81 Highland Avenue. Suite 100. Bethlehem, PA 18017. Call them at 610.865.9550 or Toll Free 800.685.2160.

It’s easy to do a Google search for financial information. But what happens when you run into conflicting articles and need to separate fact from fiction?

That is where Judd Walter of Walter Investment Partners can help. Judd is a Financial Advisor at Janney Montgomery Scott, located in the Bethlehem office. He will take the time to answer all of your investment questions and help you develop a personalized financial planning strategy with the flexibility to adapt to your changing needs. Judd can also help you with estate planning, setting up trusts, income for retirement and legacy planning for the next generation.

Call or text Judd today for a complimentary portfolio review at 610 609 8001 or visit WalterInvestmentPartners.com.


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This episode features the Song “Goodbye Syndrome” by Sunsets North. (www.sunsetsnorth.com)

Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast Episode 76: Kayla Dwyer of The Morning Call

We welcome reporter and podcast producer from The Morning Call, Kayla Dwyer, to the Podcast! Kayla is not only a driving force behind The Call’s podcast, but she’s also had all eyes on her Twitter feed during a recent climbing incident at the blast furnaces in Bethlehem.

Listen to find out more about Kayla, how she got started, her thoughts on current journalism, and, of course, a first-hand account of her experience at the recent situation in Bethlehem.

Follow her on Twitter and catch up with The Morning Call Podcast here.


Walter Investment Partners

This Podcast is brought to you by Walter Investment Partners, 81 Highland Avenue. Suite 100. Bethlehem, PA 18017. Call them at 610.865.9550 or Toll Free 800.685.2160.

It’s easy to do a Google search for financial information. But what happens when you run into conflicting articles and need to separate fact from fiction?

That is where Judd Walter of Walter Investment Partners can help. Judd is a Financial Advisor at Janney Montgomery Scott, located in the Bethlehem office. He will take the time to answer all of your investment questions and help you develop a personalized financial planning strategy with the flexibility to adapt to your changing needs. Judd can also help you with estate planning, setting up trusts, income for retirement and legacy planning for the next generation.

Call or text Judd today for a complimentary portfolio review at 610 609 8001 or visit WalterInvestmentPartners.com.


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This episode features the Song “Goodbye Syndrome” by Sunsets North. (www.sunsetsnorth.com)

Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast Episode 75: Bree Nidds, Discover Lehigh Valley’s VP of Sales

Discover Lehigh Valley is the area’s destination marketing organization, encouraging millions to visit the area 12 months per year. From skiing to hiking and dining to nightlife, the Lehigh Valley is a high level tourism location.

Newly appointed VP of Sales at Discover Lehigh Valley, Bree Nidds, visited the podcast to talk about what she does to encourage businesses and groups and even individuals to take a look at visiting the Lehigh Valley for meetings, events, or just because.

Learn about her recent move to the area and her background in travel and tourism! She also has an interesting story about Allentown from the Sahara Desert.

Learn more at discoverlehighvalley.com


Walter Investment Partners

This Podcast is brought to you by Walter Investment Partners, 81 Highland Avenue. Suite 100. Bethlehem, PA 18017. Call them at 610.865.9550 or Toll Free 800.685.2160.

It’s easy to do a Google search for financial information. But what happens when you run into conflicting articles and need to separate fact from fiction?

That is where Judd Walter of Walter Investment Partners can help. Judd is a Financial Advisor at Janney Montgomery Scott, located in the Bethlehem office. He will take the time to answer all of your investment questions and help you develop a personalized financial planning strategy with the flexibility to adapt to your changing needs. Judd can also help you with estate planning, setting up trusts, income for retirement and legacy planning for the next generation.

Call or text Judd today for a complimentary portfolio review at 610 609 8001 or visit WalterInvestmentPartners.com.


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This episode features the Song “Goodbye Syndrome” by Sunsets North. (www.sunsetsnorth.com)

Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast Episode 74: Instagramer, YouTuber, Mom, Juliana Avila

You may not think that the Lehigh Valley has that many “influencers” or people making money from social media, but then you’d be wrong.

We welcome in Instagramer and Youtuber (and, of course, mom!) Juliana Avilia to the Podcast. Juliana has more than 24K followers on Instagram and more than 40K on YouTube. Much of her content is focused on being a mom.

Juliana tells us about how she got started, how she makes money, and gives some advice to those who are thinking of doing something similar.

Get more information about Juliana on her Instagram, YouTube, and other social accounts.


Walter Investment Partners

This Podcast is brought to you by Walter Investment Partners, 81 Highland Avenue. Suite 100. Bethlehem, PA 18017. Call them at 610.865.9550 or Toll Free 800.685.2160.

It’s easy to do a Google search for financial information. But what happens when you run into conflicting articles and need to separate fact from fiction?

That is where Judd Walter of Walter Investment Partners can help. Judd is a Financial Advisor at Janney Montgomery Scott, located in the Bethlehem office. He will take the time to answer all of your investment questions and help you develop a personalized financial planning strategy with the flexibility to adapt to your changing needs. Judd can also help you with estate planning, setting up trusts, income for retirement and legacy planning for the next generation.

Call or text Judd today for a complimentary portfolio review at 610 609 8001 or visit WalterInvestmentPartners.com.


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This episode features the Song “Goodbye Syndrome” by Sunsets North. (www.sunsetsnorth.com)

Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast Episode 73: LOVE TALKS Podcaster and Marketer, Kim Kelty

We bring in podcaster and marketer, Kim Kelty, to the podcast for a surprisingly deep conversation about life.

Kelty’s Podcast Possible Program services individuals and small businesses in launching their podcast from ground zero to your first episode LIVE! 
Take a look here www.podcastpossibleprogram.com

Kim also hosts the LOVE TALKS Podcast, a real and honest approach to living out your truth. Love Talks is a place where men and women can come to feel heard, understood, validated and loved.


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Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast Episode 72: Two Rivers Roller Derby

As they look forward to their home opener on June 29 at the Bethlehem Ice Rink, we welcome three members from the Two Rivers Roller Derby.

Likeaross (Rachael Ross), Aberslam Lynx (Julia Loehr), and Alexandra Slamilton (Jessica McGinley) educate us on the sport of roller derby, as well as what it takes to field and keep a squad going.

Two Rivers Roller Derby is always looking for new members, referees, and sponsors. For more information, please check out their website and social media and reach out!

Their 2019 Home Opener is at 6:00 pm on June 29 at Bethlehem Municipal Rink, 345 Illicks Mill Rd, Bethlehem PA. Bring the fam!


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Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast Episode 71: Saucon Source Founder and Owner, Josh Popichak

We welcome the founder, owner, and operator of The Saucon Source, an online news source for the Saucon Valley (and beyond) area of the Lehigh Valley.

Learn more about Josh’s history in journalism, how the landscape of local news has changed, why he keeps an office downtown, and more!


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