Meeting Charleston

Meeting Charleston

The lowcountry's movers, leaders and shakers! Everybody has a story and we are here to help them tell it. #meetingcharleston

Episodes

June 22, 2020 32 mins

In 2016, Going Places founder, Katie Blomquist, was a first-grade teacher in a low-income elementary school. She had a 6-year student named Jawan who wanted a bike for his birthday and it shocked Katie to learn he had never owned one. She wished she could buy him a bike, but that wasn’t possible on a teacher’s salary. It was something that Katie couldn’t get off her mind knowing Jawan was growing up without the joy of riding his ow...

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Kristin Graziano is a highly decorated career Law Enforcement Professional, who has dedicated her life to the service of others. Kristin and her family are active members of Circular Congregational Church in Charleston, where Kristin serves voluntarily as the Director of Security. Kristin coaches the College of Charleston Women’s Rugby team and believes physical and mental toughness on the field and in life, breed compassionate and...

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Joe Cunningham proudly represents South Carolina’s First Congressional District. The First District encompasses South Carolina’s Lowcountry, including Charleston, Mt. Pleasant, Kiawah, and Hilton Head. Joe is a proud father and husband and is serving his first term in the United States Congress.

Joe currently serves on the House Natural Resources Committee and the House Veterans' Affairs Committee. The Committee on Natural Reso...

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June 9, 2020 14 mins

Peyton Raybon is a graduating senior at Wando High School and an active member at Seacoast Church. She is a photographer with the Wando Tribal Tribune newspaper and a former captain on the Wando cheer team. 

Petyon sits down and tells us how she is active and protesting for change. She thinks some of the best places to start are both physical and emotional training for police officers, along with conversations in your home...

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June 8, 2020 30 mins

My name is KJ Kearney and I’m a native and current resident of North Charleston, SC.

HISTORICALLY BLACK - I graduated from one of the greatest HBCUs to ever exist, South Carolina State University (@scstate1896) where I played football and was a member of the University’s very first Honors Program class.

I HAVE MY OWN DAY (KINDA) - In 2018 I wrote a proclamation for RED RICE DAY which was approved by the City of ...

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Chris Ranere and wife Nicole moved to Mt. Pleasant from the Midwest, where they both worked for a large software company. As 9-to-5ers are wont to do, the couple decided they were worn out from the "work hard, play hard" mantra of their job. Ranere says the beer bug bit him when he ordered a home brewing kit. "I studied electrical engineering and I started writing my own recipes. I have this mindset where I like to t...

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Liz Martin is the founder of The Charleston Weekender & co-founder of Cannonborough Collective.  Everything got started in November 2015 as an online blog and shop designed to give you weekend feels all week long.  What's better than living every day like it's the weekend!?  Liz has done a little dabbling in A LOT of things along her crazy entrepreneurial journey- from speech therapy to interior decorating to opening ...

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We met up with Chris Winn, co-owner of Tradesman Brewing, to share what they've seen over the past few months during the shut down, how breweries in the Charleston area are coming together to help each other and how they plan to re-open safely in the temperamental world of COVID.

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May 20, 2020 24 mins

We sat down with Judd Baker, owner of  CryoEvolution. 

Cryotherapy has taken the concept of ice baths to another level, making recovery much faster and much more effective due to the lower temperatures.

Extreme cold temperatures help the body recover quicker. Body temperature, blood flow and inflammation are immediately reduced, accelerating recovery and reducing pain. The effects can last for days.


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Christian Senger sat down with us during the COVID pandemic to offer some inside and updates about what has been happening in Charleston County. 

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After being diagnosed with bone marrow cancer, STS Wear co-founder, Mike Nicholson recently went through intense chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant.  Coming out the hospital he was placed on immunosuppressant medications.  This places him in the “high risk” population.  During his recovery he noticed that he kept putting his hands on his face.  In an effort to modify this behavior, he put a ru...

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February 20, 2020 58 mins

Matt believes that anyone can build a better business and live a better life at the same time. It does not matter where you are now or what you are currently doing, you have the opportunity to put yourself on the path towards success. He's learned a lot in his professional career which ranges from Wall Street to Main Street, but the most important thing he's learned is that we should never wait to set ourselves in the rig...

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Today we have a special guest for you. You may know him as a reality TV star on the local Southern Charm or maybe you are one of his 800K followers on Instagram. We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Shep Rose and talk about everything from his favorite Howard Stern personalities to Brooks Koepka to the shame of begging celebrities to come on your podcast. We hope you enjoy meeting Shep as much as we did! 

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January 20, 2020 42 mins

Nicole here with Meeting Charleston. With more than a decade of experience in the Lowcountry, Emmy award-winning meteorologist Josh Marthers, the man helps you plan for the day ahead each morning on News 2 Today, joined us for an interview. For obvious reasons following the hurricane scare in the fall of 2019 we were very excited about having Josh on the show. He’s funny and smart and charismatic and we have so many similar interes...

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JJ Rahnamoon is native to Charleston, raised in the heart of downtown. He began working in his family’s restaurant at an early age, which helped build the dedicated work ethic he has today. Although the family restaurant is still flourishing after 40 years, JJ decided he wanted to pursue a career of his own as a Real Estate agent in Charleston, SC. His deep rooted knowledge of the city & desire to help others has made the trans...

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We couldn’t be more excited to meet the man behind Holy City Sinner, long time Charleston resident, Christian Senger. He is running the most popular local blog in Charleston. For the last six years, the residents of the city have voted the website and its Twitter feed as the best in Charleston.

From local news, helpful resources, and interviews to event listings, celebrity sightings, and party previews, THE HOLY CITY SINNER blog ser...

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Dr. Rebecca Zechmann, owner of Riverlanding Dentistry, is incredibly passionate about her career, her patients and the employees, her second family, at Riverlanding. She has created a place for people to thrive and loves supporting her employees and working together with them to accomplish shared goals.  

She met her husband, Mike, while at Johns Hopkins University, playing tennis. They have three beautiful children: Kate, Madeline,...

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October 21, 2019 52 mins

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Totality Medispa has positioned itself at the forefront of non-surgical aesthetic medicine. We have state-of-the-art equipment to provide you with the most comprehensive services that are available in today's market.

While other physicians in aesthetic medicine focus on their performance in the operating room, Dr Nicole Nadel has honed her skills on all non-surgical approaches to beautifica...

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