🎙️ Summer in New Hope, PA
Today we’re heading to the vibrant and picturesque town of New Hope, Pennsylvania—a destination known for its charm, culture, and a summer lineup that lights up the night sky and brings the community together. Joining us are Michael Sklar, President of the Greater New Hope Chamber of Commerce, and Mary Brashier, Vice President. Together, they lead both the Greater New Hope Chamber and Visit New Hope—the all-volunteer team behind the beloved New Hope Summer Series. From monthly block parties and fireworks to a dazzling new drone light show running through September, this dynamic duo is making New Hope a must-visit summer destination. 🌐 Website: visitnewhope.com
📸 Instagram: @visitnewhope
📘 Facebook: facebook.com/visitnewhope
🎙️ Mütter Museum: Trusted Messengers Exhibition
We’re joined by Erin McLeary (she/her), Senior Director of Collections and Research at the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Erin discusses the museum’s powerful new exhibition, Trusted Messengers: Community, Confidence, and COVID-19, opening March 15, 2025. Marking five years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibition explores how trust in public health is built and sustained. It features groundbreaking materials from Penn’s Weissman Lab, stories from local healthcare workers, and community-driven health initiatives. Erin shares insights on the exhibit’s creation, its impact, and upcoming public programs that invite visitors to reflect and engage.
🗓️ Exhibition runs through February 2, 2026
🌐 Learn more: muttermuseum.org
🎙️ MadCo Creates: Youth Creativity in Action
We’re shining a spotlight on a special moment here at iHeartMedia, where we had the pleasure of hosting Khalea Robinson for her senior project. Her time with us culminated in a heartfelt and inspiring interview with her close friend and entrepreneur Maddy Cohen—the creative force behind MadCo Creates, a brand offering custom clothing design and more. This uplifting conversation celebrates youth empowerment, artistic expression, and the power of friendship.
🔗 Website: madcocreatesss.weebly.com
📸 Instagram: @madcocreates
Today we’re heading to the vibrant and picturesque town of New Hope, Pennsylvania—a destination known for its charm, culture, and a summer lineup that lights up the night sky and brings the community together. Joining us are Michael Sklar, President of the Greater New Hope Chamber of Commerce, and Mary Brashier, Vice President. Together, they lead both the Greater New Hope Chamber and Visit New Hope—the all-volunteer team behind the beloved New Hope Summer Series. From monthly block parties and fireworks to a dazzling new drone light show running through September, this dynamic duo is making New Hope a must-visit summer destination. 🌐 Website: visitnewhope.com
📸 Instagram: @visitnewhope
📘 Facebook: facebook.com/visitnewhope
🎙️ Mütter Museum: Trusted Messengers Exhibition
We’re joined by Erin McLeary (she/her), Senior Director of Collections and Research at the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Erin discusses the museum’s powerful new exhibition, Trusted Messengers: Community, Confidence, and COVID-19, opening March 15, 2025. Marking five years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibition explores how trust in public health is built and sustained. It features groundbreaking materials from Penn’s Weissman Lab, stories from local healthcare workers, and community-driven health initiatives. Erin shares insights on the exhibit’s creation, its impact, and upcoming public programs that invite visitors to reflect and engage.
🗓️ Exhibition runs through February 2, 2026
🌐 Learn more: muttermuseum.org
🎙️ MadCo Creates: Youth Creativity in Action
We’re shining a spotlight on a special moment here at iHeartMedia, where we had the pleasure of hosting Khalea Robinson for her senior project. Her time with us culminated in a heartfelt and inspiring interview with her close friend and entrepreneur Maddy Cohen—the creative force behind MadCo Creates, a brand offering custom clothing design and more. This uplifting conversation celebrates youth empowerment, artistic expression, and the power of friendship.
🔗 Website: madcocreatesss.weebly.com
📸 Instagram: @madcocreates
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, and welcome to What's going on, a show
about making a difference in our lives and our communities.
I'm Lorraine Ballard Morrel. As we all take a closer
look at what's affordable and close to home, one destination
stands out New Hope, Pennsylvania. This charming town is hosting
a spectacular line up of summer festivities, from monthly block
parties to fireworks and an all new drone show lighting
(00:23):
up the skies through September. We'll speak with Michael Sklarer
and Mary Brazier from the Greater New Hope Chamber of
Commerce about Watson's Store.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hi, I'm Clear Robinson, and in time here at iHeartMedia.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
We'll also highlight a special moment here at iHeartMedia where
we had the pleasure of hosting Khalia Robinson for her
senior project. Her experience culminated in a meaningful interview with
a close friend and entrepreneur. And finally, March mark the
fifth anniversary of the COVID nineteen pandemic, a sobering milestone
and a moment to reflect on the event that reshaped
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our world. Marking the five year anniversary of COVID nineteen
is a moment of reflection on lives lost, the resilience shown,
and the ways our world has changed. It's a time
to honor the collective grief and growth, to acknowledge the
lessons learn, and to continue striving for a future where health, community,
and compassion remain at the forefront. Johnny us today is
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Aaron McCleary. She's Senior director of Collections and Research at
the Museum of the College of the Physicians of Philadelphia.
She's here to talk about the museum's latest special exhibition,
Trusted Messengers, Community Confidence and COVID nineteen, which marks the
five years since the onset of the COVID nineteen pandemic
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and explores how trust in public health is built and sustain.
So erin, thank you so much for joining us here
today and tell us what inspired the mTOR Museum to
host this exhibition focused on public health trust and the
role of trusted messengers.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, thank you so much for giving me this opportunity
to chat about our exhibition. For many, myself included, I
think it's hard to recognize that it's been five years
since the city shut down. We were sent home, our
kids went home from school, our lives were upended. But
that was such a turning point for so many of
us in the ways that we were living our lives
(02:16):
and the turning point for how many of us were
relating to our communities. We were calling on our communities,
our neighbors, the people in our lives who we trusted
in a ways in which we never had before, or
few of us had before, and really needed those bonds
of community to sustain us. So as we thought about
what our institution could contribute to a five year reflection
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on that moment to help us recognize the ways in
which our society changed during the pandemic, we really wanted
to explore the concept of trust and community. So trusted
messengers is a concept from public health that in order
to trust a message, you first have to trust the messenger,
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and many of us share different trusted messengers. Many of
us do not have the same trusted messengers, and in
public health, doctors, healthcare systems, nurses, community activists, public health officials,
that hall had to really think about how to get
it a message that they believe the public needs into
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a medium and a message that the public trusts.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, well, you know, certainly there was so much misinformation
and distrust around the time of the COVID pandemic, so
having trusted messengers was absolutely critical. And the exhibition features
local initiatives like the Black Doctors COVID nineteen Consortium, from
whom I got my first COVID shot, by the way,
Puentes de Salude, and vax Up Philly Families. How have
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these organizations shaped public health messaging in Philadelphia?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Sure, I would also be remiss if I did not
mention that the original concept of this exhibition comes from
the Centers for Disease Control Museums based in Atlanta, and
we're featuring at least one of the works that they
featured in their exhibition. I will also note that my
then teen daughter also got her first shot from the
Black Doctors COVID nineteen Consortium, and that remains a really
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special memory for me, and my gratitude at that resource
being within walking distance of my house in West Philadelphia
was and remains intense. So the groups that you mentioned
each developed their own specific strategy for reaching an audience
where they knew that they would be trusted. So doctor
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Alie Stanford of Black Doctors COVID Coalition Consortium could see
on the ground that Philadelphia's Black communities were being underserved
first by testing because remember went through a period where
we were a pre vaccine where in order to protect
each other we needed to rely upon knowing our status
of whether we were actually ill with COVID or not.
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And then with mobile vaccine vaccine units, she brought her
work and her units to black churches across the city
and other neighborhood based sites where underserved by the traditional
healthcare system population is living. Quint to Stay Salute is
an example of a great health organization in Philadelphia that
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specifically works with Spanish speakers, so again developing materials in
the language that people are most comfortable receiving their information
in relying upon the bonds that had been built by
their clinic with a Spanish speaking population in Philadelphia to
again say we can keep you safe. We will help
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you stay safe in this critical moment by communicating with
you in the ways that we know are the most
comfortable for you. In Facts of Philly Families, which took
a number of different tactics to really center the role
of family and peers as trusted messengers. So the research
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on trusted messengers shows that family and friends are universally
trusted messengers of complex information. Those are the people we
turn to first to sort of to gather information, to
process what we've learned, and then to make decisions. And
so vacx Uphilly families took advantage of what we know
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that families and friends are always the people we go
to first to train parents and guardians, to talk to
other parents and guardians about the importance of vaccination, to
get out into the community and locate the folks who
could speak more, who could speak to the concerns of
that people had around testing and vaccination in a shared
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voice and from a shared point of experience.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You know, one of the maybe positive impacts of COVID
is that it's really shined a light on mental health,
and mental health is certainly was a very critical issue
when it came to frontline healthcare workers. These were our
heroes and they were experiencing the kind of stresses and
pressures that no one should have to experience. I wonder
(07:13):
if you can talk about some of the stories and
photographs by Kyle Cassidy that highlighted the impact of COVID
on those frontline workers.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Yes, we're really pleased to be featuring some of the
work of Philadelphia photographer Kyle Cassidy, who began in the
Pandemic a portrait series of frontline workers, including a wide
variety of frontline workers. We're featuring his work on the
experience of nurses frontline nurses during the COVID nineteen pandemic,
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particularly those critical early months and years in which they
were literally putting their lives on their line for us,
to keep us safe, for those of us who might
have needed medical care or hospitalization. These nurses were the
ones who were truly on the front lines of that experience,
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and as Kyle's work shows because he also interviewed many
of his nurses, this was a very challenging experience for
many of them. I don't think any of us have
got well. A pandemic is not something that you go through,
hopefully more than once. So people were beaeding to be
resilient for themselves, for their families, and for their patients
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in really untested circumstances. One of the really unique features
of Kyle's work is that he has reinterviewed his subjects,
so we have not only documentation through the portraits and
through the interviews he conducted of how they were coping
in the moment, but the ongoing impact of having to
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be that type of frontline worker during the pandemic. I
think it's really unique work, and I'm really pleased that
we're able to showcase it.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, very anxious to see that aspect, because I truly
appreciate the extraordinary challenges that all of those frontline workers
had to experience, and certainly the impact of that experience
I'm sure still reverberates for so many of those frontline workers.
This is a very important exhibition and it's an opportunity
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for us to reflect on the impact of the COVID
nineteen pandemic, not only on frontline workers, but on society
as a whole, and on science and on information as
a whole. Just an absolutely critical issue to be addressing
at the Mudham Museum. And there's an exhibit, of course,
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as we talked about, and certainly programs that are coming
up that we can take advantage of. Erin, can you
tell us how we can find out more about the
exhibition and all of the updated events that might be
coming in the future.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Well, as always, our website is the best resource to
find our opening hours and further information. We also feature
on our website, a really fantastic resource historyo vaccines dot
org if you want to go straight to it, which
goes into depth on both the history of vaccines as
(10:14):
the title suggests, and the science behind vaccines. So I
encourage anyone who's interested in checking that out. I would
also encourage listeners to follow us on social media for
probably the most up to date information on particularly the
programs that we will be launching, where we're really excited
to create those moments for reflection, contemplation and ongoing community building.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Fantastic Aeron McClary, Senior Director of Collections and Research at
the Motive Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia,
telling us about the latest special exhibition, Trusted Messengers, Community
Confidence and COVID nineteen, which will be around until February
of next year, so definitely check it out. It's an
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opportunity for us to think and reflect about the impact
of this extraordinary point in our lives and in our nation,
in the world, which was the COVID nineteen pandemic. Thank
you so much Aaron for joining us today.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Thank you so much for the opportunity.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
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Speaker 5 (11:31):
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the diaper bag wasn't closed. Diapers and toys are everywhere. Ooh,
but mom has just nailed the perfect car seat buckle.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
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Speaker 5 (11:50):
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You're listening to what's going on, We're going to travel
to the picturesque town of New Hope, Pennsylvania, home to
an incredible lineup of summer activities that will light up
the night sky and bring thousands of people together. Joining
us our Michael Sklar, president of the Greater New Hope
Chamber of Commerce, and we also have Mary Brazier, who
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is New Hope's Chamber of Commerce Vice President. Together they
lead both the chamber and visit New Hope, an all
volunteer powerhouse behind the beloved New Hope Summer Series, including
monthly of block parties, fireworks, and a dazzling new drone
show that runs from May until September. So I want
to thank you both for joining us here today, and
(13:43):
let's start with you, Michael. This year's summer series sounds
bigger and brighter than ever. Can you walk us through
the expansion of the fireworks and drone shows and how
you kicked off the season.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Absolutely so. This season and this year what we did
is we incorporate the drone show into every show that
we're doing, so all five firework shows will include the
drone show. And then we're always trying to expand our
street festival as well and trying to always make it
bigger and better. So, for example, the last time that
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we had our drone show, we actually handed out a
bunch of these glow in the dark like batons and
stuff like that to really encourage people to get into it.
We also brought out speakers to get the music that
was synchronized with the drone show a little bit louder
and more immersive experience rather than keep it just on
the cell phone.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Okay, Mary. The monthly block parties are a big draw.
What can visitors expect when they come out to Stockton Avenue.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Every time we do this, we try to make it
a little bit bigger. We have about two dozen vendors
and local artists coming out for the June sixth event,
and we're really really excited. And that could be anything
from our ConA ice truck, to woodworkers, to painters, to
people who make clothing and just all kinds of different
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vendors that we're really excited to bring their local talent
to our festivities.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Well, there's so much that happens up in New Hope
and having this summer series is really fun. And I wonder, Michael,
if you can tell us a little more about the
technology behind the Drone Show and the Pyrocast app. How
does it enhance the experience for visitors.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
So, the technology behind the Drone Show, it's always getting
updated and improved so that way we can create better
images in the sky as well as faster image display
times with transitions, so that's always great with that type
of technology. And then having it synchronized with a pyrocast
app allows us to not only include a really cool
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welcome message to get everybody into the spirit, but be
able to synchronize it with all the cool music that
is happening in today's and literally all the top songs
that we could incorporate with the show, with the different
synchronize it with the pyrotechnics. It just really creates a cool,
immersive experience that just adds to everything. And it's a
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lot better to do it with the app and synchronize
it with it rather than sort of just the booms
are nice, but it's nicer to hear the booms with
the music.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, now that's pretty cool, and I've seen drone shows.
The technology behind making those drones synchronize into images is
truly mind boggling. Mary, for this upcoming visit, what are
some of the upcoming dates and do you have any
personal favorite spots to watch the show or grab a
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bite and a drink with a great view.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
One thing about New Hope, especially on the river, there's
so many places that are good viewing spots, and since
we added the drone show, we're hearing from more and
more residents that even not just near the river, further
in other neighborhoods that they can still see the drone show.
So once people are clued into syncing that drone show
with their the app, then they'll be able to enjoy
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it from even further than just the river Walk. But
for now, the Bucks County Playhouse, they've been working with
them to make sure we don't interfere with their shows
and that their viewers can also come outside and see
what's going on after they see their production. A few restaurants, Mike,
I hope. I'm wanted to say this, but I don't
know if anyone's a officially sponsoring right now. But in
New Hope, Stella the Deck, Martins the Roof or Odettes
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in Lambertville, lambra Vil Station is known for being a
great spot for viewing these shows. It's really if you
can just get outside anywhere near the bridge now that
the bridge is completely redone, that'll be a spot where
people hang out and watch what's going on. So there
are tons of time, tons of places to enjoy what's
going on.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
That's fantastic. And certainly New Hope is the home for
many really unique small businesses, and I imagine that an
event like this really helps that local economy by bringing
a lot of people to New Hope so that they
can check things out. And I wonder Michael and Mary,
do you have any final words to encourage folks to
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check out what seems like it's going to be a
very fun time in New Hope.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Absolutely, we are definitely excited for all of this happening.
We encourage everybody to stop by all of our cool
small businesses, whether it's the small shops, boutiques, the restaurants,
the ice cream stores. It's just overall it's an incredible
unique experience and New Hope just brings so much cool
arts and crafts and spirit it and excitement to everybody
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when you go there. It really is like a fairy
tale town.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, that's so cool. Marry anything else you want to add.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
I'm going to say it's really interesting to see the
relationship with some of our small shop owners have developed
with the artists and vendors that do come to this series,
and I love to see those collaborations go beyond our
street festival.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, so come for the show, but stay for the
shopping because it is awesome and the restaurants too. Over
a New Hope it's really a fantastic place to check
out during this summertime. Michael Skar, President of the Greater
New Hope Chamber of Commerce, Mary Brazier, vice President. Together
they lead both the Chamber and visit New Hope and
all volunteer powerhouse behind the beloved New Hope summer series
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Block Parties Fireworks, a dazzling new drone show that runs
from now until September. Thank you both for joining us
today and see you in New Hope.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Thank you so much for having us.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I'm Khleia Robinson and in time here at iHeartMedia today
I will be interviewing one of my close friends, Mattie Cohen,
about her small business, Mad cook Creates. Mattco Creates as
a small business that Maddie recently started. Through her website
and Instagram profile, she makes hundreds of sales of all
customized college merchandise. On top of this, Mattie has plenty
of experience making social media posts and working in graphic design. So, Hi, Maddie, Hello,
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thanks for having me, of course, do you want to
just introduce yourself.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Yeah, Hi, I'm Maddie Cohen. I am also a senior
like Kalia. We go to the same school and we
are super close friends.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah. So Maddie, tell us about your business, Mad coak
Creates and what led you to start it.
Speaker 9 (20:39):
Yeah, So it's kind of actually a funny story why
I started it. I basically had always seen all these
other people selling custom college merchandise and stuff like that,
and I actually had the flu and was in bed
for a week, and I was so bored.
Speaker 10 (20:57):
I was just looking for things to do.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
And one of my mom's friends had asked me to
make a little collage of her daughter who's also graduating,
with kind of her college logo, and just like a
cute little design with that, and it kind of just
went from there. So I started selling these digital prints
on Etsy. But after that I kind of realized that's
not really what I wanted to do, and I really
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liked putting items on different clothing. So I did a
lot of research on different platforms and I found how
to make a print on demand store.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
So I basically have a print on demand.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
Pop up shop which I can make different designs and
put them on the clothes and they print them directly
and send them to the customer.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
So where do you see your business going in the
future and can you talk about your future plans past
high school?
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Yeah, so next year I'll be going to the University
of Michigan, and right now I am kind of having
a major in child psychology, but lately I've really been
into the kind of business mar marketing and media side
of things. So I definitely I'm going to look into
doing a double major or even just taking some classes
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in that.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
But it's interesting.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
Because I think when people started committing to colleges is
really when my business took action. That was really when
people were starting to buy things. It's still up and
running right now as people are graduating, there's graduation gifts
and everything.
Speaker 10 (22:24):
But I really hope to continue on with this.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
I have some other plans of also branching out from
just doing different college designs and maybe doing just any
kind of personal requests. I've started to kind of do
maybe like kind of summer themes or stuff like that.
Maybe when it gets close to the holiday seasons, maybe
things like that. So I definitely do want to continue
with this just because it is something I genuinely enjoy doing.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
How do you make your products and what program do
you use for your designs?
Speaker 9 (22:53):
So I have the most experience using Canva just in
the past, because I've done a lot of social media
stuff for athletics from my high school on Canva and
just kind of I just enjoyed using it. So, like
I said, when I had the flu, I was kind
of playing around with it. I've learned a lot of
new things that I can do with it through watching
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different videos. And basically I make my designs on Canva
and then I'm able to save them kind of as
a PDF and then directly transfer them onto the clothing item.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
So what advice would you have for anyone, especially other
teens that may want to start up a business like this,
What was the process like for you?
Speaker 9 (23:31):
Yeah, I would say definitely put in research to it,
because I think I kind of did the I did
the research before we guess, but I think it was
also kind of I learned as I went on, Like,
for example, I learned that which it seems kind of obvious,
but I saw other people doing it. So I'm very
careful with what I put on the clothing for like
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copyright reasons obviously, so there's certain.
Speaker 10 (23:55):
Things I'm not allowed to use.
Speaker 9 (23:56):
And there's also just a lot of research that goes
into picking what kind of print on demand company you
might want to use. There's definitely a lot of different ones.
There's like Shopify that you can hook up. I use Printify,
but basically I use a pop up shop, which means
I kind of have to design my own complete website,
which I've done that. So I think definitely just researching
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before you launch something, and then also researching like different
ways to get your business out there. For me, Instagram
and other forms of social media like TikTok have been
the biggest way I've been able to establish a following
on Instagram, which is where I get most of my
customers from and I think also just like being kind,
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I think that that's like always a good thing. I
think just some of the feedback I've received some from
people who have ordered for me have been very positive
and everyone's just been like, it's I really appreciate how
open you are to suggestions and customization. So I think
that just being kind of kind about everything and open
and honest, I think that that gets you a really long.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Way, Yeah, for sure. And how do you use social
media as your advantage?
Speaker 9 (25:09):
Yeah that if I didn't have my social media accounts,
I don't think I would have gotten any sales, to
be honest, because the print if I pop up thing
that I use, it's not really a direct website when
you look it up. It's kind of I link it
on my social media pages. And it's been a really
really useful tool because what I've been able to do
(25:30):
is kind of go to different college accounts where people
meet each other, and kind of find different people from
those accounts to help me build my brand.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
I've met a few girls who I.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
Sent some of my products to them and then they
advertise it on social media, and that's been super super
helpful to just build my brand and build the followers
that I have, because it's really just I've had so
many girls who are in different friend groups and it
kind of when one orders, then they'll tell their friends,
and that really is the social media effect. It's really
(26:04):
just connecting from getting people from all over the world
really ordering, and it's just been really really helpful. And
on TikTok it's been a really helpful tool because I've
kind of established like what kind of hashtags and what
words I need to use to get on specific algorithms
to be on people's for you page who are, for example,
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going to college next year.
Speaker 10 (26:26):
So that's been very very helpful.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
And do you make only college gear or what can
buyers expect from your business in the future.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
Yeah, I think I While right now i'm specifically college,
I do want to expand on that as well, maybe
doing different holiday season things, so like maybe Halloween or
Christmas or Hanukkah or or even just customize name things.
So something I'm working on right now is different phone
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cases and maybe like initial phone cases.
Speaker 10 (26:57):
I think those are pretty popular. There's also a lot
of new.
Speaker 9 (27:00):
And up and coming items that are going to be
available soon, so I'm gonna be able to expand on
that behalf as well. But yeah, I also am kind
of open to any suggestions. I've had some people DM
me and be like, hey, can you make this and
it's like, yeap, of course, I'll have that to you
by the end of the day.
Speaker 10 (27:16):
And it's it's a pretty smooth sailing system.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yeah, that's amazing. Well, so lastly, where can we find you?
How do people interested purchase from you or make commissions?
And what are your socials?
Speaker 9 (27:29):
Okay, yeah, so the best way to find me is
my Instagram. It's at mad co Creates. It's mad co Creates.
That kind of came from because my name is Maddy
Cohen' so it's like mad co and that was like
a nickname I got in softball. But then it's also like, oh,
like cumpan, I don't know, it's like that was the
whole thing.
Speaker 10 (27:49):
And it's the same on TikTok as well.
Speaker 9 (27:51):
And also getting in contact with me is just DM
or swiping up on one of my stories and that's
honestly the easiest way to go.
Speaker 10 (27:59):
And you can find my website as well on my Instagram.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Amazing. Well, thank you so much, Maddie. I hope everyone
listening will check out matcro Creates and feel inspired to
start their own business.
Speaker 10 (28:09):
Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
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You've been listening to what's going on, and thank you
Good morning, and welcome to What's going on, a show
about making a difference in our lives and our communities.
I'm Lorraine Ballard Morrel. As we all take a closer
look at what's affordable and close to home, one destination
stands out New Hope, Pennsylvania. This charming town is hosting
a spectacular line up of summer festivities, from monthly block
parties to fireworks and an all new drone show lighting
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up the skies through September. We'll speak with Michael Sklarer
and Mary Brazier from the Greater New Hope Chamber of
Commerce about Watson's Store.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hi, I'm Clear Robinson, and in time here at iHeartMedia.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
We'll also highlight a special moment here at iHeartMedia where
we had the pleasure of hosting Khalia Robinson for her
senior project. Her experience culminated in a meaningful interview with
a close friend and entrepreneur. And finally, March mark the
fifth anniversary of the COVID nineteen pandemic, a sobering milestone
and a moment to reflect on the event that reshaped
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our world. Marking the five year anniversary of COVID nineteen
is a moment of reflection on lives lost, the resilience shown,
and the ways our world has changed. It's a time
to honor the collective grief and growth, to acknowledge the
lessons learn, and to continue striving for a future where health, community,
and compassion remain at the forefront. Johnny us today is
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Aaron McCleary. She's Senior director of Collections and Research at
the Museum of the College of the Physicians of Philadelphia.
She's here to talk about the museum's latest special exhibition,
Trusted Messengers, Community Confidence and COVID nineteen, which marks the
five years since the onset of the COVID nineteen pandemic
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and explores how trust in public health is built and sustain.
So erin, thank you so much for joining us here
today and tell us what inspired the mTOR Museum to
host this exhibition focused on public health trust and the
role of trusted messengers.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, thank you so much for giving me this opportunity
to chat about our exhibition. For many, myself included, I
think it's hard to recognize that it's been five years
since the city shut down. We were sent home, our
kids went home from school, our lives were upended. But
that was such a turning point for so many of
us in the ways that we were living our lives
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and the turning point for how many of us were
relating to our communities. We were calling on our communities,
our neighbors, the people in our lives who we trusted
in a ways in which we never had before, or
few of us had before, and really needed those bonds
of community to sustain us. So as we thought about
what our institution could contribute to a five year reflection
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on that moment to help us recognize the ways in
which our society changed during the pandemic, we really wanted
to explore the concept of trust and community. So trusted
messengers is a concept from public health that in order
to trust a message, you first have to trust the messenger,
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and many of us share different trusted messengers. Many of
us do not have the same trusted messengers, and in
public health, doctors, healthcare systems, nurses, community activists, public health officials,
that hall had to really think about how to get
it a message that they believe the public needs into
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a medium and a message that the public trusts.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, well, you know, certainly there was so much misinformation
and distrust around the time of the COVID pandemic, so
having trusted messengers was absolutely critical. And the exhibition features
local initiatives like the Black Doctors COVID nineteen Consortium, from
whom I got my first COVID shot, by the way,
Puentes de Salude, and vax Up Philly Families. How have
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these organizations shaped public health messaging in Philadelphia?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Sure, I would also be remiss if I did not
mention that the original concept of this exhibition comes from
the Centers for Disease Control Museums based in Atlanta, and
we're featuring at least one of the works that they
featured in their exhibition. I will also note that my
then teen daughter also got her first shot from the
Black Doctors COVID nineteen Consortium, and that remains a really
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special memory for me, and my gratitude at that resource
being within walking distance of my house in West Philadelphia
was and remains intense. So the groups that you mentioned
each developed their own specific strategy for reaching an audience
where they knew that they would be trusted. So doctor
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Alie Stanford of Black Doctors COVID Coalition Consortium could see
on the ground that Philadelphia's Black communities were being underserved
first by testing because remember went through a period where
we were a pre vaccine where in order to protect
each other we needed to rely upon knowing our status
of whether we were actually ill with COVID or not.
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And then with mobile vaccine vaccine units, she brought her
work and her units to black churches across the city
and other neighborhood based sites where underserved by the traditional
healthcare system population is living. Quint to Stay Salute is
an example of a great health organization in Philadelphia that
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specifically works with Spanish speakers, so again developing materials in
the language that people are most comfortable receiving their information
in relying upon the bonds that had been built by
their clinic with a Spanish speaking population in Philadelphia to
again say we can keep you safe. We will help
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you stay safe in this critical moment by communicating with
you in the ways that we know are the most
comfortable for you. In Facts of Philly Families, which took
a number of different tactics to really center the role
of family and peers as trusted messengers. So the research
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on trusted messengers shows that family and friends are universally
trusted messengers of complex information. Those are the people we
turn to first to sort of to gather information, to
process what we've learned, and then to make decisions. And
so vacx Uphilly families took advantage of what we know
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that families and friends are always the people we go
to first to train parents and guardians, to talk to
other parents and guardians about the importance of vaccination, to
get out into the community and locate the folks who
could speak more, who could speak to the concerns of
that people had around testing and vaccination in a shared
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voice and from a shared point of experience.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You know, one of the maybe positive impacts of COVID
is that it's really shined a light on mental health,
and mental health is certainly was a very critical issue
when it came to frontline healthcare workers. These were our
heroes and they were experiencing the kind of stresses and
pressures that no one should have to experience. I wonder
(07:13):
if you can talk about some of the stories and
photographs by Kyle Cassidy that highlighted the impact of COVID
on those frontline workers.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Yes, we're really pleased to be featuring some of the
work of Philadelphia photographer Kyle Cassidy, who began in the
Pandemic a portrait series of frontline workers, including a wide
variety of frontline workers. We're featuring his work on the
experience of nurses frontline nurses during the COVID nineteen pandemic,
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particularly those critical early months and years in which they
were literally putting their lives on their line for us,
to keep us safe, for those of us who might
have needed medical care or hospitalization. These nurses were the
ones who were truly on the front lines of that experience,
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and as Kyle's work shows because he also interviewed many
of his nurses, this was a very challenging experience for
many of them. I don't think any of us have
got well. A pandemic is not something that you go through,
hopefully more than once. So people were beaeding to be
resilient for themselves, for their families, and for their patients
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in really untested circumstances. One of the really unique features
of Kyle's work is that he has reinterviewed his subjects,
so we have not only documentation through the portraits and
through the interviews he conducted of how they were coping
in the moment, but the ongoing impact of having to
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be that type of frontline worker during the pandemic. I
think it's really unique work, and I'm really pleased that
we're able to showcase it.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, very anxious to see that aspect, because I truly
appreciate the extraordinary challenges that all of those frontline workers
had to experience, and certainly the impact of that experience
I'm sure still reverberates for so many of those frontline workers.
This is a very important exhibition and it's an opportunity
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for us to reflect on the impact of the COVID
nineteen pandemic, not only on frontline workers, but on society
as a whole, and on science and on information as
a whole. Just an absolutely critical issue to be addressing
at the Mudham Museum. And there's an exhibit, of course,
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as we talked about, and certainly programs that are coming
up that we can take advantage of. Erin, can you
tell us how we can find out more about the
exhibition and all of the updated events that might be
coming in the future.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Well, as always, our website is the best resource to
find our opening hours and further information. We also feature
on our website, a really fantastic resource historyo vaccines dot
org if you want to go straight to it, which
goes into depth on both the history of vaccines as
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the title suggests, and the science behind vaccines. So I
encourage anyone who's interested in checking that out. I would
also encourage listeners to follow us on social media for
probably the most up to date information on particularly the
programs that we will be launching, where we're really excited
to create those moments for reflection, contemplation and ongoing community building.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Fantastic Aeron McClary, Senior Director of Collections and Research at
the Motive Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia,
telling us about the latest special exhibition, Trusted Messengers, Community
Confidence and COVID nineteen, which will be around until February
of next year, so definitely check it out. It's an
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opportunity for us to think and reflect about the impact
of this extraordinary point in our lives and in our nation,
in the world, which was the COVID nineteen pandemic. Thank
you so much Aaron for joining us today.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Thank you so much for the opportunity.
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You're listening to what's going on, We're going to travel
to the picturesque town of New Hope, Pennsylvania, home to
an incredible lineup of summer activities that will light up
the night sky and bring thousands of people together. Joining
us our Michael Sklar, president of the Greater New Hope
Chamber of Commerce, and we also have Mary Brazier, who
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is New Hope's Chamber of Commerce Vice President. Together they
lead both the chamber and visit New Hope, an all
volunteer powerhouse behind the beloved New Hope Summer Series, including
monthly of block parties, fireworks, and a dazzling new drone
show that runs from May until September. So I want
to thank you both for joining us here today, and
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let's start with you, Michael. This year's summer series sounds
bigger and brighter than ever. Can you walk us through
the expansion of the fireworks and drone shows and how
you kicked off the season.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Absolutely so. This season and this year what we did
is we incorporate the drone show into every show that
we're doing, so all five firework shows will include the
drone show. And then we're always trying to expand our
street festival as well and trying to always make it
bigger and better. So, for example, the last time that
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we had our drone show, we actually handed out a
bunch of these glow in the dark like batons and
stuff like that to really encourage people to get into it.
We also brought out speakers to get the music that
was synchronized with the drone show a little bit louder
and more immersive experience rather than keep it just on
the cell phone.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Okay, Mary. The monthly block parties are a big draw.
What can visitors expect when they come out to Stockton Avenue.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Every time we do this, we try to make it
a little bit bigger. We have about two dozen vendors
and local artists coming out for the June sixth event,
and we're really really excited. And that could be anything
from our ConA ice truck, to woodworkers, to painters, to
people who make clothing and just all kinds of different
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vendors that we're really excited to bring their local talent
to our festivities.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Well, there's so much that happens up in New Hope
and having this summer series is really fun. And I wonder, Michael,
if you can tell us a little more about the
technology behind the Drone Show and the Pyrocast app. How
does it enhance the experience for visitors.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
So, the technology behind the Drone Show, it's always getting
updated and improved so that way we can create better
images in the sky as well as faster image display
times with transitions, so that's always great with that type
of technology. And then having it synchronized with a pyrocast
app allows us to not only include a really cool
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welcome message to get everybody into the spirit, but be
able to synchronize it with all the cool music that
is happening in today's and literally all the top songs
that we could incorporate with the show, with the different
synchronize it with the pyrotechnics. It just really creates a cool,
immersive experience that just adds to everything. And it's a
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lot better to do it with the app and synchronize
it with it rather than sort of just the booms
are nice, but it's nicer to hear the booms with
the music.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, now that's pretty cool, and I've seen drone shows.
The technology behind making those drones synchronize into images is
truly mind boggling. Mary, for this upcoming visit, what are
some of the upcoming dates and do you have any
personal favorite spots to watch the show or grab a
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bite and a drink with a great view.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
One thing about New Hope, especially on the river, there's
so many places that are good viewing spots, and since
we added the drone show, we're hearing from more and
more residents that even not just near the river, further
in other neighborhoods that they can still see the drone show.
So once people are clued into syncing that drone show
with their the app, then they'll be able to enjoy
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it from even further than just the river Walk. But
for now, the Bucks County Playhouse, they've been working with
them to make sure we don't interfere with their shows
and that their viewers can also come outside and see
what's going on after they see their production. A few restaurants, Mike,
I hope. I'm wanted to say this, but I don't
know if anyone's a officially sponsoring right now. But in
New Hope, Stella the Deck, Martins the Roof or Odettes
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in Lambertville, lambra Vil Station is known for being a
great spot for viewing these shows. It's really if you
can just get outside anywhere near the bridge now that
the bridge is completely redone, that'll be a spot where
people hang out and watch what's going on. So there
are tons of time, tons of places to enjoy what's
going on.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
That's fantastic. And certainly New Hope is the home for
many really unique small businesses, and I imagine that an
event like this really helps that local economy by bringing
a lot of people to New Hope so that they
can check things out. And I wonder Michael and Mary,
do you have any final words to encourage folks to
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check out what seems like it's going to be a
very fun time in New Hope.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Absolutely, we are definitely excited for all of this happening.
We encourage everybody to stop by all of our cool
small businesses, whether it's the small shops, boutiques, the restaurants,
the ice cream stores. It's just overall it's an incredible
unique experience and New Hope just brings so much cool
arts and crafts and spirit it and excitement to everybody
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when you go there. It really is like a fairy
tale town.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, that's so cool. Marry anything else you want to add.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
I'm going to say it's really interesting to see the
relationship with some of our small shop owners have developed
with the artists and vendors that do come to this series,
and I love to see those collaborations go beyond our
street festival.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, so come for the show, but stay for the
shopping because it is awesome and the restaurants too. Over
a New Hope it's really a fantastic place to check
out during this summertime. Michael Skar, President of the Greater
New Hope Chamber of Commerce, Mary Brazier, vice President. Together
they lead both the Chamber and visit New Hope and
all volunteer powerhouse behind the beloved New Hope summer series
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Block Parties Fireworks, a dazzling new drone show that runs
from now until September. Thank you both for joining us
today and see you in New Hope.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Thank you so much for having us.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I'm Khleia Robinson and in time here at iHeartMedia today
I will be interviewing one of my close friends, Mattie Cohen,
about her small business, Mad cook Creates. Mattco Creates as
a small business that Maddie recently started. Through her website
and Instagram profile, she makes hundreds of sales of all
customized college merchandise. On top of this, Mattie has plenty
of experience making social media posts and working in graphic design. So, Hi, Maddie, Hello,
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thanks for having me, of course, do you want to
just introduce yourself.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Yeah, Hi, I'm Maddie Cohen. I am also a senior
like Kalia. We go to the same school and we
are super close friends.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah. So Maddie, tell us about your business, Mad coak
Creates and what led you to start it.
Speaker 9 (20:39):
Yeah, So it's kind of actually a funny story why
I started it. I basically had always seen all these
other people selling custom college merchandise and stuff like that,
and I actually had the flu and was in bed
for a week, and I was so bored.
Speaker 10 (20:57):
I was just looking for things to do.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
And one of my mom's friends had asked me to
make a little collage of her daughter who's also graduating,
with kind of her college logo, and just like a
cute little design with that, and it kind of just
went from there. So I started selling these digital prints
on Etsy. But after that I kind of realized that's
not really what I wanted to do, and I really
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liked putting items on different clothing. So I did a
lot of research on different platforms and I found how
to make a print on demand store.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
So I basically have a print on demand.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
Pop up shop which I can make different designs and
put them on the clothes and they print them directly
and send them to the customer.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
So where do you see your business going in the
future and can you talk about your future plans past
high school?
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Yeah, so next year I'll be going to the University
of Michigan, and right now I am kind of having
a major in child psychology, but lately I've really been
into the kind of business mar marketing and media side
of things. So I definitely I'm going to look into
doing a double major or even just taking some classes
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in that.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
But it's interesting.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
Because I think when people started committing to colleges is
really when my business took action. That was really when
people were starting to buy things. It's still up and
running right now as people are graduating, there's graduation gifts
and everything.
Speaker 10 (22:24):
But I really hope to continue on with this.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
I have some other plans of also branching out from
just doing different college designs and maybe doing just any
kind of personal requests. I've started to kind of do
maybe like kind of summer themes or stuff like that.
Maybe when it gets close to the holiday seasons, maybe
things like that. So I definitely do want to continue
with this just because it is something I genuinely enjoy doing.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
How do you make your products and what program do
you use for your designs?
Speaker 9 (22:53):
So I have the most experience using Canva just in
the past, because I've done a lot of social media
stuff for athletics from my high school on Canva and
just kind of I just enjoyed using it. So, like
I said, when I had the flu, I was kind
of playing around with it. I've learned a lot of
new things that I can do with it through watching
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different videos. And basically I make my designs on Canva
and then I'm able to save them kind of as
a PDF and then directly transfer them onto the clothing item.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
So what advice would you have for anyone, especially other
teens that may want to start up a business like this,
What was the process like for you?
Speaker 9 (23:31):
Yeah, I would say definitely put in research to it,
because I think I kind of did the I did
the research before we guess, but I think it was
also kind of I learned as I went on, Like,
for example, I learned that which it seems kind of obvious,
but I saw other people doing it. So I'm very
careful with what I put on the clothing for like
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copyright reasons obviously, so there's certain.
Speaker 10 (23:55):
Things I'm not allowed to use.
Speaker 9 (23:56):
And there's also just a lot of research that goes
into picking what kind of print on demand company you
might want to use. There's definitely a lot of different ones.
There's like Shopify that you can hook up. I use Printify,
but basically I use a pop up shop, which means
I kind of have to design my own complete website,
which I've done that. So I think definitely just researching
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before you launch something, and then also researching like different
ways to get your business out there. For me, Instagram
and other forms of social media like TikTok have been
the biggest way I've been able to establish a following
on Instagram, which is where I get most of my
customers from and I think also just like being kind,
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I think that that's like always a good thing. I
think just some of the feedback I've received some from
people who have ordered for me have been very positive
and everyone's just been like, it's I really appreciate how
open you are to suggestions and customization. So I think
that just being kind of kind about everything and open
and honest, I think that that gets you a really long.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Way, Yeah, for sure. And how do you use social
media as your advantage?
Speaker 9 (25:09):
Yeah that if I didn't have my social media accounts,
I don't think I would have gotten any sales, to
be honest, because the print if I pop up thing
that I use, it's not really a direct website when
you look it up. It's kind of I link it
on my social media pages. And it's been a really
really useful tool because what I've been able to do
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is kind of go to different college accounts where people
meet each other, and kind of find different people from
those accounts to help me build my brand.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
I've met a few girls who I.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
Sent some of my products to them and then they
advertise it on social media, and that's been super super
helpful to just build my brand and build the followers
that I have, because it's really just I've had so
many girls who are in different friend groups and it
kind of when one orders, then they'll tell their friends,
and that really is the social media effect. It's really
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just connecting from getting people from all over the world
really ordering, and it's just been really really helpful. And
on TikTok it's been a really helpful tool because I've
kind of established like what kind of hashtags and what
words I need to use to get on specific algorithms
to be on people's for you page who are, for example,
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going to college next year.
Speaker 10 (26:26):
So that's been very very helpful.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
And do you make only college gear or what can
buyers expect from your business in the future.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
Yeah, I think I While right now i'm specifically college,
I do want to expand on that as well, maybe
doing different holiday season things, so like maybe Halloween or
Christmas or Hanukkah or or even just customize name things.
So something I'm working on right now is different phone
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cases and maybe like initial phone cases.
Speaker 10 (26:57):
I think those are pretty popular. There's also a lot
of new.
Speaker 9 (27:00):
And up and coming items that are going to be
available soon, so I'm gonna be able to expand on
that behalf as well. But yeah, I also am kind
of open to any suggestions. I've had some people DM
me and be like, hey, can you make this and
it's like, yeap, of course, I'll have that to you
by the end of the day.
Speaker 10 (27:16):
And it's it's a pretty smooth sailing system.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yeah, that's amazing. Well, so lastly, where can we find you?
How do people interested purchase from you or make commissions?
And what are your socials?
Speaker 9 (27:29):
Okay, yeah, so the best way to find me is
my Instagram. It's at mad co Creates. It's mad co Creates.
That kind of came from because my name is Maddy
Cohen' so it's like mad co and that was like
a nickname I got in softball. But then it's also like, oh,
like cumpan, I don't know, it's like that was the
whole thing.
Speaker 10 (27:49):
And it's the same on TikTok as well.
Speaker 9 (27:51):
And also getting in contact with me is just DM
or swiping up on one of my stories and that's
honestly the easiest way to go.
Speaker 10 (27:59):
And you can find my website as well on my Instagram.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Amazing. Well, thank you so much, Maddie. I hope everyone
listening will check out matcro Creates and feel inspired to
start their own business.
Speaker 10 (28:09):
Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
You can listen to all of today's interviews by going
to our station website and typing in keyword Community. You
can also listen on the iHeartRadio app Yywords Philadelphia Community Podcast.
Follow me on Twitter and Instagram at Lorraine Ballard. I'm
Lorraine Ballard MOREL and I stand for service to our
community and media that empowers. What will you stand for?
(28:32):
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