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From the outside, the world of beauty pageants and scholarship competitions can be fun to watch- but sometimes difficult to fully understand. What are the competitions really like? What does it take to win? And what exactly does a titleholder do for the year after she wins? Miss Tennessee USA 2024, Miss Black Tennessee USA 2024, Miss Tennessee 2023 and Miss Davidson County 2024 are here to share their personal experiences of competing- and what participating in these competitions means to them. Join us!Guests:

Christell Foote Miss Tennessee USA 


Jada Cooke Miss Black Tennessee USA 2024 


Brandee Mills  Miss Tennessee 2023


Mandi Kane  Miss Davidson County USA
Further Reading:Check out The Tennessean's coverage Mandi Kane competing in Miss Tennessee USA: At 40, this respected business exec will compete for Miss Tennessee USA. Here's why
This episode was produced by Katherine Ceicys.

Today we’re talking with two couples who have been together for several decades … and who are happy to say that they continue to love and like each other each day. We’ll also hear about a bonded couple who show their love through sharing treats, making biscuits, and grooming each other … guess what species they are!? A shorter version of this episode aired earlier this year. Tune in for the full conversations today!Guests:
Beth and Tommy Womack
Teresa Birdsong and Cameron Adkins
Learn More:Nashville CatioThis episode was produced by Katherine Ceicys and Magnolia McKay.

Her political career began in St. Paul, Minnesota. When she came back to her hometown of Nashville, she became the Mayor of Oak Hill, then State Senator. Last year she ran for Mayor of Nashville, she even ran for Congress in 2022. But did you know that path to holding public office was not the path she first envisioned for herself? We’ll talk with the Nashville native who found her way to politics after experiencing events that helped her view life from a different perspective. This episode was produced by Khalil Ekulona

Dial 615-760-2000 to share what’s on your mind or to ask either mayor a question. We never fully know what’s going to come up on our Ask The Mayor show, but it’s always a good time. Join us!This episode was produced by Katherine Ceicys and Mary Mancini.Guests:

Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell


Franklin Mayor Ken Moore

Listen to previous Ask the Mayor episodes:
Ask the Mayor with Freddie O'Connell, plus Taking Cover, April 17, 2024

Ask the Mayor with Freddie O'Connell, plus Votes For Women, March 28, 2024

Ask the Mayor with Freddie O'Connell & Photographer Jeff Fasano, February 15, 2024

For people who haven’t been following the story, it’s hard to know where to start if you want to learn more. For people who have been following, it can get complicated, and it’s easy to forget what's really happened. Today, we’re diving into it all headfirst and reviewing the most impactful, dysfunctional (and wildest) moments that led us to where we are today. We’ll hear from key players including commissioners, employees, councilmembers, reporters and concerned citizens that have been following the saga.This episode was produced by Elizabeth Burton.Guests

Char Daston, Reporter and newscast writer, WPLN


Lydia Yousief, Director of the Elmahaba Center


Heather Lefkowitz, Commissioner, Metro Arts Commission


Joy Styles, Councilmember, Metro Council


Isabel Tipton-Krispin, Executive Managing Director, Nashville Shakespeare Festival

Further Listening and Reading
Last week, after several months of back and forth between he and the MAC board, Metro Arts director Daniel Singh agreed to resign.
You can listen and read more about how the controversy has affected Nashville's artists in Char's stories: When will Metro Arts grant recipients be paid? Details remain murky and Metro Arts funding delays, debates over equity leave some Nashville arts organizations struggling

Housing is health care — which becomes especially apparent when we get to know our unhoused population. Here, we talk about what happens to people’s health and health care once they have lost their permanent housing.In My Place educates listeners on what cities like Nashville can do to prevent and end homelessness — while caring for our neighbors who are still unhoused. We talk to national and local guests about everything from best practices to worst failures and hear from people who intimately know the complexities of having nowhere to go. This show highlights how affordable housing affects each of us even if we think it doesn't.This series was created thanks in part to support from Pinnacle Financial Partners!This episode was produced by Judy Tackett and Tasha A.F. Lemley.Today's guests:

Bobby Watts, CEO of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council


D’Yuanna Allen-Robb, assistant bureau director, Population Health, Metro Public Health Department


Julia Sutherland, executive director, The Village at Glencliff


Shauna Tucker, interim chief operating officer, Neighborhood Health


Deirdre Nicole Childress, director of communications, trauma services and case management, Gideon’s Army

Further in:• Overview Episode of In My Place• Episode 1: Homelessness Facts and Faces• Episode 2: Housing First• Episode 3: Housing Strategies