41 episodes
Local Level Steve Wiley | PodRiver
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5.0 • 11 Ratings
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Local Level brings you real stories of success and struggle from people living and working in communities across America. In this show, we cover topics that most people can relate to, but rarely get to hear. The stories of everyday life, business, family, & relationships.
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Elizabeth Ricks - Trans Life & LGBTQ Law - Chicago House
Elizabeth Ricks is a staff attorney for Chicago House's Trans Life Program.
The Chicago House TransLife Care (TLC) program exists to provide free healthcare and social services to vulnerable individuals who identify themselves as trans, non-binary, or gender expansive. Their programs offer support for housing, legal, medical, sexual health, and employment.
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Jessica Bednarz - Justice Entrepreneurs Project (JEP), a small business incubator for lawyers
https://chicagobarfoundation.org/advocacy/issues/sustainable-practice-innovation/
Learn More:
https://chicagobarfoundation.org/jep/
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"MZ" Michael Ziffra - ROCKIT Business Accelerator
ROCKIT is based on Founder and President Michael “MZ” Ziffra’s passion to help business leaders achieve their personal and professional goals. MZ is an entrepreneur and dynamic communicator with over 40 years of experience building high-performance teams and businesses serving Fortune 500 companies, including Abbott Laboratories, Disney, McDonald’s, and Burger King. In his early 20s, MZ created a production and service startup… then saw it skyrocket with his vision, innovation, and integrity to become the premier player in its space.
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Richard Gordon - Professional Athlete Injury / Workers Compensation Law
This Week: Whether you slip on a banana peel at the grocery store or tear an ACL playing in the NFL....
Richard Gordon (Gordon Law Offices, Ltd.) is the man to call.
Richard joins us to talk about representing the rights of the wrongfully injured and disadvantaged, as well as his work representing professional athletes with their injury claims.
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Zack Barack - First Openly Trans Actor in a Marvel Movie / Spiderman: Far From Home & DeadEndia on Netflix
This week Actor Zach Barack of Spiderman: Far From Home and the upcoming animated series DeadEndia on Netflix talks about getting into the industry as an openly trans man.
Zack is the first openly transgender actor in a Marvel movie. We talk about identity and the challenging, but rewarding nature of being a public figure for trans people in our world today.
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Mike Reppe - Rep's Place Sports Bar & Grill | Local Level
Running a restaurant takes a lot more creativity than ever before with indoor dining shut down.
Mike Reppe, Owner of Rep’s Place talks about some of the ways he's been adapting to the difficulties so many small businesses have had to face with everything going on.
Check out his special on #rmtalk
https://www.rmtalk.com/blog/post/get-a-gift-for-giving-this-season-at-reps-place
Customer Reviews
Great podcast, interviewer
Steve runs a great podcast. It’s always a different and interesting topic and interview. I really enjoy listening and enjoyed participating in the interview even more! Steve does a great interview, asks great questions, and makes it accessible to listeners. Great conversations - as advertised!!!!!!
The Spotlight for Local Business
Thank you to Steve and his team for developing this platform; a spotlight for local businesses. The Local Level provides small business an opportunity to share their story; story of challenges, failures and success. It is more important than ever to have a connection with our businesses that are actively involved in our community. We want to see our communities grow, and it starts with supporting the local businesses.
Local level makes sense
Good to be a part of the start of something down to earth with plenty of informative content and great topics about local businesses and how they can succeed