Hailing from Snow Creek, Virginia, Moonshine Capital of the World, Smokestack Lightnin’ Blues Band had everyone tapping their feet on April 20th at The Lyric in downtown Blacksburg, Virginia. For anyone who thought The Black Keys were the best of modern blues, be prepared to experience the full power of these blues songs, brought to life by Smokestack Lightnin’. These local musicians play with passion.

Members (not in order of picture): Jeff “Sunshine” Criner (Guitar/Vocals) David Gregory
(Drums/Vocals) Marcus Morris (Bass/Vocals) Harry “Buster” Sink
(Harp) Henry Lazenby(Guitar/Vocals)

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Doterra Wellness Advocate and New River Valley, VA resident Valerie Kinzey sat down with Handshake Media Executive Director, Laurel Sindewald for this episode to share her know-how on essential oils. A newer farm owner, Valerie also had some entertaining stories to share about adjusting to farm life and some very odd chickens. Valerie lives on her farm near Blacksburg, VA with her husband and her three sons.

She blogs about her life on a farm on her website, The Enchanted Homestead.

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Sarah Beth Jones, the NoBS Biz & Empowerment Coach, spoke at the 2016 Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce Women’s Leadership Conference at The Inn at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia on April 3rd. We recorded her full speech in this podcast episode, on how to empower others by first empowering yourself.

If you would like to sample her speech, we excerpted one of our favorite parts!:

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 Laurel Sindewald, Executive Director of Handshake Media, shares the story behind her weekly discussion group, Coffee & Contemplation. She also shares one of her favorite aphorisms by Friedrich Nietzsche, The Greatest Weight.

Laurel welcomes drop-in visitors every Saturday from 2:30-3:30 pm, at Lucie Monroe’s in Christiansburg on the first and third Saturdays and at Our Daily Bread in Blacksburg on the second, fourth, and fifth Saturdays. For more information about Coffee & Contemplation, see the post she wrote about it on her blog.

 

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What’s a nice girl to do when she discovers she can’t stop drinking? Instructor, counselor, businesswoman, and Handshake Media founder Anne Giles found herself asking just this question. In Phoenix Rising: A Journey of Self-Discovery Through Addiction Recovery, Anne paints vividly the rebirth of her identity as she sorts through the ashes of her past to understand the origins of her addiction, and as she seeks to understand addiction as a larger problem.

In beginning the preface aloud in this episode, Anne is creating an audiobook of Phoenix Rising in much the same way as she created the written book. She first explored her story in a series of blog posts; now she presents her story, Phoenix Rising, in a series of podcasts.

“We don’t know how this story goes,” she writes. Stay tuned for the next episode.

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Podcast of Phoenix Rising: A Journey of Self-Discovery Through Addiction Recovery produced by Laurel Sindewald of Handshake Media.

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