The Mosaic Project - SPI

The Mosaic Project, has been nominated as one of the top five podcasts in our city. If you’re in town, I’d love for you to vote. (It’s one and done, and you can use the link below.)

Honestly, I have mixed emotions about it.

Not because I’m not grateful. I am. I’m genuinely honored to be in the running. But at the heart of this project has never really been about being the best podcast. It has been about creating an open seat.

An invitation… an invitation to all

A place where someone can sit down and tell us a little bit about who they are. What they’ve lived through. What they love. What they’ve learned. What they’re still trying to figure out.

It has been an exercise in what I like to call holy curiosity.

What happens when we stop trying to categorize people and simply become curious about them?

What happens when we listen long enough to discover there is always more to someone's story than the version we thought we knew?

So yes, I’d love your vote. But truthfully, the reward has already been meeting the people I’ve met.

The conversations | The unexpected stories | The laughter | The hard stuff | The moments when someone lets you see a little more of who they are.

That has been the gift.

So whether this little thing wins anything or not, I’m grateful to have been invited into the journey.And I’m even more grateful that so many of you have pulled up a chair and joined me.

Thank you for being part of it.

Check out The Mosaic Project SPI.

We had the Illinois Times up in the studio today!!!

•Kate McKenzie, CEO of Local Journalism Matters (middle)
•Maria Gardner Lara, reporter (left)
•Dilpreet Raju, reporter (right)

The future is bright for IT! We played around with a new format today, and I think it is a winning strategy! Be on the lookout!

Tomorrow we will have Kate McKenzie in the studio!!! As the Illinois Times transitioned to a nonprofit, Kate was chosen as the organization’s first CEO.

What questions do you have? Ask them and I will do my best to ask them and get you the answers!

We had the awesome Haley Williams with The Culture Experience-LLC in the studio! No one has quite showed as much personality for the picture I take at the end of the podcast! New episodes starting September 14th with the Illinois Times

🥹HALP!🥹

As we continue to work with the business owners affected by the water main break, we find one gap that we need to fill over and over.

If you or anyone you know has access to a dehumidifier and you can find it in your heart to lend it out, please reach out.

[email protected]
or
217-414-1244 (call or text)

An opening salvo from Ken Pacha from today's podcast