Tag: Joe Walsh

Episode 50: Catsbury Park

This week Amy and Joe welcome DJ Bornschein and Jamie Nichols, the dynamic duo behind Asbury Park’s own cat sanctuary café, Catsbury Park while social distancing from their respective homes with the help of Ming Chen from A Shared Universe PodcaStudio. We talk to DJ and Jamie about how Catsbury Park came to be, its plans for the future, and how–even though COVID has closed the cafe–Catsbury’s rescue services are busier than ever and still need your support.

Episode 49: The Owners of Macrobites

This week Amy and Joe welcome David Lewis Jr and Jarrett Atkins, who together with their partner Fritz Georges, form the power trio behind MacroBites, the Healthy Meal Delivery Service and Cafe, while social distancing from their respective homes with the help of Ming Chen from A Shared Universe PodcaStudio.­­ By itself, three childhood friends putting incarceration behind them to become entrepreneurs, is a great story. But what happens when you start a new business on the eve of a global pandemic which immediately eats 40% of your revenue instead of your food? Rather than closing up shop and going home, the trio went big, expanded their delivery service to 35 states and opened up a storefront on Springwood Avenue here in Asbury Park. Theirs is a story about good friends, good food, resiliency and is a little good news in world of bad.

Episode 48: Robin Elliot-Preston of Robeans

This week Amy and Joe welcome Robin Elliott-Preston, owner of Robeans—home the Mobile Barista Coffee Truck, while social distancing from their respective homes with the help of Ming Chen from A Shared Universe PodcaStudio.­­ They talk about what it is like to be an entrepreneur, a respiratory therapist working on the front lines of the Covid emergency, a parent and someone whose day, apparently, has more than the 24 hours allotted the rest of us mortals.

Episode 47: Sylvia Sylvia

This week Amy and Joe welcome Sylvia Sylvia, Executive Director of the Asbury Park Chamber of Commerce, while social distancing from their respective homes with the help of Ming Chen from A Shared Universe PodcaStudio.­­ They talk about how businesses have been adapting to life under covid, the unfortunate closure of some great Asbury businesses, the surprising launch of several new businesses, and will it still be called Oysterfest if we ever re-open.

Episode 46: Amy & Joe Ask A Doctor About Covid Vaccines

Welcome to AsburyPod with Amy Quinn and Joe Walsh. Today we discuss Covid vaccines while social distancing from our respective homes with the help of Ming Chen from A Shared Universe PodcaStudio. Our guest is Dr. Terry Shlimbaum, Chief Medical Officer of the Community Health Center of the Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey—and we ask him the vaccine questions we all want answers to: Starting with –”should we get the vaccine?” (spoiler alert, yes!)…What are mRNA vaccines? How important is the second shot? Will we still need to wear a mask after we are vaccinated— (spoiler alert–still yes!). Welcome Dr. Shlimbaum!