Our Community Podcast

OUR COMMUNITY: Irvine’s Hispanic Heritage Month Festival

Irvine's Mayor Farrah Khan joins us to tout this Sunday's IRVINE HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH FESTIVAL at The Great Park on Sunday, September 17th from 11am to 3pm.
This second annual event is designed to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, inviting the community to learn about the histories, cultures, traditions, and contributions of Hispanic Americans through music, food, language, literature, and art. And best of all, this event is FREE for all ages!

OUR COMMUNITY: Meet the Man Behind SPOONS GRILL and BAR in Santa Ana

Meet Tony Rodriguez, CEO and Owner of SPOONS GRILL and BAR in Santa Ana.  And hear the story of how he originally came to buy a SPOONS franchise. And then how he stepped up and bought the name itself when the chain suddenly closed.  Opening new locations in partnership with several Ayers Hotels here in Orange County (as their in house bar and restaurant). 
On OUR COMMUNITY PODCAST this week, powered by the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and OC's only community radio station, OC TALK RADIO., streaming live from our studio here at the University of California Irvine's Beall Applied Innovation Center.

OUR COMMUNITY: Meet the folks at LENDISTRY

Kerrington Eubanks, the Senior Managing Director of Strategic Partnerships at LENDISTY, a minority led fintech that provides innovative lending products and access to grant programs for small businesses nationwide (like the SBA's recent PPP and other Covid grant programs). If you've got your own business (big or small), you'll want to hear this one!  On this week's OUR COMMUNITY PODCAST, powered by the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and OC's only community radio station, OC TALK RADIO.

OUR COMMUNITY: Meet the Samueli Academy

Meet Oscar Leong, the Director of Development for the Samueli Academy in Santa Ana. And learn about their innovative public charter school for youth here in Orange County including on-site housing for foster youth who need a stable living environment in order for them to excel academically.  Truly a special, one-of-a-kind place.  Featured on this week's OUR COMMUNITY PODCAST. Powered by the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Orange County's only community radio station, OC TALK RADIO.

OUR COMMUNITY: Meet OC’s Newest Catholic High School, CRISTO REY in Santa Ana

Meet the brand new Cristo Rey Orange County High School, a rigorous college preparatory, Catholic school that just opened in Santa Ana which offers students of limited economic resources a top tier college preparatory education AND an actual work experience at top employers like banks, law firms, universities and other major firms along the way to introduce them to this world and cover the cost of their private tuition at the same time.
It's all part of the nationwide Cristo Rey Network of high schools (originally started in Chicago by a group of Jesuits in a working class Hispanic neighborhood) where students "learn and earn" thru a unique Corporate Work Study Program that provides them the means to cover the cost of this extraordinary private education AND the opportunity to build real world skills and connections with potential employers along the way.
All of which gives these students the ability to suddenly "dream big". And provides them a clear path to achieving those new dreams by integrating rigorous academic curricula with four years of professional work experience and support to and through college. It's a path to success for families of limited means unlike anything you've ever seen! On this week's OUR COMMUNITY podcast, powered by the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Orange County's only community radio station, OC TALK RADIO.

OUR COMMUNITY: Meet the VERITAS ED FOUNDATION

Meet George Zedan, Founder and Executive Director, VERITAS ED FOUNDATION, and learn more about his mission to use basketball as a tool to advance the narrative of Latinos playing college basketball and beyond.  And how his program has had an amazing 100% graduation rate over the last five years.

OUR COMMUNITY: Meet Daniel H. Kim, Co-Founder DRAGON KIM FOUNDATION

Daniel H Kim, a noted Investment Banker and Private Equity Investor, joins us to his discuss the non-profit he co-founded, the DRAGON KIM FOUNDATION, designed to help make student dreams come true, in honor of his own late son, Dragon Kim (who tragically died on the cusp of seeing his own dreams come true).

OUR COMMUNITY: Meet OC State Sen. Dave Min

Today State Senator Dave Min joins us to discuss his OC district including Irvine, Costa Mesa, Laguna, Huntington Beach and Newport Beach.