Q&A on the Hallmark Channel series The Way Home with actor & executive producers Andie MacDowell and Chyler Leigh, and actors Evan Williams and Sadie Laflamme-Snow. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company.

Three generations of strong and independent women living together in the small farm town of Port Haven embark on an enlightening and surprising journey none of them could have imagined as they learn how to find their way back to each other.

Episode 875: The Way Home - Andie MacDowell, Chyler Leigh, Sadie Laflamme-Snow, Evan Williams

Check out today’s #GoodNews show with Judith Mason, Vice President of Community Development at Dollar Bank about the upcoming The Way Home workshop.

Everyone deserves a chance to own their own home. That's why Mortgages For Mothers is The Way Home - a homebuying workshop. The Way Home is free for everyone. Learn how to break the rent cycle, boost savings, cut debt, and strengthen your credit. All so you can find the way home….to a home of your own.

The Way Home workshop is Saturday, May 13th at 9 am at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. 

Register today at https://dollar.bank/the-way-home-landing or call 412-261-8109

The interview will air today at 4:05 PM EST on WGBN AM 1360 & 98.9FM www.wgbnradio.com

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GOOD NEWS - JUDITH MASON -VP COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT - DOLLAR BANK - THE WAY HOME - MAY 5 2023

#AndieMacDowell, #ChylerLeigh, #EvanWilliams & #SadieLaflammeSnow chat about season 3 of the hit #HallmarkChannel #dramatic series #TheWayHome 

Andie MacDowell, Chyler Leigh, Evan Williams & Sadie Laflamme-Snow - The Way Home

[Verse 1]

I fall through broken glass,
the ground gives way again.
Hands are torn, names erased,
still a fire hides within.

[Chorus]

No matter how I fall,
no matter what I lose,
as long as breath is mine,
I’ll carry the sparks through.

[Verse 2]

For those whose hands went silent,
for children yet to be,
nothing here was wasted –
every break feeds memory.

[Chorus]

No matter how I fall,
no matter what I lose,
as long as breath is mine,
I’ll carry the sparks through.

[Bridge]

Torn apart, yet never empty,
scattered light still calls my name.
Every fracture is a window,
every silence holds a flame.

[Verse 3]

I carry them for fathers, for mothers,
for the ones who never came.
I carry them for son or daughter,
and for the echoes of my name.

[Chorus]

No matter how I fall,
no matter what I lose,
for past and future both,
I’ll carry the sparks through.
The thin link is you –
the thin link is you –
as long as I breathe,
I’ll carry the sparks through.

[Verse 4]

The world may build its distance,
may try to draw a line,
but nothing can erase you,
your love is still in mine.
I planned to always hold you,
and I always will remain.
No silence and no distance
can ever change your name.

[Chorus]
No matter how I fall,
no matter what I lose,
for past and future both,
I’ll carry the sparks through.
The thin link is you –
the thin link is you –
as long as I breathe,
I’ll carry the sparks through.

Carry the Sparks [The Way Home]

Danielle M. Smith is an award-winning veteran journalist with over a decade of experience working in national news and gospel radio. Smith shines as a part-time on-air talent at Power 1360 WGBN where she hosts “Good News” a show that spotlights local and national change agents making a positive impact in the Western Pennsylvania region.  

Before “Good News with Danielle Smith” show on radio, it debuted on PCTV’s community access station in 30-minute segments anchored by Danielle.

Smith also hosted for nine years “Hot or Not” a show that spotlighted local and national Gospel/Christian artists. Smith is also an account executive for WGBN, selling air-time spots to businesses and churches.

Smith is a former national Audio Journalist with Sheridan Broadcasting Networks and American Urban Radio Networks. Her responsibilities were interviewing individuals for news stories involving the African-American community, including political figures, celebrities, and notable activists.  Key interviews include Congresswoman Kamala Harris, Arne Duncan, Judge Lynn Toler, Catherine Pugh (Former Mayor of Baltimore) and Steve Harvey. 

Smith has been recognized for her stellar reporting work. She was awarded the Robert L. Vann Media Award for Radio/Public Affairs feature story, “Sister Friend Provides Feminine Care Products to Homeless Women.” (2017). Smith is also an awardee of the New Pittsburgh Courier 2016 Women of Excellence.

In 2013, Danielle received the Community Spirit Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism from North Side Institutional Church.  In 2012, Smith teamed with other members of the AURN newsroom to win a Robert L. Vann Award for excellence (Voting Rights Series) from the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation (PBMF).

Danielle’s also a member of PBMF and participated in their Frank Bolden Urban Journalism workshop as a high school student. Smith is a former contributing writer for the Soul Pitt Media quarterly magazine. She’s also a Communications board member for the Functional Literacy Ministry of Haiti, a Christian nonprofit organization that provides health, hope, educational guidance and evangelism to Haitians in Haiti.

Danielle earned a Bachelor’s of Arts in Broadcasting from Point Park University (Pittsburgh, PA).

Note: In light of the recent AI breakthroughs, we feel it's important to clarify that we've been working with voice modulation since the mid-1990s – originally inspired by David Bowie's album Outside. Our approach predates AI-driven tools and is rooted in treating the voice as an instrument, shaped and sculpted through earlier technologies.

We fully understand that questioning authenticity may not be the intention – but it's worth remembering that all electronic music is, by nature, mediated and transformed. Even Nietzsche pointed out how modern tools shape us: inserting paper into a typewriter already creates a distance that handwriting does not. Perhaps birdsong is the only truly authentic sound. 🐦

Writes original song lyrics and takes custom lyric requests under the artist name La Wi. This platform is also home to the creative collaborations of the Psychonaut Collective (The Psychonauts). Thank you for your support and appreciation.

Tony Toscano is a nationally recognized movie critic and film historian who has been reviewing films for over 4 decades. Tony grew up in Southern California, just outside Los Angeles.

While attending Jr. High School, Toscano began writing a weekly movie review column for his school paper. Directly because of his weekly column, Tony was asked to write a film review column for the San Gabriel Valley Tribune and a music review column for “The record Collector's Journal.”

Always interested in television and film, it’s no surprise Tony's first job was a disc jockey at his hometown radio station and began to review films and interview celebrities as a regular feature of his radio show and “Talking Pictures” was born.

Moving from Los Angeles to Utah to co-host a morning radio show on Utah's KABE FM 107, his film reviews were heard once a week and became a staple of the popular morning program.

Toscano began taking live calls from listeners and discussing current movies.

In 1996 Tony made the jump from radio and newspapers to television as the film critic on CBS in Salt Lake City, and then to KJZZ TV where he hosted the popular "Movie Review Show" and then his own production, "Talking Pictures."

In 2002 Tony was honored with his first Emmy Award as “Best Discussion Program.” In 2007 Toscano received his 2nd Emmy for hosting Talking Pictures.

Taking his award winning program coast to coast, Toscano has been able to syndicate Talking Pictures to over 65 million households around the USA and in nearly 120 countries worldwide.

In May of 2008 “Talking Pictures” moved to ABC-4 and Utah’s CW-30.

Toscano is also the film reviewer and entertainment guru for ABC-4’s “Good Morning Utah" and “Midday."

Additionally, Tony is heard on a number of radio stations across the US, including I Heart Radio's  top- rated “Morning Zoo with Frankie and Jess” on 97.1 ZHT in Salt Lake City, where his reviews have been heard for nearly 2 decades.

His fellow reviewers regard Tony as "one of the country’s best celebrity interviewers." As his in-depth conversations with such notable stars as George Clooney, Harrison Ford, Angelina Jolie, Steven Spielberg, Jeff Goldblum, Gwyneth Paltrow and Denzel Washington show a different and more relaxed side of celebrities.

In 2006 Toscano co-hosted the acclaimed series “Hot Topics” for Atlanta’s ABC affiliate WSB TV.

Working with Utah students in apprenticeships and internship programs, Tony is instrumental in instructing qualified and deserving students in the art of television production.

Tony Toscano is member in good standing of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA), a former board member of the Salt Lake City Film Center and the founder of the Utah Film Critics Society.

When not previewing, reviewing or interviewing Tony can be found somewhere in the mountains of Utah stream fishing or at his BBQ.

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