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The Shelley Irwin Show Podcast for 8-22-25

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Credit score changes, The Grand Rapids Art Museum, The Atlas Obscura Explorers Guide to Inventing the World, She Runs GR, and GVSU Professor Jeff Kelly Lowenstein.

Changes are coming to credit scoring. FICO has recently announced that it will implement new scoring models that will include buy now, pay later loans starting in the fall. David Morgan, Chief Lending Officer at Lake Trust Credit Union, joins in with the details.

The Grand Rapids Art Museum offers a fundraiser September 5th, Bourbon and Bubbles, an artful tasting experience that features a selection of unique bourbons and refreshing bubbles, plus gourmet bites and live entertainment. We talk to Annmarie Ventura, Fundraising Event Manager and Joe Smith, Croze Nest Cooperage, who makes whiskey barrels.

The Atlas Obsura Explorers Guide to Inventing the World is a globe spanning history of invention like no other. We talk to the responsible team behind the info, Dillon Thuras and Jennifer Swanson about the very first invention plus scientific discoveries. Target audiences: the Middle Schooler.

She Runs GR takes place on the 28th of September. Now is the time for training and getting inspired. The focus, an all women's event that celebrates the power of women in sport, offering a variety of running/walking distances. We talk to Phalesha Kyes about the event.

GVSU Professor Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, Fulbright Scholar/ED Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, reflects personally on a the start of a new year on campus plus shares a tribute of his late uncle, born in Germany and living a productive life.

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Shelley Irwin is the host and producer for The Shelley Irwin Show, a news magazine talk-show format on the local NPR affiliate Monday through Friday. The show, broadcast at 9 a.m., features a wide variety of local and national news makers, plus special features.
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