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The Shelley Irwin Show Podcast for 10-23-25

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Not If I Can Help It, the Grand Rapids Center for Community Transformation, 2025 Best Cars For Teens, Holland Museum, and the Business Equity Initiative Fund.

The author of Not If I Can Help It, Meg Groff, shares her memoir about dedicating her legal career to defending poor women and children in family court. Her book tells the stories and highlights the need to reform a legal system that too often penalizes the most vulnerable. We discuss with Meg.

The Grand Rapids Center for Community Transformation celebrates 10 years of impact today. We talk to those on behalf of GRCCT, about a decade of empowering individuals, strengthening neighborhoods, and driving economic and social transformation throughout the GR community.

The 2025 Best Cars for Teens list is out, according to Kelley Blue Book. Executive Editor Brian Moody talks about what families should prioritize when shopping for a teen's first car, and more.

Holland Museum and Latin Americans United for Progress host a day long series of celebratory events this Saturday. We talk to Kate Leighton Colburn and Michelle Stempien about the Dia de Los Meurtos event, plus cemetary tours, and a nautical night.

We talk to those from the Community Foundation for Muskegon County about a Business Equity Initiative Fund, targeting female owned businesses in their initial stage of operations. Kim Suarez and Mary Ann Gorman expand the conversation to how the community can help.

Transcripts are provided upon request.

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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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