Childhood Project Becomes Successful Lifelong Career
Recent Positively West Virginia guest, Bradley Frankhouser, describes his first taste of architecture as gathering the entire neighborhood together to build a cabin from scraps with their own design. Little did he know that this would be his first introduction into...
West Virginia Woman Goes From Chronic Illness to CEO
Recent Positively West Virginia guest, Sharon Travis, CEO of Serenity Hills Life Center, went from suffering from chronic illness in and out of wheelchairs to owning her recovery retreat for women suffering from addiction. Sharon said, “I went from volunteering at a...
WV Family Uses Business to Bring Families Closer
Recent Positively West Virginia guests Joseph and Gina Starett have turned entrepreneurship into a way to keep families close. When Gina and Joe, owners of Mountaineer RV & Outdoor Center, LLC, were finally ready to graduate from tent camping into a hard-sided...
Garage Start-Up Becomes West Virginia’s Most Impressive Recording Studio
Recent Positively West Virginia guest Joshua Swiger is helping artists all over the state get their start with a quality record through his company, Blues Alley Studios. He loves being a West Virginia native and hopes that his work with local artists can help keep the...
West Virginia Spirits Distillery Takes Off
Recent Positively West Virginia guest, John Little, is the founder of Smooth Ambler Spirits. What began as a garage project has now become a leading brand in fine spirits. When John started looking for a business to start, he wasn’t envisioning the title of CEO...
Local West Virginian Says You Don’t Have to Come From a Farm to Grow One
Recent Positively West Virginia guest Jocelyn Sheppard founded and owns Appalachian Botanical Co., a lavender farm in Boone County, West Virginia. Jocelyn has a background in several different industries, including libraries and nonprofits. Although, she never...
West Virginia Gets Its First Mushroom Farm
Recent Positively West Virginia guest, George Patterson, is a lover of all things mushrooms. George is about two and a half years into his mushroom farm, Hernshaw Farms, located in Hernshaw, West Virginia. George is happier than ever to be making the world a better...
Crisis Becomes New Growth in White Sulfur Springs
The latest guest on Positively West Virginia, Tom Crabtree, shared his story of rebuilding a town from ruins using barrels. We all remember the floods of 2016 that left behind catastrophic amounts of damage and thousands of people without homes or jobs in West...
WV Family Ice Cream Store Growing Despite Pandemic
Recent Positively West Virginia guests Taylor Strickland and Timothy Ruff never thought they would end up scooping ice cream for a living in the same place they grew up. Tim and Taylor grew up helping their grandmother run her homemade ice cream business, Austin's...
Bridgeport’s Specialty Coffee Roasters Settle into New Home
This week on Positively West Virginia, Jonathan Gladysz talked about how he started Bridgeport’s only specialty coffee cafe without any business experience or background. “We put passion into our product. We’re not just doing it for money; we’re not doing it to build...
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