WCBE Podcast Experience

Centering Ohio and Columbus as testing grounds, this CMC forum explores how American communities can move from reflection to renewal—and what responsibility today’s leaders and citizens have to future generations of Americans.

Anthony Hopkins needed a copy of The Girl from Petrovka to prepare for a movie role, but none of the major London bookstores he tried had one. Then, while waiting for a train at Leicester Square Underground station, he spotted the exact novel sitting abandoned on a seat. Months earlier, author George Feifer had lost one very particular copy of that book somewhere else in London, and when the two men finally compared notes, an already improbable coincidence became almost impossible. We tell the full story in this episode of The Internet Says it's True.

This CMC forum explores what it means to finally place women’s courage, leadership, and fight for equality at the center of Ohio’s public memory.

In this episode of Innovating Leadership Co-Creating Our Future, Jonathan Reams reveals how signal blindness, false alignment, cognitive overload, and assumptions corrupt decision quality, and why organizations cannot decide better than their leaders understand.

In partnership with Midwest House Summit Ohio 2026, this CMC forum brings together regional leaders working at the intersection of entrepreneurship, venture capital, innovation, and collaboration to ask what it will take for the Midwest to compete and win on a national stage in totally new ways – without leaving communities behind.

Executive communication coach and TEDx pioneer Ruth Milligan explains how leaders can transform complex information into one clear, audience-centered idea, supported by the right evidence, strengthened through story, and memorable enough to be repeated after the meeting ends.

In this episode of The Internet Says it's True, Michael Kent traces the life of Army Specialist Richard Leroy McKinley, the tragic SL-1 nuclear reactor accident, and the extraordinary engineering that created the only radioactive grave in Arlington.

This CMC conversation brings together nonprofit leaders, business executives, and community builders to explore a simple but urgent idea: what if the path to stronger organizations—and a stronger region—starts with businesses and communities working side by side?

John Glenn International, Rickenbacker International, and Bolton Field are the region’s front doors — a first impression for visitors, a critical link for global businesses, and a major piece of the critical infrastructure needed to support Central Ohio’s next chapter of growth.