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Are We Here Yet Podcast
by Scott M. Graves
We're telling the stories of entrepreneurs artists and other creative class warriors making a go of it in cities and small towns all over the country. The Are We Here Yet? Podcast blends topics of economic development, urban planning and arts and culture. We are the official podcast for SMGravesassociates.com.
Episodes
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A Southern Vermont Strategy for Housing
Host and substack writer Scott M. Graves on the premise for developing a strategy to alight the regional economy with an industrial basis in solving the housing crisis. The Why, What and How to make this happen. Work to create this strategy was inspired by his earlier work with Dominic Endicott…
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What I Had Wanted to Say to the Citizens of Dorset, VT
'My firm recently won the nod through a Request for Proposal (RFP) to build a 123+ unit mixed income development for the upscale town of Dorset, VT. In the midst of negotiating a development agreement, detractors for the project made themselves known. For several months and with our help, town...
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A Small Town in Vermont Says, 'No' to Workforce Housing
Our parent company, SMGraves Associates recently won the nod to build 123+ units of workforce and moderate income market rate housing in the town of Dorset, VT. This was slated to be a $90MM project and one of the first in Vermont to take advantage of new programming including the Communities...
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'I'm Not Dead Yet!' Living Poets from the Culture Desk
We're joined by Culture Desk co-host and writer Joshua Michael Stewart to explore the work of some of America's great living poets. This is a great chance for our listeners to explore poetry and what's going on in the minds of some of our most capable and artistic writers for all ages. We explore...
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What Should Cities Do with Abandoned Properties?
What Should Cities Do with Abandoned Properties? Today's Episode is taken from host Scott Graves 'Are We Here Yet? substack of January 2, 2026. The following is a transcript. Explore the Are We Here Yet? substack Our city completed a round of dispossessing themselves of properties they own this...
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What Makes a Good Corporate Neighbor?
Report from the New England Beacon We're talking with correspondent Chris Brady of the New England Beacon for this AWHY? Episode. His recent article in the Beacon entitled, 'CVS calls Woonsocket, RI home. Do Residents Benefit?' explores the relationship of a $373B corporate entity and its...
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What's in a Civic Brand?
Author Ryan Short's 2025 The Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place caught our attention for a singular reason. One of the books many underlying themes is to choose substance over shallow 'solutions'. Why do we hang new banners downtown every 5 years when we make no substantive...
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My Response to the Magical Teenage Idol
Transcript taken from SMGtheHouser.substack.com This week, a break from our work solving all the problems of small scale developers in rural America. Besides, our work relies on the success of tech entrepreneurs just as much as it does with municipalities, small business owners, manufacturers and...
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Empowering Gig Workers
Empowering Gig Workers Tamara Laine is the founder of MPWR, a fintech services platform launching in 2026 to serve the some 80 million global gig economy workers. This isn't the first founding experience for Tamara, here she is speaking with Nasdaq in 2023 regarding an earlier experience with…
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The Later Days of Big Bands: From the Culture Desk
The Later Days of Big Bands: From the Culture Desk Join co-hosts Joshua Michael Stewart & Scott Graves on a musical look at just what all those Big Band musicians were doing decades after the end of the Big Band Era. The popular culture phenomenon of swing music did not end when the record deals...
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What's to Come in 2026
Cohosts Ryan Munn and Scott Graves delve into what's on the horizon in Vermont tech in 2026. Talk of BETA Technologies recent IPO and its consequences on employment opportunities was high among the list of other companies mentioned that we're watching in the upcoming year. The list includes...
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Rural Housing Report: New Ideas from Otis, MA
Rural Housing Report: New Ideas from Otis, MA We're joined by Dr. Stacey Schultze, a fifth generation citizen from the Berkshire hamlet of Otis, MA. After listening to Stacey tell us in detail about the town's greatest assets we're feeling good about the resiliency of small town New England....
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Lean Into Success Lean Real Estate's Michael Cohen
Michael Cohen is a partner and founding member of Lean Real Estate, a successful investment firm buying directly from owners. The team at Lean applies lean manufacturing principles to real estate investment, which has helped the team of three stay focused and well disciplined in every aspect of...
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New England Equity Collective Transforms Lives One Neighborhood at a Time
Taiese Hickman is a realtor who recently donned the hat of a developer and non-profit leader. What makes this remarkable is the model of her new venture, The New England Equity Collective. The NEEC is targeting families across a wide spectrum of backgrounds for co-living in pocket neighborhood...
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Hypnotic Boogie: Re-discovering the Hill Country Blues
The Hill Country Blues is, in effect for many of us, a form of early american music that is hiding in plain site. Take one part, fife and folk from the british isles,another part west african polyrhythms. Mix european balladeering with caribbean hypnotic rhythms. What begins as drum and fife…
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Our 200th Episode
Robert Reich wrote on his substack for September 16, One study found that half of Americans expect a second civil war to happen "in the next few years," even if the specifics vary according to one's politics and imagination. On the other hand, unlike the Civil War of 1861-1865, no particular…
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A Housers Report from Rural New England
Darren Sherburne is Associate Broker of Four Seasons Sotheby's Fairlee VT office and an active houser developing a variety of properties in the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont. Darren reports on the current housing challenges in his region and gave us plenty to think about...
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For the Small Scale Developer In Your Life
Andrew Overton is a founding member of Creative Land Strategies, where he partners with small developers and communities to make sense of the real estate process. From acquisitions and zoning to community outreach, my daily goal is helping others feel supported—especially those stepping into...
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Getting in the Zone: Make or Break Your Cities Recovery
I'm joined this week by Ed Bove, the Planning Director for my hometown of Rutland, Vermont, USA. A year into his tenure Ed is leading the effort to refine our cities zoning regulations to reflect an effort to build 1000 units of housing in five years. Listen to Ed's 2024 interview for the Are We...
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Sticking to the Plan
The city of North Adams, MA is a great locale these days if your passion is transforming downtowns. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is slated to fund a complete reversal of urban renewal's worst mid-century mistakes by eliminating the Route 2 overpass. There are myriad other improvements in the...
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Build with Purpose: Proptimal's Lilian Chen
We're joined this week by tech founder and Real Estate professional Lilian Chen. She founded Proptimal in order to provide foundational knowledge for investors and developers who generally don't get the attention they deserve from firms focused on established clients. We talked about the inherent...
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Rural Spotlight: 1Berkshires Ben Lamb
I've wanted to interview Ben Lamb for a few years now and he did not disappoint. We spoke on diversifying revenue streams for his organization's regional work and whether the rapid federal funding changes are having an effect. We also spent considerable time on housing challenges and what it…
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Our Debate and Report on the State of Artificial Intelligence
The Innova802 crew sat down to take stock together on where we stand on Artificial Intelligence: Its effect on politics, creativity, industry, labor, culture and the possibility of global destabilization. Have no fear, rather than simply complaining as to the side effects of an inappropriately...
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This Message Is Imperative: Can We Get Back Building for the Better?
In two essays recently published and formed here into a podcast, Scott Graves offers perspective on how to build for the benefit of our society. In We Didn't Ask for Stupefied Star Trek he explores the perils of launching a nationwide AI technological effort that continues the predatory business...
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Consorvia Says It's Time to Romance Innovation
Consorvia's founder, Christina Fedor wants to redefine society's relationship to the creative sector. With their latest client platform the company is fundamentally bringing the individual and the system together to serve people in their effort to self actualize. Our conversation reached into the...
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A July Fourth Like No Other
Our Host Scott M. Graves and his essay offering personal and historical perspective; his take on the privilege of being alive to take part in reinvigorating our belief in the Constitution and the rule of law. Part of a series of essays in the Democratic Capitalism Series.
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Innovative Funding Leaders Compound Good Launch!
Innova802 Crew Member Will Jeffries represented the team for the Burlington, VT premiere of a new and innovative funding organization, Compound good. Compound Good is a nonprofit fund that allows donors to make impact investments with philanthropy, unlocking capital for social entrepreneurs....
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Do We Have A Housing Crisis? Two Perspectives from behind the front lines Plus our Tribute to Sly Stone & Brian Wilson
I had the distinct pleasure to sit down with two leading voices from the Congress for New Urbanism this past spring for a frank conversation on our current housing crisis. Their different ages and life experiences offer us a wealth of perspective to learn from and leverage. Let's dive right in to...
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Tribute to the Music of Sly Stone & Brian Wilson
Are We Here Yet? Host Scott Graves chosen profession was as a performing artist. In this episode he pays tribute to two of his idols who recently passed away, Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone fame and Brian Wilson, songwriter and member of the California iconic Beach Boys.
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The Church of Temporal Naturalism Pt II
When you connect with a born to be entrepreneur you know it. In our experience we place all creatives; the artists, the dreamers, the community builders in this category of human experience. Our guest for this two part episode exemplifies what we're talking about. In a little more than an hour…
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The Church of Temporal Naturalism Pt I
When you connect with a born to be entrepreneur you know it. In our experience we place all creatives; the artists, the dreamers, the community builders in this category of human experience. Our guest for this two part episode exemplifies what we're talking about. In a little more than an hour…
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What Artificial Intelligence Could Be w/ AIGO.AI founder Peter Voss
It was a high point for co-hosts Ryan Munn and Scott M. Graves when they were joined last week by AIGO.AI founder Peter Voss. Peter's a long-time innovator, founder, advocate and thinker concerning Artificial Intelligence(he coined the term artificial general intelligence) whose insights shared...
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Market Rate Housing is the Affordable Housing Solution
Host Scott Graves is once again joined by Stephen Box, Scott's partner in Partners in Housing, small scale housing developments in Vermont and columnist under the column header, the accidental activist. Stephen is also our co-host for The Housers Podcast. Stephen and Scott explain for listeners…
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Checking in with the Vermont Futures Project
Vermont isn't just shrinking in population, its aging. The state has 30,000 fewer working age citizens between 25-40 then it did 25 years ago. This, while modest population gains during the Covid-19 pandemic has reversed. For those of us at the Innova802 Crew, we see the effects every day. Many...
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The Four G's of Open Innovation
Open Innovation has become essential to good science being completed by our institutions. Our guest this week, Steve Rader speaks with experience on how open innovation, rather crowdsourcing has and will shape good science work moving forward. Steven recently retired from NASA and is an expert in...
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Know, Like & Trust
Sharing the mic with Interchain.Live and fellow Innova802 crew member Ryan Munn brought Richard Lowe to our virtual studios for a discussion regarding Rich's experience as a ghostwriter and author in his own right. The discussion quickly deepened to include his perspective on building the bionic...
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Why is Affordable Housing Unaffordable to Build?
Host and founder Scott Graves is asking some tough questions for all of us to ask in our own communities. How do we get beyond a place of manufactured scarcity and support all forms of private and public housing development to meet our middle market needs? Find Scott's Latest Essays from An…
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Building, Inc's Matt Schneider
Athens, GA is home to Building, Inc and founder Matthew Schneider. Matthew is no stranger to a multi-disciplinary approach to solving some of the toughest challenges for real estate developers and tech leaders alike. Our discussion hit upon some real-world solutions-oriented work he and his team...
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The Cities We Need: A Talk with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani has spent 20+ years working to understand what's in a neighborhood by asking the question, 'Where would you take someone on a guided tour of your neighborhood?' In her 2024 book, The Cities We Need: Essential Stories of Everyday Places Viani walks us through the tours she...
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AWHY: Why you should Care about BlockChain Tech
Hosts Ryan Munn and Scott Graves are joined by Justin Loranger of web3iam in what we're sure you'll find to be an excellent primer on why blockchain is the key to transforming crypto into accepted currency, offering security and stability. Why should you anticipate the value of your name and that...
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AWHY - A $100 Billion Strategy for Rural Massachusetts
Production notes: Please add the following voiceover to end: Do download your copy of 'Pioneer Valley Knowledge Towns Strategy Proposal' go to https://www.smgravesassociates.com§/whitepages/ Dominic Endicott joins us for a second time on the AWHY? Podcast to discuss a white paper co-published by...
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We Can't Park in Rutland, Vermont! Plus new podcast announcement 'Housers'
Host Scott Graves is joined by fellow Vermont houser Stephen Box of Rutland. Our discussion focused on both the local discussion and a more global look at how parking is affecting housing in all of our communities in the United States. Stephan, a loyal resident recently received a parking ticket…
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Our Season Closer: The Jazz Room & Female Instrumentalists
And in today's episode we show you some of the leading examples today. We end our season ten with host Joan Watson Jones look into some of Jazz's unsung heroes. Women representing a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds have always been vital to the jazz community. With that said, most…
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Re-thinking Commerce: Enter the Gifting Grove
As we enter the winter solstice, exploring the dark that inevitably comes before the light, we're considering new ways to think about gifting, yes, and what of commerce? What of a community that reverses the epidemic of loneliness pervasive in our modern society? Can we do better? That's up in…
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The Can-Do of Camden, IN- Neil Mylet
Neil Mylet is a do-er. He's a farmer, a tech advocate and connecting rod. Neil is also putting his money and his talents where his mouth is, funding his own project, Camden Castle and ensuring a wide spectrum of top-tier programming and connections for his 600 neighbors in the village of Camden,...
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Innova802: Pt II New Frameworks Plus The Jazz Room Celebrates the Saxophone
We joined Ace McCarleton of Vermont-based New Frameworks to talk about their panelized building innovations for the housing marketplace. New Frameworks practices high performance natural building towards the construction of climate justice and regeneration. Innovation is expressed in their home...
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Innova802: New Frameworks Plus The Jazz Room on Drummers
We joined Ace McCarleton of Vermont-based New Frameworks to talk about their panelized building innovations for the housing marketplace. New Frameworks practices high performance natural building towards the construction of climate justice and regeneration. Innovation is expressed in their home...
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Innova802: Snap, Crackle, Pop! Plus a Tribute to the legend Quincy Jones
Glavel is a construction materials company manufacturing foam glass gravel, or in company parlance GLAVEL. CEO Rob Conboy sat down with the Innova802 crew to discuss what it took to bring this technology to market in the US. How are they leading in recycling and carbon sequestration, excellence…
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AWHY? Music feature Extra: We Remember Saxophonist Lou Donaldson
Lou Donaldson passed away on November 10, 2024. In a career spanning more than seven decades, the alto saxophonist began as a stylist devotee to the bop of Charlie Parker, quickly evolving into a soulful and bluesy player which became his signature. Joan Watson Jones, host of the AWHY? Music...
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AWHY? Music feature: Celebrating Gershwin in Jazz
Our music feature, The Jazz Room returns for a feature of the great American composer George Gershwin. Host Joan Watson Jones features many great musicians from a long list of recordings featuring the work of George Gershwin, one of the most prized composers of the American song book. For jazz...
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We're telling the stories of entrepreneurs artists and other creative class warriors making a go of it in cities and small towns all over the country. The Are We Here Yet? Podcast blends topics of economic development, urban planning and arts and culture. We are the official podcast for SMGravesassociates.com.
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