HarmonyTALK is an inspirational podcast featuring ‘dreamers and doers’ who turned ideas into action. Explore creativity, perseverance, leadership and the human stories behind meaningful success through candid conversations designed to spark reflection, motivation and possibility, and join a growing community inspired to dream boldly and live intentionally.
Long before Carla McCabe became a media executive, she was watching history unfold outside her front door.
Carla grew up in Belfast during the Troubles, when soldiers on the streets, bomb scares and curfews were part of everyday life.
She also witnessed something very different: the beginnings of peace.
Those experiences would follow Carla into a career built around telling stories and understanding the people behind them.
On this episode of HarmonyTALK, host Greg Frigoletto talks with the President and CEO of WVIA, Northeast and Central Pennsylvania’s affiliate station for PBS and NPR, about a journey that began in Northern Ireland, took her to the BBC and independent television production, brought her across the Atlantic to American public media and ultimately led her to Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Carla didn’t set out to work in television.
A temporary job at the BBC changed that.
There, she saw television examine conflict, reconciliation and history through the experiences of the people who had lived it.
One documentary would make that work deeply personal.
After losing her brother to suicide, Carla helped produce Breaking the Silence, telling the stories of families affected by suicide with a deliberate focus on respect rather than sensationalism.
Watching the finished film alongside those families changed the way Carla thought about media.
Storytelling could have impact.
That belief now shapes her leadership at WVIA.
With local newsrooms shrinking and public media facing enormous change, Carla has pushed WVIA deeper into local journalism and community storytelling. Reporters spend time in the communities they cover. They build trust. They follow stories rather than simply moving on to the next headline.
And they make room for different perspectives, giving audiences the information to decide what they think for themselves.
From Belfast to the BBC to WVIA, Carla has seen what can happen when people are divided.
She has also seen what can happen when we listen.
30 Sept 2026
Finding Something More
Tucked into 400 acres in the Pocono Mountains is a place where tens of thousands of people have come simply to sit quietly.
The Himalayan Institute has called Honesdale, Pennsylvania, home for almost 50 years. What began with yoga and meditation has grown into a global nonprofit devoted to wellness, education, humanitarian service and the belief that people can reach their fullest potential.
But what are all those people looking for?
On this episode of HarmonyTALK, host Lisa Champeau talks with Retreat Center Director Brian Fulp about the enduring appeal of a place that has spent decades inviting people to slow down and look inward.
Brian takes us inside the Institute’s Sri Vidya Shrine, a meditation hall intentionally left open for visitors to bring their own beliefs and practices. He talks about the Institute’s roots, its humanitarian work around the world and the surprisingly entrepreneurial history that helped introduce the Neti Pot to millions of Americans.
But Brian’s own journey may say the most about the place.
He discovered yoga as an 11-year-old Boy Scout in Indiana. As a teenager without money for classes, he asked if he could work in exchange for them. His teacher told him to take the classes and promise to pay the Institute back someday.
Twenty-nine years later, Brian jokes that he is still working on it.
What began as an interest in yoga became a life built around service, community and a place he says gave him something he had been missing: purpose.
It is a conversation about what happens when we make room for stillness, what service can give back to the person doing it and why, after more than half a century, people continue to find their way to a quiet corner of the Poconos looking for something more.
23 Sept 2026
What Animals Teach Us About Healing
On 100 acres in Dalton, Pennsylvania, nearly 200 rescued animals have found a home at Indraloka Animal Sanctuary.
But something unexpected began unfolding there.
Those who care for the animals all too often discover that the animals have something to offer them, too.
That idea is at the heart of Indraloka and the life’s work of its founder, Dr. Indra Lahiri, an organizational psychologist who spent years studying human behavior, leadership and culture before bringing those insights into a very different setting.
On this episode of HarmonyTALK, host Greg Frigoletto talks with Indra to explore the connection between the two worlds she knows best: people and animals.
What can an animal teach us about trust? Why does simply being around another living being sometimes change the way we feel? And what can people who have spent their lives caring for others learn about caring for themselves?
For Indra, those questions are not abstract.
She has watched broken animals arrive at Indraloka after traumatic experiences and gradually learn that they are safe. She has also watched the people around them slow down, reconnect and begin looking at their own experiences differently.
That has led Indra to expand Indraloka’s mission beyond animal rescue.
Today, the sanctuary also works with people and organizations on leadership, teamwork and communication, along with burnout, compassion fatigue and secondary trauma.
And when it comes to healing, Indra has learned something else from the animals around her.
What happens to us becomes part of our story, but it doesn’t have to become our entire story for the rest of our life.
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YouTube views
54,976
Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Apple Podcasts (US)
4.8 / 5
10 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
5 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100
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39
Social presence
91
YouTube
76
Engagement
71
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