What do warehousing, podcasting, and liberal arts have in common? Not much unless you're Stacie Scherman.

Stacie's father owns a warehousing business and has been a Michigan Small Business Development Center (Michigan SBDC) client since 2008. About four years ago, Stacie returned home to Flint with a newly minted Bachelor's Degree and went to work for her father. Business came naturally to her and she helped to drive dramatic improvements and growth with her ability to organize details, understand financials, and manage strategically. Stacie was always thinking about the business she wanted to start and operate, making progress intermittently on writing a business plan with guidance from the Michigan SBDC consultant she and her father shared.

While participating in an oral history research project as a post-grad English and Liberal Arts student at U of M Flint, she was immersed in the idea of creating a podcast series to capture stories about the Flint water crisis. The idea was for each episode in the series to focus on a different perspective, including Flint business owners, Flint school teachers, children, parents, water distribution volunteers, as well as non-Flint residents.