From the host · The Get Buzzed Blog
Why Get Buzzed exists.
A note from Melissa Thornton on creating conversations that turn real experience into useful momentum.
The best business lessons rarely arrive as perfect formulas. They come from people who tried, adjusted, failed forward and kept building.
Real experience deserves a microphone.
Get Buzzed was created to make room for honest conversations with entrepreneurs, executives, creators and community builders. Not polished highlight reels—real stories about the choices, tradeoffs and turning points that shaped the work.
Cincinnati is home, but the ideas are bigger than one city. The show is built for anyone trying to lead well, grow something meaningful or create change where they live.
Inspiration should lead somewhere.
A compelling story matters. A useful next step matters more. Each conversation is designed to uncover practical lessons listeners can apply to a business, career, team or idea in motion.
That may be a sharper question, a new way to think about risk or the confidence to finally begin. The goal is not simply to feel inspired—it is to leave with momentum.
This is a place for builders.
Get Buzzed brings together people who are not waiting for the future to happen to them. They are testing ideas, creating opportunity and building stronger businesses and communities one decision at a time.
Their stories remind us that progress rarely starts with certainty. It starts with one honest conversation and the willingness to move.
Better conversations create better questions—and better questions can change what happens next.