Foothills Under 30

05/07/2026

Just do the dang thing! A short clip from Joe Wallo and I discussing starting your own businesses by immersing yourself in the work you want to do. Joe is a big supporter of entrepreneurial spirit in everyone.

Listen to the full podcast about Joe, his business, and his life growing up and living in the Yosemite Foothills. Available everywhere you get your podcasts!

Huge thank you to our partners at the Mariposa Gazette and KRYZ Radio for helping bring these stories to the community each week.

And a big thank you to Mark Wallo Pump Service and Peak Excavating Inc. for making this episode possible, as well as our community partner, the Oakhurst Area Chamber of Commerce.

05/05/2026

Discussing being a small business owner and balancing life and time outside of that with Joe Wallo, in our second Foothills Under 30 interview.

Joe is a welder based in Bass Lake, California, and we got to sit down and talk for an hour about him, his business, and the Yosemite Foothills we call home.

Huge thank you to our partners at the Mariposa Gazette and KRYZ Radio for helping bring these stories to the community each week.

And a big thank you to Mark Wallo Pump Service and Peak Excavating Inc. for making this episode possible, as well as our community partner, the Oakhurst Area Chamber of Commerce.

Full episode out now.

01/09/2026

Foothills Under 30 airs on KRYZ 98.5 FM every Saturday at 6am & 6pm

01/03/2026

Listen to Emelyne as we talk Fresno Flats, high school, and some history about Oakhurst

Foothills Under 30 airs on KRYZ 98.5 FM every Saturday at 6am & 6pm

12/31/2025

Joe Wallo, our second episode of the podcast, growing up here in the area, and has a lot of stories. Joe is a man who cherishes his community. He is a welder, a musician in the local community band, as well as pick up trash in our community and much more.

I have the priveldge of getting to interview him, but also call him my friend. I am so grateful to our community for nominating Joe.

You can still nominate someone for the podcast, and also find more information, as well as listen to the podcast, plus find all the links to where you can listen or watch this episode.

Huge thank you to our partners at the Mariposa Gazette and KRYZ Radio for helping bring these stories to the community each week.

And a big thank you to Mark Wallo Pump Service and Peak Excavating Inc. for making this episode possible, as well as our community partner, the Oakhurst Area Chamber of Commerce.

12/30/2025

We have Joe Wallo, on th podcast, that you can listen now on Youtube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Joe is a welder based in Bass Lake, California, and we get to sit down and talk for an hour about many topics about who he is, what he does, our mountain community.

Huge thank you to our partners at the Mariposa Gazette and KRYZ Radio for helping bring these stories to the community each week.
And a big thank you to Mark Wallo Pump Service and Peak Excavating Inc. for making this episode possible, as well as our community partner, the Oakhurst Area Chamber of Commerce.

Full episode out now.

12/21/2025

Sunday is the perfect day to stay home on a chilly day and read the newspaper all cozy, and I am so grateful to this amazing article we have written by Kellie Flanagan in the Eastern Madera Section of the newspaper with Nick Adelizi as the guest on the podcast, I am so grateful that we are partnering with the newspaper.

Nick has his own tech company here in the foothills, and we in the article it mentions his time also at Sierra Cider, and Sierra Art Trails, AI and much more!

12/20/2025

Tune in for a special 30-minute radio segment with Madeline Townsend, founder of The Style Edit by MT, this Saturday, Dec. 20th on KRYZ 98.5 FM
She’s 18, based in Coarsegold, and has built a program that gives free, personalized clothing boxes to students across the foothills, and comes from an open and honest place, her heart.
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Thank you to KRYZ Radio + the Mariposa Gazette for keeping stories like this on the air.