Ryan Aleman Reyes started high school hesitant to speak up. By his senior year at Walter Johnson High School, he had founded the school’s Communications Club and built his own interview platform, one that now includes conversations with Montgomery County Public Schools leaders. Episode 8 of Moderately Mic’d features AlemanContinue Reading
Dr. Josh Funk turned a single physical therapy clinic into a 15-location regional company without losing the vision that made the original practice work. The founder and CEO of Rehab 2 Perform joined Moderately Mic’d to discuss the personal and entrepreneurial journey behind that growth, from the earliest version ofContinue Reading
Dragan Manic immigrated to the United States from Serbia and built Zip Moving & Storage from the ground up. In the latest episode of Moderately Mic’d, he walks through the decisions, challenges, and shifts that turned a new arrival’s ambition into a moving and storage company serving the Washington area.Continue Reading
Jenna Levine Liu built Sixx Cool Moms into a national social network with more than 100,000 members, starting from a single local moms group. The community now includes chapters across the country, built around friendship, support, business networking, and creating space for parents to show up as themselves. In theContinue Reading
Amanda Levin founded NeuroSpice Girls to create what she couldn’t find when her family first began navigating neurodivergence: a community built around friendship, humor, and real-time support for moms raising neurodivergent kids in the DMV area. In the fourth episode of Moderately Mic’d, Levin shares the personal path that ledContinue Reading
Former Montgomery County Council President Craig Rice now leads Manna Food Center, one of the county’s primary organizations addressing food insecurity. In the latest episode of Moderately Mic’d, Rice discusses his shift from elected office to nonprofit leadership and what he sees as the county’s most pressing challenges. Rice’s moveContinue Reading
Justin the Artist has built a recognizable body of work in Montgomery County, and in Episode 2 of Moderately Mic’d, recorded February 21, 2026 at Montgomery Community Media Studios in Rockville, he talks about how that happened, and what it takes to sustain it. The conversation covers how he gotContinue Reading
Thomas Taylor, Superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools, sat down for the first episode of Moderately Mic’d to address the decisions and pressures shaping one of the largest school districts in the country. The January 23 conversation covered the ongoing boundary studies that have drawn intense attention from families acrossContinue Reading
Moderately MOCO is launching Moderately Mic’d, a new conversation series focused on people making a real difference across Montgomery County. The show will feature in-depth conversations with community builders, business owners, nonprofit leaders, artists, athletes, educators, and students who are shaping what’s next in MoCo. Episodes will be available onlineContinue Reading