Sarasota SpeaX comes back from a one-week hiatus with news to share. The two-time platinum award-winning podcast has moved into a new studio, still a work in progress, and is introducing a new wrinkle to its format: a rotating group of three co-hosts, dubbed The Home Team, who will join the three main hosts on select episodes going forward.
Brad Hannon, Trey Martell and Vic Cipolla anchor this launch episode alongside two of The Home Team's rotating members, Rachel Borock, owner of Catch A Buzz Events, and Rich Tyson, a Realtor and host of his own show, Why Sarasota. The conversation stays close to the show itself, walking through what listeners can expect from the new studio, the rotating co-host concept, and how the team is fine-tuning the content going forward to give the audience a better experience overall.
Rachel and Rich each bring their own Sarasota expertise into the mix, Rachel from the events and hospitality side through Catch A Buzz Events, and Rich from real estate and his own local media project. Their presence signals what The Home Team format is meant to accomplish: bringing more local voices and perspectives into the rotation without changing the core of what Sarasota SpeaX has built with Brad, Trey and Vic at the center.
A New Chapter, Same Sarasota Focus
The episode functions as much as a state-of-the-show address as a typical guest conversation, with the hosts being upfront that the new studio is still coming together and asking listeners for patience during the transition.
As a format-launch episode built around the show itself rather than a single outside guest, this one skips the usual roundabout question and Rapid Fire Gauntlet, saving those staples for the guests The Home Team format will bring on in the episodes ahead. The hosts frame the changes as growth rather than reinvention, still built around conversations with Sarasota entrepreneurs and personalities, just with a wider bench of local voices helping carry the show forward from here. Brad, Trey and Vic each speak to what the two-time platinum recognition has meant for the show's trajectory, and why they felt now was the right moment to invest in a bigger studio and a broader rotating cast rather than stick with the format that got Sarasota SpeaX this far.
What you'll take away
- Sarasota SpeaX has moved into a new studio, still in progress, after a one-week hiatus
- The show introduces The Home Team, a rotating group of co-hosts joining Brad Hannon, Trey Martell and Vic Cipolla
- Rachel Borock, owner of Catch A Buzz Events, and Rich Tyson, Realtor and host of Why Sarasota, are featured as Home Team members in this launch episode
- The episode is framed as a show update rather than a traditional single-guest interview