The Ready or Not? podcast features the people who are toiling behind the scenes to close the digital divide.

The show's host is Ready.net and Broadband.money's Scott D. Woods, Esq. He is the company's VP for Community Engagement and Strategic Partnerships.

He is a former senior staffer, and the Inaugural Director of the Office of Minority Broadband Initiatives at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, or NTIA.

This inaugural show's special guest is Joshua Edmonds, Director of Digital Inclusion for Detroit, Michigan.

In future episodes, Scott will talk to local community leaders, local service providers, government representatives, and national advocates.  You'll hear the perspectives and opinions from those who do the work of connecting the unserved and the underserved.

This show will shine the spotlight on those who are building the networks and implementing digital equity programs to ensure everyone can participate in the modern digital economy. But it will also have a lighter side. Scott's guests will share their personal insights and their journeys. The discussion will stay relatively fun and informal.

For more information and resources, please visit Broadband.money, where you can learn more about broadband grants and digital inclusion. You'll also be able to explore your local connectivity profiles through our broadband maps and portals. Then, join our lively community discussions and connect with others in the broadband grants community at discuss.broadband.money.com.

For more on the Hope Village internet outage experience and its open access network, read this Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce article.

For more broadband grant resources, check out Broadband.money's Resource Center.

Scott D. Woods and Sarah Lai Stirland produced the episode. Chris Egusa engineered it.

Music from: Worldwide Beats and Aries Beats.

Jase Wilson and Mike Faloon are the Co-Founders of Ready.net and Broadband.money.