Sally Bradshaw

Host Dave Fiore speaks with Sally Bradshaw, owner of Midtown Reader, Tallahassee's neighborhood independent bookstore. Sally is a Mississippi native who fell in love with books and grassroots politics at an early age. The latter would guide a career that included running gubernatorial and presidential campaigns, serving as political director for the Republican Party of Florida and returning to The White House, where she was a college intern, as President George H.W. Bush's associate director of political affairs. But in 2016, Sally walked away from politics, and the Republican Party, and opened up a bookstore on Thomasville Road.

They talk about Sally's love of lifelong learning, her role as Chair of Tallahassee Memorial Hospital's Board of Directors, the future of local healthcare in our community and why having a thriving independent bookstore is vital for a healthy community ecosystem.