Real conversations. Local voices. Meaningful stories from Hampton Roads and beyond.
About ListenUp
ListenUp Podcast with Al Neely is a Hampton Roads-based podcast built around real conversations, local voices, and meaningful stories. The show highlights artists, creatives, entrepreneurs, educators, leaders, and changemakers who are shaping culture, business, and community in Virginia Beach, Hampton Roads, and beyond.
Each episode creates space for honest dialogue, fresh perspective, and deeper understanding. Through thoughtful conversations, ListenUp gives guests the opportunity to share their story, their work, their challenges, and the impact they hope to make.
Our Mission
At its core, ListenUp is about connection. Most people want the same fundamental things: peace of mind, nourishment, shelter, safety, purpose, and the chance to be understood. Through conversations with people from different backgrounds, industries, and lived experiences, ListenUp creates space for listening, learning, and growth.
Listen. Learn. Enjoy.
About Host Al Neely
Hosted by Al Neely, ListenUp brings curiosity, community, and conversation together in a way that feels honest and approachable. Al has spent much of his life asking deeper questions about people, purpose, behavior, and understanding. His goal is to create conversations that go beyond the surface and give guests room to speak openly about who they are, what they do, and why it matters.
Through ListenUp, Al helps bring local voices to the forefront while connecting creativity, lived experience, entrepreneurship, culture, and community impact through thoughtful dialogue.
What We Talk About
ListenUp Podcast features conversations across a wide range of topics, including art, music, business, education, community leadership, wellness, culture, personal growth, and the stories behind the work. Whether the guest is an artist, entrepreneur, advocate, educator, creative, or community leader, every conversation is rooted in curiosity and connection.
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