

Fascinating people, each with their own Arizona

Lisa Schnebly Heidinger's been collecting and sharing stories from around Arizona her entire career -- first in communkty newspaper, then radio, television, magazines, and then books. Now she gets to host people she admires and likes to talk about her beloved state

Lisa Schnebly Heidinger sees Celebrating Arizona as a way for peo;ple who love and know the state to find cacets they may have missed, and hear dsecriptions and experiences in place they lve reported by other visitors and residents. In addition she feels that newcomers who fall in love with Arizona can never really

Lisa Schnebly Heidinger loved knowing her great-grandpa T.C. Schnebly named a town after her great-grandma Sedona, possibly triggering a deep love of our state’s history.
As a cub reporter for the Green Valley News, an appearance on “Good Morning America” for Pima County Victim Witness led to television reporting (although the news director who hired her said, “I just gave two weeks’ notice, so you’ll be someone else’s problem”).
She moved into television, then inorder to raise two children moved to print: Sunday op-ed, magazines, then books. She’s written an even dozen books, all about Arizona, and now hosts Celebrating Arizonas, the podcast that she sees as what the Arizona Highways magazine used to do: let people anywhere feel connected to Arizona.
Lisa has wroitten twelve books that are pbulished with one ready for publication and one in process -- this last one co-authored by her son Rye is exploring new realms in and beyond Ariozna
Chosen to be the podcast partner of AZ250, the commission leading our state's celebration of the nation turning 250, is an honor and the current slate of guests are exceeding expectations.
We really want to hear from you about what can make this podcast even better to you: subjects, guests, opeinions, anything.
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