Best Debi Saltzberg Podcasts (2024)

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#097 - Amanda Smith: How Menehune Chef Brings Cooking Education & Community to Hawaiian Children 1:08:42

5+ y ago1:08:42

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Amanda Smith is the Founder and Executive Director of Menehune Chef, a non-profit that offers functional, intuitive, and practical cooking education to children on the Garden Island of Kauai, using all local Hawaiian-sourced ingredients. They work with local chefs and farmers to really infuse the essence of community involvement, sustainable living…

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#096 - Dr. Beth Ricanati: The Transformative Power of Challah & One Woman’s Journey to Wellness 49:02

5+ y ago49:02

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Dr. Beth Ricanati is a physician, mother, and the author of Braided: A Journey of a Thousand Challahs. Dr. Ricanati’s debut book chronicles her journey creating a thousand challahs, showcasing a woman’s quest for wellness and peace. She has created a career focused on bringing wellness into women’s everyday lives, especially busy moms juggling life…

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#095 - Amy Falbaum: The Invisible Backbone of the Hospitality Industry 56:45

5+ y ago56:45

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Amy Falbaum is the founder and president of Amy Falbaum & Associates (AF&A), a global hospitality recruiting firm based out of New York. This is a very different side of the industry than we usually talk about on the show, but Amy has a fascinating story and fills an often-overlooked role for the often-underappreciated people who make our meals and…

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#94 - Ani Torosyan: How DishDivvy is Solving the Dinner Dilemma 1:03:18

5+ y ago1:03:18

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Ani Torosyan is the CEO and Founder of DishDivvy, an online platform that connects approved home cooks with hungry neighbors. If you’re one of those hungry people, you can download the DishDivvy app to find homemade food with the click of a button – and if you’re someone who makes food with love, you can get paid for sharing it with your community!…

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#093 - Shoop's Delicatessen | Friday Forkisode 9:47

5+ y ago9:47

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One part delicatessen + one part European market + one part cafe = a recipe for a delicious day in Santa Monica. If you want a European delicacy of sweet treat for entertaining your guests (or yourself), Shoop’s Delicatessen on Main Street is the place to be – and if you then want to sit down in for a quick-but-mouth-watering lunch or breakfast, it…

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#092 - Chelsea Poling: Natural Tools to Bring Out the Wisdom Within 1:02:54

5+ y ago1:02:54

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Chelsea Poling is a certified Reiki Level I Practitioner, natural beauty authority and wellness expert, and the founder Rose Botanica, a natural online health and wellness boutique. Formerly employed by NASA and USAID, Chelsea has worked on behalf of the U.S. government to do everything from procuring parts for the shuttle program to promoting wome…

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#091 - Christopher Mercier: What Goes into Iconic Restaurant Spaces? 49:49

5+ y ago49:49

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People may not understand or even stop to consider the depth or complexity that goes into designing and building restaurant spaces, but today we’re going to learn a LOT more about this often-overlooked aspect of the hospitality industry. Here to discuss what goes into creating iconic restaurant spaces is Christopher Mercier, the founder and princip…

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#090 - LUIGI al TEATRO | Friday Forkisode 10:49

5+ y ago10:49

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Almost hidden behind a sneaky doorway on 2nd St. in Santa Monica, hungry and curious walkers by are just a few steps away from LUIGI al TEATRO, a secret piece of heaven nestled near Main St. High ceilings, wall frescos of theater actors, and custom furniture direct the diner towards the star of the show: the open kitchen. If you’re lucky, you might…

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#089 - Charles Duque: The Five French Cheeses You Must Try Before You Die 1:00:07

5+ y ago1:00:07

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Did you know that there are over 1,300 different varieties of cheese – just in France? I’m not forking with you! Joining the show to teach us more about these delicious dairy delicacies is Charles Duque, Managing Director of the Americas for the CNIEL (Centre national interprofessionnel de l'économie laitière), AKA the French Dairy Board. Charles a…

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#088 - Devon Loftus: How Moon Cycle Bakery’s Hormone-Supportive Treats Celebrate Our Cycles & Empower Women 59:03

5+ y ago59:03

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Devon Loftus is the founder of Moon Cycle Bakery, a sweet treat service that delivers hormone-supportive treats to people on their cycle. Devon and her team at Moon Cycle value celebration, empowerment, choice, and knowledge – and the power of a forking delicious brownie. Stigma is used to isolate people, but Moon Cycle is combatting that through c…

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#087 - Judging the San Diego Mac n’ Cheese Fest | Friday Forkisode 10:07

5+ y ago10:07

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Two award-winning top chefs, a news station producer, a fine-palated foodie, and a podcast host sit down at a table together – no, this isn’t the first line of a very obscure bar joke, this is what happened at the 4th annual San Diego Mac ‘n Cheese Fest! I had the honor of joining the expert panel of judges at the San Diego Mac & Cheese Fest, and I…

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#086 - Gino Campagna: Raising the Food IQ of American Families 1:00:15

5+ y ago1:00:15

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For over 15 years, Chef Gino Campagna has made it his personal mission to raise kids’ food IQs and help fight childhood obesity, and he has a forking awesome philosophy that helps him tackle this much-needed task: if kids are involved in their food choices and preparations – and having fun! – they’ll be more motivated to try new and nutritious food…

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#085 - Shelley Callahan: How Children Incorporated Gives Kids in Need an Opportunity to Succeed 55:53

5+ y ago55:53

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Shelley Callahan is the Director of Development at Children Incorporated, meaning she’s basically a media correspondent who gets to share the stories of incredible children all around the world who are given a chance to succeed and thrive in spite of the circumstances they’re born into. “A toast to generosity – because I really believe that when we…

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BONUS - Dr. Tilar Mazzeo: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It 1:33:28

5+ y ago1:33:28

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Ah, champagne... there is something so mysterious, so sexy, so celebratory about this delightful bubbly beverage. But it can be difficult to put our fingers on what exactly this mystical drink represents; maybe it has to do with the trajectory of the drink, the games that were played, and the controversy over the Champagne industry that still trans…

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#084 - | Friday Forkisode 14:21

5+ y ago14:21

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Zinqué cafe exudes LA cool: almost-famous and striving youngs ambitiously scribing their tales to pitch mixed with mature, seasoned, well-dressed dudes and very attractive women. It’s a melting pot of all who have made it and those who are striving to arrive. The vibe is far from pretentious – it’s just cool. Although it’s a French-inspired restaur…

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#083 - Kaitlin Mogentale: How Pulp Pantry is Upcycling Would-Be Waste, Changing the Food System, & Creating Delicious Snacks 54:47

6y ago54:47

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In the beginning, there was juice – then there was pulp. But what do you do with it? That’s the question that led Kaitlin Mogentale to found Pulp Pantry, a fruit and vegetable snack company on a mission to usher in a new wave of good nutrition and sustainability that’s accessible to everyone. “A toast to all of the amazing women who are changing ou…

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#082 - Ting Feng: Kula Ai & the Future of Agriculture 50:22

6y ago50:22

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Did you know we’re living in the future? It became crystal clear for me during this conversation with Ting Feng, CEO & co-founder of Kula Ai & the Kulafoods App. Kula Ai is an Australian-based Agriculture tech startup that's creating sustainable tech to find new ways to feed the world. “We want to find a new way to feed the world.” –Ting Feng They …

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#081 - Malibu Farm Cafe | Friday Forkisode 13:29

6y ago13:29

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From the moment you park to dine at the Malibu Farm Pier Cafe, you get the Malibu vibe: fresh, old, new, exciting, chill, and dreamy... and it only gets better from there. After a short stroll, you’re in the restaurant and it feels like Massachusetts has drifted to the West Coast; a little bit of Martha’s Vineyard sprinkled with Chatham charm. And …

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#080 - Matthew Mabel: Helping Restaurateurs Be as Good to Themselves as They are to Their Customers 55:01

6y ago55:01

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Matthew Mabel is the president and organizational development team leader of Surrender, a boutique restaurant consulting firm that helps restaurateurs run successful businesses and live happy lives. “Why aren’t restaurateurs as good to themselves as they are to their guests?” –Matthew Mabel If you’d ask Matthew what a successful business was back i…

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#079 - Patrick Smith: What’s Your Food Tribe? 52:15

6y ago52:15

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Today we’re chatting with a true food pioneer, Patrick Smith, who is on a crusade to make wellness a sustainable, scalable business model that celebrates local flavors, local chefs, local ingredients, and small carbon footprints – one meal at a time. “Helping people make the connection between food and health is one of the biggest challenges of the…

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#078 - Little Prince | Friday Forkisode 12:19

6y ago12:19

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Welcome to the very first forkisode! These tasty little audio snacks will be released every other Friday, celebrating my favorite restaurants in the LA area with a story. The star of today’s story is Little Prince, Ari Taymor's pop-up turned permanent restaurant. The setting is Main Street, Santa Monica. The plot is classy, cozy, and a little Frenc…

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#077 - Daphne Maxwell Reid: Soulful Food, Open Doors, & Fresh Prince 55:44

6y ago55:44

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I am so excited to be kicking off season two with an absolutely delightful guest: Daphne Maxwell Reid – AKA Aunt Vivian from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. And as you’ll learn in this episode, Daphne is so much more than just Aunt Viv. But before I get into Daphne’s incredible story, I want to share a little bit more about why I decided to start seas…

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#076 - A New Beginning: The End of Season 1 3:26

6y ago3:26

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Today I want to share a very special toast with all of you, so let’s raise our glasses to celebrate Season 1 of Just Forking Around. We’ve spent 75 episodes talking to some of the incredible people who grow, craft, brew, serve, and create the food & beverage we all love – and we’re just getting started! I’ll be back on September 18th for SEASON TWO…

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#075 - Ahmed Abouelenein: How The Halal Guys Brought Halal (and the White Sauce!) to America 52:57

6y ago52:57

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In 1990, you had to go out to Queens if you wanted a Halal meal in New York City. So the three original Halal Guys – Muhammed Abouelenein, Ahmed Elsaka, and Abdelbaset Elsayed – opened up a food cart for all of the hungry taxi drivers. Today, that food cart has grown into a fast casual restaurant with new locations opening up throu ghout the world …

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#074 - Shannon O'Donnell: Using Travel as a Force for Good 1:09:53

6y ago1:09:53

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Motivation, inspiration, sweet scenery: this episode has it all! And that’s because we’re talking to Shannon O'Donnell, a responsible tourism advocate who was named a National Geographic Traveler of the Year for her work helping travelers use grassroots tourism as a force for good. Shannan accomplishes this through Grassroots Volunteering, the worl…

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#073 - Mike Kelly: Knowing When to Pivot & Embracing the Right Opportunities 1:20:53

6y ago1:20:53

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Mike Kelly is the creator of Papa Bear’s Nut Butter (and the titular Papa Bear). He started the business for a simple reason: he loves nut butter! It’s something for the healthy people out there who appreciate life’s indulgences. But here’s a funny little thing about this conversation – just days after our interview, some big changes happened in Mi…

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#072 - Matt Eisenacher: How Piada Italian Street Food Defies Fast-Casual Expectations 49:19

6y ago49:19

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Today we start our show off with a toast to breakfast for lunch – one of the delicious concepts that Columbus-based Piada Italian Street Food is experimenting with right now. Our guest, Matt Eisenacher, is the Chief Concept Officer for Piada Italian Street Food. It’s a great title, and it means he oversees the branding, marketing, IT, and business …

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#071 - Joe Kahn: A Comfortable Culture + Made-From-Scratch Ingredients + Tacos = Condado Tacos 54:29

6y ago54:29

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Today we raise our glasses to the Taco Touchers out there, which is what you call the amazing people that make your food with love at Joe Kahn’s Condado Tacos. Joe worked as everything from a busboy at Sizzler to a roller skating server to restaurant manager before he and his wife came up with the idea for Condado Tacos, the go-to taco joint for Co…

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#070 - Alessandra Manias: How Saor Project is Bringing Italy to LA 1:04:46

6y ago1:04:46

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Formerly an architect and marketing consultant in Italy, now a production designer and private chef in LA: today’s guest, Alessandra Manias, is just bursting at the seams with passion and creativity. Alessandra started Saor Project with her husband, Gianluca Zago, to share the origin of ancient Italian culture, particularly northeastern Italian cui…

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#069 - Birk O'Halloran: The Art, Passion, & Stories Behind Iconic Wine 1:33:54

6y ago1:33:54

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Birk O'Halloran leads us in a toast to “getting drunk with the right people at the right time” – and it’s so forking appropriate for this episode (and, heck, the past 68 episodes too)! Birk is the owner of winemaker Iconic Wine, the author of Eat Ink, and a former sommelier. When Birk started writing Eat Ink, he was trying to answer an age-old ques…

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#068 - Nik Hawks & Lee Selman: The Couple Behind Paleo Treats 48:40

6y ago48:40

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Nik Hawks & Lee Selman are the co-founders of Paleo Treats, and let me just say: you do not have to be paleo to enjoy these forking delicious snacks! These two are a really cute couple and wonderful business partners, with wild backgrounds. Nik is a former Navy SEAL and serial entrepreneur who is really just a badass, genuine, and sweet guy. Lee is…

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#067 - Chef Randy Siles: A Tour for the Tastebuds with Costa Rica’s Ambassador of National Gastronomy 52:21

6y ago52:21

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Chef Sandy Siles is one of the best chefs in Costa Rica. He is Costa Rica’s Ambassador of National Gastronomy and the chef at the incredible Shambala Restaurant. He cooks with a really unique combination of flavors and techniques, resulting in some of the best tasting dishes you’ve never seen before. On top of that, Chef Randy Siles runs a Foundati…

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#066 - Chef James Kelly: Personalized Dining Experiences, a Solar Powered Food Truck, Organic Fruit & Vegetable Pops, and MORE! | Forking Around Costa Rica 1:02:01

6y ago1:02:01

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Chef James Kelly, or Jim for short, is a Southern New Jersey boy who relocated to Costa Rica nearly a decade ago. He is now the Executive Chef & Owner of Soma Chef Services, in addition to being a Partner in La Buena Paleta (which produces coconut water-based organic fruit & vegetable ice pops with superfoods in them) and the Owner of Dos Santos Ta…

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#065 - Georges Lefebvre: Creating Hacienda Okhra, the Community & Farm of the Future | Forking Around Costa Rica 46:45

6y ago46:45

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Georges Lefebvre is the magnanimous madman who created Hacienda Okhra, a concept community and farm located in the breathtaking hills of Las Delicias, just above the town of Mal Pais on the southern tip of the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica. Although it started as a home for Georges and a few friends, this community has grown into an impressive bus…

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#064 - Rima Danielle Jomaa: The Jungle Girl & The Vegan Lifestyle | Forking Around Costa Rica 1:19:36

6y ago1:19:36

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Today our guest leads us in a toast to meeting new people, the beautiful jungle atmosphere, and being able to do what we love and connect with people. It was the perfect toast to kick off my very first conversation with Rima Danielle Jomaa, AKA Rima the Jungle Girl. Rima is an entrepreneur, licensed marriage counselor, and vegan lifestyle advocate.…

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#063 - Ryan Bickle: Beers & Butterflies | Forking Around Costa Rica 56:03

6y ago56:03

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I had quite the adventure with Ryan Bickle, the owner and master brewer of Butterfly Brewing Company, a “hill-top jungle-brewery-butterfly-garden by the sea.” The garden and nanobrewery are located in Montezuma, Costa Rica, on the southern tip of the peninsula. The beers are just forking delicious, but if that isn’t enough, you can enjoy them while…

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#062 - Paige Cain: Exploring Mono Azul, an Expat’s Hotel & Restaurant | Forking Around Costa Rica 46:21

6y ago46:21

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This is the first episode from my forking awesome Costa Rica adventure! I had the opportunity to sit down with Paige Cain, an Owner/Operator of Hotel Mono Azul – which means Blue Monkey. The hotel is family run, located in the heart of the lush Costa Rican rainforests and pacific beaches of Manuel Antonio. Due to different resources, laws, and regu…

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#061 - Jessica Jeboult: A Sober Girl’s Guide to Food & Beverage 47:00

6y ago47:00

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Today Jessica Jebout leads us in a toast to our future: where our lovers are the truest, our friends are the staunchest, our bank account is the largest, and our liver is no worse for the wear! And today, we toast with an untraditional drink: the non-alcoholic beer St. Pauli. You see, Jessica is a sober lifestyle guide and the creator of A Sober Gi…

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#060 - Brooke Rewa: Wellness, Made with Love 53:19

6y ago53:19

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Today we’re checking back in with our very first guest, Brooke Rewa, Founder of Made with Love Wellness. So much has happened in the last year, so we have a lot to talk about: rebranding, starting over from scratch, new products, a lot of delicious juice, and how she (somehow!) looks even more forking radiant than last time we talked! If you haven’…

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#059 - Audra Mulkern: The Untold Story of America’s Female Farmers #ThisIsWomensWork 59:34

6y ago59:34

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Today we toast to the invisible people in the food system: the farmers, the farm workers, the truckers, the people behind the scenes in restaurants, and the women throughout history – a passion for today’s forking awesome guest. Audra Mulkern is an author, photographer, and farm-to-table documentarian. She is the Executive Producer and host of the …

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#058 - Jeremy Redman: Combining Community & Tech Startups with the Not Boring Business in a Box 59:50

6+ y ago59:50

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Today we toast to building community! I met Jeremy Redman, host of Not Boring Business and Founder of AirFive, at one of his live podcast events just a few weeks ago. It was an amazing event where we enjoyed good beer, great company, and a collaborative atmosphere: the perfect ingredients for a forking awesome community! AirFive has gone through a …

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#057 – Kelly Roach: Grow Faster, Run Smarter, & Launch an Awesome Business 33:32

6+ y ago33:32

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Your requests have been answered: Kelly Roach is back for another episode!! If you didn’t hear our first episode, Kelly is the host of Unstoppable Success Radio, an international best-selling author, strategist, motivator, and really just a badass. She’s also in the process of launching a brand-new company, Give Her Courage, a personal development …

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#056 – Eileen Bivalacqua & Mary Anna Rogers: Celebrating 300 Years of New Orleans & 3 Years of Seven Three Distilling 1:02:05

6+ y ago1:02:05

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Resilience, passion, mardi gras, crawfish, beer, music, and the people: there’s a lot to love in New Orleans, and the ONE thing that brings people together more than the food is a mutual love of cocktails. In celebration of this – and everything else in the city’s vibrant, three-hundred year history – we are chatting with Eileen Bivalacqua & Mary A…

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#055 – Pia Carusone: Politics & Bourbon in Republic Restoratives Distillery 1:07:42

6+ y ago1:07:42

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Pia Carusone, with her co-founder Rachel Gardner, opened Republic Restoratives Distillery in May 2016 – the only crowd-funded distillery in the country and the first women-owned distillery in D.C. So how did Pia get to be the owner of a distillery in our nation’s capital? Hold onto something, because this story is full of emotion, determination, ca…

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#054 – Litty Mathew: Spiritsmaker of Greenbar Distillery, Makers of The World’s Largest Portfolio of Organic Spirits 1:10:12

6+ y ago1:10:12

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This week, our series on the badass women in the spirits world stays local! I got to join Litty Mathew in person at Greenbar Distillery, the first distillery to open in LA after prohibition ended. Litty is the co-founder and spiritsmaker at Greenbar Distillery, where she and her husband oversee a growing portfolio of small-batch, organic spirits – …

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#053 – Lacie Thornton: Distiller, Scientist, & Bada** 1:01:13

6+ y ago1:01:13

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Lacie Thornton is our fourth badass female distiller in three episodes, and she knows a thing or two about both sharks and booze!! Lacie is one of two distillers at Grand Traverse Distillery, where she is responsible for the production of vodka, gin, rum, bourbon, and rye whiskey at Michigan's first Craft Certified Grain-to-Bottle distillery. They’…

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#052 – Ashby Marshall: The Grain-to-Glass Story of Spirit Works Distillery 1:01:12

6+ y ago1:01:12

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Today we’re talking to another kick-ass, badass female distiller: Ashby Marshall, Co-Founder & Brand Director of Spirit Works Distillery. I’m not kidding when I say Ashby is a forking badass. She met her husband and co-founder, Timo, while they were both sailing around on the Rainbow Warrior for Greenpeace. Wow!! Just a few years later, they laid a…

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#051 – Joyce & Autumn Nethery: The Dynamic Mother-Daughter Duo Behind Jeptha Creed Distillery 1:14:46

6+ y ago1:14:46

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In November, 2015, this dynamic duo broke ground on the 15,000-square-foot distillery in Shelbyville, KY. Joyce is the Master Distiller behind the operation, while her daughter Autumn acts as Co-Owner and Marketing Manager. And although Jeptha Creed is still very young, they’re already creating incredible buzz in the spirits world. This episode is …

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#050 – Lorri Moore: Living the CBD Lifestyle 1:03:49

6+ y ago1:03:49

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Returning guest Lorri Moore joins us on the boat once again, with a bottle of bubbly white wine and a toast to living the CBD lifestyle: healthy and abundant in all things wonderful. Lorri is the Founder of Iron Horse Organics, and her mission is to provide both individuals and animals with pharmaceutical grade, full spectrum hemp oil extracts. Thi…

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#049 – Mark Addison: How Cocktail Chameleon Brings Mixology to the Masses 1:23:08

6+ y ago1:23:08

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Mark Addison is an award-winning designer, event planner, TV personality, entertaining expert, and the author of my new favorite book, Cocktail Chameleon. In Cocktail Chameleon, Mark dresses up 12 cocktails in 12 unique variations for 144 signature takes on the classics. Inspiring the creative mixologist in everyone, it is an ally for hosts looking…

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