Cocktails & Conversation

We can’t believe it either! It’s been 50 episodes of the Cocktails and Conversation Podcast. To celebrate this momentous occasion, I invited long-time Orlando Mayor, Buddy Dyer to join me on the podcast. I brought my little recording set up to City Hall and asked the Mayor some hard hitting questions. Kidding. But, I did get to find out how his first job helped him in his current job, what his real name is, and how he feels rested and renewed! Also spoiler alert, the Mayor’s go-to drink is so simple. You can make it in about 3 seconds flat: Tito’s Handmade Vodka, Club Soda, and Lime! Enjoy!

If there is one thing we can all agree on, it’s been one hell of a Global Pandemic. This past year has been a myriad of things ... Ups / Downs and everything in between. I invited my incredibly wise friend, Aaron Moore, over to chat about how this Pandemic has had an effect on our bodies and our Mental Health. I don’t know about you, but I have been really feeling it. Plus, I wanted him to speak about how getting into our bodies affects our brains. Aaron is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor at his practice, Solace Counseling. Aaron sips on a real simple and refreshing Tito’s Handmade Vodka cocktail and things get real DEEP! I hope you don’t sleep on this episode. ENJOY!

When you sit down with Tony Adams to hear all his stories, you better have time on your hands and a good amount of Whiskey. Lucky for me, I had both! I’m always so proud of the Orlando folks that, sadly, move away from Orlando, but create incredible careers and magical things around the country and the world! Tony is no exception. He shares how he knew he wanted to be a Chef since he was 14, how he has created the MOST DELICIOUS pasta company out of a Global Pandemic, Mill Valley Pasta Co., and how learning about the Enneagram just might be unlocking some things for him! Hope you make a couple of these delish Whiskey Sours and settle in for a wild ride!

Summer on Summer! So thankful to visit my friend Summer Singletary in San Francisco. She spent several years in Orlando learning how plants heal us and then gained experience worldwide. She helped to Co-Found The Kosmic Kitchen and has now moved onto her own ventures of Marketing for unconventional brands Warmly Summer and an Herbal Business Conference Emblossom Herbal. We chat her journey with herbs, her journey to SF, and her brand new journey with the Enneagram. Plus a delish and healthy-ish Tito's Handmade Vodka Cocktail. Please do ENJOY!

Spending time with adventuring friends is quite life giving. So glad I got to share some space with Chelsea Steele. A pioneering young woman from Orlando who has made her way to Los Angeles. She has already started and sold a mini-cultural phenomenon, has a couple songs out, and is now shopping her screenplay around the LA town. I'm tired just thinking of doing all those things. We shared one of my favorite (and hopefully yours, too) Tito’s Handmade Vodka Cocktails. Get the recipe and all Chelsea's wild stories in this episode. ENJOY!

First podcast on the road! So fun to check in with my filmmaker friend, Jon Strong. We chatted moving to Los Angeles from Orlando with his family, in the middle of a pandemic. Jon talks and talks and we are here for it. ; ) We chat his growing up in Orlando, how his family of origin influenced him as a dad, and his plans for living in Los Angeles! I made him one of my new favorite drinks, a Jungle Bird, made with Treaty Oak Rum, which I dare say, is the king of all Tiki drinks. You can decide for yourself, as I have included the recipe! ENJOY.

It’s no secret that I could talk about International travel all day and/or International food! So it was such a pleasure to chat with Katerina about her life that may or may not resemble “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.” She and her husband opened Taverna Opa, Tapa Toro and have a new Mexican concept in the works! Plus, she is headed to Greece in short order for her family Holiday (pack me in your suitcase please!). We got to sip on some tropical Tito’s Handmade Vodka drinks and chat all things entrepreneurship. We would love for you to listen in!

Well, we all gotta eat. And one of the best places to eat around town is Pig Floyd’s. I have to say we are more than blessed when it comes to incredible food and drink in Orlando! My friend Thomas Ward who created Pig Floyd’s came by for a chat and drink and shared some fantastic stories! We chat learning how to create delicious burgers by watching YouTube, going broke a couple times in adulthood, and his latest venue that includes PIIIIIIIZZZZZZZAAAAAA, which I am not mad about. Join us as we do some day drinking: Boulevardiers with Treaty Oak Ghost Hill Bourbon!

Well Cheers to new friends! It was so fun to invite someone NEW over into my home and on the podcast this time around. So fun to chat the Enneagram in depth and get to know an incredible story of courage and new adventures! We got to sip on some tropical Tito’s Vodka drinks, that I named after my new friend, and share in the wonder that is all the wonderful folks that live in Orlando! I know you will enjoy this one!

You don’t know Orlando if you don’t know Corinne Gammichia. She is the mastermind behind Alchemy Hair Salon. I would dare to say, Orlando’s most creative salon! These stories are PURE GOLD. She shares her journey with High School, why she still doesn’t have a full kitchen, and her road to being an adoptive mom to her incredible son, Seger! We may or may not have had Pineapple and Mango Waterloo Gin & Tonics at a morning hour, but I will say it was VERY worth it! DO NOT SLEEP ON THIS EPISODE.