Danica Lo & Company

Georgia Rappleye is a fourth-grade literacy teacher in Florida and a veteran of the media industry. We met years ago when a small team of us opened the New York office of a Silicon Valley content startup -- afterwards, Georgia went on to become a VP at CBS and later launched a women's travel startup called MunSun Retreats. I was lucky enough to attend one of MunSun's first trips to Turks and Caicos, where Georgia (by then also a certified life coach) helped me find a greater sense of clarity and direction in my career. Today, she is a fourth-grade teacher in Florida, where she has been working and teaching under lockdown for the past year. In this episode, Georgia and I talk about how she's pivoted her career several times over the last ten years, what it means to trust your instincts, and the rewards and challenges of launching your own business.

MunSun Retreats: https://www.facebook.com/munsunretreats/
Georgia Rappleye on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georgiarapp/

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Caitlin Moscatello is the author of See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of Women Changing American Politics and an award-winning journalist specializing in gender, reproductive rights, and politics. She is the founder of Repro, a free newsletter covering reproductive rights legislation at the state and federal levels in the United States. Caitlin and I became great friends years ago when we both worked at Glamour in New York -- she is someone I am always in awe of for her passion, her work ethic, and her thorough and tireless commitment to reporting.

In this episode, which we recorded in late May 2020, Caitlin and I talk about her pregnancy during the Covid-19 pandemic; we also briefly discuss the state of the media industry as well as the upcoming election and what she learned about women in politics while researching, reporting, and writing See Jane Win (it's a fantastic book, I strongly recommend you pick it up if you haven't already read it).

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Jennifer Anderson is currently a consultant for the World Bank Group; she was previously a senior business analyst for the City of Seattle (and was working there when Covid-19 landed on the west coast) and the Director of Education Program Development at Save the Children US. But most importantly... Jen and I were freshman year college roommates! We're still very close today, though we haven't seen each other in a few years. I wanted to catch up with Jen to find out how it's going in Seattle and also ask her about whether there are some key learnings from her extensive experience and history working in international development that could be applied to what become so plainly apparent about the state of things in the United States today. She was very diplomatic about it all (I'd expect nothing less!). 

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India-Jewel Jackson is a technology content strategist based in Amsterdam. India and I have been good friends for more than a decade -- we first met when I interviewed with her for a job at the digital media company where she was working at the time (spoiler alert: I didn't get the job, but we hit it off right away and have been friends ever since!). Before India expatriated to Munich in 2017 -- later Berlin and now Amsterdam -- she was a beauty and style director in New York and launched the branded content studios at Hearst. In this episode of the podcast, India and I talk about her career background, how she decided to move abroad, and how *you too* can expatriate yourself. Did you know that there's a pretty easy and inexpensive process whereby American freelancers can expatriate to the Netherlands? 

You can follow India-Jewel Jackson on Instagram at @IndiaJewelJax -- https://www.instagram.com/indiajeweljax/

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Chef Angie Mar is the award-winning chef-owner of The Beatrice Inn. We met when Angie was honored as a Food & Wine Best New Chef in 2017 and ever since then, The Beatrice Inn has been one of my favorite restaurants in New York. Some of my best recent memories of New York City have been early evenings and late nights perched at the corner of the bar drinking smoked Manhattans and gossiping with Angie over plates of her signature fried chicken. Before I moved to Hong Kong last year, I made sure my very last supper in NYC was whiskey-aged beef at the Bea. In this episode of the podcast we talk about how Angie has pivoted her business during the Covid-19 crisis and what could come next for chefs and restaurants in New York.

You can find Chef Angie Mar on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/angiekmar/
Butcher + Beast cookbook: https://www.amazon.com/Butcher-Beast-Mastering-Art-Meat/dp/0525573666
The Beatrice Inn is in New York City's West Village: https://thebeatriceinn.com/
Please donate to The Beatrice Inn Employee Relief Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-beatrice-inn-employee-relief-fund

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Blake Keng is a product design manager at an award-winning fashion styling platform based in San Francisco. Blake and I previously worked together for about a year at Epicurious -- in an integrated and collaborative edit-product team that was, at the time, a groundbreaking structure at Conde Nast. That year was also a pivotal turning point in both our careers. Since our Epi days, Blake and I have continued to keep in touch and collaborate on more recent projects. I love this episode because Blake told me that when we met, he thought I was the "most intense person" he's ever met -- the feeling is/was mutual!

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Jee Park is a Senior Vice President at Magrino PR in New York, a former television producer, and a mom of two living in New York City. I've known Jee for years -- on a professional level as a colleague and collaborator as well as on a friend level (we found out pretty early on that we share a lot of very strong opinions on a lot of things in our industries). In this podcast, Jee and I talk about how food and wine businesses are pivoting in the current coronavirus crisis, how the PR industry is as busy as it ever was, and what parenting two school-age children is like under the current social distancing and school closure situation.

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David Landsel has been a travel and food journalist and editor for two decades. David and I worked together and sat next to each other for many years when we were both starting out in the features department at the New York Post. We've stayed close friends throughout the years and have dined and traveled together, extensively. He is one of the smartest people I've ever met and the person whose opinion and knowledge I trust most when it comes to travel. In this episode, David talks about the mission statement of his work -- and why it's important to him to write and report with the reader and consumer's best interests at heart.

You can find David's most recent work at Food & Wine: https://www.foodandwine.com/contributors/david-landsel

Thank you so much for listening to this early episode of Danica Lo & Company. I started this podcast so I could have an excuse to have long, rambling 90s-style phone conversations with my favorite people and closest friends who, over the years, have scattered all over the the world. Please subscribe to this podcast and leave me a five-star review (if you like!). 

Welcome to the Danica Lo & Company podcast! I started this podcast because after a career lifetime in New York City, I upped and moved to Hong Kong in 2019. I really miss my friends, who are spectacular humans and, who over the years, have scattered all over the world -- so I launched this show where we can have longform 90s-style conversations about specific things, but also random things.

Thank you so much for tuning in! Please subscribe to this podcast and leave me a five-star review (if you like!). You can also find me on Instagram @danicalo.