Feeding Your Passion

Carey Bringle, Owner of Peg Leg Porker in Nashville, TN

About Peg Leg Porker and Owner, Carey Bringle:

Nashville native, Pit-master Carey Bringle, has been competing in barbecue contests for more than 25 years, and he has the blue ribbons to prove it. With a deep southern background built around family values and valuing a good meal, Bringle founded Peg Leg Porker in 2013. Peg Leg Porker is named after Bringle himself and his greatest win, a cancer battle that he triumphed over at the age of 17. With his win, he lost his leg, which led him to create a new name, and only added more fire to his passion for success.

Upon opening its doors in the heart of Nashville, Peg Leg Porker was quickly named one of the hottest BBQ Joints in the country by media outlet after media outlet - including Food Network, The Travel Channel, BBC, Southern Living Magazine, Texas Monthly, GQ, Garden & Gun Magazine and many more. Peg Leg Porker is known for its juicy, smoked to perfection pork ribs, drenched with a spicy dry rub *after* being cooked, as well as Its homemade yet playful sides like Kool-Aid Pickles and Pork Rind Nachos. All things Peg leg feel and taste like home.

Peg Leg Bourbon:

In 2016, Bringle founded Peg Leg Bourbon, the world’s only Bourbon brand owned by a pit-master himself. The rich smoky notes are unmatched as created by a man who knows smoke better than most. Peg Leg Bourbon can be found across the country in New York, Tennessee and Oklahoma and tasted on-site at the Peg Leg headquarters in The Gulch in Nashville. With more than six years of various industry nominations of “The Best BBQ” in both media and by peers, the name Carey Bringle and the Peg Leg Porker brand has grown from a must- stop barbecue place in Tennessee to a way of life!

https://www.peglegporker.com/

Joanna Heart the Owner of The Palm Coffee Bar located in Burbank, CA

Joanna Heart was born & grew up just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She grew up studying art and music later moving to Los Angeles California where she attended Musicians institute for computer recording and LA ORT for graphic design. 

She spent the next 15 years in the fashion industry as a recruiter, Hiring digital creatives and working with some of the world’s top talent for some of LA’s coolest fortune 500s. 

Combining all of her talents & gifts… art, marketing, graphic design, creative direction, and her love for recruiting and people development over a conversation on New Year’s Eve it occurred to her that a coffee shop may be a perfect space to fulfill all of her dreams in one.

The Palm Coffee Bar was born February 17, 2018 it has quickly been one of the hottest, buzzing, small coffee shops in the LA area. 

https://www.thepalmcoffeebar.com/

Chef Andy Gonzales Owner / Partner of Steinbeck’s Ale House & The Companion & Oakhurst Market

Chef Andy Gonzales is Chef-Partner in Steinbeck’s Ale House & The Companion & Oakhurst Market in the Atlanta area. He brings with him an extensive amount of experience in Atlanta’s culinary scene to create the distinctive comfort food that is his hallmark. In addition to his culinary skills, Gonzales also benefits from a professional-level knowledge of beer and wine to assist all of his businesses.

https://www.steinbecksbar.com/

https://www.facebook.com/TheCompanionBar/

https://www.oakhurstmarket.com/

Hey Passion Nation! Welcome to the first ever episode of Feeding Your Passion! This is episode 00. This is the precursor to all other episodes. Feeding Your Passion is a podcast for the Entrepreneur and the Food Connoisseur. This episode will be about 15 minutes long and it's just you and me today. Starting in our next episode, I’ll be interviewing amazing Restaurant owners week in and week out.

Today, my goal is to share with you my vision & inspiration for the podcast and then wrap up by telling you a little bit about myself.

Before you get rolling on the next episode, I would love for you to visit my website FeedingYourPassion.com where you can sign up for our email list so that we can deliver the podcast to your inbox every week. By going to our website, we can connect and work together to build PASSION NATION….. Now, prepare to be FED! (transition sound effect or music)

Hey everyone, Eric Martin here and I want to thank you for joining me for episode 00 of FeedingYourPassion.com. Every week I will be interviewing the most exciting and inspiring Restaurant Owners of today. Each interview will be captivating in its own right as it will be a virtual VIP dining experience where you join the head-table with our celebrity guest restauranteur in their establishment. I’m excited about producing a new 25-minute episode for you each week. So what this means for you is that Feeding Your Passion will be awaiting you, at the beginning of the week, for your commute to work, your morning jog or any weekly activity that requires an extra dose of inspiration.

We will follow a clear concise format on every show so that you will know exactly what to expect day in and day out. Have I got your attention? If so, then keep listening and I’ll dive into the interview flow before moving on to tell you a little bit about myself, your host, Eric Martin.

Ok… Food Connoisseurs pull up a chair, this part was designed for you. We start with our Front of the House virtual VIP Dining Experience where you will personally get to know the spotlighted Restaurant Owner, you will hear in their own words what inspired them to open their restaurant and what they feel sets them apart with the dining experience they’ve created for you. Next you’ll learn, with mouthwatering detail, their most popular, must try and favorite culinary creations! Whether it’s your next date night or dinner with a client, I want to facilitate a connection between you and these amazing Restaurant Owners.

The next segment is geared toward the entrepreneur but stick around for the entire show and you just might receive a VIP ticket with a special offer directly from the owner of the restaurant. (Free Dessert)

Whether you’re a current or aspiring Restaurant Owner, manager or Chef the Back of the House segment was designed with you in mind. We will now take a deeper dive to learn more from our guest by asking questions like:

1.     What is one thing you feel like you have done really well in the development of your Restaurant(s)

2.     What is one thing you NOW know that you wish you would have known when you started your foodservice journey?

3.     And much more!

All of these questions let us learn from their valuable experience as a Restaurant Owner. Then, as we walk through their challenges, we will have the opportunity to benefit from what they learned and what they did to overcome.

At this point, we’ve reached my favorite part, the Final Crumb (from the table of a winner)! One of my favorite quotes is that “I’d rather eat a crumb from the table of a winner than to eat a full meal from the table of a looser” The final crumb segment is a lightning round segment that probes deep into the mind of the restaurant owner to extract priceless nuggets