Welcome back to the Find Me in Seattle Podcast, Episode 008! This week is snowy and cold in Seattle but that didn't stop me from discovering some wonderful people and places around the city.

The headline of this week's show was "Seattle Will Have Nation's First Human Composting Site." In May 2019, Gov. Jay Inslee signed legislation making Washington the first state to approve composting as an alternative to cremation or burial. CEO of Recompose, Katrina Spade has created a process that involves composting a human body in individual containers with alfalfa, straw and wood chips. A month later, a square yard of soil is available for the family to plant in a home, or spread in another dedicated space. 

The Meal of the Week comes from Dolar Shop Hop Pot in the Bravern building of Downtown Bellevue. The highlights of the meal included getting your own individual hot pot for your choice of broth. We ordered a tower of assorted beef and lamb, a bowl of vegetables, handmade noodles, and the kicker at the end, a vanilla soft serve ice cream cone. 

The Featured Business of the Week is the Puget Sound Company. They are an 8 member a capella group based in Seattle. They invited me to watch their rehearsal leading up to the Seattle A Capella Festival at Benaroya Hall on Wednesday Jan 15th. 

Thank you so much for watching and listening to Episode 008 of the Find Me in Seattle Podcast! 

Welcome back to the Find Me in Seattle Podcast, episode 007. This is the first podcast of the year and I have been obsessed with everyone's observations over the course of the decade. In my opinion, I think the 2010's will be remember as the decade we got addicted to our phones. It will be the time in human history where we quickly transformed to having these tiny computers on us 24/7 and paying attention more to them than to the people around us. The second half of the show highlights my favorite moments and meals of 2019, my goals for 2020 and I announce my Meal of the Year (also listed below). I also share a the story of crashing my drone on New Year's Eve and missing the countdown to the new year. 

My best moment of 2019  include:

- Partnership with Getaround and the Evergrey which took me on a 2 day adventure followed by a videographer to Leavenworth, Washington to meet some influential people of the tiny Bavarian community. 

- Seafeast by White Swan Public House

- Snowpocalypse 2019

- That time I proposed a $5000/month contract and was immediately denied

- Chipping my tooth and having Dr Choi from Cornerstone Dental fix it

- Carving a Pumpkin

- Visiting Kennedy Space Station

-Starting this podcast

My meal of the year goes to the tasting menu at Wataru, a small sushi restaurant in the Ravenna neighborhood. 

My Dick's Waffle Burger gets an honorable mention in meal of the year.

Welcome to Episode 006 of the Find Me in Seattle Podcast! This week's episode kicks off with two pieces of news:

1) After 40 years of service in Pike Place Market, the longstanding Pike Place Newsstand will be closing down on December 31st, 2019. The famous stop in the market was widely known for carrying newspapers from cities, big and small, all around the country, but as years have gone by, their number one selling product has become bubble gum to be taken into the gum wall around the corner. 

2) The Seattle Public library announced that starting in 2020, they will no longer be charging daily late fees on books that are overdue. I have some mixed feelings about the topic knowing that the late fee was the only thing preventing people from stealing books. However, while recording the episode, I did notice that they will charge for the full price of the book if it is not returned within 30 days of the due date.

The MEAL OF THE WEEK comes from Issaquah, Washington at a little pub called The Black Duck! The Black Duck has a strong focus on beer but also offers a delicious duck-focused food menu. Our meal included the Duck Poutine, Duck Drummies, The Black Duck Pizza Pie, and The Burger.

Our FEATURED BUSINESS OF THE WEEK is also located on the Eastside! Hui Lau Shan is a mango-focused dessert bar. In Hong Kong, you can find more of their locations than Starbucks or McDonalds. Each dish is prepared daily with fresh mango and we thought the dessert were not only delicious, but I didn't feel as sugary like I would after most dessert.

In today's episode, we also cover Google's Year in Search

Episode 005: It's crazy to think that this week is the two year anniversary since I was let go from my last job. It was a weird day, it didn't feel like the other last days of work I had in the past. It was exciting because I knew the following week was going to be the start of a new focus, dedicating my full time to Find Me in Seattle. I go to this annual Ugly Sweater Party and I remember the day I got let go, I went to this same party, and now that I am going again this year, it's fun to reflect on that moment. 

This week I am starting two new segments: Meal of the Week, and Featured Business of the Week and here they are:

Meal of the Week: Shredded Chicken Congee from Congeez in Uwajimaya in the International District. Congee is an Asian Rice Porridge  that is complimented by a meat and topped with spices. Congeez comes with a lot of ginger which is great for sick and/or rainy days.

Featured Business of the Week: Low Rider Baking Company - Emily started Low Rider as a cookie popup, which she started to take to farmer's markets. She then grew into a space in Georgetown and then to a physical retail location in the Central District. She was actually one of the first brands to ever work with Find Me in Seattle when she reached out and asked if I would promote her company in exchange for a box of cookies. I ended up taking the box around the city on the 62 bus line and took pictures with the cookies at Green Lake, The Fremont Troll and Downtown Seattle. My pro tip, make sure to get a birthday cake cookie and the Oreo cookie. However, she has these new stuffed cookies that are amazing. 

If you don't have plans on Saturday April 14th, make sure you check out the Green Lake Pathway of Lights! 

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This week I am recording the show remotely from Las Vegas because I am here for a conference. I had a beautiful interaction with an elderly women at a restaurant at the Bellagio called Lagos which resulted in her kindly buying us dinner. The show will dive deeper, but she ended it saying "the world would be so much better, if more people were as nice as you." The moment filled me with love, compassion, happiness and even a little sadness. I also enjoyed dinner at Momofuku and Milk Bar. 

The core of today's show is the wacky story of how Seattle actually has 3 birthdays. My story on the show is all over the place in terms of story tellings, but in short, here's the history of the three days. 1 Day recognizes the day the original settlers moved from their first location on West Seattle, into what is current Pioneer Square. The second birthday recognizes the first attempt at becoming an official city, which only last 2 years. The 3rd, and official birthday Dec. 2, 1869, happened when the city reestablishes they are Seattle, with a change in governmental structure having a mayor and city council. 

Ok, that was as winded as my talking in this show. 

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Welcome to Episode 003 of the Find Me in Seattle Podcast, I am your host, Conner Cayson! This week was Thanksgiving and Black Friday, which is also kind of the same day now. In this week's show we are talking about Being Thankful, Where I Spent Thanksgiving, Going Black Friday shopping, The Macy's Star was Saved, and three places I visited this week: Hog Island Hoagies, Conduit Coffee Roasters & Tutta Bella Pizza.

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Welcome to episode 002 of the Podcast. This solo episode is a work in progress. Listen in for a review and recap of my visit to the brand new, highly anticipated Momosan Ramen, by Chef Morimoto in the International District of Seattle. I also spend some time talking about commuting in Seattle, a 9% decrease in single person cars, claiming a rock from the remnants of the Alaska Way Viaduct, and a weird commercial about how we should be excited to save $2 by using our Good-to-go pass on the new underground tunnel (insert awkward hand gesture from the commercial here). Shout out to Steve Pool, I wish you a happy retirement! 

Welcome to the first show of the Find Me in Seattle Podcast. This first show will be a solo episode with Conner Cayson, founder of Find Me in Seattle. This week, Conner talks about the MLS Cup Final between Seattle Sounders and Toronto FC and the following victory parade. Disney+ also launched this week and we noticed a new scramble between friends to share login and get access to the new streaming service. We also visited Salumi in Pioneer Square this week for an insanely large charcuterie board. Conner closes out the show by talking about Instagram getting rid of likes on their app and how that could change their business and how we use the tool. 

Hey everyone! This is the unofficial first episode of Find Me in Seattle with Conner Cayson. I recorded this episode as an experiment as a part of another podcast I host, called Catching Up with Conner and Nick.  In my first solo episode I explore the upcoming MLS Cup in Seattle and explore how Amazon celebrated Alexa's 5th birthday by sending us travel mugs. 

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