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Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Podcast RSS Feed   Community. Neighborly. These words are the genesis of why two Frisco locals created the nabo app. Meaning “neighbor” in Danish, nabo is a grocery app where neighbors can help each other by picking up items at their local store and dropping them off to one another. At the store and have a few extra minutes? Check and see if there’s anything a neighbor needs. At home and need just a few items? See if anyone on nabo can help you out while they’re at the store. Listen and enjoy as we explore a little more about how nabo services our community and our local nonprofits. SHOW NOTES: [00:23] What is nabo? [02:54] How is it different? [06:51] Who can use nabo? [09:56] Launch date and what’s next for nabo LINKS & RESOURCES: Nabo on Lifestyle Frisco | Website | Facebook: @nabodelivery  | Instagram: @nabodelivery Connect with Lifestyle Frisco on:  YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Transcript Machine-generated. Welcome to the Frisco Podcast. I’m your host today, Kelly Walker. And we are talking to local business owners, Jim and Charith, about nabo. We’re going to learn what that means today. So welcome to the studio, guys. How are you? Great. Thank you so much for having us here, Kelly. We really appreciate it. Well, I know a little about nabo, but I don’t know if our audience knows everything. So I want to fill them in. The basics, I guess, is that Frisco has its own food technology startup. So tell us what that means, what it’s all about. Aboslutely, Kelly. Thanks for having us here. We, we love being here at Lifestyle Frisco’s office. So well, the first thing is we are a delivery app and nabo means neighbor in Danish. So true to the word. We are all about neighbors. We are about building stronger communities, building stronger neighborhoods. That’s what we’re about. Now, if you take yourself back to the start of the pandemic, one of the things that we actually saw were people going out of their way to help each other, you know, I, I personally reached out to folks who were quite early in our neighborhood and said, Hey, do you guys want something? And it was just not me. Everybody was reaching out to people at, Hey, how can we help you? Think about the pandemic. Think about the snowstorm. And these are not one-off events. We know that neighbors want to help each other, but there’s just nothing out there. When we actually looked at the market up, there are a lot of apps delivery apps, but they’re not focused towards communities. They’re all focused towards, uh, being a big economy, right? You order through the app, somebody comes and delivers at your door. They’re not transparent. The other day, in fact, I caught you a funny incident. Uh, my wife and I were talking and my wife said, Hey, uh, can you order something? That’s $5 or more from Kroger? And I said, why? She said, I want to get the bill above $35. So we don’t pay a delivery fee. And I was like, yeah, it’s crazy. You know? So, So we got talking together and we said, um, Jared, and I, we said, we need to bridge this gap. We need to bridge the gap and get something in the market. That’s for neighbors, for communities. And that’s how the Genesis of nabo began by trying to build a delivery app that can bridge neighbors who are at stores, buying something for them, themselves, and neighbors who are actually wanting something. So we’re at home needing help. Absolutely. We wanted to bridge that gap and that’s the Genesis of it. Which is such the neighborly way. Exactly. Unfortunately tend to lose that over time with, with schedules and just distance. And I don’t know, there’s something about the loss of that community neighbor feel sometimes. So I love the Genesis of this and that you’re, you’re, you’re bringing that back. Like the whole, can I borrow a cup of sugar? It’s can you grab me one at the store? Right. You know, we, we grew up with that, Hey, knock the door and say, I’m out of sugar. I need to have my cup of tea. Can I have sugar? We want to get that back. Yes. I Love it. So you mentioned fees and delivery fees, but I want to know kind other things about what makes nabo different from other types of delivery, app delivery apps that can help people out. Yeah, Absolutely. Kelly hope. So. You know what happened originally? When James first reached out to me and said, Hey buddy, let’s build a delivery app. And I was like, there’s so many out there in the market already. I don’t want to really focus on building a delivery app. Another one. Yeah. Another one. What’s the point? Then he was like, no, no, no, no, you gotta hear me out. Let’s let’s get together on a call one day and I’ll explain my concept. Uh, Jim and I go way back. We’ve known each other for a few years. Our kids play together. So we got together. We started talking and then he finally explained it to me. And then I got it. And then we quickly nailed it down to our mission to make this app more neighborly focused. So our mission is to bring neighbors together, make neighborhoods, uh, more neighborly. And that was the premise. And we then said, okay, so now how do we bridge that gap? And how do we make this successful? So we first and foremost said, okay, we cannot be charging exuberant fees, like other apps. Because that takes away the simplicity of needing just two or three things. That’s right, exactly. So if you look at some other delivery apps, they have complex fee structure. So we said, okay, …

Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Podcast RSS Feed   Working to a “failure success” is one of the keys to getting effective workouts at Practical Fitness. You get PRIVATE training sessions customized specifically to YOU — your body, your goals, your nutrition needs. Alcyr Coelho started Practical Fitness in 2009 and has been serving clients (some are still his clients from the beginning!) in a safe, private training environment. And now, Practical Fitness has a new North Texas location in addition to the Frisco location. The Plano studio is now up and running with even more space. Visit their website today to set up your consultation. (Be sure to tell them Lifestyle Frisco sent you so you can get a few extra sessions for FREE!) SHOW NOTES: [00:28] The difference at Practical Fitness [04:30] How is 30 minutes so effective? [09:35] The ideal candidate for Practical Fitness [12:54] Practical Fitness has expanded to Plano! [14:16] Nutrition Fundamentals LINKS & RESOURCES: Practical Fitness on Lifestyle Frisco | Website | Facebook: @pracfitchapelcreek  | Instagram: @PracticalFitness Frisco Location: 8501 Wade Blvd. #1340 Frisco, TX Plano Location: 5512 W Plano Parkway, Suite 200, Plano, TX Connect with Lifestyle Frisco on:  YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Transcript Machine-generated. Thank you for joining us today on the Frisco Podcast. Today, we’re talking to Alcyr Cohelio, the owner of Practical Fitness. We’ve had Alcyr on before, but we’re going to learn about some new things happening over at Practical Fitness. Welcome to the show, Alcyr. I’m glad to be here, Kelly. Very nice to talk to you. Yeah. So for those who, um, haven’t heard you talked to us before, tell us a little bit about what, you know, what’s Practical Fitness all about ’cause it is definitely not your average, you know, gym per se. So, it’s different. So, tell us what it is. Yeah. So, yeah, we are definitely not a gym. Uh, we like to say to people that we’re basically an extension of their home. Uh, when you come to see us, it’s a 100% private experience, very professional. Uh, we have a state of the art equipment and you only need to see us once or twice a week for 30 minutes. And we are hundred customized to you. It’s not like when you go to classes and you join a boot camp. When you come to us, the focus is only on you. Every single workout is customized to you to your goals. You can even pick your music. So, uh, it’s uh, yeah, it’s a 100% a private experience. You don’t, you know, assume that when someone’s walking in that they’re going to do the same workout as the person that came in before them, or that they need this or that, the same cookie cutter experience. You are going to meet with them and tailor what they need, specifically, for them. A hundred percent. So basically I, so the experience begins with a one-hour consultation and we do offer the one-hour consultation, a hundred percent free to have a conversation with us. And we pair that with a 30-minutes session for you so that you can experience what our clients experience. And those are in separate days. So you come for a one-hour conversation. We listen to you, listen to what, you know, what you like to, uh, to achieve. And one of the things that we try to explain to people and we are able to achieve, I would say that probably 60-70% of our clients stay with us for over five years. And we do have clients that are with us since we opened our door back in Austin in 2009. We still have several, I would probably say probably 40 to 50 clients in Austin that are with us for over 10 years. And that basically the same way we like to say the same way that you brush your teeth twice a day is the same thing for exercising. Our body needs to exercise. And one of the things that we emphasize as well, the exercise different than sports. Exercise is something that you do is so your body functions at their maximum capacity, right? Several of our clients that come with us with diabetes type two, for high blood pressure, individually, they have done hip replacements, knee replacements. We are able to substantially improve their, the, you know, their, their lives. Uh, several, I would say the most of our clients that come with us with high blood pressure, they quit the medicine. Yeah. Same thing with diabetes type two. And again, because the idea is you come to us, it’s only 30 minutes, twice a week. It is a challenging workout because exercise in order to be effective is a challenge. No one really comes more than twice a week. We have some individuals that do. But, when they do the third, uh, the third session is not as challenging as the first two, because basically it’s a high, intense, workout, low-impact, extremely safe. That’s why, you know, folks with knee replacement, hip replacement, they can, they can come to see us. So there is no momentum. There is no ballistic movement. You come, you exercise. And the days that you are resting, that’s the day that your bodies recover and results come from. The results do not come when you exercise. The results come between the sessions. And between the sessions, we like to say that, you know, they, they can live the life they love because their body is going to be in an optimum state so they can have fun. They can take care of their grandkids. They can go rowing. They can go running. They can go play soccer. They can go play golf better. All those things we are able to improve because of the 30 minute session that they come to see us once or twice a week. That’s- you know, living the life you love …

Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Podcast RSS Feed   After relocating to Texas, Sean and Ashley Green eventually decided it was time for a business that tapped into their passion for health and fitness. They opened their first Clean Juice location in Frisco, Texas in January 2020 and more recently, their second Frisco location in March 2021. In this episode, we hear from the Frisco business owners about their many, delicious, organic offerings! From cold-pressed juice cleanses to protein smoothies, wraps, and bowls, Clean Juice has healthy options packed with the nutrition your body needs! The atmosphere and customer service are worth a nod, as well… Enjoy this episode. SHOW NOTES: [00:37] Meet Ashley and Sean Green [0:00] What is Clean Juice? [11:29] Menu items [15:34] Clean Juice Cleanses LINKS & RESOURCES: Clean Juice on Lifestyle Frisco | Website | Facebook: West Frisco and Starwood | Instagram West Frisco and Starwood Connect with Lifestyle Frisco on:  YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Transcript Machine-generated. Welcome to the Frisco Podcast. I’m your host Kelly Walker. We’re sitting with Frisco business owners, Ashley and Sean Green today. Welcome, Ashley and Sean, how are you? Hey, doing great. How are you? I’m good. I am excited to talk to you. I’ve talked to you before, usually in your store. So, this is fun, to get to kind of tell your story to our audience and learn even more about what’s going on with you guys. So before we get into the business side, can you just tell me a little about yourselves? And I mentioned your business owners. So, tell us about you guys. Yeah, sure. Well, um, Ashley and I are both from upstate New York, Rochester, New York. You know, grew up there, uh, went to school there. And we actually started dating when we were, uh, 19 years old. And, uh- just a couple of years ago. Just a couple of years ago. And, you know, if you’ve ever been to Rochester, beautiful place in the summertime, beautiful place. The winter time, yeah, not so much. Right. So we always wanted to live somewhere warm weather and a place that had a lot of opportunity. And we, we really fell in love with the idea of moving to Texas at a young age. And, uh, we, at 23 years old, we, we packed up our Penske truck. We drove from New York to Texas and we moved like somewhat on a whim. I was going to say, were there, were there career plans in at this time that, that brought you here at all, or you kind of got here and figure the rest out? We found jobs beforehand. And so we were able to get jobs beforehand. Uh, so we weren’t just, you know, living off the streets or anything, but we, we did find jobs. And we drove down here. In fact, uh, we originally tried to buy a house and it fell through. So we were set to move and we literally had no place to live. So I drove down with a friend and, uh, we found a place. And, uh, I remember looking at places, sending pictures to Ashley saying, “Hey, uh, you know, I found a place.” And she wasn’t even here. That’s hard. Yeah. So keep in mind, we’d been married for six months and now we’re about to purchase a home that I’ve never even seen before in a state that’s 1400 miles away. That’s trust and faith that it’s all gonna work out. And now that looking back, you also know: those things aren’t permanent either. You know, I mean, sometimes getting in the wrong place at the beginning helps, you know, where you do want to be. In different, you know, section of town or different town completely or whatever, you know? So while it feels like getting into your first homes are really, really, really major, they’re not permanent, you know. And that was kind of our whole mindset on the whole move, too. Is, “Hey, what’s the worst that’s going to happen? If we get there. And we don’t like it, we move again.” But like Sean mentioned, we both had job opportunities. I had been working in senior living and I was able to transfer. So it was just, everything kind of fell into place and, and we did buy the house and it was great. And so it all, it all kind of worked out perfectly for us to settle here and eventually, you know, build a home and have a family. Yeah. Okay. So fast forward to, um, what I want to talk to you guys about: your business side of life, um, which is Clean Juice. So how did you get, how did you take that step? You mentioned you were in senior living. Like your career path was that which is, does not sound like the Clean Juice, uh, path. So how did this get into your life? Well, uh, it started, I just left my corporate job a couple of months ago, actually. Um, I was working as a senior vice president of sales for a technology company. And I had been with that company for over 11 years and really enjoyed it. But I also saw that in the business world, there was so much change, right? So much change. And, and we really desired an opportunity to like take control of our own destiny and start our own business. And we’ve always felt like we’re a great team. We compliment each other really well. And we wanted to do something that we were passionate about, which led us down to like, uh, something around health and nutrition. Yeah we’re looking at, um, businesses that we could tag team on that would also give us some flexibility because we do have kids. And as, as we were gearing up for our youngest and our kindergarten, we wanted to kind of preplan and look …

Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Podcast RSS Feed   Leadership Prep School in Frisco will host its second TEDxYouth event on April 24, 2021, and we got to chat with one of the cool kids who is planning to deliver her first-ever TED Talk! (We’re guessing there will be more of these in her future…) LPS teachers Loralea Ray and Tony Curtis, along with fifth grade student Shania Nagpal, joined The Frisco Podcast to share the fun facts about TEDxYouth. We talk about the school’s application process, the rehearsals, and the soon-to-be-famous kids who have some impressive topics planned. Listen and be inspired, Frisco! Details as to how you can watch 2021 TEDxYouth Frisco are within… Enjoy this episode. SHOW NOTES: [01:26] How does a school apply to host a TEDx event? [02:38] Last year’s inaugural TEDx event in Feb 2020, the speakers and topics [05:11] The speaker selection process for the 2021 event [07:25] How it works this year, live audience and YouTube [08:34] Student Shania shares about her TEDx aspirations [09:38] Getting ready for TEDx – choosing a topic, rehearsals, and having fun! [11:56] 2021 Speaker topics [12:50] What students are learning from the experience LINKS & RESOURCES: Leadership Prep School on Lifestyle Frisco | Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn Connect with Lifestyle Frisco on:  YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Transcript Machine-generated. Welcome to the Frisco Podcast. I’m your host, Nicole Barron. And today I have the privilege of chatting with Leadership Prep School in Frisco. If you’re not familiar LPS, as we like to call them, is a highly regarded charter school, um, in West Frisco. And they are on a mission to inspire students, to learn, grow, and lead for a lifetime. They have a lot of incredible programs and curriculum that do exactly that. One of those we get to chat about today. It’s a very, very impressive- Leadership Prep will be hosting their second TEDx event. And I have, um, two teachers and a student who have a lot to share with us about it. And you’re definitely going to want to, um, watch the live event when it happens online. So let’s just dive in and find out all about it. Welcome to my guests. We have Loralea Ray, who is a teacher at Leadership Prep. We have Tony Curtis, also a teacher at Leadership Prep. And we have Shania Nagpal, a fifth grade student, which is very special that we have her here today because she’s going to tell you all about what she plans to share at TEDx. Welcome. Hi, thank you so much for having us. You are very welcome. It’s our pleasure. So let me just back up at the beginning and just say it cannot be easy. We hear about TEDx all the time. It’s a very big deal. It’s all over the country, the world. How does a school in Frisco, Texas get to host a TEDx? It can’t be easy. Are there a lot of rules requirements? How did this happen? Uh, yeah, definitely a lot of rules and requirements. Uh, last year was our first year. And, uh, it really just starTED with a brainstorm, uh, about how some of us were doing little mini, uh, sort of fake TED talks in our classroom. You know, just, just to kind of make the presentations seem more fun. And just one day I thought, “wait a second, why are we doing fake TED talks? Let’s do a real one?” And so we just went to TED.com and we looked up the requirements and submitted an application. And really within 30 days they approved the application and we were in, Oh my goodness. Well, they must’ve been impressed because I, again, there’s there must receive a lot of applications really, but it’s special when there are students involved. That’s that changes everything. How all of we adults think we have a million great things to say, but when it’s kids, that’s better. I want to know what they have- Shania’s nodding your head. I can see that. And you can ask. Right. Um, okay. So last year was the first one and it was right before the COVID craziness hit. Right. So you were able to have a live event at that time, is that correct? Yes. Okay. So how many students were involved in that and how old were they? Tell me a little bit about that event. Uh, I, I believe we had 11 speakers ranging from second grade through 12th grade and, um, and really the ones that stole the show tended to be the, the younger ones. Really. How cool. What kinds of things did they talk about? Do you remember? I don’t mean to put you on the spot. It was like a year and a million things ago. Yeah. Younger ones. Um, well, the TED Talks themselves were about, um, overcoming hardships, which you don’t think of a second grader having to overcome that much, but it was, it was really inspiring talks, for sure. Having to just overcome, you know, negative thinking, uh, bullying, how to find that spark within yourself, but they are. Our theme last year was “evolve.” So all of the talks had a little something to do with how, um, you know, the evolution from one, one place to another or something like that. Um, so they ranged anywhere from talking about, you know, positivity and trying to make sure that you kind of know your worth too. Um, our oldest, one of our seniors, um, he talked about how to change and reform the voting that was happening at that time, which actually became such a hot topic while we, you know, we’re in a lockdown this last presidential election, it was, it was really cool because everything that he talked about really came to fruition with like this real-life event that was happening on all of our, um, whenever we …

Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Podcast RSS Feed   We always enjoy chatting with Ann Anderson. A wealth of wisdom, Ann generously shares with us all of the Insurance matters that we never knew we needed to know — and thank goodness for it! In this episode, Ann tells us how to be prepared for things like 2021’s outrageous ICEMAGEDDON! She also offers perspective on purchasing Life Insurance policies for our children, as well as how to adequately insure your family fun vehicles (i.e. RV’s, boats) — and the valuables inside them. Ann’s a friend to all in Frisco and genuinely cares for her clients. Enjoy this episode of The Frisco Podcast. SHOW NOTES: [00:14] Meet Ann. [01:15] The impact of that crazy winter storm in February 2021 [06:12] What kind of coverage should we have to be prepared for a winter storm? [07:45] Why we should consider Life Insurance policies for our children [12:12] Summer fun: how to adequately insure boats, RVs, swimming pools, and more. [17:23] How often you should touch base with your Insurance agent, and why [20:46] How to reach Ann LINKS & RESOURCES: Anderson Insurance Agency on Lifestyle Frisco | Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn |Yelp Connect with Lifestyle Frisco on:  YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Transcript Machine-generated. Welcome to the Frisco Podcast. I’m your host, Nicole Barron. Today, I get to chat with the lovely Ann Anderson, who is one of our longest standing clients and friends. We always enjoy catching up with Ann because not only is she a good friend, but she educates us about a lot of things we never thought of and really need to know. So, Ann, welcome. Thank you. Good to be here. Glad to have you back. Ann is always on alert for us. She’s an advocate to many members of our community. She’s studies listens, learns what’s happening in the insurance arena so that we can be prepared for anything. And she’s walked alongside a lot of clients who had unforeseen circumstances, crazy things go on, and I’m sure she’s learned a lot so that she can then carry that knowledge onto the next client. So, Ann’s just a wealth of information. She’s also, um, a parent and a wife and living the small-business-owner life. So she’s just got all kinds of angles from which to fill us with knowledge. So, Ann, thank you. Thank you again. You know what I think we should start with? The big freeze. Yes, exactly. There were a lot of fun names that went around for the, uh, craziness that was February, 2021. And, um, you know, everything from of course, floods to repairs to, um, just having to hire contractors. There’s so much there to unpack probably in terms of, um, what do we need to know to be prepared for something like that, that we just think, “nah, that’ll never happen.” So I know that’s a whole lot there, but just what are your top tips about that kind of thing? What do we need to know? You’re so right. There’s so much. And we never thought, right? I don’t think, you know, we have friends in the North and they’re like, “how do you not have electricity?” Or “why are the pipes breaking?” You know? And I’m like, “because we don’t dig below the freeze line” and things like that, that are conversations we don’t have in Texas. However, they never water their foundations either. So it goes both ways. But yeah, that freeze who- I mean, it was a hard freeze, right? We talk about it, but it was multiple days under freezing temperatures, very low temperatures. So that puts stress on your home, your plans. How many people are replacing bushes around their homes now because the, um, their Indian Hawthorn is all dead or whatever? But the biggest thing, of course, in the end, the worst thing you want is when you have a pipe break. So we, um, we’ve seen, um, a lot of those tankless water heaters, their holding tank have failed many, many of those that happened. So that’s, you know, I will say we’re, um, that’s one of the biggest things. And of course, the first thing you want to do is try and stop the, stop, the water from flowing and remediate as much as you can so that you can, um, stop the loss from being greater than it has to be. However, you know, I will be honest. We have multiple clients with more than $150,000 claims going right now because they have so much damage. And, um, so that’s the big thing where people say “that’ll never happen to me.” Water is so invasive. And we’ve learned that the hard way through the freeze and it gets everywhere. There’s places where they’re like, “but the water was on the other side of the house. Why is my kitchen wet?” That’s the way it is. Water just goes everywhere. So that’s, that’s a big thing is we think it won’t happen. How do we prevent that from happening? Well, one way is, you know, whole-house leak detections, which we’ve never thought of in the past. And a lot of people don’t consider it, but there are devices out there that will actually shut off when they, when they noticed that the hot water tanks are failing, it’ll shut off your water. So those are devices to prevent losses, right? Because we really want to protect yourselves and not have the big claim. The other part that you mentioned- or before we move to that is the other thing is everything’s wet. How do we get it dry? It’s freezing outside. We’re blowing fans, we’re doing everything we can, we want to prevent the growth of mold. Things are damaged, everything you can do. Um, we, you know, in this event, we, even our water mitigation companies that are local, we’re just overwhelmed, right? …

Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Podcast RSS Feed   What’s new at Frisco Fresh Market? The cool, open-air marketplace is so much more than fresh, locally-sourced produce, y’all. It’s homemade cakes, jams, meats, wreaths, handmade jewelry, flowers, coffee, hot meals, and more. Market Manager Michelle Anderson and Communications/Events team member Katharina Kreke joined The Frisco Podcast to tell us about the vendors, the vibe, and the visitors. They’re family-friendly, pet-friendly, small-business-friendly, and oh-so-Frisco. SHOW NOTES: [00:50] What is Frisco Fresh Market? [01:18] FFM’s unique products and vendors [06:43] How FFM aspires to be kid-friendly, pet-friendly [08:57] Upcoming events [10:08] So what about this Food Hall we’re hearing about? [11:23] The FFM blog [14:26] How to become an FFM vendor LINKS & RESOURCES: Frisco Fresh Market on Lifestyle Frisco | Website | Facebook | Instagram Connect with Lifestyle Frisco on:  YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Transcript Machine-generated. Well, Welcome to the Frisco Podcast. I’m Nicole Barron, your host for today. And I’m eager, eager to chat with today’s guests because they are joining us from Frisco Fresh Market, which, while they have a lot of loyal visitors, they also have a lot of first-year residents who drive by and wonder: “What exactly is going on over there? I want to know more.” So we’re going to find out more today. We’re joined with, by Michelle Anderson, who’s the Market Manager, and Katharina Kreke, who does a little bit of everything over there, Communications/Events. You’ll, you’ll definitely be in touch with her if you’re getting involved with the market. So I’m going to turn it over to you, ladies. Would you please give our audience a little overview of what Frisco Fresh Market is, when it joined Frisco, when you opened- that sort of thing? Yes, absolutely. For starters, thanks for having us. We’re excited to be here today and we are super excited to talk to you about the Frisco Fresh Market. So we are an outdoor farmer’s market located on Main St. in Frisco. We are open every Saturday and Sunday year-round. Um, our hours on Saturday are 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. And on Sundays we’re open from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM as well. And you can come out and find all kinds of goodies, such as fresh produce, fresh meats, seasonings, olive oils- pasta, baked goods- all kinds of baked goods. Pretty much anything you can think of we will have. If you’re, if you’re doing keto, low-carb, gluten-free, um, to peach cobbler and pound cake and brownies and cookies, everything. Definitely something this week, too. The best croissants you’ll ever put in your mouth. It’s amazing. And then you can come for regular lunches too. We have, um, a Mexican and El Salvadorian restaurant there. Um, we have, uh, a Sri Lankan place. We have barbecue. We have gumbo. We really have, we have it all. And do we have to start on the gourmet coffee? I don’t think so. It’s to die for. Best coffee, oh my gosh. It’s so good. That’s so fun because that’s the thing that I don’t think everybody realizes, except those that have taken the time to come visit and join our loyal visitors. They may not know that there’s food. You can go and sit and walk around and actually have a meal. You’re not just going to buy, produce. The produce is awesome. Exactly. There’s so much more. Can you give a shout out to some of your specific vendors? I know you love them all. They’re all valuable to you, but like who’s kind of there that’s unique that we may be like, “Whoa, really? I’ve never heard about that. That’s fun.” You just named some of the incredible products. Oh my gosh. Uh, yeah. I mean, Yiayia’s Coffeehouse and, uh, Yia Yia’s Bakery. I mean you do, you’re just not going to get a better cup of coffee than Yiayia’s Coffeehouse. Um, I mean, but we also have Coffee Yan & Paws. Um, they, the teas they’re, they’re handcrafted sodas. They’re um, their coffee as well. I mean, it’s, it’s, it’s wonderful and Tu Bones BBQ. Oh my gosh. Chef Mike is amazing. And Ms. Bettie’s Gumbo and, uh, Sweet Course Desserts our pound cakes. Oh my gosh are amazing. Um, and, but we also have Tell Me Something Sweet. He’s a wonderful baker. Um, and, um, Milena’s Bakery and uh, only those food Ollio Foods, the macarons, oh my gosh. We have The Gods’ Foods and their, their, um, olive oils and their pastas and their, um, cheeses. And we have, uh, candles, Lakeside Bath & Body. Their candles are amazing and, uh, Little Shop [of] Candles, hers. Um, her candles are amazing and, uh, Designs by Casey. I get all of my rates from Designs by Casey. And if I see a rate that I like on the internet, I can take a screenshot, send it to her. And she makes that exact rate for me. Um, there is, um, Texas, um, I mean Farm to Freezer Meats, uh, Kimberly Ratcliff. Um, she is an amazing rancher and, um, just their meats are amazing. And, um, you got Mr. B’s Seafood, um- forever. You just know these off the top of your head. You love your vendors. Oh my gosh. They’re so good. And I shop with them and- her whole family shops with them. And then my whole family, yes, my whole family comes out and shops. Um, and they’re amazing. Uh, Honey Badger Crossing, The Organic Farmer. He is, um, he is so good. I, I cannot live without his carrots. I literally, I bought a bunch of carrots and then I regret not buying more carrots because I can’t stop eating them. I love carrots. So I need to get some carrots. Okay. Yes. Well, that was impressive. I don’t know how you did that. You, I noticed, I noticed on your social media, that you all are really good about- …

Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Podcast RSS Feed   In this episode of The Frisco Podcast, host Scott Ellis and Kevin Carswell talk about what’s new at Mochas & Javas, business in the time of COVID-19, and online ordering now available in Frisco. SHOW NOTES: [02:21] Business amid a pandemic [04:12] Changes & improvements to M&J [10:01] New menu items LINKS & RESOURCES: Mochas & Javas on Lifestyle Frisco | Website | Facebook | Instagram Connect with Lifestyle Frisco on:  YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Transcript Machine-generated. Welcome to the Frisco Podcast. I’m your host Scott Ellis. This week, we’re talking again to Kevin Carswell, the owner of Mochas & Javas, uh, a favorite coffee shop location here in Frisco, located at the corner of Legacy and Eldorado, that is, on the southeast corner of Legacy and Eldorado. Yeah. So I was thinking in my head, but yes, that was correct. Yeah. I always have to, I’m looking at it from the opposite direction. So I also have to turn the map in my head and make sure I get that right. But, uh, welcome to the show and thanks for joining us again. Thanks for having me. I really enjoy it. Enjoy what you guys do up there in Frisco for us Appreciate it. So yes, thank you very much. And we love supporting the local businesses as much as we can, yours included, but you’re not in Frisco at the moment. It sounds like you’re, uh, probably down in San Marcos, I’m in San Marcos, um, was up in Frisco last week, just overseeing operations. Things are running very well through. We have a really good team in place right now and things they’re really happy with, with our, um, staff up there. We’re still hiring. Uh, I think that’s something that I think every business Frisco seems to be doing, especially in the restaurant industry is hiring all the time. So we’re open to UNT campus comes online here. Eventually allow us a little bit more staffing for the hours that we need which is typically 8 to 5, 6 to 5, Monday to Fridays. But, uh, it’s we enjoy, uh, the Frisco area very much it nice to be up there. And it’s, um, I was telling my daughter, we did, um, doing more t-shirts um, and my daughter and one of our staff are doing more of the designs and she does a great job of design. So they’re just more solid after- the nice thing is the thing that I’ve noticed. The last been there three and a half years now, the nice thing I’ve noticed the last 12 months is more of our customer are buying our shirts and our tumblers cause they have funny bought into our brand up there, which is really nice. Well that’s good. You guys do have a solid brand and I will say you have, I’ve always noticed that you have an excellent staff in the Frisco location. Um, we’re always very friendly, very knowledgeable. Um, they’re really good at remembering people’s faces and drinks. I’ve just always been impressed by the folks you’ve had in there. You guys are doing a great job. So with that said, as you mentioned, uh, you know, we’re in a time when people are, you know, especially restaurants are always hiring, but, uh, right now things have been a little up and down for a lot of folks in your business. How are you guys handling? How has business been, I should say amongst or amids the, uh, the COVID pandemic? Initially. I mean, initially when it first started and right at spring break, pretty devastating, especially in San Marcos, we’re next to Texas State University. It happened, it started on spring break the first spring, a week of spring break, and everyone already had plans to go somewhere else for spring breaks. They all left, went home and 38,000 students never returned. Yeah, that’s, that’s brutal Plus staff and everybody else. So with, uh, we had a greater impact, uh, and a longer impact in San Marcos and we’re still not back to last year’s numbers. However, the Frisco store, we saw a big slowdown in March, April. We started seeing a business turning to pick up in May, June. Uh, summertime was moderate. We make some staffing changes in August. We have a really nice strong team in right now. Um, and we’ve actually been growing over the last year still since we hit September, partly because we have a drive-thru. I know we have great product and our timing has gotten better and we have a better supply of product on hand at all times, too. We were having some issues where sometimes, or we just weren’t stocking as well as we could or not preparing as well. We’ve done a much better job now of keeping our products in stock and with increased volume, we turned those products that were very quickly, so we’re constantly baking fresh items all the time. So invite helps a lot of things. One is it helps product movement and we just stock it more. And so we’re able to fulfill our customer’s orders and the needs a much better, which I think is a part of a reason why we’re growing. Oh, that’s good to know. Cause you have some of our favorite snacks in Frisco. So like, uh, like hearing that. So you mentioned some staff changes, obviously some changes or at least some, uh, uh, improvements with, uh, keeping, you know, the food and things on hand. Uh, what other, if any changes have been happening here at the Frisco location? Yeah, recently, it’s about six last six, eight weeks. We added online ordering for the Frisco location. It’s something we’ve had for a little over a year in San Marcos. Uh, we implemented about six to eight weeks ago. We’re getting to the point now it’s just drinks …

Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Podcast RSS Feed   The state of a child’s education is always a concern for parents, whether it’s helping them to keep up or to forge further ahead. The pressure to compete is ever more intense and now, in the age of COVID-19, it’s all the more difficult. Tutor Doctor is here to augment the education your child is getting in school (and from you) with a 1:1 setting that gets results. SHOW NOTES: [00:46] What is Tutor Doctor? [01:29] Tutor Doctor’s services [04:51] Helping virtual learning shortcomings [06:10] STAAR, ACT, & SAT testing and prep [09:01] Catch-up and enrichment tutoring [12:29] How to reach Tutor Doctor LINKS & RESOURCES: Tutor Doctor on Lifestyle Frisco | Website | Facebook | Instagram Connect with Lifestyle Frisco on:  YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Transcript Machine-generated. Welcome to the Frisco Podcast. I’m your host, Scott Ellis. And in this episode, we are chatting with Sandy Tutwiler from Tutor Doctor. Sandy, welcome to the show. Thank you. Thanks for having us. You bet. It’s good to have you here. And I think this is a very timely opportunity to chat with you about tutoring, the needs of students and all those things that are kind of happening in the age of COVID that have parents concerned, worked up, uh, trying to figure out what the best answer for their, their child, maybe. So before we get into all of that, um, tell us a little bit about Tutor Doctor and how you got started in doing this business. Tutor Doctor’s been around globally for about 20 years. Um, we tutor all over the world. Um, there are about 350 franchises all over the world and we are here in the United States and actually here Frisco-McKinney. Um, we’ve been in the area for about 10 years. And so we’ve been partnering with the Frisco and McKinney schools, primarily, for the last 10 years, um, offering one-on-one private tutoring solutions for kids primarily, um, K-12. Okay. So K-12, you covered the pretty much the whole gauntlet of school there. So you say you’ve been in the Frisco-McKinney area for about 10 years. And is it all one-on-one tutoring or do you have any group tutoring? How does, what kind of, what, tell us about the services you offer and what parents can expect if they come to work with you guys? We started out one-on-one tutoring and that’s been the bread and butter for the last book of, of the tutoring years, um, or the- while we’ve been in business. Um, we started group tutoring and group tutoring really came about in the year of COVID and pandemic where we would offer families who wanted to do social learning, or they wanted to take the virtual learning options that were offered in school and really condense them to smaller groups and, and offer the option of reteaching lessons that were offered in the school virtually or even doing homeschooling options for some children, but with the social aspect tied in. So we do do some group tutoring, but we asked families to form their own groups because we don’t want to be responsible for bringing people together that may not mesh well or may not, you know, be in the same circle of especially now, um, they’re kind of their pandemic circles, their quarantine circles. Um, and that’s worked out really well for us. So we do offer group tutoring had in the past more so now than ever before. Okay. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. Is, is everything purely online right now or are you doing some in-person tutoring as well? We are actually doing about 85% of the tutoring that we’re doing is actually in person. Only about 15% is online, which is remarkable considering where we’ve come. In March, we went 100% online. And at the end of July, we started offering in-person solutions again, taking into consideration families that needed to stay. We, we wear masks. We, uh, don’t sit right next to each other anymore. We sit more across the table from each other. We’re still social-distancing, but we’re do- we’re tutoring one-on-one in home in a very safe way. There were a few families as this summer that asked us to tutor outside. Um, and so we would tutor on a patio, a covered patio with the fan, but once it became a little safer and as things have progressed, we have moved into the home. Okay. So I guess that’s an interesting question, too. Does all the tutoring that is in person happened at the home or do people come to you? We actually don’t have any brick and mortar. Um, why we took off is that we’re a very boutique solution that comes to you. It’s one less errand that the parent has to run in running their children to and from tutoring. So we wanted to make it as convenient as possible for parents. Um, and also, you know, students learn better where they’re most comfortable and they’re most comfortable in their home. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. And I’m sure parents would be happy to have one less errand to run or to take their kids. Uh, well speaking of the kids. I know one of the things we’ve heard a lot about is kids falling behind, or at least parents being concerned about their kids falling behind where we’ve had, when we’ve had so much virtual learning.; it’s just not quite the same as in-person. Uh, what are you guys seeing on that front and has that been a boost for you guys to try to help keep kids aligned with where they should be? We are seeing some kids falling behind, not everyone. Um, but some. And what we’re seeing is that, um, the kids that have fallen behind are a little bit further in math than they are in reading. So, you know, …

Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Podcast RSS Feed   There’s been a lot of confusion around COVID-19, vaccines, testing, and quarantining. In this episode of The Frisco Podcast, Dr. Jay Woody, founder of Legacy ER and Urgent Care, provides clarity and offers guidance, and shares how to ensure you’re not overpaying for acute care. SHOW NOTES: [00:54] Legacy ER’s success story [03:27] What sets Legacy apart [08:30] About the COVID-19 vaccine [13:58] Doubts on COVID-19 testing and isolation periods [21:30] COVID-19 testing at Legacy [27:14] Find Legacy ER online LINKS & RESOURCES: Legacy ER on Lifestyle Frisco | Website | Facebook | Instagram Connect with Lifestyle Frisco on:  YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Transcript Machine-generated. Welcome to the Frisco Podcast. I’m your host Scott Ellis. In this episode, we are having a chat with Dr. Jay Woody, the founder of Legacy ER. And we’re going to talk a little bit about Legacy ER and the topic of the day, COVID. So, Dr. Woody, welcome to the Frisco Podcast. Thank you for having me. Excited to be here today. Thank you, good to have you here. Um, obviously with everything going on, there’s a lot to talk about, particularly around COVID. Uh, but before we get into that, I wanted to talk specifically about Legacy ER. That is a business that you started. It’s something that I would call a “Frisco success story.” Um, but why did you start Legacy ER, and uh, how long have you guys been in business now? So, my background is I’m Board-Certified in Emergency Medicine. Uh, worked in the traditional hospital, big hospital, ER settings. Uh, spent, uh, all my formative years down at Parkland Hospital, our level-one trauma center here in Dallas. And then sort of moved out to some other hospitals that most of you be familiar with in the community. And what, what, uh, I really saw was the patient experience was, was typically lacking and there also were a lot of patients that were coming through the emergency department. They didn’t actually need to be in the ER. They needed acute care, but they didn’t need emergency services. And what was happening is those patients that needed acute care, but not necessarily emergency care, they were being penalized financially by the big bills that we all know come out of the emergency department. And so, sort of taking my, my sort of passion of improving the patient experience and also, uh, including that billing experience as well. That’s really the genesis of where Legacy ER & Urgent Care, you know, came, came from. And we opened our doors in August of 2008. Uh, back when Frisco was just a tiny, tiny little arm town, um, which, uh, for those of you that were here then, or remember, you know, it was pretty much a bunch of dirt fields where we opened up our original location on Main and Legacy. And, uh, obviously things have changed in the last, you know, 12+ years. And now of course we’re surrounded by retail there and where we don’t have farm fields around us anymore, but it’s been very, very exciting. We now have two locations in Frisco and a total of six locations here in the North Dallas area. Uh, we, we’ve also been blessed to, uh, have a sort of success story that’s very Frisco-centric and we now have, uh, additional two facilities in New Mexico, uh, three facilities in Indiana and, uh, one facility with another one soon-to-open in Florida. So, uh, really, you know, I live in Frisco, been here for about 16 years. And so this is, I I believe as a Frisco-success story and I’m excited to still be here and, and intimately involved with the business and care for the people of Frisco. Well, good. And we’re glad to have you here and thank you for opening those up. I know that early on, when we first started chatting with you, you wrote an article for Lifestyle Frisco about the difference between the different kinds of urgent care facilities, and hopefully I’m broadly classifying those. There’s ER, like Legacy ER, but then there are other types of facilities that are also, I guess, urgent care, but the way they operate and the way they bill are kind of different. Yeah. So, so I think, you know, I think we all understand the traditional hospital-based emergency room and we know how they bill. Is it’s it’s ER billing. Uh, and then sort of in 2000 about 2010, um, there became this trend of freestanding ERs, which I think, again, a lot of us probably saw the, the rise and sort of the fall of those. Those facilities where emergency rooms outside of a hospital, but they also only did emergency billings regardless of what type of care or level of care that you needed. It was emergency billing. So for example, if you just had a simple strep throat, they could definitely handle that, but it’s gonna, it’s gonna cost ya, you know, at least a thousand plus dollars for that. Um, and so the difference in what our model does is we have urgent-care billing for those minor problems such as strep throat. And we have ER billing for those cases that typically would have to only be cared for in a hospital emergency room. So for example, people needing a CT or cat scans, sort of advanced labs or imaging. Uh, normally you have to go to the hospital to get that, but with our model, you can use those levels of service. As well as if you don’t need those then you’re not going to pay that emergency bill. You’re going to have to lower urgent-care billing. So that, that is what is unique about our model and, and, and, you know, makes us sort of sets us apart. And obviously that’s good for patients because healthcare is super expensive. So you, you really only, only want …

Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Podcast RSS Feed   Horizon Hot Yoga continues to add opportunities and workshops for both beginners and those with experienced practices. They’re also making it easy to be flexible in where you practice. Come in for a physically-distanced class, or stay home and join them online. Learn more about their new opportunities and how you can get started or take your practice to the next level. SHOW NOTES: [00:27] What’s new at Horizon Hot Yoga [01:54] Things to look forward to [06:50] Horizon’s Kundalini Class [09:42] Specials for newcomers [11:01] Horizon’s Workshops [13:34] Reinventing Horizon through COVID [16:58] Find Horizon Hot Yoga online LINKS & RESOURCES: Horizon Hot Yoga on Lifestyle Frisco | Website | Facebook | Instagram Connect with Lifestyle Frisco on:  YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Transcript Machine-generated. Welcome to the Frisco Podcast. I’m your host, Scott Ellis. And on this episode, we are bringing back Mary Von Ahnen from Horizon Hot Yoga. And, uh, Mary, how are ya? Feeling great, thanks. I know it’s been a year or so since we had a chance to sit down and talk and, oh, certainly a lot has happened, especially in 2020. So, uh, wanted to kind of catch up with you and hear what’s new at the studio and what you guys have going on. Yeah, so we, um, we’re so fortunate that we are still growing. Um, obviously we’re very limited in our class sizes since we have to, you know, keep the social distancing. But we, we get new students every week. So, there are people right now who want to take yoga. Um, and we’re excited about that. How are you guys handling most of your classes? Is it, are you doing able to do some in-person or is it all virtual or how is it kind of breaking down right now? No, I guess when we look at the positives of COVID, which sometimes is hard to do, one of the things that it forced us to do was to redesign our business model so that we could offer online classes. And we still do offer online, um, almost every day of the week. I think we have six, um, six online classes. But, almost all of our classes are in person. They’re just, like I said, very limited in size. And we have a huge cleaning protocol, you know? People need to wear masks until they’re on their mat, because once they’re on their mat, they, they’re socially distanced. Our rooms are taped so that your mat is separated, your body is separated from the next person. There’s been a change. Yeah. I’m sure that’s been a little bit of an adjustment for you as it has been for a lot of Frisco businesses. Um, I know one of the things we talked about the last time was that you guys were pretty big on was visiting, uh, instructors. Uh, you’d have, you know, special- people who were specialists or have competed and done very well, that would come through and do certain types of classes or certain things for you, guys. Is there anything like that that we have to look forward to? Yeah, definitely. Um, so we- Hot 26, which is the classic Bikram yoga, uh, has been our fastest-growing and most successful format. Um, most of our classes these days completely sell out, uh, with the limited capacity, of course. And we are having two visiting teachers, one in February and one in April, who are coming to do, um, some workshops around the basic beginner series that we offer and also intermediate and advanced, um, because we have not, so far, offered intermediate and advanced as classes. But, this will give the students a chance to try on the more-advanced style and see if they like it. And then, they like it, we like it; bring it on. So we’re really excited about that and also just about the growth of that format, in general. And then, you know, we’ve tried to kind of supplant with the inability to bring on visiting teachers from around the world. We’ve challenged our own teacher community to step up with their own talent, um, which is considerable. And so, they’re offering their own workshops, which have been very successful. We, I guess two or three weeks ago, we had a handstand/forearm stand workshop that was, um, oversold. So we, uh, our own teachers have been able to bring a little bit of what we used to be able to do with visiting teachers. Yeah, I know you guys have some exceptional teachers that are there on a regular basis. The Handstand Workshop sounds interesting. Uh, what, what is the, you know, for those of us that maybe are still very, uh beginner-level, what is the, the, the advantage of doing something like a Handstand Workshop? Why would I want to go do that? What am I learning there? A lot of the more advanced practitioners do incorporate handstands into their practice. It’s very common. So, this workshop was just designed if you are interested in learning how to incorporate handstands, headstands, forearm stands into your practice, but haven’t done it, yet. This workshop was designed to show you how to do that with hand placement, with shoulder-stretching, et cetera. And if you already had handstands, headstands incorporated, it just gave you a few extra tips. And it’s totally a choice. I mean, there’s, there’s nothing in our dialogue that our teachers give that force people to try to do a handstand if they’re not ready for that. But, there’s certain places in every class where a teacher will suggest, “If you have a handstand practice, you can take your handstands now.” Would you consider that as a part of someone’s practice to be intermediate or advanced, or is it something that beginners can also incorporate? Oh, I think beginners can absolutely incorporate it. It’s, you know, it’s um, and …