Get After It PDX

Listen to prolific multi-media artist barry johnson (intentionally uncapitalized) talk about growing up in Kansas and the values he retains from his childhood there, his early experiences with art and athletics and how both those pursuits later came to play major roles in his life, his various explorations that included a competitively-successful stint in body building and later diving into the entrepreneur/start-up game in Seattle with little prior experience, how adopting personas (which he discusses in his TEDx talk) was key to taking on these different chosen challenges and career paths, the positive impacts of the birth of his daughter on him and her influence in getting him drawing again and, consequently, launching his career as a professional artist, what his father thinks about our current social justice/Black Lives Matter revolution having lived through so much history of his own, the BLM mural in Seattle that he was invited to paint a letter of, and much more!

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@barryjohnson.co

@anythingisanythingpodcast

barryjohnson.co

The power of embodying new personas | barry johnson | TEDxSeattle

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This episode is also supported by Daybreak Racing, a Portland, OR company offering some of the finest trail running events and trail stewardship opportunities available today.  Daybreak Racing has been uniting the adventurous & wild-hearted with the mountain, coast & forest trails of the Pacific NW since 2016.

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Hear community foodie Jacobsen Valentine talk about growing up in Hilo, Hawaii and what life and community was like there versus in Gresham, Oregon where he moved in his early teens, the homemade, DIY approach to food and cooking instilled in him from an early age and the recipes he had nailed to make dinner by the time he was 7 or 8 years old, the experience of moving to Oregon and feeling like the "other" for the first time (and recognizing racism for the first time too), how his being chameleon-like (developed from moving and integrating/adapting into different social scenes) has served him and continues to be a strength, his path to culinary school and the ups and downs of finding employment afterwards, what led to the creation of Feed the Mass and the different iterations it has taken already, especially due to COVID-19, and how now he is literally "feeding the masses" more than ever, his photographic work over the years and his new venture--Empowerment Central--to provide (safe) creative space and studios for BIPOC (Black/Indigenous/People of Color) artists and creatives, and much more!

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@jacobsen_valentine

@feedthemass

Feedthemass.org

Empowermentcentralpdx.org

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Brought to you by the Aimsir Distilling Company, a new distillery focused on great flavors and a warm environment.  They love the way spirits taste, but more importantly, they love that they bring people together to make memories, build bridges, and crystalize the moment.

Opening in 2020.  Follow @aimsirdistilling

This episode is also supported by Daybreak Racing, a Portland, OR company offering some of the finest trail running events and trail stewardship opportunities available today.  Daybreak Racing has been uniting the adventurous & wild-hearted with the mountain, coast & forest trails of the Pacific NW since 2016.

Adventure begins at Daybreak.  Follow @daybreakracing

Hear weightlifter and multi-faceted East Coaster Amanda Gilliam talk about growing up in the South and how she still considers herself a southern girl even after her family moved to New Jersey during her childhood, her interest in activism that developed during high school and grew into a passion that continues today, how she felt confident in who she was despite often being "the only one in the room" because of the strong example set by generations of her family before her, the impact of her fathers' passing and how that inadvertently lead her to Cross Fit and, later, a deep love of lifting weights, her years in the Ivy League and how she came to focus on the intersection of numerous fields of study--discrimination against Black people and discrimination against fat people, what lead to the eventual creation of Big Girl Barbell, and much more!

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@biggirlbarbell

@unclejemima99

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Brought to you by the Aimsir Distilling Company, a new distillery focused on great flavors and a warm environment.  They love the way spirits taste, but more importantly, they love that they bring people together to make memories, build bridges, and crystalize the moment.

Opening in 2020.  Follow @aimsirdistilling

This episode is also supported by Daybreak Racing, a Portland, OR company offering some of the finest trail running events and trail stewardship opportunities available today.  Daybreak Racing has been uniting the adventurous & wild-hearted with the mountain, coast & forest trails of the Pacific NW since 2016.

Adventure begins at Daybreak.  Follow @daybreakracing

Hear born and raised Portlander and multi-faceted foodie Joshua Cole talk about growing up in "Old Portland" back in the day and the city/country juxtaposition he experienced from any early age while attending school outside of the city (where his mom worked for many years), the influence his older sister had on him over the years and the professional sports aspirations he had as a kid, attending college in Eugene and his first job in the food service industry at Cafe Yumm (and yes he does like Yumm sauce!), how he slowly discovered his natural managerial skills in the restaurant setting and began to open new doors with those developing strengths, what lead to the idea and creation of Family Meal, and much more!

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@joshuacolepdx

@familymealpdx

familymealpdx.org

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Brought to you by the Aimsir Distilling Company, a new distillery focused on great flavors and a warm environment.  They love the way spirits taste, but more importantly, they love that they bring people together to make memories, build bridges, and crystalize the moment.

Opening in 2020.  Follow @aimsirdistilling

This episode is also supported by Daybreak Racing, a Portland, OR company offering some of the finest trail running events and trail stewardship opportunities available today.  Daybreak Racing has been uniting the adventurous & wild-hearted with the mountain, coast & forest trails of the Pacific NW since 2016.

Adventure begins at Daybreak.  Follow @daybreakracing

Hear beloved coach/ultra runner/and community leader Yassine Diboun talk with good friend and Wy'east Wolfpack business partner (and Get After It PDX host) Willie McBride about the topic of change, both societal and inter-personal, and our human capacity to do so in regards to things like racism and addiction.  Yassine shares the story of his journey with substance abuse (and racism) and the first-hand experience of achieving life-altering personal change for the better, while acknowledging that he still--like everyone--takes life's challenges "one day at a time."  

Listen to this thought-provoking conversation and embrace the tough work necessary to overcome your personal challenges!

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@yassinediboun

Eracism article in Trail Runner Magazine

Ginger Runner LIVE podcast #311

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Brought to you by the Aimsir Distilling Company, a new distillery focused on great flavors and a warm environment.  They love the way spirits taste, but more importantly, they love that they bring people together to make memories, build bridges, and crystalize the moment.

Opening in 2020.  Follow @aimsirdistilling

This episode is also supported by Daybreak Racing, a Portland, OR company offering some of the finest trail running events and trail stewardship opportunities available today.  Daybreak Racing has been uniting the adventurous & wild-hearted with the mountain, coast & forest trails of the Pacific NW since 2016.

Adventure begins at Daybreak.  Follow @daybreakracing

Hear former aspiring chef turned thru-hiker and all-around adventurer Daniel White, aka the Blackalachian, talk about growing up in Asheville, North Carolina (after being born in Bruce Springsteen's hometown of Asbury Park, New Jersey) and his early experiences in the outdoors fishing and hiking with his family,  how he got into basketball during an early growth spurt that saw him shoot up to nearly 6' 3", how a variety of jobs and a series of ups and downs--including a break up with a girlfriend and distress over the 2016 election cycle and results--resulted in suddenly undertaking a major adventure: thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail with zero prior experience backpacking, what doors opened and how his life trajectory shifted after that transformative experience, his love of history that led to biking the Underground Railroad route, how he's become a much-followed figure in the outdoor/thru-hiking world, his next projects and travels and advice regarding money, and much more!

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@theblackalachian

www.patreon.com/Blackalachian

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Brought to you by the Aimsir Distilling Company, a new distillery focused on great flavors and a warm environment.  They love the way spirits taste, but more importantly, they love that they bring people together to make memories, build bridges, and crystalize the moment.

Opening in 2020.  Follow @aimsirdistilling

This episode is also supported by Daybreak Racing, a Portland, OR company offering some of the finest trail running events and trail stewardship opportunities available today.  Daybreak Racing has been uniting the adventurous & wild-hearted with the mountain, coast & forest trails of the Pacific NW since 2016.

Adventure begins at Daybreak.  Follow @daybreakracing

Hear the multi-faceted political aspirant Albert Lee talk about his early years in the St. Louis area after being born in Korea to an African-American father and Korean mother, his mother's sacrifice of working two jobs to send him and his sister to parochial schools that provided a much better education,  the domestic violence that destroyed settled life and send them from shelter to shelter seeking refuge, how he always felt and was especially treated as the "other" because of his mixed ethnicity but now views that as an asset to be able to better empathize with a large range of people, his desire to be an astronaut as young ago and how that influenced subsequent studies, the variety of jobs he held post college and how experiences from each have shaped his experience and beliefs, what he feels are the three biggest challenges facing the 3rd District of Portland, and much more!

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@albertleeforcongress

albertlee2020.com

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Brought to you by the Aimsir Distilling Company, a new distillery focused on great flavors and a warm environment.  They love the way spirits taste, but more importantly, they love that they bring people together to make memories, build bridges, and crystalize the moment.

Opening in 2020.  Follow @aimsirdistilling

This episode is also supported by Daybreak Racing, a Portland, OR company offering some of the finest trail running events and trail stewardship opportunities available today.  Daybreak Racing has been uniting the adventurous & wild-hearted with the mountain, coast & forest trails of the Pacific NW since 2016.

Adventure begins at Daybreak.  Follow @daybreakracing

This is another series of special edition Get After It PDX episodes we're calling "Listen Up", where we discuss important current events with different guests in our community and beyond.  

Listen Up #1 features Faith Briggs (former Get After It PDX guest on Episode 4!) talking about the case of Ahmaud Arbery in specific and the tragic frequency at which wrongful killings of people of color like his occur in general, touching on our nation's history after slavery when laws were established and the ground work laid for systemic racism to flourish and terrorize ever since.  

This is an important episode, give it a listen and follow along:

@faithevebee

Ahmaud Arbery: The Continued and Condoned Lynching of Black America by Faith Briggs for Medium

RunWithMaud.com

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Brought to you by the Aimsir Distilling Company, a new distillery focused on great flavors and a warm environment.  They love the way spirits taste, but more importantly, they love that they bring people together to make memories, build bridges, and crystalize the moment.

Opening in 2020.  Follow @aimsirdistilling

This episode is also supported by Daybreak Racing, a Portland, OR company offering some of the finest trail running events and trail stewardship opportunities available today.  Daybreak Racing has been uniting the adventurous & wild-hearted with the mountain, coast & forest trails of the Pacific NW since 2016.

Adventure begins at Daybreak.  Follow @daybreakracing

Hear military vet turned fitness trainer and yoga enthusiast Ace Cauthen talk about growing up in Shreveport, Louisiana and why he split time between his parents and grandparents from an early age, how his grandparents instilled in him a tough work ethic that has stuck with him to this day, his path to join the military after high school and the ensuing 10 years spent serving (including some high-intensity situations overseas), a series of subsequent moves afterwards that eventually brought him to Portland, Oregon, his struggles with anger and how (reluctantly) seeing a therapist opened the doors to healing, becoming a trainer, and, later, to a very pivotal yoga retreat that broke him open emotionally and planted the seeds that would evolve into his newest life/career move: Free Space Co, and much more!

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@acecauthen

freespaceco.com

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Brought to you by the Aimsir Distilling Company, a new distillery focused on great flavors and a warm environment.  They love the way spirits taste, but more importantly, they love that they bring people together to make memories, build bridges, and crystalize the moment.

Opening in 2020.  Follow @aimsirdistilling

This episode is also supported by Daybreak Racing, a Portland, OR company offering some of the finest trail running events and trail stewardship opportunities available today.  Daybreak Racing has been uniting the adventurous & wild-hearted with the mountain, coast & forest trails of the Pacific NW since 2016.

Adventure begins at Daybreak.  Follow @daybreakracing

This is part of a new series of "Special Health & Wellness Edition" episodes with people and wellness professionals in PDX (and beyond) discussing ways to cope with the unprecedented times we are facing with the current Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.  Topics will include the importance of mental and physical health and tips to improve both, ways to adapt jobs and schedules to this new landscape, ideas to support small businesses and those harder hit, the new reality of a rapidly shifting economy, and much more.

Kerry Mann is a holistic health coach in Portland, Oregon focusing on corporate wellness.  She talks about her new program for companies called "Healthy at Home" and why she feels it's important now more than ever,  her own journey with health and being coming wellness professional, the top three wellness suggestions she has for what to focus on right now during quarantine, and much more!

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@kerrymann

Corporatewellness.io

Corporatewellness.io/healthyathome-program

Lots of love to everyone out there, we're all in this together.

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Brought to you by the Aimsir Distilling Company, a new distillery focused on great flavors and a warm environment.  They love the way spirits taste, but more importantly, they love that they bring people together to make memories, build bridges, and crystalize the moment.

Opening in 2020.  Follow @aimsirdistilling

This episode is also supported by Daybreak Racing, a Portland, OR company offering some of the finest trail running events and trail stewardship opportunities available today.  Daybreak Racing has been uniting the adventurous & wild-hearted with the mountain, coast & forest trails of the Pacific NW since 2016.

Adventure begins at Daybreak.  Follow @daybreakracing