Get After It PDX

Hear art-therapy non-profit founder and recovered substance abuser Lisa Schmidt talk about moving at a young age with her mother and brother across the country, why she chose Texas and the deep football culture she found there, knowing she was gay since second grade and why suppressing that led her to later seek out religion in her twenties, the 17 years she was married to a man--and mother of two children--and as well as working with the church and the story of how that all came crashing down, what rock bottom looked like and how she began to pull herself up again, what led to the creation of The Sober Hipster and later You Matter, Your Story Matters, how she met her wife and eventually moved to Portland, and much more!

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@thesoberhipster

thesoberhipster.com

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 in NE Portland.  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 lifelong (and elite marathon) runner and native Portlander Peter Bromka talk about growing up in our beloved city and the influence his father's love and passion for running had on him from a very early age, getting pulled by his father in a make-shift chariot during a 10k race, his relationship with Portland over his high school and college years and why he eventually moved back after time on the East Coast and in SF, how he connected with writing during school but didn't feel like he really had anything to "say" until years later, why he finds the process of training for running and races so filled with meaning and emotion and why he loves to record--and share--those experiences, what it's been like to whole-heartedly pursue the dream of making the Olympic Marathon Qualifying Time and come seconds away from achieving it three times, where he's at now with life, fatherhood, and running, and much more!

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@bromka

peterbromka.com

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 in NE Portland.  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 dental hygienist and small business owner Kylie Antolini talk about growing up in Santa Cruz, California as an only child and the influence her parents had taking her hiking, and eventually running, on local trails, how she never connected with the sunbathing/beach culture around her and rather felt drawn to Pacific Northwest-like climates, her passion for photography and the struggle with her parents who urged her away from being a "starving artist", how she successfully managed to find a middle ground (starting the path toward becoming a dental hygienist) that allowed her to provide financially and also exercise her creative talents (like creating a popular food blog using her photography skills), her move to Portland just days after graduation from dental school (after 23 years in Santa Cruz), how the idea for a candle company came to her and the inspiration behind the Forest Park/Wildwood Trail branding, why she loves Portland so much, and much more!

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@bakingbird

@wildwoodcandle_co

wildwoodcandleco.com

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 in NE Portland.  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.

Katy Connors is former Operations Manager at Hat Yai and previous guest on Episode 24 of Get After It PDX.  She talks about the recently created Portland Independent Restaurant Alliance (PIRA) and the efforts being made to stem this industry-wide (and world-wide) emergency.

Links:

Portland Independent Restaurant Alliance

Restaurant Status Page

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 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.

Ashley Hook is Event + Social Media Manager at Jacobsen Salt Co. and Bar West.

Links: 

Home Forward

Eater PDX article

Rama TV

Contact:

[email protected]

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 Spring 2020 in NE Portland.  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.

Alexandra Lev is a freelance writer, mental health advocate, and social media creative and our previous guest on Episode 10 of Get After It PDX.

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 Spring 2020 in NE Portland.  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 the first in a 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.

Skylor Powell is Founder/Impact Creator at The Thread US, a yoga teacher, and our guest on Episode 17 of Get After It PDX.  Hear what she has to say about our current situation, get motivated and stay positive!  

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 Spring 2020 in NE Portland.  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 self-made social media influencer, brand strategist and self-love champion Candace Molatore talk about her experience growing up in an adopted family in Oregon City and what is was like to have no one around that looked anything like her (the family that adopted her is white and nearly 100% of Oregon City), how that experience forced her to embrace and eventually celebrate her "otherness", childhood trips to nearby Portland to have her hair done and her perceptions of the city at that time, her interest in photography and the segue to social media and her life as an "influencer", gaining weight and how she flipped self-criticism and comparison to others into her current "self-love" philosophy that has had such an impact on herself and others, local Portland company Tea Bar and the job opportunity (that she still has) that grew out of a few Instagram posts she did to promote a place she loved, how she feels about the changing landscape of Portland and all that entails, what's to come in her burgeoning career, and much more!

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@hey.candance

candacemolatore.com

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 Spring 2020 in NE Portland.  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 multi-faceted artist and creative Benjamin Ewing talk about growing up in the country in Minnesota and how he was encouraged and supported by his parents to make art from an early age, his unconventional path through high school that allowed him to focus on his developing passion of painting, drawing, woodworking, and design and the disconnect it caused with his peers, how he bypassed college/art school and threw himself into the hustle in Los Angeles after a chance opportunity prompted him to make the big move from Minnesota, how he later made his way to Portland and why he thinks there are good reasons to be excited the city's growth, the design collective he created and why his distinct (and beautiful) line paintings were a result of his transition away from that business and a need to get back to more tangible creation, his dream of doing art and design work for the Olympics, and much more!

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@benjamin.ewing

benjaminewing.com

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 Spring 2020 in NE Portland.  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 rapper, runner, and multi-talented "essential provider" Paul Summers (aka Cuarenta Porter or "Forty") talk about childhood in Indianapolis and the staggering violence he witnessed growing up in a poor neighborhood, how he cared for his uncle from a young age after a tragic paralyzation and how that experience caused him to become passionate about care giving and helping folks with disabilities and special needs, how he became interested in poetry and the evolution to his current hip hop career, his struggle with being overweight and the incredible story of how he eventually lost nearly 250 lbs., how running helped turn things around and continues to be a major focus today, his Greyhound bus journey to Oregon and the first time seeing the Pacific Ocean while looking over Coos Bay, what it means to be an "essential provider" for his community, and much more!

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@iamcuarenta

music.apple.com/us/artist/cuarenta-porter

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 Spring 2020 in NE Portland.  Follow @aimsirdistilling