One guy 6 businesses. 2 careers, one in the air force and one as a hospitality entrepreneur. 6 years of sobriety, 1 Bartender of The Year Award and a wonderful deep raspy voice that would render Harvey Fierstein jobless, to tell you about it all!

Jon Seelbinder, is the owner and creator of Local Icon Hospitality in Raleigh, NC. Lets just say Jon lives up to the title of his company. Tune in to find out what it's like to create a mini hospitality empire. Also find out what it's like to maintain that empire during crisis.

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Hospitality industry veterans, Max Trujillo and Matthew Weiss, get behind the scenes of North Carolina's burgeoning food and beverage culture. Hear from local chefs, sommelier's, distillers, farmers, brewers and the whole lot of them in the NC F&Bpodcast.

Max is a front-of-house veteran/sommelier that moved from Los Angeles to North Carolina in 2013. Since moving to North Carolina, he's run restaurants, designed wine programs and builds craft cocktail menus and now produces multiple podcasts.

Matthew is a certified sommelier from New York. His experience ranges from restaurant/bar to importing some of the finest wines in the world. He moved his family to North Carolina three years ago and works as a wine distributor.

Eat & Drink Merrily!