Welcome to the OutSpoken series from "Oh Yes We Can". OutSpoken podcasts are candid conservations from our team and community about their life experiences. Akosua and her two close friends, Conner and Thomas, kick off this series discussing their experiences in gay clubs. The trio dives deep into club history, the wide variety of different experiences in gay clubs across the country and which experience they are more drawn to. Akosua, Conner and Thomas speak openly and honestly about the club scene's blurred lines of personal boundaries, misogyny and the appropriation of gay club culture by heterosexuals.

We all have different ways of obtaining and dealing with friendships, but is one way better than another. Akosua swears by meeting friends through common interests like activism. Meredith owns up to ghosting a friend with too high of expectations.  The Sesh Team talks about tough times and how they've dealt when it comes to toxic or withering friendships. Why, culturally do we tend to ghost friendships? What is stopping us from treating friendships with the same grace and learning mindset that we do with our partners and significant others? Hear how the Sesh team works through their friendship goals, red flags and discover that maybe friend-therapy should be a thing.

The Sesh team sits down with two locally owned and operated female-run businesses that rely on manufacturing and shipping from overseas. We dive deep to learn about the supply chain issues that are limiting production, lengthening their shipping times and impacting their bottom line. 

Join us as we hear from:

Tracy Lalasz Finn - Co-Founder of Lafinndustries - a US importer of the luxury line of Italian chocolates Baratti Milano and handmade, customized women's leather shoe company, Alice d Italia.

Anna Trammel - Inventor of The Annulette, a tangle-free, adjustable hair holder, and Founder of Rayah Hair. 

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The first two weeks of October the Sesh Coworking team spent their free moments preparing for our first major event of 2021. If that isn’t an indicator of this COVID life we’ve been living I don’t know what is. Manifesting Abundance was a cosmic party filled with moments of asking the universe for exactly what you want and then following through with actions to ignite or remind us of our goals. Manifesting is a means to an end - its about creating a mindset that keeps your goals in focus and creating reminders of what you are aiming to succeed at. In this episode we hear directly from our Sesh Community about how they define success and what it takes to find it. 

It’s been nation wide news for the last two weeks about the missing and now dead, 22 year old Gabby Petito. She and her now missing boyfriend left at the beginning of July for a months long van excursion across the country which came to an abrupt end when her boyfriend returned home with the van and not Gabby on September 1st. Meet our new team members Akosua and LaChelle as we piece together a timeline of this true crime, discuss the mental health issues the case highlights and how there's been a lack of media attention towards the high number of missing Indigenous folks from the same region Gabby went missing in. 

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Self-publishing books has been a reoccurring theme for many of our members, so Mags & Mere, sit down with Catherine Brown, a Sesh member and author of “How Good Humans Sell” shares her experience on the writing, editing and self-publishing process. 

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Catherine's suggested reading before writing/selling your book

Lucia Harmeling, Body Attunement Dietitian & author of "Intuitively Full" opens up to Maggie & Meredith about her complicated relationship with food and how she came to overcome that difficult relationship by trusting her intuition. Lucia talks to Mags & Mere about tattoos, her career path, getting help with her disordered eating, how writing her book became another step in her recovery journey and how her first trimester was an affirmation of her recovery. 

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Maggie is joined by her Mom, Karla, to discuss their experiences of both having and being working moms. To be on the podcast: Send in a voice memo / DM us @seshcoworking / Email [email protected]

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