With summer upon us, the crew decides to look back at the 2018-2019 winter season and shares their love of being on the mountains. Whether you are a skier or a snowboarder, it doesn't matter when it comes to sharing memories of learning how to ride down the mountain. The crew adventures to many topics when it comes to skiing and snowboarding including moguls and what type of terrains they favor. Brain, Matthew and Christopher each share how they were introduced to the sport and how they continue to enjoy it. The Episode wraps up with some favorite memories​ of past trips and their goals for next season.

Shakehands Pong is an organization that host monthly ping pong tournaments. Our special guest this week is Shakehands Pong creator, Jeff Wyrick. Jeff shares the origin story of how the ping pong tournaments started and how it transformed to Shakehands Pong. Jeff creativity shows in the tournaments and he shares where that all comes from and how music is a major influence. Brain and Jeff both share some stories from the journey of creating something and watching it grow. They also share how important a trust circle​ can be when growing something. We would like to thank Jeff for coming on the show and hope to have him back soon. Shakehands Pong and 575 Pizzeria are hosting a ping pong tournament on June 30th at 575's Hillside location.

This Episode of PizzaFace is about finding what motivates you and how you can use that to reach your goals. The crew consists of Marcus, Tamar, and Christopher and they each share tools they have learned to find the "why". Sometimes when we set goals we reach too far, Marcus reminds us to set realistic goals and how you can flip that to then create bigger goals. It is hard to have the ​motivation to reach for something when you are currently in a low spot. The crew touches on ways to still find motivation even when things are not going your way. The episode wraps up with finding passion and turning that passion into fuel to drive the motivation for you.

We start this week's episode out by introducing our special guest, Deaven Kelleher, we then move on to some questions for Deaven and try to get a little insight on what it's like being the child of a restaurant owner. The influence our parents have are undeniable, whether they are good or bad they are apparent in things we do big and small. The crew shares ways they can look back now and see that parental influence and Brain touches on how his parents influenced his childhood and the influences​ that lead to 575. Talking with three different generations present, the crew looks forward to the future and what that can look like. ​

We use this episode to say our farewells to a long time 575 pizzeria employee, Tawny, and look back on her time spent with 575. Tawny is transitioning into a new job and we talk about how she knew when it was time and what that transition is like. The crew touches on the question of whether it's better to be pretty good at several things or really good at one thing. The crew goes into what work like balance looks like and how each of us can balance what we love to do and what we have to do to pay the bills. The crew finishes this episode with self-care and it's importance, as well as finding your passions in life.

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2019 is almost halfway through, can you believe it? Our episode this week was our first podcast of 2019. The crew looks back on 2018 and shares the accomplishments that were achieved and looks ahead to this year and the goals for the future. With New Year's resolutions being a popular fad during the holidays, the crew touches on why these resolutions fail or are abandoned before the year is up and how they think this can be avoided. Byran gives his goals for 575 for the year and the crew gives encouragement to stop waiting to achieve your goals and to act on them. We end this episode by each giving our goals for Pizza Face and we can now look back to analyze our progress and learn how we can improve on the goals that were set. ​

Throwing it back to Thanksgiving, this week the crew talks after the Thanksgiving break and gives insight on an issue that arose days leading up to Thanksgiving and how it was handled by 575 as well as how Marcus handled it with working for Ben E Keith. E. coli can cause all kinds of hysteria and rightfully so but what else can cause that type of outbreak of panic? The Crew drives down those rabbit holes and end up in an interesting spot.

In this episode of Pizza Face, Marcus starts us off by touching on discipline and how it can make a difference in your life. The crew gives their idea of discipline and how it affects their life. The crew then dives into the restaurant culture and how friends in the workplace can sometimes give you accountability. Accountability takes the crew into forgiveness and how the current culture could be open to the idea of forgiving. You can not talk about forgiveness without bringing up social media and the difference in how we talk to each other in person versus on the internet. The crew finishes this episode with failure and how we can use it as a tool instead of using it as an excuse.

In today's episode, we start by introducing Marcus and his relations with 575, we then move into the feature question of the episode. Is doing the job good enough? Hunter and Chris touch on balancing work, school and personal life and how setting priorities helps with that. Jerry shares the secret that keeps him going. The crew then jumps into the importance of finding passion and meaning in work and how it then translates into happiness. We end the episode by sharing how we try to help those around us in the workplace, which then helps the job go smoother.

In this week's episode, the crew is joined by Tawny O'Brien, a former General Manager for 575. Tawny is currently a vegetarian and we touched on the options available here in Amarillo. The conversation ventured into eating and cooking habits. The crew then gets to know each other better by exploring each other's family dynamics. Lastly, we touch on each person's music influences and preferences. ​