Harmony Fraga grew up mostly in the East Bay, with San Francisco always just a scenic drive over the Bay Bridge.

In this podcast, Harmony, who today owns and operates the Social Study in the Fillmore, talks about her early life, schools she went to, graduation and spending more and more time in the city, and eventually moving over after getting her first job here. That job lead to another, and then to her first business—a day and evening lounge in a neighborhood and city that needed something exactly like that.

We recorded this podcast at The Social Study in January 2019.

Film photography by Michelle Kilfeather