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SHOW NOTES | MENTIONS

• Schweinfurt Military Base

SEG 2 -  Financial Illiteracy, The Underlying Reality of Food Service, Ambitions for 280

• the Food Service Industry and Humanity

SEG 3 - Rethinking the Food Industry Models, Baselines of Comfort

• Food Security in San Francisco

Episode Contains a clip from Contains a snippet from Good Morning America | Patagonia founder donates company to fight climate change, Sept. 15, 2022

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With her own unique leadership, she founded the Women's Coaching Alliance, inspired and built upon the memory of her late husband Doug Friedman, who made his transition in 2020. 

Her aim for great leadership and work ethic brought her to places like Genentech and Johnson and Johnson, where she worked as district sales manager, project manager, and project director, as well as Vice President and CEO for several startups in the healthcare and investment sectors. She is a woman dedicated to "minding the gap," a British expression she likes to use that shows her willingness to explore the unfamiliar and help light the way for everyone, especially women and future leaders of the world. 

PART 1 - What is the Women's Coaching Alliance? | Exploring the Unfamiliar | Molding Leadership

• Empowering women through leadership roles

PART 2 - The Power of Coaching and giving back to community

• Conflict resolution

PART 3 - Doug's Coaching Legacy  | What we learn from grief |

• What we can learn from grief

• Indra Nooyi, Pepsi Co.

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SHOW NOTES

Pt. 1 – Who is Karen Apana? and What is Anthroposophy? 

• Rudolph Steiner

Pt. 2 – What is Waldorf Education and Biography Work?

• Knowledge of the Higher Worlds

• 50 Year Anniversary Video

• KPOO

Pt. 3 – What Question are you living with?

• The struggle of Western Mind

Music Credit (Guitar): Katherine Delafkaran

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In 2008 Matt Levin, his wife Melanie, and his good friend Michael Greuel opened The Refuge Restaurant, home of some of the best pastrami sandwiches and burgers. At the time, The Refuge was a small restaurant focused on french wines, Belgian beers, and house-made, hand-sliced pastrami sandwiches. Since 2008 their popularity has exploded. Customers have waited up to four hours to sit and dine with them. Fifteen years later, they streamlined the process and opened up two more locations along the way, one in Menlo Park, and the other in San Mateo. They both have over 25 years of experience in the food service industry.

They both share their experiences running three restaurants during the pandemic and what they've learned from it.

NOTES | MENTIONS

• Seg 1  - Catching up with Old Friends, Survival Mode in the Food Service Industry

• Gastrosexual

• Seg 2 - Spiritual Growth after Pastrami

• Matt's daily routine - first 3 steps of Recovery

• Going to restaurants as a guest

• Dumpling Pickups

• What success means now

SAY HELLO TO DAN!

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Dan Griffiths is a multi-talented, experimental performance artist, award-winning theatre director, teacher, and founder of the first Church of Clown in San Francisco. He founded the Clown Workshop, Clown Zero, and KAPOOT Clown theatre. Some of his recent gigs include teaching clown at The Wu Qiao International Circus Festival in Shijiazhuang, China. He also did work as a clown doctor and trainer for the Big Apple Circus and a director of CLOWN ZERO, a Medical Clowning Unit residence at the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.

For almost 35 years, since 1988, he has performed original theatrical works across the country and around the world. He studied at the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre and has served on the faculty Clown Conservatory San Francisco, The School for Mime Theater, Columbia College Chicago, Roosevelt University, Indiana University Northwest, and Academy of Art University. Dan holds an M.A. in Experimental Performance from New College of California and an M.F.A in Interdisciplinary Art from the California Institute of Integral Studies.

NOTES | MENTIONS

SEG 1

• Church of Clown

• How to start a church

• What is Folly?

SEG 2

• What type of people does clown/ theatre attract?

• Why do people hate mime performance?

SEG 3

• Humor and Play as Tools

SEG 4

• Kettle Chips

• Dan's follies

SEG 5

• The Multiverse

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Instagram | @sophiacassellabjj

Sophia Cassella is a 22-year-old brown belt from New Jersey, under Jason Rau. She's trained with some of the greatest minds that helped change the sport today in what some people call the renaissance of Jiu Jitsu.

She commutes hours and hours every day from New Jersey to New York to train with some coaches and grapplers in the sport who are considered to be the best to ever coach and compete - John Danaher, Gordon Ryan, Gary Tonon, Renzo Gracie, and all of the greats that drop in there to train.

To account for the amount of travel she had to do, she home-schooled herself throughout high school. She is currently studying in college while working and still finding the time to train and improve her game.

That is inspiring dedication to the art! And going back to truth, it is interesting that this path she took, even though unconventional, is happening during a time when many of our long-established institutions and conventional ways of thinking are being questioned and re-tooled.

Her competitive drive and work ethic have propelled her to be one of the rising stars in no-gi Jiu Jitsu. Best known for one of the fastest submissions in a women's match on Who's Number One. She is currently the Medusa EBI Strawweight Champion, a seasoned competitor, and a student of the game. She is determined to be the best, and how can you not be inspired by that kind of spirit?

Sophia has such a busy schedule. This conversation was recorded a few months ago as she had just finished up a whole day of working, studying, driving, and training and still was gracious enough to sit for a chat with us.

Training out of Vanguard Academy Jiu Jitsu in New York by way of New Jersey, please enjoy this episode about the mental game of training, the remarkable Sophia Cassella!

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SHOW NOTES

SEG 1

• Lebanese Civil War

SEG 2

• Successes of her intervention work

SEG 3

• How to encourage the youth to pursue agricultural entrepreneurship?

SEG 4

• Food Policy

• cloud computing

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Over twenty-five years ago, Julie was surrounded by a string of deaths. These were the deaths of her friends, many only in their thirties at the time. Years later, she experienced the death of her husband. The close succession of some of these deaths compelled her to ask why there wasn’t much information available to address the needs of families and individuals dealing with death.

With encouragement from her Buddhist teacher, Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche, Julie Rogers later founded TLC Transitional Life Care in 2014. Years earlier, she had written a concise instructional manual about preparing for the moment that will eventually come for all of us – Instructions for the Transitional State, published by Vimala Treasures. To summarize, it aims to offer guidance through the dying process from a Buddhist perspective, but is intended for those of any persuasion. It also includes information about working with the secular aspects of documentation and paperwork, things that families are too often burdened with while in the process of grieving, but it’s focus is on how to offer compassionate care to the person dying. A checklist showing how to properly care for those who are dying is provided, as well as supportive material about how to hold space during the transition of a loved one, or anyone. In other words, the manual is condensed with valuable information that we often overlook until it’s too late.

So, since death is an inevitable part of life that causes us to picture the worst of our fears to the point we bottle them up until the very last moment, is there not anything we can do to help prepare ourselves for when that time does come? Is there anything we can do better to help each other grieve and process loss rather than avoid it altogether?     

We hope that conversations like this bring us closer to acceptance, and encourage us to feel less resistance when we do eventually transition out of our bodies and into whatever you believe is waiting to greet us in the afterlife. 

In speaking with Julie, she helped impart in me an affirmation of a belief that we can never be grateful enough. And to show that gratitude by giving and giving truthfully in alignment with our beliefs. 

I suggest listening to this episode with a loved one and encourage you to have conversations around the topic of death so that grief becomes less taboo, less of a thing to avoid in each other. And in doing so, we can help each other, in the words of the late Ram Dass, “walk each other home.”

Please enjoy this conversation with Julie Rogers. 

• ESSENTIAL LINKS

• TLC Transitional Life Care Website

NOTES FROM THE SHOW

• SEG 1

• inner work

• Ed Bixby

• Green Burial Council

• How do we allow space for others to grow, while spreading awareness and raising consciousness

• https://www.npr.org/2015/06/07/412098380/a-mountain-of-many-legends-draws-spiritual-seekers-from-around-the-globe

• Ritual Burial

• Managing Relationships

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Jairus Ferrer is a agricultural entreprenuer from Philippines. With family roots in Mindanao, the southernmost region of the Philippines, he decided to leave the congested, fast-paced city after thirteen years in favor of a more steady-paced, semi-rural, widely untapped area to get in touch with nature and get involved in economic development in rural communities.

When Jairus was a boy, his family's shrimp farm was affected by red tide. It was a devastating blow from which it could never recover. Feeling insecure about not knowing what to take up as a career, Jairus decided to take what he called a gap year after high school.

During this gap year, he and his father (my dad's twin brother) enrolled in a local organization that offered entrepreneurship intensives in the agricultural industry. There, Jairus learned the necessary skills, both on the farm and the business side, that led him to what he eventually aspires to do for Mindanao and all over the country. To bring back food security, develop infrastructure, and inject a youthful spirit into the once-mighty agriculture industry of the Philippines.

What was only supposed to be a four-month entrepreneurship education program turned into a five-year position with the same institution that taught him. After completing the course, Jai began working for the same institution to help train batches of the enrolling students. Then, with moral and extra financial support from the program, he traveled around the Philippines. A few years later, Jai co-founded Pronic Foods, a short-lived organic distribution start-up and later founded iFarms, Inc., an agri-tech corporation, a company which he is currently leading.

In this conversation, you'll find out about agricultural entrepreneurship in the Philippines, and what is currently in place to improve food security and distribution for a country in crisis that is in dire need to re-establish its once-independent reliance on the abundant farmers and farmlands that once comprised nearly 40% of the workforce of the philippines.

I invite you all to listen in on this conversation with one of the many people that is helping improve the food systems in the Philippines, who I am very grateful gave his time to share his experience, his enthusiasm, and his curious drive to push the boundaries of our agricultural heritage. - please enjoy this conversation with my cousin, my genetic half brother all the way from the Philippines in Mindanao - Jai Ferrer

SHOW NOTES

• Segment 1

• Getting your product to market

• Is there an agricultural youth movement in the Philippines?

• Ancestry

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• ARTICLES | Media ABOUT JAI

• Manila Times Article | iFarms Brings Technology to Farming

• ADDITIONAL LINKS

• Philippine Agriculture is Dying - Rappler Opinion Article

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He came from the streets of Santa Maria, California, pulled to the magnetic energy of San Francisco – a pilgrimage for skaters because of its steep, long, concrete hills that can send one bombing down a dance between weightlessness and death.

As a former collegiate wrestler for SF State, he became the wrestling coach for Lowell High School, one of the most prestigious public high schools in the United States. Under his tutelage, he’s coached both boys and girls to multiple state championships. Martin also coaches wrestling to adults at Fight Culture Gym in Daly City; he earned his Blue Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and is still an active competitor at thirty-three.

EPISODE NOTES

• Segment 1

• brush with a murderer

• boneless skate move

• Dealing with anxiety and depression through wrestling and skating

• Dolores Park Hill Bombing

• undefeated as a senior

• handling losses

• Collegiate vs High School Wrestling

• the power of repetition

• “cleansing yourself”

• coaching high schoolers

• where did you learn how to restructure goals?

• how do you deal with when your best is not enough?