THE SEA-TOWN PODCAST: Interviewing Seattle's Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs

This week's guest is Linnea Westerlind, author of "Discovering Seattle Parks: A Local's Guide". Linnea graduated from college with a degree in journalism and mass communications and public relations with a passion for the nonprofit sector. Today, Linnea is a mom of three who lives in West Seattle. After having her first kid in 2009, she came up with the goal of visiting every park in Seattle in a year, as a way to get out of the house. As life would have it, things didn't exactly go as planned. After 4 years and having twins, she had visited nearly 500 parks with her kids and documented her journey and the parks on her blog. This project allowed Linnea to explore different neighborhoods and places she had never been before. After just under 4 years, she checked the last park off her list. After completing the project, she found herself itching for the next thing. She wondered what she wanted to do next. That's when she had the idea for the book. Linnea went back to 120 of her favorite parks and narrowed down the most interesting ones. It has been about a 10-year journey for Linnea and she now has almost 500 parks on her blog. She has become known as the "Park Nut" and the "Park Expert". Linnea loves parks because they are free, and they are equalizers. She enjoys seeing how parks are diversely used. Linnea was able to use this project to combine her love of writing, photography, exploring and spending time outside. Growing up, Linnea grew up on the east side. Although, she now lives on the west side where she has lived for 11 years. Her family ended up in West Seattle by chance. She claims she is very thankful they ended up in the house and neighborhood they did due to the strong community atmosphere.

Learn more about Linnea, her blog, her book and her journey in this episode.

Episode Highlights:

• Deciding which parks to explore first
• Learning by making mistakes
• How people found the blog
• Search Engine Optimization
• Linnea's favorite parks
• Incorporating parks into a way of life
• Linnea's background
• West Seattle
• Something most people don't know about Seattle

Guest's Contact Info: Order the Guide Book: "Discovering Seattle Parks: A Locals Guide" Blog: YearOfSeattleParks.com Follow Linnea on Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/yearofseattleparks https://www.instagram.com/yearofseattleparks/ https://www.pinterest.com/yearofparks Watch Linnea's talk at Ignite Seattle from the spring of 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay-HZ0E3BR0 Ways to Subscribe to The Sea-Town Podcast:

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This week's guest is Paula Boggs, founder of Boggs Media, LLCand the Paula Boggs Band. Paulais a philanthropist, fundraiser, public speaker, and musician. She is also a Board Member of numerous for-profit and non-profit organizations. Paula spent her first 10 years of her career in public service, first as an army officer and then as a federal prosecutor. She then took a position with Dell where she worked for five years in Austin, Texas before transitioning to Starbucks in Seattle, Washington. From 2002 to 2012 she served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Law and Corporate Affairs at Starbucks Corporation. 13 years ago, Paula's sister in law passed away in car crash. During the grieving processes, Paula's spouse encouraged her to take out her guitar as a way to grieve. When her sister in law passed away, Paula was Starbucks' top lawyer. She had come to a point where she had done everything at Starbucks she wanted to do and then some. She felt there was this other thing she needed to do. Paula decided to go for it and created the Paula Boggs band. One of the gifts Paula had was being in an environment at Starbucks where people were attached to music in some way. She's grateful she received a lot of support for her journey. Paula is currently focused on Boggs Media, LLC which is a corporate vessel for the band. It houses all the intellectual property Paula owns. She has 30 plus copyrights from songs she has written and trademarks. When she isn't touring, focused on the band or public speaking, she is also on the board at Avid technology, a media editing company across music, film and broadcasting. In addition, Boggs Media, LLC is a source for supporting artists through Go Fund Me and other activities. It is a small business right now with a few independent contractors. Paula aspires toward what she calls Boggs Media 2.0, a future phase of the business she envisions and is aspiring towards. In the last three years, the Paula Boggs band has toured extensively and done about 200 shows in almost every region of the United States. She calls the bands music Seattle Brewed Soul Grass, a fusion of folk, blue grass, jazz, rock and world music with a lot of three-part harmony using roots music instruments. She calls is music for the soul. The band makes music to entertain but also to inspire people to feel something or think about something in a slightly different way. Learn more about Paula's career journey, the Paula Boggs band and Boggs Media LLC in this episode. Episode Highlights:

• What made Paula want to be a lawyer in the first place
• Paula's career path to this point
• Paula's decision to create the Paula Boggs band
• What Paula is most excited about right now
• Highlights of the band
• Citizen artistry
• The most challenging aspect of transition from the corporate world to pursuing the passion of music
• Importance of being self motivated

Links & Resources:

• Guest's Website: http://paulaboggs.com
• Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thepaulaboggsband/
• Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/paulaboggsband
• Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paulaboggsband/?hl=en

Guest's Contact Info: Paula Boggs 617-782-3111 Ways to Subscribe to The Sea-Town Podcast:

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This week's guest is Danielle Marchioro, Executive Director of Highline Medical Center Foundation. Danielle joined Highline Medical Foundation four months ago to promote the mission of the organization. She spends her days getting out in the community, networking with board members, getting connected and plugging in with people. It's her mission to share the story of the foundation and what they do in raising money to help Highline Medical Center Hospital provide access to quality health care for the members of the community who need it. Danielle is originally from Spokane, Washington. She attended the University of San Diego where she spent a semester at sea and traveled around the globe. After college she wasn't certain about what she wanted to do but always knew she wanted to be in nonprofit. With a lingering travel bug from her college travels, she decided she wanted to spend some time traveling. She decided to take an internship in Germany with The US Department of Defense, where she ended up living for seven months. She traveled every weekend and taught preschool during the week while she was there. Danielle started her career in nonprofit after coming back from Germany and moving to Denver. She lived there for five years before moving back to Washington, a drive away from her parents, sisters and family.

Learn more about Danielle's journey, the Highline Medical Center and the ins and outs of the nonprofit sector in this episode.

Episode Highlights:

• Partnerships
• The thing Danielle found most surprising when first starting in her current role
• Team atmosphere in hospital culture
• Danielle's motivation to get into the nonprofit space
• Ways the Highline Medical Foundation raises money
• Ways to best get involved
• Unique things the Highline Medical is doing
• Highline Health Connections
• Importance of listening in fundraising

Links & Resources:

• Guest's Website: Highline Foundation - www.supporthighline.org
• Article about their Health Connections program, which has been very successful in getting patience the care they need, to drastically cut down on the number of chronic over utilizers of the Emergency Room as their primary care - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/02/13/million-dollar-murray

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This week's guest is Tony Burlison, Owner of Dark Timber Coffee. They specialize in backcountry / backpacking coffee singles (Ascent Packs), with a large emphasis in wildlife and public lands conservation, so a portion of all their sales are donated to organizations that focus on conservation and educating the public on the importance of public lands. Highlights From This Episode: Dark Timber Coffee was started in 2017 and is currently available exclusively online but prior to opening Dark Timber, Tony was the master roaster for a major local coffee company for the prior 11 years. When it comes to public land conservation - There has been a trend more recently of public lands being given or sold to the states or sold to private companies, resulting in increasingly less land for the public to hike, camp, hunt or just enjoy undisturbed natural beauty, like our National Parks. Episode Links & Resources:

• Guest's Website: https://www.darktimberco.com
• Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darktimber/
• Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Darktimbercoffee/
• Guest's favorite podcast(s): Joe Rogan Experience & Meat Eater (local Seattle guy)
• Guest's word of wisdom: When you are starting off as an entrepreneur and you don't know where that first dollar is going to come from or you have to pay your employees and vendors before you get paid, don't look at it as you are working for free, look at it as you are making the initial investment into your company... it's hard but it's worth it and it will make you happy if you love what you are doing.
• LISTEN TO THE END OF THE EPISODE TO NERD OUT ON SOME COFFE TALK ON WHY DARK TIMBER COFFEE DOESN'T DO DARKER ROASTS.
• Learn more about Christian, Sea-Town Real Estate and more at: www.Sea-Town.com

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This week's guest is Joslin Roth & Darci Bressler, Owners of Resting Waters. Resting Waters is a West Seattle pet funeral home and Washington State's first pet aquamation business, providing a more personal death-care option and alternative to pet-burial, fire cremation or leaving them with your veterinarian. Episode Links & Resources:

• Guest's Website: http://www.restingwaters.com
• Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/restingwaters/
• Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/restingwaters
• Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/restingwaters/
• Seattle Times Article: https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/a-respectful-eco-friendly-way-to-say-goodbye/
• Write or call your representative on WA State House Bill 1700 Concerning Cremation by biochemical hydrolysis - http://apps2.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1700&Year=2017&BillNumber=1700&Year=2017
• Guest's favorite podcast(s): S Town & Terrible, Thanks for Asking
• Learn more about Christian, Sea-Town Real Estate and more at: www.Sea-Town.com

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This week's guest is Meghan Reese & Malika Siddiq, the creators of West Seattle Vibes (Instagram Page). West Seattle Vibes is a neighborhood Instagram page created to support the West Seattle Neighborhood: To checkout new and favorite restaurants, bars and shops. Episode Links & Resources:

• Guest's Instagram - Follow them at: https://www.instagram.com/westseattlevibes/
• Email at: [email protected]
• Lika-Love FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/Likalovefashion/
• Business & Non-profit shoutouts:
  • Lika Love (Malika Siddiq's business): https://likalove.com
  • The Nook: https://www.thenookseattle.com
• • West Side Baby: http://westsidebaby.org
    • Past episode interview with Nancy Woodland of West Side Baby: https://sea-townpodcast.com/ep-025-west-side-baby-nancy-woodland/
  • West Seattle Helpline: http://wshelpline.org
    • Past episode interview with Chris of WS Helpline: https://sea-townpodcast.com/ep-026-west-seattle-helpline-chris-langeler/
  • West Seattle Foodbank: http://www.westseattlefoodbank.org
  • Mary's Place: http://www.marysplaceseattle.org
• Learn more about Christian, Sea-Town Real Estate and more at: www.Sea-Town.com

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This week's guest is Danielle Holstein, Owner of Holstein Studios. Holstein Studios is a commercial photography and videography visual marketing agency. Their focus is brands and businesses and tell their stories and help them come to life, specifically in the food and beverage space. Episode Links & Resources:

• Guest's Website: https://www.holsteinstudios.com
• Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HolsteinStudios/
• Learn more about Christian, Sea-Town Real Estate and more at: www.Sea-Town.com

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This week's guest is Jill Bruyere, Owner of Fitness Revolution in the West Seattle Alaska Junction. Fitness Revolution was born out of Jill's love for playing soccer, fitness & helping people through being a fitness personal trainer. Get fit and have fun. Episode Links & Resources:

• Guest's Website: FitnessRevolutionWithJill.com
• Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/runwithjillbootcamp
• Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/runwithjill
• Guest's word of wisdom: Don't wait... just get started with something today. Get out and do something and don't wait for life or your schedule to be perfect.
• Learn more about Christian, Sea-Town Real Estate and more at: www.Sea-Town.com

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This week's guest is Shandon Graybeal, owner of Alair in West Seattle. Alair is a boutique gift shop with some unique flair, focusing on products made locally by small businesses and individuals. Episode Links & Resources:

• Guest's Website: AlairSeattle.com
• Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alairseattle
• Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alairseattle/
• Guest's recommended book: The Great Gatsby & any of the Harry Potter books
• Guest's favorite podcast(s): True Crime & Stuff you didn't learn in history class
• Guest's word of wisdom: When you fail or mess something up, take it as a learning opportunity and don't beat yourself up over it. Know what your strengths are... and what they are not.
• Learn more about Christian, Sea-Town Real Estate and more at: www.Sea-Town.com

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This week's guest is Imants Holmquist, Co-founder of Holmquist & Gardiner law firm in Downtown Seattle. Imants Holmquist & Hamilton Gardiner started their own law firm in 2008, specializing in real estate transactions and business law, primarily helping clients buy, sell or lease real estate or if there is a dispute, representing them in litigation. Highlights From This Episode: Imants talks about the difference between what they do as real estate lawyers and what real estate brokers or agents do. He also talks about what they don't do as real estate lawyers (anything having to do with property valuation or if a purchase is a "good deal" or anything to do with listing or marketing a property). Often times they work with brokers to serve mutual clients or a transaction does not warrant the full service of a RE Broker (like for an off market purchase/sale), so they will use Holmquist & Gardiner's services to draft up the documents for a purchase and sale of a property. Commercial real estate transactions commonly use real estate attorneys to draft documents due to the complexity of the deals and large dollar figures involved.

• Real Estate attorney's may be used in leu of real estate brokers for drafting residential purchase and sale agreements but on commercial transactions, they often work hand in hand with the real estate brokers and investors/developers who have already submitted their letter of intent and negotiated the details.
• Having grown up locally in Kirkland, WA working for his dad for his construction company, Imants loved the feeling of being able to stand back from what he had built that day with a sense of accomplishment and he knew that he would get that same feeling with doing real estate law of having completed something that day by helping clients acquire a property or add value to a property or client... and that's not necessarily the case for much of the legal world, where lawyers can be entrenched in legal cases for months or years and not having much to show for all their work at the end of the day.
• Imants started his own law firm for several reasons. Before going to law school, Imants was fortunate to have the opportunity to work for a large law firm and was able to see what a big firm looks like. He also saw that it was going to be difficult to work in a big firm environment when he primarily identified with small and mid-sized clients. Now they have a wide range of clients from some of the larges developers in Seattle to individual buyers and sellers. It's hard to have a large range of clients like this at a large firm and so from the very beginning he was drawn to a small firm and so they created their own.
• Imant's says that the best thing about owning and running his own law firm is the entrepreneurial aspect of it and the autonomy and ability to immediately impact the quality of service everyday. Unlike many larger firms, they are not focused on the common metric of how many billable hours did they accrue per day but rather where they able to accomplish what the client wants, how effective they were represented and if the goal was accomplished.
• Everything begins and ends with integrity. You can learn skills but if you don't treat people right, none of the rest of it matters.
• The best advice Imants has received was advisors early on telling him to follow his passion, not necessarily what made the most sense on paper.

Episode Links & Resources:

• Guest's Website: www.lawhg.net
• Guest's recommended books/tools/resources: Amore Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow
• Guest's favorite podcast(s): Waking Up with Sam Harris. Reply All, Planet Money, How I Built This
• Guest's word of wisdom: If you have a concept for starting a business based on what your passion is, do that and do it right now!
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