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

This week's guest on The Sea-Town Podcast is Aaron Rysemus, the owner and Designated Broker of Live Property Solutions in West Seattle (also where I work as a real estate agent). As a newer Indie Brokerage in town, they are raising the bar on how real estate is done through a wholistic approach to serving their clients. This includes complimentary 3D tours of all listings and a unique and systematic documented approach creating a consistently high quality client experience.

LivePropertySolutions.com

https://www.facebook.com/Live-Property-Solutions-120788787934633/

This week's guest on The Sea-Town Podcast is Kristina Serfass & Natalie Vorpahl, the founders of Baked Custom Cakes, winners of the Food Networks first season of Cake Wars. Located in the West Seattle Admiral Junction, they talk about their journey together in starting this business and their commitment to unique and artistic cake creation. Needless to say, they are very good at what they do and great gals to just be able to sit down with and chat about business, life and cakes.

http://www.custombakedcakes.com

https://www.facebook.com/custom.baked.cakes.seattle/

Out of town till end of June... will continue with Podcast interviews when I get back home to Seattle.

This week's guest is Cameron Moores, co-owner of C & P Coffeewith her husband Pete, in West Seattle. C & P Coffee was just named Westside Business of the Year for 2016 by the West Seattle Chamber of Commerce. Cameron talks about their 14 years in business, their vision when they started and the journey of this cozy and charming 1907 craftsman style coffee house into the community hub it has become... that happens to also serve amazing coffee beverages. They also serve beer and wine, regularly have live music and offer their space as an event venue. They exclusively sell Lighthouse Roasters fine espresso and coffees.

5612 California Ave SW, Seattle - www.candpcoffee.com

On going food drive for the West Seattle Food Bank

http://westsidebaby.org

This weeks guest is Brandon Ogestelli, the general manager of Coastline Burgers in the Alaska Junction in West Seattle. Brandon talks about how the owner, Aaron Shepherd (also the proprietor of the Copper Coin in the Admiral District) started Coastline with a mission of making gourmet burgers served on housemate buns with fresh, local ingredients for a reasonable price amid a laid-back, beach-inspired space. They also have gluten-free buns and use a separate fryers for their fries and delicious onion rings (so the fries remain gluten-free).

www.coastlineburgers.com

Face Book Page: https://www.facebook.com/coastlineburgers/

This weeks guest is Morgan Herzog, the owner of The Beer Junction in the Alaska Junction of West Seattle. He talks about how his desire to own his own business, his passion for beer and seeing a need in the community culminated in his starting The Beer Junction 6 years ago. He also talks about how they, along with other West Seattle businesses have partnered with local charities to raise money and serve the community and the less fortunate among us.

The Beer Junction - http://www.thebeerjunction.com

Beer Junction Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/The-Beer-Junction

Southwest Youth and Family Services - http://www.swyfs.org/

The Junction's Day of Giving (10% of sales donated to local non-profits), Saturday April 30, 10am-6pm - http://wsjunction.org/blog/junctions-day-giving/

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Today's Guest is David Chambers from West Coast Entertainment, in West Seattle. David runs the day-to-day operations of WC Entertainment and embodies the businesses values and culture of investing in their employees to ultimately help them have great lives. West Coast Entertainment is an events planning company that can do anything but specializes in mock casino parties, full-service event planning, high school graduation parties, corporate events and does Segway tours.

West Coast Entertainment - Casino Parties | Event Planning | High School & Corporate Events | Segway Tours http://wcent.com

West Coast Entertainment Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/WestCoastEntertainment

More about David: http://wcent.com/2013/12/meet-david/

Email: [email protected]

On this weeks episode, we tell the story of Denise Miller, owner of Seattle Style Salon in West Seattle. She tells us how she came to buy this Salon after years of working in the salon industry here in Seattle. She talks about passion and love of work through serving people, not just her clients but also the other ladies in her salon and the community.

Seattle Style Salon

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Seattle-Style-SalonWeb: http://www.seattlestylesalon.comEmail: [email protected]

Call to make appt: (206) 938-2578 7350 35th Ave SW Seattle, WA 98126

Giving Back:

http://freethegirls.org/

https://www.uniongospelmission.org

This week's guest is Chris Siegfried, a lender with HomeStreet Bank. He is my preferred lender, who always does a great job for me and my home buyer clients. Chris talks about how he played professional baseball with the Chicago Cubs after graduating college with a degree in business and entrepreneurship. After his brief career in baseball he moved to Seattle, became a mortgage lender at HomeStreet bank and took a brief 2 month hiatus to become a contestant on the popular reality show, The Bachelorette (which he won btw... Chris has been happily married to Desiree (Hartsock) for over 3 years now)!

Contact Chris:

Web: http://www.chrissiegfried.comEmail Chris: [email protected]Call / Text at (503) 804-5716