GUEST BIO

Christopher Renfro (instagram, additional links) is the founder of the Two Eighty Project, an organization "dedicated to building a sustainable food and wine community that nourishes every member of the local economy and ecosystem." It began with his love and curiosity for learning about wine and implementing his knowledge into a community farm visible from the Highway 280 Freeway heading out of San Francisco.

SHOW NOTES | MENTIONS SEG 1 - Castles and Finding True Freedom in the outdoors

• Schweinfurt Military Base
• "White Washed"

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

• the Food Service Industry and Humanity
• Black Wallstreet
• Tulsa Oaklahoma
• Critical Race Theory
• Think Tank

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

• Food Security in San Francisco
• Feed the People Collective
• Shared Cultures Miso
• Co-op Businesses
• Rethinking the Comfort Baseline
• Homelessness, Youth, Elders

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

GUEST BIO Pam Baker (womenscoachingalliance.org) is dedicated to empowering, encouraging, and developing more young women to become examples of leadership, rather than the exception, through coaching youth sports and giving back to the community.

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
• Intentions
• Personal History
• Process | Corporate vs Startup
• How coaching translates into the real world

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

• Conflict resolution
• Career Paths as Jungle Gyms
• Lou Holtz 3 Questions

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

• What we can learn from grief
• What is the enviornment we're preparing for?
• Pam's Favorite Leaders
  • Indra Nooyi, Pepsi Co.
  • Melinda Gates
  • Brene Brown
• On aging
• On happiness

GUEST BIO Dr. Karen Apana is one of the founding members of the San Francisco Waldorf School – first founded in 1978. She has been a lifetime teacher, mentor, and student of Anthroposophy for over 40 years. For over 25 years, she has been teaching biography work and has a private practice for biography counseling in San Francisco. She also holds frequent biography workshops all over the Bay Area, and although she is now retired as a Waldorf teacher, she still mentors and advises teachers in the Bay Area and all over the globe. She was born and raised in San Francisco, and as you’ll find out in this conversation, she is a local, cosmic gem. In this conversation, you’ll learn about Anthroposophy and some of the philosophies behind Rudolph Steiner. She also offers a firsthand account of someone born into a generation of San Francisco coming into social consciousness during the 1960s, which eventually set the stage for many spiritual seekers, creators, activists, artists, and life enthusiasts today.

SHOW NOTES

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

• Rudolph Steiner
• Waldorf Education – Youtube Link
• Merchant Marine

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

• Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
• SF Waldorf School
• SF State Student Strike
  • 50 Year Anniversary Video
  • Roger Alvarado
• Terry Collins
  • KPOO
• Benny Stewart
• Tom Ammiano
• Education, connection and Biography work
• Chengdu, China
• Chinese Cultural Revolution
• Thích Nhất Hạnh
• Perception of Chaos

Pt. 3 – What Question are you living with?

• The struggle of Western Mind
• Individuation vs the tribe
• Finding the baseline

Music Credit (Guitar): Katherine Delafkaran