Episodios

  • QCP #033 | Christopher Renfro, Founder of the Two Eighty Project|The Way of Natural Winemaking and Re-imagining a Thriving Society

    QCP #033 | Christopher Renfro, Founder of the Two Eighty Project|The Way of Natural Winemaking and Re-imagining a Thriving Society
    Nov 1 2022

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    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
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    1 h y 41 m
  • QCP #032 | Pam Baker, Founder of the Women’s Coaching Alliance | How Women Can Mind the Gap in Leadership, and the Foundations of great Organizations

    QCP #032 | Pam Baker, Founder of the Women’s Coaching Alliance | How Women Can Mind the Gap in Leadership, and the Foundations of great Organizations
    Oct 6 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
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    1 h y 22 m
  • QCP #031 | Karen Nani Apana, Ph.D. | The Questions We Live With, Higher Worlds, and How to Find Stillness in Biography Work

    QCP #031 | Karen Nani Apana, Ph.D. | The Questions We Live With, Higher Worlds, and How to Find Stillness in Biography Work
    Sep 28 2022

    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
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    1 h y 58 m
  • QCP #030 | Chefs Matt Levin + Michael Greuel of The Refuge Restaurants | The Pathos of Pastrami, Survival Mode in the Food Service Industry

    QCP #030 | Chefs Matt Levin + Michael Greuel of The Refuge Restaurants | The Pathos of Pastrami, Survival Mode in the Food Service Industry
    Sep 14 2022

    GUEST BIO

    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
      • 15 years in business
      • Progress of the Restaurant and Food Service Economy
      • The Refuge Menu
      • Fine Dining vs Fast Food
      • Problems of maintaining consistency
      • The Bear
      • Standards of Skilled Food Labor
      • Food Truck Business Effects on Restaurants
      • Effects of Silicon Valley Work From Home on Surrounding Businesses
      • Raising Children in the Restaurant business
    • Seg 2 - Spiritual Growth after Pastrami
      • Matt's daily routine - first 3 steps of Recovery
      • Tellefin
      • Universal Trauma
      • Life in Recovery and Spirituality
      • Effects of Economy on the Food Business
      • Rising Food Costs
      • Marco Pierre White
      • Decision making processes
      • How to manage labor
      • Initial Vision of Success
      • Barcelona Teleferic
      • The Science of Popcorn
    • Seg 3 - Aging and Folly
      • Going to restaurants as a guest
      • The Egg
      • Doors of Perception William Blake
      • guided psychedelic retreats
      • The Funeral Industry
      • Funerals and weddings
      • Judaism Burial
      • The Funeral Industry Today
      • Terrence McKenna
      • How to Control Deja Vu
      • Rule 62
      • How to make more fun
      • Coco Melon
    • Seg 4 - Kids Will Save the World
      • Dumpling Pickups
      • Gao Viet Kitchen
      • Observations on human behavior from restaurant service experience
      • the industry of evil
      • Charcuterie
      • The Fatted Calf
      • Restaurant workers vs Yelp
    • Seg 5 -
      • What success means now
      • Modern Restaurant Ticket Machines
      • Matt's AA Recovery Wisdom
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    2 h y 31 m
  • QCP #029 | Dan Griffiths, founder of The Church of Clown | Praising Folly, A Peek into the Toolshed and The Life of a Performance Artist

    QCP #029 | Dan Griffiths, founder of The Church of Clown | Praising Folly, A Peek into the Toolshed and The Life of a Performance Artist
    Sep 1 2022
    SAY HELLO TO DAN! Website: http://www.dangriffiths.us/ Kapoot Clown Theatre Skit Video How Much - Created and Performed by Dan Griffiths Donut Goat at the Barber Shop GUEST BIO 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 Holy Fools ParadeSt. Stupid's DayPraise Folly What is Folly? What is the mission of the Church of Clown?Church of the Flying Spaghetti MonsterSatanic ChurchKenyan CollegeMarcel MarceauMimeLon ChaneyFree MasonsMeyers Briggs TestClown LabHopi Indians - Clown CultureKapootSacha Baron Cohen SEG 2 What type of people does clown/ theatre attract?Teacher CompensationHumanitiesObservations on Waldorf EducationWhat is the mimetic realm Why do people hate mime performance? How to be more comfortable in performance?Gastro AbsurdoClown ConservatoryHow to deal with a performance gone bad?Taking the temperature of the room SEG 3 Humor and Play as ToolsSoldiers in your cup 1:12:10Teaching clowns in ChinaRole of Jesters in Medieval TimesThe Joker, Dark KnightThe King of ComedyCharles Dickens, First Scary ClownHarlequin ClownThe Flow State of Clown PerformanceLaughter - Henri Bergson SEG 4 Kettle ChipsHow to evaluate an experimental performanceOvercoming a failed performanceAccepting Foibles Dan's follies Being InflexibleDifference between a lifelong vs a day one performerTimes to be seriousFrederico FelliniGreatest Joke Ever SEG 5 The MultiverseWaldorf Education, Why?What is the purpose of clown college?CosmophiliaMaplethorpe ExhibitBe easy on yourself
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    2 h y 34 m
  • QCP #028 | Sophia Cassella, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Athlete | The Inner Game of Training, How to Optimize Mat Time, and Life as a Student-Athlete

    QCP #028 | Sophia Cassella, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Athlete | The Inner Game of Training, How to Optimize Mat Time, and Life as a Student-Athlete
    Aug 18 2022

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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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    52 m
  • QCP 027 | Souhad A. Zaki, Food Economist | Understanding the State of Global Food Security

    QCP 027 | Souhad A. Zaki, Food Economist | Understanding the State of Global Food Security
    Aug 5 2022

    GUEST BIO Souhad Abou Zaki is a Curious Economist and a Rural Development Enthusiast. She is currently a Senior Admissions officer residing in Lebanon at Notre Dame University, Louaize. Souhad works as a Lecturer in Economics, teaching undergrad courses in Microeconomics, Managerial Economics, and International Economics. She is also a Research Consultant and Proposal Writer for Rural Entrepreneurs, helping conduct research on rural development-related topics, which include women's economic empowerment, food security, and social entrepreneurship. She holds a Degree in Economics from the American University of Beirut and a master's in Agricultural Economics and Development. She is currently pursuing another degree in food security.

    SHOW NOTES

    SEG 1

    • Lebanese Civil War
    • Food Crisis of 2007 - 2008
    • Food Security
    • World Food Waste Statistics
    • Intervention from other countries

    SEG 2

    • Successes of her intervention work
    • Sri Lanka Food Security Crisis
    • Causes and Outlook of Increasing Food Security Crisis
    • What is food security?
    • How to create more food security as individual households
    • Hospitality as it leads to over abundance
    • Community Supportive Agriculture
    • Incompetence vs Optimism
    • Cronyism

    SEG 3

    • How to encourage the youth to pursue agricultural entrepreneurship?
    • The state of the banking sector in Lebanon
    • Subsidies for Agriculture Sectors (Pros and Cons)
    • What is resilience?
    • Localism
    • Lebanese vs Filipino food

    SEG 4

    • Food Policy
    • Poverty and Famines
    • The downside of over specialization
    • essential soft skills for the 21st century
    • Effective stress management techniques (snippet)
    • Essential Technical skills
      • cloud computing
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    1 h y 53 m
  • QCP #026| Julie Rodgers, Buddhist Practitioner and Founder of TLC | Preparing for the End of Life, Working with Grief, and Dharma

    QCP #026| Julie Rodgers, Buddhist Practitioner and Founder of TLC | Preparing for the End of Life, Working with Grief, and Dharma
    Jul 28 2022
    GUEST BIO Julie Rogers is the Founder and Director of TLC Transitional Life Care, a Vajrayana Buddhist non-profit organization dedicated to the education and support of individuals and their families during the end-of-life transition. This program is centered in the SF Bay Area and southern Oregon, and is available online and via Zoom. She is a writer, author, mother, educator, and administrator, and has been a caregiver and hospice volunteer, as well as a Vajrayana (Tibetan) Buddhist for almost 40 years. 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 WebsiteTLC MANUALVajrayana Buddhism NOTES FROM THE SHOW SEG 1 inner workTashi Choling CenterFriends Passed of Cancer in their 30s in span of 2 yearsORGYEN DORJE DENGaytrul RinpocheElizabeth Kubler RossInstructions for the Transitional stateAlternative Intermentgreen burial Ed Bixby Green Burial Council Seth Vidal Catholicism and BuddhismBodhicitta SEG 2 How do we allow space for others to grow, while spreading awareness and raising consciousnessMeeting a GuruMount Shasta https://www.npr.org/2015/06/07/412098380/a-mountain-of-many-legends-draws-spiritual-seekers-from-around-the-globe PhowaNatural Liberation – Book by Padmasambhava SEG 3 Ritual BurialRosek and KaYouth Centric CultureAgeismDifferent Forms of Self Carehelping others through grief SEG 4 Managing RelationshipsDavid MeltzerMarriage as a path to spiritual workDifferences between a meditator and someone that studies Buddhism with A guruPracticing with intent to serve othersWhat is a dignified death?
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    2 h y 6 m