Podcasts about Magazine Street

Chinese cooking has been a part of the American dining scene since the mid-1800s and remains an integral aspect of the industry today. This week, we take an in-depth look at the Chinese restaurant tradition from a variety of perspectives. For decades, the parking lot was always full at the little red building just across the parish line from New Orleans. Inside, a packed house of diners could be found happily munching on dim sum and other Cantonese dishes at Royal China Restaurant. In 2021, after forty-plus years in business, Shirley Lee and her husband Chef Tang Lee decided to retire. But now they are back with their new restaurant, Miss Shirley's on Magazine Street in Uptown New Orleans. That hostess with the mostest and her daughter who helps run the business, Carling Lee, visited our studio to tell us how restaurateurs-turned-retirees turned restaurateurs again. Next, we talk to Curtis Chin, who came of age in Detroit at a Chinese restaurant run by multiple generations of his family. Like many immigrant families, Curtis' parents worked long, hard hours running their business with time for little else. But they made sure that their children were exposed to the wider world and all it had to offer. Curtis reflects on the lessons he took from that childhood experience in his memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant. Finally, Chef Andrew Lu joins us. Having grown up in Lafayette, the child of immigrants from China, Andrew is truly an Asian Cajun. And nowhere is that more apparent than in the name of his popular pop-up restaurant – Get Your Mom and Dim Sum. For more of all things Louisiana Eats, be sure to visit us at PoppyTooker.com.

Chinese cooking has been a part of the American dining scene since the mid-1800s and remains an integral aspect of the industry today. This week, we take an in-depth look at the Chinese restaurant tradition from a variety of perspectives. For decades, the parking lot was always full at the little red building just across the parish line from New Orleans. Inside, a packed house of diners could be found happily munching on dim sum and other Cantonese dishes at Royal China Restaurant. In 2021, after forty-plus years in business, Shirley Lee and her husband Chef Tang Lee decided to retire. But now they are back with their new restaurant, Miss Shirley's on Magazine Street in Uptown New Orleans. That hostess with the mostest and her daughter who helps run the business, Carling Lee, visited our studio to tell us how restaurateurs-turned-retirees turned restaurateurs again. Next, we talk to Curtis Chin, who came of age in Detroit at a Chinese restaurant run by multiple generations of his family. Like many immigrant families, Curtis' parents worked long, hard hours running their business with time for little else. But they made sure that their children were exposed to the wider world and all it had to offer. Curtis reflects on the lessons he took from that childhood experience in his memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant. Finally, Chef Andrew Lu joins us. Having grown up in Lafayette, the child of immigrants from China, Andrew is truly an Asian Cajun. And nowhere is that more apparent than in the name of his popular pop-up restaurant – Get Your Mom and Dim Sum. For more of all things Louisiana Eats, be sure to visit us at PoppyTooker.com.

Send us a textHoly smokes you guys. This show is the epitome of Mardi Gras! Super Artist, Becky Fos' canvases depict radiant, deep-hued oysters in a rainbow of colors too beautiful to eat, and her pelicans and alligators are adorned with crowns, celebrating their iconic status. These hallmarks capture the imaginations of collectors around the world.Fos herself embodies—and her artwork mirrors— the profound joie de vivre that defines New Orleans. “When people see my art I hope that they experience joy and escape the reality of what they are going through and enter a technicolor world filled with all things happy,” she explains. “Sort of like in the Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy clicks her heels and she is transported into the land of Oz. There is so much sadness and hatred in the world, so I would love to be an ambassador of color for humanity to make the world a brighter, happier place.” Listening to Becky as she so passionately opened up to me really touched my heart. In a world of darks and grays- be neon. I HIGHLY recommend checking out Becky Fos' gallery at 2138 Magazine Street in New Orleans!Yall listen to this! Inspiration can be found anywhere. Especially, HERE.-courtesy https://beckyfos.com/pages/meet-becky-fosEarlier this month we premiered our very first episode of our podcast in a Video Format! We will air 1 brand new Video Version of the NolaPapa Podcast each month. I am SO excited to welcome this new and FUNNER version of our show!Just find it over on YouTube:https://youtu.be/CcVMQ9TaZOI?si=KW37Bozw2XYJ6bA9Due to the popularity of our next and beloved guest's personality, I have chosen to run this interview without sensors. It's too funny to sensor it. *Listener Discretion  IS ADVISED*Bianca Del Rio, dubbed “The Joan Rivers of the Drag World” by the New York Times, is a dimple-cheeked, larger-than-life drag queen and outrageous comic who isn't afraid to shock and offend. Fierce, funny, and fabulous, she has cemented her place in the pop culture Hall of Fame since appearing on the Emmy-Award-winning RuPaul's Drag Race. Thanks to her snarky frankness, impeccable timing, and politically incorrect humor Bianca won the show's sixth season as a fan favorite. She has since been named one of New York Magazine's “Most Powerful Drag Queens,” where they described her as “the queen of all Drag Race queens” due to her dynamic career of comedy, hosting, and successful global tours. -Courtesy of www.thebiancadelrio.com This year Bianca will be the Celebrity Monarch for the Krewe of Orpheus! In 2025, Krewe of Orpheus will celebrate their 32nd anniversary withBrothers Osbourne & Bianca Del Rio along with many of their usual guestsand some new friends.  Get your tickets now by clicking below.https://www.kreweoforpheus.com/orpheuscapadeThank you to our family of amazing sponsors! Ochsner Hospital for ChildrenWww.ochsner.orgRouses MarkersWww.rousesmarkets.comSandpiper VacationsWww..sandpipervacations.comCafe Du Monde www.shop.cafedumonde.com The Law Firm of Forrest Cressy & James Www.forrestcressyjames.comComfort Cases Www.comfortcases.orgNew Orleans Ice Cream CompanyWww.neworleansicecream.comERA TOP REALTY: Pamela BreauxAudubon Institute www.auduboninstitute.orgUrban South Brewery www.urbansouthbrewery.com

As a chef, Eric Cook is known for having lots of spice and flavor in his creations. The same can be said about his conversations. Cook – who owns Gris-Gris restaurant on Magazine Street in New Orleans' Garden District, as well as restaurant Saint John located along the streetcar line on St. Charles Avenue near Lafayette Square – has had plenty in the oven lately. That includes relocating Saint John from its original French Quarter location and putting together a book, “Modern Creole: A Taste of New Orleans Culture and Cuisine.” In an information-rich podcast, Cook talks to Louisiana Life Executive Editor Errol Laborde, along with Producer Kelly Massicot, about the joys of fishing; the challenges of the restaurant business; the wonders of oysters; why pompano is so special; and how to make “red gravy.” As for his new book, he explains his interpretation of “Modern Creole.” We know this for sure: It will have a good mix of culture and cuisine.

One of the conundrums about being human is, we strive for happiness, but when something makes us happy we grow accustomed to it and, usually sooner than later, we're looking for something else to make us happy. Whether it's your income, your appearance, your career, or anything else in your life that can be improved, we're trapped on what social scientists call The Hedonic Treadmill.  It's why we buy new clothes, try new diets, take up new hobbies, why we travel, drink, take drugs… and you can list a bunch of other things that make you happy. Until they don't. Well, what if you could get off the hedonic treadmill? What if you could find something you liked so much – say, a piece of jewelry – that makes you feel so good that you can commit to wearing it forever. That's the concept behind a jewelry business on Magazine Street called Love Weld.  They sell what they describe as “permanent jewelry.” In the store, a customer designs a bracelet, necklace, anklet, ring, or charms, and the people at Love Weld fit it and weld it, so it's on forever. The Sudio Lead at Love Weld is Sarah Sylve. If permanent happiness sounds ambitious, a little further down from Love Weld on Magazine Street you can make yourself feel better for an hour - and for days after - at NOLA Massage. NOLA Massage specializes in therapeutic massage, and you can also get a bunch of other treatments including detoxifying body wraps, a salt scrub, cryo treatments, and cupping. The owner - and one of 4 massage therapists at NOLA Massage - is Amy Nicole Stewart. Like a lot of things in New Orleans, it's hard to put your finger on exactly what's so special about Magazine Street. Basically, it's nothing more than a relatively narrow street, not especially well landscaped, lined with stores. But, somehow, the street has a unique energy and a charismatic charm. It's a street where locals shop, and tourists get a genuine taste of New Orleans and New Orleanians. Anyone can open a store on Magazine Street. But not just anyone does. The street seems to attract store owners who manage to combine individual flair with general functionality. Amy's and Sarah's businesses, NOLA Massage and Love Weld, are two of the most recent to have opened on Magazine Street. They both make a unique contribution to the street's rich retail mosaic. Out to Lunch was recorded live over lunch at Columns in Uptown New Orleans. You can find photos from this show by Jill Lafleur at itsneworleans.com. Check out Amy's children's book about Shotgun Kitties, a bunch of musical New Orleans cats, in their debut outing, Bill Bailey Please Come Home.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chinese cooking has been a part of the American dining scene since the mid-1800s and remains an integral aspect of the industry today. This week, we take an in-depth look at the Chinese restaurant tradition from a variety of perspectives. For decades, the parking lot was always full at the little red building just across the parish line from New Orleans. Inside, a packed house of diners could be found happily munching on dim sum and other Cantonese dishes at Royal China Restaurant. In 2021, after forty-plus years in business, Shirley Lee and her husband Chef Tang Lee decided to retire. But now they are back with their new restaurant, Miss Shirley's on Magazine Street in Uptown New Orleans. That hostess with the mostest and her daughter who helps run the business, Carling Lee, visited our studio to tell us how restaurateurs-turned-retirees turned restaurateurs again. Next, we talk to Curtis Chin, who came of age in Detroit at a Chinese restaurant run by multiple generations of his family. Like many immigrant families, Curtis' parents worked long, hard hours running their business with time for little else. But they made sure that their children were exposed to the wider world and all it had to offer. Curtis reflects on the lessons he took from that childhood experience in his memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant. Finally, Chef Andrew Lu joins us. Having grown up in Lafayette, the child of immigrants from China, Andrew is truly an Asian Cajun. And nowhere is that more apparent than in the name of his popular pop-up restaurant – Get Your Mom and Dim Sum. For more of all things Louisiana Eats, be sure to visit us at PoppyTooker.com.

Chinese cooking has been a part of the American dining scene since the mid-1800s and remains an integral aspect of the industry today. This week, we take an in-depth look at the Chinese restaurant tradition from a variety of perspectives. For decades, the parking lot was always full at the little red building just across the parish line from New Orleans. Inside, a packed house of diners could be found happily munching on dim sum and other Cantonese dishes at Royal China Restaurant. In 2021, after forty-plus years in business, Shirley Lee and her husband Chef Tang Lee decided to retire. But now they are back with their new restaurant, Miss Shirley's on Magazine Street in Uptown New Orleans. That hostess with the mostest and her daughter who helps run the business, Carling Lee, visited our studio to tell us how restaurateurs-turned-retirees turned restaurateurs again. Next, we talk to Curtis Chin, who came of age in Detroit at a Chinese restaurant run by multiple generations of his family. Like many immigrant families, Curtis' parents worked long, hard hours running their business with time for little else. But they made sure that their children were exposed to the wider world and all it had to offer. Curtis reflects on the lessons he took from that childhood experience in his memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant. Finally, Chef Andrew Lu joins us. Having grown up in Lafayette, the child of immigrants from China, Andrew is truly an Asian Cajun. And nowhere is that more apparent than in the name of his popular pop-up restaurant – Get Your Mom and Dim Sum. For more of all things Louisiana Eats, be sure to visit us at PoppyTooker.com.

For a good deal of human history, if you wanted something done you had to do it yourself. As societies became more stratified, we developed division of labor. Today, things are so specialized people over 60 comment this current generation can't do anything for themselves. Despite the fact that kids are writing code that powers the platforms these commenters are posting on, they nonetheless grumble that kids can't read cursive. And, pointing at the proliferation of coffee shops, they complain, “Kids today can't even make a cup of coffee!” John Puckett may not subscribe to all of that, but John does have a coffee shop in Uptown New Orleans where he won't make you a cup of coffee. Green Beans The Current Crop Roasting Shop on Magazine Street doesn't sell cups of coffee. It only sells coffee beans. And what's more, you can't even take these coffee beans home and make yourself a pot of coffee. Because they're green beans. What you can do at Current Crop Roasting Shop is, roast the beans yourself. You pick the beans you like from a wide selection, and you use one of John's coffee roasting machines to roast ‘em the way you like ‘em. OnesieOf course, even if you're the handiest DIY person on earth, you can't make everything yourself. Though Celia Isabel is doing a pretty good job of making a bunch of it. Celia's company, NOLA Tawk makes home goods, gifts, tabletop decorations, pet accessories, and children's clothing. NOLA Tawk's top-selling items are children's sleepwear and onesies. They make all their products here in New Orleans. They sell some directly to consumers online, but mostly they wholesale them to stores and sellers across the country. Onesie Green Beans It's nice to do something for somebody else. Giving someone a birthday or housewarming present, or buying a child a pair of pajamas - makes you feel good. On the other hand, it's nice to do something for yourself. Like indulging your appreciation of coffee by roasting your own coffee beans. There aren't too many conversations that cover the ground between the two poles of human behavior – indulgence and altruism - represented by coffee beans and onesies. Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at NOLA Pizza in the NOLA Brewing Taproom. You can find photos from this show by Jill Lafleur at itsneworleans.com.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Humans are social animals. We like to hang out and talk. We could, conceivably, create spaces where we could go, solely to talk to other people. But the way our society is structured, everything has to be paid for. Would people pay to go to a place just to talk to each other? Maybe. But that's not what happens. What happens is, we socialize with each other while doing an activity we're prepared to pay for. Like eating. Drinking. Listening to music. Or going to a yoga class. And, like a lot of things these days, we start young. Take for example Lolo's Youth Yoga and Art Studio, Uptown on Magazine Street. Lolo's is New Orleans' first yoga studio specifically for kids. Children - from three years old to teenagers - practice yoga, make art, do mindfulness exercises, and learn meditation in afterschool or full-day sessions. The founder and owner of Lolo's Studio is Laurie Azzano. Two places that adults like to congregate are bars and coffee shops. We go to a coffee shop where we like the taste of the coffee they serve. Bars all serve the same alcohol, so they compete with each other by providing “added value.” For example, live music. For a combination of these business models – coffee and live music – you could go to Catahoula Tattoo, on Broad Street in Mid City. The coffee is their own blend – Catahoula Tattoo Select. And if you drink it at the studio, it's free. The live music is free too. While you're hanging out at Catahoula's self- described “tattoo lounge,” you could get a tattoo, right? Not so fast. Catahoula has 3 tattoo artists, but they won't give you a tattoo on the spur of the moment. Your tattoo needs to be designed ahead of time, and you need an appointment to get it inked into your skin. And in further market-differentiation, the owner of Catahoula Tattoo, Dominic Srgo, says, Catahoula is “not the kind of tattoo shop where the tattoo artists look like they belong in a circus.” If you ever go to a Saints Game when the dome is sold out, the sheer mass of humanity can be overwhelming. That's around 70,000 people. Each one of those people is on an individual life journey. So is every one of the 7 billion humans who aren't in the dome on any given Sunday. And, because we're human, that individual journey we're all on can be physical, and spiritual. One of the oldest ways of creating an individual difference between ourself and everyone else on earth, physically, is body art. And one of the oldest ways of developing our individual non-physical self, is Yoga. The practice of both of those pursuits is ever-evolving. Laurie Azzano and Dominic Srgo might be merely two individuals in the 21st Century in a small city in the south of the United States, but their respective contributions to the arts of tattooing and yoga are a part of ancient traditions, and uniquely their own. Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at NOLA Pizza in the NOLA Brewing Taproom. You can find photos from this show by Jill Lafleur at itsneworleans.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today's world, it is becoming increasingly common for couples to work together towards optimizing their health. An understanding of the benefits and drawbacks of such a partnership is crucial for both parties.In this episode of Your Infinite Health, Dr. Trip Goolsby and LeNae Goolsby delve into the power of couples optimizing their health together. They stress the importance of both parties recognizing the need for growth and working towards it as a team. However, they also caution about the possibility of an imbalance in growth causing a strain in the relationship.One challenge that people often face in their health journey is an unsupportive environment. Our surroundings play a crucial role in our health journey, and being in an environment that is in conflict can disrupt our goals. Dr. Trip Goolsby and LeNae offer tips on how to stay true to one's health goals, even when faced with challenges.At the core of this episode is the idea that taking responsibility for one's health is crucial for personal growth and relationship success. It is important to recognize that both parties may not progress at the same pace, and that is okay. What truly matters is being supportive of each other's journey, and working together towards a common goal.In conclusion, couples optimizing their health together can be incredibly powerful, as long as both parties understand the benefits and challenges of such a partnership. By staying true to their health goals and supporting one another, couples can grow together and achieve better health outcomes.Dr. Trip Goolsby & LeNae Goolsby are the co-founders of the Infinite Health Integrative Medicine Center, and are also the co-authors of the book “Think and Live Longer”.TakeawaysMutual growth is key in healthy relationships.Unsupportive environments hinder personal growth.Stick to health goals despite challenges.ConnectDr. Trip Goolsby & LeNae Goolsby are the co-founders of the Infinite Health Integrative Medicine Center, and are also the co-authors of the book “Think and Live Longer”.

New Orleans is a city of distinctly different neighborhoods. 73 of them to be exact. We've got broad-brushstroke boundaries like Uptown, Mid-City and Algiers. Within those – and sometimes seemingly between them - we have areas with names like Black Pearl, Gert Town, Milneburg, and Desire. And if you want to get even more specifically local, you subscribe to the belief that no neighborhood is either “good” or “bad” with the uniquely New Orleans' explanation, “It's block by block.” Normally, we use this yardstick to describe residential blocks. But the same calculus applies to opening a brick-and-mortar retail store. For example, one part of the French Quarter is very different from another. Katie Schmidt launched her fair trade, sustainable clothing line, Passion Lilie, in 2013. But it wasn't till 9 years later, in 2022, that she opened a French Quarter retail store on Chartres Street, just a stone's throw from Jackson Square. What made Katie choose that particular spot? She explains why she's on Chartres Street in the quarter and not Magazine Street, Uptown on this edition of Out to Lunch. Aaron Newsome opened his store, The Bike Shop NOLA, on Freret Street, in 2011.  Back then, Freret Street and its surrounding residential neighborhoods, were very different from the gentrified homes and restaurant and retail row the area has turned into. As the neighborhood has changed, Aaron's clientele has changed with it. His customers started out as people with limited resources looking for a used bike, or coming in to get their bike fixed. Now he also has folks looking to buy new bikes, and at a decent price. On top of that, in 2020 Aaron's business was the recipient of more unexpected good fortune. The Covid pandemic and lockdown happened, and suddenly it seemed like every person in America wanted a bike. Aaron's business is doing so well he's been able to relocate to a bigger and better spot. Employing the New Orleans block-by-block calculus, the new location of Bike Shop NOLA is a block or so up Freret Street, near Louisiana's most stylish Rouse's. There are a lot of magical things about living in New Orleans. Like, being able to stroll around the French Quarter, get beignets, listen to music, and shop at a fair-trade designer clothing store that sells exclusive but affordable fashion. And being able to saunter down Freret Street, sample all kinds of foods, from Creole to Greek, and go to a yoga class while you get your bike fixed. These aren't fantasy videos dreamed up by the people who run the Visit New Orleans Instagram account. This is how we live. In another city, maybe you wouldn't put a bike shop and a clothes store on a list of magical experiences, but other cities don't have the French Quarter or Freret Street. And they don't have people like Katie Schmidt and Aaron Newsome who have chosen to live here. The businesses they've built and the lives they're living are all a part of the simple everyday reality that collectively is the magic of the city of New Orleans. Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at NOLA Pizza in the NOLA Brewing Taproom. You can find photos from this show by Jill Lafleur at itsneworleans.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week I take you behind the scenes at the Magazine Street conference. (You may remember my interview with Nikki Simpson, organiser of Magazine Street, back in Episode 75.)I share my top takeaways from a few of the many brilliant speakers who shared their stories of creativity, resilience and problem-solving – relevant to all freelancers, not just those in the magazine industry. A cocktail-loving couple who demonstrated the power of listening to your audienceA brand new magazine creator with a simple idea that's already inspiring others A remarkable turnaround story that goes from Dragons Den rejection to international title and the lessons learned along the wayHow a mountain biking community defeated a website hackerHow understanding your audience can help you grow your reachWhat we can learn about writing from producing news reports for 9-year-olds.Vox-pop quotes from other attendees and speakers will be included in the 15 Minute Freelancer newsletter: 15minutefreelancer.substack.comMentioned in this Episode:International Magazine Centre: https://internationalmagazinecentre.com/ Magazine Street Speakers: https://internationalmagazinecentre.com/magazine-street/Episode 75: Create your own conference! (With Nikki Simpson) Say hi to Louise:Louise Shanahan is a freelance health and medical copywriter. She's on a mission to help others build a freelance business that feels easy and works for them – in weekly snack-sized bites.LinkedIn: Louise ShanahanTwitter: @LouiseShanahan_Website: thecopyprescription.comAsk a question for a future episode on memo.fm/15/Support the podcast! If you find this episode helpful and you'd like to show your appreciation, consider leaving a tip over at ko-fi.com/15minutefreelancer. Donations help cover the cost of running the podcast and are very much appreciated.

There's a good chance you haven't won the lottery. But you can probably imagine what you'd feel like if you did, because you've experienced a version of that kind of financial good news at some point. Maybe when you've gotten a bonus at work. Or when the IRS says you overpaid your taxes and sends you a refund. Everybody likes free money. For the most part, that's why we invest in the stock market. Of course, the act of investing in the market and making money, is the same act as investing in the market and losing money. The trick is to know which stocks to buy. And when to buy them. Like gamblers at the horse track, investors have all kinds of foolproof strategies. There are studies that claim, if you write a list of company names on a henhouse floor and invest in whichever names a chicken poops on, you'll come out ahead of most of these strategies. The generally-accepted, best stock-trading strategy of all, is to hire a seasoned, smart, Wall Street investment advisor with a proven track record. But most of us can't afford that. And that's why there's The Motley Fool.   The Motley Fool is a financial and investment advice company that democratizes investing in the stock market by making insightful, dependable advice readily available to almost everyone. They have a website, produce podcasts, publish books and newspaper columns, and they have a radio show. New Orleanian John Rotoni is a Senior Analyst and the Head of Investor Training and Development at The Motley Fool. Even the greatest investors go through tough times. On the days you look at your portfolio and it's not doing as well as you'd like, you can still capture that dopamine-high feeling you get on a good day, by stepping through the door of a business in the Lower Garden District, on Magazine Street. The business is Piety and Desire Chocolate. The public-facing part of it is called Café au Chocolat, and the aroma alone in this place will transport you to a place many emotional miles away from financial stress. Piety and Desire is a New Orleans bean-to-bar chocolate maker, which means they make their own chocolate from scratch, from cacao beans they get directly from growers, mostly in South and Central America. The founder and chocolatier at Piety and Desire Chocolate is Chris Nobles. Chris started the company in 2016. Today he works with a team of employees and they turn out around 2,000 handmade chocolate bonbons a week. It's a pretty normal part of human nature to think that everybody else has a better job than you. But then, you rationalize it. You tell yourself, “Sure, so-and-so's job might look better than mine, but I'm sure she has her own problems.” Well, when you're through rationalizing yourself into feeling fine about your own life, you're in a secure-enough place to admit - there are actually people who have pretty awesome jobs. For example, being able to live in New Orleans and work for a major company with national reach, and spend your day picking stocks, like John Rotoni. And then you look across the table at Chris Nobles. Not only does Chris get to create works of art for a living, but they're made of delicious chocolate. Both these guys work hard, and they have to deal with stress of performing at a consistently high level and delivering every day, but what they're each doing is exactly what they want to be doing, and it's hard to beat that. Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at NOLA Pizza in the NOLA Brewing Taproom. You can find photos from this show by Jill Lafleur at itsneworleans.com.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joining me for this episode is Nikki Simpson, someone who truly embodies the idea that if you want to see something exist in the world, then you should just go ahead and create it yourself. Nikki is the founder and director of the International Magazine Centre and the brains behind the brand new conference Magazine Street, which takes place on 29 September 2022.We chat about:All the details for the upcoming Magazine Street conferenceBehind the scenes when organising an eventWhy you should consider running an eventHow to get the most out of attending eventsAnd how, if you are attending Magazine Street, you may end up featuring on a future episode of 15 Minute Freelancer!Get bonus clips and tips in the 15 Minute Freelancer newsletter: 15minutefreelancer.substack.comGet tickets to Magazine Street:https://internationalmagazinecentre.com/magazine-street/ Say hi to Nikki:LinkedIn: Nikki SimpsonTwitter: @NikkiSimpson3Website: https://internationalmagazinecentre.com/ Say hi to Louise:Louise Shanahan is a freelance health and medical copywriter and a big fan of finding your freelance niche. She's on a mission to help others build a freelance business that feels easy and works for them – in weekly snack-sized bites.LinkedIn: Louise ShanahanTwitter: @LouiseShanahan_Website: thecopyprescription.comLeave a voice note on memo.fm/15/Support the podcast! If you find this episode helpful and you'd like to show your appreciation, consider leaving a tip over at ko-fi.com/15minutefreelancer. Donations help cover the cost of running the podcast and are very much appreciated.

“Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't.” If you don't know, or don't remember, where that comes from, it was a 1970's Hershey's marketing campaign. The concept was to sell two candy bars with one ad. One candy bar was Almond Joy – made with almonds – which you ate when you felt like a nut - and the other was Mounds, which was made with coconut – which you ate when you didn't. Despite its name, coconut isn't technically a nut. Nevertheless, people who are allergic to tree nuts - like almonds, cashews, and walnuts - are typically also allergic to coconut. Back in the 1970's that didn't bother anybody. The reason you ate one candy bar over another was just a taste preference. Today, things have changed. Now there's an entire market of products for people who are allergic to nuts, including foods that are staples of  the American diet, like peanut butter. For those of you in that category – and those of you looking for healthier snack food - there's a new nut in town. It's called Sacha Inchi. Sacha Inchi is a super-seed that is barely known in the US, but in South America it's known as “The Inca Peanut,” having been cultivated in Peru for centuries. The stateside pioneer of snack foods made from Sancha Inchi is a company called Brass Roots. Brass Roots makes three types of Sacha Inchi nut butters – unsweetened, chocolate, and classic. They make three versions of roasted Sacha Inchi seeds. And three varieties of Sacha Inchi puffs - which are kind of like healthy Cheetos. If you're familiar with our traditional New Orleans eating habits, here's a sentence you probably weren't expecting to hear: Brass Roots is from right here in New Orleans. The founder and self-described Chief Eats Officer at Brass Roots is Aaron Gailmor. When we think about the natural world, we typically think of the outdoors. Although most of us spend the bulk of our lives indoors - either at work or home - we do make an effort to bring the natural world inside. We might have a potted plant in our office - though typically it dies the first time we're out for a few days. At home, whether or not we can keep indoor plants alive depends entirely on whether there's one person in a household who has a clue about horticulture. When it comes to the outside of our home or office, we can turn to professional landscapers who choose plants that are right for our specific location, and who come out and maintain them. Now, in New Orleans, we can do the same inside, thanks to an indoor landscaping company called FAIT NOLA.  Over the past few years you may have seen the FAIT NOLA truck around town – it looks like a food truck for plants. Now there's a brick-and-mortar location on Magazine Street. The co-founder and self-described Plantpreneur at FAIT NOLA is Laura Stirling Joffrion. Back in the day, the 70's ad campaign for Almond Joy and Mounds had the same level of success we would describe today as "going viral." In the 1980's there was another memorable ad campaign with an equally tag-line. This one was for  a re-tooled American car. The tag line was, “This is not your father's Oldsmobile.” Unfortunately, it turned out that your father's Oldsmobile was actually better. And pretty soon Oldsmobile disappeared off the market. But the reason I bring this is up is because the businesses we're talking about today – pioneering a brand-new healthy snack food and a new way of bringing nature into our indoor lives – are far from the old, stereotypical perceptions of what succeeds in New Orleans. It's been true for some time that we're no longer living in your father's Crescent City, and it says a lot about New Orleans today that we're not surprised to learn  that original and exciting businesses like Brass Roots and FAIT Nola come from here.  But we still have small town pride! All of us in the business community and the wider community beyond are happy for the success of these two pioneering businesses and we're looking forward to following their continued success. Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at NOLA Pizzain the NOLA Brewing Taproom. You can find photos from this show by Jill Lafleur at itsneworleans.com. And you can check out Aaron Gailmor's earlier pre-Sacha Inchi appearance on Out to Lunch.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bible verse for today's show:So he answered and said, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,' and ‘your neighbor as yourself.' ”  Luke 10:27 NKJVBuy my book of poetry Jaundiced View where you can read the poem "Understand."Love healing hearts,Shirah ChanteRelationship Artist

The summer of 2022 is looking like a perfect time for a vacation. After enduring a lot of stay-at-home time over the last two years, there's plenty to explore in one of America's favorite playgrounds – New Orleans. On this week's show, we learn about Vue Orleans – the 20 million dollar multimedia experience that opened earlier this year at the foot of Canal Street. Then we travel to Egypt with the help of the New Orleans Museum of Art, which has rolled out the red carpet for Queen Nefartari, the royal wife of Ramses II. Chef Chris Montero of Café NOMA and Khaled Hegazzi of Pharaoh's Cave and Sittoo's Kitchen have cooked up authentic tastes of Egypt to further enrich the museum-goers experience at NOMA this summer. We also chat with Today Show co-stars Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager, before partaking in New Orleans' ultimate liquor experience, The Sazerac House. The multimillion dollar three-story interactive museum on the corner of Canal and Magazine Street is a liquor-laden Disney World for historians and cocktail lovers alike. For more of all things Louisiana Eats, be sure to visit us at PoppyTooker.com.

The summer of 2022 is looking like a perfect time for a vacation. After enduring a lot of stay-at-home time over the last two years, there's plenty to explore in one of America's favorite playgrounds – New Orleans. On this week's show, we learn about Vue Orleans – the 20 million dollar multimedia experience that opened earlier this year at the foot of Canal Street. Then we travel to Egypt with the help of the New Orleans Museum of Art, which has rolled out the red carpet for Queen Nefartari, the royal wife of Ramses II. Chef Chris Montero of Café NOMA and Khaled Hegazzi of Pharaoh's Cave and Sittoo's Kitchen have cooked up authentic tastes of Egypt to further enrich the museum-goers experience at NOMA this summer. We also chat with Today Show co-stars Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager, before partaking in New Orleans' ultimate liquor experience, The Sazerac House. The multimillion dollar three-story interactive museum on the corner of Canal and Magazine Street is a liquor-laden Disney World for historians and cocktail lovers alike. For more of all things Louisiana Eats, be sure to visit us at PoppyTooker.com.

Listen as Tony and Jack dine at a Magazine Street classic! 

We hear a lot about mindfulness these days. Mindfulness is, basically, not taking things for granted but instead being consciously aware of what is going on in the present moment. It's unlikely that serious practitioners of mindfulness have a protocol for walking into a bar. But, hey, this is New Orleans.  When you walk into a bar you might unconsciously be asking yourself, “What am I going to drink?”  A more mindful approach might be to let your gaze fall on the bottles behind the bar. And perhaps notice a particular bottle. Say, one with a bright blue wax seal, and a label that says, “River Basin Distillery.” And you might find yourself asking, “Who are the people who make this rye whiskey?” Then, noting that all the bottles in here are made of glass, your next mindful moment might be to wonder, “How do you make glass?”   Well, your mindfulness is paying off. These are the very questions Peter Ricchiuti's guests are answering on this edition of Out to Lunch. The answer to question number one is Elliott Wiener. Elliott is co-founder of New Orleans rye whiskey company, River Basin Distillery.  And so, to question number 2, How do you make glass? We put that question to Jean Blair. Jean is the founder of New Orleans Glassworks, on Magazine Street, near the World War 2 Museum. Glass artists make and sell glass creations there. And you can also sign up for classes at New Orleans Glassworks and learn to blow glass yourself. When we talk about “the economy” we typically like to divide things into neat categories. Among those categories are “manufacturing,” “tourism,” “hospitality,” and “fine arts.” But when we're talking about manufacturing whiskey and high-end pieces of glass works, that are all purchased by tourists and locals, and can be found in bars and restaurants, those categories are blurred in a way that's unique to our New Orleans' economy. Jean and Elliott are both contributing to all kinds of categories of the local economy.  Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at NOLA Pizza in the NOLA Brewing Taproom. You can see photos from this show by Jill Lafleur at our website itsneworleans.com. And check out more lunchtime conversation about making beer and homemade wine. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's podcast we speak with the proprietor of a local beignet bistro, Bernard Stolberg. His charming little Garden District shop on Magazine Street between harmony and 8th has become quite popular with the locals and tourists alike for its fabulous beignets, and full bar. Usually there is an assortment of businesspeople, college students, and dog lovers soaking up the atmosphere and enjoying those tasty treats. On a rainy afternoon, we sat down with Bernard on the back patio -- that is until the rain ran us inside, to talk about those fabulous beignets and how our sponsor, Gulf Coast Blenders, has aided in his success.

On this week's podcast we speak with the proprietor of a local beignet bistro, Bernard Stolberg. His charming little Garden District shop on Magazine Street between harmony and 8th has become quite popular with the locals and tourists alike for its fabulous beignets, and full bar. Usually there is an assortment of businesspeople, college students, and dog lovers soaking up the atmosphere and enjoying those tasty treats. On a rainy afternoon, we sat down with Bernard on the back patio -- that is until the rain ran us inside, to talk about those fabulous beignets and how our sponsor, Gulf Coast Blenders, has aided in his success.

About Katherine Wibell I am now a full-time writer and artist. Staying true to who I am, my reverse-glass paintings, especially those using recycled windows from Hurricane Katrina, feature an array of domestic and wild animals often with a New Orleans theme. Envision squirrels playing with Mardi Gras beads flung into a tree, or my dog, Alli, with a chef's hat quizzically studying the fixin's for a crayfish boil. Commissions include everything from pet portraits to swamp gators! Better yet, check out my website at katharinewibell.wixsite.com/kwibellart or visit Zelé, Pollack Glass Studio & Gallery and/or RHINO Contemporary Crafts Co. on Magazine Street if you visit the Crescent City. Most importantly, I have focused my time on getting The Incarn Saga published. You can purchase Issaura's Claws, Ullr's Fangs, Crocotta's Hackles and Giahem's Talons through Amazon and Kindle. https://www.katharinewibellbooks.com/ The Incarn Saga is a young adult fantasy series inspired by ancient myths, filled with fast-paced action and adventure, and enriched by an understanding of animal behavior that defines the shape-shifting Theriomorphs. I hope you enjoy i

This week on the Jefferson Parish Pulse, we interview Hieu Doan, owner of Boil Seafood House and Hieux Boil Seafood House. Both restaurants offer Viet-Cajun cuisine, a unique spin on traditional Cajun and Vietnamese dishes. JEDCO helped Hieu open Boil Seafood House with an SBA 504 loan, which was used to turn a dilapidated historical building on Magazine Street into a bustling restaurant on one of New Orlean's busiest corridors. Hieu talks about how his childhood informed his decision to open and operate restaurants, how the pandemic impacted business, and what it has been like to see his businesses capture the attention of national foodies. Learn more about Boil Seafood House and Hieux Boil Seafood House. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week the bitches breakfast! We have the creative and tasty Molly's Rise and Shine off Magazine Street.

How many varieties of bitters are stocked in your bar? Once upon a time, there were only two choices – our beloved, local Peychaud bitters and Angostura – originally crafted in Angostura, Venezuela. Today, there are literally hundreds of varieties – a dizzying selection to say the least. One of the biggest players in the bitters field is New Orleans' own El Guapo. We take a tour of their Tchoupitoulas Street facility and learn how El Guapo's president Christa Cotton did a pandemic pivot that grew her business over 800 percent last spring. Next, we take a deep dive into a Sazarac cocktail – the official drink of New Orleans whose flavor relies heavily on Peychaud's bitters – with Tim McNally, whose new book focuses on that single topic. Then, we visit the Crescent City's ultimate liquor experience, The Sazerac House. The multimillion-dollar, three story interactive museum that opened last fall on the corner of Canal and Magazine Street is a liquor laden Disney World for historians and cocktail lovers alike. We take a guided tour, and get a peek at the first distillery ever located smack in the middle of downtown New Orleans.

How many varieties of bitters are stocked in your bar? Once upon a time, there were only two choices – our beloved, local Peychaud bitters and Angostura – originally crafted in Angostura, Venezuela. Today, there are literally hundreds of varieties – a dizzying selection to say the least. One of the biggest players in the bitters field is New Orleans’ own El Guapo. We take a tour of their Tchoupitoulas Street facility and learn how El Guapo’s president Christa Cotton did a pandemic pivot that grew her business over 800 percent last spring. Next, we take a deep dive into a Sazarac cocktail – the official drink of New Orleans whose flavor relies heavily on Peychaud’s bitters – with Tim McNally, whose new book focuses on that single topic. Then, we visit the Crescent City's ultimate liquor experience, The Sazerac House. The multimillion-dollar, three story interactive museum that opened last fall on the corner of Canal and Magazine Street is a liquor laden Disney World for historians and cocktail lovers alike. We take a guided tour, and get a peek at the first distillery ever located smack in the middle of downtown New Orleans.

On Out to Lunch we invite people to have lunch and talk about their business. Our general rule of thumb is, we don't invite them to come back a second time, unless something has materially changed in their business. Well, the Covid-19 pandemic has certainly expanded our list of potential return guests on Out to Lunch. In the past 12 months almost everybody's business has been affected in one way or another. When we first met Desiree Ontiveros, in 2017, she'd recently launched her business, Badass Balloons. Basically, the company made balloons with sayings printed on them. Sayings that were too raunchy to repeat on radio. Under Desiree's savvy leadership, Badass Balloons grew into something much more than a novelty business. It grew into a company with an international footprint that does massive balloon art installations for major events. When Covid hit and brought her business to a standstill, Desiree was so incensed by what she saw as a government response that was impotent, incompetent, and indifferent to the professional and personal plight of so many people and businesses, that she's decided to try and change the government. While still running Badass Balloons, Desiree is also running for Congress. We first met Amanda Dailey back in 2014. Amanda had recently opened a store in the French Quarter called Queork.  At Queork they sold stuff made from cork.  Wallets, shoes, briefcases, handbags, dog collars, and much more. Then they started designing and manufacturing their own cork products, and business boomed. Within a few years, Amanda and her partner had a chain of 5 Queork retail outlets, including stores in Florida and New Mexico. When Covid hit, they had two stores in New Orleans – one in The French Quarter and another on Magazine Street. The sudden disappearance of tourist traffic resulted in the French Quarter store closing permanently. The continuing changing landscape of retail has forced Queork to adapt to e-commerce and online marketing, while fighting to keep a single store open, in an environment that has seen their retail sales plunge by 95%. All of us are caught up in the continuing health and financial crisis brought about by the Covid 19 pandemic. One the one hand, we're all going through this together. On the other hand, we all have individual struggles that are uniquely our own. Desiree has both personal and public struggles going on at the same time with her efforts to keep her business, Badass Balloons, operating while running for Congress. And Amanda's personal battle to keep Queork open is a part of a nationwide struggle for the survival of brick-and-mortar retail outlets. Amanda and Desiree's skills that made them successful business people in the first place haven't deserted them. Although times are extraordinarily tough right now, you can be confident we'll be meeting back here to catch up again in the years ahead. Photos from this show by Jill Lafleur are at our website. Check out Desiree's first appearance on Out to Lunch here and Amanda's first appearance here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

These days it's hard to read the news, or even have a conversation with members of your own family, without being confronted by the many things that separate us. But there is one basic thing we all have in common. We all have a body. Now, that might sound so obvious as to be hardly worth pointing out. But the fact is, if we don't take care of our body, and stay fit and healthy, everything else in our life is compromised. Fit With this basic fact in mind, we've turned keeping fit into a major economic component of American life. We may be more or less successful at actually being in shape, but in 2020 we Americans spent almost $40 billion trying to get in shape. And that was in the throes of a pandemic, when fitness classes and gyms were closed or severely restricted, for months. But, even with 40 billion dollars' worth of mass enthusiasm, keeping a gym up and running these days is not as easy as it used to be, Before Covid. Case in point - F45. F45 is one of the fastest growing fitness franchises in the world. The fitness chain has a total of 1,760 studios globally, spread across 50 countries. Locally, the F45 studio on Magazine Street went from having full membership and multiple classes a day Before Covid, to having no members at all – zero - in the middle of 2020. Things at F45 have gotten a lot better, but the struggle to stay in business is not over. The co-owner of F45 in the Garden District is Sal Figueroa. Frozen Working out is not the only path to health and wellness. In recent years we've come to embrace other regimens, like yoga, Pilates, and diets. Some of these turn out to be passing fads – remember Sugarbusters? Others become a mainstream method of getting, and staying, healthy. The latest addition to the list of alternative methods for improving your health is cryotherapy. Cryotherapy is the use of sub-freezing temperatures to make you feel better and look better. New Orleans' first cryotherapy clinic is NOLA Chill – Cryotherapy and Wellness. The owner of NOLA Chill is Walt Marcus. We all know that working out and consciously taking care of ourselves is good for us. But, before 2020, most of us assumed that even if we didn't make it to the gym as often as we intended, if we just went about our normal lives we'd stay healthy. The emergence of a widespread deadly virus changed all that. Fit and Frozen One of the many results of the global Covid 19 pandemic has been to make us aware of the importance of maintaining base-level good health. And so, for our own health and wellness, it's in all of our interests that the health and wellness industry remains healthy and well. Within the wellness world, Sal Figueroa and Walt Marcus are both dedicated to doing what they truly believe in. That kind of passion is not only an inspiration to people who need to be inspired to stay healthy, it also strengthens their own resolve and fuels their businesses in the face of challenges. You can see photos by Jill Lafleur from this show at our website. And here's more lunchtime conversation about NOLA health and fitness.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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There's a saying in French that, roughly translated, says, “The more things change the more they stay the same.” Generally, in business, that's pretty true. Trends come and go. Markets go up and down. And cycles tend to keep coming around. Maybe in the long arc of history, this fatalistic philosophy will hold true for the New Orleans economy. But for right now the Coronavirus pandemic has ushered in some very real changes that make it difficult to believe things will go back to being the same anytime soon. Especially in the field of tourism. According to the City of New Orleans, before everything shut down in March 2020, we were hosting 19 million tourists a year here. This brought about a massive hotel building boom. Believe it or not, from 2016 to 2019, 13 hotels opened in New Orleans. Another 11 were slated to open by 2023. One of the hotels that opened between 2016 and 2019 isn't strictly a hotel in the traditional sense. It's more of a hostel. But it's a hostel with a bunch of hotel-like amenities. It's called The Quisby, and it's on St Charles Avenue, in a building that opened in 1924 as The Audubon Hotel. David Gindin came across the building after it had been shuttered and vacant for over 14 years. David totally renovated the building, and opened for business in 2017 as The Quisby, a high-end, hip hostel. Today, more things are changing than are staying the same at The Quisby, but it's still open for travelers. Coffee When the city shut down in March, every business in town had to close. Except for those businesses deemed as essential. Among them were hospitals, grocery stores, and food outlets. Which included coffee shops. For that reason, the PJ's coffee shop on Magazine Street near Whole Foods has stayed open all the way through. It's the oldest PJ's in New Orleans and the only one of the original PJ's coffee shops still open. The franchisee of the Magazine Street PJ's is Aubry Miller. Aubry also has other business interests, including a food distributorship called Choctaw Provisions, and a unique coffee shop which is also a hands-on real-life business class at The Academy of the Sacred Heart, where Aubry teaches a course called Math and Financial Literacy. You can find photos from this show by Jill Lafleur at our website. Meet Phyllis Jordan the founder of PJ's Coffee on a previous Out to Lunch. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today I am speaking with Vinay Bhambwani. Vinay is a fitness entrepreneur and nutrition expert. His coaching portfolio includes celebrities, athletes, businessmen and regular joe.  He aims to share the knowledge and science of fitness, and create awareness and education about the importance of well being and living a better quality of life through fitness. With this vision he launched Muscle Manual, the world's first completely free digital magazine. The magazine has featured some of the world's most successful fitness influencers, Olympia winners, and world record holding athletes. Muscle Manual has been read by over 400,000 people in over 45 countries and is going to be relaunched in August 2020. Vinay is also a 3rd generation chocolatier, and rebranded his family dessert company to Lush Healthy Chocolates. He lives in Mumbai where he continues to learn and share his knowledge in the field of nutrition and training. Key points addressed were   Vinay's background in Nutrition and fitness as well as his personal history and study in regards to fasting We also discussed Vinay's book: Intermittent Fasting: A Science-Based Approach and how it narrates the core principles of what Vinay believes to be the most important aspects of fasting as well as some of the most crucial points for those looking to start incorporating fasting into their lives This series features conversations I conducted with individuals who have dedicated their research, businesses, lifestyle, and health to various forms of Fasting and the science of Fasting. This podcast series is hosted by Patricia Kathleen and Wilde Agency Media. Patricia Kathleen Podcasts TRANSCRIPTION *Please note, this is an automated transcription please excuse any typos or errors   [00:00:00] With us from over in India. So we have a bit of a time delay, but we are all going to make do and I do appreciate everyone's patience as we get through the podcast. I know that the information will be well worth the time delay. For those of you that are new to this podcast, I will read a brief bio on Vinay to give you a platform before asking him to describe his own personal narrative himself prior to doing that. Quick roadmap for today's podcast. We will first look at Vinay's. As I said, his academic, professional and personal story as it relates to fasting and fitness and almost all of his endeavors that he has had with in and around those areas and subjects, we'll then look at.   [00:00:46] My name is Patricia Kathleen, and this series features interviews and conversations I conduct with experts from medicine and science to health and humanitarian arenas in an effort to explore the world of fasting from a variety of angles. This dialog is meant to develop a more complete story about the information, research, personal stories and culture in and around the science and lifestyle of fasting. If you're enjoying this podcast, be sure to check out our subsequent series that dove deep into specific areas such as founders and entrepreneurs. Vegan life and roundtable topics. They can be found on our Web site. Patricia Kathleen .Com, where you can also join our newsletter. You can also subscribe to all of our series on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Pod Bean and YouTube. Thanks for listening. Now let's start the conversation.   [00:01:38] Hi, everyone, and welcome back. I am your host, Patricia. And today I am excited to be sitting down with the Vinay Bhambwani. Vinay is a fitness expert, entrepreneur, nutrition expert and the founder of Fitness magazine. You can find out more about everything we talk about today, as well as all of the news endeavors on his Web site. One of his Web sites, w w w dot muscle manual mag, dot com. That is m u s c l e m a and u l m a g dot com. Welcome, Vinay.   [00:02:13] Thank you for having me.   [00:02:15] Absolutely. For everyone listening. Vinay has been so gracious as to speak with us from over in India. So we have a bit of a time delay, but we are all going to make do. And I do appreciate everyone's patience as we get through the podcast. I know that the information will be well worth the time delay. For those of you that are new to this podcast, I will read a brief bio on Vinay to give you a platform before asking him to describe his own personal narrative himself. Prior to doing that, a quick roadmap for today's podcast. We will first look at Vinay's. As I said, his academic, professional and personal story as it relates to fasting and fitness and almost all of his endeavors that he has had with in and around those areas and subjects. We'll then look at unpacking some of the terms that Vinay employs when he talks about fasting. These are areas that kind of differentiate everyone. And while we all think we know what one another talking about, I find that unpacking terms is a key and essential part when discussing the science of fasting and nutrition. We'll then look at his book that specifically speaks to fasting. It's titled Intermittent Fasting, a science based approach, which was also published under his online magazine Muscle Manual a few months ago. And so we'll first look at unpacking his book, namely the core kind of components of the information that it relays his audience that he had in mind, things of that nature. And then we'll turn straight to unpacking his online magazine, the Muslim manual mag, and all of the information that it has. It has an enormous following. It's worldwide and kind of unpack what it services and what it maintains, what it holds in any transitions that it may or may not be going through. We'll then turn our efforts towards unpacking any perceptions that Vinay himself has regarding the pandemic and societal conversation between health and fasting and some of the dialog that has been changing globally over the past few months. And then we'll wrap everything up with some rapid fire questions that everyone has written in who has asked us to ask fitness experts such as we need to kind of answer to and that will be everything. So as promised, prior to peppering him with questions, a quick bio Vinay Bhambwani is a fitness entrepreneur and nutrition expert. His coaching portfolio includes celebrities, athletes, businessmen and the regular Joe. He aims to share the knowledge and science of fitness and create awareness and education about the importance of wellbeing and living a better quality of life through fitness. With this vision, he launched Muscle Manual, The World's first completely free digital magazine. The magazine has featured some of the world's most successful fitness influencers. Olympia winners and world record holding athletes. Muscle Manual has been read by over 400000 people in over forty five countries and is going to be relaunched in August of 2020. I'll have him kind of draw that out for us in print, pushed back, I think, just by a month. And so it's exciting to be on the verge of talking about that. Vinay is also a third generation chocolatier and rebranded his family dessert company to lush, healthy chocolates. He lives in Mumbai, where he continues to learn and share his knowledge in the field of nutrition and training. Savani. I cannot wait to kind of climb through everything, you know, beginning with your book and kind of ending with this chocolatier wonderful endeavor that you have been born into. But before we get to all of that, I was hoping that you could briefly describe your professional, academic and personal story as it relates to nutrition and health and fasting and how everything kind of brought you to where we are going to be talking about today.   [00:05:54] Thanks for that introduction, Patricia. And once again, thanks for having me. So I started off my fitness junkie duty early. I grew up really skinny and I was absolutely horrible at sports, so I had a hard time dealing with that at school. And fortunately, my dad had the right role models. You know, he was looking out on all that, Sylvester. And so I grew up watching those kind of 80s action movies. Well, I'll go. And I violated some citizens. And so I knew that was kind of the direction in which I wanted to have. By the age of 14, I was the really, really good. Yeah. I almost got my black belt. I was on a national level. But it got kind of boring to the point that once, you know, at a national level like the age of 14, there's not much more to fill up.   [00:06:42] So I decided to. And what I realized was modern skating. I was enjoying the evening with others. So I said, let me just get into training. So diamonds and everything that nobody else could get. So I got into training. My dad gave me this book called The Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding. It was 800 pages. You had an audition in 1970. It's a copy of A Choice, but it's written by Arnold Schwarzenegger, S.I. So that's all I got. What I got up on. I've started training at the age of 18, basically, so stop using that. I only just met. By the age of 16, I started studying. S. I don't know all of people out the study for sports nutrition, also studying them by the age of 18, I have got my post nutrition, sex education, training. So I'm a little kid. But I was never really happy with academic sense to something that I dedicated in school, because when it comes to science and sickness in particular, I debate is up in the syllabus. And by all the science is going to be all you know. So by the time I'm studying this nutrition course, the syllabus is yours and the science is going to move on. So my approach has always kind of sense and you do want to be sick also, but it's Muslim and I think it times and research the. So that's kind of how my journey started. I was just a young, enthusiastic kid when you wanted to do something in the field of fitness, but I didn't know what I mean. I knew that switching was my thing, my initial I vls to launch an online fitness coach thing, which eight years ago it was too early for the Indian market for that kind of service, but it just wasn't happening and it just wasn't going anywhere.   [00:08:31] And I figured, let me stop watching people in person until then. And it turns out that was the best decision I ever made. That's the best way to become a good paunches of the experience. And unless you have that, you can't have the things in place. Female. Because you just don't have the experience and know what the kinds. Well, I started beating people up. At the age of 19, I was fortunate who I came across this getting, who's a bodybuilder from grilles and you can't be here. And you're doing a book about this battle. Yes.   [00:09:11] And he was holding eat and beat it. Where he was. And. Well, yet another influence I had growing up was this magazine. And I was always good at English and writing. I said, I'm knackered. So I'm inspired back to this getting at this point at the age of 19. And I go to his book signing, I put a copy of this book. I stand in Q4 and I use my sense. And when I get a chance to talk to him, I tell him that, you know you know, my role model is. I've known this man. And maybe when I do love you some. And he was kind enough to sign in the copy of the big. And the moment that happened, I was like, okay, now this has to happen and I'm gonna untangles going to go live to his words. So I found that just two weeks later, we were having the one of the largest expos ever. And it's gone. And we had athletes and bodybuilders all around the world attending this event. And I knew just getting to that, too. And at this point, I didn't still have a plan to launch a magazine. I was 19 years old going to college. I didn't really know what I'm doing. I have my basic nutrition. I'm training so patient. But, yeah, I still don't exactly have a business acumen to make sense of it. But I decided that it's a good idea. What does this mean that steeps? I mean, it's built up. I've had a few conversations I'm seeing with. So I said that with a friend, with your camera and my mobile phone, we just record and do interviews and introduce myself and things kind of take off over that. I suddenly I'm sitting and talking to some of the biggest athletes on the most successful names, industriousness in NASCAR all around the. And I get a lot of interviews, but does not plan on launching a magazine. That's not name. That's Brand. I don't really even know how to do it. And so I decide that within the next 20 days, because I was getting isn't. I've got e-mail ideas. It's fine. So from the day I met captain of the signing, it was the. And then two weeks later, we launched the first issue of. In where I just put it together, writing most of that is myself asking my science to teach me how to design it and if I don't get up and just a makeshift website which was not ready to be on, but that was like the spark in my head that showed me that this had some huge potential with you. And my goal was always to put all the magazines obsolete, because one of the things that I aspire to do is to transform at least one hundred thousand people with in my lifetime. To help answer this. And one other than a personal coaching one, we can do that by publishing on. Dandrige credible information. Shannon. Deal, because on Magazine Street, eventually. But then all of us and our readers at one point, one million views on it. And I got this young kid who doesn't know the licking his hand on the missiles.   [00:12:20] Right. But eventually I decided to take a break. And Lou Diamond watching. And just take a hiatus. I'm five years late, but I am ready to relaunch the. Big project, big of athletes and some huge names like.   [00:12:36] Nice. Absolutely. So here's what I'm curious about. You decided to launch the original version of the magazine online and you did it really quickly within this couple week timeframe. It sounds like at least the initial launch, even though it was clumsy. It was up. And you said that your direction was kind of being made up as you went along. But curious, in the original inception and the original launch, how what was your audience chip like? Because now you've been you know, it's been visited by over four hundred thousand people. It's a massive feat. Originally, when you launched. How did you garner or glean readership?   [00:13:16] Well, it was really hot, the first issue we had, maybe 20 does county and most of them are probably my friends and family. But after that, we launched our social media page. I was really good at that. You go to marketing and things all within one year we had, I think, 60000 followers just on. I found like we had a bunch of stuff biodata. So we buy a bit, forget thousands of views Web site within the last year. Other than that, because the magazine is free. All other models have been fairly kind. It must have been. I would be active on the social media and that because the kind of shared this vision that it's to educate the masses about living a. So can you be happy? I am. And all of these athletes that we go on O magazine, they have massive social former. So I'm grateful to them being happy. Authorities in Sudan did not eat any lunch.   [00:14:18] Yeah, absolutely. I want to climb into a couple of terms now before we get into your book. Your book does a good job of kind of laying out what you're going to be looking at and the title, indeed, you know, intermittent fasting, a science based approach, kind of spells out how you're coming at the subject. But I first want to get into how you personally define some things. So the first one is, it seems rote and transparent, although it's not. How do you yourself define fasting? Do you find. Do you define it as going without food? Food and liquids? Is there different ways of you know, people think I've spoke with someone that thought that even if you were drinking your nutrients, that was a form of fasting. So how do you personally define fasting?   [00:15:03] That's a good question, because it's going to be so contextualize on each person's individual level goes on what they're getting into it. But to give you a definition, for me, intermittent fasting is a specific timing program where you limit your book.   [00:15:19] The second to putting your own goals, whether that's for anti aging, whether that's what we've lost, where the ducks fall in growth, productivity goes just stamina. What about. Doesn't matter to me. Intermittent fasting is when you set a specific thing, Glenn. Personally, I don't believe in consuming.   [00:15:38] I mean, you new in Boston to me, if you're Tommaseo modern practicalities starting. Your source is as good as that's personally my opinion and what I have studied in science is that I want to give the maximum I'm going to consumers. Least you're probably just upsets me.   [00:15:59] It also talks about the maximum food intake that would allow during a fast I'm OK, give it as many drinks as you can consume, whether that's water, black eating. It was allowed during the fasting. But personally, I'm not a big believer of any liquid nutrition intake or anything during fasting have a more traditional approach.   [00:16:22] Yeah, absolutely. And what do you. Let's get into some of the forums and this is kind of unpacking one of your chapters in your book. But what are the most common forms of fasting that you employ or that you recommend your clients employ?   [00:16:35] So the top you have, you start off with a 12. I asked, I think.   [00:16:43] Yeah, there's a lot of different ways you can sum it up. The gold standard is 16 hours. The reason being that other than all the other benefits, you get so exhausting, it was the limited calorie intake. Their insulin levels that both hormone levels up and then all of those benefits at the 16 hour Mako fasting up and get for it and you stop to get all the health benefits.   [00:17:05] Also, getting rid of stock sense from your body and also MDH autophagy is a very good process, which only takes this one missile sting in the process where the body eliminates, stops, ends and gets rid of stops. It takes place when you're not eating, when you're asking for a long time. So generally autophagy kicks and the novel stops when sleep. But by extending that time period, by fasting, you're extending the amount of time or space in your body and maximizing the long of stocks enjoyed.   [00:17:39] So and you also talk about a twenty four, right? So it's a 24 hour out, 20 hour fast and a four. Is that the same for you as, oh, MADD, which is a lot of times that's an acronym one meal a day or from dinner to dinner. There's a lot of ways of saying this, but do you feel like a 24 is the same approach or is it slightly different from MADD in that people could eat potentially twice within those four hours?   [00:18:03] That's going to deter us from person to person and what your capacity is like. Personally, when I do my 24 hour fast, I need two meals. I feel like if I don't eat meals, I'm going to wake up really hungry that next day. And I'm going to feel really unproductive and destructive because I knew fast, what, 24 hours. All you have is like a night. Eat your meal before you put your. And I been in the morning, I need to be a little more fuel for my book.   [00:18:30] That's my personal preference. If somebody is able to get obesity on me, let that's exceptional. Well, if you can do that. That is some all I one solution for us. If you're eating full meals on a. OK.   [00:18:47] Do you personally. I'm wondering how often you employ eating 24 hour or twenty, slash four fast. Do you do it regularly? Is it a constant? Do you do it occasionally for weight management? Health increase bodybuilding world. Are you employing your fasting for personally?   [00:19:09] I generally employ like a 16 to 20 hour source, depending on what time I start working the day to be transparent with you, I don't have the best relationship with food.   [00:19:18] I really don't like eating. I grew up in that kind of a spiral. And the problem with being skinny quite a while I put on a good amount of muscle. I used to be 40 pounds heavier than I am, I suppose. But I've since dropped on my feet and I've just done a little simple, comfortable life.   [00:19:38] So for me right now, 16 to 20 hours can be good. It makes it convenient. And on my walk, on my bike in the morning, I'll be forceful and then have my skills. Yeah. Personally, I find that productive. My insulin levels are stable. When you eat, your blood sugar levels fluctuate with fasting. Those levels are really stable. Plus, most people like my sense, well, Austin, probably few lessons with a caffeine flow, a good living. So we generally don't have any energy deficiencies or any weakness or exhaustion.   [00:20:16] Good enough. Once the whole season that frosting your body only adapt fairly well and you become a high.   [00:20:25] Mm hmm.   [00:20:26] Yeah. A 24 hour fast one sale question is something I'd buy once in two weeks or maybe once a month just to get some of them off and using benefits.   [00:20:35] I'm a little confused in that sense of how I look. So once in a while. And you still us. Just why aren't you doing better?   [00:20:42] But it does make desiccant district.   [00:20:45] You know, I know somebody can do it even just once a week.   [00:20:51] Yeah. What are your what's the longest fast you personally have ever engaged in?   [00:20:57] Probably took you 6000. That was by mistake because I had like it was just said, ask me. I had to it was during this time dynamic and I could go out, get groceries at my parents house and have them out. I've woken up and one after the other, you know, one.   [00:21:12] Dusko, I was one bloke. I mean, one. Yeah. And then I had my client obligations later on. So it dawned out that my 16 hour foskett extended. It was because of all these woke up. And I said, you know, I've got 22 guys, I might as well push a little bit longer H20.   [00:21:29] So Berlusconi backs the accident. I honestly, I think it was I thought I would see under the stuff, but it turns out that you can overcome any obstacle and. So it was by accident that I did thank you for lost, lost for the first time. And then one week later, same thing happens. And I said this time. I know it's easy. So let me just push through. Thirty six thousand seehofer.   [00:21:56] Yeah, absolutely, I think that a lot of people experienced the mental component of fasting, you know, early on and then again revisit it as they continue their fasting. I'm wondering, you mentioned earlier about, you know, that the anti aging benefits and things of that nature that you really have tapped into. And I like talking to fasters who employ it personally, such as yourself, who don't have an issue with weight management and aren't currently employing it for that reason, because the universe of fasting, you know, historically has been used for thousands of years, mainly for disease fighting and prevention, as well as, you know, mental clarification, skills and things of that nature. And this is a huge school fasters that's still kind of run around with the physical benefits that exceed weight loss and management, as well as tapping into some of the intellectual benefits from it that philosophers from thousands of years ago have, you know, employed. And I'm curious for you yourself personally, have you looked at using fast in these other aspects? You talk about anti aging aspects and things of that nature. Can you talk to some of the specifics? Is it just for the, you know, the regenerate generation of the cells? Are you talking about autophagy or what what areas for you personally, are you engaging with fasting when you get into the health benefits?   [00:23:16] Yeah, yeah, absolutely right. I don't have any issue with weight management. I'm doing this only because of the convenience and the health benefits it brings into my life.   [00:23:24] You know what I needed? I was all using it for weight management to drop some of the excess muscle, but I had. But after a while, I realized that the longer you start, the more you would just see more and more benefits. Right. And I saw the amount of convenience that this was bringing into my life by finishing all of my adult swim store and then relaxing. That's only. Increased productivity being based.   [00:23:50] The energy levels, it became more and more clear to me that the longer you fast, the more health benefits you see and as compared with a million Helfant from any reason security us. Look at it this way it is. Go in wasting your time and energy in asking how much are you getting compared to that? And to be real, you're not really interesting any time in which you're saving time by fasting, if anything. And the amount of help that.   [00:24:19] Under. So my ideal way to look at it is why wouldn't I?   [00:24:26] As it was, I'm sure. Yeah, I agree. It's funny that you say that, though. I think a lot of people there's still a great deal of hypertension around it. Even people who are excited about the idea of fasting, there's an emotional relationship. It sounds you personally lack, you know, with this hyper focus on food and and for good reason and a lot of countries in people's lives. I'm wondering, when you apply fasting, have you ever prescribed it for clients? And if so, what's the top reason? Is it weight loss and management or is it you know, there's a lot to be told with there a great deal of athletes that I'm sure you featured on your site, then employ fasting for their muscle healing and rejuvenation and the anti swelling properties they're getting into fasting can have with muscle healing, particularly biathletes and things like that. So whom have you kind of prescribed it to as you've been coaching people in health and fitness with fasting?   [00:25:24] The brief answer would be anyone and everyone. Do you want to gain weight, lose weight? I recommend fasting for everyone. I'm not very pushy with any of my claims on any kind of chinstrap. What I like to boost generally understand the Slainte an assessment. Folks who understand this line's preconceived notions about fasting because so many of us have been conditioned to believe it. For instance, on unhealthy, it means a lot of people are really ambition who believe that it's really outdated science. New science is really showing me the drawbacks of fasting. So I really recommend anyone what I like, where they a sense. Question on. Not Austin, whether they had mission in mind busting. Then I explain some aspects that are going to add to your previous question, which I'm sorry. Other than the weight management of Betty, what do you boss? Number one is that you get by. Studies have shown that fasting and stem cell regeneration as we grow older are endurance stimulus and so stuff. But flossing kind of. And even though in the University of South. So this is one of the benefits of doing that, like I mentioned, just the increased productivity and energy levels is something that everyone with. But the. Again, some people have that chance when it comes to what he's put in mind in terms when Vegan us. Look good. It'll be fine. And it's Kofman oh oh. But this was just your body adjusting it well, it's like like I'm getting used to a different. Another is that a love potion that by fasting, they're going to lose Musson, but they're going to see it. So I they don't do it. But by stopping them, they held off us. Just anybody. You're probably sleeping eight hours out of. Slainte. Knock them off, my son, slow, gradual, build up over your weeks and be doing Atheel asking. I want a bus. I'm actually allowed in. Yes. Yes. Some people say it's an. Dizziness, headaches, dehydration like symptoms in the first two days of fasting. Again, your body takes time to adapt to any kind of nutrition programs. Fasting is not the maximum. I see us in just asking, is it? No one's had any scandals. It last longer than days.   [00:28:26] I see. Yeah, I think that. And it can vary, as you're saying, individual to individual.   [00:28:30] Your book does a good job of kind of covering some of those myths and things like that that, you know, and and actual real attributes. You have a section where you talk about before you start fasting about kind of debunking some myths. I'm curious when you talk about how to break your fast. Did you personally weigh into that? Did you research things when you advised. This is a big thing for a lot of, you know, experienced fasters is what to do as you're breaking a fast because the body does not receive all things as equal. And it can kind of alleviate symptoms that were happening during fasting or fight them. Can you speak to a little bit to the section and how you researched for it and why you included the information you included in how to break your fast?   [00:29:21] Right. So I think one of the biggest mistakes people make is assuming that fasting is just skipping a couple of meals and then you're not done. You know, everything. It's like a natural way. All of a sudden you're in a day. But, yes, fasting does make a limited impact. And the. But there's a lot more science to it. You know, it's not just skipping. There's a lot of concern. But before you add up your phosphine, maximize the radius and make it expedients. So when it comes to breaking your fast, I did a lot of research online on Google. I just go on really. I have a couple of subscriptions to some research magazines. So that gives me the latest information on my source. To be honest. So CBI, the government, is my secret medical publication when it student and fasting are being. Through these sources, I learned that when you do when you bust, there's a lot more to lose. Internally, you know why? No. There's a bunch of. That might be bestowed on smoothen busting. One example is when you're fasting your kidney stone to expel a lot. But what you should do is add it is a half of salt. I know Fosdick. And this is gonna keep thousands. And I did. Well, it's a. Another thing you could do before your fasting is if a lot of people say it's on the banks, you are in the stinky. They could eat a high fiber meal before they stop that you your last meal, before you start your boss could a hypermedia puts some vegetables or anything that provides high dose security. And we'll keep you. And you're going to notice less cravings and fangs the next day. No. I could write another one on this if I could be honest. But there's a ton of records that you should I could employ more than your fasting experience on the head.   [00:31:26] But, you know, when you talk about breaking your fast, you have a part where you talk about never mixing carbs and fats when you break your fast food and insulin. And you kind of speak to that. You have this very it's it's a very, you know, exclamatory, you know, point in the book where you talk about how out antithetical that is to the fast, sir.   [00:31:49] Yes. So when it comes to eating, cooking on dogs and cats together, this is will be another. You are learning that from science, that eating dogs and facts together, especially when you break the fast. What it does is it promotes fat. You see, what happens is when you haven't eaten for a long period of time and you're fasting, your insulin levels are a lot more sensitive. But even having a small line of food is going to lead a larger insulin response. Now, high insulin promotes fat storage. When you are in your fasting, your body's fight or flight state. Right. So your titles like a higher stress threshold and your cortisol levels, which is that stressful one is really high. Now, insulin last high. Cortisol is a terrible disaster for fat storage. But what you want to do is get your cortisol levels down a little bit, get your insulin levels up to allow your. Right. Right. And why do you think jobs and that were used to prop it up? And you have. That's OK. Well, that's still the Jews.   [00:32:58] And because anything that's among those stats. And that's one reason why you. Dobbs on facts. But why do you think dogs and cats together as a Lou? Yeah, OK, I'm wondering.   [00:33:14] I want to kind of switch gears really quickly and get into I know that you are having kind of a reboot of the muscle manual mag. I want to talk about what we can expect your audience can expect from that. And do you have any information on your Web site from Muscle Manual? The online magazine. Do you do you cross pollinate with the your fasting information? You know, can people access the book on their. And also, do you share information about fasting on there or is it solely dedicated to health and fitness, excluding fasting?   [00:33:53] I know the frosting is definitely one of the things you cover on the magazines from time to time, we give it just as much importance as we do with any other scientifically engrained nutrition technique.   [00:34:05] So from time to time, you.   [00:34:07] As us now, not a single doctor is on it exclusively, but it will be on the massive market. When it comes to what people can expect with this magazine, it's going to be 20 pages of pitch information when it comes to training, nutrition, lifestyle, motivation and athletes sharing their experience on an average in. Are some of the big names for the upcoming issues?   [00:34:37] I don't know how much of this I should be talking about, but one of the big names we have, a strange scene is alleging something. The easy time was stolen. One of the only people on this panel, and he's really a legend, and he was kind enough to do a quick interview.   [00:34:56] And so Tomaso Manual magazine again off the list of the magazine issue. Yeah. Bhima with the goal of eating again. Is that you? Ice on ice and. And other groups lost along with a bunch of other techniques. I know you're just imagining there are a lot of people in the United States where I'm located right now and the health and nutrition enterprises and as well as them in fasting, it's all been kind of conglomerated into specific dietary regimens like you're doing at a focus on body building and things of that nature. But there is frequently like a cross platform dialog about, say, Vegan diets or paleo and fasting and body building. And, you know, everybody's got their own secret formula as to what's going to achieve what and things like that. Will your will the new site also explore different areas like that with different diets? Are those things spoken about or is it all mainly under the lens of bodybuilding? And also, do you look at any of the female athletes out there or is it mainly under the purview of the like the male gender?   [00:36:09] Oh, no. We have no restriction that such scholar female athletes in the past. In fact, one of our most successful magazine issues was with Oksana Grishin, on the other hand. She's a nine misselling figure. So does that. Oh, we don't limit ourselves on any kind of end times. Well, I wouldn't hit on a bodybuilding focused magazine model on chair.   [00:36:31] Yes. And it just so happens that a lot of bodybuilders. When it comes to on best and. We don't have a lot of competitions in this, you know, films or the buildings and in sickness, you have credible names. Athletes who are it's hard to explain. But a book by a magazine called A Bodybuilder is ideal. You know, as a. On by bus, by style, on general.   [00:37:09] OK. Interesting. I'm wondering where how do you how are you going to curate it moving forward? How will you decide the direction in which the magazine's headed after the kind of reboot? Do you have plans for the next one to three years? And if so, has it changed with the wake of the pandemic? Has any of that narrative kind of taken change with this kind of global re conversation and meditation that everyone, it seems, on Earth has had with nutrition and health and fitness and all of those things?   [00:37:41] To be honest. There's no change in our business model or. You think is in being. Oh, we're following the same business model as this all, which is that we have a Web site and every month we're going to publish a magazine and she walk free. I have the next YODO. So planned out this act of this pandemic hasn't shown us any setbacks other than a few time delays. But people are also consuming more content because of the pandemic, citing it's a very quick. And he launched this kind of.   [00:38:11] Yeah, absolutely. I want to turn now to one of my more favorite aspects about your bio and profile, which is your family's chocolate company, Lush Chocolates. I am. And I want to get into your third generation chocolatier, which is ironic for someone is, you know, not maybe ironic anymore, but back in the days. Unorthodox. Yeah. And I love that. And I think that there's actually been a huge change in the sweets industry, you know, and for a lot of reason, I'm wondering what you can tell us about what does it mean anymore to be a third generation chocolatier? Have things changed? Are there sugar free chocolates? Is there, you know, Monck fruit chocolates? Is there Vegan chocolates? Have you kept the same age old recipes? How is all that looked for you?   [00:39:00] Right. So the chocolate business is definitely is something unique. So the story behind it was that my grandmother was a dessert chef years and she used to supply his arms to some of the biggest restaurants and caterers in Mumbai. So I kind of. But she got those who just stuck us with chocolates and aches and had this decided to having an office every evening. I grew up eating a lot of chocolate. And what happened was at one of my events, we had this event in college where every college under the snoots and stuff. But I had fitness business there and I said, I want to promote my food drink business or move my magazine. So I got a one. Something brought attention by Stone in my home state by. So I asked my grandmother she would use some of her talents to make use healthy chocolates that will attract customers. And she did. And it was a big hit. So I decided that maybe this is something I should look into because my mom's been doing it on me. Yes. And there's definitely a market for a healthier direction. Wish chocolates and desserts. So what I did was I took the family, business and family. And now what we do is it'll be only two individuals Slaínte just it and the husband of Job Bowl while managing that way. So it's it's an entire range of products. We do veto sugar shop stuff. So we turn it on us. Yeah. Yeah. We do chocolates which are high in. Oh I got the anti-tax I in sibo much higher in antioxidants. So if you look at our website, almost Omine ingredients are going to find much of a healthy Boxey or even undergoing anything that's good for your health. I'm unsure, but it's primarily a B2B business. We do a large audience of eating weddings on a special occasion. But Betaworks, OK? Individuals, actually US democracy actually go to the IMF and find something you are looking for. We do also call it as a Bustamonte. Fantastic. He's long a question about the chocolate industry. Yes, there is a lot of interest in healthy chocolate help, especially with people becoming more and more upbeat about the health benefits. And I think we're going to see a trend retrofitting stock and dockett shock and milk. Chocolate is going to eventually be so exclusively for children. But the health benefits are all going to come from the doctor shop unless the sugar. And the less milk you you're going to get much higher yield signals. And like, you know, doctors are recommending declines of chocolate undies or at least once a week for adequate and adequate antioxidants to keep a hot.   [00:41:54] Yeah, absolutely. I concur. I think that's where the trends are headed and it seems to already be well on its way, at least in the United States. I want to turn now to our rapid fire questions. We have a lot of people that write in with questions that they'd love to ask health and fitness experts and nutritional coaches like yourself. And I want to get into with fasting. People are wondering what the number one misconception that your clients are, people you run into have about fasting.   [00:42:23] I think the biggest ordeal that my clients have about when it comes to fasting is really just getting over the fact that you have two stops skipping meals and breaking all of these habits that you have of eating a heavy breakfast.   [00:42:35] And I'm not skipping meals where you just condition who believe these old times and old lifestyles and old science. You know, science has proven that breakfast is actually an. Without Jack, you can bet opens up, but the biggest difficulty I have isn't just on mixing my time. It's costing, you know, give it a shot. Don't worry about all. Your body is going to survive. Do it, guy.   [00:43:01] I went like this without, you know, being a couple of hours without, you know. Yeah, absolutely. What do you think the the easiest thing about fasting has been for your clients who have tried it? Have there been any kind of things that they didn't realize we're going to be easier than they kind of thought?   [00:43:23] I think a lot of people always say to me how difficult, how how to deal with the hunger pains, and then once they get into it, they realize that it's certainly not that hard to control young guys to keep us busy. And you have the right to antibiotics and a couple of beverages. One of them is lying in water. That's going to keep your acidity low. Another is a black a black Gosta. You have to eat something to just get some instinct into your mouth who, if you can satisfy, satisfied and not get you anything. Thanks. So there are a bunch of different things that you do to make fasting a smooth experience for you, like I've discussed.   [00:44:02] I'm sorry. Just give me a second. I want to get to my thoughts and tie this all in together really nicely. Yes. Can you repeat the question once more?   [00:44:10] I'm wondering what some of the easier things that people hadn't anticipated would be, you know, in the benefits of fasting or even just the easiest thing is how easy it is to really control your high hunger and hollering, please, fasting wrinkle, because a lot of people just struggle with getting into a 16 hour fast because it's kind of a big change initiative began by breaking that down.   [00:44:33] What? Well, us. And then every week asking them to fast for one hour more density of protein, just eating them 16 hours. They realize that with that I lose with all offie with lime. I'm locked out of these beverages that are allowed during your fasting if outsourcing is not stopping your sentence. It does not mean you're going to say yes and you get. That's the biggest problem that people associate Austin with starvation.   [00:45:01] Yeah, agreed, and I think that there is a lot of lack of information and the lack of history with it. Right. A lot of people don't have a history with it. The body is an incredible learning machine. So I think it adapts to more than we recognize because we don't make it to a depth that much anymore. I'm wondering, everyone, we have had a lot of people write in and ask for you. What is the number one benefit of fasting for yourself and for your clients?   [00:45:30] Personally, I noticed my energy levels on our productivity improvement lock mind, that's the main benefit that I got equal. Because that's all much easier get just mix might be and how much time it saves me during my working hours and eating, preparing my meals and all of those things, you know. So that's really the biggest benefit that I got. Another thing that I look by is antiaging. And maximizing the hormones like human growth hormone is something that's involved in fasting. And the longer you force, the higher the level of. Six, eight.   [00:46:01] Now, the more growth hormone you have, the more anti aging benefits are get inside. Growth hormone is also something that a lot of small celebrities are not. Get themselves together. And you can just get some. So my top defense minister, Austin, would be increased productivity. And just looking at ceiling by slope that they actually get lights.   [00:46:23] Excellent.   [00:46:24] Well, Vinay, we are out of time, but I wanted to say thank you so much for taking the time today and speaking with us from all the way across the world and giving us all of your information about fasting and all of your expertize.   [00:46:38] Thank you for having me. A pleasure to speak to you.   [00:46:40] Absolutely. For everyone listening, we've been speaking with Vinay Bhambwani. And you can find out more. He's a fitness entrepreneur, our nutrition expert and the founder of the fitness magazine to find out more about his book, his magazine, everything online at W w w dot to muscle manual mag, dot com. And until we speak again next time, thank you for giving us your time. And this is a reminder to stay safe, eat well when you do eat and always bet on yourself. Slainte.  

All Things New Orleans and Mardi Gras! To find information on Mardi Gras: https://www.frenchquarter.com/mardi-gras-parade-schedule/ https://www.mardigrasneworleans.com/parades/ Tours and entertainment: Ghost tours via Trip Advisor: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Search?q=ghost%20tours&searchSessionId=78DD8D500192109089092921EDA4DBCE1582583446357ssid&sid=A5C5CC4E8BFD88131B8ABE975C4690421582583470808&blockRedirect=true&ssrc=a&geo=60864 New Orleans Ghost, Voodoo & Vampire Walking Tour (2 hours along, walking, entertaining $14) https://www.tripadvisor.com/AttractionProductReview-g60864-d11453064-New_Orleans_Ghost_Voodoo_Vampire_Walking_Tour-New_Orleans_Louisiana.html Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop http://www.lafittesblacksmithshop.com/Homepage.html Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop. Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a historic structure at the corner of Bourbon Street and St. Philip Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Most likely built as a house in the 1770s during the Spanish colonial period, it is one of the oldest surviving structures in New Orleans.  Food and History tour, French Quarter Food Tour, $65 https://www.tripadvisor.com/AttractionProductReview-g60864-d11454049-New_Orleans_Food_and_History_Tour-New_Orleans_Louisiana.html River Boat Tours:Creole Queen Mississippi River Cruise https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g60864-d2178225-Reviews-Creole_Queen_Mississippi_River_Cruises-New_Orleans_Louisiana.html Steamboat Natchez River Cruise https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g60864-d549409-Reviews-Steamboat_Natchez-New_Orleans_Louisiana.html  Plantation house: Oak Alley Plantation https://www.oakalleyplantation.com/sugarcane-plantation/plantation-tours Carriage ride in French Quarters https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Products-g60864-zfc11970-zfg11873-New_Orleans_Louisiana.html?m=40646&supag=74046479642&supsc=aud-448833066947:dsa-650389793948&supai=358052534553&supap=&supdv=c&supnt=nt:g|clk:CjwKCAiAhc7yBRAdEiwAplGxX6E-FdyJQv7Dkyb5YHGkaiV_rrRwqfI-yfa4QkS6Qu1UFdagTDjT8RoClYwQAvD_BwE&suplp=9012211&supli=&supti=aud-448833066947:dsa-650389793948&tsem=true&supci=aud-448833066947:dsa-650389793948&supap1=&supap2=&gclid=CjwKCAiAhc7yBRAdEiwAplGxX6E-FdyJQv7Dkyb5YHGkaiV_rrRwqfI-yfa4QkS6Qu1UFdagTDjT8RoClYwQAvD_BwE Graves/ grave yard Nickolas Cage has his grave here even though he’s not dead yet, but it’s the only thing the government couldn’t take when he went bankrupt. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/nicolas-cage-s-pyramid-tomb Marie Laveau’s fake grave is purple...painted over from the people drawling one it and making wishes. https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/43436  Museums Mardi Gras museum of costumes and culture: off conti streethttps://www.mardigrasworld.com Jass museum: piano, saxophone:celebrate all forms of jazz 400 Esplanade Ave https://nolajazzmuseum.org WW2 museum ( NOLA’s #1 Attraction ) The National WWII Museum, formerly known as The National D-Day Museum, is a military history museum located in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, on Andrew Higgins Drive between Camp Street and Magazine Street. Magazine street. https://www.nationalww2museum.org Old New Orleans rum,  2815 Frenchmen St, spiced rum world 2nd largest producer. “I drink and I know things” https://celebrationdistillation.com House of Blues: https://www.houseofblues.com/neworleans Hole in the wall Bookstores: William Faulkner House Books https://faulknerhousebooks.com  Librarie https://www.neworleans.com/listing/librarie-book-shop/33003/  Dauphin Street Book https://www.facebook.com/DauphineStreetBooks/  Cape Robbin shoes on IG: @caperobbin, Food Breakfast: Café Du Monde: https://shop.cafedumonde.com Cafe Fleur de Lis -breakfast BACON, strawberry mimosa http://www.cafefleurdelis.com Coterie restaurant & oyster bar http://coterienola.com Lunch: Acme oyster house: Po boy, char grilled oysters, drunk root beer float.https://acmeoyster.com Napoleon oyster house https://www.napoleonhouse.com Central Grocery for homemade soda, looks like an old dinner: http://www.centralgroceryneworleans.com Coops Place (across for bb kings): https://www.coopsplace.net Dinner: Apple Place :Aldolfo’s on Frenchmen St-cash, bottom bar, special sauce https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60864-d445261-Reviews-Adolfo_s-New_Orleans_Louisiana.html Dickie Brennan’s steakhouse: https://www.dickiebrennanssteakhouse.com HOUSE OF BOURBON: https://www.bourbonhouse.com Oceana Grill: https://www.oceanagrill.com   Music/nightlife: Cat’s Meow for Karaoke: http://catskaraoke.com Fortune Telling, Live music, Art in Jackson Square:  http://www.experienceneworleans.com/jackson-square.html  Bb kings blues club(BBQ)https://www.bbkings.com/new-orleans  Places to stay Astor Crown plaza: https://www.astorneworleans.com The Marque suite, sister hotel on canal street: https://www.bluegreenvacations.com/resorts/louisiana/the-marquee#gref Hilton http://www.hilton.com/search/hi/us/la/new_orleans/0/00000000000/0/0/0/0/10?WT.mc_id=zlada0ww1hi2psh3ggl4advbpp5dkt6multibr7_153669424_1003528&gclsrc=aw.ds&&gclid=CjwKCAiAhc7yBRAdEiwAplGxX3OIgTnaIsZXGK2PqWZvb98OhjiYn1fAKITnMqaRjvGZiJaCoxZ0oBoCpc4QAvD_BwE  Thank you for tuning in. 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There was a time in New Orleans, that if you told someone you were moving into your new office, it was probably in Houston. Or Atlanta. In the 1990's, whole office buildings in New Orleans were empty. Leasing companies were in a reverse-bidding war - under-selling each other to attract tenants. A significant number of store-fronts downtown and on Magazine Street were boarded up. And that was before Hurricane Katrina brought us to our knees. Those darker days are now dim memories. Today, business in New Orleans is booming. Companies are moving here. Businesses that are already here are growing. And even in a very tough nationwide retail environment, compared to other cities there are not a lot of storefronts for lease here. Through this bust and boom cycle, Corporate Realty has remained one of the pre-eminent commercial real estate companies in the city. Their clients include Tulane University, Capital One Bank, DXC Technology, and the sale of the Place St Charles Building with its 1 million square feet of office space. The President of Corporate Realty is Mike Siegel. Okay, so you're moving into your new office. In New Orleans. You've negotiated a lease for the space. You've got 1,000 or 10,000 square feet. You've got 10, or maybe a thousand employees. Now you need to work out a floor plan for your new office. You need furniture. You need to get services like phones and internet hooked up and networked throughout your new space. You need to clean up after the previous tenants, and you need to juggle between the new space and your current place - while you keep your daily business running. How do you pull all this off? Well, one thing you could do is, call Bart's Office Incorporated. Moving you into your new office is what they do. Some of the clients Bart's has worked with recently to move them into their new space include the Four Seasons Hotel, and the new International Airport. Bart's is a woman-owned and operated business. The company's CEO is Ashley Thibodeaux. Out to Lunch is recorded over lunch at Commander's Palace. Photos by Jill Lafleur and more at our website https://link.chtbl.com/LYuaasWe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You might wonder what a property developer with billion dollar buildings & a boutique bakery have in common. The answer is, personality. Let me explain. I want to start out by telling you about an interesting observation I made recently at the dry cleaner. I happened to be standing at the counter when a guy wheeled a big rack of freshly cleaned men's dress shirts out of the back. Almost every shirt was a shade of blue, or white, or some combination of blue and white. I said to the guy, “Do you do all the blue and white dress shirts at the same time?” He said, “No. They're all blue and white ‘cause that's what everybody wears.” Which is really striking. Think about how many shades of brown, orange, purple, green and every other color dress shirt men could wear. But we don't. The blue and white shirts observation spills over into business in general. And maybe life itself.  Although we're all making our own individual unique decisions, those decisions by and large are confined to a narrow set of choices. Once in a while, however, you meet a person who has stepped outside those confines and made a bold and adventurous choice. And that's what I mean by billion dollar buildings & a boutique bakery sharing the same personality. First, the Billion Dollar Buildings Meet Matt Schwartz. Like many people, Matt goes to work in the morning. Probably in a blue or white shirt. But what Matt does at work is bolder and more adventurous than most of us could imagine. Matt is the CEO of a company called Domain Companies. Matt co-founded the company out of college, in 2004, with his Tulane fraternity brother, Chris Papamichael. Chris and Matt set out to build affordable housing. Today they have developed over one billion dollars' worth of real estate. They have 130 employees. And their 14 local projects include The South Market district in the CBD, The Meridian on Tulane Avenue, Gold Seal Lofts in Mid City, as well as 2 developments in Baton Rouge and 6 in New York. Now To the Boutique Bakery Christina Balzebre could have decided on a safe and secure career as an employee of some very fine establishments. Christina started out as a baker at Satsuma Café in the Bywater. After that she worked for Donald Link and made a name for herself as the baker at Willa Jean. In 2019 Christina went into business for herself, opening a bakery just off of Magazine Street in the Garden District, called Levee.  Levee might be spelled the same as “levee” - as in flood wall - but in French Levee means “to rise.” Unlike the saga of the New Orleans flood walls, Levee the bakery has been an immediate success. The bakery already has 8 employees and Christina is  “beyond excited at the prospect of having a day off.” Entrepreneurs have a special quality that separates them from the rest of us. It's a combination of courage, vision, dedication, charisma, and hard work. It's that personality. Out to Lunch is recorded over lunch at Commander's Palace restaurant. See photos from the show by Jill Lafleur, and more, at our website, https://link.chtbl.com/LYuaasWe See Matt Schwartz's previous visit to Out to Lunch back in 2015, here.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's episode is a Q&A show with a bit of a twist. I am joined by Shelby Westfeldt. Shelby's family has been in the coffee trading business since 1851. They also have a long family history when it comes to Carnival and the Rex Organization. Join Shelby and I as we discuss the family business and her experience as the Queen of Carnival in 2003. We then shift gears and answer listener questions about everything from coffee to the cleanest bathrooms on Bourbon Street. All this and more in today's episode. Time Stamps 2:51 Intro to Shelby Westfeldt Westfelt Brothers Coffee 10:45 Coffee trading and the Port of New Orleans 17:15 Queen of Carnival 2003 29:10 How did chicory get introduced into New Orleans coffee? 31:10 Can you describe the preparation and planning to be the Queen of Carnival? Are there traditional elements that must go into the queen's gown? Do you get to keep the crown? 35:30 What's the difference between regular roast and French roast? 36:35 What is your perfect New Orleans day? 37:45 What are your thoughts on the proliferation of (small) coffee roasters in New Orleans? 41:40 What are some of your favorite casual places to eat in New Orleans? 43:10 Is it acceptable to go to Brennan's and just order dessert? 45:00 What are your favorite quirks about New Orleans? 51:10 Where are the cleanest women's bathrooms on Bourbon Street? 53:05 Do you have any good celebrity encounter stories? 57:20 Any advice for a newbie at Mardi Gras? Previous episodes mentioned Rex, King of Carnival - Episode 84 Tabasco and Avery Island - Episode 87 New Orleans Red Beans - Episode 95 Coffee in New Orleans - Episode 98 Beyond Bourbon Street is brought to you by these sponsors Two Chicks Walking Tours If you love New Orleans, you’ve probably wandered through the Garden District. It is beautiful, but it really comes to life when you have a guide who can tell you about the history and about the people who live there. On a Two Chicks Walking tour you learn about the architecture, the residents and more. You also get to tour Lafayette Cemetery, just across the street from Commander’s Palace. Two Chicks keeps their tour groups small and offers a more intimate experience than most. You’ll have time to ask your questions and really walk away getting an insider’s perspective of the Garden District. Two Chicks also offers tours of St. Louis Cemetery #1 and the Ladies of the Night tour. Whatever you choose, know you will be in great hands and will have a wonderful time. Use code BEYOND and save 15%. twochickswalkingtours.com The Old 77 Hotel and Chandlery When you're ready to make your plans to visit New Orleans, you'll need a place to stay! The Old 77 is ideally situated in the Warehouse District, just three blocks from the French Quarter. It features a variety of pet-friendly rooms, the award-winning Compere Lapin restaurant, and more. You'll love the location, the rooms, and the food, but the details and the service are what you'll fall in love with! To book your room, click here or use code BBOLD77 to save 25% off their regular rates. Shout Outs A partial list of places mentioned in today's episode. Commerce Restaurant Bon Temps Where Y'Art Antoine's Adlers Frankie and Jonnie's Joey K's Cafe Reconcile Langenstein's Pat O'Brien's Antoine's Hermes Bar Arnaud's Thank You A big thank you to Shelby for being on the show and rolling with a bunch of questions about New Orleans! Thanks to Kevin Pedeaux and Coast Roast Coffee (@coastroastcoffee) for allowing us to record at their new location on Magazine Street. A special thanks to my friend Joe Sweeney. Joe first suggested Shelby as a guest and made the introduction. Thanks also to Joel Sharpton from Pro Podcasting Services for being the intro voice of the podcast! Subscribe to the Podcast If you enjoy the show, please subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you do enjoy listening, please share Beyond Bourbon Street with someone who shares our love of New Orleans. Support Us on Patreon Would you like to help us continue to create the content you love? If so, join the Super Krewe by becoming a financial supporter. Your monthly support will help us grow, and will provide you with exclusive content, access, and more. If you would like to join the Super Krewe, check out our Patreon page at patreon.com/beyondbourbonst. Join the Facebook Krewe If you want to submit questions for future episodes or get advice from others, join our free Facebook group http://beyondbourbonst.com/facebook. Contact Us Got an idea for an episode, have some feedback, or just want to say hi? Leave us a message at 504-475-7632 or send an email to mark@beyondbourbonst.com. Thanks for listening! - Mark  

There's a little something spooky in the air because it’s that time of year again! On this year’s special Halloween edition of Louisiana Eats, we’re getting up close and personal with some ghostly friends and the places they haunt. We begin with a visit with our resident medium, Debbie Duvall who recently put host Poppy Tooker in touch with Tujague’s famous cross-dressing ghost, ⁠Julian Eltinge—but not after giving her the fright of her life!   Then, we’ll learn about one Mid City restaurant whose spirits hi-jinks have remained consistent through three different owners. Celeste Bergeron McCann and Chef Greg Picolo of its two former iterations⁠—Christian's and Redemption, respectively⁠—tell us about their paranormal experiences with the building's more malevolent spirits.   Finally, we'll introduce you to Tru of Tea Witch Café. Whether you’re looking for a special brew to settle your spirits or it’s ghostly spirits you’re trying to contact, Tru can help you in her charming Magazine Street charming tea shop in New Orleans.   For more of all things Louisiana Eats, be sure to visit us at PoppyTooker.com.

A whirlwind 2-week trip that included themes of civil rights, liberty and equality. A journey taking in the sweet sounds of country music, blues, jazz and rock ‘n roll. A personal tour that experienced the expanse of Big Sky Country and the narrow alleys of Bourbon St.  Special people and places that connected us with family both today and yesteryear.  There was so much to share in our trip that touched on the themes we discuss frequently in this podcast including entrepreneurism, liberty, electric vehicles, ancestry and so much more.  I hope you enjoy Butte, Nashville, Memphis and New Orleans as much as we did. So many topics and people were mentioned including Montana, Irish Immigrants, Ellis Island, Ancestry.com, Bozeman, Montana St., Montana Tech, continental divide, San Luis Obispo, Zillow, Airbnb, World Museum of Mining, William Andrews Clark, Copper King Mansion, Butte Archives, Lady of the Rockies, St. Patrick’s Cemetery, sales tax, Sylvan Park, Old Town Trolley, Music City, Country Music Hall of Fame, Musicians Hall of Fame, ASCAP, BMI, Music Row, Marathon Motor Works, Parthenon, Grand Ole Opry, Ryman Auditorium, Anna Vaus, Steve Vaus, Poway, Dolly Parton, Minnie Pearl, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Belle Meade Plantation, Radnor Lake, Pete Neild, Bowling Green, Corvette, Brendan O’Mahony, Jack Daniels, Overton Park, Mississippi River, National Civil Rights Museum, Lorraine Motel, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., MLK, Slavery, Tobacco, Cotton, abolitionism, Underground Railroad, Dred Scott, John Brown, Civil War, Separate but Equal, Jim Crow, KKK, Rosa Parks, Brown vs Board of Education, I Have a Dream, Selma, Malcolm X, Voting Rights, Black Power, Barack Obama, Declaration of Independence, Central BBQ, Graceland, Jungle Room, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Howlin’ Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, BB King, Sun Studio, U2, Def Leppard, John Mellencamp, Chris Isaak, Ike Turner, Rocket 88, Sam Phillips, San Marcos, Peabody Ducks, Memphis Pyramid, BassProShops Vicksburg, Civil War, Garden District, Shotgun Shack, Sandra Bullock, John Goodman, Commander’s Palace, Magazine Street, French Quarter, Carousel Bar, gasoline, electric vehicle charging. #JohnRileyProject #AllMenareCreatedEqual #Life #Liberty #PursuitofHappiness #MusicCity #Butte #Nashville #Memphis #NewOrleans JRP0079 Referenced Articles: Ike Tour Passing Away in San Marcos CA: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-ike-turner-dies-in-his-san-marcos-home-2007dec13-story.html John Riley Project Info: Bookings? Inquiries? Contact me at https://johnrileyproject.com/Donations: https://www.patreon.com/johnrileyprojectSponsorship Inquiries: https://johnrileyproject.com/sponsorship/YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJJSzeIW2A-AeT7gwonglMAFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnrileyproject/Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohnRileyPowayInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnrileypoway/iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/john-riley-project-podcast/id1435944995?mt=2Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3llrMItpbx9JRa08UTrswAStitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/john-riley-projectGoogle Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9qb2hucmlsZXlwcm9qZWN0LmNvbS9mZWVkLwTune In: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/John-Riley-Project-Podcast-p1154415/Listen Notes: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/john-riley-project-john-riley-2l4rEIo1RJM/Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

If you grow up in New Orleans, you don't realize till some point later in life that the rest of the country doesn't live like you do. Sure, other places have smooth streets, and you can make a left at the lights without having to go another half-block and make a U-turn, but they don't have the music we do. They don't have the food we do. And another thing most people in America don't have, is a part of their closet or a big storage bin devoted to costumes. Here, we all have a collection of costumes ready for anything from Mardi Gras to Halloween. Some of us also have a collection of wigs, and many of us have masks. And, since 2011 things have gotten even better for serious costumers. That's when Wingate Jones opened his Southern Costume Company. Wingate's New Orleans Southern Costume Company provides costumes for movies and TV shows that are produced down here, including Academy Award winning 12 Years A Slave, True Detective, and many more. Another thing that is different about life in New Orleans compared to other cities is that, outside of Mardi Gras, you don't have any pressure to look sharply dressed. We are very tolerant of appearance here. You can go most places in a tank-top or T-shirt, shorts, and flip-flops. And people do. Which makes the fashion house Claudia Croazzo something of an anomaly. Claudia Croazzo was a successful fashion house and label in the UK that relocated to New Orleans in 2018.The label has a home in a stylish storefront on Magazine Street and has very quickly established itself selling couture, made-to-order dresses, ready to wear fashion, and beachwear. The founder and fashion designer at Claudia Croazzo is, not coincidentally, Claudia Croazzo. Photos over lunch at Commander's Palace by Jill Lafleur. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Sheena and Amberleigh take live questions from viewers on Instagram Live.  They discuss the power behind being vulnerable, expressing yourself authentically, and how being yourself requires bravery, but always wins out in the end.  Plus, Amberleigh makes energy-healing sake drinks and Sheena reveals her unexpected, first impression of Amberleigh. WATCH THIS EPISODE'S FULL VIDEO HERE: www.askamberleigh.com  Follow Sheena on Instagram & Twitter: @sheenamannina Email Sheena at sheena@rawrepublicjuice.com Book a Session with Sheena: linktr.ee/sheenamannina Visit Sheena in New Orleans at Raw Republic Juice & The Space on Magazine Street. Follow Amberleigh on Instagram: @dr.amberleighcarter Email Amberleigh: askamberleigh@gmail.com Book a Session with Amberleigh in NEW YORK CITY June 22-24, 2019: www.kinectionholistichealth.com/nyc Book a Session with Amberleigh: www.kinectionholistichealth.com/book

Did you know that Wedding Planner is in the top 5 most stressful occupations? On this week's episode of Cocktails with the Krewe, we talk with Sharon Heno of Behavioral Health Counseling and Consulting about managing stress related to weddings. She shares tips for couples, families and wedding pros including the ONE WORD to watch out for when planning!    Also, swing by RAW Republic on Magazine Street to grab a bottle of Dr. Carter's Thyroid Juice and mix up some of this week's cocktail, the Love RX. This one will have you coming back for more!

Kristin Malone is on the show today and we chat about her creative journey from hobby, to brick and mortar, and to expanding locations. Her shop Home Malone is located in New Orleans and features local and southern artists. We also chat about the importance of customer communication and why finding your unique perspective as an artist is important.   About Kristin: Home Malone began in 2011 as a need to get back to creativity. It grew from refinishing furniture at night and during the weekends in a carport and slowly graduated to selling rustic wood signs with hand painted creole tomatoes. oysters and other New Orleans influenced items. As demand and passion grew for the small business, Kristin quit her near decade long industrial sales career in Jan 2014 to pursue Home Malone full time. Her wholesale and customer base grew as she participated in countless outdoor art markets and painted custom house caricatures for locals. In 2015, she added paint parties to her portfolio as she worked together with local businesses to help bring customers in after hours. In July 2016, she hosted a paint party at a charming clothing store that was in a New Orleans home on the streetcar line. Many customer requested for another event, and upon following up, it was then she found out the current store was relocating to another part of town. The idea of owning a retail store came to life and the lease was signed in September. While working side by side with artist for years, she has a passion for handmade products and the space was curated with goods that weren't just designed in the Deep South, but were also being produced. Home Malone retail opened its doors November 19th, 2016 with the idea of a studio/workshop space that was supplemented with some retail. But the response from locals was resounding and retail became the main focus. 6 weeks after opening, Kristin was exhausted! But only to find out she was pregnant with her first child. 2017 was a year of learning and growth on both family and business levels as she welcomed her son while learning to step back from work and allow others to take the lead on her "first baby" Home Malone. As she hit her stride with utilizing social media, launching the retail online store, and hiring more, 2018 opened many more doors for opportunity. The staff grew from 2 to 8, nearly 60 additional artists were added to the curation, the Mid City store expanded to it's upstairs space, her consignment space on the Northshore expanded to carry more items to ease the demand nearly 60 miles away, she launched over 20 new items to her wholesale catalog and and signed a lease for a second location on New Orleans' prime shopping area on Magazine Street. As Home Malone grows, so does the support for locals. There's been a shift of attention to quality over quantity and consumers wanting to know where  and how their merchandise is being made. While running a small business with steady growth may seem daunting, working with the best customers and makers in the world makes it's less of work and more of a dream. A dream Kristin hopes to not wake up from for some time.   Connect with Kristin:Website | Instagram | Facebook   To get 50% off your first year with Honeybook, go to positivelycreative.net/honeybook!   About The Positively Creative Podcast: The Positively Creative Podcast was created by Dorothy Collier, artist of Dorothy Art, for creative entrepreneurs. When Dorothy started having a positive outlook on every aspect of her life, including her art career, the creativity and opportunities started overflowing! Join her as she chats with other small business owners, discussing the ins and outs of how to run a creative business and how they make it in their respective fields. To learn more about The Positively Creative Podcast, visit our website or head over to our Patreon page! You can also find Dorothy on Instagram at @positivelycreativepodcast and @dorothyart!

Richard Campanella describes the history of Magazine Street from public markets to commercial and community hub.

Join Ashley Longshore and Kat on this special episode. We talk about the hard stuff: working through financial difficulty, not giving up, trusting and believing in yourself during times of uncertainty, staying in a positive frequency no matter what and working with high-end clients.  Sarah Ashley Longshore is a Louisiana-based painter, gallery owner, and entrepreneur. She is the owner of the Longshore Studio Gallery, located on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Longshore's art focuses on pop culture, Hollywood glamour, and American consumerism and has been compared to the artwork of Andy Warhol. www.ashleylongshore.com www.instagram.com/ashleylongshoreart

A windy day in New Orleans! Coffee Crawl down Magazine Street with Jonah Mantell. We try coffee from four spots as we walk and talk about coffee, being nice, black curtains and heavy metal. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeeupsidedown/support

WWL's Mr. Food, Tom Fitzmorris, talks with WWL callers about their dining experiences this past Valentine's Day, smoking salmon, Italian cuisine and dining on Magazine Street.  

We hear a lot about the link between the online world and the real world these days. Most real world purchases begin with an online search. Even purchases as big as a house. There s no better example of the influence of the online world on the real world of real estate than Curbed. Curbed is technically a nationwide real estate blog. But it s also an influencer. It reports on real estate trends, but it also helps create them. Curbed is smart, and hip. Missy Wilkinson is the New Orleans editor of Curbed NOLA. Liz Maute Cooke is the owner of Lionheart Prints. Lionheart sells stationery and other products from its store and printshop on Magazine Street. But this is not your grandma s Hallmark greeting card store. Lionheart is smart, and hip. On this edition of Out to Lunch, Peter Ricchiuti has lunch with two of the smartest and hippest people in New Orleans business. Photos at Commander s Palace by Jill Lafleur. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chase Mitchell is a screenwriter and former sketch writer for The Late Show with Jimmy Fallon. He reviews an episode of Bar Rescue, a docu-reality series featuring veteran nightlife expert Jon Taffer as he seeks to rescue bars on the brink.Matt Paxton is the host of Hoarders on A&E, which depicts the real-life struggles and treatment of people who suffer from compulsive hoarding disorder. He discusses how he became one of the top hoarding clean-up experts in the United States, how the show often takes on the role of therapist, and the celebrity version of the show that never aired. Ashley Longshore is a New Orleans, Louisiana-based painter, gallery owner, and entrepreneur. She is the owner of the Longshore Studio Gallery, located on Magazine Street in New Orleans. She reviews Bravo’s new show Southern Charm New Orleans.Reality Life with Kate Casey http://www.loveandknuckles.comTwitter: @katecaseyInstagram: @katecaseycaFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245/Facebook.com/loveandknucklesAmazon List: http://www.amazon.com/shop/katecaseycaDAGNE DOVERhttp://www.dagnedover.comPROMO CODE: REALITYQUIPhttp://www.getquip.comPROMO CODE: REALITYWe want to get to know you better! Help us out and support the show by going to wondery.com/survey and filling it out. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode of Positively Creative, Maggie Covert LeBlanc of Walking Man Studios talks with us about being an artist in New Orleans, keeping her business going while experiencing a family tragedy and how her art helped her heal after the loss of her niece. We also chat about her custom work and her adorable dog series!   About Maggie: Maggie Covert received her Bachelor’s degree from Maryland Institute College of Art in Interdisciplinary Sculpture with a Concentration in Book Arts. She was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her home has made a huge impact on her art, as the culture, vitality, and architecture are hard to escape. Since Hurricane Katrina, Maggie has been exploring the ideas of losing the contributing factors that make a place home. She has been drawn to the repetitive nature of disastrous events along with the governmental, social, and geographic reactions to these.   Her most recent work channels the whimsical nature of New Orleans’ architecture and characters. She continues to be drawn to details in the buildings and landscape of her hometown. Seeing the beauty and tireless work in each structure, She creates a connection to each establishment through the recreation of these in architectural drawings and paintings. Maggie currently works with multiple local realtors and real estate companies providing personalized illustrations and paintings for them to gift to sellers or buyers at closing. Creating connections with others who love architecture and real estate is continually inspirational to Maggie’s craft and business growth.   With her studio on Magazine Street in New Orleans, Maggie continues to work on Custom Home Portraits - for locals and many from other states such as Maryland, New York, Oregon and even receiving requests from the UK. Gaining experience with multiple commercial property drawings as well as album art and wedding invitations, she has branched out to stationary work allowing her to create custom notecards, postcards and custom wedding invitations. In addition to the architectural work, Maggie has begun a series of "Walking Illustrations".  Each walking piece is meant to provoke a feeling of movement (physical, emotional, spiritual, mental)- growth in one's life and development. With these illustrations, Maggie hopes to portray a joy that much art, culture and people are missing in modern times. Focusing in on joy with a little whimsy and maybe even some historical or spiritual undertones, Maggie aims to show that "everyone walks the same path."   Website: https://www.walkingmanstudios.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/walkingmanstudios/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/walkingmanstudios     Links: To get 50% off your first year with Honeybook, go to positivelycreative.net/honeybook!   About The Positively Creative Podcast: The Positively Creative Podcast was created by Dorothy Collier, artist of Dorothy Art, for creative entrepreneurs. When Dorothy started having a positive outlook on every aspect of her life, including her art career, the creativity and opportunities started overflowing! Join her as she chats with other small business owners, discussing the ins and outs of how to run a creative business and how they make it in their respective fields. To learn more about The Positively Creative Podcast, visit our website or head over to our Patreon page! You can also find Dorothy on Instagram at @positivelycreativepodcast and @dorothyart!

From a very young age, most witnessed Cydney Hedgpeth as a striking talent, succeeding in everything entertainment from careers in modeling, singing and acting. By the age of 18 , Cydney had landed a modeling contract with Vans, appeared in both a Lifetime and Disney movie, and was gaining traction in the music industry.  What lied beneath, however, was an ever-increasing, bone-deep pain stemming from her joints and causing illness to riddle this outwardly successful beauty. At age 10, New Orleans-native and daughter of a rheumatologist (the universe is funny), Cydney Hedgpeth was diagnosed with juvenile  rheumatoid arthritis; and from that point up until now, this autoimmune disorder along with the prescriptions, diets, ruled her life. Join Sheena and Cydney in this podcast to uncover how a journey to the Amazon, and a 2-month experience with  “the medicine” aka Ayahuasca, healed Cydney of more than her disease, and also brought about the emergence of a new normal, for her, and all those connected to her journey.  For more information about Cydney's journey or the Center for Ancient Medicine of Moyano Amazonia, please feel free to contact her at cydneyhedgpeth@gmail.com. INTRO MENTIONS ——— DISTANCE COACHING + EVENTS: 10% off all distance sessions with practitioners from The Space. Email: info@wellnessxthespace.com ——— FACEBOOK GROUP: To connect with more Raw Talk With Sheena listeners, join our private facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/1826596414263228/ ——— NEW ORLEANS EVENT: p o p u p MOOD x MOSS aura portraits; January 20, 10-6pm; $42 limited spacing; location: THE SPACE, 4528 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 70115 ——— INSTAGRAM: Has Raw Talk with Sheena influenced something in your life that you would like to share? Dont forget to tag #rawtalkwithsheena @sheenamannina so we can stay updated on what information is supporting and transforming you!

When we refer to Eastern Medicine, generally speaking, it is the practice of using a variety of Asian-influenced healing modalities including, but not limited to acupuncture, Chinese herbs, energy movement (like qigong) and dietary therapy. In this episode of Raw Talk with Sheena, Sheena speaks with her Eastern Medicine practitioner, Noell Eanes, M.Ac. to discuss the practice of Hijama or Wet Cupping. Although Sheena experienced this practice personally, she had not recognized the profound impact it would have on her emotional life, until now. Tune in for an insight on the practice, potential outcomes, and, in a twist of events, conversation about death. This episode includes coming of age information on things that are beginning to transform in Sheena’s experience of life. For more information on Noell, please visit lovebasedmedicine.com ——— INTRO MENTIONS: ——— FACEBOOK GROUP: To connect with more Raw Talk With Sheena listeners, join our private facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/1826596414263228/ ——— NEW ORLEANS EVENT: p o p u p MOOD x MOSS aura portraits; January 20, 10-6pm; $42 limited spacing; location: THE SPACE, 4528 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 70115; tickets: https://www.facebook.com/events/235096020364002/ or email info@wellnessxthespace.com ——— INSTAGRAM: Has Raw Talk with Sheena influenced something in your life that you would like to share? Dont forget to tag #rawtalkwithsheena @sheenamannina so we can stay updated on what information is supporting and transforming you!

Chef Richard Papier still remembers when Mexican food in New Orleans meant Taco Bell. And he s not that old. Chef Richard is changing how we experience Mexican dishes with authentic recipes from Mexico steeped in his fine dining training working alongside Emeril, Susan Spicer, Nathaniel Zymet, Donald Link and Guillermo Peters. Chef Richard s new Uptown restaurant on Magazine Street is a few thousand giant steps up from Nacho Mama s, the space it now occupies. Arana Taqueria y Cantina is the real deal Yucatan soaked flavors paired with the only imported Mexican craft beer in town and a range of fine tequilas. If you think the leap from Nacho Mama s to Arana is about the most incomparable comparison you could imagine, how about this one the leap from Cairo, Egypt to Ocean Springs, Mississippi. That s the trajectory Cal Zayed s life took. Cal is Arana s front of house face and a tequila sophisticate who turns drinking tequila into an art form. Cal can take you on a flight with the finest tequilas from Mexico or have you climb a tequila ladder from ground to kissing the sky. Just don t ask him about "angry grapes" raisins or how those dancing raisins from the TV ads back in the day terrorized him as a child and haunt him still. Chef Richard s and Cal s complementary pasts, tastes, humor and passion make for a lively night out, whether it s at Arana or here on Midnight Menu 1.

In 2004, before wellness was the rage, Shel Pink began building the SpaRitual brand of self-care products around the philosophy she's coined: Slow Beauty. Many know and love the SpaRitual brand for its cruelty-free, organic approach (in fact, its one of the top distributed nail lacquers in the world) and as such, will love and appreciate Shel’s latest brainchild and her first book, Slow Beauty. Tune into the completion of these episode to hear Shel and Sheena discuss taking a holistic approach to achieving that coveted outer glow.. hint, the answer is within. For more information on Shel Pink or to purchase her book Slow Beauty visit http://www.slowbeauty.com. INTRO MENTIONS: _________________________ FACEBOOK GROUP: To connect with more Raw Talk With Sheena listeners, join our private facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/1826596414263228/ ——— NEW ORLEANS EVENT: Shopping in The Space, Saturday December 16, 12-4; 4528 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA Amazing conscious retail, wellness treats, crystals, like-minded people. ——— RAW TALK HOLIDAY SPECIAL: 10% off all guidance sessions booked with Sheena .. code SMHOLIDAY https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=264651&stype=-9&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=9 or email sheena@rawrepublicjuice.com for assistance booking. ——— Follows from this episode: @sparitualist @shel.pink @sheenamannina @rawrepublicjuice

Small Business Spotlight Today's episode of the Beyond Bourbon Street podcast is all about shopping local in New Orleans. It was inspired by Small Business Saturday and a desire to support some of the wonderful makers and business owners in the New Orleans. Have you ever wanted to purchase something to remind you of your visit to New Orleans? Are you looking for a gift for the holidays? Do you live in New Orleans and simply want to 'buy local?' In today's episode, we highlight three New Orleans small business owners.  Join me as I sit down with Liz Maute Cook of Lionheart Prints, Kristin Malone of Home Malone, and Patti Dunn of Tchoup Industries. We learn their stories and listen as they share their view of New Orleans. Along the way, you'll not only meet three wonderful people, but you'll get a great list of New Orleans businesses to support during Small Business Saturday and beyond! Get your pen and paper, or your electronic notepad ready..... All this and more on today's show!   Resources Lionheart Prints |3312 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA - Visit Liz Maute Cook's fun shop to find a great selection of hand-lettered cards, and other products including collaborations with New Orleans artists. I'm loving my Who's Your Crawdaddy t-shirt! Be sure to say hi to Ross the press man, too! Lionheart is located just downtown of Louisiana Avenue, and is in a great location with many other small businesses and places to eat and drink. The shop is easily accessible via the (green) St. Charles Avenue Streetcar. Follow Lionheart Prints on Instagram and Facebook.   Home Malone |629 N Carrollton Ave, New Orleans, LA - Home Malone is Kristin Malone's wonderful shop on Carrollton Avenue in Midcity. Housed in one-half of a shotgun home converted for retail, Home Alone is full of gifts and artwork by makers from across the Deep South.  The shop also hosts regular Paint Parties and other Special Events. Home Malone celebrated their one-year anniversary in November 2017 and was voted as one of the best new retail stores in New Orleans in the Gambit New Orleans poll. Take the (red) Canal Street streetcar from downtown. Hop off a couple blocks early and enjoy a cannoli at Angelo Brocato's. You could easily make an afternoon or an entire day exploring Midcity and nearby City Park, as we talked about during the podcast. Follow Home Malone (@homemalonenola) on Instagram and on Facebook.   Tchoup Industries | 1115 St Mary St, New Orleans, LA - Visit Patti Dunn at her shop just off Magazine Street. Behind the small retail area you'll find makers busily cutting and sewing their one-of-a-kind bags in all sizes, colors and materials. Special offer for Beyond Bourbon Street podcast listeners: use the promo code GOBEYOND15 at checkout to receive 15%. This corner of the Garden District is brimming with places to explore. Take the St. Charles Streetcar from downtown and admire the architecture of the Garden District along the way. Be sure to grab a cup of coffee from nearby HiVolt, or a drink at Half Moon Bar. Follow Tchoup Industries (@tchoupbags) on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.   Thank You Thanks to Liz Maute Cook, Kristin Malone, and Patti Dunn for joining me on the podcast and sharing their stories with us! Subscribe to the Podcast If you enjoy the show, please subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play Music or wherever you get your podcasts. If you do enjoy listening, please share Beyond Bourbon Street with someone who shares our love of New Orleans. Join Us on Facebook We now have a Facebook group where you can ask questions, share your New Orleans experiences and engage with others who love all things New Orleans. Join us by going to www.beyondbourbonst.com/facebook Contact Us Got an idea for an episode, have some feedback or just want to say hi? Leave us a message at 504-475-7632 or send an email to mark@beyondbourbonst.com Thanks for listening! Mark

We assume people like to visit New Orleans for the food and music. Which they do. But most music is at night. And there s only so many hours a day you can eat. If you visit Magazine Street on any given day you ll find tourists shopping alongside locals on almost every block of the 6 miles of stores that stretch from the Lower Garden District to Uptown. Magazine Street has been a commercial backbone of New Orleans since the city s inception. The street s contribution to our economy is as colorful as it is important. And it s chronicled in a new book, The Incomparable Magazine Street. Its author, historian John Magill, joins Peter Ricchiuti for this edition of Out to Lunch at Commander s Palace. Desiree Petitbon is a board member of the Magazine Street Merchants Association and co owner of Basics Underneath, one of the oldest stores on street, and Basics Swim and Gym, one of the newest. Desiree s first hand observations about the changes of both shoppers and shop owners along Magazine Street over the past two decades and John s centuries long historical perspective provide insights into where both local and nationwide retail trends are heading. Photos by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Musician and producer Nesby Phips may be best known worldwide for his work with Lil Wayne and other hip hop artists, but here in New Orleans his equally impressive claim to fame is that Mahlia Jackson was his great aunt. Nesby is one of the owners and gatekeepers of Ms Jackson s copyrighted material and is working on cementing her legacy in various ways. Nesby is also the force behind the musical project Black Man 4 Sale and the voice of the podcasts "Am I Tripping " and "Call Me Old Fashioned." If you live in New Orleans there s a good chance you ve spent time with Joe Bikulege even if you didn t know it. For the last 14 years Joe has been the owner of Le Bon Temps Roule on Magazine Street. Joe is also a big supporter of Cops 2, the citizens support group for the NOPD 2nd District. If you re checking this out before Saturday October 21st, go support Cops 2 at the first ever Cochon de Lait Festival at Palmer Park. Marci Schramm knows a thing or two about festivals. For ten years she was the Executive Director of the French Quarter Festival and presided over its journey from local party to major festival with a bigger economic impact on New Orleans than Jazz Fest. Yes, really. Today Marci helps her husband run publishing company River Road Press and is Director of Development for the New Orleans Ballet Association. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Manny Chevrolet Bruno describes himself as "The next Mayor of New Orleans." A perennial mayoral candidate with the slogan "A troubled man for troubled times" Manny is stepping it up this election cycle with his new slogan "Trouble Never Ends." It s unlikely you ve ever heard a candidate for office espouse quite this strange of a collection of thoughts. Along with the usual promises to legalize marijuana and dismantle the Sewerage and Water Board, Manny is disturbed by the existence of domesticated pets and doesn t believe questionable drinking water is much of a problem. And that s just the tip of the iceberg. As a retired body builder, professional fitness trainer, and owner of two elite gyms in New Orleans, Sacha Owens could kick Manny s ass. It s a miracle she doesn t. People don t ever come to blows on Happy Hour but this might be as close as we ve gotten. for the past 3.5 years George Elizondo has resisted the temptation to install Tinder on his phone. He s working on his music. And the concentration is paying off. George s band Nebula Rosa is about to release their new record. If you have an idea for an album title that s not "Welcome To My World" let George know. You might be able to find him at The Bulldog on Magazine Street. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You might remember Tommy Hayne from the news. Tommy was the guy who got shot recently when he tried to convince a would be car thief to quit trying to bust into cars. He recovered quickly enough to play in an Ultimate Frisbee tournament a few days later but it turns out getting shot wasn t the only crazy thing he s done. He d been shot once before and in between those two firearm incidents he d jumped off of a cliff with a poncho over his face, opened a natural food store in Wyoming, and left his dog off of the leash while he got coffee at CC s on Magazine Street in New Orleans. If you re wondering how leaving your dog off the leash compares with crazy sh t like getting shot and jumping off cliffs, listen up. Emily Istre has had a whole set of other adventures that started when she dropped out of UL in Lafayette and took a random chance on finding herself in Las Vegas. Not only did Emily discover she had the skills to make it as a singer, band leader, and dancer in Vegas, she also found herself working with Celine Dion and Oprah Winfrey, and, following in the footsteps of Elizabeth Taylor, playing Cleopatra. Rathbone makes a return to Happy Hour with a new sound and a new band Mark Linam and Courtney, who is half of People Museum. Rathbone s new music is awesome and is appearing fresh each month here. Reflecting on being shot, Tommy observes that life throws you a number of chances to make decisions that can turn out to be startlingly wrong. Everybody else has made one of those too. Have you Yours might be deciding to listen to this show. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sheena Mannina is the co-founder of Raw Republic, an organic, cold-pressed juice bar and detox boutique located on the historic Magazine Street of New Orleans, Louisiana. Her passion for the clean industry has been developed and deepened through loss, love and life and most of all, an intense interest in learning. Sheena is a truth-seeker and an energy junkie who devotes those drivers to continually evolve Raw Republic and her own spirit. To connect with Sheena, you can listen to her podcast “Raw Talk with Sheena.” For information on Raw Republic Juice, you can go to http://rawrepublicjuice.com/ and follow on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/thinklivejuice/. You can also follow Sheena on Instagram @SheenaMannina and Twitter @sheenamannina. For more information on Laura and her work you can go to her website www.healingpowers.net and you can find Laura on twitter @thatlaurapowers and on facebook at www.facebook.com/realhealingpowers.

On this week s show, we indulge our sweet tooth with the help of several influential dessert makers. We begin with Anne Byrn, also known as "The Cake Mix Doctor," whose book American Cake takes readers back to the origins of baking in America. From birthday to wedding cake, Anne has the history behind each delicious layer. Then we get a crash course in the art of sugar blowing and sculpting with Sidney Galpern at the New Orleans Glassworks and Printmaking Studio. There, we encounter Chef Tory McPhail of Commander s Palace, who, along with a group of other prominent chefs, is about to learn the art of creating sugar sculptures. We also speak to Sucr s executive pastry chef, Tariq Hanna, who explains what he learned when visiting master chocolatiers in Switzerland. He gives us a lesson in the science of sweetness. Wandering farther down Magazine Street, we stop by La Rivi re Confiserie, a French candy store that sources sweets dating all the way back to the reign of Louis the XIII. Kyly Larrivi re shares her most prized pralines, sugary morsels with a noble history. Finally, we arrive at the fragrant headquarters of Gracious Bakery, where we meet Executive Chef Megan Forman. She brings us into the kitchen, where one of the bakers is poised to begin folding dough, which will eventually become the flaky layers of their delectable croissants. Sweet dreams are made of these eats For more of all things Louisiana Eats, be sure to visit us at Poppytooker.com.

Sheena Mannina is the co-founder of Raw Republic, an organic, cold-pressed juice bar and detox boutique located on the historic Magazine Street of New Orleans, Louisiana. Her passion for the clean industry has been developed and deepened through loss, love and life and most of all, an intense interest in learning. Sheena is a truth-seeker and an energy junkie who devotes those drivers to continually evolve Raw Republic and her own spirit. To connect with Sheena, you can listen to her podcast “Raw Talk with Sheena.” For information on Raw Republic Juice, you can go to http://rawrepublicjuice.com/ and follow on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/thinklivejuice/. You can also follow Sheena on Instagram @SheenaMannina and Twitter @sheenamannina. Thanks to Lola tampons for your support of the show! Use the code POWER at checkout for a 60 % discount on your first order at mylola.com. For more information on Laura and her work you can go to her website www.healingpowers.net and you can find Laura on twitter @thatlaurapowers and on facebook at www.facebook.com/realhealingpowers.

Exciting show today on location at Cavan restaurant on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Joining me around the table are two lovely ladies: Caitlin Watzke from Louisiana Cookin' Magazine and Chef Ruby Bloch from Cavan, Meauxbar, and Sylvain in New Orleans. Chef Ruby is one of the six Chefs to Watch this year. In 2002, Louisiana Cookin' introduced Chefs to Watch as a way of recognizing talented up-and-coming chefs from restaurants throughout the state who show passion for traditions while delivering fresh, new concepts. This year's event is the 15th installment, and it will be hosted by Marché in the French Quarter. Caitlin talks about Louisiana Cookin' Magazine and this year's 15th Annual Chefs to Watch event: a special six-course dinner on October 20, 2016 at 6:00 PM at Marché in the French Quarter. The courses will be prepared by this year's six Chefs to Watch, including Chef Ruby Bloch who will be serving a Sweet Potato Spice Cake.  Chef Ruby talks food, cooking, creativity and inspiration with us today. And you might even hear a thing or two about desserts. ;-) She shares a bit of her story with us, and tells us how a New Jersey girl fell in love with the city and people of New Orleans.  Listen to the show for all the details. Full show notes can be found at CatholicFoodie.com. 

Cheron Brylski has been a political consultant for years. She has gotten more women elected to what she calls "non traditional" political office than you can shake a stick at. So when she talks politics at Happy Hour, we listen. Cheron says without taking a breath to ponder the answer to the question, "Yes, President Trump." It could very well happen. Cheron has some professional advice for how Hillary could pull out a win. Take a listen and see if you think it s likely Hillary could pull it off. Bryan Batt is the biggest Broadway and TV star in town, and one of the most down to earth and nicest guys you could run into in a New Orleans bar. Bryan hasn t exactly traded in the glitz and glam of Hollywood and Broadway for NOLA but he s from here and folks who go to Hazelnut, his store on Magazine Street, expect to see him so that s where you ll often find him. In this conversation Bryan leaves the theatrical persona behind and the guy you get to talk with here on Happy Hour is the same guy you d find if you popped in to see him at home. Mikayla Braun is no stranger to Happy Hour but this time she returns to the show fronting a new band, The Crooked Vines. James Keene, the CV s trombone player, sometime booking agent, and definitely the fastest talker in New Orelans music, joins Mikayla for the first time they ve ever played acoustically, and it s a triumph. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Beth Patterson is the only professional bouzouki player in New Orleans who finds meaning and fulfillment in the words and music of the Canadian ensemble Rush. Yes, Rush. There s just something about Rush that speaks to Beth and somehow makes her feel less of a freaky outsider. And she really doesn t have much to feel freaky or alienated from society about other than being the author of songs like "Matchstick," about the joys of arson, "Show Me On The Doll," and going from this podcast to a recording studio to record a classical Indian version of a Black Sabbath song. Other than that, and being used, discarded, and the victim of attempted murder, Beth is just your regular Lafayette Welsh girl who moved to New Orleans and hides out in Mississippi. Other than Beth, Becky Hardin has the darkest eyes of anyone who has ever been a guest on Happy Hour. What are the chances of having the two darkest eyed people in the history of Happy Hour on the same show Becky quit a career in music promotion with gigs like Voodoo and Wednesdays at the Square, to open City Surf, the workout gym Uptown on Magazine Street where you get to simulate surfing and end up with a body as awesome as Becky s without the expense or effort of moving to Florida or California. Andrew Duhon tries out a new song about the benefits of Going Alone. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Confetti Park, we hear some memories of a musical childhood from New Orleans-based gypsy guitarist Daniele Spadavecchia, who grew up in Italy. Daniele loves to play acoustic gypsy jazz guitar, and when he first came to New Orleans (around 2003) he hooked up with Tony Green, another musician who shares sensibility and appreciation of gypsy jazz, swing, Mediterranean Flamenco, and European ethnic music. Daniele has performed at dozens of festivals and venues in Italy and the United States, especially around New Orleans and San Diego (where he lived after Hurricane Katrina for a time). Today, you can catch him at the Tasting Room on Magazine Street, where he has weekly gigs. In this interview, Daniele describes his childhood as freewheeling and adventurous, and his parents—"an Italian version of hippies"—shared their musical tastes with Daniele and his brother. "Of course as kids, we were always traveling with my parents, and we would always have a tape player in the car. We didn’t even have a working stereo in the car so we would carry this predecessor of a boom box. So we would play all these tapes.  My mama would play some music, and she would play every kind of thing…. all these fantastic rock 'n roll or prog rock bands or psychedelic rock. And that thing really twisted my brain, in a good way. It taught me freedom of expression and the beauty of music, the power of music." Daniele has recorded various gypsy jazz CDs and also plays on the Confetti Park Player's children's CD. he is the featured guitarist on the song "Buttermilk Drop." Listen to Daniele's beautiful music: 

Typically actors and musicians looking for some income insurance will develop a couple of flexible skills like waiting tables or bar tending that will get them through the leaner times. Today s Happy Hour guests have a couple of diffrent takes on that concept. Olga is a blues musician, singer songwriter, stunt woman, actor, and violinist who pads her showbiz income by reading romance novels for audio book company Audible and conducting weddings for sky divers and people getting hitched at the wedding chapel in the French Quarter. Brett Roberts makes movies. In his down time has been a cop and currently makes training films for Louisiana lawyers who apparently need continuing education to remind them not to steal off of the clients. Yes, this is absolutely true. These days you can t apparently fall back on shooting or acting in porn. Kay Charbonnet doesn t have much down time. She spends most days hanging out on Magazine Street near the epicenter of destruction where she has a store, called appropriately Kay s, where she sells "dope sh t" and has little time to read which is why she listens to Audible books. Andrew Duhon, back from Alaska, tries out a brand new song and gets 8 thumbs up. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When acclaimed Boston chef Dustin Brien mistakenly applied for a job as a line cook at Salu restaurant on Magazine in Uptown New Orleans neither he nor the equally confused owner understood what either of them was thinking. Once they got the confusion sorted out, the restaurant owners decided to ditch their plans to hire a chef they had lined up and put their chips on Dustin. It turned out to be a good bet. Chef Dustin shook up the menu and, insider tip he s in the process of changing it up again and moved the restaurant from tapas to bistro. Half a block down Magazine Street the owners of Salu decided to convert their restaurant Byblos into a Mexican restaurant under the stewardship of ex Emeril s, ex Guillermo Peters disciple Richard Papier. Thus was born Arana and the brothers in arms team of Chef Richard and Chef Dustin. These young chefs are at the top of their game. Their love of food, entertaining, and life itself whether or not they choose to remember it shines through this entire sparking conversation at Salu.

Harveen Khera s ethnic background daughter of Indian and Malaysian parents growing up in London and her cuisine career including working in San Francisco s finest restaurant and opening her own bar prepared her for almost any epicurean eventuality. Except being the chef in a New Orleans kosher kitchen. But that s exactly what she is, and she s killing it. Harveen is the founding chef at Hillel s Kitchen, the local, organic, seasonal, kosher restaurant in the Hillel House on Broadway, a part of Tulane University. She makes everything from scratch from granola to bread, from burritos to burgers has a full fresh juice bar, bagel bar and salads. There s even a free matzah ball soup hotline if you re sick Hillel delivers. Harveen s non food partner in this enterprise is the guiding light of Tulane Hillel, Rabbi Yonah Schiller. Harveen s 1 guest on tonight s show, Yonah s philosophy of community and sharing inspires and shapes the dining experience. Midnight Menu 1 moved into a new home tonight at Chappy s Restaurant on Magazine Street next to Monkey Hill Bar. Chef Chappy has transformed the old Grill by The Hill into a whole new and far finer dining experience.

Sarah Edwards is living the lives of 3 people. By day she is a barista at Hey Cafe on Magazine Street. Then she ll go hop on her pedicab and sweat out the caffeine in the French Quarter for a few hours. When most people would then crash out and sleep or drink the night away listening to music, Sarah is following her main love, with the man she s in love with. Sarah and Frankie Ostello are the co heart and soul of St Clair, a short bus food truck with a wood fired pizza oven. Frankie is the reason Sarah stayed in New Orleans. She was about to leave town, giving up on her dream of starting a wood fired pizza oven food truck when she ran up against the city s smothering food truck red tape. Sarah met Frankie at a party, discovered he already had a food truck and was dreaming about turning it into a wood fired pizza oven on wheels. They built the pizza oven together, fell in love along the way, and the rest is, well, an exciting future. Ray and Margo talk pizza, love, and bocce ball on this episode of Midnight Menu 1. Douglas Engel hobbled around on his one good leg and took the pix.

Aaron Vogel makes donuts and sliders and has chocolate milk on tap at his new unique Magazine Street eatery District Donuts Sliders Brew. But what Aaron s really doing is changing the world. An ex pastor, Aaron is deeply committed to making the world a better place. He has a business plan that spreads love, happiness, and human decency beyond his four walls to the neighborhood, cities and nations. It s not some cheesy business slogan like "changing the world one donut at a time," it s a real business plan that involves investing the profit from donuts in a social revolution. By the end of this show, if Aaron suggests moving to Ghana and opening Vogeltown, we d probably all be there drinking the chocolate milk koolaid. In a city of colorful kitchen characters, Aaron Vogel is the most quietly powerful charismatic guy you re going to meet. Aaron s 1 on this show is the equally dedicated Ben McLeish. Aaron and Ben met online, but not on Match.com. They found each other in the search for other New Orleans contributors committed to making social change. Ben is instrumental in the recovery of the St Roch neighborhood through his organization St Roch CDC. The truly interesting culinary angle on this story is that Ray and Margo didn t know any of this charismatic evangelical social change stuff when they booked Aaron as a guest on the show. All they knew is that he makes donuts that are extraordinary. They re actually almost capable of changing the world themselves. Below is the donut Ray rhapsodizes about the Vietnamese coffee donut complete with tapioca balls and 3 companions. Our crappy photography doesn t do them justice at all. On another note, a heads up, cheap drinks during Happy Hour at Monkey Hill.

You think you ve heard some s t. Then suddenly it s happy hour and a couple of beers later you re going, "Stop. What That really happened " So, wait till you hear this one. An Asian Jewish person enters a beauty pageant. Not so surprising, maybe. And wins. Okay, somebody s got to win. Where would you think this happened California How about Caddo Parish, Louisiana. That s around Shreveport. Sure, this hype is over used thanks to Facebook, but it s what happens next that is truly astounding. You ve got to hear this... Not only is Ruth Navarre Miss Caddo Parish 2013, Jewish, Asian and a violist, violinist, harpist, and singer, she also weighs 110 or 111 pounds you see if you can figure which one is right and knows a lot about professional competition eating. And Ruth can stomp her feet and wail. Also, she s single. That s another story. Anyway, so you re driving around Caddo Parish, you ve been up for 3 days tweaking, and you ve got a load of meth in the car. Next thing you know, flashing lights in your rear view mirror, you get pulled over. The cops says, "Can I take a look in your car " What do you do Call Miles Swanson. He might be down at Tattooagogo on Magazine Street discussing faux nipples, or cajoling his 110 not 111 pound dog into behaving himself but he might also be in his law office. And if you want to be calling Miles from your car on your way home rather from jail, he s got some sage, free advice. Miles came to New Orleans on a 2 week visit 8 years ago and is still here. Honestly, you think you ve heard some s t. Listen to this happy hour... All the photos on this page were take at Wayfare by Douglas Engel. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Having 5 girls under 6 is no picnic, especially when 4 of them are quadruplets. How many more life changing events would you like after that How about the non quadruplet daughter is diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis That s what happened to Alicia Murphy. Alicia s husband and her 1 guest on tonight s show is Matt Murphy, owner and chef at Irish pub and restaurant, Irish House. So when their daughter wasn t responding well to traditional medication, Alicia turned to long nights of research and days experimenting with diet. From that dedication a new diet began to rule the Murphy household and will soon creep its way on to the Irish House menu too, but that s a story for a little later that Matt announces for the first time, on this show. Seeing a phenomenal success in their daughter s quality of life, Alicia and Matt started eating healthy too. The result Matt lost 35 pounds and Alicia opened a bakery and healthy food store on Magazine Street which she has called Fare Food Apothecary. What began as a practical joke in a Dublin restaurant where Matt was a chef and Alicia a waitress, involving Matt making chocolate covered goat cheese balls and passing them off as truffles, turned into a date which became a marriage and now a partnership in every sense of the word. This is a story about love and food and the power of both to change lives. It could change yours. The photos on this page were taken by Midnight Menu 1 s sometimes underwater photographer Douglas Engel.

Hubig's isn't what the rest of the country thinks of as pie. It's a single serving deep fried envelope of home made pastry and pie filling, sealed in a wax paper bag. And it's not sold in bakeries, but in all kinds of stores all over town. After Katrina, the return of Hubig's Pies was heralded as a milestone in our recovery. And so it was a community tragedy on July 27th 2012 when Hubig's factory burned down. Co owner and manager of daily operations Drew Ramsey is facing his century old company s challenge of a lifetime, rebuilding after a devastating fire destroyed Hubig s Pies. Tortillas account for 38 of the bread business in the United States. There are only 3 states who don't manufacture tortillas Mississippi, Wyoming and Louisiana. Today you can cross Louisiana off that list. Rod Olsen jumped ship from Zapp s to launch Hola Nola Foods, La s first and only tortilla makers. In the Pay It Forward segment of the show Peter, Rod and Drew discuss Shop Local Style an online marketplace bringing Magazine Street to the world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Near Ms Mae s and across from the 2nd District Police station on Magazine Street, a step through the door into Cafe Rivista immediately transports you into a whole other world of casual European sophistication. Even the air feels Italian. But don t think pretentious furnishings, hipster baristas or gleaming cappuccino machines, this joint is understated and real. Real pastries, real coffee, real sandwiches, real amazing. And there s a reason. Actually, two reasons Lisa Barbato is one of New Orleans most talented pastry chefs, coming from Peristyle among others and her husband Chris is one of the city s most talented chefs, coming from Commander s Palace and Cafe Adelaide. Chris and Lisa sit down with Margo and Ray at Ted s Frostop and tell their compelling story of giving everything they ve got to open Rivista.

Liz Williams had a hand in creating the World War II Museum and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Finding herself at the same age Julia Child was when she left the straight life behind and started out following her passion for food, Liz did the same and founded the Southern Food and Beverage Museum. Liz had no idea she was about to become an American pioneer the first person in the nation to found a museum dedicated to the culture of food and drink. One of the benefits of knowing the history of food is setting fools straight about things like baby Jesus in your king cake. If you haven t got time to listen to this whole show, skip forward to minute 32 and check out how Jesus came to not be in your king cake. Guests on Midnight Menu 1 bring a guest, a 1. Sometimes these folks are food people, sometimes not. Liz s 1 is an architect. Not just any architect, Jonathan Tate designed and is overseeing the development of the new Southern Food and Beverage Museum on Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. We recorded this episode of Midnight Menu 1 in the currently closed Grille by The Hill restaurant next to Monkey Hill bar on Magazine Street. Somewhere between a ghost tour and an Edward Hopper moment.

Drew Ramsey is facing his century-old company's challenge of a lifetime, rebuilding after a devastating fire destroyed [Hubig's Pies][link1]. Rod Olsen jumped ship from Zapp's to launch [Hola Nola Foods][link2], La's first and only tortilla makers. [Shoplocalstyle][link3] brings Magazine Street to the world. [link1]: http://www.hubigs.com/ [link2]: http://www.holanolafoods.com/ [link3]: http://shoplocalstyle.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Magazine Street is a 7 mile cavalcade of restaurants, galleries, and boutique stores spanning New Orleans neighborhoods from the Lower Garden District to Uptown. The owners of these businesses are as colorful as their storefronts. Bryant Batt sparkles in [Hazelnut][link1], Paul Wilcox shines in [Art and Eyes][link2]. [link1]: http://www.hazelnutneworleans.com/ [link2]: http://artandeyesnola.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dominique Rizzo is the owner of La Boulangerie, a popular French bakery located on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Since we are in the Carnival Season, Dominique describes the original French King Cake and explains how it differs from our traditional New Orleans King Cake. He recalls his first impressions of New Orleans and shares his observations of how New Orleans is unique and distinct from other American cities.