Podcasts about raaka chocolate

Shownotes   The story behind the quasi-cheating incident that ended the relationship Why Ryan and Layla's first kiss went horribly wrong How to take full responsibility for your actions and impact on others Why Ryan showed up at the Stanford campus in a full-on chicken costume How radical love is different than self-sacrificing What Ryan and Layla learned from opening their relationship   Bio   Ryan Cheney is a therapist, seeker, and guide devoted to the process of inner transformation. Based in Austin, TX, he works with individuals and couples to uncover what stands in the way of lasting change – and how to meet those blocks with presence, compassion, and courage. His work is deeply rooted in Internal Family Systems and a profound curiosity about how people evolve.   Before turning his focus inward, Ryan was the founder of Raaka Chocolate, a Brooklyn-based bean-to-bar company built on transparency and ethical sourcing. But his truest calling lies in the inner landscapes: the quiet, tender spaces where real healing happens. His path has been shaped by deep inquiry, spiritual practice, and a love for the moments when people reconnect with the truth of who they are.   Ryan believes transformation doesn't have to be a battle – it can be a remembering. He's most alive when exploring the alchemy of change, the courage it requires, and the unexpected grace that can come when we stop striving and start listening.   Timestamps   00:01:16 - Guest introduction 00:06:02 - Ryan shares how he and Layla met 00:07:35 - Going from small and scared to big and free 00:07:59 - Where Layla was at in her life when she met Ryan 00:11:48 - Where Ryan was at in his life when he met Layla 00:12:31 - Sign up for Layla's newsletter at LaylaMartin.com 00:13:11 - Friendship turns into strong attraction 00:13:47 - Ryan describes he and Layla's first kiss 00:16:20 - Why the sex didn't initially work for Ryan 00:19:33 - Ryan learned to hold all parts of Layla 00:21:11 - Layla's first experience with somatic therapy 00:23:00 - Layla credits Ryan for being deeply present for her healing journey 00:24:33 - Unlock your deepest passion inside The Tantric Mastermind for Couples 00:26:00 - Layla's desire to find the real Tantra 00:27:19 - Ryan and Layla gave each other spiritual names 00:34:05 - Layla and Ryan discuss their experience with sexual healing 00:39:01 - Why we have to take full responsibility for our actions and impact on others 00:41:48 - How to be present with intensity and pain 00:41:57 - Discover MOOD™ Sex Magic 00:42:55 - Ryan and Layla drink MOOD SEX MAGIC 00:45:57 - The feedback Layla gave Ryan as their relationship ended 00:48:17 - Layla healed and opened her sexuality before healing and opening her heart 00:51:15 - Ryan shares what he learned from the end of the relationship 00:54:55 - Layla shares one of her favorite stories about Ryan 00:56:08 - How radical love is different than self-sacrificing 01:02:18 - Discover your most masculine confidence and presence with Men's Sexual Mastery 01:03:59 - Layla and Ryan share their experience with an open relationship 01:09:10 - Ryan shares what signaled the end for him 01:17:38 - What Layla learned from the end of the relationship 01:19:20 - What Ryan learned from the relationship 01:21:08 - One of the saddest parts of trauma 01:24:32 - Ryan's favorite parts of Layla from their relationship 01:27:41 - Conclusion  

Bryony Angell writes about birding culture and lifestyle. Her latest exploration into our relationship with birds is bird-friendly comestibles. In this episode, we talk about cocoa grown by Zorzal in the Dominican Republic, a bird reserve and farm certified as 100% bird-friendly by the Smithsonian Institute. Three chocolatiers based in the U.S. use Zorzal's cocoa in their bars and other chocolate products: Raaka Chocolate, Dandelion Chocolate , and Fruition Chocolate. Georgia has eaten bars by Raaka and Fruition--two thumbs up.  Eat sweetly for bird conservation!! — You can find Bryony Angell on the web at https://www.bryonyangell.com and on Instagram as @ bryonyangell.   — Creator and Host: Georgia Silvera Seamans Producer and Editor: Pod for the People Vocalizations:  Bicknell's Thrush song https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/195711 Bicknell's Thrush in Independencia, Dominican Republic  https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/96097 Bicknell's Thrush call https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/197068

Today we have a special episode for you! On sept 7th 2023, Malomo hosted our fist ever live podcast with some amazing partners of ours. This live podcast is broken up into two sessions and this is the second of two. Part 1 was focused on how to best prep for Black Friday/Cyber Monday (or BFCM) from both a marketing and CX brand perspective while part 2 was focused on how to best retain holiday customers from a brand and SaaS POV. A special thank you to our panelists: Colin Waters, Assistant Director of Customer Experience at Brumate, Katy Eriks, Director of CX at SuitShop, Max Conley, Director of Ecommerce at Raaka Chocolate, Ryan Powell, Group Director of Marketing & Partnerships at Ryder Ecommerce, Vaishali Ravi, Product Marketing Manager at Loop, and Malomo's very own Noah Rahimzadeh and Yaw Aning! Malomo is currently running our Tracking Page Contest until 10/2/2023 and it is open to all Shopify/Shopify+ brands and agencies. Check it out here: https://gomalomo.com/tracking-page-contest

Today we have a special episode for you! On sept 7th 2023, Malomo hosted our fist ever live podcast with some amazing partners of ours. This live podcast is broken up into two sessions and this is the second of two. Part 1 was focused on how to best prep for Black Friday/Cyber Monday (or BFCM) from both a marketing and CX brand perspective while part 2 was focused on how to best retain holiday customers from a brand and SaaS POV. A special thank you to our panelists: Colin Waters, Assistant Director of Customer Experience at Brumate, Katy Eriks, Director of CX at SuitShop, Max Conley, Director of Ecommerce at Raaka Chocolate, Ryan Powell, Group Director of Marketing & Partnerships at Ryder Ecommerce, Vaishali Ravi, Product Marketing Manager at Loop, and Malomo's very own Noah Rahimzadeh and Yaw Aning! Malomo is currently running our Tracking Page Contest until 10/2/2023 and it is open to all Shopify/Shopify+ brands and agencies. Check it out here: https://gomalomo.com/tracking-page-contest

In this episode, we sit down with Nathan Hodge, the CEO of Raaka Chocolate, to uncover the fascinating journey behind the brand.   Nathan shares his motivations for starting Raaka Chocolate and how having a clear mission has been pivotal in their success. We delve into the cocoa trade through the lens of transparency and the commodity market, shedding light on Raaka Chocolate's commitment to ethical sourcing.   In this episode...   The Birth of Raaka Chocolate The Power of a Clear Mission First-Party Data: Unveiling Insights Fostering Customer Loyalty Multi-Channel Product Strategy   Sponsor for this episode...   This episode is brought to you by BSR Digital.   BSR Digital helps e-commerce brands that want to scale their business to the next level through paid ads & email marketing.   To learn more about BSR Digital, visit their website or book a call here.

On this special episode of Malomo's Retention Chronicles podcast, we've taken out some of our favorite Season 3 moments with DTC brands. Listen now to hear what leading ecommerce pros think about the Shopify ecosystem, customer retention and loyalty, transactional emails and SMS, post-purchase strategy, product development, finding your branding, and more! We highlight our conversations with Dave Burchett (Founder & CEO of Avance Vinyl), Christina Dorr Drake (Co-Founder & CEO of Willa's Oat Milk), Nate Hodge (Co-Founder and CEO of Raaka Chocolate), Megan Christian (Social Media Manager at YESCOM USA), Molly Kerrigan, (Director of Retention at Shinesty), Louise Fritjofsson (Founder & CEO of Martie), Steph Hon, (Founder & CEO of Cadence), Pooja Parikh (VP of Planning and Operations at Andie Swim), Stephanie Cohen (Founder of Stephanie Cohen Home), Josh Knopman (VP of Growth & Digital Product at Blueland), Chuck Bowen (Founder & CEO of Mission Mercantile), and Lexi Montee (Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Happiest Baby).

On this episode of Retention Chronicles, we're joined by Nate Hodge, Co-Founder and CEO of Raaka Chocolate. Raaka is a bean-to-bar, transparently traded Cocoa based product that emphasizes taste, quality, and authenticity. We chat through the founder story of Raaka, how far consumers can be from the production of their food, Raaka's transparent trade model, branding centered around real people behind the product, first party research and data, segmented post-purchase email and SMS flows, and learning about the lifecycle of social media.

Episode 075: 2 Picks from Oprah Magazine’s list of the most anticipated books of 2021! The Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Dray and Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead We were talking about celebrity book clubs and how Oprah Winfrey really revitalized the idea of having Book Clubs when she had the Oprah Winfrey Show. This became such a huge success in getting people interested in reading and discussing books again. We looked at her master list starting in September of 1996 and she had 86 books total over the last couple of decades. Other popular book clubs are Read With Reese and Read With Jenna. We just love empowered women empowering other women! Because of this discussion we then looked at what else was going on with Ms. Winfrey and books because we love hunting up new titles! Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead and The Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Dray both come from a list of more than 50 books O Magazine is hotly anticipating in 2021! Correction From Episode 65: Gilead was not #2 in the Great American Read it was actually number 84. Thank you to listener (and friend!) Shauna for contacting us with the correct information! We appreciate you Shauna! Don’t forget to check out our patreon site this month.    And subscribe to our weekly newsletter here! Books Mentioned Sunshine Girl by Julianna Margulies The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray  The Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Circling the Sun by Paula McLaine West with the Night by Beryl Markham    Media Mentioned Escape to the Chateau on Peacock Channel Highclere Castle Where Downton Abbey was filmed - from PBS   Sites Mentioned Château de Chavaniac - Lafayette also known as Le Manoir des Deux Mondes, France   Raaka Chocolate of the Month Club Subscription Info  

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Meet Labinot Krasniqi in Conversations with Celeri Network. We had the pleasure to discuss in detail his entrepreneurial journey as a restaurant business owner. In Kosovo, Labinot owns a variety of restaurants. He shares, his father was the biggest inspiration to join the hospitality industry. Being an expert and successful European restaurant business, he is currently the chief director and co-founder at Bon vivant. He also worked as a chocolatier, with Raaka Chocolate a New York (NYC) based chocolate company in Brooklyn. An interesting insight on chocolate he shares, his experience was very different in New York as he saw the different patterns of interest among consumers. He mentioned the variety is much broader in the US and he has a lot to learn. As a graduate in economics, business and management, he sure has a deep understanding of business and start-up culture. When asked, would he rather prefer taking business loans or using personal funds when setting up a business? He had a quick response. Check out the full video to know more in detail.

Ryan Cheney created Raaka because he knew there was a better way to make chocolate: from scratch; with traceable, high quality, single origin cacao; transparently sourced; and crafted into something uncommonly delicious. Their founding team knew this operating model didn't quite fit convention, so they built their own value based chocolate shop from the ground up. Raaka is now ten years strong in the international chocolate game. Having inked a number of major retail partnerships with the likes of Whole Foods along the way, I'd say Ryan's hunch is bearing some serious fruit. (See Ryan, I did learn that chocolate comes from a fruit!) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/digin/support

Chocolate is beloved by...well, most humans, it would seem. But this sweet treat that, for many of us, brings instant happiness, has a nasty secret: most of the world’s cocoa comes from a place where child labor, and sometimes even enslavement, is rampant. For decades, the giant companies that dominate the chocolate industry have said that it was impossible to know if their cocoa was tainted by labor abuses — the supply chain is too long, how can you possibly track cocoa beans back to a small farm in West Africa? Enter technology. But, it turns out, technology may not truly offer the answer to the intractable problem of child labor. The solution may, in fact, be lurking in plain sight. We talk to Nathan Hodge, of Raaka Chocolate; Charity Ryerson, of Corporate Accountability Lab; and Frans Pannekoek, of Tony’s Chocolonely.  Find out more at rawdatapodcast.com

Our Moderator Emily gives hard-hitting stories of food in the news to our panelists and they discuss their attitudes and opinions in our Weekly Baste Segment. This week we discuss chocolate, complaining at restaurants, spirit foods and CBD. Our guest for The Weekly Grill is Nate Hodge, co-founder and Head Chocolate Maker at Raaka Chocolate, a nationally distributed bean-to-bar chocolate company based in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Nate appears as a featured subject in the film, Setting the Bar (2017), a documentary that focuses on the leading role Raaka has taken in the craft chocolate movement's focus on sustainable cocoa sourcing. Every year, Raaka releases 24 unique chocolate bars inspired by recipes from all over the world, and in collaboration with local chefs and artisans. Nate is also married to Catherine Greeley, Vice President and Director of Mail Order at Heritage Foods. The Main Course O.G is powered by Simplecast

It's the magical restaurant's first chef guest! The Michelin-starred Tom Kerridge orders his dream meal. Will he stick to his healthy regime, or will it be an 'off day'? We also learn more about the genie waiter's backstory and James tries to embarrass Ed in some *bonus content* – so keep listening until the end.Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive Productions.Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography) and Amy Browne (illustrations)Tom Kerridge's book, 'Tom Kerridge's Fresh Start', is out now, published by Bloomsbury. See here for more details. His TV series of the same name is on Wednesdays, 8pm, BBC Two, and also on iPlayer.Ed Gamble is on tour in 2019. See his website for full details.James Acaster is on tour in 2019. See his website for full details.Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.And a big thanks to Sarah from Raaka Chocolate for sending us some samples! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's Valentine's Day this week and chances are you'll be partaking in one of my favorite guilty pleasures - chocolate. Every year, 58 million pounds of chocolate is purchased. But not everything is so sweet about the practices that surround this commodity-driven product. Nathan Hodge, head chocolatier of Raaka Chocolate in Brooklyn, NY, is working to change this. If you're like most conscious consumers, you've probably thought of the impact that a commodity-driven treat like chocolate has on our planet and the communities that grow them. This episode dives into the indigenous cultures where cacao is grown as well as the meaning of sustainable chocolate. Nate shares with us the time he set his oven on fire and when he had a bow and arrow drawn on him while researching cacao trees in South America. He's very passionate about creating delicious, sustainable chocolate that supports the health of the makers, consumers, and planet. -- Resources mentioned in this episode: Taza Chocolate Patagonia Lost City of Z -- Join the conversation on Facebook, follow us on Instagram, and try our repurposed coffee body scrub. Don't forget to subscribe, review, and share this podcast with other eco-warriors. We read all of your reviews and your positive ratings help us spread the word and spur more eco-warriors to action. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/trashtalking/support

Join Mary and guest co-host David Kyrejko on Fuhmentaboudit's 200th episode as we dive deep into chocolate with Nate Hodge, co-founder and head chocolatier at Raaka Chocolate. Learn how Nate went from answering a Craigslist ad to creating unique chocolate bars that are enjoyed all over the country, how chocolate goes from seed to bar and lots more!

The crafters and products at the Good Food Mercantile are the cream of the crop in terms of sustainability, innovation, and quality. At the end of their day in D.C., Caity and Jack chat with producers of salt, fine oils, cheese and gelato, and a panel of chocolate makers who agree that being part of the Good Food Awards means being in good company! Sarah Hartman of Harper Macaw, Alak Vasa of Elements Truffles, and Robert Norman of Raaka Chocolate share their favorite chocolate pairings and their experiences educating customers about the broad world of chocolate. Next, Nancy Bruns of JQ Dickinson Salt-Works tells about the history of West Virgina's salt industry and the value of thinking of salt as an agricultural product. Then guest host Jennifer Isham of Union Market talks with Paul Bower of Zingerman's Creamery about all things cheese and gelato. Finally, the day wraps up with Clay Oliver, who produces exceptional oils on his 5th generation family farm.

On the season premiere of The Farm Report, host Erin Fairbanks is joined by Nate Hodge, co-founder of Raaka Chocolate, and filmmaker Tim Shephard. The two are working on a documentary film project called Setting the Bar, which examines rare varieties of cacao in Peru. The film follows these passionate people who have dedicated their life to a better tasting and more sustainable chocolate bar. Their stories are fascinating, their dedication contagious and their final product, delicious. Plus, the first in our new series of EscapeMaker segments, profiling craft producers in New York state, with brewmaster Josh Hughes of Roscoe Beer Company. If you’d like to visit any of the craft brewers or cider makers interviewed in the Farm Report, check out EscapeMaker.com to book a 1 or 2-night all-inclusive craft beverage package with tours tastings and lodging.