Podcasts about real food media

SOLIDARITY | Connecting Across the Food Chain ~Co-presented with Real Food Media~ For the 21.5 million people who work across the food chain—from farm fields to meat packing factories to grocery stores—their jobs were already among the most low-paid, exploitative, and dangerous in the economy before COVID-19. The crisis has only heightened the stakes for food workers. Today, in the midst of the pandemic, these workers are among the most impacted while they toil to keep food on our tables. In this third conversation in the 2022 Roots of Resilience series. Leah Douglas is the agriculture and energy policy reporter at Reuters. Previously, they were a staff writer and associate editor at the Food and Environment Reporting Network, an independent, nonprofit newsroom. Leah's reporting has been published in the Guardian, the Nation, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, NPR, the American Prospect, Time, and other outlets. Leah's reporting has been cited in dozens of print and television media outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, AP, NBC Nightly News, and John Oliver's Last Week Tonight. In 2021, ​Leah was a fellow in the U.C. Berkeley – 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship and won two awards from the National Association of Agricultural Journalists for feature and investigative reporting. ​Leah was the 2020 recipient of the National Farmers Union Milt Hakel Award for excellence in agricultural reporting. Ligia Guallpa, Workers Justice Project / Los Deliveristas Unidos For more than twelve years, Ligia Guallpa has been organizing New York City's day laborers, construction workers, domestic workers, and, most recently, app-based delivery workers to build a government and economy that works for all of us. She is currently leading some of the most important issues of our time, including immigration, workers rights, climate change and runaway inequality. She is the co-founder and executive director of the Worker's Justice Project and Los Deliveristas Unidos. Under her leadership, WJP has 12,000 members and is growing. Suzanne Adely, Food Chain Worker's Alliance Suzanne joined the Food Chain Workers Alliance in 2017. A former New York City educator, she has a background in community organizing, public interest law, and international worker advocacy. Suzanne worked with several community-led organizations in Chicago and New York before beginning her global labor rights work. From 2011-2014 she was the UAW Global Organizing Institute India coordinator and since has collaborated with many local and global organizations on behalf of workers in New York, Host Anna Lappé, Real Food Media Anna is a national bestselling author, a renowned advocate for sustainability and justice along the food chain, and an advisor to funders investing in food system transformation. A James Beard Leadership Awardee, Anna is the co-author or author of three books on food, farming, and sustainability and the contributing author to fourteen more. One of TIME magazine's “eco” Who's-Who, Anna is the founder or co-founder of three national organizations including the Small Planet Institute and Small Planet Fund. In addition to her work at Real Food Media, Anna developed and leads the Food Sovereignty Fund, a global grantmaking program of the Panta Rhea Foundation. East & North Africa and elsewhere. Host Anna Lappé, Real Food Media Anna is a national bestselling author, a renowned advocate for sustainability and justice along the food chain, and an advisor to funders investing in food system transformation. A James Beard Leadership Awardee, Anna is the co-author or author of three books on food, farming, and sustainability and the contributing author to fourteen more. One of TIME magazine's “eco” Who's-Who, Anna is the founder or co-founder of three national organizations including the Small Planet Institute and Small Planet Fund.

~Part of the Roots of Resilience in An Age of Crisis event series; co-presented with Real Food Media and the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance~ Sea vegetables, shellfish, fish—each species has its own story, culture, and policy issues. These species, their environments, and the cultures that depend on them are at risk due to agricultural runoff, genetically engineered seafood, and the climate crisis. Peleke Flores of Mālama Hulēʻia and Carl Wassilie of Dam Watch International join Host Tiffani Patton to share stories of resistance against the corporate takeover of the ocean and their efforts to protect keystone species, livelihoods, and cultures along the Pacific Northwest and in Hawai'i. Photo by Peter Vanosdall on Unsplash Carl Wassilie Carl was born and raised in Alaska, rooted deep in salmon culture and Salmon communities. His Yup'ik name is Angut'aq; and has feet in both the Yup'ik and Western worldviews as a Yup'ik biologist. Since the devastating 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Carl has worked on defending salmon ecosystems and the communities and Relations on Mother Earth, that depend on them. As the rapid climate warming in the Arctic has brought natural changes to the marine and terrestrial landscape, Carl has been challenging the military industrial complex expanding North. Carl has worked with sovereign Tribes, First Nations and other communities across Turtle Island to protect the cultural survival of indigenous cultures by resisting oil, gas and mining companies that attempt to colonize some of the last great ecosystems left on the planet Peleke Flores Peleke Flores was born in Hilo, Hawai‘i, and raised in Waimea, Kaua‘i. He is a 2001 graduate of Waimea High School and attended Kapiolani Community College in the Pre-Travel Industry Management Program then transferred to UH Manoa taking up Hawaiian Language and Hawaiian Studies with a special focus on Mālama ‘Āina (Caring for Traditional Hawaiian food systems). He has dedicated over 20 years of his career working and volunteering for ‘Āina Based Non-Profit Organizations and family farms. He served as the Kū Hou Kuapā Coordinator at Paepae o Heʻeia on the Ko'olaupoko district of Oʻahu where a 88 acre 800 year old fishpond is located. His knowledge of mālama ‘āina practices and dry stack wall-building were of great value in the restoration of this sacred space. Peleke currently works for Mālama Hulēʻia where his ʻike and expertise are integral in restoring this wahi pana including the 40 acre, 600-year-old Alakoko fishpond. He is experienced in Traditional Hale Building, Uhau Humu Pohaku (hawaiian dry set), and restoring traditional Hawaiian food systems such as lo'i kalo, lo'i pa'akai, and loko i'a. Host Tiffani Patton Tiffani is a lifelong “foodie” turned activist, writing and researching food system change for more than seven years. A gifted writer and storyteller, she leads several areas of educational programming, communications strategy, engagement, and internal operations at Real Food Media. She co-produces and co-hosts the Real Food Reads and Foodtopias podcasts with Tanya Kerssen. Find out more about The New School at Commonweal on our website: tns.commonweal.org. And like/follow our Soundcloud channel for more great podcasts.

In this very special episode Real Food Media's Tiffani Patton has an in depth conversation with Shyla Sheppard of Bow & Arrow Brewing Co. and Teo Hunter of Crowns & Hops to talk about the beer future we want to live in. (Be sure to check out and subscribe on our Youtube page for upcoming Youtube Live events.)

~Part of the Roots of Resilience in An Age of Crisis event series co-presented with Real Food Media~ In this conversation, Real Food Media's Tiffani Patton talks with Mai Nguyen—farmer, organizer, and co-founder of Minnow—and Vera F. Allen—mother, partner, organizer, and farmer, and the co-founder of the Midwest Farmers of Color Collective—about the history of land theft, the work to get more land into the hands of BIPOC farmers, and what it means to farm regeneratively. Together, they'll share strategies for personal and collective liberation through soil. Photo: Paige Green Photography in Made Local Magazine Mai Nguyen, Minnow Mai (pronouns they/them) is a farm owner-operator and social justice activist. They grow heirloom grain, cooperative economics, and racially equitable farm policy. Mai is currently co-director of Minnow, an organization focused on land tenure for farmers of color within the framework of indigenous sovereignty. You can find out more about Mai on their websites: farmermai.com and weareminnow.org. You can follow them on Instagram: @farmermainguyen. Vera F. Allen, Midwest Farmers of Color Collective Vera is a Black Navajo, mother, partner, organizer, and farmer, and the co-founder of the Midwest Farmers of Color Collective. She spends her time on issues affecting Indigenous peoples and all of our food. Although she has been a grower for most of her life, it was the Youth Farm and Market Project of Minneapolis that opened her world to food activism. Serving as the market coordinator and being guardian to a garden sewn by kids was a once in a lifetime experience that influences the work Vera chooses to do every day. Vera is working on food policy projects, a food fellowship, and continues to look for ways to serve BIPOC people in the quest for land rematriation and food autonomy. Tiffani Patton, Real Food Media Host Tiffani Patton is a lifelong “foodie” turned activist, writing and researching food system change for more than seven years. A gifted writer and storyteller, she leads several areas of educational programming, communications strategy, engagement, and internal operations at Real Food Media. She co-produces and co-hosts the Real Food Reads and Foodtopias podcasts with Tanya Kerssen. Find out more about The New School at Commonweal on our website: tns.commonweal.org. And like/follow our Soundcloud channel for more great podcasts.

Anna Lappé is my guest on Episode 137 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author, an internationally recognized expert on food systems, and a funder supporting food system transformation. A James Beard Leadership Award winner, Anna is the co-author or author of three books about food, farming, and sustainability and the contributing author to fourteen others. The author of the award-winning Diet for a Hot Planet and contributing editor to her mother's 50th anniversary edition of Diet for a Small Planet, Anna is the founder or co-founder of three national organizations, including the Small Planet Institute and Real Food Media. As a funder, she has led the grantmaking of the Small Planet Fund for two decades and created and directs the Food Sovereignty Fund of the Panta Rhea Foundation. https://realfoodmedia.org/

WATER | Thirsty California: Water, Agribusiness, and the Future of Food ~Part of the Roots of Resilience in An Age of Crisis series co-presented with Real Food Media and Mother Jones magazine~ Join Anna Lappé with award-winning journalist Tom Philpott and Janaki Jagannath, of the Community Alliance for Agroecology and the 11th Hour Project, to talk about the state of water in California. As record wildfires and drought plague the state, what are advocates for farmers and farmworkers advocating for? What threats do we face and how do we take them on? Photo: Unsplash Tom Philpott is the food and agriculture correspondent for Mother Jones and author of Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It (Bloomsbury 2020). Prior to joining Mother Jones in 2012, he worked for five years as the food editor and columnist for Grist Magazine. His work has won numerous awards, including a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. He was a cofounder in 2004 of Maverick Farms, a small organic vegetable farm and center for sustainable food education in Valle Crucis, North Carolina. In past lives, he has worked as a farmer, line cook, a community college teacher, and a finance writer. Janaki Jagannath is Program Manager of the Food and Ag Program at the 11th Hour Project. Previously she worked in the San Joaquin Valley of California who work to advance agricultural and environmental policy towards justice for communities bearing the burden of California's food system. She has worked at California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. in Fresno enforcing environmental justice and worker protections such as access to clean drinking water for unincorporated farmworker communities. Janaki has assisted in curriculum development for the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems degree at UC Davis and has farmed in diversified and orchard crops across the state. Janaki holds a B.S. in Agricultural Development from UC Davis and a producers' certification in Ecological Horticulture from UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology. Host Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author, a renowned advocate for sustainability and justice along the food chain, and an advisor to funders investing in food system transformation. A James Beard Leadership Awardee, Anna is the co-author or author of three books on food, farming, and sustainability and the contributing author to fourteen more. One of TIME magazine's “eco” Who's-Who, Anna is the founder or co-founder of three national organizations including the Small Planet Institute and Small Planet Fund. In addition to her work at Real Food Media, Anna developed and leads the Food Sovereignty Fund, a global grantmaking program of the Panta Rhea Foundation. Find out more about The New School at Commonweal on our website: tns.commonweal.org. And like/follow our Soundcloud channel for more great podcasts.

~Part of the Roots of Resilience in An Age of Crisis series co-presented with Real Food Media~ Seed savers Kristyn Leach of Namu Farm and Second Generation Seeds in Yolo County, California, and Jessika Greendeer of Dream of Wild Health in Twin Cities, Minnesota, will talk about the “why” behind their seed-saving practices. Together with Host Tiffani Patton, Jessika and Kristyn will explore the role of seed-saving in preserving and connecting to culture and why we need seed diversity to withstand the climate crisis. (Photo: Tiffani Patton) Kristyn Leach grows Asian crops in California's Central Valley. Her focus is on preserving and adapting Korean plants, agronomic wisdom, and culture. She partners with the Namu Restaurant Group, providing their restaurants with produce and working with their chefs and cooks on breeding projects. She founded a seed line within Kitazawa Seed Company, the oldest purveyor of Asian vegetable seeds in the United States, called Second Generation Seeds. Second Generation is a collaborative project that hopes to connect or reconnect communities of the Asian diaspora with the crops that have sustained them. Jessika Greendeer is a Ho-Chunk Nation tribal member from Baraboo, Wisconsin, and a member of the Deer Clan. She is currently the seed keeper and farm manager at Dream of Wild Health. Jessika has worked as the Agricultural Division Manager for her nation and had previously served as a garden mentor within her nation's organic community gardens. She is a U.S. Army combat veteran and completed a Veteran-to-Farmer training program at the Rodale Institute in Pennsylvania. Host Tiffani Patton is a lifelong “foodie” turned activist, writing and researching food system change for more than seven years. A gifted writer and storyteller, she leads several areas of educational programming, communications strategy, engagement, and internal operations at Real Food Media. She co-produces and co-hosts the Real Food Reads and Foodtopias podcasts with Tanya Kerssen. Tiffani brings years of active engagement in food policy discussions, event organizing, storytelling for change, facilitating important discussions around food system transformation, and the connection of art, music, and culture to food in the Bay Area and beyond. Find out more about The New School at Commonweal on our website: tns.commonweal.org. And like/follow our Soundcloud channel for more great podcasts.

Part of the Roots of Resilience in An Age of Crisis series co-presented with Real Food Media. https://realfoodmedia.org In this wide-ranging conversation, we’ll hear from UCSF Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. Rupa Marya along with A-dae Romero-Briones of the First Nations Development Institute discuss efforts around the country to take on the aftermath of centuries of government-sanctioned and led land dispossession and cultural decimation. Together with TNS Host and Author Anna Lappé, Rupa and A-dae will share strategies toward a vision to protect and uplift Native agro-ecological traditions, including efforts to rematriate thousands of acres of land across the country.

Long-time Real Food Media friend and ally Jose Oliva joins us to talk about his co-authored chapter, “Food Workers versus Food Giants.” In this dynamic conversation, we cover the food system’s legacy of slavery, corporate consolidation, unions, and the strategies workers are using to carve out pathways for a more just food system.

Author, editor-in-chief of Heated, and former New York Times columnist Mark Bittman talks about what it means for food to be “good,” how to know it's good, buy it and cook it. He guides us to think deeply about the food system and how it can be improved. Bittman is celebrating the 20th anniversary of his generation-defining cookbook How to Cook Everything, the definitive guide to simple home cooking. The new edition of the book has been completely revised for today's cooks while retaining Bittman's trademark minimalist style: easy-to-follow recipes and variations, and tons of ideas and inspiration. Bittman will celebrate this landmark in American food with a reception. He will be in conversation with author and Real Food Media's Anna Lappé. This program is part of our Food Lit series, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation. MLF Organizer: Elizabeth Carney MLF: Business & Leadership, Food Matters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 8 of the Anti-Aging Podcast I bring you in live to another interview I did at the Ancestral Health Symposium, a health summit where dozens of industry leading doctors, trainers, and specialists give presentations on optimizing your health. This is where I met and interviewed this episode’s guest, Diana Rodgers.Diana is a Registered Dietician, and a “real food” nutritionist and writer living and working on an organic farm, where she's been for the last 17 years.Diana runs a clinical nutrition practice, is the host of the popular Sustainable Dish Podcast, and speaks internationally around the world about human nutrition, sustainability, animal welfare, and social justice.Diana has written two books and helped produce the short film, Soft Slaughter, which won a Real Food Media award. Her work has been featured in the LA Times and Boston Globe.Next year she is co-authoring a book with Robb Wolf titled The Sacred Cow, and she’s producing a directing a documentary by the same title. The Sacred Cow documentary is due out next year, 14 July 2020.Some highlights from the episode:Nutrition Concerns of Plant-based Diets: Which populations are most at risk, and the need for B-12, iron, and protein.Why Red Meat has Become Less Popular: Diana compares red meat to poultry, and why the reasons poultry and chicken intake has been on the rise the last couple of decades… aren’t necessarily good ones.Price Comparison of Beyond Meat vs Grass-fed Beef: What are the facts when comparing these two? Is grass-fed meat really more expensive?The Other Side of the “Meat is Murder” Campaign: Why evolutionary biology, food production facts, and the nutritive benefits of meat are all important to truly understand.Environmental Facts of Raising Ruminants: We cover the land waste, food waste, and water waste issues that you often hear.The Satiating Benefits of Protein: Why fat and carbs are more dangerous. And how big food industries are coming along to try and flip the food pyramid on it’s head.Comparing Grass-fed Beef to Traditionally Raised Beef: Fat profile comparison, specifically omega-3s.Emotional Anti-Meat Arguments: Does it all stem from a fear of death? Are we as humans just afraid of death and any associations with death, and trying to use science to then justify that fear into a way of eating? You can always find Diana through her website sustainabledish.com or sacredcow.info and you can find her on IG as “sustainabledish”

Real Food Media founder and former Real Food Reads host Anna Lappé joins us to talk about how our food system drives the climate crisis, how food must be part of the solution, and how this conversation has evolved in the nearly ten years since the publication of her book Diet for a Hot Planet.

In this episode of the food heroes podcast, we have Anna Lappè. Anna earned the James Beard Foundation leadership award for her passionate work as an author, educator, and sustainable food advocate. She’s the founder of Real Food Media whose goal is to strengthen food movement through collaboration, creative storytelling, and education. Her website is keen on busting common myths in the food industry. Real Food Media’s goal is to work with partners around the country to help elevate the real story of our food, help people understand the questions they should be asking about what they should eat, what they should be getting angry about, and what they can do to change that. She shares different ways her company is changing how people view food by bursting common myths and also different ways how you can help conserve food by making healthier food choices. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL FIND OUT ABOUT: Anna Lappe’s background and love for food. Real Food Media background. There’s a place for everyone in the sustainability of food. The complexity of food system. Easy ways to make changes in the food system. Positive impact of the state food policy councils. California’s move to refusing chicken with antibiotics in schools. How Los Angeles’ decision impacted Tyson Chicken to have an antibiotic-free promotion. Bursting the myth that there will be 20 billion people in the near future and we need enough food to cater for all those people. Is there benefit to the clean meat movement? One thing Anna would do to make the planet a better place. Are things reversing against sugars and unhealthy foods? Future plans for Anna Lappè and Real Food Media.   PULLED QUOTES The changes we need to make are going to happen by getting organized. Get connected to folks in your own community who are making changes. Start where you are. No matter where you are there are ways to take one step forward whether in your diet or your activism to be part of the solution. We need to remind people that there are truths and facts still remaining in the world. LINKS MENTIONED Real food media website – Realfoodmedia.org Good Food Purchasing Program-  Goodfoodpurchasing.org Small Planet Institute – Smallplanet.org Anna Lappè – Annalappe.com

Green Enough: Leah Segedie | Ep.20 by Real Food Media

Anna Lappé is the director of Real Food Media and the author/co-author of three books, including Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It (Bloomsbury USA, 2010) and a contributing author to eleven more. She also serves as a consultant to foundations and philanthropists funding food system change and is the advisor to The Panta Rhea Foundation Food Program. With her mother Frances Moore Lappé, she also founded the Small Planet Institute and Fund, which has raised and given away more than $1 million to grassroots organizations worldwide since its founding in 2002, two of which have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She regularly speaks to audiences around the country, from university lectures to community-based events. Anna founded Real Food Media in 2012, a collaborative initiative working with partners around the country to spark conversation about our food system, catalyze creative storytelling and connect communities for action. The Project produces the Food MythBusters video series, runs an international films competition and leads special partnerships such as the “Voices of the Food Chain” with Food Chain Workers Alliance and StoryCorps. Anna is an active board member of the Rainforest Action Network and Mesa Refuge, a writer’s retreat in the San Francisco Bay Area. Anna received a master’s in Economic and Political Development from Columbia University and graduated with honors from Brown University. Her research on food and farming systems has taken her to more than 20 countries and 100 U.S. cities. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Read our New York Times oped How to Win Against Big Soda Chicago joins the movement for Good Food Cities! Tune into our monthly podcast #RealFoodReads ANNA LAPPÉ Founder, Real Food Media Co-founder, Small Planet Fund and Institute Author, Diet for a Hot Planet @annalappe TEDxBerkeley: The Empathy of Food TEDxManhattan: The Dangers of Dora & Marketing Junk Food to Kids

Behind the Kitchen Door: Saru Jayaraman | Ep. 18 by Real Food Media

The New Food Activism: Alison Alkon, Tanya Kerssen, & Joann Lo | Ep. 16 by Real Food Media

Anna Lappe, founder of Real Food Media and co-founder of the Small Planet Institute, would like to change the way our media represents the story of food. Real Food Media has been calling on media institutions to be very transparent about their sources and to follow strict codes of conduct about reporting on conflicts of interest. "Every year some of the biggest companies in the food and chemical ag sector spend hundreds of millions of dollars on shaping the story of food," says Anna. When corporations are the only ones telling the story of food in order to sell their products, it becomes a one-sided story that often leaves out important points, like whether it's actually good for our bodies or for our planet. Anna would like to see this discrepancy be more apparent to consumers. Ultimately, she wants to help people see these misleading strategies and "be able to then spot them out there in the world when they're happening in real time."

What does a food activist do? To answer the question, you need to look no further than Anna Lappé. She is the founder and director of Real Food Media, a collaborative initiative that catalyzes creative storytelling and media about food, farming, and sustainability. “We work with partners across the country to really elevate the solutions that we find out there that are really transforming the food system toward greater sustainability and equity, and then we help people understand what are the real impacts that we have to worry about it, about our current foods just don't why we need such transformation” she says.In this episode, she discusses why the food choices that are good for your body are also good for the planet, why consumer demand for meat is constructed, and why cooking a good meal at home is a good idea.I’m not so sure that food activism in the digital age is that much different than food activism at any other time. You know, I think we know how to make transformative change. And one of the best ways to do that is through organizing and through working in one’s own community and scaling that up. So that doesn’t really change that much in the digital age. I would say one of the ways in which activism is influenced by the digital age is unfortunately how this new era has really unleashed a phenomenon of evermore fake news of the proliferation of misinformation, and of the challenges of getting our story out. -- Anna Lappe´Some of the food activists we are interviewing on this podcast are looking to tech and apps for solutions to hunger and food insecurity. Anna is looking to education and policy changes - but in ways that may surprise you. Extended show notes at http://futurefood.fm. Follow our journey on Instagram.

DramaFever - DramaFever is the largest online video site for the distribution of international televised content. The company streams movies, documentaries, and TV shows on demand with professional subtitles.Seth Shapiro - Two-time Emmy® Award winner Seth Shapiro is a leading executive and advisor in digital media. His work includes cutting-edge projects in television, online, games and music with the Walt Disney Company, Comcast, DIRECTV, Intel, Time Warner, McCann, Showtime, Universal, Verizon, Goldman Sachs and a range of new ventures.Ann Marie Michaels - Ann Marie Michaels founded Village Green Network (formerly Real Food Media) in 2008. She began her career in 1995 in Silicon Valley working at CKS Interactive. She went on to produce digital advertising at Razorfish, Foote, Cone & Belding, Deutsch, and Schematic (now POSSIBLE).Lizanne Falsetto - Few young women are offered the choice between a career in basketball or fashion. thinkThin® founder and CEO Lizanne Falsetto chose fashion and embarked on a successful business chapter that took her to live and work in Japan, Paris, Milan, New York, Australia and Madrid.

André Vener, Quasim Riaz, Hagop Giragossian opened Dog Haus in 2010. They have created an amazing environment for everyone to enjoy some of the best comfort food in all of Pasadena/Los Angeles area. Great food, awesome music and an amazing family environment. All three of the owners stopped by and discussed the trials and tribulations one goes through when starting a business with friends. Lizanne Falsetto is founder and chief executive of ThinkProducts, the Ventura maker of the popular thinkThin brand of nutritional snack and weight-management protein bars. Over the last 12 years, Falsetto has grown her operation from a one-woman venture into a firm with 23 employees. She came by the studio to Mentor Ann Marie Michaels and Seth Shapiro. Ann Marie founded Village Green Network (formerly Real Food Media) in 2008. She began her career in 1995 in Silicon Valley working at CKS Interactive. Her partner is Two-time Emmy® Award winner Seth Shapiro, leading executive and advisor in digital media.

André Vener, Quasim Riaz, Hagop Giragossian opened Dog Haus in 2010. They have created an amazing environment for everyone to enjoy some of the best comfort food in all of Pasadena/Los Angeles area. Great food, awesome music and an amazing family environment. All three of the owners stopped by and discussed the trials and tribulations one goes through when starting a business with friends. Lizanne Falsetto is founder and chief executive of ThinkProducts, the Ventura maker of the popular thinkThin brand of nutritional snack and weight-management protein bars. Over the last 12 years, Falsetto has grown her operation from a one-woman venture into a firm with 23 employees. She came by the studio to Mentor Ann Marie Michaels and Seth Shapiro. Ann Marie founded Village Green Network (formerly Real Food Media) in 2008. She began her career in 1995 in Silicon Valley working at CKS Interactive. Her partner is Two-time Emmy® Award winner Seth Shapiro, leading executive and advisor in digital media.