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Summer is here in San Diego and so are the tourists. With our near perfect weather and beaches, it's no surprise that our city is a big travel destination. But if you live here — it can be easy to take it all for granted. This summer, you might consider taking a staycation instead. From luxury hotels to beautiful campsites, San Diego has plenty of options for you to take a trip right here at home. This hour, we explore how to plan your perfect staycation in San Diego. Whether a hotel bed or sleeping bag is more your style, there's plenty of options out there. Plus, we talk about how to make the most out of traveling with kids. Guests: Jackie Bryant, business development strategist at San Diego Magazine Shelby Stanger, host of REI podcast “Wild Ideas Worth Living" Jennifer Kolari, child and family therapist and founder of Connected Parenting Jackie Bryant's staycation recommendations: Hotels/Resorts Seabird Resort - Oceanside (kid friendly/adult) Mission Pacific Resort - Oceanside (kid friendly/adult) Gaylord Pacific - Chula Vista Alila Marea Resort - Encinitas Inn at Moonlight Beach - Encinitas Harrah's Resort - Valley Center Lafayette Hotel - North Park (kid friendly) Town and Country Resort - Mission Valley - (kid friendly) Manchester Grand Hyatt - Downtown San Diego (kid friendly) Lazy H Ranch - Valley Center Catamaran - Mission Bay Bahia Resort - Mission Bay Bianchi Pizza and Pasta Hotel Marisol - Coronado  Read more on Jackie Bryant's Guide to Local Spa and Resorts The Hotel Del Coronado Read Jackie Bryant's Review on the hotel's renovations Nobu Read San Diego Magazine's look into Coronado's Nobu Veranda Read San Diego Magazine's look into Coronado's Veranda Food and Drink Merenda Wine Bar - https://www.sdcl.org/blogs/post/learn-a-language-with-rosetta-stone/ Read Jackie Bryant's Review on Merenda Little Fox Cups and Cones - Oceanside Read Jackie Bryant's Review on Little Fox Cups and Cones Wrench and Rodent - Oceanside Read more in Jackie Bryant's article on food trends in San Diego

In this electrifying episode of Thriving in Intersectionality, host Lola Adeyemo welcomes Saundra Pelletier, a powerhouse in women's health innovation and a fierce advocate for women's empowerment. As CEO, President, and Interim Chair of Evofem Biosciences, Saundra shares her journey from a one-room apartment on welfare in Maine to revolutionizing women's reproductive health – all while navigating a cancer diagnosis, single motherhood, and corporate leadership. What You'll Learn in This Episode: How to advocate for yourself professionally without diminishing your value Why women should never start from a position of weakness when seeking feedback The transformative power of focusing on your strengths rather than obsessing over weaknesses How personal challenges can redirect your purpose and amplify your advocacy The importance of deciding "whose opinion matters" in your career advancement Why the "adherence quotient" (focus + confidence + passion) is essential for success About Our Guest Saundra Pelletier is the Interim Chair, CEO, President, and Executive Director of Evofem Biosciences, a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to addressing unmet needs in women's sexual and reproductive health. Under her leadership, Evofem launched Phexxi in 2020, the first and only hormone-free, on-demand prescription birth control in the United States. In 2024, the company expanded its portfolio with SOLOSEC, an FDA-approved treatment for common vaginal infections. With over 25 years of executive leadership experience, Saundra has driven multiple billion-dollar product launches, expanded commercial capabilities globally, and consistently advocated for women's health. She was previously the founding CEO of Woman Care Global, where she secured $68 million in funding to deliver healthcare products to women in over 100 developing countries. Saundra's accolades include the Health and Human Services Award from the California State Assembly, San Diego Magazine's Woman of the Year, the Lifetime Legacy Award from the National Women of Influence, and inclusion in Inc. Magazine's Female Founders 100 List. Key Insights for Professional Women: "Start at the Top of the Ladder" Saundra offers a revolutionary approach to seeking professional feedback: "Never admit weakness, because you will be pounced on and taken advantage of." Instead, start from a position of strength by acknowledging what you do well, then ask how you could "over-deliver." This framing protects you while still allowing for growth. "Always start with 'here's what I know I do well, and here's what I know I'm contributing,' but I'd love to be able to over-deliver. Never give them a chance to turn the knife, because you've already said, 'Oh, I'm amazing. What could I do to be super-fragilistic?'" The Adherence Quotient for Career Success Saundra shares a powerful formula that has guided her for 25 years: focus × confidence × passion = success. She emphasizes that all three elements must be present: "Focus means you have to know exactly what you want. You have to repeat it to yourself. You have to write it down. Confidence is, if you don't have the skills to get it right now, you get those skills. And passion is you have to love it in a way that when everybody tells you no and all the haters and negative naysayers, you just have Teflon." Understanding the Difference Between Humility and Inferiority Channeling wisdom from her mother, Saundra highlights the critical distinction between being humble and feeling inferior: "Understand the difference between humility and inferiority. One will nurture your self-esteem and the other will destroy it." Creating Your Own Table When You Can't Find One Drawing from her experience as a woman leader in male-dominated industries, Saundra emphasizes the importance of creating your own opportunities rather than waiting for them: "I couldn't find the ladder. They say, climb the corporate ladder. I could never find the ladder period. I didn't even know where to access the ladder... If you can't find the table, if you can't find the ladder, then create your own." How Cancer Transformed Her Advocacy Following her cancer diagnosis and treatment, Saundra's passion for women's health innovation intensified exponentially. She explains how this personal challenge redirected her purpose: "It changed me in a way that I will never be the same again... After my diagnosis, oh my goodness, I became so loud and proud, you would have thought my mouth was a megaphone... I'm a different mom, I'm a different woman, I'm a different leader of this company because of cancer." Phexxi: Revolutionizing Women's Reproductive Health Saundra passionately discusses Evofem's groundbreaking product, Phexxi, the first innovation in non-hormonal birth control since 1960. This FDA-approved, on-demand contraceptive works by maintaining a woman's natural vaginal pH, making it inhospitable to sperm without systemic hormones or side effects. The product is particularly valuable for women who cannot or prefer not to use hormonal contraceptives, including cancer survivors, breastfeeding mothers, and those on medications that interact with hormonal birth control. "Women don't have sex every day... Women deserve to have a product that they use only when they need it, whenever, when they don't just like men have had condoms." Connect with Saundra and Evofem: Connect with Saundra Pelletier on Linkedin Learn More about the Revolutionary Phexxi: www.phexxi.com Follow Evofem Biosciences: www.evofem.com Chat with Host Lola Adeyemo: LinkedIn: Lola Adeyemo Personal Website: www.lolaspeaker.com Want to Get Involved? Apply to be on the podcast: Application Link Join Immigrants in Corporate Non-Profit Community: Membership | Facebook | Instagram Are you an HR, Culture, or DEI Leader? Email Lola@EQImindset.com to Get Your Workplace Community Employee Resource Groups (ERGs / BRGs) Launched, Leveraged, and Thriving!

Rachel Crawford is an award-winning Encinitas-based interior designer known for blending modern-contemporary and eclectic aesthetics with holistic, energy-driven practices. Certified in Feng Shui, Energetic Space Clearing, and a Reiki Master, Rachel creates harmonious spaces across residential, hospitality, and retail environments. She is also the host of the Hospitality Interior Design Podcast, where she explores the intersection of design, energy, and conscious living, and The Holistic Interior Design Podcast, which supports and uplifts young designers. Believing that our surroundings deeply impact our well-being, Rachel designs spaces that foster community, inspiration, and well-being for all. Her work is inspired by a love of art, fashion, travel, and nature, weaving soul and story into every project. Since starting her design journey in 1999, Rachel's work has been featured in San Diego Home and Garden, Modern Luxury, San Diego Magazine, and Style & Decor Magazine. Links: Website: tigerveil.com Email: rachel@tigerveil.com Phone: 619-277-2721 Hospitality Interior Design Podcast: Listen here (https://holistic-hospitality-design.captivate.fm/listen) Holistic Interior Design Podcast: Listen here (https://holistic-interior-design.captivate.fm/listen) ________________________ questions@eyecode-education.com Go to MacuHealth.com and use the coupon code PODCAST2024 at checkout for special discounts Let's Connect! Follow and join the conversation! Instagram: @aaron_werner_vision

This week, we packed our bags and headed to the Windy City for a nostalgic trip down memory lane as we visited his hometown, Crystal Lake, IL. Along the way, we participated in the Supermaket Sweep at the Aldi Holiday Party!! STRIP MALL TEASE TOUR TICKETS: https://linktr.ee/zzzachariahWant BONUS CONTENT? Join our PATREON! ➜ This episode is sponsored by MeUndies. For exclusive holiday deals go to MeUndies.com/counselors and used promo code: counselors➜ This episode is also sponsored by StoryWorth. To save $10 off your first purchase go to StoryWorth.com/counselors ➜ This Episode is Sponsored by BetterHelp. Go to BetterHelp.com/camp Check out our website and submit your inquiries for advice, juicy gossip, confessions, and horror stories! Sources:➜ Anna Ellis. “Record Breaking Couple Get Married in Their 100s.” Euro Weekly News, 6 Dec. 2024.➜ Cole Novak. “Meet San Diego's Renowned Pet Detective, Babs Fry.” San Diego Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024. Camp Songs:Spotify PlaylistYouTube PlaylistSammich's Secret Mixtape Social Media:Camp Counselors TikTokCamp Counselors InstagramCamp Counselors FacebookCamp Counselors Twitter

Jordan Howlett, AKA 'Jordan The Stallion,' is a globally recognized celebrity content creator with a staggering fan base of over 35 million across various platforms. The Oceanside, California native is our Creator of The Year. Not just because he is the founder of The Fast Food Secrets Club or because he has created hit collaborations with Donald Glover, Kevin Hart, Method Man, Halle Berry (hallelujah) and brought them to his channel. It's because with Jordan there are no secrets and he inspires other introverts to become creators. His unique perspective and wisdom beyond his years create an engaging experience that consistently strengthens his community. In 2024, Jordan has been featured on the prestigious Forbes Top Creator List, the cover of San Diego Magazine, The Today Show, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Hollywood Reporter, Business Insider, Complex, BET, CNN, and Fox, reflecting not only his creative influence and success but also the impact he's had on his hometown and beyond.

Ryan asked me to write this intro myself since my writing gets credit and blame for a lot of things in my life. I was born and raised in San Diego, the city often written off as the souvenir cup of California. When my writing career managed not to flop and I landed a gig on Food Network, every agent or manager much smarter than me said the same thing. “If you wanna have a shot, you've got to move to New York.” Probably great advice. But I politely declined each time because if every creative person who had ambition moved away to “make it,” San Diego would just be a cultural wasteland, a resort with a city on it. What if some of us stayed and helped build a culture—told the stories of its people and the work being done? So in 2021 my wife and I decided to become the new owners of a 75 year-old, beloved media company, San Diego Magazine, and got to work transforming it into a modern media thing. It was a total rebuild, coming out of a global pandemic. The week we signed the papers, our son was born. We launched a massive festival. We launched a creative studio for brands. We micro-napped. Now? Thank all the gods, it's growing. This is our story.

Joining me in this episode is wellness advocate and wilderness guide Sydney Williams. Sydney beckons to all those burdened with unspoken trauma, offering the wilderness as both metaphor and remedy for the soul in her new book, Hiking Your Feelings: Blazing a Trail to Self-Love. This transformational book reveals how we can turn our pain into power. It's part inspirational memoir, part practical guide, Hiking Your Feelings offers a toolkit for unpacking your “trauma pack” the best version of yourself.  I love this episode so much, and I enjoyed reading Sydney's book. I hope you do, too. Please visit the show website at The Conscious Diva.com, ep 68, for more information about Sydney and her work as an author, speaker, and founder of Hiking My Feelings, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the healing power of nature. You can also follow me on Instagram at The Conscious Diva. Thank you for listening. HIGHLIGHTS: Sydney reflects on her own journey from buried traumas and poor body image to acceptance, healthy coping mechanisms, and self-love. She talks about her struggle with grief and loss, sexual assault, poor body image, career stress, and the stigma of diabetes. chooses love over fear and lift the invisible weight from your shoulders. ABOUT SYDNEY: Sydney Williams is an author, speaker, and the founder of Hiking My Feelings, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the healing power of nature. Her fifteen-year (and counting) career in communications has run the gamut from launching Oscar Mayer's social media channels and working with Fortune 500 brands to educating the public about the importance of stewardship and equitable access to recreational opportunities. Through it all, she centers empathetic storytelling and allows her curiosity and enthusiasm to lead the way. Sydney has been featured on FOX5 San Diego, KPBS, San Diego Magazine, Huff Post, Psychology Today, U.S. News & World Report, and on the SXSW stage. She is also a certified Wilderness First Responder, an instructor at the Desert Institute at Joshua Tree National Park, an instructor at the Field Institute at Sequoia National Park, and a founding member of the Outdoorist Oath. Sydney has been nominated for Woman of the Year by San Diego Magazine. LINKS: https://hikingmyfeelings.org IG: https://www.instagram.com/hikingmyfeelings/

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Sydney Williams is an author, speaker, and the founder of Hiking My Feelings, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the healing power of nature. Her fifteen-year (and counting) career in communications has run the gamut from launching Oscar Mayer's social media channels and working with Fortune 500 brands to educating the public about the importance of stewardship and equitable access to recreational opportunities. Through it all, she centers empathetic storytelling and allows her curiosity and enthusiasm to lead the way. Sydney has been featured on FOX5 San Diego, KPBS, San Diego Magazine, Huff Post, Psychology Today, U.S. News & World Report, and on the SXSW stage. She is also a certified Wilderness First Responder, an instructor at the Desert Institute at Joshua Tree National Park, an instructor at the Field Institute at Sequoia National Park, and a founding member of the Outdoorist Oath. Sydney has been nominated for Woman of the Year by San Diego Magazine. Hear Sydney and guest host Amanda Wonderland discuss Sydney's new book, Hiking Your Feelings: Blazing a Trail to Self-Love, and so much more! To reach Sydney or purchase her books: https://hikingmyfeelings.org/ And to reach Amanda, you can find her at: https://www.amandawonderland.com/   #highenergyhealth #eft #meditation #blissbrain #mindtomatter #hikingmyfeelings #hikingyourfeelings #selflove

Truffles are food gold, one of the world's most famous ingredients. Musky, lovely, funky, delicious, expensive, and fickle as hell. Why do some of them taste like cardboard? Did you know you can grow very good ones in the U.S., but that it might take over a decade to yield your first “crop”? On this episode, we pay a visit to San Diego Magazine's 2024 “Chef of the Year” Brad Wise. He introduces us to his truffle guy, Vincent Gentile of Seminalia Truffles. Vince worked at Alinea with famed chef Grant Achatz until he and his partner launched their own truffle business. We go into some of the myths and science of growing, sourcing, and coddling one of the world's most rarefied ingredients. We also talk with Brad about his whole-animal butchering classes at Wise Ox, which sell-out a lot faster than expected in a post-pan food world where we're all more interested in doing the entire food experience ourselves.

Justin Townsend (Choctaw) has been a culinarian and raconteur in the wild food world for over a decade. His passion for hunting, fishing, foraging, and the outdoors stems from his upbringing in Southeastern Oklahoma and his cultural heritage as a tribal member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Some of his first memories are bass fishing trips with his grandfather and cooking deer meat at home with his grandmother. Justin loves spending time with his family, teaching them to hunt and fish, rewatching Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown for the umpteenth time, and traveling around North America meeting new people, hunting, fishing, exploring, and tasting new food.  In 2005, Justin started college at the University of New Orleans in New Orleans, LA, where he earned a BA degree in Anthropology and a BA in Geography, focusing on Food and Culture. In 2008, he started his first restaurant job after wandering the streets of New Orleans in search of a cooking job. Luckily for him, he wandered into the restaurant of James Beard award-winning Chef Frank Brigtsen at Brigtsen's, where he laid a strong foundation for his culinary career, taking him from the Gulf Coast to the West Coast and then on to the Florida Keys. Justin's last restaurant job was from 2018-2020 as the Executive Chef of Mellow Cafe & Gastropub in Key West Florida. Mellow Cafe was an upscale coastal inspired gastropub focused on fresh, sustainable ingredients.  In 2011, Justin created the outdoor media company Harvesting Nature. His focus was to create an online community focused on inspiring people to get outdoors to harvest their own food from the wild. Over the years, Harvesting Nature has blossomed into a leading brand in the wild food space, serving thousands of people and providing content through their website, social media, print media, podcasts, in person wild food camps and television.  In addition to content for Harvesting Nature, Justin self published his first cookbook, “Eat Wild Game” in 2017 and has written hundreds of articles and recipes for online and print publications like MeatEater, Outdoor News, Harvesting Nature Magazine, Spearing Magazine, Backcountry Journal, Guidefitter, On The Fly Magazine, San Diego Magazine, Keys Weekly, and many more.  Justin is recognized as an expert in the field of butchering and cooking wild fish and game. He has hosted the Wild Fish and Game Podcast since 2019 creating over 180 episodes. He has appeared as a guest on many podcasts including the Outdoor Minimalist Podcast, The Big Game Hunting Podcast, Western Hunting Hub Podcast, Huntavore Podcast, Noob Spearo Podcast, and many more.  Outdoor conservation and community service rank high on priorities for Justin. He is an active member of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers in multiple states and served on their national advisory board for the Armed Forces Initiative from 2021-2022. BHA's AFI, “focuses on introducing the military community to public lands and waters by providing outdoor adjunct therapy to enhance their mental, spiritual, and emotional well-being while providing them a new mission as conservationists.” Justin is also an active duty member of the United States Coast Guard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's Happy Half Hour extra special guest is a longtime friend of San Diego Magazine, Feeding San Diego. If you tune into our channels, this fantastic organization probably doesn't need much of an introduction. And if you're lucky, you would have caught Troy emceeing their gala last month (in a sequin jacket, of course). But for the uninitiated, Feeding San Diego is easily one of the most impressive non-profits in town. We've covered ‌food insecurity before in the magazine's pages. Through our other partnerships with the organization on social media and online, and in this episode, we continue to shed light on one of our region's most dire problems. In partnership with a network of nearly 350 local community organizations, including local charities, schools, faith communities, healthcare providers, and meal sites, Feeding San Diego collects food and financial donations, moves and distributes food to communities who need it, and advocates to end hunger. Feeding America says nearly 300,000 people in San Diego County, including almost 80,000 children, are hungry. Feeding San Diego is Feeding America's only local partner food bank, established in 2007, and beyond just banking and distributing food, it rescues 1.2 million pounds of high-quality, edible surplus food monthly from local grocery stores alone. It also manages around 875 pickups of food donations a week from local retailers and provides food assistance to kids, families, seniors, college students, military families, veterans, and the unhoused via about 300 food distribution sites around San Diego County. “There are many faces of hunger,” says Katie Garret, Feeding San Diego's Director of Supply Chain, who represented the organization on this episode. “It can be your neighbor, a coworker, a kid your child goes to school with, seniors on fixed incomes living in rural towns, military families, and veterans. Hunger can affect anyone.” Garret, who in a past life was once a zookeeper at a zoo in Greece and is an accomplished horseback rider, has been with the organization for over six years and was a shortlisted nominee of the Food Chain Global Youth Champion Award in 2022. She's responsible for figuring out the logistics of all the aforementioned, which is no small task considering the numbers involved. One of the biggest misconceptions about food rescue and re-distribution, Garret says, is that people assume the food collected is expired or somehow lesser quality. “Our goal is to make food as accessible as possible,” she says. “And not just any food, but edible and nutritious food. Want to make sure that what we're providing is really high-quality and good for people to eat.” She adds that the food they collect is merely surplus, meaning it is still perfectly edible and within sell and use-by dates. A good example she gives is supermarket bread: it's baked fresh every day, but not every loaf will sell, and they are required to throw it out at the end of the day. It's still in perfect, fresh condition, of course. But now it's become surplus. That's where Feeding San Diego comes in, to give just one example of what they do and the types of logistics Garret manages. In addition to solving local hunger issues (one can dream), we also talked about local food news. Donut Bar opened its augmented reality donut experience on Columbia Street near the waterfront (and SDM HQ), Anime's Tara Monsod is a finalist for the James Beard Foundation's Best Chef, California award (the first from San Diego to get this far, ever!), and Shorebird Restaurant, which has outposts in Newport Beach, Palm Desert, and Sedona under the WildThyme Restaurant Group umbrella, will open in Seaport Village some time in 2024.

The Padres again can not continue to mount any sort of momentum as Joe Musgrove struggles again. Brian Dutcher joins the show to talk about the SDSU Aztecs making another Sweet 16 run. Food Network and San Diego Magazine's Try Johnson joins the show.Support the show: http://Kaplanandcrew.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Padres again can not continue to mount any sort of momentum as Joe Musgrove struggles again. Brian Dutcher joins the show to talk about the SDSU Aztecs making another Sweet 16 run. Food Network and San Diego Magazine's Try Johnson joins the show.Support the show: http://Kaplanandcrew.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you received this month's San Diego Magazine, you already know about Warung RieRie. Happy Half Hour host and food critic Troy Johnson dubbed it “the star of the city's thrilling backyard restaurant scene.” Wait. There's a thrilling backyard restaurant scene in San Diego? Indeed, there is, and the individual restaurants are formally dubbed MEHKOs—Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operations. We had Chef Rie Sims and her right hand—husband, sous chef, host, and marketing manager Dave Sims—in to talk about their Sumatran hut that they transported via Bali to their Serra Mesa backyard. In that hut is Warung RieRie, a fine dining restaurant operated out of their home kitchen. “For chefs like Rie, MEHKOs are a way in, or just a different way,” writes Johnson in this month's review. “Few people can afford to open a restaurant, which can run (at the very lowest end) tens of thousands to millions of dollars and lock dreamers into long-term leases. In 2013, California implemented the Homemade Food Act, allowing anyone to make and sell low-risk foods (granola, jam, the like) out of their homes. Hot meals were a no-go, deemed too dangerous.” “But on Jan. 1, 2019, AB 626 allowed cooks in California to run restaurants out of their homes, serving all but the most notorious get-sick foods (like oysters and tartare). The new restaurants were called MEHKOs.” With a year-long waitlist, Warung RieRie is undoubtedly the city's most famous backyard joint. We hear about the couple's movie-worthy love story, their journey from Bali to the US, Rie's former career as one of the most prominent film directors in Indonesia, and that time she cooked traditional Indonesian food for the Indonesian Prime Minister. As for news, we discuss LA-based Brewjeria Company opening in Chula Vista; Padres will re-debut their “Clara” beer at Petco Park; and Vega Caffe will open just next to the park, as well.

Stop us if you've heard the Happy Half Hour cast claim a particular food item was the “best in San Diego” before (to be fair, San Diego Magazine devotes an entire issue to the topic). If we assign superlatives, we tend to stand behind them, so buckle up for the following: We've found the best falafel in San Diego. Hands down, bar none, et cetera. Falafel Heights takes up a small storefront on 30th, near Lincoln, in North Park. This block, formerly decrepit due to many closures (Toronado, Streetcar Merchants, and others), is about to veritably pop off. Falafel Heights opened last fall, high-end dive Happy Medium (by Fernside, SDCM, and former CH barkeeps Christian Siglin and Eric Johnson) opened last week, CH's new Persian spot is currently under construction, and Saigon Coffee is just across the street, as is Second Chance Brewing, and other businesses. Owner and founder Lialie Ibrahim, a staple in San Diego's running community, opened Falafel Heights after years of pop-ups and people goading her into sharing her exceptionally poppable treats. See, falafel comes in many forms. There's Egyptian falafel, which is large–almost bready. Baked Lebanese falafel fits in the palm of your hand. Ibrahim's falafel—quarter-sized balls deep-fried and served street-style as she experienced in Palestine's West Bank, where she has lived—is meant to be popped as finger food. Dipped in sauces, loaded on fries, or served in a wrap or bowl. It's addictive, and when served with one of her many sauces, including a hard-to-find Iraqi mango amma, I promise it will stick in your memory. Ibrahim is originally from the Bay Area, where her Palestinian parents settled after immigrating to the United States. She tried her hand at journalism, doing mostly radio work before moving to San Diego. While here, she got into local running clubs, started making falafel for friends with her family's recipes, and even helped her good friends (part of her running club) start a little old kombucha brand, which would eventually become Boochcraft. “Upon moving to San Diego, I wanted to taste falafel the way I fell in love with it as street food in the West Bank,” Ibrahim says of her desire to jump into the professional frying pan. “I grew up eating falafel made from scratch, which involves soaking the beans overnight, blended with fresh ingredients, and cooked upon request.” She believes that's the only way to serve it, so that's how it is at Falafel Heights. Fresh, hot, delicious, and plentiful. She's even got a mascot, Phil, a walking, talking falafel wrap. In addition to stuffing our faces with chickpeas, we also talked about the news, all of which concerns North Park, and some of which I previewed earlier in this post. Happy Medium finally opened on 30th and Lincoln; Bivouac Adventure Lodge opened last week in a huge yurt-like space next to the original bar room; Trust's Brad Wise will open a French brasserie next year on 30th and University; On March 13, Black Radish will host a five-course menu with wine pairings from Napa's El Molino and Memento Mori; and Jersey Mikes and Belching Beaver have both opened in North Park.

We talk about Oprah's departure from Weight Watchers,, Jaquel Spivey's new Damian in Mean Girls, and a San Diego Magazine essay about photography and body image outside the binary. Then we discuss chasers' struggle with body image and weight-gain.

When your boss tells you to do something, you do it. When your boss is Troy Johnson, food critic and Chief Content Officer of San Diego Magazine, texting you: “I just left Tunaville. He's doing amazing stuff. Get Tommy on the podcast,” well, you get Tommy Gomes on the Happy Half Hour podcast. Gomes, a commercial fisherman by trade and blood, is no stranger to the airwaves and pages of SDM. He's been a guest on the pod a few times before, and we've written about him glowingly because of the work he's doing to improve San Diego's fisheries and the shopping options for the people who eat from them. These days, Gomes runs TunaVille, a seafood shop at Driscoll's Wharf in San Diego Harbor that serves local, only. It opened last May. The fish is caught by residents on city boats, and is delivered 10 feet away to the storefront. “It never sees the back of a truck, our fish,” Gomes says in the episode. Tunaville is a partnership with another fisherman and local seafood icon, Mitch Conniff of Mitch's Seafood, and a handful of other local fishing families who have bought in. Restaurants like Herb & Wood, Solare, and Juan Jasper, for example, are clients, sourcing their treats from the sea from Gomes. Gomes is also tinkering with different fish preparations, some of which we sample on air. He's experimenting with dry aging tuna—traditions popular in Japan and Spain, for example—and he brought in everything from a gorgeous 15-week aged bluefin slab to mojama, a cured tuna muscle not unlike Jamón Ibérico. It can be found mainly on tables in bars in Southern Spain, and not many places else. Except for TunaVille. While he's doing all this, Gomes also has a top-rated show on Outdoor Channel, aptly called The Fishmonger. In it, he travels around the country telling the stories of fishing families and their plights of declining stocks, closed fisheries, tough regulations, and other woes of a struggling American industry. We talk about all of this and other issues with sustainability and greenwashing in this episode. We also get into some news: Troy and I discussed our end-of-2023 articles detailing the best new restaurants in San Diego and dining trends we saw last year, some of which we expect to continue into next year (inflation, omakase-everything, more actually-good Italian restaurants, bakeries); cake donut wizards Sidecar Donuts will be opening a new spot on Kettner Boulevard in Little Italy; and Food Network star Lauren Lawless will be opening Ramen World, a serve-your-own spot somewhere in Mid-City.

“I said to myself, this was the biggest failure of my whole life,” recalls Tiago Carneiro, founder and owner of Nova Kombucha and Novo Brazil Brewing. In this week's episode of Happy Half Hour, he's talking about his business' epic near-crash-and-burn during the pandemic. Which, if you do some quick back-of-the-napkin math, wasn't all that long ago. We learn a lot in this episode. Tiago tells us he's from a restaurant family in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, which is the cattle- and therefore beef-producing region of the country. His dad started in bakeries (giving Tiago his first up-close look at fermentation, a big theme in his adult life) and moved on to restaurants, eventually founding a major Brazilian fast-food burger chain and craft soda brand. Tiago went to college to study engineering, only to feel the pull back to his family roots and switch gears to food science. From there, he launched an award-winning brewery that would go on to become South America's largest and winningest. To know Tiago is to know that best is simply never enough, so he decided to try to bring his business to what he considers to be the best beer city in the world: San Diego. His wife initially wasn't down, but she agreed to visit with a pit stop in Los Cabos. I won't spoil the whole story here, but it involves a very long bus ride up the peninsula to Tijuana, after which the couple finally ended up in San Diego, where Novo Brazil Brewing was born in the Eastlake part of Chula Vista. Enter the pandemic, near-ruin, and a fermentation-experiment-turned-sales miracle, and we have one of San Diego's most successful beer and kombucha stories—which is saying something in a town known worldwide for its fermented drinks. Tiago's story is fascinating and inspiring, and it comes across best when he tells it himself. He brought infectious energy, a deep belief in God, and unmatched ambition to the podcast and SDM's offices. That he also brought Novo's picanha steak (in an actual cast-iron pan) and burger for us to sample didn't hurt, either. We also learned that, once upon a time, Troy graduated from Chico State with a poetry degree and a plan to learn Brazilian Portuguese so he could teach English in Brazil. He never made it down there, but he did make his way through language lessons. It is my new favorite fact about our dear host. Speaking of hosts, I (Jackie Bryant, San Diego Magazine‘s managing editor) am joining Troy and David as a co-host. I'll be handling the news portion of the podcast. This week, that means talking about Il Posto, a fresh Italian joint that will take the place of Eclipse Chocolate on Fern Street in South Park; the replacement of H Street's Tacos El Gordo with a new taqueria; the arrival of Tahona Mercado in National City; and the new indoor-outdoor, multi-experience seating and dining area on the rooftop at downtown's beloved Callie. I'll also be writing these blog posts. Send me some tips, or feel free to just say hi. Cheers to this next era of HHH. We will see you next week! P.S. Just a quick reminder that we will be hosting our Taste of South Bay event at Novo Brazil Brewing's Imperial Beach location, which has stunning views, the best brewery food, and a whole lot of bells and whistles from all kinds of South Bay businesses just for ticket holders. It's on February 25, and you can buy tickets here.

Ain't easy being a vegan. Harder being a vegan in the Midwest in the ‘90s. Your eating options were the steamed broccoli at the steakhouse (hold the butter), some room-temp air, or learning to cook in self-defense. “That's why I learned to cook,” says Roy Elam, chef and owner of Donna Jean in Bankers Hill. He's wearing a death metal t-shirt in our conference room. Actually I could have that wrong. It may be doom core or emo-dream core. So many dooms and cores. Point is, he and David are really getting along on this episode of Happy Half Hour (David plays in a doom or core band you should check out, Weight of the Sun). In the September issue of San Diego Magazine, we tasked our food writer with creating the ultimate guide to plant-based restaurants, or plant-based friendly restaurants, in the city. Donna Jean is on that list. Roy's been vegan for a few decades, having trained under one of the most-respected plant-based chefs in the country—Matthew Kenney and Scott Winegard at Plant Food in Venice, before becoming head chef at SunCafe in Studio City. He got a call from a longtime friend and one of San Diego's most prominent plant-based restaurateurs, Mitch Wallis, who owns Evolution Fast Food and Plant Power. He had a restaurant space available, wanted to create a more modern, sleek, attractive place. Elam signed on, naming the restaurant Donna Jean in tribute to his mom, who he lost to cancer. “When she was diagnosed a second time, the doctor gave her a lot of recommendations for foods that would help,” he says. “I was helping her cook, and realized most of them were plant-based. It made me realize, ‘Why wait until something bad happens? Why not just eat more plants?” spots. “I don't even want to be known for plant-based food,” he says. “I want to be known for just food.” For this episode, Matt comes in and talks music and food and plant-based and family. When you go to Donna Jean, try his pizza. He learned to make the dough by sitting at the counter of Tribute Pizza, asking questions, just watching. He says the cooks there have enormous patience. He's on his 100th iteration of his dough recipe. We eat it in house amid some conversation about POD and how many hardcore bands come from church backgrounds. It's got a garlicky white wine sauce, spinach, cashew ricotta, plant-based mozzarella, spinach, pistachio, and preserved lemon-infused olive oil. It's named “Thunderkiss 65,” a classic White Zombie song. All his pizzas are named after bands parents hate.

Are we connected on Instagram yet? Say hi over here: https://www.instagram.com/melissallarena/ Welcome to episode 199. If you've ever tried to eat more healthy than perhaps your parents or than might be common in cultural dishes, then this is the conversation for you. I would say that this conversation with Dr. Sabrina Falquier is extremely important as many of us are making different choices than our parents when it comes to nutrition and wellness. In my case, my dishes look unlike those of my grandmothers who ate white rice and wouldn't ever think about adding chia seeds to their beans! And this is why this chat is really relevant because she brings such a wonderful perspective being a physician and a mom and someone who was born and raised in Mexico. In this conversation, we spoke about several things, whether it was the choices that doctors have to make as it relates to patient visits and how short of a time they have to share their wisdom on food. As well as some of the reasons why Dr. Sabrina decided to learn more about health and nutrition even after already becoming a full-fledged doctor to how do you retain your cultural roots while going on a new eating and wellness journey that might look nothing like the food you grew up on or will find during this holiday season.   Tune into this one if wellness and health is important to you. and your family. Share this with other moms who want to pass on their culture yet do so with healthier recipe edits in mind.   About Dr. Sabrina   SABRINA FALQUIER, MD, CCMS, DipABLM - To begin, Dr. Falquier (Fall-Key-Ay) loves delicious food. She is a board certified internal medicine, culinary medicine and lifestyle medicine physician. She is bilingual and multicultural, born and raised in Mexico City to Swiss and American parents. This unique multilingual and multicultural perspective has shaped her work tremendously, as she has seen and experienced that our unique backgrounds, culture, taste, cultural experiences and historic expectations shape our health tremendously. Dr. Falquier worked as a primary care doctor for a prestigious multi-specialty group in San Diego, California, for over 15 years, in 2020 founded Sensations Salud, which focuses on awakening the senses around ingredient acquisition and food preparation while empowering people to better health through nutritional knowledge and culinary literacy by way of culinary medicine education and consulting. She is the host of Doctors+ podcast, is the chair of the board of Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center and the chair of the Culinary Medicine Specialist Board. She is also clinical professor at UC San Diego Health Sciences and adjunct professor at Bastyr University. Dr. Falquier promotes culinary medicine throughout San Diego and internationally in a variety of ways and to varied age groups and audiences. Her work can be seen through the powerful documentary: The Kitchenistas. She has been interviewed regarding food and health by media outlets including the Washington Post, The Union Tribune, Edible San Diego, San Diego Magazine, CBS news, and TeleMundo. Additionally, she was recognized yearly, from 2009-2020, as one of San Diego's Top Doctors. For more information, please visit her website, or follow along @SensationsSalud on social media. Resources Podcast: Doctors+   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doctors/id1459044040 Website: https://www.sensationssalud.com/ Documentary: The Kitchenistas Movie: https://thekitchenistasmovie.org/ LinkedIn- personal : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabrinafalquier/ on social media - all platforms are SensationsSalud Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sensationssalud/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sensationssalud LinkedIn - SSalud: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sensationssalud/?viewAsMember=true YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOZe0bOAVqDDWHHbaeh3Irw   Fertile Imagination – www.fertileideas.com This episode is brought to you by Fertile Imagination, a guide for moms on how to use their imagination to achieve their goals. In my book, I share a three-part method for waking up your imagination and stretching it to its full potential. Book launch sale – www.fertilieideas.com Fertile Imagination is coming out on October 31st. For one day only on Amazon, you can grab a Kindle copy for only 99 cents (full price is 6.99). This is a great way to show yourself and your family that you're committed to imagining bigger. Go to fertileideas.com to get on the list and be the first to know when the sale begins. Free five-day challenge – www.fertileideas.com For more information about my book, visit fertileideas.com. You can also participate in a free five-day imagination to impact challenge, where you can co-create a business idea with your child. This is a great way to bond with your child and help them imagine bigger for themselves. Free chapter and quiz – www.fertileideas.com You can also download a free chapter of my book or take a quiz to see if your business is stagnant. The ideas expressed during this chat are: ·       Why did Dr. Sabrina pursue further education in nutrition and wellness after becoming a physician? ·       How did Dr. Sabrina make big changes as a mom, especially when her kids were little? ·       What was it like to be a practicing physician without a lot of time to talk about nutrition with patients? ·       How do we change behaviors instead of taking pills? ·       Does eating healthy have to mean eating boiled broccoli? ·       How do we determine what's important to us and retain our ability to control our food intake? What motivates us personally? ·       Instead of restricting foods, what about adding nutrient-dense foods instead? ·       How can we eat family holiday meals without feeling left out? ·       How do we navigate cultural traditions and healthy foods when they clash? ·       How do we navigate Latino foods and family dynamics? ·       How can we use spices to retain the spirit of cultural dishes while making them healthier? ·       If we've stocked our cupboards with foods we know we want to change, should we eat them or toss them? ·       How can we find ways to move without joining a gym? How can we move in a way that's sustainable? ·       What can we do if we want to change our eating habits but no one else in our home does? ·       What are some clear steps people can take now that they know more about wellness and healthy foods? Three big takeaways are: 1. Find what motivates or inspires you to change your eating and movement habits. What is your long-term goal? 2. You can still respect your cultural food traditions, but it is helpful to eat healthier most of the time (80%) if that is important to you for your health and well-being. 3. Remember that you don't live alone. You may want to pack your own cupboards with healthy foods, but other people in your household may have different taste buds and nutritional needs. Find a way to live together with respect for everyone's choices. Conclusion I am so grateful that you're listening to this conversation between two Latinas and it's actually, you know, Latinx Heritage Month in the U. S. And I think it means something when you hear two people sharing their expertise using a mic.   There's something to be said about. Participating in this conversation as a listener and someone who's going to take action on the wisdom that we bring to the table. So I want to honor you for actually supporting Latinx Heritage Month, even though you might not have even realized it by listening to this conversation.   And if you enjoyed this conversation, share it with one to two mom friends, one to two mom friends. Go ahead and share it in a WhatsApp group from classroom of moms or share it on Facebook amongst your mom's friends in a Facebook group to moms. That would help me out so much. Thank you again. And again, the book comes out October 31st, check it out, fertile ideas.com. You'll get a free chapter. If you go to the website, you could take the quiz. If that's where you are in your business, or you can actually go on the challenge, the five-day co-ideation challenge, a business idea with your child challenge. It's for someone that is entrepreneurial and wants to bring their kids along for the journey.

Welcome to The What's Next Podcast! In this episode, we have a true real estate expert, Michael Cameron, with over 18 years of experience as a licensed broker in both California and Arizona. Michael's firm, Cameron Real Estate Services has been voted "Top Agent for Service" by San Diego Magazine readers for 12 consecutive years.Michael's expertise has earned him frequent appearances on FOX5's "Lifestyles San Diego" and "American Dream," where he shares insights on the San Diego market and economy.Join us in this engaging conversation with Michael Cameron as he delves into the intricacies of the real estate market, shares his top-notch advice, and provides a glimpse into the world of real estate in San Diego and Scottsdale. Don't miss out on this enlightening episode of The What's Next Podcast!

His kitchen is under or near a tree. Lots of them. He's got goggles on because of the smoke. The first time you see Drew Deckman weidling his giant tongs over live fire at Deckman's en El Mogor, it feels like you're in some sort of movie. His bed and car and clothes and family must also smell like smoke. “The minute I first drove into Valle de Guadalupe, I knew I was home, I felt like I'd been there my whole life,” he says of Baja, Mexico's wine region, which started humble and has now grown into an international destination 90-minutes south of the US-Mexico border. Years after starting his life there, he'd give up his U.S. citizenship to become a Mexican national. It is home. Drew is one of the chefs cooking at the Del Mar Wine + Food Festival. He'll be at the Grand Tasting (Sept. 10 & 11). He'll also be cooking with fellow Mexican star Benito Molina (who owns iconic restaurant Manzanilla with his chef wife, Solange Muris), Lodge at Torrey Pines exec chef Kelli Crosson, and Food Network friend (Guy's Grocery Games, Iron Chef), Beau MacMillan. Actors Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston are also hosting the dinner with their mezcal brand, Dos Hombres. Drew is one of the funniest, most articulate, humblest and give-a-damn people I've ever met. Let alone chefs. After you hear him talk for any amount of time, his college degree in philosophy from Rhodes College makes so much sense. He applies that multi-layered thinking to food, agriculture, ecology, hospitality, and wine. He was only supposed to go to Europe for a summer and ended up staying for 10 years, cooking under Paul Bocuse, Jacques Maximin, and other icons. He was chef at Restaurant Vitus in Germany when it earned its first Michelin star. After becoming executive chef for the Four Seasons in Berlin, the hotel group transferred him to Cancun. He comes into the San Diego Magazine offices. He opens his wine that he's made—a cloudy low-intervention white he specifically made to go well with oysters (he's a chef-partner in Baja Shellfish Farms), a deep, hearty red. He then rips into tales of a boy from the south who wanted to be a major league umpire but found his way into the kitchen and fell in love with people and the culture of Baja.

Food critic Troy Johnson details his start in the entertainment industry from an indie-rock TV show to a San Diego Padres pre-game show. Troy reveals how he set out to conquer his fear of public speaking in college and came out of the other side with a degree in poetry. The San Diego native talks about living in the city he grew up in and how that motivates him as the San Diego Magazine chief content officer. He reflects on the pandemic's impact on mom-and-pop restaurants and the efforts he made to support them, including hosting Instagram live interviews with the owners. Troy shares that it was in part to these conversations that he and his wife, Claire, decided to purchase the San Diego Magazine. Having covered food in San Diego for 15 years, he provides some secrets to the city's delicious cuisine. The published writer reveals what it was like unpacking his childhood in his book, Family Outing, and how it was received. He recalls early memories of reading the dictionary front to back and using writing as a therapeutic tool. Troy dishes that he didn't always want to be a food critic and even spent two years learning the ins and outs of cooking to perfect his reviews. He compares his reviews to his critiques as a judge on Guy's Grocery Games, shouting out his favorite challenge on the show. He highlights his upcoming event, Del Mar Wine + Food Festival, that he hopes will lift up the local restaurants in San Diego.Follow Food Network on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foodnetworkFollow Jaymee Sire on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaymeesireFollow Troy Johnson on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heytroyjohnsonFollow Troy Johnson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_troyjohnsonLearn More About Guy's Grocery Games: https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/guys-grocery-gamesLearn More About Beachside Brawl: https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/beachside-brawl

This week I am excited to have an additional Artist Spotlight to share! San Diego Artist Sarah Stieber shares her journey with art and how she found herself designing interiors as an extension of her art. We talk about her process, the types of work she loves to create, and what it's like to be a full time artist who never got a “practical” job. The way Sarah is able to let her art move seamlessly beyond the canvas and into physical spaces is fun and inspiring for artists of all types! And if you're in the San Diego area, I encourage you to check out one of her latest projects, a mural for an F & F Properties apartment complex in Hillcrest. You'll also have the chance to see a living room Sarah designed based off of the mural! The Mural Reveal Party is on Wednesday, July 19 from 5 to 7 PM at 1247 Robinson Ave in San Diego.About SarahApplauded as “San Diego's Best Local Contemporary Artist” by Modern Luxury magazine, Sarah Stieber's vibrant figurative paintings have made a splash far beyond her SoCal roots.Stieber Spaces, the design arm of Sarah's business, has garnered explosive press and is featured in California Interiors Magazine, Modern Luxury Magazine, Apartment Therapy, and San Diego Magazine.Stieber has created artwork for global brands Samsung, Marriott, and AT&T. Her paintings have been exhibited worldwide, and were recently featured on billboards in Times Square new York, Picadilly circus in London, and on the Duomo in Milan.Stieber was named “One of 15 Female Artists you Need to Know from Miami Art Week” by CBS and “One of 50 badass painters you need to follow on Instagram” by Buzzfeed.Featured in this episodeFeatured deck: Radiant Crystal CardsConnect with SarahLinks:WebsiteInstagramAre you an interior designer or are you interested in Holistic Interior Design? Check out my membership program, the Design Coven! This program is a real-world industry mentorship for Holistic Interior Designers that has everything you won't find in traditional design school curriculum. You'll learn from practicing interior designers working on real life projects, and get access to cutting edge vendors, suppliers, furniture makers, textile designers, and design resources that I've curated over my 17 years of design experience. As a member, you'll have the opportunity to build valuable relationships of your own. Learn more.Connect with Rachel LarraineWebsiteInstagramPatreonInterior Design ServicesInterior Design ResourcesHouzz (Affiliate Link)

Hey Festival Friends! What do you get when you combine great food, the best California wine, top chefs and top Food Network personalities with great weather? You get the Del Mar Wine & Food Festival. On this episode, our guest is Food Network personality and the co-founder of the Del Mar Wine & Food Festival, Troy Johnson.  A lifelong San Diego resident, Troy takes us through his career as a music and food writer and TV personality to launching this incredible festival in the city he loves.  For a decade now (yes, a decade) Troy has been a featured judge on Guy's Grocery Games on the Food Network and takes us behind the scenes to the hilarious story of the first time he met Guy Fieri himself.  Troy also shares his story of taking over San Diego Magazine with his wife and doing his part to use that platform to lift up restaurants during and after the pandemic. The inaugural Del Mar Wine & Food Festival will feature the best chefs of San Diego and the Baja Peninsula and will feature key events like a Dos Hombres Mezcal pairing dinner with Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston. We also hear there will be a dry aged bone marrow tasting, which we've never seen on the food festival circuit before. There will also be appearances by other celebrities including Surfing Champion Rob Machado and a celebrity PickleBall Tournament hosted by Drew Brees!  Mark your calendars for September 6-11 and be there in San Diego for all the action!    To find out more about the Del Mar Wine & Food Festival and Troy: Del Mar Wine & Food Festival website:  https://delmar.wine/  Follow the festival on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delmarfest/   Follow Troy on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/heytroyjohnson/  Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_troyjohnson    Connect with Festival Pass! Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/getfestivalpass/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/getfestivalpass/  Twitter - https://twitter.com/getfestivalpass Website - https://festivalpass.com

In this Fight Back Library release, Dr. Ted Mazer joins us to discuss how you can fit your medical expenses into your budget. We discuss the importance of shopping for medical procedures, ways to avoid surprise billing, understanding how in and out-of-network physicians and procedures affect your final bill, how to negotiate hospital bills, and more. Dr. Mazer is a former President of the California Medical Association. In 2015, San Diego County Medical Society named him one of the county's “Top Doctors” in their annual “Physicians of Exceptional Excellence” survey published by San Diego Magazine. Please see the companion episode, “Negotiating Medical Bills,” one of our most popular.

This week we delve into the world of intentional event planning + community building with Alexandria Ott, the CEO of Chrome City Creative Studio, creator of The Blank Table pop-up dinners, founder of San Diego's Drag Queen Story Hour and the cohost of San Diego Magazine's Not a Parenting Podcast.  Alex has truly mastered the art of using events as a catalyst for building and strengthening communities and in this conversation she shares valuable insights and strategies for creating impactful, inclusive events that foster a sense of belonging and connection.  So whether you're an aspiring event planner, a community leader, or simply someone passionate about creating meaningful connections, tune in and learn how to plan events with intention, unlock the transformative power of community building, and make a lasting impact on those you serve. Episode links: Chrome City Creative: Website | Instagram Not a Parenting Podcast San Diego Drag Queen Story Hour Botanica Feeding San Diego You Belong Here The Wellness in San Diego podcast is produced by Locally Well San Diego, your destination for all things health + wellness here in San Diego. Learn more at locallywell.com and follow us @locallywell. 

As the chief diversity and inclusion officer at Rady Children's Hospital, Nancy Moldonado provides vision, leadership, and direction within the executive and hospital operations teams. She is also focused on initiatives to support diversity, equity, and inclusion across the health system.   Nancy is also a single parent who has been recognized as one of the city's most inspirational women in San Diego Magazine, Businesswoman of the Year in the San Diego Business Journal, and has garnered various other awards and accolades.   On this episode of Not a Parenting Podcast, we spoke with Nancy about single parenting, being a first generation college graduate, and running multiple businesses. Read her Q&A below and listen to her episode now.   What makes San Diego such a special place to raise kids for you?   I love raising my son in San Diego for many reasons, one of which is our proximity to Mexico. We are fortunate to live in a binational, multicultural, transborder community with a long history of activism and community engagement.   Because it's so important to me that my son is exposed to different cultures, languages, identities, and experiences, I appreciate the Mexican influence and how it shapes San Diego's identity. My son and I also love outdoor activities, such as hiking, biking, and rock climbing, and you can't beat the beautiful San Diego weather and our access to nature.   What are the greatest joys and challenges of balancing family and a career?   I am blessed to be able to work in a career I love and raise my son, Dominic, whom I adore. So often, we hear that we need to compromise or sacrifice and that it must be one or the other. My challenge when it comes to balancing motherhood and my career is to accommodate versus compromise.   When the opportunity presents itself, I think about how I can create new, innovative ideas where I don't have to sacrifice anything. One of those strategies is to involve Dominic in my work. I enjoy involving him in my career. From a very young age, he has been by my side as I attended community events, gave speeches in rooms full of people, or led team functions. I find joy in sharing my career with him and helping him understand the why behind my chosen path.   What part of your job makes you feel the most fulfilled or alive?   I feel so fortunate to be the inaugural chief diversity and inclusion officer for Rady Children's Hospital because of how vital the organization is to our entire region and beyond. Rady's does fantastic work and serves so many children and families. I am motivated by the fact that we are genuinely dedicated to ensuring that every patient receives the highest quality, equitable care. One of the aspects I love most about my job is that I work on the campus and have the opportunity to talk to and interact with our incredible team and patients.   Hearing directly from patients and families brings home the work we all do every single day and the fact that no matter what anyone's role is at Rady, it has a tremendous impact. Knowing that I play a part in that is very fulfilling.   Anything else you would love for our audience to know about you?   I find it helpful to remind myself that I do not have to “do it all” to consider myself successful. While every day I have every intention of being great, some days, all I can be is okay.  

Janet Gilbert is a school counselor, mom, and a local of San Diego for over 20 years. After earning her Bachelor's degree at UCSD, followed by her Master's in Counseling, she has focused on creating a sense of calm for children and adults alike.As Editor-in-Chief of Relaxed San Diego Janet is pairing her counseling experience and love of San Diego culture to help others find those little relaxing moments both around town and in their homes.www.RelaxedSanDiego.com @RelaxedSanDiegoWhere Are My Feelings activityCoping Skills for Kids- coping skills for kids- coping skills for toddlers- how to teach coping skills to toddlers- how to teach coping skills to kids- creating a tool box for coping skills- how to create a toolbox for kid for coping skills- coping skills toolbox- coping skills activities- what activities to do with kids for coping skills- what activities to do with toddlers for coping skills- teaching coping skills to toddlers- coping strategies- coping strategies dor kids- coping strategies for toddlers- managing emotions for kids- managing emotions for toddlers- teaching how to manage emotions for kids- teaching how to manage emotions for toddlers- supporting kids with coping skills- supporting toddlers with coping skillswww.mamawearsathleisure.comIG: @mamawearsathleisureYouTube: @mamawearsathleisuremamawearsathleisure@gmail.comInterested in being a guest? Shoot us an email!- best parenting podcast- best new mom podcast- best podcasts for new moms- best pregnancy podcast- best podcast for expecting moms- best podcast for moms- best podcast for postpartum- best prenatal podcast- best postnatal podcast- best podcast for postnatal moms- best podcast for pregnancy moms

Join Kat and Sarah Stieber on this uplifting and energizing episode where the artist talks about her new venture of transforming spaces with her art. Sarah shares her approach to building a sustainable and unique art business beyond the traditional gallery system, discusses how she creates events and gives us a preview of her brand-new project Stieber Spaces.  www.sarahstieber.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/sarahstieber Applauded as “San Diego's Best Local Contemporary Artist” by Modern Luxury magazine, Sarah Stieber's vibrant figurative paintings have made a splash far beyond her SoCal roots.    Stieber Spaces, the design arm of Sarah's business, has garnered explosive press and is featured in California Interiors Magazine, Modern Luxury Magazine, Apartment Therapy, and San Diego Magazine.   Stieber has created artwork for global brands Samsung, Marriott, and AT&T. Her paintings have been exhibited worldwide, and were recently featured on billboards in Times Square new York, Picadilly circus in London, and on the Duomo in Milan.    Stieber was named “One of 15 Female Artists you Need to Know from Miami Art Week” by CBS and “One of 50 badass painters you need to follow on Instagram” by Buzzfeed.

Tommy Gomes is a fourth-generation San Diegan, retired commercial fisherman, business owner, and star of The Fish Monger, the #1 show on the Outdoor Channel. Dr. Sciarretta and Tommy talk about fishing, climate change, reflections on growing up today compared to 50 years ago, life lessons, education, and much more.Read more about Tommy and The Fish Monder in this San Diego Magazine article: https://bit.ly/41h3r8zWatch The Fish Monger: https://www.outdoorchannel.com/show/fishmonger/388571 Special thanks to this episode's sponsor, McGriff Insurance Services, and Senior Vice President Mike Lutosky. For over a century, McGriff has focused on building long-term relationships to deliver innovative insurance solutions. From personal to businesses of all sizes, reach out to Mike for all of your insurance needs. Mike can be contacted on his cell at: (619) 925-1731All sponsorship proceeds benefit the Eric C. Mitchell scholarship fund at Albert Einstein Academies, which benefits graduates who exemplify the outstanding human qualities that define Mr. Mitchell's legacy.

This Week the gang welcomes fellow San Diegin the founder of Chrome City Creative/HustleCraft and co-creator of the The Blank Table Series. She is also the co-host of San Diego Magazine podcast "Not A Parenting Podcast". She has a passion for storytelling and bringing creative people together. She is also a member and advocate for LGBTQ+ community, Alexandria Ott. We chat With Alexandria about balances motherhood and career, he passion for cultivating an experience for strangers with her Black Table Series. Alexandria weighs in on drag queen story hour, which she has organized here in San Diego. Alexandria also talks about raising children in a vastly changing environment since the pandemic. She also opens up about her battle with postpartum depression. We chat about podcasting we do a round of getting to know you with Alexandria that is very revealing. We finish it all off With Stoner TV

In this episode, you'll hear from my lovely guest, Amy Mewborn! Amy has spent 15 years in finance, being in a male dominated industry and working with widows, she shares why that inspired her to do the work she does now. Together we discuss the importance of prioritizing your standards and boundaries in order to have a wealthy lifestyle early in life. You'll learn why organization and systems are crucial for your success and exactly how to implement without feeling overwhelmed. Amy Mewborn is a serial entrepreneur, CEO, author, and operations and strategy expert. She teaches women business owners how to use technology and systems to leverage their business growth and maximize profits through marketing, sales, and automation. She has spoken with Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce, Healthy Living Expo, Health and Wellness Expo, and Blastoff Business Breakthrough, Mind Body Bold, the TEDx stage and more! She has shared the stage with people like Jillian Michaels, Magic Johnson, been a featured teacher and continuing education provider with the American Council on Exercise. Amy has been featured on CBS, KUSI, Fox, Ivillage, San Diego Magazine, Ranch and Coast, and as a contributing editor to a number of publications. She is a sought after speaker on business topics surrounding increasing profitability through technology, systems, and automation. Her passion is helping women business owners achieve financial independence, and every speech or educational program that she produces is designed to teach women how to increase their businesses through marketing systems and automation Connect with Amy by following her on Instagram @amymewborn or visiting her website HERE! My podcast is officially top 2.5% globally ranked out of 3 million podcasts on iTunes! I'm looking for guests for 2023! Are you a 7-figure entrepreneur who wants to be featured? We're filling 2023 now. Email info@cynthiastant.com to pitch! Stay tuned for new episodes every Monday and Thursday! Connect with me on Instagram & Facebook Check out my website here!

During the pandemic, actor Matthew Arkin got a call from his dad, Alan Arkin. “My dad says, ‘Hey, you know you can make aquavit at home?'” Matthew explains, sipping a damn delicious aquavit tonic in the SDM conference room. Matthew's response was, essentially, “Uh, thanks, dad.” In Scandinavia, aquavit (the word means water of life) is everything. There are over 200 songs dedicated to it. In the U.S., it's mostly known as the stuff they drink in Scandinavia—a bracing blast of northern booze that helps wash down the pickled herring. A couple weeks went by and Matthew's dad called again. He says the thing about the aquavit again. Whether genuinely inspired or just to get his dad to shut up about it, Matthew decided to give it a go. He made a batch—a warmer, smoother version you could sip like bourbon. He stuck it in the freezer and figured he'd forget about it forever. A year later, friends intervened. Visiting one day, Marc Marosi (a stand-in for George Clooney, a dapper fellow) tasted it. Loved it. Told Matthew he could sell it. “I don't drink, but I want more of this,” Marc said at the time. So they called their old friend Bruce Glassman, a San Diego-based food and drinks writer (and former SDM beer columnist) to help perfect the recipe. After finding the perfect mix on the 22nd try, the new American aquavit—Batch 22—was born. The title is also an ode to the man whose random call started the idea, since Alan Arkin famously starred in the 1970s film, Catch 22. Was it really any good? To find out, the three friends—all now in their 60s—set out on a cross-country road trip. With a hundred mason jars full of their small-batch aquavit, they'd drive city to city and let the bartenders of America tell them if they were nuts or not. And every time, the bartenders were floored. They were also thankful it wasn't yet another tequila, another small-batch bourbon. In an evolved cocktail industry constantly looking for something new—this smooth, small-batch aquavit stands out. In just under six months, Batch 22 won several awards from across the country. It is shockingly delicious, not the aquavit most Americans know. The golden-hued spirit tastes of caraway and rye and dill and citrus. As if you liquefied a quality rye bread and put it in a bottle. According to the EU, the dominant flavor of aquavit must come from caraway and must have a minimum 37.5% ABV. Batch 22's three most prominent notes are citrus, caraway, and dill. Unlike traditional aquavit, Batch 22 is smooth, sippable, and exceptionally mixable. The three friends come into the San Diego Magazine offices for one of the more hilarious (and, at times, bawdy) episodes of HHH we've had in a long while. We assemble around the conference room, Bruce acts as bartender. We drink, we laugh. In news, Pacific Beach is getting its own al fresco food hall brought to you by food collective Mission + Garnet for a six-concept eatery from local restaurateur, Scott Slater. Perfecte Rocher has settled in as the new director of culinary operations for Consortium Holdings' most recent project: the Lafayette Hotel in North Park and the venerated golden-age hipster beacon of San Diego history. WashMobile, the family-owned spot for tortas (Mexican sandwiches), is setting up shop at NOVO Brazil Brewing Co. once a week—their first pop-up in San Diego. Soichi Sushi is opening next door in the former De Nada Kitchen on Adams Ave. Sonoran-inspired BBQ spot, Papalito, plans to open in South Park, adding to their map with hubs in North Park and East Village. Lastly, Amplified East Village has been aquired by long time PR head, Aubree Miller. It is being revamped as modbom. They will be switching to more cocktail focused and Drew Bent will be leasing the kitchen. If you wanna meet Glassman and Arkin and Marosi and try their creation—on April 1 they're launching a new cocktail with Understory at the Sky Deck.

Listen, I know it can seem like some of us at San Diego Magazine basically eat tacos and taste beer for a living. But it's in pursuit of the story. Whatever it takes to get to the grist of it all. For you. You deserve this. And if that raises our BAC a tad, we're there for you. For Stone Brewing's Laura Ulrich, on the other hand, sampling IPAs is a major part of a hard day's work. Officially one of Stone's “small batch brewers,” it's Laura's job to research and develop new suds, tweaking recipes—and naming brews after her favorite songs—using Stone's seven-barrel system in Escondido. She devised two new versions of our beloved Delicious IPA: Delicious Citrus and Delicious Double, both as perfect with a Wagyu patty as their forerunner. Laura's now one of the key creatives in the Stone brewing operation. But it didn't happen overnight. She started out 19 years ago on the packaging line. She was a brewer, then a brewery trainer, before landing her spot among the small-batch masterminds. “I've seen the whole house,” she says. Laura's also a founding member of Pink Boots Society, a nonprofit that highlights women's contributions to craft beer, as well as wine, spirits, and other brews. The org offers scholarships to help close the industry's education gap and holds brew days for women to come together and invent new blends. Laura also heads Women of Stone, inspiring, supporting, and promoting the company's women employees and brainstorming ways to draw more women to Stone. The mission, she says, is to make sure that women know, “in craft beer, there's a place for you.” Troy and David sat down with Laura in the heart of Stone's Balboa Park bistro to eat burgers, drink Delicious IPA, and learn about Laura's envy-inducing job and her work to shatter her industry's glass ceiling. Her tip for aspiring beer makers: Make sure you've got a professional email. Laura reveals that Stone nearly passed on her application after taking a peek at her Yahoo handle. (For what it's worth, Laura, I would immediately buy IPAs from anyone contacting me from “hippiestink@something.com”) In news, New York institution Prince Street Pizza touches down in downtown San Diego; local chefs settle old beef with hot lamb (there will probably be lamb) on new Food Network series Superchef Grudge Match; formerly of La Dona in O.B., the hard-working chef Gaby Lopez helms a new namesake restaurant, Casa Gabriela in La Mesa; and Heritage Barbeque launches 10,000 square feet of beer and Texas brisket in Oceanside. This week's “Two People, Fifty Bucks” will make you crave Italian: Laura's filling up on bread and burrata at Tribute Pizza; David's ordering ahead at Little Italy's Mona Lisa; and Troy embraces balance this wellness month by pairing bike rides with lardo pizza at Cardellino. See ya next week.

Oh man. Dear god. Thanks, you all. This year, you downloaded episodes of our podcast 276,977 times. As a San Diego media company just trying to create things of value where you'll learn something, think about something in a different way—that's a huge number. I'm sure Joe Rogan sneezes that number, but for us it's pretty great. A lot of sneezes. When we launched “Happy Half Hour” in 2016, we had zero or near-zero idea what we were doing. Flailing at mics. Loghorrea-ing our way into the digital void. All we knew was that to stay relevant in media, you have to embrace new forms of storytelling. So much tire kicking. David Martin was (and is) in a band (Weight of the Sun who you should listen to). He knew how to record stuff. Our friend, Arsalun Tafazoli (who owns CH Projects, which is restaurant Jesus now in San Diego, but at that point was more of a midsize pack of creative lunatics), agreed to be our first guest. Former editor in chief Erin Chambers-Smith and I sat and talked with him—randomly about food and drink and hospitality and ideas for two hours. We didn't know anything about “mic proximity,” so the recording sounded like we'd be talking from very far away in another room… and then very loudly in your ear, like those close-talker people… and then like we were underwater… back yelling in your ear…. Afterward, exhausted but pumped that we had taken this leap of technological faith, David announced, “Yeah no way we can air that.” That recording exists on a hard drive somewhere, partially or fully inaudible but earnest and hopeful. So we tried again, staying close to the mic this time. We kept it under an hour. We developed a few “segment ideas.” And we invited guest after guest from the San Diego food scene. We even won a big national award for it. When we were nominated, we laughed because we were up against Harvard, Red Bull, Inc. Magazine, a few other massive media entities. And whoa, they said we won. Still not sure if that was real. They sent us an award or an email or something. Kinda blacked out. Anyway, for this final podcast of the year, we look back on the year that was. I lay out a hit list of the “10 Best Things I Ate This Year,” like the corn pinion soup at Wolf in the Woods, dirty hash browns at Born & Raised, and the ube pancakes at The Holding Company. David gives his “Top Five Soups”—including one at Wormwood, one at Shank & Bone, and a few other gems. If you've listened to this podcast, you know that soup is David's love language. And he's a former culinary instructor at the New England Culinary Institute, so he really knows his mirepoix. Finally, we go through some of the biggest news of the year (go, Convoy) and the trends that marked San Diego's food and drink scene (birria everywhere). Then we talk to the creator of what has become one of the official drinks of San Diego Magazine's offices—Javi's Ranch Water, 100-percent pure agave tequila, soda water, then natural flavorings. And whaddya know, owner/creator Josh Irving turns out to be a really likable, soulful fella. He named the drink after his dog (Javi, who's the mascot on the can). Josh was a great golfer in high school, dreamed of going pro. Lucky for us, he didn't succeed at that. Became a caddy. Befriended a guy who ran a liquor company, offered him a job. He fell in love with tequila and the people and culture of Mexico, and created his own tequila company using real, 100% agave tequila. And then he gifted us the canned delight that is Javi's, which is now either enhancing or decimating the production of the SDM team. Thanks again so damn much for your support, everyone. Much more to come. Enjoy the holidays.

In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Sciarretta interviews three committed middle school educators (Veronica LaRoche, Cindy Alvarez, Moray Black) who have identified a need in their school and addressing it through a system of mentoring that's based in relationships and positive examples of how to make changes in student's lives.Show Notes:The following organizations were mentioned during this episode:1. Albert Einstein Academies (AEA) - http://aeacs.org/2. King Chavez - https://kingchavez.org/Mr. Mo's article in San Diego Magazine:https://bit.ly/3FykB8A

They don't have a trash can in their kitchen. A fully operational, busy restaurant kitchen without a trash can. OK, that's hyperbole. They do have a small one that is rarely ever used. The Plot in Oceanside keeps 99% of what they do out of the landfill. That is not normal. December is our “Environment Issue” of San Diego Magazine. As I wrote in my note at the beginning of the issue, it's not about being perfect and it's not an evangelical radical screed against any and all industry. The issue is dedicated to people in San Diego doing small and massive things to try to minimize our negative impact on the environment. That's why for the restaurant review I headed up to the fully plant-based restaurant run by Davin and Jessica Waite. The husband-and-wife duo own not just The Plot but also Wrench & Rodent (sushi), White Noodle (ramen), and Shootz Fish & Beer. They join us on the podcast to talk through how, specifically, they're trying to not only minimize waste in restaurants, but go beyond that and pave a path for a regenerative restaurant scene. They don't claim to be perfect, either. But orange rinds are never thrown out, but turned into salsas and other foods. Leftover sushi rice is sent to a local refinery and turned into a flavored vinegar. A lot of the techniques they're using are not forward thinking; they're intentionally backwards. “Turns out the best way for the future is in the past,” says Davin. This is how restaurants used to work—way back in the beginning of their time. Food was grown in the back, cooked in the front. “There was a time when things were actually advertised as ‘disposable,' and that was seen as a positive thing, a selling point,” says Jessica. What you need to do fairly soon is go eat their potato salad and their carrot tacos. For news, we discuss the biggie: San Diego's Addison at Fairmont Grand Del Mar earned three-star Michelin status. There are only 14 three-star Michelin restaurants in the country. Seven in California. There are none in L.A. We talk about what effect this will have on the overall food scene. Also, in bittersweet news—during the pandemic Bankers Hill Bar + Restaurant had to shut down, but the good news is that fairly excellent local restaurant Common Stock is taking over the space and will open a new concept early next year. And the Top of the Hyatt has turned their 40th floor perch into a pretty nutso holiday extravaganza (they even got an electric train and bunk beds) you gotta see. For “Two People, Fifty Bucks,” Jessica (who's been plant-based almost her entire life) says the “Super Vegan” at Pokez in Downtown is her go-to; Davin raves about upstart tiny pizza and wine joint in Oceanside called Allmine; David points to the oysters and cocktails at Botanica in North Park; and Troy drove to Bonita this weekend because a friend of his raved about the chicken in a strip mall, and I can confirm El Pollo Grill is some truly great chicken. That's it for this week. Thanks so damn much for listening, y'all.

“My job is focusing on the vision, where we're going, and what our financial goals are. It's a lot easier to do that when you have good books.” This week, Parker chats with Anna Runyan about her financial journey. Anna is the creator of CLASS: The Love Your Work and Life System and CEO of Classy Career Girl International. She's a former corporate consultant turned entrepreneur and her website was picked as one of Forbes Top 100 Websites For Women and one of Forbes 35 Most Influential Career Sites. She's been featured on Fox, The Wall Street Journal, and People StyleWatch magazine. Anna was nominated as San Diego Magazine's Woman of the Year and her podcast was named as Yahoo's 10 Best Podcasts. Anna helps millions of women design and launch their dream careers, businesses, and lives through her website, online courses and social media channels. The Bottom Line by Evolved Finance explores the financial journeys of some of the most successful online educators, thought leaders, influencers, and service providers in the online space. Each week, Parker sits down with a current Evolved Finance client to talk about their relationship with money and how their mindset has changed as their business has grown. To learn more about Evolved Finance: Follow us on iTunes and leave a review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evolved-finance/id1227529139 Download our free audio course: www.evolvedfinance.com/audiocourse Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evolvedfinance/ To learn more about Anna and her business: Visit her website: https://www.classycareergirl.com/ Follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/classycareergirl/ Download her FREE 90-Day Planner: https://www.classycareergirl.com/freeplan

Amending revocable trusts is such a common occurrence for estate planners that the procedure for doing so may be given little thought. Most trust instruments include provisions establishing the procedures for amendment, but what if those procedures are not followed? Should the amendment be held invalid?Two appellate court decisions, King v Lynch and Haggerty v. Thornton take up the question. The courts interpret Probate Code Sections 15402 and 15401(a)(2) differently, and as a result reach inconsistent conclusions. At issue is under what circumstances the so called “statutory method” of revocation of 15401(a)(2) may apply to trust amendments.Guest Jennifer Campbell is Senior Counsel, Trusts and Estates at Loeb & Loeb, and has recently authored an article for the Trusts and Estates Quarterly (Volume 28, Issue 2, Spring 2022) entitled “Courts Do Not Agree on the History and Meaning of California Probate Code Section 15402”. For over 30 years, Ms. Campbell has concentrated her practice in the trusts and estates area, focusing on the administration of trusts and estates and estate planning.  Ms. Campbell routinely advises and assists individuals and corporate fiduciaries with a myriad of matters including constructing estate plans, fiduciary legal risk management, trust funding, trust distributions, preparing estate and gift tax returns, and negotiating and drafting settlement agreements.  Guest Howard Kipnis is of Counsel at the firm of Artiano Shinoff  and has over 38 years of experience representing corporate fiduciaries, financial institutions, broker-dealers and brokerage companies, as well as small businesses and individuals, in dispute resolution and litigation arising from banking, brokerage and probate and trust services. For 22 years Mr. Kipnis has received Martindale-Hubbell's highest peer-reviewed rating for professional excellence (“A-V Preeminent”). and professional achievement (“Distinguished”). In the last four years he has also been honored as one of San Diego Magazine's “Top Lawyers” in both Banking and Probate and Trust Litigation, and selected by “San Diego Super Lawyers” in those fields as well. Mr. Kipnis now serves on the Trust and Estates Executive Committee of the California Lawyers Association (TEXCOM), where he currently chairs or vice chairs several of TEXCOM's Subcommittees, including Litigation and Educating Seniors. Jennifer and Howard are presenters on a California Lawyers Association webinar entitled “Will King Still be King After Haggerty: Is the Procedure for Revocation of a Trust Available for Modification?” https://calawyers.org/event/webinar-will-king-still-be-king-after-haggerty-is-the-procedure-for-revocation-of-a-trust-available-for-modification/ Herb Stroh is of Counsel at McCormick Barstow LLP, based in the San Luis Obispo office. Herb is a past Chair of the Trusts and Estates Section of the California Lawyers Association (TEXCOM), and serves as TEXCOM's representative on the CLA Board.Trust Me is produced by Foley Marra StudiosThank you for listening to Trust Me!

The story of Skrewball deserves its own biopic, if not a 30-part Netflix series. On the surface, you see a good-time peanut butter whiskey from San Diego—one that defied all naysayers and became one of the top-selling spirits in the country. And then you talk to co-owner Steve Yeng and every twist of his life story makes your eyes bulge and your heart alternately sink and soar. His family fled the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, living in Thai refugee camps. In the San Diego Magazine offices for this podcast, he pulls out a few photos from those days. In one, the family is standing in a foot of muddy water (the town routinely flooded). In another, children eat lunch near a fence made of sharp, deadly spears (it's the cafeteria of the makeshift school). “My father saw his own father shot in the camps,” says Steve, whose grandparents were both killed. The Yeng family—mom, dad, three boys—stayed in the camps for six years. As Steve explains it, Russia's Red Army would routinely bomb the camps, forcing everyone into below-ground shelters. In those cramped, poorly ventilated quarters, Steve contracted polio from one of the other children (the disease is not eradicated in parts of the world without access to healthcare). For the next five years, he would have to undergo multiple surgeries to correct his imbalanced bone growth. Until age seven, he managed to move around using two flip-flops on his feet, and another two on his hands. Eventually, his family managed to make it to the U.S.—specifically, to Ocean Beach—living in a garage without running water. His dad found a job at O.B. Donuts (which the family still owns). And peanut butter became a symbol of a better life for the young Yeng brothers. From that point on, against every odd and with just the right amount of audacity, Yeng became the American dream. This podcast is the longest we've ever recorded. Mostly because David and I sat there rapt, a little heartbroken and wholly inspired. Settle in, or digest it in parts. It's worth it. See you next week, y'all.

New data from the American Community Survey found that among married, heterosexual couples in the U.S., a quarter of wives, or about 15 million, are the primary breadwinners in their family. Anna Runyan is the creator of CLASS: The Love Your Work and Life System and CEO of Classy Career Girl International. She's a former corporate consultant turned entrepreneur and her website was picked as one of Forbes Top 100 Websites For Women and one of Forbes 35 Most Influential Career Sites. She's been featured on Fox, The Wall Street Journal and People StyleWatch magazine. Anna was nominated as San Diego Magazine's Woman of the Year and her podcast was named as Yahoo's 10 Best Podcasts. She helps millions of women design and launch their dream careers, businesses, and lives through her website, online courses and social media channels. You can connect with Anna's story because she is someone who once had over $80K of debt as a new mom and was very unhappy in her work. Anna knows the importance of providing people with action steps for how she quit her stressful day job and transitioned into full-time work she loved (with a baby on her lap) in 90 days and she can't wait to teach it to you too. She joined me this week to tell me more For more information: https://www.classycareergirl.com/ Instagram: @classycareergirl Listen: https://www.classycareergirl.com/podcast/ Twitter: @classycareer LinkedIn: @AnnaRunyan

Leigh Keith is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of Perfects Snacks, which makes fresh-from-the-fridge protein snacks out of love for optimal health, fitness, and nutrition. Leigh has remained steadfast in building healthy communities from the inside out. In July of 2019, Perfect Snacks gained a majority interest acquisition from Mondelēz International, the global snacking leader. Leigh and Perfect Snacks have been awarded the NEXTY Award from New Hope media, and San Diego Magazine also named Leigh a Woman of the Year finalist. In this episode… Do you have what it takes to succeed in the refrigerated snacks sector? At age 19, Leigh Keith started Perfect Snacks with her family. Now, they've revolutionized the billion-dollar protein category. How did they do it? Leigh shares the journey of how Perfect Snacks managed to be successful in creating fresh, grab-and-go snacking options. She says that to succeed in this space, you have to be passionate and expect challenges but have a mindset that every misstep is taking you somewhere. In this episode of the Gooder Podcast, host Diana Fryc sits down with Leigh Keith, the Co-founder and Co-CEO of Perfect Snacks, to discuss the entrepreneurial journey as a successful refrigerated snacks brand. Leigh talks about Perfect Snacks and some of the challenges of running a business as a young person, their acquisition by Mondelēz International, leadership strategies, and her advice to other entrepreneurs.

This is not your average parenting podcast. San Diego Magazine sets out to explore what modern day parenting really looks like in a post pandemic San Diego. This biweekly podcast will pull the curtain back on San Diego's top chefs, designers, community activists and more to have an honest conversation about the ways home, mental health, spirituality, partnerships and self-care play a role in their successes and challenges as a parent. Do you know someone who would be a great fit to be a guest on NAPP? Reach out to clairej@sdmag.com

Dr. Elana interviews board-certified dermatologist, Dr. Gigler - who happens to be the identical twin sister of Dr. Gillin who is a pediatrician she interviewed a couple of seasons back. Both of these sister doctors LOVE our podcast partner Active Skin Repair so we invited them on our show to share with us Doctor Moms how they use their products with their patients and what type of success they see day to day! During their interview, Dr. Gigler talks about more than just Active… they focus on how she treats common pediatric skin conditions like Molluscum Contagiousm, Fungal infections like Ringworm and Tinea, Acne, Warts, Keratosis Pilaris, and more!  As Doctor Moms it is so important we know when it is time to visit the doctor and when we can safely help our kiddo from home! So this interview is a great overview of skin conditions where a doctor visit is helpful and knowing what to expect will help you feel confident and prepared! You will also learn that there are many skin conditions that ARE safe for us Doctor Moms to help at home and often times Active Skin Repair products can be your go-to non toxic skin formulas for times like these - think cuts, scrapes, sunburns, bites, even eczema or Hand Foot Mouth lesions!!  We absolutely love our friends over at Active and are grateful that they are offering our listeners 20% off all orders using code DOCTORMOM.  Steph and Dr. Elana don't leave the house without a spray bottle in our car, one in our purse, and definitely one in our medicine cabinets! Dr. Gigler and her pediatrician sister Dr. Gillin do the same! As experts in children's health and skin health - and moms themselves - we'd be crazy not to take their advice and at least give Active a try!  If you are ready to try or are in need of a refill, don't forget to use code DOCTORMOM for 20% off + free shipping in the US. Visit www.BLDGACTIVE.com and use code DOCTORMOM for 20% off! Hope you love it as much as we do! Topics Discussed: A dermatologist's approach to treating: Molluscum Contagiousm Warts Keratosis Pilaris Burns and wounds Acne Tinea and fungal infections like ringworm  And her favorite ways to use Active Skin Repair with your little ones!! Show Notes: www.comprehensivederm.com - Dr. Gigler is no longer taking new patients but her amazing associates that are open to new patients.  OTCderm.com Click here to learn more about Dr. Elana Roumell's Doctor Mom Membership, a membership designed for moms who want to be their child's number one health advocate! Click here to learn more about Steph Greunke, RD's online nutrition program and community, Postpartum Reset, an intimate private community and online roadmap for any mama (or mama-to-be) who feels stuck, alone, and depleted and wants to learn how to thrive in motherhood. Listen to today's episode on our website Vishakha Gigler, M.D. is double board-certified in Dermatology and Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery. She is the co-founder of Comprehensive Dermatology Group in Encinitas, CA. She enjoys practicing medical, cosmetic, and surgical dermatology, including Mohs micrographic surgery. Dr. Gigler graduated from the University of California, San Diego with phi beta kappa and magna cum laude honors. She attended the University of California, San Diego for medical school, finishing at the top of her class. Dr. Gigler completed her dermatology residency at the University of California, Irvine in 2004. She has been in private practice in North County since 2004. Dr. Gigler had served as president of the San Diego Society for Dermatologic Surgery. She is also the founding dermatologist for the San Diego Esthetician Society. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology and the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery. She is a fellow of the American Society for Mohs Surgery. Gigler prides herself in delivering the highest level of medical care. Patients describe her as being thorough and caring. Dr. Gigler has been recognized as a “Top Doctor” in San Diego Magazine 13 times from 2007-2021. The honor is distinct because it is voted on by physicians throughout San Diego County. This Episode's Sponsors  Active Skin Repair is a must-have for everyone to keep themselves and their families healthy and clean.  Keep a bottle in the car to spray your face after removing your mask, a bottle in your medicine cabinet to replace your toxic first aid products, and one in your outdoor pack for whatever life throws at you.  Use code DOCTORMOM to receive 20% off your order + free shipping. Visit BLDGActive.com to order. INTRODUCE YOURSELF to Steph and Dr. Elana on Instagram. They can't wait to meet you! @stephgreunke @drelanaroumell Please remember that the views and ideas presented on this podcast are for informational purposes only.  All information presented on this podcast is for informational purposes and not intended to serve as a substitute for the consultation, diagnosis, and/or medical treatment of a healthcare provider. Consult with your healthcare provider before starting any diet, supplement regimen, or to determine the appropriateness of the information shared on this podcast, or if you have any questions regarding your treatment plan.

An entrepreneurial success story? We'll drink to that! On this episode of She Turned Entrepreneur we learn how wine expert Nia Ruth traded in a job that was fine for a venture that lit her up inside. What started out as a hobby turned into something more as Nia built her knowledge base with college-level courses and traveled the world, exploring vineyards of all kinds. She also became a columnist on the subject for San Diego Magazine, offered advice via social media and, well, before long she had de facto started a wine consulting business! Nia Ruth Wine, an experiential wine club, was born of pure exhilaration. Featuring premium boutique wines that you won't find at any grocery store, Nia revels in selecting a range of unique varietals from small producers to be delivered right to her members' doorsteps each month. Virtual monthly tastings provide a platform for enthusiasts to come together, get acquainted and learn the stories behind each of the featured wines. It's a win-win-win! Not only do members discover a whole new frontier, the winemakers welcome the exposure to customers who might otherwise never have known about them. To make the trifecta complete, Nia incorporates her PhD studies and previous career as a social welfare consultant in an incredibly positive way: Each month $1 per membership goes to the featured winemakers, who are then free to donate proceeds to the nonprofit of their choice. Nia of course has had her share of challenges along the way, but she shares with us some great tips (for instance, podcasts can be a great source of educational information and how-to tricks for learning startup tools). She's encouraging us to trust what feels good and skip what doesn't. Says Nia: Just try! If you fail, fail quickly. Then get back up again! Click here to join Nia's wine club and expand your knowledge base, refine your palate, meet small producers and discover your favorite wines! Click here to listen to, rate and review this or previous She Turned Entrepreneur episodes. Here are key takeaways from the conversation:· Even if you've got a PhD and career in progress, it's possible to make an about-face.· Finding a niche and then filling it is a fantastic entrepreneurial formula.· That “little” hobby of yours? Could it be a business? Time to think creatively!· Trying to figure out how to market? Podcasts are a great learning resource!· If you've got an idea, don't be afraid. Give it a try. Make a modest investment. Here's a quick look into the episode:· Starting out on a pre-determined, academic path that led to a PhD and consulting in the social work space, Nia's growing interest in wine over time organically evolved from a hobby into a passion into a venture she couldn't resist.· Nia explains how she got the idea for her unique and experiential wine club.· An entrepreneurial venture made sense on a number of levels:o As a way to leverage the deep wine expertise she had acquired.o As an opportunity to introduce people to wines they would otherwise never find.o For the flexibility and freedom with lifestyle choices it would afford.· A Day in the Life: o Danielle starts first thing by responding to email, refreshing social media and generating content for postings. o After that? It's often wine tastings and outreach to wineries.· About how Nia's wine club works:o Each month members receive three bottles of wine, specially chosen to represent a variety of grapes, regions and styles.o Wines are delivered right to your door.o The wines come from boutique vineyards with which Nia has a relationship (nothing you could find at the grocery store). o The club includes a live online forum through which members can get to know each other and the featured vintners, who share the stories behind their wines.o Nia provides materials to help members get comfortable with the language around wine, which emboldens them to share their opinions!· A big part of Nia's mission is to support small wineries by introducing them to people all around the country who would otherwise never be exposed.· Nia has built her background in social welfare into her business model by setting aside $1 per member each month for the featured winery to donate to a favorite nonprofit.· About Bumps in the Road. Nia's biggest challenges have been:o No marketing background, which put her on a steep learning curve.o No roadmap as to what comes next as the business evolves and develops.· Advice for entrepreneurs starting out:o If you have an idea, don't be afraid. Just give it a try!o Trust your gut and do what feels right, even if it means saying no.· Recommended Resources:o Podcast: Marketing Made Easy with Amy Porterfield. Great practical tips.o Podcast: Entrepreneurs on Fire. Inspirational stories!o Podcast: Nia is a fan of Dori and She Turned Entrepreneur. About Nia:Nia is a wine-loving psychologist turned Wine Expert and Wine Club Founder. While completing her PhD in psychology research at NYU and working for several years consulting in the social welfare space, she fell completely in love with wine. She took her first introductory wine course at San Diego State University in 2018, and has since completed her WSET levels 2 and 3, started blogging about wine, become the wine columnist at San Diego Magazine and traveled far and wide visiting vineyards throughout Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, South Africa, Morocco, Croatia, Israel, Mexico and across the U.S. Connect with Nia!Website | Instagram | Blog

In this Fight Back episode, Dr. Ted Mazer joins us to talk about how you can make your medical expenses fit into your budget. We discuss the importance of shopping for medical procedures, ways to avoid surprise billing, understanding how in and out of network physicians and procedures affect your final bill, how to negotiate hospital bills and more.Dr. Mazer is a former President of the California Medical Association. In 2015, San Diego County Medical Society named him one of the county's “Top Doctors” in their annual “Physicians of Exceptional Excellence” survey published by San Diego Magazine.

In 2004, Jon Bautista made his mom cry. She spontaneously wept when he told the family he'd enrolled in culinary school. To be fair, in the same breath he also broke the news that he'd dropped out of the undergrad program at SDSU to do so. Parents have news thresholds, and hers was breached. “This was before Top Chef,” he says. “She just said, ‘You're never going to make any money.'” Now, 17 years later, Bautista is chef of one of the city's most raved-about restaurants, Kingfisher, a partnership with the local family who owns the beloved local restaurant, Crab Hut. It's modern Vietnamese. It's also a bit Franco-Californian, because Bautista spent five years as chef de cuisine of George's at the Cove under Trey Foshee. It's a bit Filipino, he says, because he is Filipino. Cooking has never been more borderless. The Golden Hill restaurant is booked months out, with a long waiting list (they do have a few walk-in tables). Their duck—dry-aged in house, lightly smoked, brushed with palm sugar—is the treasure for early-birds. They only sell eight of them a night, and zip they're gone. For this podcast—the first recorded in-person at the San Diego Magazine offices since 2020—Jon brought a beef tartare with toasted quinoa, pickled ramps, crispy shallots, chiles, cured egg yolk, sesame-rice crackers, watercress, lettuces, herbs. The not-secret ingredient—Red Boat No. 5 fish sauce—makes it a killer riff on a classic. And the joy of abundant ingredients is very Vietnamese (think of the pile of greenery you're presented with your pho). “This is everything,” Bautista says of Kingfisher. “I was struggling during the pandemic. For the first time in my adult life I was unemployed. I was drinking too much, I gained weight, I was depressed. And then this happened.” We talk about the long road to here. In “Hot Plates,” we yap about The Friendly's expansion to Pacific Beach, and what that says about America's love affair with little places that could. Herb & Sea is throwing a party for Wildcoast, the San Diego-based group that does great work conserving marine ecosystems, with a five-course “Treasure Fish Feast” featuring lesser known local fish (eating only salmon and halibut and sea bass is not only boring but also creates a pretty unsustainable future). Over in North Park, Bivouac Ciderworks is throwing a four-course dinner to celebrate Women's History Month that pairs Mexican-inspired dishes with special small-batch ciders (Mexican Hot Chocolate Cider, a beer-cider hybrid, etc.). Also, the owners of Tahini are opening up a Middle Eastern-inspired specialty coffee shop called Finjan, and this June the owners of Don Pietro are partnering with Gustavo Rios and Sal Busalacchi (of the Busalacchi Italian restaurant lore) for a two-story, jungle-themed concept in Old Town. For “Two People, Fifty Bucks,” Jon shows the breadth of his food arts by nodding to both Callie and the almighty Filet-O-Fish, David raves about Cafe Madeleine, and I get wistful about my glory days as a struggling writer in Golden Hill and fondly recommend Krakatoa. Thanks for listening, everyone.

How are laws being implemented at the federal level and state levels, and even county levels?  How do they impact you or your business? Why is it that one town has a vaccine mandate and the next town just ten minutes away has no vaccine requirements to dine or enter a store? Why do some kids need to wear masks at school and not in other schools even within the same state? What was the federal vaccine mandate case about that went in front of the United States Supreme Court, what was the ruling, and how does that effect US citizens? These are many of the areas we discuss in the episode to alleviate confusion regarding the differences in policies across the United States. *This interview was recorded on February 17, 2022 and released on March 9, 2022. You should note that what we discussed was based on what was happening at that time of recording. The data and policies are changing frequently, yet understanding how and why different laws are passed nationally, at the state and county levels is important. This is not intended to be advice legal advice. This is a podcast which is for informational and entertainment purposes only. Tune in now and access the show notes at https://thegoodlifecoach.com/173 WHAT WE DISCUSS: 1️⃣ How are laws being implemented at the federal level and state levels, and even county levels?  How do they impact you or your business? 2️⃣ How do they impact you or your business? 3️⃣ Why is it that one town has a vaccine mandate and the next town just ten minutes away has no vaccine requirements to dine or enter a store? 4️⃣ Why do some kids need to wear masks at school and not in other schools even within the same state? 5️⃣ What was the federal vaccine mandate case about that went in from of the United States Supreme Court, what was the ruling, and how does that effect US citizens? 6️⃣ Why should you follow the rules when dealing with TSA, pilots, flight attendants, and other officials when flying. ABOUT OUR GUEST Kelly DuFord Williams founded her first law firm at 30, after six and a half years of litigating for the States of CA, NV and big law firms. In January 2020, she re-branded her first firm and added tax and HR serves now- Slate Law Group. What started in her living room, Slate Law has offices in downtown San Diego, Colorado, and in Chicago.  Now, at the firm she's built from the ground up, Kelly gets to empower women and businesses to feel protected and grow the business of their dreams every day. Born and raised in Ireland, Kelly was surrounded by amazing women limited by the marriage bar, which restricted married women from certain jobs and opportunities. This always stuck with Kelly and fueled her pursuit of helping women, moms, and entrepreneurs and discrimination in particular.   She most recently won “San Diego Magazine's women of the year, Rising Star 2021” and has been on the forty under forty list two years in a row in all major San Diego Publications. She was also just named of San Diego 500 most influential people by San Diego Business journal, one of the youngest people on the list. RESOURCES MENTIONED Kelly's Website – http://slatelawgroup.com Kelly's Law firm on IG – slatelawgroup  Michele on Instagram