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Hosted by shannon allen
Hosted by shannon allen
2 episodes with shannon allen
In this episode of Take-Away with Sam Oches, Sam talks with Shannon Allen and Zach Cohen, the founder and CFO of the Miami-based fast-casual concept Grown. Shannon opened this concept with her husband, NBA Hall of Famer Ray Allen, in 2016, driven by the fact that their son Walker was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was a toddler and Shannon struggled to find healthy foods served fast that she could feed him. Grown aims to disrupt the restaurant industry by serving fresh, nutrient-dense foods using organic ingredients in a counter-service setting that includes a drive-thru window. Shannon's big dreams for Grown hit a wall with Covid, but now she's brought Zach on board and they've developed a franchise model leveraging shipping containers that they think can help them quickly scale while keeping costs low. The two joined the podcast to talk about the evolution of healthy eating and why Grown can succeed as a health-forward concept where so many others have failed. In this conversation, you'll find out why:Healthy food is more than just a trend for millions of customersThere is a shift in how Americans are perceiving processed foods Your growth plan today may not be the growth plan your brand needsIt might be easier to find 100 people who believe in you than to raise $100 millionIf you want to go far, go with someone beside you A turn-key franchise solution offers opportunity for people who previously faced barriers to business ownershipYour “why” can steer your business through the opportunities that come your wayHave feedback or ideas for Take-Away? Email Sam at sam.oches@informa.com.
Are you a fan of classic film and television? Well, Donna and Dr Adam have you covered when they are joined by two very special guests: Scott Morrow and Shannon Allen! As a child actor during the Golden Age of Hollywood, Scott “Scotty” Morrow played Hope Lange's brother in the film “Peyton Place” and was seen in classic shows “The Donna Reed Show”, “Wagon Train”, “Lassie”, and “My Three Sons”. Shannon Allen is a podcaster and writer with her popular podcast “Vanguard of Hollywood”, where she gets up close and personal with the films and stars of the Golden Age. In conversation, Scott shares what it was like to share the screen and studio with legends Lana Turner, George Montgomery, Richard Chamberlain, Ethel Waters…and his friend Marilyn Monroe! While Shannon, as an expert on all things Hollywood, shares stories from that classic time. Plus, Scott lets us into his current career as a photographer and Shannon shares her secrets for cooking, Hollywood style. To learn more about Scott and Shannon, you can purchase the bestselling book “Made in Hollywood: The Scott Morrow Story” and visit Shannon's website VanguardofHollywood.com
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In Part Two of our series on pro athletes and their spouses, we talk to Shannon Allen, the wife of former NBA superstar Ray Allen, about a bittersweet moment in their lives. Just as they were celebrating a historic NBA championship, they got some very scary medical news about their son. Where did Shannon turn for help? The answer may surprise you. Email us at loveletters@boston.com. You can also send relationship questions to Meredith and sign up for Love Letters updates by texting 617-744-7007.
Profound and enduring impact lies at the intersection of entrepreneurship and advocacy - and there is no better testament to this than the story of Shannon Allen. Shannon Allen is the visionary founder of Grown, a healthy fast-casual restaurant franchise that has not only disrupted but redefined the culinary landscape in Miami. Shannon's story goes beyond entrepreneurship; it is a powerful testament to the transformative potential when business acumen meets a deep commitment to positive change. In this episode, Shannon shares her journey from growing up in an entrepreneurial family in Connecticut to becoming an advocate for diabetes awareness and healthy eating. She recounts the life-changing moment her son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and how it propelled her into becoming an advocate, raising awareness and funds for diabetes research. Shannon also discusses the inception of Grown and her vision to scale it as a healthy alternative to traditional fast food. Join in on the conversation as Shannon's resilience, determination, and commitment to making a positive impact shine through, serving as an inspiration for aspiring entrepreneurs and advocates. KEY POINTS - (2:02) Shannon's family background and their entrepreneurial roots - (5:36) Shannon on her initial resistance to entrepreneurship and owning a business - (9:08) How motherhood changed the way Shannon viewed legacy - (12:24) The origin story of Grown: Shannon's venture into advocacy & revolutionizing the food industry - (23:56) Wearing both hats of entrepreneur and advocate - (28:34) Doing it anyway: How Shannan overcame obstacles & naysayers when building her business - (36:24) Shannon's definition of success and the future of Grown - (41:51) Shannon on dealing with public closures, learning from losses, and loving risks - (48:42) What's next for Shannon and the future of Grown? QUOTABLES “Having black ambition is so key because it's so easy to believe that we don't belong here. It's so easy to fall into this belief system that there are limits on what we can accomplish, and it's so easy to forget who we really are.” - Shannon Allen “Of all the venture money that's raised in this country. We know the numbers - only 2% of those dollars ever even touch women's hands. And Black women, we don't even get to sniff it.” - Shannon Allen “I think true entrepreneurs are not risk averse. We love risks. We are like, throw me out of the plane and I'll build the parachute on the way down.” - Shannon Allen RESOURCES Shannon Allen IG | @swalkerwil Grown IG | @grown Lunchology IG | @lunchology.co [APPLICATIONS OPEN!] | Are you building a high growth business in tech healthcare, AI, media entertainment, or consumer goods and services? If so, we'd like to help you scale. Don't miss your chance to win $1 million, capital coaching, and access to an amazing community of diverse innovators! Apply for the 2024 Black Ambition Prize competition now Felecia Hatcher IG | @feleciahatcher Black Ambition IG | @blackambitionprize So Ambitious is produced by EPYC Media
How do you market a flower subscription CSA? That's the topic of today's podcast, which is actually a recording from ANOTHER show I was on last week. I was interviewed for the Dirt on Flowers podcast, and the episode turned out SO good that I asked if I could share the recording of the episode with MY podcast audience. Tune in as co-hosts Shannon Allen from Bloomfield Farm and Lyndsay Biehl of Wildroot Flower Co. grill me on how to find the perfect customer avatar for a flower farm, what kind of marketing content to make to attract leads into your farm business, and how to pitch your offer so that people want to stick around from year to year. We get REALLY practical, and I drop all kinds of ideas to try. This podcast was sponsored by Local Line, my preferred e-commerce platform for farmers. Are you looking for a new solution for your farm? I can't recommend it enough. Easy to use inventory management, great customer service, continuous improvement, and a culture dedicated to equipping farmers with marketing expertise, Local Line should definitely be one of the e-commerce solutions you consider as you switch. Local Line is offering a free premium feature for free for one year on top of your paid subscription. Claim your discount by signing up for a Local Line account today and using the coupon code: MDF2024. Head to my special affiliate link to get started: www.mydigitalfarmer.com/localline This podcast was sponsored by Farm Marketing School - my monthly online marketing school membership just for farmers. Farm Marketing School is an on-demand library of marketing workshops and project plans that will help you build some of the most important marketing elements in your farm business like: building a promotion calendar, setting up your Google Business Profile, auditing your sales funnel, updating your home page of your website, building your first email nurture sequence, and practicing different types of offers. These projects are designed to be completed in under 30 days, so that you slowly build your marketing system piece by piece. To see what courses are currently inside of FMS, or to try out Farm Marketing School for a month at mydigitalfarmer.com/fms Start and cancel your membership anytime. Some of the resources mentioned in this episode: The Dirt on Flowers Podcast -- Today's interviewers are the co-hosts of this awesome podcast. If you are a flower farmer, make sure you subscribe to their podcast. Every week, cohosts Shannon Allen and Lyndsay Biehl talk farm business, marketing, and growing techniques to help you create the farm of your dreams. https://www.thedirtonflowers.com/ Join my free email list! I have a great "Crash Course in farm marketing" that will guide you through the marketing jungle over the course of several months. Each week, you'll get a new email with suggestions and tips to make your marketing better. Subscribe at https://www.mydigitalfarmer.com/subscribe My Digital Farmer Podcast Episode 209 Selling Inspiration - My Interview with Lyndsay Biehl of Wildroot Flower Co. - my interviewer from today's podcast was on MY show a few months ago. Listen to her awesome advice on how to build a brand following. Webinar: Maximizing E-Commerce Success: Crafting Offers to Boost Farm Sales on March 25, at 12 PM EST -- join me and my cohost Nina Galle from LocalLine, as we teach how to create offers that will drive traffic to your online store and get them to buy. Learn what makes a compelling offer, and share some examples of what's worked well in your business with our guests.We'll also show some ways you can configure your store settings to make it more likely someone takes your offer. Register for free at www.mydigitalfarmer.com/offerwebinar- Recording will be available to anyone who registers. Find my marketing Facebook group for CSA farmers! Follow me on Instagram for a daily IG story tip on marketing! @mydigitalfarmer Share a Review in Apple Podcast Now if you're feeling extra loving, I would be really grateful if you left me a review over on Apple Podcast, too. Those reviews help other people find my podcast and they're also fun for me to go in and read. Just click here to review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” and let me know what your favorite part of the podcast is. Thank you!
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from your favorite marketing chicks! On this episode we're looking ahead to 2023 with our guest, Shannon Allen, PT, and offering some product recommendations to help with your New Year resolutions! Then before we move forward, we're recapping our favorite cocktails from 2022 on Therapy on the Rocks and sharing Janine's delicious eggnog recipe!
This Week's Show: Habs Mailbag: Goals for Caufield?Segment 1: Week in Review, Habs News, League NewsCheck out news Headlines posts at AllHabs.net. Jake and Shannon Allen welcomed a third child to their family. Juraj Slafkovsky is out day-to-day with an upper-body injury. Rem Pitlick will take his spot in the lineup.Joel Armia and Joel Edmundson are skating with the team in non-contact jerseys. They are not yet cleared to play.Carey Price will meet the media on October 24th to update his status.Canadiens prospect update: Owen Beck, Filip Mesar, Logan Mailloux, Miguel Tourigny.Be sure to read the content at AHL.report and check out The Press Zone - Montreal.Quotes of the week from Kaiden Guhle, Juraj Slafkovsky and Arber Xhekaj.Hockey news and notes: Florida Panthers signed forward Eric Staal to a one-year contract. Montreal Canadiens unveiled their new Reverse Retro 2.0 jersey.Segment 2: BIG Topic - All Habs Mailbag: How Many Goals for Cole Caufield? + More of Your Questions!We are always thrilled to hear from our Canadiens Connection listeners! So let's open the All Habs Hockey Magazine mailbag for the first time this season! Habs fans from all over the continent have filled our inbox with all sorts of fascinating questions.Segment 3: Have Your SayCanadiens upcoming events.Canadiens Connection Question of the Week.Listener's texts and emails.Canadiens Connection on Rocket Sports RadioCanadiens Connection is hosted by Rick Stephens (@AllHabs) with Michael Spinella (@TheSpinella), Amy Johnson (@FlyersRule) and Chris G (@ChrisHabs360). This talented team of credentialed journalists come together to share their valued insight.Canadiens Connection is a connection between fans, journalists, players, coaches, management to thoroughly discuss their favorite game in an informative, thought provoking, and entertaining way.Get the Canadiens Connection!Be sure to follow @habsconnection on Twitter, Facebook, InstagramSearch for "Canadiens Connection" from Rocket Sports Radio on your favorite podcast app and subscribe! Use our single link below on any device to locate subscription links to major podcast apps.Subscribe to Canadiens ConnectionShare the Canadiens Connection on social media. And we would be grateful for your 5-star rating for the podcast!If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (IL/IN/LA/MI/NJ/PA/WV/WY), 1-800-NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (CO/NH), 888-789-7777/visit http://ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), visit OPGR.org (OR), call/text TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN), or 1-888-532-3500...
Join Lyndsay Biehl of https://www.wildrootflowerco.com/the-farm (Wildroot Flower Co.) and Shannon Allen of https://bloomhillfarm.com/ (Bloom Hill Farm) for a fun new episode format - our monthly Spill the Dirt Q&A! Every Sunday, on our Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers), you can submit questions to the podcast. Every month, we will select 3-4 questions and answer them for you! Ask us anything! This month we are talking about when to hire your first employee, the worst mainstream advice out there, and more! Did you love today's episode? Take a screenshot and share it in your IG stories. Don't forget to tag https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers)! Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Head to https://www.thedirtonflowers.com/ (www.thedirtonflowers.com) to sign up for our newsletter and become a Dirt on Flowers insider! Want to learn more about your hosts? Follow us on Instagram! Lyndsay https://www.instagram.com/wildroot_flowerco/ (@wildroot_flowerco) Shannon https://www.instagram.com/bloomhillfarm/ (@bloomhillfarm)
Join Lyndsay Biehl of https://www.wildrootflowerco.com/the-farm (Wildroot Flower Co.) and Shannon Allen of https://bloomhillfarm.com/ (Bloom Hill Farm) to talk all things Dahlias! In Part 3 of our Dirt on Dahlias series, we are answering all your remaining questions in a fun, rapid fire format. When discussing taking dahlia cuttings, Lyndsay uses Oasis Horticubes growing media to root her cuttings - find them https://www.greenhousemegastore.com/horticube-retail-pack (here)! Did you love today's episode? Take a screenshot and share in your IG stories. Don't forget to tag https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers)! Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Head to https://www.thedirtonflowers.com/ (www.thedirtonflowers.com) to sign up for our newsletter and become a Dirt on Flowers insider! Want to learn more about your hosts? Follow us on Instagram! Lyndsay https://www.instagram.com/wildroot_flowerco/ (@wildroot_flowerco) Shannon https://www.instagram.com/bloomhillfarm/ (@bloomhillfarm)
Join Lyndsay Biehl of https://www.wildrootflowerco.com/the-farm (Wildroot Flower Co.) and Shannon Allen of https://bloomhillfarm.com/ (Bloom Hill Farm) to talk all things Dahlias - Part 2! Did you listen to Part 1 yet? In Part 1, we talk about: Technical growing tips from tuber into the ground, to digging and storing How our farm's dahlia production has evolved Deep dive on planting and weed management strategies Fertilizing and pest management Proper harvest stage Digging and storing Join us for Part 2 where we are talking all about selling, pricing, favorite varieties, sourcing and more! Did you love today's episode? Take a screenshot and share in your IG stories. Don't forget to tag https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers)! Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Head to https://www.thedirtonflowers.com/ (www.thedirtonflowers.com) to sign up for our letter and become a Dirt on Flowers insider! Want to learn more about your hosts? Follow us on Instagram! Lyndsay https://www.instagram.com/wildroot_flowerco/ (@wildroot_flowerco) Shannon https://www.instagram.com/bloomhillfarm/ (@bloomhillfarm)
Join Judd and Shannon Allen of https://bloomhillfarm.com/ (Bloom Hill Farm) to talk all things Dahlias. Judd joins Shannon for Part 1 of this 2 part series. In Part 1, we talk about: Technical growing tips from tuber into the ground, to digging and storing How our farm's dahlia production has evolved Deep dive on planting and weed management strategies Fertilizing and pest management Proper harvest stage Digging and storing Join us for Part 2 next Friday where we are talking all about selling, pricing, favorite varieties and more! Did you love today's episode? Take a screenshot and share in your IG stories. Don't forget to tag https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers)! Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Head to https://www.thedirtonflowers.com/ (www.thedirtonflowers.com) to sign up for our letter and become a Dirt on Flowers insider! Want to learn more about your hosts? Follow us on Instagram! Lyndsay https://www.instagram.com/wildroot_flowerco/ (@wildroot_flowerco) Shannon https://www.instagram.com/bloomhillfarm/ (@bloomhillfarm)
Join Lyndsay Biehl of https://www.wildrootflowerco.com/the-farm (Wildroot Flower Co.) and Shannon Allen of https://bloomhillfarm.com/ (Bloom Hill Farm) for a fun new episode format - our monthly Spill the Dirt Q&A! Every Sunday, on our Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers), you can submit questions to the podcast. Every month, we will select 3-4 questions and answer them for you! Ask us anything! This month we are talking about cover cropping, when we made our first 6 figures and establishing boundaries when you live on your farm. Did you love today's episode? Take a screenshot and share it in your IG stories. Don't forget to tag https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers)! Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Head to https://www.thedirtonflowers.com/ (www.thedirtonflowers.com) to sign up for our newsletter and become a Dirt on Flowers insider! Want to learn more about your hosts? Follow us on Instagram! Lyndsay https://www.instagram.com/wildroot_flowerco/ (@wildroot_flowerco) Shannon https://www.instagram.com/bloomhillfarm/ (@bloomhillfarm)
Join Lyndsay Biehl of Wildroot Flower Co. and Shannon Allen of Bloom Hill Farm to dig the dirt with our special guest, Lori Hernandez of https://www.threeacrefarm.net/ (Three Acre Farm)! We are talking all about better ways to have a Healthy Relationship with our farm by finding your farm's sweet spot where you balance life + profitability. Lori has amazing insight and we know you'll love it! Did you love today's episode? Take a screenshot and share it in your IG stories. Don't forget to tag https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers)! Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Head to https://www.thedirtonflowers.com/ (www.thedirtonflowers.com) to sign up for our letter and become a Dirt on Flowers insider! Want to learn more about your hosts? Follow us on Instagram! Lyndsay https://www.instagram.com/wildroot_flowerco/ (@wildroot_flowerco) Shannon https://www.instagram.com/bloomhillfarm/ (@bloomhillfarm)
Join Lyndsay Biehl of https://www.wildrootflowerco.com/the-farm (Wildroot Flower Co.) and Shannon Allen of https://bloomhillfarm.com/ (Bloom Hill Farm) for a fun new episode format - our monthly Spill the Dirt Q&A! Every Sunday, on our Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers), you can submit questions to the podcast. Every month, we will select 3-4 questions and answer them for you! Ask us anything! This month we are talking about pricing your flowers, building an email list, and growing your local following. Did you love today's episode? Take a screenshot and share it in your IG stories. Don't forget to tag https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers)! Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Head to https://www.thedirtonflowers.com/ (www.thedirtonflowers.com) to sign up for our newsletter and become a Dirt on Flowers insider! Want to learn more about your hosts? Follow us on Instagram! Lyndsay https://www.instagram.com/wildroot_flowerco/ (@wildroot_flowerco) Shannon https://www.instagram.com/bloomhillfarm/ (@bloomhillfarm)
Join Lyndsay Biehl of https://www.wildrootflowerco.com/the-farm (Wildroot Flower Co.) and Shannon Allen of https://bloomhillfarm.com/ (Bloom Hill Farm) to dig the dirt on our takeaways and lessons learned from attending the ASCFG Rooted and Reconnected Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. Interested in joining the ASCFG? Head over to their membership page by https://www.ascfg.org/membership/join-the-ascfg/ (clicking here)! Did you love today's episode? Take a screenshot and share it in your IG stories. Don't forget to tag https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers)! Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Head to https://www.thedirtonflowers.com/ (www.thedirtonflowers.com) to sign up for our letter and become a Dirt on Flowers insider! Want to learn more about your hosts? Follow us on Instagram! Lyndsay https://www.instagram.com/wildroot_flowerco/ (@wildroot_flowerco) Shannon https://www.instagram.com/bloomhillfarm/ (@bloomhillfarm)
Join Lyndsay Biehl of https://www.wildrootflowerco.com/the-farm (Wildroot Flower Co.) and Shannon Allen of https://bloomhillfarm.com/ (Bloom Hill Farm) to dig the dirt on our favorite tips for avoiding the dreaded comparison trap. Did you love today's episode? Take a screenshot and share it in your IG stories. Don't forget to tag https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers)! Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Head to https://www.thedirtonflowers.com/ (www.thedirtonflowers.com) to sign up for our letter and become a Dirt on Flowers insider! Want to learn more about your hosts? Follow us on Instagram! Lyndsay https://www.instagram.com/wildroot_flowerco/ (@wildroot_flowerco) Shannon https://www.instagram.com/bloomhillfarm/ (@bloomhillfarm)
Join Lyndsay Biehl of https://www.wildrootflowerco.com/the-farm (Wildroot Flower Co.) and Shannon Allen of https://bloomhillfarm.com/ (Bloom Hill Farm) to dig the dirt on our favorite and most used greenery and foliage plants. Between us we produce over a thousand mixed bouquets a week and greenery is always the backbone of our bouquets! It truly is the workhorse of the bouquet and creates a finished look that imported flowers can't touch. In this episode, we will fill you in on our favorite greenery for each season to help check greenery off your worry list. We put together a list of our go-to greenery and foliage favorites! Head over to our website at www.thedirtonflowers.com and sign up for our newsletter to download that amazing list! Did you love today's episode? Take a screenshot and share it in your IG stories. Don't forget to tag https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers)! Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Head to https://www.thedirtonflowers.com/ (www.thedirtonflowers.com) to sign up for our letter and become a Dirt on Flowers insider! Want to learn more about your hosts? Follow us on Instagram! Lyndsay https://www.instagram.com/wildroot_flowerco/ (@wildroot_flowerco) Shannon https://www.instagram.com/bloomhillfarm/ (@bloomhillfarm)
Join Lyndsay Biehl of https://www.wildrootflowerco.com/the-farm (Wildroot Flower Co.) and Shannon Allen of https://bloomhillfarm.com/ (Bloom Hill Farm) for a fun new episode format - our monthly Spill the Dirt Q&A! Every Sunday, on our Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers), you can submit questions to the podcast. We will select 3-4 questions and answer them for you! Ask us anything! This month we are talking about favorite efficiency hacks, what our average work week looks like, keeping the motivation, and when we were ready to quit our 9-5 jobs. Did you love today's episode? Take a screenshot and share it in your IG stories. Don't forget to tag https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers)! Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Head to https://www.thedirtonflowers.com/ (www.thedirtonflowers.com) to sign up for our newsletter and become a Dirt on Flowers insider! Want to learn more about your hosts? Follow us on Instagram! Lyndsay https://www.instagram.com/wildroot_flowerco/ (@wildroot_flowerco) Shannon https://www.instagram.com/bloomhillfarm/ (@bloomhillfarm)
Join Lyndsay Biehl of https://www.wildrootflowerco.com/the-farm (Wildroot Flower Co.) and Shannon Allen of https://bloomhillfarm.com/ (Bloom Hill Farm) to dig the dirt on Flower CSA's and why you should be adding them to your farm now! Lyndsay and Shannon will talk about their tips, tricks and things to consider when starting and managing a flower CSA/subscription on your farm. Did you love today's episode? Take a screenshot and share it in your IG stories. Don't forget to tag https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers)! Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Head to https://www.thedirtonflowers.com/ (www.thedirtonflowers.com) to sign up for our letter and become a Dirt on Flowers insider! Want to learn more about your hosts? Follow us on Instagram! Lyndsay https://www.instagram.com/wildroot_flowerco/ (@wildroot_flowerco) Shannon https://www.instagram.com/bloomhillfarm/ (@bloomhillfarm)
Join Lyndsay Biehl of https://www.wildrootflowerco.com/the-farm (Wildroot Flower Co.) and Shannon Allen of https://bloomhillfarm.com/ (Bloom Hill Farm) for a fun new episode format - our monthly Spill the Dirt Q&A! Every Sunday, on our Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers), you can submit questions to the podcast. Every month, we will select 3-4 questions and answer them for you! Ask us anything! This month we are talking about when our farms became profitable, nurturing an amazing customer base and finding balance. Did you love today's episode? Take a screenshot and share it in your IG stories. Don't forget to tag https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers)! Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Head to https://www.thedirtonflowers.com/ (www.thedirtonflowers.com) to sign up for our newsletter and become a Dirt on Flowers insider! Want to learn more about your hosts? Follow us on Instagram! Lyndsay https://www.instagram.com/wildroot_flowerco/ (@wildroot_flowerco) Shannon https://www.instagram.com/bloomhillfarm/ (@bloomhillfarm)
Join Lyndsay Biehl of https://www.wildrootflowerco.com/the-farm (Wildroot Flower Co.) and Shannon Allen of https://bloomhillfarm.com/ (Bloom Hill Farm) to dig the dirt on running a You Pick Event on your flower farm. Lyndsay and Shannon will talk about their tips, tricks and things to consider when venturing into this fun and profitable arm of your business! Download our https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nqw-1NI_bFfgdEAUvKhq1MFQcKXJQJBo/view?usp=sharing (Free Guide to our Favorite You Pick Flower Varieties HERE)! This guide lists out our favorite, tried and true, customer favorite you pick flower varieties that you can use in your own You Pick operation. Did you love today's episode? Take a screenshot and share it in your IG stories. Don't forget to tag https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers)! Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Head to https://www.thedirtonflowers.com/ (www.thedirtonflowers.com) to sign up for our letter and become a Dirt on Flowers insider! Want to learn more about your hosts? Follow us on Instagram! Lyndsay https://www.instagram.com/wildroot_flowerco/ (@wildroot_flowerco) Shannon https://www.instagram.com/bloomhillfarm/ (@bloomhillfarm)
Join Lyndsay Biehl of https://www.wildrootflowerco.com/the-farm (Wildroot Flower Co.) and Shannon Allen of https://bloomhillfarm.com/ (Bloom Hill Farm) to dig the dirt on weed management with a very special guest! Judd Allen, Shannon's Husband and farming partner at Bloom Hill Farm, shares his insight on flower farming weed management. Are you struggling with the weeds? We've got you! We will talk about all the different weed management strategies Judd has implemented on their farm and the pros and cons of each. Did you love today's episode? Take a screenshot and share it in your IG stories. Don't forget to tag https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers)! Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Head to https://www.thedirtonflowers.com/ (www.thedirtonflowers.com) to sign up for our letter and become a Dirt on Flowers insider! Want to learn more about your hosts? Follow us on Instagram! Lyndsay https://www.instagram.com/wildroot_flowerco/ (@wildroot_flowerco) Shannon https://www.instagram.com/bloomhillfarm/ (@bloomhillfarm)
Join Lyndsay Biehl of https://www.wildrootflowerco.com/the-farm (Wildroot Flower Co.) and Shannon Allen of https://bloomhillfarm.com/ (Bloom Hill Farm) to talk all things ranunculus and anenome production on their farms! In this episode, we talk about: How we grow both ranunculus and anenome on our farm Soaking and pre sprouting processes When and how we plant our corms Ordering and sourcing Saving corms? Is it worth it and how to Growing them in the greenhouse Pest and disease management When to harvest Most importantly, why you NEED ranunculus and anemone on your cut flower farm! Did you love today's episode? Take a screenshot and share in your IG stories. Don't forgot to tag https://www.instagram.com/dirtonflowers/ (@dirtonflowers)! Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Head to www.thedirtonflowers.com to sign up our letter and become a Dirt on Flowers insider! Want to learn more about your hosts? Follow us on Instagram! Lyndsay https://www.instagram.com/wildroot_flowerco/ (@wildroot_flowerco) Shannon https://www.instagram.com/bloomhillfarm/ (@bloomhillfarm)
You are what you eat. A saying we're all familiar with, but when putting to practice, we hardly know where to start. How do we turn old food habits into methodical choices that truly fuel our bodies and minds? On this episode, Deloitte Chief Well-being Officer Jen Fisher talks with Shannon Allen, creator of Grown, the first ever 100% USDA organic certified fast food restaurant with a drive thru, on how focusing on real, single ingredient foods can have an impact on many aspects of our well-being.
You are what you eat. A saying we're all familiar with, but when putting to practice, we hardly know where to start. How do we turn old food habits into methodical choices that truly fuel our bodies and minds? On this episode, Jen Fisher talks with Shannon Allen, creator of Grown, the first ever 100% USDA organic certified fast food restaurant with a drive thru, on how focusing on real, single ingredient foods can have an impact on many aspects of our well-being.
Beaumont ISD Superintendent Dr. Shannon Allen joins the show to talk about how BISD works to prepare Beaumont youth for college and careers in the workforce. She also discusses BISD's new maritime program, how she became a superintendent, how the school district dealt with COVID, and the Workforce Solutions Southeast Texas Youth Career Expo, among other topics. For more information about Beaumont ISD, visit www.bmtisd.com
Shannon Allen walks through how mentorship works, sharing her experiences of both having mentors and serving as a mentor herself. What makes successful mentorships mutually beneficial to both participants? Who should seek out mentorships? What are the expectations of mentors and mentees? Should both participants be from the same industry? Should you choose a mentor much older than you? What should the mentor have in common with the mentee to maximize success? How long should mentorships last? What's the difference between mentors and role models? What are common misconceptions about mentoring? What causes mentorships to fail? How can you approach someone if you want to ask if they'll serve as your mentor? If you think you can add value to someone's career growth or life, what's the best way to approach them and offer mentorship? EPISODE RESOURCES:Connect with Shannon on LinkedIn
Today’s guests, Shannon and Judd Allen, are first-generation farmers who grow specialty cut flowers in Uniontown, Ohio, serving the Canton-Akron communities. A few weeks ago, Shannon reached out via email to let us know that John Deere, the tractor company based in Moline, Illinois, filmed and produced several videos about their small farm and their […] The post Episode 549: Local Flowers on the National Stage, Starring in a John Deere Commercial with Judd and Shannon Allen of Ohio’s Bloom Hill Farm appeared first on Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra Prinzing.
Shannon Allen is the SAS Senior Director of Employer Branding and HR Communication - two fields that typically don't go together. But SAS wants its teams to understand that HR is not just about hiring and firing - it's about intentionally building a culture with values and a mission that everyone can get behind. And that culture has led SAS to be named a Best Workplace in Technology by Fortune in 2021.The Executive Women's Day event, where leaders of today and tomorrow gathered to engage in meaningful dialogue, was held on October 12, 2021. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is proud to share insights from the keynote speakers and panelists on business perspectives, best practices, and the inclusion and empowerment of women in the workplace.The Executive Women's Day Podcast is hosted by The Diversity Movement co-founder Jackie Ferguson, and is produced by Earfluence.
Harold Mann and Jim Love talk with BISD Superintendent Dr. Shannon Allen about the past school year and future plans for the district. Dr. Allen also discusses BISD's early childhood programs and high school programs to familiarize students with various careers.
Jump right into this episode and eavesdrop because this recording is basically two friends catching up. I love this guest like I've known her since I was a child. She's a powerhouse of a woman and there's no stopping her. Sit back and listen to my friend, singer, actress, mother and wife to the talented and former NBA star Ray Allen...Shannon Allen joins me in Chapter 30 of “We're Big Kids Now”. Be sure to follow Shannon on Instagram and all other social media platforms and stop by her restaurant @Grown. Guest: Shannon Allen Instagram: @Swalkerwil www.Grown.org @Grown & @Grown_Southern --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/werebigkidsnow/support
Shannon Allen is a singer/songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, creative, wife, and mother of five. She is also the founder of grown™️, a revolutionary chain of organic certified fast food restaurants that serve real food through drive-thru windows. Hear how her son fueled her passion for a much-needed industry change. HOST: Kelly Lewis | @gokellylewis GUEST: Shannon Allen | @swalkerwil Grown certified organic fast food | @grown For more inspiring stories of women around the globe, check out the book Tell Her She Cant https://tellhershecant.com/ NOTES: (1:11): Meet Shannon's baby, Walker, and the undiagnosed condition that would change her family's life forever. (7:09) Hear the moment that Shannon realized that life for her son should not be dictated by the restrictions of western medicine. (8:17) The event that spurred Shannon to reinvent fast food for the better. (13:11) How Shannon found funding for the company that most of the world told her was a crazy idea and the growth she has seen since spearheading grown. This podcast was produced by Elise Fitzsimmons | Tell your story: helloelisefitz@gmail.com
Shannon Allen is the creator of grown™, the first organic fast-food restaurant with a drive thru on the East Coast. Shannon, along with her husband, two-time NBA champion Ray Allen, have five children; Shannon created grown after searching unsuccessfully for an organic, nutrient-dense meals-on-the-go for her busy family. grown has become widely recognized as a market disrupter for providing convenience without compromise. Shannon shares her newest organic line with us: grown Organic CBD! We DEVOURED the honey and gummies! Organic. Affordable. Delicious! We are big fans! Then Shannon and Jim discuss diabetes and the Freestyle Libre glucose monitor; Jim uses one daily, as does Shannon’s son Walker. Libre has been a game changer for them and their families. We ADORE Shannon Allen! She is brilliant, creative, generous and talented. We are blessed and inspired every time we get to talk with her. Thank you, Shannon! xo! Also in today’s episode: Jim shares a personal medical update. We pay homage to Jazmine Sullivan (the song we love is called ‘Switch’, BTW!) and we send love to our Friends with Benefits! Today’s Yummy Yummy is: Natural Honey with Organic CBD and Organic CBD Gummies with Melatonin by grown! We LOVE these products! https://www.grown.org/shop-1 Today’s show is dedicated to: Nancy Jones, Matthew LaPierre, Tammy Devine, Jeannine Tailac, Kathy Nordquist and Qraig DeGroot! And, of course, Dionne Warwick. We love you! Want to support us behind the scenes? Become a monthly contributor! Simply go to https://anchor.fm/jim-lanahan/support and choose your monthly donation level. You can contribute as little as $0.99/month or as much as you like! Every little bit helps! Thank you! Wanna be Friends with Benefits? This episode of Jim Lanahan and Friends is sponsored by Jim Lanahan on https://cameo.com/jim_lanahan. All proceeds support this pod! Your personalized video comes with a link to join our live studio audience when we record the podcast. Who knows, you might even get to be IN the podcast! Connect with us! Shannon Allen: @grown on Insta @grown_southern on Insta @swalkerwil on Insta https://www.grown.org/shop-1 Podcast: FB and Insta: Jim Lanahan and Friends Podcast Jim Lanahan: @jimlanahan on Insta @IamJimLanahan on Facebook Website: https://jimlanahan.com Christine Sinacore: @csinacore on Twitter and FB Insta: @christinesinacore Website: https://christinesinacore.com Doctor Jon Paul Higgins: @doctorjonpaul on Twitter, Insta, FB Website: https://doctorjonpaul.com Scott Sheldon: @scottysheldon on Twitter and FB Insta:@scottasheldon, @scottysheldontheactor Website: https://scottysheldon.com Stephanie Laffin: @chickylaff on Twitter and Insta @billytherescuepup on Insta --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jim-lanahan/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jim-lanahan/support
Shannon Allen is the creator of grown and our resident mom-on-the-go. Shannon lives in Miami with her husband, Ray Allen (two-time NBA champion) and their five children. Grown's restaurant concept evolved from her television show, The Pre-Game Meal, inspired by 18 years of preparing optimal game day meals for her husband. The show featured professional athletes and chefs preparing healthier versions of tailgate food in hopes of inspiring soccer moms and sports fans alike to embrace a healthier diet exercise. The Allen’s are passionate advocates for research for a cure for Type 1 Diabetes in honor of their seven-year-old son, Walker. Shannon, Ray and their family devote their time and efforts to raise the level of awareness of T1D and its symptoms and are committed with purpose, passion and dedication to prevailing in the fight against this potentially life threatening disease.https://www.grown.org
Shannon Allen is the creator of Grown, a unique restaurant chain that offers organic fast-food focusing on nutrient-dense, farm-to-fork cuisine. Sharon lives in Miami with her husband Ray Allen (two-time NBA champion) and their five children. Grown's restaurant concept evolved from her television show, The Pre-Game Meal. The Allen's are passionate advocates for research for a cure for Type 1 Diabetes in honor of their seven-year-old son, Walker. Shannon, Ray and their family devote their time and efforts to raise the level of awareness of T1D and its symptoms and are committed with purpose, passion and dedication to prevailing in the fight against this potentially life threatening disease. In this episode Shannon discusses the importance of a healthy diet with Katty Bucio, Health Channel's Medical Correspondent, and with Amy Kimberlain, Nutrition Expert from Baptist Health.
Today we’re speaking with a B2B tech company that's been doing employer branding for years before most organizations were concerned with employer reputation. Shannon Allen and Allison Bonner Bogart talk about their experience with EVP and recruitment efforts at SAS. Shannon Allen is the Head of Global Branding and HR Communications at SAS. Allison Bonner Bogart is part of the Global Lead Team for Employer Branding and Recruitment Efforts at SAS. Learn more about SAS https://www.linkedin.com/company/sas/ https://www.sas.com/careers https://www.sas.com/culture Follow Shannon https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-allen-a0a30177/ Follow Allison https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-bonner-bogart https://twitter.com/Allison_Bogart_ Subscribe to this podcast: https://employerbrandingpodcast.com Measure your employer brand: https://employerbrandindex.co Thanks for tuning in!
Shannon Allen, Responded to a request on Twitter, if she would like to be on my Podcast to tell her story and discuss her experience with amazon. During this discussion there was so much more to the story than had been previously released in the media. She has been on numerous mainstream medias, including Tucker Carlson Tonight, which is where initially saw her interview. Shannon, has a GoFundme page (link below) and a YouTube Channel. This is a 3 part series with more from the first interview to come and one more yet to be recorded. It will be added to this podcast with updates as to the markers and segments in this description. You won't want to miss it! Show your support by checking out the links and being involved in the conversation. https://www.gofundme.com/HomelessinTexas https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkP-1WjGwJGjtES6L1g15Vw https://youtu.be/P864IG-wdCA Quick Facts: She Worked as a Warehouse Employee She Was Injured on the Job Due to Ineffective Safety Precautions She Has a GoFundMe Account Set Up to Help Find Housing She Was Only Given One Week of Paid Sick Leave for Her Injuries Allen Has Pointed Out That She Works for the Richest Man in the World, & Yet Still Is Homeless “Nobody should ever have to go to work and feel like … their job is in jeopardy or they're going to lose their life or their job because of the pressure that's put on you.” — Shannon Allen, former Amazon employee --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theadamparadox/support
In episode 13 of The Talent Brand Podcast, we speak to Allison Bogart and Shannon Allen, the Employer Brand and People Communications team at SAS about how they launched a new EVP and employer brand strategy after attending last year's Talent Brand Summit event. Learn how they got into Talent Branding and evolved their roles at SAS over the years.
On episode 39 Karl and Elgin interview Shannon Allen to discuss privacy coin CrypticCoin which was last week's biggest gainer in the Crypto market. We also discuss his background from being from Detroit, going to Seattle an settling in Miami plus plenty of other interesting dialogue.
In this episode, which is a little longer than our typical episodes, we talk to Vickie Shannon Allen, a native Texan and a warehouse worker at an Amazon fulfillment center, where she sustained an injury on the job. Vickie’s struggle with Amazon to get the medical treatment she deserves is ongoing. As we discuss in the interview, it has been hell for her, and we are asking listeners to help us share her story and hold Amazon accountable. We talk with Vickie about her experience working for Amazon, but we talk about a lot more, too. We talk about growing up working class in Texas, about going to school hungry, and about the horrific, dehumanizing treatment she and her siblings got from their stepmother. We talk about falling in love for the first time, and we talk about heartbreak. We talk about working as a single mother and raising two boys. We talk about what it really means to fight for your future. Additional links/info below... Link to Vickie’s GoFundMe fundraiser Link to Vickie’s YouTube channel International Amazon Workers Voice Facebook page Michael Sainato, The Guardian, “Accidents at Amazon: Workers Left to Suffer after Warehouse Injuries” Alex Press, Medium, “$15 Isn’t Enough to Empower Amazon’s Workers” Louise Matsakis, WIRED, “Why Amazon Really Raised Its Minimum Wage to $15” Bryan Menegus, Gizmodo, “Amazon’s Aggressive Anti-Union Tactics Revealed in Leaked 45-Minute Video” Russell Brandom, The Verge, “Amazon Is Selling Police Departments a Real-Time Facial Recognition System” Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" Les Hayden, “Need” Brother Timothy Clark, “Are You Ready?” Silicon Transmitter, “Downfall” Thorn & Shout, “Farewell”
This year, Lake Nona Social and I held our first ever BALANCE: Health+Wellness Expo in Orlando, FL and were extremely blessed to have Shannon Allen as one of our keynote speakers. Shannon is the owner of Grown, organic fast-food restaurant, as well as the wife of NBA All-Star Ray Allen. This episode is the audio of Shannon's keynote speech. She talks about how the food industry is broken, what she's doing to fix it, and the life of a busy mom and wife of a professional athlete. It was an honor having Shannon and I appreciate her integrity and loving spirit! This could be the episode that changes the way you eat forever. Give her a listen! Check out Grown here: https://www.grown.org/our-story/ Love this episode? Support the vision: https://patreon.com/deegreene
Skyy Wonders LIVE - Unmuted: Your Voice Matters - Guest Shannon Allen - Stylist TONIGHT! The 40+ Wonders movement on the blog talk radio show, Unmuted: Your Voice Matters!! Every 1st Tuesday of each month, we will discuss topics relating to women and men 40 years old and older. Join Skyy Wonders and Keah C Jones to welcome our special guest, Shannan Allen, Personal Stylist/Blogger. Tuesday's TOPIC discussion will be about "Do We Have to Dress Our Age?" We want your voice to be heard and ask our guest about what looks good on you? Call in this Tuesday from 7pm-8pm EST. Call in at 347-855-8867 and get UNMUTED on our favorite network, NHISG Sports Media Network
The oldest & largest Ohlone village on SF Bay is the proposed site for a five-story West Berkeley apartment and retail complex. Ohlone descendants and Berkeley residents are calling instead for a two-acre memorial park honoring Ohlone history and culture.TRANSCRIPTSpeaker 1:Method to the madness is next. You're listening to method to the madness, a weekly public affairs show on k a l expertly celebrating bay area in Harris. I'm your host, Lisa Kiefer. And today I'm interviewing Corina Google lead organizer and cofounder of Indian people organizing for change. And Chris Oaks, native American activists and Oakland resident. They'll be talking about their innovative quest to stop development on the west Berkeley Shell Mountain alone, the village side [00:00:30] and the birthplace of human settlement on the San Francisco Bay. Come to the program, Chris and Terrina. Uh, you guys have been very involved recently, Speaker 2:the shell mound Aloni village site controversy. And I want to talk about your innovative solutions to your opposition to the development there. What's going on over there? Well, thank you for having us on. We've been working on the shell mound issue I guess since about March of last year [00:01:00] when the developer first took it to the zoning board and there was a few of us, a handful of us that showed up to that first initial meeting in March and the opposition already to the plan. So the plan is to develop the fourth streets. It's 1904th street. What's Bangor's parking lot, right? Spangler is parking lot right across the street. And you know, a lot of people say, well, why? You know, it's not even there anymore, but the [inaudible] is way deeper inside of there and it's way bigger [00:01:30] than um, this bangers parking lot. That's 2.2 acres. It actually goes, um, to second and Hearst. Speaker 2:It goes under the railroad tracks under trued and white Anders bangers and out underneath the overpass. So as a huge area of my ancestors, it's over 5,700 years old. It is the first place that people ever lived in the entire bay. It is the oldest of 425 plus shell mounds or burial sites of my ancestors that once rank [00:02:00] the entire bay area. So many have been covered up. Emeryville is a, was a big shell. Male Emeryville was the largest of the 425. It was over 60 feet high and 350 feet in diameter. Um, it was both the uh, west Berkeley showmen and the memory real Shama was on a 1852 coast survey map. So coming into the bay you could use them as points of reference. So these um, shell mounds were really instrumental for us also as Aloni people to be able [00:02:30] to see out our relatives that were around the bay to have ceremony on top of them to be able to light fire so people can send signals to one another about different things. Speaker 2:So these were, I'm absolutely are monuments to the ancestors but are also sacred sites to the alone of people that exist here in the bay area today. Okay. So you're talking about the unique and significant points about this, the earliest settlement on the bay ceremonial side, a burial ground, and you mentioned some other things. You say that [00:03:00] it's listed on the national registry of historic sites now it qualifies. It is a landmark in the city of Berkeley and it's also a state historic landmark and it qualifies for a national historic landmark. And the development is going to be what, what is it that they're proposing? They're proposing a five story mixed use building with parking, housing, restaurants and stores. It's a pretty big structure compared to what's there right now. Yeah, it's [00:03:30] the local businesses and residents think about this development Speaker 3:at the public comment period. Um, one of the main developers for fourth street came by and he actually has hired an attorney who testified as well. Um, because they are against the development for a variety of reasons. One of which is that parking in that area as anybody knows who goes down there, it's horrible. But then the other one is it's just completely out of size for the area. So they brought up a bunch of concerns about the height of other buildings around it cause [00:04:00] it's going to be a few stories taller than any other building near there, chewed in white. They also came to the last zoning board public comment and they were also concerned about congestion and traffic in the area, which is also something that the zoning board members pretty much unanimously in their comments had mentioned was going to be one of the major issues to this project. Purely from a city planning perspective. The area pretty much has been overdeveloped and so there isn't enough parking. Traffic is horrible and the intersections there are bad [00:04:30] and they're just going to get worse and there's real no remedy for it because it's a kind of secluded little pocket of a neighborhood. Speaker 2:So the draft environmental impact report came out during the holiday season and what happens with a lot of drafty IRAs that come out around the holiday season is that people in the general public don't know about them and don't have time or energy to actually submit comments to the draft EIR. So we were able to actually do a lot of work. There's a committee of us that have been working together closely meeting [00:05:00] on a weekly basis, trying to figure out how to get the word out and to get people to come to the meetings. So they've been having public commenting both at the Zoning Adjustment Board and at the landmarks preservation commission. We've been able to successfully get lots of people to both of those meetings. The last public commenting period at the landmarks preservation commission at the north Berkeley Senior Center. And so getting folks to come out there and speak in opposition and to show people have come out with signs and um, have [00:05:30] stood there in the background and if stayed until one 30, two o'clock in the morning to give public testimony about why they're in opposition to this site has been really great to get public backing of for us to oppose this particular site. Speaker 2:So we've been working on it I guess since they, they released it in November, they gave it to extensions. Um, the last extension they gave we'll go until February 9th. What are you recommending since today is the deadline? What time is the, is the last time can comment and how do they go about doing that? 5:00 PM [00:06:00] is the end of the commenting period and if you don't have time to get it in the mail today, you can go onto the west Berkeley show Mt. Facebook page or the Indian people organizing for change website. You can find and download a copy of the letters that have been pre created that have bullet points of different issues that are in the EIR that we'd like for people to comment too, and you can send that to Shannon Allen at city planning and Berkeley. What [00:06:30] are your major challenges for this project? Speaker 2:I guess the major challenges have been educating people about this place because when you look at the, at Berkeley itself, Berkeley is a small city that's grown over the last 150 so years, but they don't have a lot of history around show mounts. There's some stuff about Aloni people in the past. They see I have a park there underneath the overpass. There's pictures of Baloney people dressed in regalia in the past and stuff, but I think that that's [00:07:00] the problem is that we're always viewed as somebody from the past, right. So to realize that Aloni people still exist here in our own territory. To bring people together to talk about what that looks like, to reimagine the bay area, to bring folks together on a loony territory with Aloni presence. Still here is something that's been a little challenging, but I think that because we've done the work over the last 20 years that it hasn't been as challenging as it could have been at school. Speaker 2:Children learn about the settlements. It's required [00:07:30] in the state of California. I think one of the most important things for just like barrier residents in general is that this is the first place that human beings ever lived on the shores of the San Francisco Bay. This is a place that we, as everybody who lives currently in the bay area, it should be a place that they're proud of. This is a place that's going to turn into another building. We have enough buildings around. We don't have sites like this. This is the first one. It's the oldest one. It also happens to be a burial ground where thousands and thousands of people were buried for over 5,000 years. [00:08:00] It should be a a historic landmark for the bay area. Everybody should know about it. What are you proposing instead? We're proposing we're working with a group that's going to create a plan that's an alternative plan. Speaker 2:That's one of the problems with the draftee I are that there is no alternative plan except to say that we could make it a smaller building maybe and so that's just not okay to demolish something. This sacred, this beautiful, this, this meaningful, illogical side with the museum over it. [00:08:30] It should have something there that instead of just a plaque saying that allone people were here at one time and we wiped them out and they're not here anymore. Cause that's basically what we get. We need to show folks that this is a living culture. People have been coming to the shell mound. My still take my family there. We still prayed there and recently we've taken people there and had interfaith prayer circles. They're over 200 people come every time to pray there together that this is a place that is supposed to be saved. This is a sacred place. Speaker 2:It's a place [00:09:00] that that shouldn't be destroyed. And so what we're doing is we're looking at how can we show this in a way that people can understand all of these other monuments that have been destroyed. Nobody can really wrap their head around what a shell man looks like. [inaudible] isn't there something from the 18 hundreds that I've seen pictures. There are maps that are, that were created. There are pictures of remanence of the shell man, both in Berkeley, west Berkeley and uh, Emeryville. And these [00:09:30] mounds are created by thousands of years of people living in the same place. So it's not like we are wandering around that we had these settlements that were, that people lived at. We were fishermen, so we lived on the water. The Bay actually came up closer. So imagine going into this space and keeping it green. Imagine opening up the Strawberry Creek where my, my ancestors lived next to so that people could see it again today. Imagine having our, uh, uh, structured there in Arbor where we had our ceremonial dances at and having [00:10:00] a mound built there and having structures of what the houses looked like so that children, not only from Berkeley but all over the bay area could come here and actually see that as you said, they, they have to study this stuff. The train tracks are right there and can bring people here to Berkeley. So Speaker 4:proposed a plan for something like that? Speaker 2:Yes. So we have had the archeologists, there's some archeologists that have been involved. Uh, not so much in the planning of the, of what we're envisioning. We have some folks that do landscape architecture [00:10:30] that are actually creating plans for us right now. We are hoping to submit that um, we'll be submitting that along with our comments for the draft EIR. Those things will happen so that zoning board could actually see that this could actually be something different. We either open it up to green space and we say as the city of Berkeley that this is what needs to happen. That we don't need any more buildings down there that we actually are going to respect the Aloni people in the culture and that it's an ongoing thing and yes, we want to help the Aloni people to actually [00:11:00] share their culture and beliefs here in the bay area and at the, and at the very least, leave it alone and leave it as a parking area not to build on it ever. Speaker 1:If you're just tuning in, you're listening to method to the madness weekly public affairs show on k a l expertly celebrating bay area innovators. Today I'm interviewing Corina Ghoul and Chris oaks about the Berkeley Shell Mound Aloni village site. [00:11:30] You were the main figure, one of the main figures in a film. Speaker 4:Great documentary beyond recognition. And in that film you created a land trust to solve a similar issue. Can you talk about what that was and I understand also that you are trying to create a land trust here. Sure. Speaker 2:Michelle Steinberg created the film beyond recognition because we were also involved in takeover of our re reoccupying, one of our sacred sites that had two shell mounds on it and [inaudible] Tay [00:12:00] where Glen Cove Leho is right now in 2011, hundreds of people came out and supported us in protecting that sacred site at that including Chris who was on our legal team at the time. We stood there for 109 days taking over that space again and praying and hoping that it would be protected for all eternity. And for the most part that that's what really happened. There was a federally recognized tribe that is from farther up north. Um, it's not their territory, but they stepped in and created a cultural [00:12:30] easement with the park district and the city, which is the first that's ever happened to cultural easement, allows those three entities to have the same rights on that piece of land. Speaker 2:So it will be protected. It would not have happened had we not been there for 109 days, pushing the envelope to make sure that something came through and happened. What we realized while we were there. If we had had a land trust at the time, we could have created that cultural easement ourselves. And so Beth Rose Middleton, who was a professor at UC Berkeley, wrote land for [00:13:00] trust, actually invited me to a native American meeting for native people that had land trusts. And I couldn't understand at the time why I was going to the meeting until I got them begin to hear their stories. And I said, wait a minute, we should do that. So we have decided, a group of us came together and we're creating the first urban native women land trust ever created because Aloni people's land is all urban now just about. Um, but also it's all native indigenous women's Land Trust, not just Aloni land trust because so many native [00:13:30] women have been brought into the bay area on relocation measures during the fifties and sixties has raised their children here. Speaker 2:Their children have children now. And so it's really about giving a place, a space and we're really having to buy our own land back. And that's what the land trust is about. So right now we have done the articles of incorporation. We're working on kind of completing the nonprofit status so that we can go forward and begin to raise money to actually do the purchasing of our land, but land is expensive. Here in the bay area, [00:14:00] the 2.2 acres of land that's across from spankers is going for $17 million. My ancestors, the first place that they ever lived, the first place that Aloni babies were born in this area. The first place of laughter is going for $17 million and if they put this building on top of that, that means that there is not going to be a place that my grandchildren who are laughing and being born on our land can go and pray with their ancestors. Speaker 2:I think that society has come a bit farther than that, [00:14:30] that we can actually say we can actually share this with the first people that tended to this land. What needs to happen before you get your nonprofit status? What remains to be done? We are in the midst. We have our bylaws that were just completed. We are vetting it through the lawyer and the last paperwork needs to be submitted and then it's all good. We actually have a website that's online right now. It's called a Segora Tay Land Trust. You'd better spell that. Yeah. Www dot [inaudible] [00:15:00] s o g o r e a t e hyphen land trust.org and folks can go on it could learn about history in the bay area, can learn about why we created the land trust. There's also something on there called the Sh. Let me tax and Sh Leumi in Aloni language though, Aloni language from this area [inaudible] it means a gift and so it allows people to go on there and to actually help us in finding ways to raise money if they're a renter or an owner, how many bedrooms [00:15:30] they have, how much land tax they could actually pay to help us to begin that process of purchasing land back. Speaker 2:So it's a way for people to be involved. I encourage people in the [inaudible] Speaker 4:and to see that great documentary that you feature so prominently in. Yes, which is called beyond recognition. Definitely check that out. It's a good one. I wanted to ask you if you felt like standing rock and all the historic precedent that said, although right now it might be under siege with our, our new president, but do you feel that that has invigorated [00:16:00] this cause? Speaker 2:Yeah, I would say that I'm, in the last 20 years we've been working on [inaudible] issues in the bay area. We've done walks to show mounds, we've done the occupation, we go to the Emeryville on the day after Thanksgiving for the last 19 years asking people to come and help us give out information to ask people not to shop there. And I think that when people began to see standing rock and social media has been such a great wonder and helping people to see this, see what was happening out there and to actually [00:16:30] follow along. So many people, activists from the bay area have gone out to standing rock. And one of the beautiful things that has happened was that the elders out in standing rock actually gave a directive to young people that were coming out there. And going back home was to get involved with your own local issues. This is our standing rock right now in the bay area. This is our front line. And so young people, allies and accomplices have come together, have helped us to try to figure out how they could do work to help us [00:17:00] to get fundraisers for the lawyer that we've had to hire, have done fundraisers to get information out, have created events pages so that folks will know about it. So it's been a wonderful coupling of between us. Speaker 4:Yeah, it's not over yet. Of course. It's not over yet. It has really kind of lit some fires I think. Yeah, it's been great. You've been at this for 20 some years. How did you Speaker 2:no, you were Aloni how did this all come about? Right. I grew up in the bay area, went to, uh, went to public [00:17:30] schools. My mom always told us that we were Aloni we, she knew that we came from mission San Jose. That's where we were enslaved at. My great grandfather, Jose Guzman was the last one of the last speakers of the [inaudible] language. Can you speak? No, I can't speak it. I can say a few words inside of [inaudible]. My daughter, um, it was her dream since she was about 14 to begin the language and she's starting to do that now and she's teaching my grandchildren as well. So it's a wonderful thing that that's, and it's my hope that I will [00:18:00] learn enough so that I can pray in my own language. So we've always known who we are, but it's not that long ago that California Indians, it was against the law for them to even be here. Speaker 2:It wasn't that long ago that California Indian kids were taken out of their homes and put into boarding schools like my mom and my aunties and uncles. So it was very scary boarding one of the boarding schools. And so for us it's been a real, it's a resilience, a way for people to say Aloni people are bringing back language and [00:18:30] culture and dance and song because our ancestors put those things away though because our ancestors gave those things to people to hold onto until we were able to grab them again until it was an, it was safe for us to come out. And I think that that's really important that Nels Nelson, for whatever reason, created this map with 425 shell mounds way before I was here in 1909 he wrote that map down. But today we were able to use that in order to find out where all of our sites were. Speaker 2:[00:19:00] JP Harrington recorded my great grandfather on wax cylinder and it's in the Smithsonian so we could reclaim our language again. So there's these people that put these things away for us because our ancestors whispered in their ear and told them to do that so that we could come back again and share this with our children and our grandchildren. So it's our responsibility. We are the stewards of this land. We were put here because this was the place we were supposed to take care of in this part of the world, and so I really believe that that's our, [00:19:30] that's what we're supposed to do. Bringing back language and song and all of that is part of the dream part of that, about the importance of that language and culture and why is this important? It's important for the healing of this land. It's important for the healing of the people that live on this land, not just the loaning people. Speaker 2:When you say healing village, are you talking about environmental degradation? I'm talking about racism. I'm talking about the slavery. I'm talking about environmental, I'm talking about the invisibility of Aloni people. I'm talking about all of the [00:20:00] horrific things of the happened since the genocide that was created on this land that needs to be taken care of. I'm talking about the thousands of ancestral remains at UC Berkeley that need to be put back into the ground. I'm talking about all of those kinds of things that need to be fixed here so that we could all become more human with each other. Again, it starts here. It starts with US fixing it with the first people of this land. There was at one point the United States government [00:20:30] had a government to government relationship with, with our tribe. And then there was a point in history where the person that was in charge of the bureau of Indian affairs wrote something that basically got rid of us. He wrote a line that said for all intensive purposes, no money was needed in order to purchase Speaker 3:land for the homeless Indians in the area. Now that takes an act of Congress to actually wipe out a tribe and that never happened, but there has not been any government to government relationships [00:21:00] since then. So it's really difficult to talk to the general public about these kinds of things because the general public doesn't even learn what sovereignty means, what an Indian tribe and federal recognition means in high school. And most kids, like we talk about a kids learn about Aloni people in third and fourth grade, but they learn about us in the past like we don't exist anymore. Well, you have the Indians around here used to do this and they used to do that, but what about the Indian people here today that drive cars and have cell phones and go to Raiders Games? It's always about [00:21:30] the Indians that were dressed up in feathers a long time ago and people didn't dress in feathers everyday. Speaker 3:Those were regalia that we use for certain ceremony, so we have to break those ideas in people's mind, but we also have to do a better job educating people that go to public schools about what does this, what is the responsibility of the federal government to the nations. Many different nations, hundreds of different nations that lived here in the, in the United States before it was the United States and we do a really bad [00:22:00] job in the education system doing that. Part of the history of how Indian tribes were recognized by the federal government comes from the fact that we have a several hundred year history of being Indian people in the United States. One of the issues that we get, especially out in California, is that the westward expansion in the United States followed several hundred years of congress changing their minds. So under the Supreme Court decision of John Marshall, the, he said that Indian nations were what they call domestic dependent nations, which means they're under [00:22:30] federal government control just legally. Speaker 3:And so part of that was that George Washington and the Delaware people, they were talking in the late 17 hundreds and as they traveled west, as the, as United States grew, they had different policies and different agreements with all of the Indian tribes going one by one. We've got about 430 recognized Indian tribes. Each one had their own agreements. And part of that was reflected in what year it was. Who is in Congress? Who was president? Was it, um, Andrew Jackson [00:23:00] who is known as the Indian killer or was it president Washington who in fact was fighting for independence from a foreign nation and all the way until the war of 1812 Indians were a strong part of the United States military or the British military or the French military. Depending on who they were aligned with. So a lot of the east coast tribes have a completely different history because they were actually allies of these emerging governments. Speaker 3:And then when you get past the Mississippi, you had the policies of a few hundred years of Indian [00:23:30] wars, which is why, for instance, the Lakota people and the boots Apache people in Geronimo and sitting bull. And you get these Indian leaders for about a hundred years that were known for the Indian wars because that's when the west was expanding rapidly and they were killing Indians to do it. But the little known American history that we don't know as much is what happened when not the Mexican or the Spanish government got to California, but was when the United States government got to California. So we're talking in the 1850s so that was, [00:24:00] you know, 150 years of Indian policy that had been used by the United States and by Congress. And so you had a completely different idea of how to deal with Indian people by the time you got here. So what happened was that they were keen to recognize as many tribes as possible on the east coast because they were allies. Speaker 3:They were keen to run through all the tribes in the middle of America, from North Dakota, all the way down to Texas and all the way out to Colorado. And by the time they got here, they were purely motivated [00:24:30] by taking the land and they saw the Indian people as a burden on the west coast and California specifically because it was one of the last states. This is where Congress made it a policy to not recognize the tribes in California because they saw them as a burden because of 150 years of us policy with Indian tribe. Chris, what is your background here? What are you doing in this movement? My mom is from England and my father's from the Choctaw nation of Oklahoma. The reason we're the Choctaw nation of Oklahoma's, [00:25:00] cause Andrew Jackson relocated us in the 1830s from the state of Mississippi, which is our actual true home. Speaker 3:That's where our origin stories come from. The Choctaw people were pivotal in fighting in the war of 1812 against other Indian nations. For instance, to Coosa, uh, who is like a famous Indian leader who was very anti-American because he was on the British side. My tribe fought for the, for the United States. We were part of the war of 1812 where a large part of the victory of the war of 18, 12. The reason that we don't have any reservation in the state of Oklahoma [00:25:30] is because we picked the wrong side of the war for the civil war. So that's just a little brief history of how our tribe has been affected over in the state of Mississippi, in Oklahoma, by United States policy, United States Indian policy has changed depending on who's president, who's in Congress, what were were fighting. And where we are. Part of me here is that my dad, his family was born in Oklahoma since it became a state. Speaker 3:My great-great-grandmother arrived in Oklahoma the day it became a state as a settler. She was on the Non Indian [00:26:00] side and my dad's family has been born in the state of Oklahoma since we were relocated there in the 1830s he moved out here because of the air force. My granddad was relocated here as part of the air force. They came to California. So the reason why, for instance, inter-tribal friendship houses, the oldest Pan Indian meeting center in the United States, which is right here in Oakland on the west coast, is because Indians have been relocated to California specifically to the industrial areas like Oakland, [00:26:30] Los Angeles, which is where some of the largest Indian populations are in the United States is because of relocation. Sometimes that happened from what they call the relocation programs to the United States. Sometimes it comes because Indians have overwhelmingly been some of the most active volunteers for the United States military. Speaker 3:Uh, my dad went to cal Berkeley and so that's how my family got here. He actually wanted to fly my mom to Oklahoma to have me and my brother born there because we were the, the first generations [00:27:00] not born in Oklahoma since we were relocated there as a tribe. I went to school at California State University, East Bay and created a degree in American Indian pre-law because I knew that Indian law was what I wanted to do with my life. I remember ever since I was a kid, I would learn about the Indian policy. I would learn about sacred sites and it was something that would oftentimes have moved me to tears. And I knew it was something that I was passionate about. And when I started getting involved with Karena, one of the first sacred sites that I really sat down and worked for was in Cigar Tay, which was in Vallejo in 2011. Speaker 3:[00:27:30] And ever since then, it's been kind of hard to, to not follow my responsibilities, uh, to not follow the privileges that I've been given in this life, whether it be economic privileges of where I was born, but also my history of how my people got here to California, whether it be the Indian side or the English side, taking a step back from the Indian ancestry. For me, just as somebody who was born in Oakland, we need to look around and see the sacred sites that are around us. We need to know the history people lived here for [00:28:00] thousands of years before us and they're still here. And so part of that is acknowledging sacred sites and is knowing where these places are and what they mean. Our generation, I feel overwhelmingly has realized we're now coming to grips with our colonized history as colonizers, as people who participated in the colonization of North America and who also participated in the colonization of California. And we're realizing that we're on stolen land and some people call it guilt. That's one way of thinking about it, but it's [00:28:30] that we have to be more conscious. We have to think and we have to respect the people who are here now and the people here before us. And when you think about how long Berkeley has been a city compared to the 5,700 years that the west Berkeley Shell mound has been there, it's just a drop in the bucket. Speaker 2:So anyone listening today, I'm going to encourage people to go onto the Facebook page, west Berkeley show mouth, um, and to download the letters and to email it and to Shannon Allen's at the city planning, but not only for them to do it. I need them to get [00:29:00] five to 10 people, other people to do it. So if you're sitting at your office, you're listening to this, you have your coworkers, you have your mom, your dad, whoever it is that you know that's close to you and say, this is the right thing to do. As citizens of Berkeley, as citizens in the United States, that the Aloni people deserve to have this place saved. And that we can also ask the zoning board to actually change the zoning of that particular site, even though it's private property to make it a place that's actually open [00:29:30] space. If you want to make that a comment, ask the zoning board to make it a place that doesn't ever get built upon, that it stays open space and that they could rezone that particular lot to do. Just that. Speaker 1:Stop what you're doing. Grab a pen, get involved. I appreciate your energy today, so thank you Trina. Google. Thank you, Chris. Thank you so much. Thank you. You've been listening to method to the madness. You can find all of our podcasts on iTunes university. [00:30:00] Tune in again next Friday at noon. [inaudible]. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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