GUEST BIO Christopher Renfro ( instagram , additional links ) is the founder of the Two Eighty Project , an organization "dedicated to building a sustainable food and wine community that nourishes every member of the local economy and ecosystem." It began with his love and curiosity for learning about wine and implementing his knowledge into a community farm visible from the Highway 280 Freeway heading out of San Francisco. SHOW NOTES | MENTIONS SEG 1 - Castles and Finding True Freedom in the ou...
Nov 01, 2022•2 hr 41 min•Ep. 32
GUEST BIO Pam Baker ( womenscoachingalliance.org ) is dedicated to empowering, encouraging, and developing more young women to become examples of leadership, rather than the exception, through coaching youth sports and giving back to the community. With her own unique leadership, she founded the Women's Coaching Alliance, inspired and built upon the memory of her late husband Doug Friedman, who made his transition in 2020. Her aim for great leadership and work ethic brought her to places like Ge...
Oct 06, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 31
GUEST BIO Dr. Karen Apana is one of the founding members of the San Francisco Waldorf School – first founded in 1978. She has been a lifetime teacher, mentor, and student of Anthroposophy for over 40 years. For over 25 years, she has been teaching biography work and has a private practice for biography counseling in San Francisco. She also holds frequent biography workshops all over the Bay Area, and although she is now retired as a Waldorf teacher, she still mentors and advises teachers in the ...
Sep 28, 2022•2 hr 58 min•Ep. 30
GUEST BIO In 2008 Matt Levin, his wife Melanie, and his good friend Michael Greuel opened The Refuge Restaurant, home of some of the best pastrami sandwiches and burgers. At the time, The Refuge was a small restaurant focused on french wines, Belgian beers, and house-made, hand-sliced pastrami sandwiches. Since 2008 their popularity has exploded. Customers have waited up to four hours to sit and dine with them. Fifteen years later, they streamlined the process and opened up two more locations al...
Sep 14, 2022•3 hr 31 min•Ep. 29
SAY HELLO TO DAN! Website: http://www.dangriffiths.us/ Kapoot Clown Theatre Skit Video How Much - Created and Performed by Dan Griffiths Donut Goat at the Barber Shop GUEST BIO Dan Griffiths is a multi-talented, experimental performance artist, award-winning theatre director, teacher, and founder of the first Church of Clown in San Francisco. He founded the Clown Workshop, Clown Zero, and KAPOOT Clown theatre. Some of his recent gigs include teaching clown at The Wu Qiao International Circus Fes...
Sep 01, 2022•3 hr 34 min•Ep. 28
GUEST BIO Instagram | @sophiacassellabjj Sophia Cassella is a 22-year-old brown belt from New Jersey, under Jason Rau. She's trained with some of the greatest minds that helped change the sport today in what some people call the renaissance of Jiu Jitsu. She commutes hours and hours every day from New Jersey to New York to train with some coaches and grapplers in the sport who are considered to be the best to ever coach and compete - John Danaher, Gordon Ryan, Gary Tonon, Renzo Gracie, and all o...
Aug 18, 2022•52 min•Ep. 27
GUEST BIO Souhad Abou Zaki is a Curious Economist and a Rural Development Enthusiast. She is currently a Senior Admissions officer residing in Lebanon at Notre Dame University, Louaize. Souhad works as a Lecturer in Economics, teaching undergrad courses in Microeconomics, Managerial Economics, and International Economics. She is also a Research Consultant and Proposal Writer for Rural Entrepreneurs, helping conduct research on rural development-related topics, which include women's economic empo...
Aug 05, 2022•2 hr 53 min•Ep. 26
GUEST BIO Julie Rogers is the Founder and Director of TLC Transitional Life Care, a Vajrayana Buddhist non-profit organization dedicated to the education and support of individuals and their families during the end-of-life transition. This program is centered in the SF Bay Area and southern Oregon, and is available online and via Zoom. She is a writer, author, mother, educator, and administrator, and has been a caregiver and hospice volunteer, as well as a Vajrayana (Tibetan) Buddhist for almost...
Jul 28, 2022•2 hr 6 min•Ep. 25
GUEST BIO Jairus Ferrer is a agricultural entreprenuer from Philippines. With family roots in Mindanao, the southernmost region of the Philippines, he decided to leave the congested, fast-paced city after thirteen years in favor of a more steady-paced, semi-rural, widely untapped area to get in touch with nature and get involved in economic development in rural communities. When Jairus was a boy, his family's shrimp farm was affected by red tide. It was a devastating blow from which it could nev...
Jul 12, 2022•2 hr 25 min•Ep. 24
GUEST BIO Martin Jay Ruiz is someone that found his way on a skateboard and later on to the wrestling mat as a troubled youth. At an early age, he found the blank canvases of the skate deck and the wrestling mat to be the wide-open spaces that allowed his soul the room for infinite expansion. To this day, his heart never lost its passion for the two mediums. He came from the streets of Santa Maria, California, pulled to the magnetic energy of San Francisco – a pilgrimage for skaters because of i...
Jun 22, 2022•3 hr 11 min•Ep. 23
Jake Luigi is the mind behind the Less Impressed, More Involved video blog on youtube. In less than a year, I saw his channel grow from a few hundred to well over seven and a half thousand subscribers. Some of his most popular videos have amassed sixty thousand views and continues to grow due to his cerebral, detailed, and cataloged approach to learning the art, the language, and the endless evolution of Jiu-Jitsu. In a time that has never seen more opportunity than today for creative exploratio...
Jun 08, 2022•2 hr 58 min•Ep. 22
GUEST BIO Our next guest, Stephanie Crawford, is a hospice care nurse and Death Doula. She recently founded Awakened Endings - an end of life service and community dedicated to helping others understand and prepare for a better death. In this conversation, you’ll hear both a heavy and light-hearted approach to talking about the transition of death. You’ll learn about what a death cafe is, what a “green” burial is, what some commonalities she has witnessed observing people weeks away from their l...
Apr 27, 2022•2 hr 9 min•Ep. 21
GUEST BIO If you had BBQ in the Bay Area in the past ten years, there’s a good chance the meat was cooked on one of the units fabricated by our next guest – Garnet Geoffroy, also known as G Stacks – proud owner and welder of custom-made, handcrafted smokers and pits right here on the west coast of Northern California. Barbecue pits are a great equalizer for entrepreneurs typically bogged down by the seemingly endless fees and regulations imparted on small business owners who have no resources or...
Apr 21, 2022•2 hr 54 min•Ep. 20
GUEST BIO Victor Thai is one of the most interesting people I know. He's the son of Vietnamese refugees growing up as one of the only Asian kids in Richmond, Virginia. I met him five years ago, training Jiu-Jitsu at the same gym where we spent a lot of nights after class doing some extra rolls. He was a newcomer to San Francisco from Virginia, and he introduced me to my first few psychedelic experiences. He grew his mushrooms from home, stocks a wide variety of colorful teas in his pantry, owns ...
Apr 14, 2022•2 hr 23 min•Ep. 19
GUEST BIO Connor McCann is the host of the Brain Drain Podcast. I came across his video about San Francisco's graffiti culture on YouTube, which was a topic that I was very interested in for so many reasons. That led me to his other videos , topics about the far corners of the world, geopolitics, organized crime, interwoven between personal stories about growing up during the early to mid-90s as a son of Irish immigrants in the middle of the city of San Francisco at the cross streets of gang vio...
Apr 06, 2022•2 hr 28 min•Ep. 18
GUEST BIO Franco Soriano is a Filipino American ultra runner. He started running ten years ago at the age of 40 and gravitated towards the adventure of ultra running. He runs for the love of it. As much as I wanted to uncover a story about grit and willpower, this conversation showed me that sometimes it just takes a stoic mindset, careful planning, and taking it easy to develop mental toughness. It's all about the enjoyment and high you get when you cross the finish line. And then it's on to th...
Mar 30, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 17
GUEST BIO Tom Brown III is the founder of FutureNature and T3Photography. He is a lifelong practitioner and living guide of ancestral skills, a frequent contributor, and a consultant to the Anchored Outdoors network. As a lifelong practitioner of ancestral skills under his father Tom Brown Jr. - prolific author and Founder of Tracker Wilderness Survival School. Tom has devoted his life to passing on his knowledge of these skills. He works diligently as an educator, a steward of the land, to help...
Mar 23, 2022•2 hr 17 min•Ep. 16
"No history, no self. Know history, know self." - Jose Rizal Many of us don't know about the trauma that our parents harbor. As children of parents that immigrated to the United States, the same trauma they harbor could be passed on to us, and manifested in different ways. Some of us might have these questions like - Who am I? Why do we speak this way? Why do I not know anything about you, our grandparents, or relatives? Why is it hard to approach my parents with these questions? Our next guest,...
Mar 16, 2022•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 15
A mushroom cloud - like the ones you see from a distance after a volcanic eruption or a nuclear explosion, is caused by the process scientifically described in the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (RTI). I don’t intend and am highly unqualified to describe in scientific detail what happens during an RTI. But my understanding (based on what I've found on the interwebs) uses the everyday example of what you see when trying to mix oil and water. Water - the lighter fluid in density based on the Earth's ...
Mar 14, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 14
GUEST BIO Ivan C Lopez is an artist from San Francisco by way of Columbia. He co-founded and helped build Artillery Art Gallery - a creative community space in the heart of the Mission. His passion to provide space for community inspires others to find what has been explorative and healing for him. Through ceramics and painting, Ivan hopes to bring balance; within a connection to the natural world alongside the concrete walls of the city. I wanted to speak with Ivan because he connects this idea...
Mar 09, 2022•2 hr 47 min•Ep. 13
GUEST BIO What is it about our collections that take up spaces in our lives? Meet Chino - The owner of the largest sneaker collection I’ve ever seen. He comes all the way to us from Edmonton, Canada by way of the Philippines. He’s a loving husband, father of two boys, a working man who does whatever it takes to make an honest living to care for his family. A few years ago, I had the chance to see in person an entire storage basement full of sneakers, jerseys, and sports memorabilia. And after ha...
Mar 02, 2022•2 hr 38 min•Ep. 12
River has a passion for holistic teaching. Beginning with her experience with the Wilderness Youth Project, and now with her work teaching at a Waldorf Elementary School where I met her as a new addition to the after-care program. While teaching early childhood students at the school, she also trains to officially become a Waldorf Education teacher. As a graduate from UC Santa Barbara, she earned a Bachelors's Degree in Feminist studies. Some of the many experiences that she graciously shares on...
Feb 20, 2022•3 hr 36 min•Ep. 11
Meet our dear friends, Ria and Raul Pelayo. In their four years of marriage, they come forward with their struggles in starting a family due to recurring pregnancy loss. We are also joined by my wife, my life partner - JoAnn. Both of us wanted to do an episode like this from the beginning, but couldn't conceptualize what, or how it could be done until Ria came forward with her forth miscarriage on social media. Together, we hope to provide a safe space to empower others to start their own conver...
Feb 03, 2022•2 hr 53 min•Ep. 10
Jethro is, what I like to call for fun, my younger brother from another mother. He’s the youngest son of my dad’s twin brother. Currently residing in Manila, by way of Cagayan de Oro Philippines. With his short stay in Manila, he immersed himself in his art within the underground hip-hop community. Through finding his artistic medium, he fixated his lens on the vibrant, unsung scene of the culture in Metro Manila. However, his passion was only realized during a difficult time. At six foot four, ...
Jan 28, 2022•2 hr 43 min•Ep. 9
Toño Ramirez is a free spirit, a truth-seeker, an explorer. I'll stop there because he, in my opinion, is only bogged down by more labels. I first met him on a trash cleanup organized by Vince of RefuseRefuseSF.org (our first guest on the podcast). Toño (alias used for privacy purposes) earned a bachelor's degree from The Ohio State University, a master's degree from UC Berkley, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. All degrees in his background are in the field of Mechanical Engineering. I was hopi...
Jan 21, 2022•2 hr 28 min•Ep. 8
Daly City is one of the closest suburbs in the outer borders of San Francisco, located directly to the South. It's home to one of the densest populations of Filipinos, anywhere outside of the Philippines, comprising 33% of the total population in a 2010 census. From the late ’80s to the early 2000s, Daly City helped to raise some of the world's most famous DJs, and dance groups. It was a big part of the history here on the west coast for the Filipino and Hip-Hop communities. Most of the Filipino...
Jan 04, 2022•2 hr 18 min•Ep. 7
What is the purpose of life? The Egg , a flash fiction story written by Andy Weir, offers a profound perspective on this age old question. If there is anything that can describe what The Quake City Portal is about, it can be found in this episode, and in stories just like The Egg. I was deeply moved by this piece, seeing it first in video form, and then reading the story here . With so many aspects of life that fuel a divide among individuals, we need to share more stories that bring people toge...
Dec 23, 2021•26 min•Ep. 6
Ernesto Pineda has over 20 years of experience in the Real Estate and Real Estate Tech industry. He is an entrepreneur, a business advisor, and an artist at heart. With his life-long love for books, art and travel, he uses his experience to merge his professional and creative endeavors. He has a passion for learning through experience, conversation and interacting with his environment. Notes | Mentions: Correction: Japanese Joinery (sorry, at a loss for words in that moment) El Salvador Civil Wa...
Dec 17, 2021•3 hr 39 min•Ep. 5
We are joined by some family and friends in a place near and dear to all from far and wide, especially those of us from the Bay Area - Lake Tahoe! This was a fun one to do. Join us around the table for an after dinner discussion about modern sexuality, identity preferences, and more! Please note there is some explicit content about sexuality, nothing graphic, but listener discretion is advised. Thank you for listening! Tahoe Spiral Podcast Notes: BDSM F2M pronouns/ LGBTQ (etc) Impact of calling ...
Dec 12, 2021•3 hr 47 min•Ep. 4
Marlon S Payumo, Sr. is the general manager of Mitchell's Ice Cream Shop in San Francisco, CA. He arrived in the United States when he was twenty years old, and has been working there since 1988. Among the many things we touch upon in this conversation, he shares his hardships as a child growing up in the Philippines, his experiences in dealing with the transition of moving to another country, speaking a new language, hard work, and resilience. NOTES | Mentions: SFGate Article - Mitchell's Ice C...
Nov 29, 2021•2 hr 36 min•Ep. 3
