The Quake City Portal features people from all walks of life. The intention is to have mindful conversations to inspire curiosity, creativity, and our explorative spirit. To help uncover the natural resilience within ourselves from all that is seen and unseen. To help each other become self-reliant individuals so that we may contribute in our own unique ways to the kaleidoscopic human experience.
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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.
Continue reading QCP #022 | Stephanie Crawford, Death Doula | Death is Not Taboo
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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 means of opening up a brick-and-mortar business. Barbecue pits and pitmasters are the embodiments of resilience. The techniques they’ve honed in and feel they’ve developed for cooking come from trial and error. Their cooks are subject to variables in time and weather, so they must be able to adapt and keep their techniques fluid and flexible to adjust as necessary to create consistency in their products.
Continue reading QCP #021 | Garnet “G Stacks” Geoffroy, BBQ Pit Builder | The Arc of Fire and Iron
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Victor Thai is one of the most interesting people I know. He’s the son of Vietnamese refugees and grew 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 mushrooms from home, stocks a variety of teas in his pantry, owns fancy teacups and tea sets, and is one of the most fluid and creative competitors I’ve ever had the chance to share the mat with.
Continue reading QCP #020 | Victor Thai, Tech Shaman and Conduit to the Psychedelic Realm
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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 violence and cultural diversity.
Continue reading QCP #019 | Connor McCann of the Brain Drain Podcast | How Can We Better Relate To Each Other?
