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QCP #032 | Pam Baker, Founder of the Women’s Coaching Alliance | How Women Can Mind the Gap in Leadership, and the Foundations of great Organizations

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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 Genentech and Johnson and Johnson, where she worked as district sales manager, project manager, and project director, as well as Vice President and CEO for several startups in the healthcare and investment sectors. She is a woman dedicated to “minding the gap,” a British expression she likes to use that shows her willingness to explore the unfamiliar and help light the way for everyone, especially women and future leaders of the world. 

PART 1 – What is the Women’s Coaching Alliance? | Exploring the Unfamiliar | Molding Leadership

  • Empowering women through leadership roles
  • Intentions
  • Personal History
  • Process | Corporate vs Startup
  • How coaching translates into the real world

PART 2 – The Power of Coaching and giving back to community

PART 3 – Doug’s Coaching Legacy  | What we learn from grief |

QCP #030 | Chefs Matt Levin + Michael Greuel of The Refuge Restaurants | The Pathos of Pastrami, Survival Mode in the Food Service Industry

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Website: THE REFUGE
Instagram: @refuge_pastrami
Refuge on Diners Drive-ins and Dives

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In 2008 Matt Levin, his wife Melanie, and his good friend Michael Greuel opened The Refuge Restaurant. 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 along the way, one in Menlo Park, and the other in San Mateo. They both have over 25 years of experience in the food service industry.

They both share their experiences running three restaurants during the pandemic and what they’ve learned from it.

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QCP #029 | Dan Griffiths, founder of The Church of Clown | Praising Folly, A Peek into the Toolshed and The Life of a Performance Artist

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Website: http://www.dangriffiths.us/
Kapoot Clown Theatre Skit Video
How Much – Created and Performed by Dan Griffiths
Donut Goat at the Barber Shop

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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 Festival in Shijiazhuang, China. He also did work as a clown doctor and trainer for the Big Apple Circus and a director of CLOWN ZERO, a Medical Clowning Unit residence at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.

For almost 35 years, since 1988, he has performed original theatrical works across the country and around the world. He studied at the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre and has served on the faculty Clown Conservatory San Francisco, The School for Mime Theater, Columbia College Chicago, Roosevelt University, Indiana University Northwest, and Academy of Art University. Dan holds an M.A. in Experimental Performance from New College of California and an M.F.A in Interdisciplinary Art from the California Institute of Integral Studies.

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QCP #019 | Connor McCann of the Brain Drain Podcast | How Can We Better Relate To Each Other?

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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. 

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QCP #007 | The New Filipino American Folk Tales of Daly City

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. 

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QCP #006 | Personal Audio Essay | A Deep Meditation On Eye Contact

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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 together.

This is an essay I wrote inspired by this story, recorded in podcast form. The Egg sparked a deep dive into eye contact, my difficulties with it at times, and throughout my life. I wanted to answer the question – why is it (sometimes) hard to make eye contact?

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QCP #004 | Family Trip to Tahoe | Rethinking The Language Of Our Identity, Our Given Names, And Kinship

WARNING: Explicit Content (Only for the first 30 min or so after the intro)

We are joined by 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!

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