Please Hustle Responsibly Podcast

Please Hustle Responsibly Podcast

by Support Staff

Self-Improvement Mental Health Relationships

Season 1

Finding a Fitness Routine Can Be Intimidating. Tips with Paramount Fitness

Alex Nsiah-Kum (he/him) Megan Mitchell (she/her) We are personal trainers who live & work in the Logan Square neighborhood in Chicago. Alex founded Paramount Personal Training in 2006 as a mobile personal training company. Megan joined Paramount in 2013 and together we opened the first physical location. We are doing a mix of in person and virtual workouts We nerd out about health & fitness, but also love cocktails and college basketball We eloped in 2018 and were supposed to celebrate with family & friends last year. We postponed the party to this April. I have a dog named Zoe who is 16 years young Social Media Instagram - @boomerangninja Facebook - boomerangworkoutYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPgHEfdADDfRuUkgU0zkubQ

Feeding Your Community with Won Kim

Today we talk to Won Kim about feeding your Community. He has turned his Bridgeport restaurant Kimski into Community Kitchen and Canteen which distributes hot meals to anyone who is in need. Teaming up with different chefs around the city Kim's menu offers six ever changing meals daily. The Community Kitchen is a food service program that provides complementary box lunches to in need residents, families and workers in Chicago the Canteen has provided over 4,000 hot fresh meals a week to local senior housing complexes, food pantries, community centers, hospital workers and residents of Chicago. Won is a modern day renaissance man. He is a stellar Chef, DJ , Street Artist, Community Activist etc. He has spent his time since the pandemic started on focusing on feeding his community. They have turned not only Kimski but he has multiple other venues around the City jumping on board to feed folx in solidarity. He also has been a part of other fundraising programs live streaming DJ sets to raise money for local tavern's staff. What can't this man do? If you have any questions for Won please email us at info@pleasehustleresponsibly.org Want to Donate to their cause: www.communitykitchenchicago.org Want to check out what Won is up to? Follow him on instagram at @communitykitchenchicago @kimskichicag0 @revisecmw

Transitioning Into Your Creative Flow into a Full Time Hustle with Kisira Hill

Today we talk with Kisira Hill. She has transitioned from working physically in the service industry to 100% creative. You can find Kisira behind some of the best graphic design in the game. When she is not crushing various art projects you can find her on her Anthropological Podcast Series. We talk to her about how she made this transition, what she does to she find inspiration and the various projects she is currently working on and what the future holds. Please forgive us for the interruptions in the podcast. We are working on getting our podcasts edited to eliminate this problem. Kisira Hill (she/her) is an anthropologist interested in the relationships between contemporary culture and evolutionary theories of migration in academia, graphic designer by trade and hospitality person/bartender by hustle, and a Support Staff Community Partner. She’s been working in hospitality for 6 years, holding positions from manager to food runner, event coordinator, barback and bartender. When she thinks back to pre-pandemic, her favorite hospitality position is barback - “it's like a 11 hour game of Tetris and endurance.” After graduating from The University of California she moved to Chicago where she found her passion for food and beverage spaces. She looks to merge the academic and hospitality worlds through event work and creative content that bridges our contemporary understanding of the food and beverage industries with historical context and cultural critique. This has manifested in a participating in “industry” focused events such as Chicago Style (2018-2019), Resistance Served (2019-2020), Patron Sustainability Summit (2019), and Ice Queens Social (2018) - discussing topics from intersectionality & inclusion in hospitality spaces, ancestral trauma, the historical contributions of BIPOC peoples to the hospitality industry, and beyond. • • “Mental health for folks that work at the forefront of social interactions is key! Hospitality work is energy work, and it's laborious! Compound caring for strangers, hospitality industry workers deal with intense hours, uniquely uncertain wages and financial insecurity, exposure to triggers for some like alcohol or unhealthy eating environments, racial divides and inequity. I want to advocate for the POC folks that occupy the majority of hospitality positions. Mental health means equity, openness, support access and resources!” Want to check out what she is doing find her on instagram: @gemini_rising @creative.momnts @readspill If you have any additional questions for Kisira. Please contact info@pleasehustleresponsibly.org

Rethinking Education and Community Outreach with W. D. Floyd of 360 Nation

Today we talk to the founder of Chicago based initiative 360 Nation W. D. Floyd. We talk about the their inception. We talk bout their ethos and the 4 daily practices and 4 rights. How to think outside of the box when it comes to leadership and education. We learn more about what 360 continues to do for their community and how we can get involved. Strap in because this one is an inspirational one! A little bit more about our guest: W.d floyd is a Chicago based multidisciplinary practitioner. With 15 years of experience as an educator and developmental practitioner, his body of work focuses on the exploration and utilization of cultural assets as a means to promote self-actualization through self-determination. w.d believes that real change comes from empowering others with the agency to shape their existence. w.d believes in the obtainment of a critical consciousness and creative and technical skill sets as mechanism for transforming lives and communities. An example of this intersection of thought and practice is w.d's use of photography to document Black culture on the west and south sides of Chicago. He believes in the collaborative practice of street portraitures and its ability to grant him the opportunities to celebrate an existence that has contributed greatly to his development. His work is grounded in the desire to illuminate the dignity of those who have traditionally been framed through a lens of degradation. The thinking which derives from his lived experience greatly informs his concept of beauty and originality . Please visit their website at www.360-nation.com and if you have any questions please email them to info@pleasehustleresponsibly.org.

Compassion vs Empathy with Kimiko

This conversation was one that changed the way all three of us view life. Kimiko walks us through her journey of finding compassion and how we can access these tools to help us in our day to day and work life. Compassion is a practice and we are so happy to have this conversation with Kimiko. Grateful for her insight on how we can all use a little more compassion in our lives. Here is a little more about Kimiko and her own journey: I fell in love with the industry as a child, y parents decided they wanted to try different cuisines once a month and I was a very reluctant participant (that first savory mint milk shake) got me interested in writing reviews (what kids might order at restaurants that didn’t cater to children, oddly Chicago magazine wasn’t interested.) Fast forward ten years I started working in foodservice in 1987, at 15. Worked in a kitchen doing prep. By 29 I had worked as a server, bartender, manager, bookkeeper, owner and POS programmer. Now I’m only tangentially attached to the industry, through marriage. Throughout the years I have remained keenly interested in mental health, my own and that of those in the industry. I’ve lost several friends to death by suicide and overdose and through my own struggles with depression I realized that I want to work towards serving this community by both sharing the tools I myself have used and through teaching cultivating compassion, a course I am passionate about. Resources mentioned in the show: Compassion Institute : https://www.compassioninstitute.com/ Yale Science of Well-Being This course is being offered on Coursera currently which does offer scholarships! https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being?utm_source=gg&utm_medium=sem&utm_campaign=01-BrandedSearch-US&utm_content=01-BrandedSearch-US&campaignid=380484307&adgroupid=102187343498&device=c&keyword=&matchtype=b&network=g&devicemodel=&adpostion=&creativeid=433079694377&hide_mobile_promo&gclid=CjwKCAiAuoqABhAsEiwAdSkVVAydJ-PgkJe8HaTwEKqL7ZXKrz-B1yFwkS5IUFyn-Hic-9kvoOGKlRoCvgIQAvD_BwE Books Referenced: The Book of Joy The Fearless Heart Love 2.0

Today We Talk About Unionization

Today we chat with two members of the IWW. They discuss the tools and tips that employees will need when unionizing the workplace. Here are links to various resources referenced in the show: Ellen's Union: http://www.stardustfamilyunited.com/ Kino Lefter on Ellen's Stardust: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8yMjYxNzUucnNz/episode/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xNTA0MjQz?sa=X&ved=0CA0QkfYCahcKEwjYmr6Rk5fuAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ The IWW:https://iww.org/ United Electrical:https://www.ueunion.org/ Tunde Wey and Tom Colicchio (bleh, but w/e) on the future of restaurants:https://www.motherjones.com/food/2020/05/save-yesterdays-restaurant-industry-or-let-it-die/ Emergency Worker Organizing Committee (EWOC): https://workerorganizing.org/ Here's their form to talk with an organizer: https://workerorganizing.org/talk-with-an-organizer/

Starting the New Year Off Right With Accountability

Today we start the New Year off with CHAAD ( Chicago Hospitality Accountable Actions Database). We talk all things accountability and how to work through that process to start 2021 in a positive light. We have Emily and Molly with us today. Here is a brief description of our guests: Emily McCoy LPC ATR-P (they/she) is a clinician at Art of Balance working as a trauma and anxiety specialist who volunteers for CHAAD as a mental health consultant and database supporter. They have 7 years of experience working in hospitality as a server and a bartender and have hopes to work with current hospitality professionals to hold the industry accountable for the trauma cycle it often perpetuates. Aviations, cat snuggles, and board games have been keeping them sane through the pandemic thus far. Molly Pachay - 27, former bartender with a background in restorative justice and a penchant for stirring the pot. I started working with CHAAD this past summer after experiencing the heartbreak and disappointment in this current moment of historical reckoning of our industry. Now I spend my time tending plants, reading too much news, and playing gin rummy. For further information or to check out the resources referenced on this show please go to www.thechaadproject.org or www.pleasehustleresponsibly.org.

Tools to Get Through the Holidays and Start the Year Off Right

The Holidays can be tough. Especially after this year. So we talk to DJ Watson to give us some tools to get through this Holiday Season. DJ is the Educational Director of Support Staff, Former Hospitality Professional, Amazing Person, Best advice Giver and Overall Our Biggest Asset to this Team. DJ is an associate marriage and family therapist whose clinical interests include couples/family conflict, social and cultural stressors, anxiety, depression, trauma, and meaning making. DJ uses an integrated, person-centered approach that draws upon CBT, Gottman, and Narrative Therapy techniques. He uses these techniques to identify skills, build upon strengths, and reduce negative symptoms. DJ understands that therapy is most successful when there is mutual respect and trust between the therapist and client. He has successfully worked with families, teens, and adults from diverse sexual orientations, ethnicities, cultures, and religious backgrounds. DJ blends humor, knowledge, passion, and compassion to help couples, families, and individuals in an ever changing world. DJ received his B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Central Arkansas. He earned his M.A. (with honors) in Marriage and Family Therapy from Northeastern Illinois University. Prior to joining Pinnacle, DJ worked as an outpatient clinical counselor treating couples, families, and individuals who struggled with anxiety, depression, anger management, sexuality and gender, substance use, grief, and PTSD. DJ also has extensive knowledge in the fields of secondary education and college readiness. If you have any further questions for us please do not hesitate to reach out at info@pleasehustleresponsibly.org

Seeing the World through the Eyes of an Registered Nurse and Sommelier

Marie Cheslik Co-Founder of Slik Wines & Registered Nurse Most recently the Wine Director at Michelin starred-restaurant, Elske, Marie has received nominations including ‘Best Sommelier’ from Jean-Banchet, Eater’s 'Young Guns' in 2020, as well as passing her Certified Exam from the Court of Master Sommeliers in 2018. She has also been awarded ‘Best Side Hustle’ by Chicago Magazine for working as a sommelier and using her Registered Nurse license to help during COVID-19. Both careers have embraced her “people person” side as well as challenges her by teaching hard-to-grasp subjects like medicine and the world of wine. During COVID, she juggles doing what she loves by moonlighting as a nurse and establishing her virtual new wine education business, Slik Wines. Join us in talking to Marie and listening to her unique perspective not only within this industry but also within the healthcare field. We reference this article in the show: https://mariecheslik.medium.com/the-v...

Ethical and Sustainable Leadership with Jason Vaughn

Today we talk to Jason Vaughan owner of Nancy's Hustle and Tiny Champions in Houston, TX. We as a team have always admired how Jason has lead his team down in Houston. Today we get to talk to him about his ethos and what he does to run a ethical and sustainable venue while cultivating a culture for his staff. *FACT CHECK* Here is a fact check from the episode. Jason is an incredibly humble human and when put on the spot he did not do his community contributions justice. After further investigation, here are a couple examples of what Jason has done for his team and what his team has done to help the Houston Community: When Nancy's first closed after the pandemic, they sold all the food they could to-go and donated 100% of the proceeds to our staff. They also paid them all a 2 week salary and raised 10k for them on a GoFundMe. They had a daily staff meal for pick up for the month we were closed. The team has also done the following since the start of the pandemic. raised $2,500 to BLMHTX with Bakers against racism Raised 4k for Mavia in Beirut to help them feed the community after the port explosion. We did this with one of our servers who is Lebanese and felt very passionate about it. Donated $2,500 to Project Row House, a community platform focused on enriching the lives and creating opportunity for marginalized communities Donated rice and beans and bread to Finca Tres Robles (a neighborhood farm) to help feed neighborhood families throughout the pandemic. Raised 1k in a bagel pop up for BLMHTX When they do the soft opening for Tiny Champions we will be charging or friends and family and donating the money to Finca Tres Robles so they can feed people who need it instead of feeding people who can afford it. So all in all, if you are in Houston. You should check them out. Give the staff a smile and hopefully a high five soon for all their efforts to the Houston community.

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