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New episode of The Southern Shmooze Podcast out now with @bentleyforus ! BIG congrats to them on their recent win as the Democratic nominee for Georgia House District 90. Bentley made history as the first openly nonbinary person AND the first Japanese American to win a major-party nomination for the Georgia General Assembly! Bentley and I used to be neighbors over in Longdale Park so I’ve been very fortunate and proud to call them a friend over the years and now you can too 🥰 Also oops! I forgot to take a photo of us together but luckily Bentley snapped one with Clarence while we had our conversation. Podcast now available wherever you get your stream on 🙂

hey y’all! i’m back with another episode of The Southern Shmooze Podcast. This week’s guest is Taylor Schultz with @nativescapesga and we talk about all things plants, @atlbotanical and what it’s like to be a parent running businesses. Special shout out to all the moms out there pulling double or triple duty trying to do what they love and raise a family at the same time. you’re going to hear some baby cries in the ep which at first I thought might be distracting or problematic from an audio sense but now I think it’s just a part of real life and how we’re all here just trying to making work. so extra shout out to baby Maisy for supporting her mom and joining us for the conversation! you can find it now on all streaming platforms 🙂

Happy Friday, y’all! Had the pleasure of interviewing Brendon Ford of @yourhandymanatlanta yesterday with his partner Zay. 🥰 I particularly loved the end of the episode where I got to learn about their monthly home maintenance service to keep your house running at optimal efficiency. This was something I had never really heard of before, but it makes a lot of sense, and I think a good amount of us could benefit from it. Also, double shoutout, as they also installed my new front screen door, so much appreciated, y’all! You can listen to our conversation on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever you tune in! Additionally, we have a newsletter now as well in case you’d like to get updates on all things Shmooze on our new Substack channel.

Good morrow Shmoozers! Episode 5 of The Southern Shmooze Podcast is out now 🙂 I missed last week as I went on a mini vacation to St. Louis but I’m back now! Thank you to Colton with Old Pine Decks for joining me on this week’s conversation. See that soon-to-be screened in porch in the background? His team built it! Also, shout out to fellow shmoozer Gabby for gifting me that 100 year old barn door as well to go with my new porch/shed combo. She runs @atlfreefair which has an event coming up May 16th you should definitely check out. That’s it for now, see ya Thursday at the Shmooze Volunteer Day for our local soup kitchen in Grant Park 🥰 #atlantapodcast #atlantapodcasts

Hello everyone! I’m back with Episode 4 of The Southern Shmooze Podcast 🥳 Today’s guest is Ashton Walker with Loaves & Fishes and FOCUS Atlanta. When it comes to genuinely incredible humans, Ashton is hard to beat. He runs a soup kitchen out of Saint John the Wonderworker Orthodox Church in Grant Park, where he helps feed, clothe, bathe, and support our unhoused neighbors here in Atlanta. It was truly a pleasure getting to sit down and talk with him. I think you’re really going to enjoy this one. Our next monthly Shmooze meetup will be a volunteer day on May 6th (early morning) at his soup kitchen. If you’re interested in helping out, I’ll be sharing more details soon! To listen to the episode just type in The Southern Shmooze wherever you get your podcasts 🙂

Episode 3 of The Southern Shmooze Podcast is out now! Thanks to Michelle with @designing_with_less for joining me on this one :) Special shout out to my dog Clarence for making an appearance and my boy Gus for joining me on the intro. Also, fun fact, we just passed over a hundred streams so that means y’all are actually listening 🙃 Which is great news because I intend to keep these rolling out every week! Just type in The Southern Shmooze wherever you get your podcasts and holler if you got someone in mind for the next one!

Quick shout out to the @grantpark.atlanta Earth Day event coming up this weekend! 🌎

Episode two of The Southern Shmooze Podcast is out now! Big thanks to Lane with Eso.Projects for joining me on this one. If you missed last week’s announcement I’m officially hosting a podcast where each week I interview one of our small ATL businesses that you’ve come to know and love on our group. If you’re interested in being a part of the journey just let me know otherwise I’ll be back next week with Episode 3 with special guest Michelle Parranvani!🥰 If you’re interested in listening just type The Southern Shmooze into whatever podcasting app you use! Toss it a subscribe if you want to get weekly alerts🙃

Shout out to @redsbeergarden for hosting us for March’s Shmooze Meetup! Our next meetup won’t be a public one but we’re very fortunate to have @bouttetree host us at their HQ in ATL for the upcoming meetup next week! If you’re a local business and you’d like to join us just holler down below and i’ll shoot you some details on it 🙂 If you know a business who might be a good fit for The Shmooze team please tag them down below as well!

bit of an awkward selfie but the message is good hearted! one of our day-one members could use a bit of a financial help so I got together with another shmooze member Michelle to help create a GoFundMe for her. She’s been a huge help to this group and easily one of our MVP members so I felt like it would be nice to try and help her and her family out during this trying period. I’ve donated $100 to start things off. she’s very prideful of her work and company and didn’t feel comfortable setting this up on her own (I get that) but Michelle and I felt otherwise and wanted to help support her since she’s done so much for a lot of us here (six years with the group giving recommendations, referrals and just helping it grow and thrive). no pressure obviously but thank you for reading and I’ll drop the link in our Facebook group if you felt inclined to donate🥰