Don't Quote Me S2 E7 || Lori Slager-Wenzel

For 18 years, Lori has built a space where people feel seen, heard, safe, and welcomed. But behind the warm atmosphere is a journey filled with risk, creativity, grief, reinvention, motherhood, community-building, and resilience.We talk about:• How Scorpion Hearts Club came to be (and its past as Stray Dog Café & Sparrow’s)• Creating a genuinely safe space for staff and patrons• What it means to listen well and build community intentionally• The emotional + business reality of selling a brand• Balancing business ownership with parenting• Navigating grief after losing her husband, David Wenzel• Why love, honesty, and stubborn hope still matter• And how being “a little salty, a little loving” can build a powerful creative cultureThis episode is thoughtful, deeply human, funny, vulnerable, and full of wisdom for entrepreneurs, creatives, parents, and anyone who believes community still matters.