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The Mustache Mesa
by Sarah Kurtanich & Sando Bernstein
Sando Bernstein and Sarah Kurtanich believe in fueling your body, feeding your mind and doing things that just make you feel good. They believe great things happen when gathered around the table, or mesa in this case. Each episode of this podcast is an invitation to come sit with them and listen in as they chat about balance, wellness and because they can't go long without talking about it, great food.
Episodes
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75 Years of History and Sparkle with Sarah Hurwitz Robey of Colonial Jewelers
Hello, hello from the gals with the matching mustache tattoos! We're so happy to be able to bring you this chat with Sarah Hurwitz Robey, the President and new owner of Colonial Jewelers in downtown Frederick, MD. In this episode, Sarah shares her experience growing up around this longstanding...
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Don't Forget to Tell Yourself That You Are Proud of You
Happy, Merry Everything! We have missed you during our unplanned but much-needed hiatus as we adjusted to new life roles this year, but not to worry we will be back in full force in 2023! We hope you enjoy this treat of an episode with Corrine Counts, the stylish curator behind…
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Pour It, Melt It, Mix It with Amira Chappelle Brooks of Chappelle Candle Co.
This episode features our conversation with Amira Chappelle Brooks of Chappelle Candle Co. Starting a business is never easy, but starting one during a global pandemic is on a whole other level. Amira shares how she followed her intuition to take candle making from hobby to business and what it's...
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Pivots, Shifts and Success with Megan and Amy of Pump & Rye
This episode was a long time coming! Sando & Sarah finally had the pleasure of connecting with Megan and Amy, the owners of Urbana's beloved new-style deli, Pump & Rye. Amy & Megan dish on the experiences that inspired them to open Pump & Rye, what it has been like building a business during the...
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'I Compost, I'm Trying" - A Sweet & Sour Episode with Sando & Sarah
Sando & Sarah are bringing back a classic this week with a round-up of their current sweets and sours. From current events to new couches and pregnancy to LED face masks, they're covering all the things making waves in their lives right now. Pull up a seat and hang out with them during this…
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Are we feeling 2022?
For this episode, Sarah & Sando got together and recorded a little wrap up and look ahead. They chat about what they're most proud of about 2021, what they're looking forward to in this next year and while reading their astrological predictions for 2022 (they're both fans of the Chani app,)…
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Cultivating Creativity with Sarah and Sando
In this episode, Sarah and Sando chat all about creativity! How they cultivate it, what helps them get into a creative mindset, the joy-creativity connection, and more. Then they demonstrate what they mean because the conversation takes a distinct turn for the culinary. This episode was a bit...
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Organize it! Finding calm amongst the chaos with Jackie Pittman
In this episode, the mustache gals are back with their focus on the home and this time talking about all things organizing! They are joined by professional organizer, Jackie Pittman who recently launched a new business called Chez Nous Organizing. This new venture offers all-inclusive…
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Cozy Intentions with Sarah and Sando
In this episode, Sarah and Sando chat about all things home, this month's theme. With the shift of autumn upon us, the feelings of prepping the home for fall/winter and resetting after summer are real. The ladies chat about their own seasonal routines, why setting specific intentions for your…
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Life Long Lessons with Hood College President Dr. Andrea Chapdelaine
In this episode, Sarah and Sando sit down with Hood College President Dr. Andrea Chapdelaine to discuss August's theme of Education. We talk about being a first-generation college student, navigating COVID and racial justice issues, and whether or not the rhetoric surrounding higher education is...
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Confidence and Community with the Founders of the Next Gen Birth Plan
We're very excited to share this episode with you, our first as part of the Listen Frederick community! Sarah & Sando sit down with Tanya Rockovich & Emily Pastrana, the energetic and passionate founders of the Next Gen Birth Plan. They went from hyping each other up on Instagram to founding a…
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'Member How To Do This? Working our social muscles and our actual muscles.
Sarah & Sando are happy to be back in front of their microphones and getting back into in-person workouts. In this episode, they chat about how taking their workouts back out into the world is helping them exercise their social muscles too. Follow The Mustache Mesa on Instagram Follow The…
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Showing Up For, Taking Care Of, and Listening To Your Community with the Co-Founders of The Frederick March for Justice
In this episode, Sando & Sarah are joined by five of the Co-Founders of The Frederick March for Justice and dive into the topic of community. This group is working to collectively make an impact. They share what community means to them, what creating The Frederick March for Justice meant to them…
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Say Yes, Even When It Feels Scary with Career Coach, Melissa Lawrence
This week, Sarah and Sando chat with Melissa Lawrence, a Certified Career and Life Coach who specializes in helping people in the Pharma and Biotech fields. She helps her clients find happiness in the job they have, navigate their next career move and more! Melissa shares about how her own career...
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Ask For What You Think You Want But Remain Open and Other Career Thoughts with Sando Bernstein
Sarah puts Sando in the hot seat this time around as we kick off our Year of Well with episodes about the career area of life! Sando shares about how she became an educator, how being open to other opportunities actually helped her find her current career path in education, how she's come back…
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Less Dieting, More Flow and Real Shifts with co-host Sarah Kurtanich
This week, Sando puts Sarah in the hot seat and digs into Sarah's journey to become a health coach. They discuss their shared experiences of body image issues and growing up dancing, how far they've come from trying the South Beach diet in high school and how getting in touch with their periods…
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Making Time For The Things You Want with Shana Knight, Founder of SOUL Street
In this episode, Sando and Sarah had the pleasure of chatting with and getting to know Shana Knight, the founder of SOUL Street. ICYDK, SOUL Street is a collective of Black business owners and community members who have come together to empower the Black community through events, outreach…
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The Why Matters with Calley Murphy, Licensed Massage Therapist
This week we're sitting down with our friend and licensed massage therapist, Calley Murphy. If you're inspired to book yourself a massage after this, we're not sorry. We talk about the myriad benefits of massage, including stress and anxiety-relief which is on a lot of our minds right now. Calley...
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"Yes, and ..." with Taryn Sisco, the Urban Maven and creator of BarreLIIT
In this episode Sando and Sarah share a delightful conversation with Taryn Sisco, the creator of BarreLIIT and TheUrbanMaven Etsy shop. Taryn is a shining example that it is OK to evolve. She'll inspire you with her "see a need, fill a need" motto and she talks about the path that led her to...
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Nourishing the Collective with Alecks Moss of Little Wild Herbs
In this episode, Sarah and Sando enjoy a lovely conversation with Alecks Moss, founder of Little Wild Herbs. She shares her journey to becoming an herbalist and then an Intuitive Tea Blender. She discusses how the pandemic actually helped her launch her business, what it's been like entering...
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Finding A Natural Way with Michele Forbes of Michele's Sea Moss
In this week's episode we essentially get our minds blown. We got the chance to chat with Michele Forbes, the founder of Michele's Sea Moss. Yes, you read that right, sea moss. It's apparently an incredibly nutritious sea vegetable and Michele has been making it delectable and encouraging people…
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The Next Step Might Be Right Down the Street with Skyler Carpenter of Toy Blossom Co.
In this episode we're talking with Skyler Carpenter. The woman behind Toy Blossom Co., a growing CBD-infused product brand based in Ocean Beach, California. A scientist by training, we loved hearing about Skyler's journey to CBD. Seriously though, cheers to women in science! We ask Skyler about…
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We All Need Anchors with Shelley Pentony
We are very excited to be sharing our conversation with Shelley Pentony. Shelley discovered her passion for yoga over 20 years ago. After spending 17 years providing direct services to trauma survivors, she recognized a need to incorporate more body-based modalities into the healing work she was...
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Letting Yourself Evolve with Becky Jane Onderdonk
In this episode Sarah and Sando interview Becky Jane Onderdonk of Becky Jane Sews. Becky Jane is a fashion designer and seamstress who specializes in handmade one off pieces using vintage and remnant fabric. A true creative, she has allowed herself to evolve over time and let her passion lead her...
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Community Fueled & Pastry Powered with Sally & Rebekah of The Hive Bakeshop
This week we are very pleased to share our conversation with Sally and Rebekah Ontiveros, sisters and co-owners of The Hive Bakeshop in Brunswick, MD. We talk about their love of Iron Chef growing up and how they started The Hive. (Hint, it wasn't in either sister's original life plan.) We loved...
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A Quality Quarantine Catch Up with Sando & Sarah
We felt it was time for a quality quarantine catch up with you all. In this episode Sarah and Sando chat about life lately, share about our current favorite things, Sarah learns about the time Sando got buffed, we talk about our common love of things in gummy form and we discuss some of the...
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Being Coachable, Riding the Rolling Hills and Market Updates with Lauren Olson
In this episode Sarah & Sando get to chat with Frederick-area Real Estate Agent Lauren Olson. She gives some updates about the current state of the housing market and we talk a lot about her experience with coaching and how it's helped her career. We talk about entrepreneurship, motherhood and…
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Call Her First (Don't Cut Your Hair On Your Own) a Quarantine Life Chat with Eliza Robinson
This episode is a treat best enjoyed with a glass/mug of something special or on a nice long walk. This week Eliza Robinson returns to share some self care tips to help us all through these "days of the quar." We definitely ask her what to do if we're feeling the call to cut our own bangs. We…
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You Get To Choose - Learning About the Enneagram with Cynthia Baush
In this episode Sarah and Sando connect with Cynthia Baush, an artist, educator and Enneagram specialist. We were so excited to learn more about this topic. The Enneagram is a powerful tool for relating to the self, others and the world. Depending on our individual worldviews, we are each...
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If You Can't Embrace Your Awkward, Then What's The Point with Author Karen Draper
In this episode, Sarah and Sando had the pleasure of chatting with Karen Draper, a red-headed & red lipstick wearing writer who recently published her first book, "The Place of Us." When you interview a writer (and a really good one at that) it's hard not to use their own writing skills in the...
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Being Social While Social Distancing w/ Sarah & Sando
In this episode Sarah and Sando practice the new norm of social distancing and discuss all the feels surrounding the beast that is Covid-19. Sometimes it's just nice to hear a familiar voice or see a friendly face, remember we can still totally do that — it's 2020 people let's use our social…
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Forget the rules. follow the passion with Devynn Grubby of Lark Interiors
"Decorating is a completely personal expression (much like fashion). If I am lucky enough to have a flourishing career based on my taste and skill, I would advise my clients as I do myself; rules are to be understood, then judiciously broken." - Alexandra Meyn Devynn Grubby of Lark Interiors is a...
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It's 2020 - Word!
We're talking our words of the year, how Sarah likes to say "Word" in text messages and more in this one. It's a new year, a new decade and we've got some catching up to do! We are so excited to be back recording and can't wait to see what 2020 brings for The Mustache Mesa community. The Mustache...
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Built for Hard Things, a conversation with Alyssa MacFawn and Emily Harlow of Lifecycle Fitness Studio
This is an impactful interview about following your passions, listening to your inner guidance and feeling confident in your decisions. These women totally live by The Mustache Mesa credo "Fuel your body, feed your soul" and we loved getting to know them and learn about their business, Lifecycle...
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It's Cool to Talk About Your Sexuality with Mary Adelle
In this episode Sando and Sarah sit down and get to know Sex Educator Mary Adelle over cans of adaptogenic boosted hard kombucha. (It was delicious and we felt strongly about sharing it with you.) Mary is a trauma-informed educator dedicated to social justice and confronting and unlearning white...
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We Could Talk About Food Forever with Chef Christine Van Bloem from The Kitchen Studio Cooking School
We talk about food a lot in this one. We are delighted to share our conversation with Chef Christine Van Bloem of The Kitchen Studio Cooking School. (Which she opened almost 15 years ago!!) This is one of our longest and possibly most favorite chats to date. We riff on entrepreneurship,...
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There's Not A Lot She Can't Do - Our conversation with the incomparable Jo Elizabeth Butler
This week we're sharing our incredible conversation with Jo Elizabeth Butler. Jo spent more than two decades serving as an international lawyer for the UN (she helped negotiate the first agreement on global warming for crying out loud!) Now through her work with the Ethiopian Children's Appeal…
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Bless and release, take public transportation and other great tips from Molly and Olivia, the founders of Livalit Travel
Get ready for a few good doses of entrepreneurial inspiration and wanderlust. In this episode we're chatting with Molly and Olivia, the founders of Livalit Travel. These sisters plan branded and incentive travel for companies and strive to build community through travel. We loved hearing their...
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Full Spectrum Well-Care for Women with Dr. Ashley Russell
Man it feels good to be back behind the microphone! On this week's episode we sat down with Dr. Ashley Russell, the owner and Naturopathic Doctor at Frederick Natural Health Center. Dr. Russell's mission is to help savvy women balance their hormones naturally so they can have more energy, less...
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It's Fall! Catching Up with Some Sweet & Sours
We're back! School is back in session, Fall is officially here and we're kicking off season 4 of The Mustache Mesa Podcast with a classic Sarah & Sando "Sweet & Sour" episode. If you're new around here, these episodes are where the Mustache Mesa gals like to share all the things that are…
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Cheers to Two Years & 50 Episodes!
We hope you'll pour yourself a glass of something and cheers with us through this episode! We're celebrating two years, 50 episodes and over 8,500 downloads of The Mustache Mesa podcast! We really had no idea what starting this would mean, at the time we really just knew it was something we had…
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Love Yourself and Live Your Passion with Kayla Dene Slusher
Kayla Dene Slusher is a content creator, branding & blogging coach, nonprofit founder and all around inspiration. She is encouraging the world to live life to its fullest through loving ourselves and living our passion. That is a message we can 1000% get behind. We love her positivity, her…
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The Nature Prescription with Charissa Hipp
Have you had your nature fix lately? Charissa Hipp wants to make sure your answer is yes. Throughout her career Charissa has written and promoted many outdoor attractions. From the National Park Service to the tourism offices of both Washington and Frederick Counties and still as a consultant...
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Way Below Surface Level with Mandy Gleason, the founder of Replica Surfaces
Mandy was one of those people we were a little nervous to reach out to about joining us on the podcast. But we are sooooo glad we got over those nerves! We are delighted to share our conversation with Mandy Gleason, the founder of Replica Surfaces. Replica Surfaces are beautiful, lightweight,...
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Dogs Are Perfect, Don't @ Us, Eliza Robinson returns!
Warning, this episode will probably be best enjoyed while sipping an adult beverage (or better yet, after you're a few sips in!) Our hilarious friend, Eliza Robinson returns to the podcast for a wine-fueled chat about self-care, becoming a plant lady and letting the universe do it's thing. She…
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More Vegetables, More Stretching, More You with Barbie Markey of Bar Markey Fitness
On this episode we're sharing our delightful conversation with Barbie Markey a Frederick, Maryland based personal trainer and fitness instructor. We learn about her non-linear path to becoming a personal trainer (that included time on Capital Hill and a stint as a cheerleader with the Washington...
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Honest is the Way to Be with MK Battles of Mary Kate McKenna Photography
Mary Kate McKenna is proof it's totally OK to take the leaps, it's OK to keep it real and it's OK to play hard to get. Known by most as MK, she is open, honest and vulnerable and we're so happy we got to hang out IRL for a little bit to record this episode for you guys. You'll learn about how she...
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We're Styled by Whit, our chat with entrepreneur and personal stylist Whitney Whiten
This is a fun one! We bring back the term culottes (because apparently they're back in style,) we chat about the shift that getting dressed can bring, we complain about H&M's weird sizing and Whitney convinces both of us that having a personal stylist is a great idea. In all seriousness though,...
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Shoot For Yourself with Caitlin Taylor of Coral Dove Photography
Caitlin Taylor is a breath of fresh air. We really enjoyed getting to know her a bit better when we sat down to record this episode a few weeks ago. Caitlin is a photographer who specializes in weddings. We asked Caitlin about her journey to entrepreneurship, advice for someone looking to enter…
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We Didn't Know You Could Compost That ... A chat with Phil Westcott of CEO, Key City Compost
We talk about sooo much more than compost in this episode but we really didn't know just how much you could compost until we sat down with Phil Westcott, CEO and Co-Founder of Key City Compost. A local company working to create less waste in landfills, help the environment, create jobs and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Sando Bernstein and Sarah Kurtanich believe in fueling your body, feeding your mind and doing things that just make you feel good. They believe great things happen when gathered around the table, or mesa in this case. Each episode of this podcast is an invitation to come sit with them and listen in as they chat about balance, wellness and because they can't go long without talking about it, great food.
HOSTED BY
Sarah Kurtanich & Sando Bernstein
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Sando Bernstein and Sarah Kurtanich believe in fueling your body, feeding your mind and doing things that just make you feel good. They believe great things happen when gathered around the table, or mesa in this case. Each episode of this podcast is an invitation to come sit with them and listen in...
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