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The Quake City Portal
by thequakecityportal
The Quake City Portal features people from all walks of life. The intention is to have mindful conversations to inspire curiosity, creativity, and our explorative spirit. To help uncover the natural resilience within ourselves from all that is seen and unseen. To help each other become self-reliant individuals so that we may contribute in our own unique ways to the kaleidoscopic human experience.
Episodes
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QCP #033 | Christopher Renfro, Founder of the Two Eighty Project|The Way of Natural Winemaking and Re-imagining a Thriving Society
GUEST BIO Christopher Renfro (instagram, additional links) is the founder of the Two Eighty Project, an organization "dedicated to building a sustainable food and wine community that nourishes every member of the local economy and ecosystem." It began with his love and curiosity for learning…
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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
GUEST BIO 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...
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QCP #031 | Karen Nani Apana, Ph.D. | The Questions We Live With, Higher Worlds, and How to Find Stillness in Biography Work
GUEST BIO Dr. Karen Apana is one of the founding members of the San Francisco Waldorf School – first founded in 1978. She has been a lifetime teacher, mentor, and student of Anthroposophy for over 40 years. For over 25 years, she has been teaching biography work and has a private practice for...
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QCP #030 | Chefs Matt Levin + Michael Greuel of The Refuge Restaurants | The Pathos of Pastrami, Survival Mode in the Food Service Industry
GUEST BIO In 2008 Matt Levin, his wife Melanie, and his good friend Michael Greuel opened The Refuge Restaurant, home of some of the best pastrami sandwiches and burgers. At the time, The Refuge was a small restaurant focused on french wines, Belgian beers, and house-made, hand-sliced pastrami...
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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
SAY HELLO TO DAN! Website: http://www.dangriffiths.us/ Kapoot Clown Theatre Skit Video How Much - Created and Performed by Dan Griffiths Donut Goat at the Barber Shop GUEST BIO Dan Griffiths is a multi-talented, experimental performance artist, award-winning theatre director, teacher, and founder...
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QCP #028 | Sophia Cassella, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Athlete | The Inner Game of Training, How to Optimize Mat Time, and Life as a Student-Athlete
GUEST BIO Instagram | @sophiacassellabjj Sophia Cassella is a 22-year-old brown belt from New Jersey, under Jason Rau. She's trained with some of the greatest minds that helped change the sport today in what some people call the renaissance of Jiu Jitsu. She commutes hours and hours every day…
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QCP 027 | Souhad A. Zaki, Food Economist | Understanding the State of Global Food Security
GUEST BIO Souhad Abou Zaki is a Curious Economist and a Rural Development Enthusiast. She is currently a Senior Admissions officer residing in Lebanon at Notre Dame University, Louaize. Souhad works as a Lecturer in Economics, teaching undergrad courses in Microeconomics, Managerial Economics…
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QCP #026| Julie Rodgers, Buddhist Practitioner and Founder of TLC | Preparing for the End of Life, Working with Grief, and Dharma
GUEST BIO Julie Rogers is the Founder and Director of TLC Transitional Life Care, a Vajrayana Buddhist non-profit organization dedicated to the education and support of individuals and their families during the end-of-life transition. This program is centered in the SF Bay Area and southern…
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QCP #025 | Jairus Ferrer, Agricultural Entrepreneur | How the Youth are Taking on the Food Crisis in the Philippines
GUEST BIO Jairus Ferrer is a agricultural entreprenuer from Philippines. With family roots in Mindanao, the southernmost region of the Philippines, he decided to leave the congested, fast-paced city after thirteen years in favor of a more steady-paced, semi-rural, widely untapped area to get in...
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QCP #024 | Martin Jay Ruiz | Roll, Fall, Get Up: The Way of Wrestling and Skating
GUEST BIO Martin Jay Ruiz is someone that found his way on a skateboard and later on to the wrestling mat as a troubled youth. At an early age, he found the blank canvases of the skate deck and the wrestling mat to be the wide-open spaces that allowed his soul the room for infinite expansion. To...
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QCP #023 | Jake Luigi - Less Impressed, More Involved Youtube Channel | Leading with Curiosity and The Organized Meta Knowledge of Jiu-Jitsu
Jake Luigi is the mind behind the Less Impressed, More Involved video blog on youtube. In less than a year, I saw his channel grow from a few hundred to well over seven and a half thousand subscribers. Some of his most popular videos have amassed sixty thousand views and continues to grow due to...
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QCP #022 | Stephanie Crawford, Death Doula | Death is Not Taboo
GUEST BIO Our next guest, Stephanie Crawford, is a hospice care nurse and Death Doula. She recently founded Awakened Endings - an end of life service and community dedicated to helping others understand and prepare for a better death. In this conversation, you’ll hear both a heavy and…
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QCP #021 | Garnet “G Stacks” Geoffroy, BBQ Pit Builder | The Arc of Fire and Iron
GUEST BIO If you had BBQ in the Bay Area in the past ten years, there’s a good chance the meat was cooked on one of the units fabricated by our next guest – Garnet Geoffroy, also known as G Stacks – proud owner and welder of custom-made, handcrafted smokers and pits right here on the west coast…
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QCP #020 | Victor Thai, Tech Shaman and Conduit to the Psychedelic Realm
GUEST BIO Victor Thai is one of the most interesting people I know. He's the son of Vietnamese refugees growing up as one of the only Asian kids in Richmond, Virginia. I met him five years ago, training Jiu-Jitsu at the same gym where we spent a lot of nights after class doing some extra rolls.…
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QCP #019 | Connor McCann of the Brain Drain Podcast | How Can We Better Relate To Each Other?
GUEST BIO 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,...
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QCP #018 | Franco Soriano, Ultra Runner | The Hundred Mile High and Lucky Survival Stories
GUEST BIO Franco Soriano is a Filipino American ultra runner. He started running ten years ago at the age of 40 and gravitated towards the adventure of ultra running. He runs for the love of it. As much as I wanted to uncover a story about grit and willpower, this conversation showed me that...
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QCP #017 | Tom Brown III | How Reconnecting with Nature Teaches Resilience, Self-Reliance, and Awareness
GUEST BIO Tom Brown III is the founder of FutureNature and T3Photography. He is a lifelong practitioner and living guide of ancestral skills, a frequent contributor, and a consultant to the Anchored Outdoors network. As a lifelong practitioner of ancestral skills under his father Tom Brown Jr. -...
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QCP #16| Stephanie Balon, MA, AMFT |Decoding The Filipino American Experience
"No history, no self. Know history, know self." - Jose Rizal Many of us don't know about the trauma that our parents harbor. As children of parents that immigrated to the United States, the same trauma they harbor could be passed on to us, and manifested in different ways. Some of us might have...
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QCP #015 | New Filipino American Folk Tales of Daly City #002 | Tudor Atienza
A mushroom cloud - like the ones you see from a distance after a volcanic eruption or a nuclear explosion, is caused by the process scientifically described in the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (RTI). I don’t intend and am highly unqualified to describe in scientific detail what happens during an...
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QCP #014 | Ivan C Lopez - Painter, Ceramicist, and Muralist | Healing Through Creativity, Plant Medicine, And Listening To The Universe
GUEST BIO Ivan C Lopez is an artist from San Francisco by way of Columbia. He co-founded and helped build Artillery Art Gallery - a creative community space in the heart of the Mission. His passion to provide space for community inspires others to find what has been explorative and healing for…
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QCP #012 | Why do we collect things? | Chino, Sneaker King of the North
GUEST BIO What is it about our collections that take up spaces in our lives? Meet Chino - The owner of the largest sneaker collection I’ve ever seen. He comes all the way to us from Edmonton, Canada by way of the Philippines. He’s a loving husband, father of two boys, a working man who does...
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QCP #011 | River Pember, Early Childhood Teacher | Finding Balance Through Embracing Feminine Energy
River has a passion for holistic teaching. Beginning with her experience with the Wilderness Youth Project, and now with her work teaching at a Waldorf Elementary School where I met her as a new addition to the after-care program. While teaching early childhood students at the school, she also...
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QCP #010 | Ria and Raul Pelayo | Emerging Stronger from Pregnancy Loss
Meet our dear friends, Ria and Raul Pelayo. In their four years of marriage, they come forward with their struggles in starting a family due to recurring pregnancy loss. We are also joined by my wife, my life partner - JoAnn. Both of us wanted to do an episode like this from the beginning, but...
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QCP #009 | A Trip Across the World and Into the Multiverse with Jethro
Jethro is, what I like to call for fun, my younger brother from another mother. He’s the youngest son of my dad’s twin brother. Currently residing in Manila, by way of Cagayan de Oro Philippines. With his short stay in Manila, he immersed himself in his art within the underground hip-hop…
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QCP #008 | Toño Ramirez | Finding The River of Our Authentic Self
Toño Ramirez is a free spirit, a truth-seeker, an explorer. I'll stop there because he, in my opinion, is only bogged down by more labels. I first met him on a trash cleanup organized by Vince of RefuseRefuseSF.org (our first guest on the podcast). Toño (alias used for privacy purposes) earned a...
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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...
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QCP #006 | Personal Essay | Does Eye Contact Matter Anymore?
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…
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QCP #005 | Ernesto Pineda | How to Awaken Our Curiosity and Engage in New Ways with our Surroundings
Ernesto Pineda has over 20 years of experience in the Real Estate and Real Estate Tech industry. He is an entrepreneur, a business advisor, and an artist at heart. With his life-long love for books, art and travel, he uses his experience to merge his professional and creative endeavors. He has a...
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QCP #004 | A Family Trip to Lake Tahoe | Rethinking The Language Of Our Identity, Our Given Names, And Kinship
We are joined by some 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...
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QCP #003 | Marlon S Payumo, Sr. | Marlon S Payumo, Sr. | Life in San Francisco’s Most Famous Ice Cream Shop
Marlon S Payumo, Sr. is the general manager of Mitchell's Ice Cream Shop in San Francisco, CA. He arrived in the United States when he was twenty years old, and has been working there since 1988. Among the many things we touch upon in this conversation, he shares his hardships as a child growing…
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QCP #002 | Teenage Life in the Bay Area Before the Tech Boom
In this episode of the QCP, Jon is joined by his best friend, Mico. They reminisce about a time right before the dawn of the internet age. They also reflect on embarrassing moments in their short lived hip-hop careers. He shares his experience in sales, dealing with difficult family situations…
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QCP #001 | Vincent Yuen | Taking Ownership of Our Public Spaces
Vincent Yuen is the founder and head organizer of the Refuse Refuse SF campaign. During the pandemic, Vince went on long neighborhood walks with his family and noticed the trash that was littered around his neighborhood. He decided to take action by picking up trash along the way, and later found...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Quake City Portal features people from all walks of life. The intention is to have mindful conversations to inspire curiosity, creativity, and our explorative spirit. To help uncover the natural resilience within ourselves from all that is seen and unseen. To help each other become self-reliant individuals so that we may contribute in our own unique ways to the kaleidoscopic human experience.
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