Kwabi Amoah-Forson's mission is to spread peace throughout the world. This episode is our conversation with Kwabi who lives in Tacoma.
Starting by spending Saturdays in Wright Park, Peace Campaigning. Through the dialogs he had Kwabi was able to understand what peace means to people. He then travelled to Europe to continue his conversations about peace.
Kwabi now has @thepeacebus a 1988 Mitsubishi Van. He drives the van around and shares peace and humanitarian aid to people in Tacoma who are in need.
In 2019 Kwabi and other members of the Peace Bus organization travelled to the Mexican border to have a conversation about peace with people along the way and ended up having a conversation with San Diego Border Patrol agents.
Kwabi just announced his largest project yet. In summer 2021 he will be traveling from Tacoma to Washington DC with the goal of meeting President Joe Biden. Along the way he will be giving out books about peace, love and understanding to kids across the country.
This is an uplifting and inspiring episode. Make sure you listen, and you will be amazed at what Kwabi is doing to help people in Tacoma and everywhere learn more about peace.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/945031/8450577-the-peace-bus-kwabi-amoah-forson-shares-his-vision-for-a-peaceful-society
Scott chats with Jeanette & Lyz the founders of Seeking Kombucha Jeanette started drinking kombucha for health reasons and found that it worked.
After finding out that many kombucha s are made with juice and other items that may not provide the maximum health benefits she started experimenting and making her own kombucha. Using locally sourced ingredients as much as possible Seeking Kombucha creates kombucha with the maximum taste and health benefits.
Learn how Jeanette and Lyz have grown their business and find out where you can find their delicious kombucha.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/945031/6664547-seeking-kombucha-a-journey-of-wellnesss-a-conversation-with-jeanette-and-lyz
Parker Olson founder of Forij joins us to chat about Granola, Functional Mushrooms, Sleeping in a tent for a year. This is a wide ranging episode full of great stories.
After finding an apothecary and taking a class in adaptogens and tonics Parker was introduced to Functional Mushrooms which have become one of the basic components of Forij Granola.
For 18 months Parker tried a different diet each month to see how they would impact his health and wellness. After adding Functional Mushrooms to his diet he has found that his overall health has improved. This experimentation let to the creation of his granola which ultimately became Forij.
Parker does a great job sharing his journey and you will find this to be a very enjoyable episode. Make sure you check out Forij and try some of their tasty granola!
There are so many amazing places to explore in Washington State, you should just pack your bags and go! Explore Washington State is the perfect place for inspiration.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/945031/8387927-parker-olson-of-forij-talking-about-granola-functional-mushrooms-and-sleeping-in-a-tent
This episode is a conversation with Nick Zentner a Geology Professor at Central Washington University in Ellensburg. Nick is the host of Nick From Home and Nick On The Rocks. Additionally Nick is a well known lecturer on geology and a winner of the James Shea Award, a national award recognizing exceptional delivery of Earth Science to the general public.
Nick shares multiple pieces of information in this episode about geology in Central Washington as well as the Cascades. I found my conversation with Nick to be very engaging and I know that you will as well.
If you have not heard of Nick Zentner please listen to this episode and you will be very entertained. If you have heard Nick speak before you know what to expect and this will not disappoint.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/945031/4264622-conversation-with-nick-zentner-geology-professor-at-cwu-nick-makes-rocks-fun
In this episode we have a conversation with Aaron Jordan of Roast House in Spokane. Roast House Coffee is the roasting company that Explore Washington State has partnered with to create the Explore Washington State Blend coffee.
In this episode we learn about the origins of Roast House Coffee and their plans to continue to deliver delicious organic coffees throughout the U.S. and Washington State. For over 10 years Roast House Coffee has been roasting some of the most amazing coffees you have ever tasted. Aaron shares his story about how he started in the coffee business which is quite humorous.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/945031/4264574-conversation-with-aaron-jordan-head-of-operations-of-roast-house-coffee-in-spokane
In this episode Scott Cowan has a conversation with Ava Davis or as she is known online @pnwcidergirl
Ava is an avid hiker and cider enthusiast. She combines her love for hiking and ciders. Many of her cider reviews show the cider at some location on one of her hikes. Ava also completed 52 hikes in 52 weeks in 2020. We chat about what it takes to go for a hike and complete such a large goal.
Lots of conversation about ciders and how Washington State is one of the hot spots in the world for cider. We chat about good places to get a cider in Tacoma.
If you like hiking you will like this episode. If you like cider you will like this episode. You will like this episode because Ava is lot of fun to listen to.
Listen now: https://www.buzzsprout.com/945031/7373182-cider-and-hiking-conversation-with-ava-davis-pnw-cider-girl
🌲Exploring Washington State episode 41🌲
In this episode MacKenzie Passegger has a conversation with Dena Selert and her daughter and business partner Chris from @botanicalbeeskin
We learn how this mother daughter duo have launched a high quality natural skin care company in Spokane. They share the process of how they are growing by bringing natural small batch products to market.
Learn more about this Spokane based business in this episode.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/945031/7660000-botanical-bee-apothecary
In this episode Scott Cowan has a conversation with Jesse Butterworth . Jesse is the lead singer of The West Coast Feed. He also has recorded a solo album that will be released in 2021.
Jesse shares stories about The West Coast Feed and his musical inspirations. He recorded his solo album All The Gold I've Struck at Abbey Road Studios. His stories about Abbey Road are pure gold.
Earlier in his musical career Jesse and his band The Daily Planet moved from California to Nashville. He broke his leg during a performance and that band ended up going in separate directions. He ended up moving to Washington State where he and his family live near Seattle.
We talk about how artists are navigating and surviving during the pandemic.
This is a great episode. Please make sure you subscribe to the podcast to insure you receive all of our content.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/945031/7723855-jesse-butterworth-creating-sonic-bliss-and-visual-wonder
Lakyn Bury and Nat Nickel of CobraHawk join us for this episode.
Lakyn is the lead singer and Nat is the drummer for the band. Originally Cobrahawk was a cover band but over time they began to write original music and have recently released their second album. (do we even call them albums anymore?) =)
Cobrahawk is based in Ellensburg and they had a strong following pre-COVID. Like many musical acts playing music live has changed in the last year. We chat about their past performances and their hopes for getting out and playing live again in the near future.
We are planning on having the other members of the band join us for a future episode. Ultimately we will work to have the entire band together for another episode. If you like Pop Punk inspired music you will love Cobrahawk.
Help us support Washington State based creatives. We are lucky to have such abundance of creative talent in this state. You can listen to Cobrahawk by visiting their website.
If you want other great ideas of places to visit, or to find out more about people who are making amazing things in Washington State you can visit Explore Washington State.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/945031/8038193-cobrahawk-rocks-exploring-washington-state
Did you know that over 500 bird species have been observed in Washington State?
Here are some more fun bird facts to get you in the flighty mood for our episode with Karla Kelly!
🦅 Our state bird is the Willow Goldfinch
🦅There are 75 Important Bird Areas, including 14 Global Important Bird areas in the state!
🦅Birds act as pollinators, and seed dispersers
🦅The Tufted Puffin can be spotted along the coastline!
🦅There are about 189 species of birds currently treated in Washington due to climate change, and may become endangered
https://www.buzzsprout.com/945031/7931944-birding-with-karla-kelly
Toby Hanson joins the podcast to talk about his musical career as an accordion player. From an early age Toby was studying music.
A family member would play an accordion at family gatherings. Since Toby was not big enough to play an accordion at that time he started in music by playing Piano. After graduation with a bachelors degree in music Toby has had an interesting career as a professional musician.
Performing in multiple Social Dance Music Bands Toby keeps busy. From Swing music, to Polka, even a Cafe Orchestra his piano and accordion talents are in demand in Washington State.
We wrap the episode up with a live performance of "Just Because."
https://www.buzzsprout.com/945031/7984762-toby-hanson-plays-accordion-and-social-dance-music
