Entries by garrett

Charles Thomas

Part 2 of 3: We’re introducing the entire team over at Queen City Forward. After meeting Charles meet Christie Kahil and Tori Karlek. The full team is here. Hi! Meet Charles. Not only has he been somewhat of a mentor and inspiration in my professional life, he has really effected me on a personal level. […]

Christie Kahil

Part 3 of 3: We’re introducing the entire team over at Queen City Forward. After meeting Christie meet Charles Thomas and Tori Karlek. The full team is here. Hi! Meet Christie. Since day one I’ve been a fan. Her desire to always be learning and then taking that knowledge and educating as many as possible […]

Tori Karlek

Part 1 of 3: We’re introducing the entire team over at Queen City Forward. After meeting Tori meet Charles Thomas and Christie Kahil. The full team is here. Hi! Meet Tori. She’s the newest addition to the QCF team. I have the pleasure of seeing her quite regularly working out of @809. She describes herself […]

Queen City Forward

Hi! Have you heard of and supported Queen City Forward? They provide a hub for entrepreneurs who have business ideas that address social needs and work to balance a triple-bottom-line of people, planet and profit. This is kind of a special one for me. I couldn’t just introduce one person as QCF. Charles, Christie and […]

Chef Robert Reinken

Hi! I had the pleasure of attending a private tasting of the restaurant Evoke’s new menu a couple weeks ago. I had never participated in anything of the sort. My thought was i’m going to eat a lot of awesome food. I never thought for a second it would be anything but the highest of […]

Barbara Schreiber

Hi friends, Meet Barbara. We met because of the #WeLoveCLT collaboration with HappeningsCLT. She visited @809 to check out the latest artist Anna Kenar so I asked her to sit down and answer five or so questions for “Have You Met?”. She looked nervous… like a what the heck am I getting into nervous look. […]

9 Awesome Things From The Week

Hi friends, It’s 5:49am Saturday morning and I’m exhausted. I’m still recuperating from all the awesomeness Thursday night. I freaking love it and wouldn’t change a thing. Thanks to everyone that made it out. If you didn’t we missed you. Let me know what it would take to get you in the room. I want […]

Sherrell Dorsey

Hi! We’re going onto month six now. I keep saying to myself how can this get more awesome. At least in my own head this whole initiative continues to floor me. Each speaker never fails to blow my mind. How can I top it? Have you met Sherrell? That’s how. I can’t get enough of […]

Jenny Gandhi

Hi! Meet Jenny of Pearl Dentistry. Let me be honest here. I’d rather take all my clothes off in front of someone then give someone a peak inside my mouth. It feels so personal. Is that weird? So inherently this makes finding a dentist that I trust or would ever trust about the hardest thing […]

Joel Tracey

Photo credit: Tonya Russ Price – PopRock Photography Hi! Meet Joel. We met because of #WeLovecLT and our mutual interest in seeing Charlotte taken to new levels of awesomeness. I’ve had a lot of those types of conversations since starting all of this. Most people are interested in seeing Charlotte be bigger and better but […]