Ep 17: What Maternity Leave?

Annually the US celebrates and recognizes the amazing achievements of women throughout history and in the present day. What started as a Day turned into a Week and finally in 1987 gained the designation of an entire Month - Women’s History Month. This March we jump into the humble beginnings of this idea and how it grew into an international movement. For better or worse.

References:

US Census Bureau - International Women's Day
The National WWII Museum New Orleans - An Introduction to Women's History Month
Wikipedia - Women's History Day
Britannica - International Women's Day
History Channel - Women's History Month 2024
National Women's History Alliance - Why March is National Women's Month
NPR - Women's History Month grew out of a weeklong commemoration by Jimmy Carter in 1980

Special Mentions:

Women's History Week Congressional Resolution (1981) - Pub. L. 97-28
Women's History Month Congressional Resolution (1987) - Pub. L. 100-9

Thank you to Tony Stuck for the awesome intro/outro music and to Mary Ann King for the amazing pod art that you see for every episode.

If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please share it with a family member, a friend in the alcohol industry, or even just a stranger on the street! I so appreciate your support.

For more information about me and this podcast visit us online at drinksbizwomen.com or follow the podcast @drinksbizwomen on FB and Instagram. Talk to you soon! And thanks for joining me today!

DC Brau has been a gold standard in craft beer in DC for more than a decade. During that time Paulette Palacios has moved up through the beer scene, learning all the ins and outs of beer buying and building a network within the industry. Today they head up the taproom for the DC Brau Brewery and are instrumental in supporting diversity and equality initiatives in the beer industry across the region. Paulette sits down with me to share how they got here, walk me through a day in the life, and announce what’s on the horizon.

Notes:
DMV = The Washington metropolitan region that encompasses the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia
The Great Detroit Bankruptcy of 2013

Special Mentions:
DC Brau
Mustang Sally Brewing Company
Port City Brewing Company

University of Richmond Beer Brewer Professional Certificate Program

Black Brew Movement
Urban Garden Brewery

Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Day
Pink Boots Hop Blend (Yakima Chief)

Thank you to Tony Stuck for the awesome intro/outro music and to Mary Ann King for the amazing pod art that you see for every episode.

If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please share it with a family member, a friend in the alcohol industry, or even just a stranger on the street! I so appreciate your support.

For more information about me and this podcast visit us online at drinksbizwomen.com or follow the podcast @drinksbizwomen on FB and Instagram. Talk to you soon! And thanks for joining me today!

Monique Allen has spent the last several decades in landscaping, building a thriving business, supporting a team, and recrafting their approach to the industry through the three pillars of planet, people, and profit. From her entrepreneurial experience she has also developed a program called lifescaping to help others build better lives and better businesses in the trades. She joins me  to share her journey in another male-dominated industry and share how she has grown and learned to be a better leader and now a coach for others. 

Garden Continuum
The Lifescape Coach
Lifescaping BOOKS
Lifescaping BLOG

Lifescaping: Organization, Health and Vitality, and the WOW factor
@monique.allen

Resources:
The Gap and the The Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success but Dan Sullivan and Dr Benjamin Hardy (not an affiliate link)
Stewartia Tree

Thank you to Tony Stuck for the awesome intro/outro music and to Mary Ann King for the amazing pod art that you see for every episode.

If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please share it with a family member, a friend in the alcohol industry, or even just a stranger on the street! I so appreciate your support.

For more information about me and this podcast visit us online at drinksbizwomen.com or follow the podcast @drinksbizwomen on FB and Instagram. Talk to you soon! And thanks for joining me today!

Amberlee and her husband landed in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia for college and have now made their mark by launching the first cidery in town. Together they built a local network, organically grew a business during a pandemic, and now have a thriving space for cidermaking, the arts, and the community. She has built the vision that is Sage Bird Ciderworks and they are crushing it. Literally and figuratively.

Special Mentions:
Sage Bird Ciderworks
CIDER STORE!
BOTTLE CLUB!

Glaize Orchards
Virginia Cider Association
The Apple House (Linden, VA) - GO VISIT!

Thank you to Tony Stuck for the awesome intro/outro music and to Mary Ann King for the amazing pod art that you see for every episode.

If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please share it with a family member, a friend in the alcohol industry, or even just a stranger on the street! I so appreciate your support.

For more information about me and this podcast visit us online at drinksbizwomen.com or follow the podcast @drinksbizwomen on FB and Instagram. Talk to you soon! And thanks for joining me today!

Here we are! A new year, and a new name for this podcast. I’m changing it up, cleaning it up, getting organized. As I jumped into a rebrand for this podcast, it brought me back to so many points of time along my cider business journey. So here’s why I felt I needed to shake things up and give this podcast a fresh start. But don’t fear! My stories and interviews will be the same and my mission and goals have not changed. Women and the Drinks Biz now offers even more inspiration, motivation, and support. Change is a good thing!

Instagram: @drinksbizwomen
Website: www.drinksbizwomen.com

Thank you to Tony Stuck for the awesome intro/outro music and to Mary Ann King for the amazing pod art that you see for every episode.

If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please share it with a family member, a friend in the alcohol industry, or even just a stranger on the street! I so appreciate your support.

For more information about me and this podcast visit us online at drinksbizwomen.com or follow the podcast @drinksbizwomen on FB and Instagram. Talk to you soon! And thanks for joining me today!

I talk a lot about the village in the cider world, and in beer, and in spirits. Michelle Mandro is building a network and a community within the wine world to support and highlight the work and successes of women across the wine industry. Wine Country Women has built a network, printed beautiful books featuring women in wine and spearheads scholarships and mentorships to support members at every level. We talk about what it’s like to be the first to build a network like this and what it takes and why it’s important to bring women together.

Wine Country Women

Special Mentions:

American Institute of Wine & Food
WCW Scholarships through the SommFoundation
Wine Country Women Books
50-State Winery Guide (book, mentioned but not an affiliate link)

Statistics for Women Participating in the Wine Industry from Zippia

Thank you to Tony Stuck for the awesome intro/outro music and to Mary Ann King for the amazing pod art that you see for every episode.

If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please share it with a family member, a friend in the alcohol industry, or even just a stranger on the street! I so appreciate your support.

For more information about me and this podcast visit us online at drinksbizwomen.com or follow the podcast @drinksbizwomen on FB and Instagram. Talk to you soon! And thanks for joining me today!

Building your organic marketing ecosystem. Say what?? Entrepreneurship takes a lot of work - building a product or service, constructing a business around it, securing sales, and marketing. So much marketing. And the website still reigns supreme as the gateway to your audience online. It must showcase your company culture and purpose while also hitting the right keywords and points. It’s a lot and that’s what Lauren Gaggioli is here to talk about. How do we optimize SEO while also focusing on purpose-driven goals. And yes, you should be doing both. And we’re gonna walk you through it.

Lauren Gaggioli's Website
- DIY Website Audit (free)
- Big Why Life (8 course series)

Resources:
Page Speed Insights

Wordpress

Divi (Wordpress Page Builder)

Google Business Profile (Make sure you're listed today!)

Untappd (If you're affiliated with an alcohol product and it's not listed, do it!)

Thank you to Tony Stuck for the awesome intro/outro music and to Mary Ann King for the amazing pod art that you see for every episode.

If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please share it with a family member, a friend in the alcohol industry, or even just a stranger on the street! I so appreciate your support.

For more information about me and this podcast visit us online at drinksbizwomen.com or follow the podcast @drinksbizwomen on FB and Instagram. Talk to you soon! And thanks for joining me today!

Sarah Real is a self-taught home brewer out of Brooklyn who, along with her husband, took the giant leap and founded a commercial brewery in the Berkshires in Massachusetts. She loves fermenting traditional beers but also highlighting the ingredients and pushing the flavor profile to construct new and interesting brews. She joins me to share her brewing journey and what it took to set up a taproom for Hot Plate Brewing Company and a community of their own.  

Hot Plate Brewing
@hotplatebeer

Special Mentions:

Northeast Grainshed Alliance

Turner Hill Malting Co.

Valley Malt

Four Star Hop Farm

Crawford Brewing and Distilling Equipment

Thank you to Tony Stuck for the awesome intro/outro music and to Mary Ann King for the amazing pod art that you see for every episode.

If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please share it with a family member, a friend in the alcohol industry, or even just a stranger on the street! I so appreciate your support.

For more information about me and this podcast visit us online at drinksbizwomen.com or follow the podcast @drinksbizwomen on FB and Instagram. Talk to you soon! And thanks for joining me today!

In 2017 when we were a couple years into South City Ciderworks we launched an effort to find a new location for a taproom/tasting room. We looked up the peninsula and down the peninsula. We looked at our own location and down in South Bay. So many places and so many letdowns. I’m stepping back in time to share our tale of shopping around for a taproom for our cidery and all the reasons it never worked out. I’d like to think it shines some light on where we were going with the brand. And in the end with COVID, it all might have been a blessing in disguise. But we’ll never know!

Thank you to Tony Stuck for the awesome intro/outro music and to Mary Ann King for the amazing pod art that you see for every episode.

If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please share it with a family member, a friend in the alcohol industry, or even just a stranger on the street! I so appreciate your support.

For more information about me and this podcast visit us online at drinksbizwomen.com or follow the podcast @drinksbizwomen on FB and Instagram. Talk to you soon! And thanks for joining me today!

She’s an activist, a survivor, an entrepreneur, and a mentor. Virginia Lacayo has been through a lot growing up in Nicaragua and is here to share her story and how she has learned to be her own advocate and fight for the rights of other women and minorities. Anyone can be an activist but sometimes you just need a little help to get that change started. Luckily there are people like Virginia who can guide the way. 

Special Mentions

Massive Systemic Change - We partner with leaders who are at the intersection of business, consciousness, and social change to cultivate the mindset, personal brand, and activist leadership skills necessary to change the system.

FCAM - Central American Women's Fund/Fondo Centroamericanode Mujeres is a feminist organization that works toward a Central America where girls, women, trans and non-binary people actively participate in the construction of favorable environments for their lives, the lives of others, and their communities.

Indomable - “Indomable” es el podcast en que, cada semana, Virginia Lacayo, Ph.D, feminista, coach certificada de mindset y liderazgo sistémico, a través de conversaciones poderosas con sus invitadxs, te brindará nuevas perspectivas sobre distintos aspectos de la vida y la sociedad. Aprenderás a manejar tu mente y tus emociones, expandir tu consciencia, y liberarte de los condicionamientos sociales que limitan tu crecimiento y tu potencial de impacto. Es neurociencia, feminismo y pensamiento sistémico aplicado a la justicia social y al desarrollo personal. 

Thank you to Tony Stuck for the awesome intro/outro music and to Mary Ann King for the amazing pod art that you see for every episode.

If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please share it with a family member, a friend in the alcohol industry, or even just a stranger on the street! I so appreciate your support.

For more information about me and this podcast visit us online at drinksbizwomen.com or follow the podcast @drinksbizwomen on FB and Instagram. Talk to you soon! And thanks for joining me today!