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Happy Monday neighbors!

We are THRILLED to bring you our inspiring conversation with Amanda Flores, Senior Director of Operations at the Flour + Water Hospitality Group, and founder of the Bay Area Restaurant Collective.

I first met Amanda when I worked at Flour + Water in the lead up to opening DD, and was immediately drawn to her warmth, passion, and compassionate leadership style.

We dove into her strategies for building community, the importance of leading with values, and how her work with the Collective promotes a more collaborative future for the hospitality industry (needless to say, we covered A LOT of ground).

We'll be taking a little break from the podcast next week, and will be ROARING back for Season 2 of the Forever Neighbor podcast in June (stay tuned for exciting updates). We couldn't dream of a better guest to close out our first season, and wish Amanda a happy (belated) birthday!

Links to the episode in our bio. Love you all!

Produced by Daniel Blacktree and Ramzi Budayr.

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Hey neighbors!

It's a pleasure to bring you my chat with Prince Boucher, Mission resident and founder of Mission Athletic Club - a tennis community that hosts FREE OF CHARGE social tennis games throughout San Francisco. Prince is such a passionate guy who is genuinely interested in bringing people together, and his work is so inspiring to me and countless others! I wasn't even a tennis fan before this conversation, but Prince's enthusiasm is so infectious, I've already signed up for a volley!

There's a little catch: you may have heard about a proposal floating around for the city to start charging an hourly fee for use of our public tennis and pickleball courts - a move that would dramatically cut court usage and make the work of the Mission Athletic Club financially unsustainable.

If you're interested signing a petition against this proposal, click here, and for more info, see the Mission Local piece here.

Thanks again to Prince and the community of volunteers at Mission Athletic Club for making movement and wellness more accessible and fun!

Produced by Daniel Blacktree and Ramzi Budayr.

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Hey gang!

We have been pushing so hard over the last few months, both at the store and with this podcast, and there are some EXCITING changes on the way!

Make sure to stick around until the end of this episode for a cool podcast related announcement too! :)

Love you so much,

Ramzi + the DD Team

Produced by Daniel Blacktree and Ramzi Budayr.