Joiners

This week we're joined by Nicole Alexander of Siren Betty design. She has designed several beautiful concepts across commercial and residential spaces in Chicago and throughout the country. She tells us about her path, studying art and fashion in college, and finally finding herself in interior design.

This week we talk to owner and operator David Posey, who could have become a florist, but instead decided to pursue the culinary arts. David attended the Culinary Institute of America before working in some of Chicago's best kitchens. After meeting his future wife and culinary partner Anna, he opened the award-winning, Michelin-starred Elske, a gem in the hospitality landscape. Join us for a delightful conversation that spans food allergies, rye-crust pizza, kitchen drama, and so much more.

For the inaugural episode of Joiners, we take a peek under the proverbial hood of the creative side of marketing and PR with Jenna Liberman. Jenna cut her teeth with beloved Chicago restaurant group One Off Hospitality as their first in-house marketing and PR person. After that, she moved on to a full service agency called Skoog, where she managed several clients. She eventually spun off of that and started her own agency, Slow Down Co., that provides marketing and PR for hospitality clients. She's also half the brain behind creative agency and not-so-secret society, Eye Eaters, which she shares with her partner Paul Octavius. We talk with Jenna about her career path through the hospitality world and what she's learned along the way.