Conversations With The Citizen

Conversations With The Citizen Send Special Holiday Cheers To Its Facebook Followers and All Of Its Podcast Streaming Listeners. This Episode Was Produced With Thoughts Of Spreading Cheers During This COVID-19 Season. Families And Loved Ones Will Not Be Able To Come Together As Usual, So We Hope That Everyone Enjoys The Holiday Season. "We Don't Own The Rights To None Of The Music Heard Or Viewed In This Episode". Thank You To Our In Studio Guest, Tristian Arnez and Smooth "Willie Fultz".

Conversations With The Citizen Send Special Holiday Cheers To Its Facebook Followers and All Of Its Podcast Streaming Listeners. This Episode Was Produced With Thoughts Of Spreading Cheers During This COVID-19 Season. Families And Loved Ones Will Not Be Able To Come Together As Usual, So We Hope That Everyone Enjoys The Holiday Season. "We Don't Own The Rights To None Of The Music Heard Or Viewed In This Episode". Thank You To Our In Studio Guest, Tristian Arnez and Smooth "Willie Fultz".

Whitney B. Hampton, owner of Hampton Real Estate and Investments and lead broker and team leader at A. Progeny Global, talks about wealth building, real estate and investing.

Yazmin Curtis opened Two Fish Crab Shack, located at 641 E. 47th St., 4 years ago as a restaurant where people could get their seafood boil in a bag. People who visited the restaurant liked the sauce so much she made it available online for purchase. Now people can enjoy Two Fish seafood in a bag, in the frozen good section at select grocery stores.

Regine Rousseau, owner and operator of Shall We Wine, talks about being a Black Sommelier, her favorite wine, and the experiential events she hosts.

Chez Smith worked in public health for more than 15 years. While she served as the administrator of the family planning clinic, she realized there were a lot of young girls coming in repeatedly for sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancies. “I realized two things, working with those girls. One, girls felt this wasn’t a bad outcome for them. If they get pregnant, if they get an STI, it was part of the norm because of where they lived,” she said. “The second thing was I realized they weren’t receiving adequate sexual education, if any at all. The girls who were receiving information, they were myths.” Smith decided to start the Gyrls in the H.O.O.D. Foundation to educate girls and young women about reproductive health, to improve their outcomes and to redefine the “hood” stereotype. In this instance, H.O.O.D. stands for Healthy Optimistic Outstanding and Determined.

Maizelle Hutson is a baker who owns Maizelle’s Delights where she creates pound cakes with different flavors. Hutson, who said she got her love of cooking from her mother and grandmother, started out by baking cakes for special events and giving them away to people. It was a way to share her love for baking with others.

Vegans and vegetarians have more and more options for dining out these days. One of those options is Can’t Believe It’s Not Meat, located at 1368 ½ E. 53rd St., in Hyde Park. Laricia Chandler Baker, best known as Chef Fab, is the owner of Can’t Believe It’s Not Meat. Baker said when she became a vegetarian, it was hard to find favorable food that tasted good.

Keisha Rucker earned the name “Mz. Hyde Park” because she grew up in Hyde Park and attended elementary and high school there. Now, she is running a business in the same community. Rucker is the co-owner of The Soul Shack, which is located at 1368 E. 53rd St.

Anthony Waller has always had a passion for food. Growing up, he was surrounded by family members who cooked. Waller started his career in the food industry as a busboy at the Hyatt and is now the founder of Catering Out the Box, which has been around for 18 years.