Chris Carrier's guest appearances

Chris Carrier

I'm A House Gangster presents The Gangstercast

Turned On

The Bonfires of Social Enterprise with Romy  of Gingras Global | Social Enterprise | Entrepreneurship in Detroit

Louche Podcast

Beirut In the Mix Podcast

Al Vince Official Podcast

Highway Records

Burlington Project DJ Podcast

Frontstretch Podcast Network

SWAT Radio

Sports Radio 960 WSBT

Life on Brand

PHCPPros: Off the Cuff

Mornings with Tom and Tabi Podcast

Appetite for Construction

Robert Babicz

Martin Eyerer

Lee Van Dowski

Josh Wink

Steve Bug

Joyce Muniz

Alex Niggemann

Carl Craig

Dave Angel

Paul Johnson

Hernan Cattaneo

Andre Buljat

Ralf Kollmann

Sidney Charles

Phil Weeks

OwlTail

Parker Kligerman

In this week's Frontstretch podcast (Sept. 15), Bryan Nolen talks with Parker Kligerman's crew chief for the No. 75 truck, Chris Carrier.Source

In this week's Frontstretch podcast (Sept. 15), Bryan Nolen talks with Parker Kligerman's crew chief for the No. 75 truck, Chris Carrier. <a href="https://frontstretch.com/2022/09/15/nascar-podcast-chris-carrier/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a>

Podcast: Chris Carrier on Friendship With Parker Kligerman

Ed Brady

The boys are back from their Wisconsin planning session and share a bit on their weekend work activities as well as John's upcoming family vacation to the Outer Banks. After the cross talk John and Tim bring in their guests Chris Carrier with Reliance Worldwide Corporation and Ed Brady with Home Builder Institute. Chris and Ed share the details of their recent partnership in which RWC will be the exclusive Trade Sponsor for HBI's 22 plumbing programs across the U.S., primarily serving Job Corps students and justice-involved individuals. Together they plan to train the next generation of skilled labor for the building industry. We also dive into the many brands of RWC such as SharkBite, HoldRite, StreamLabs and how it's a natural opportunity for them to double down on their commitment to promote and further the plumbing trade after its Careers in Construction Month efforts. We get details on how they both dealt with COVID; we look into their crystal ball; chat about traveling for the first time; Red Bull; Ty Pennington with Extreme Home Makeover; Philo, Illinois and much more. #notdeadyetpodcast #NDYpodcast #HomeBuilderInstitute #RelianceWorldwideCorporation #HVAC #plumbing #training #buildingthetrades #tradeschools #hydronics #sharkbite #holdrite #cashacmeSubscribe to the Appetite for Construction podcast at any of your favorite streaming channels and don't forget about the other ways to interact with the Mechanical Hub Team!  Follow Plumbing Perspective IG @plumbing_perspective  Follow Mechanical Hub IG @mechanicalhub  Sign up for our newsletter at www.mechanical-hub.com/enewsletter  Visit our websites at www.mechanical-hub.com and www.plumbingperspective.com   Send John and Tim your feedback or topic ideas: @plumbing_perspective

The boys are back from their Wisconsin planning session and share a bit on their weekend work activities as well as John's upcoming family vacation to the Outer Banks. After the cross talk John and Tim bring in their guests Chris Carrier with Reliance Worldwide Corporation and Ed Brady with Home Builder Institute.  Chris and Ed share the details of their recent partnership in which RWC will be the exclusive Trade Sponsor for HBI's 22 plumbing programs across the U.S., primarily serving Job Corps students and justice-involved individuals. Together they plan to train the next generation of skilled labor for the building industry.  We also dive into the many brands of RWC such as SharkBite, HoldRite, StreamLabs and how it's a natural opportunity for them to double down on their commitment to promote and further the plumbing trade after its Careers in Construction Month efforts. We get details on how they both dealt with COVID; we look into their crystal ball; chat about traveling for the first time; Red Bull; Ty Pennington with Extreme Home Makeover; Philo, Illinois and much more.  #notdeadyetpodcast #NDYpodcast #HomeBuilderInstitute #RelianceWorldwideCorporation #HVAC #plumbing #training #buildingthetrades #tradeschools #hydronics #sharkbite #holdrite #cashacme Subscribe to the Appetite for Construction podcast at any of your favorite streaming channels and don't forget about the other ways to interact with the Mechanical Hub Team! <ul> <li>Follow Plumbing Perspective IG <a href="https://www.instagram.com/plumbing_perspective/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@plumbing_perspective</a> </li> <li>Follow Mechanical Hub IG <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mechanicalhub/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@mechanicalhub</a> </li> <li>Sign up for our newsletter at <a href="https://mechanical-hub.com/enewsletter/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mechanical-hub.com/enewsletter</a> </li> <li>Visit our websites at <a href="https://mechanical-hub.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mechanical-hub.com</a> and <a href="https://plumbingperspective.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.plumbingperspective.com</a> </li> </ul> Send John and Tim your feedback or topic ideas: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/plumbing_perspective/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@plumbing_perspective</a>

Not Dead Yet (Ep. 30): Chris Carrier, Reliance Worldwide Corporation and Ed Brady, Home Builder's Institute

We sit down with Chris Carrier, director of marketing, Americas for Reliance Worldwide Corp. (RWC) to discuss how the company is raising awareness for trade careers through its SharkBite and HoldRite brands, including its recent "Jumpstart a Plumbing Career" video that was released during Careers in Construction Month. Video Link: https://bit.ly/2HlsVOT

We sit down with Chris Carrier, director of marketing, Americas for Reliance Worldwide Corp. (RWC) to discuss how the company is raising awareness for trade careers through its SharkBite and HoldRite brands, including its recent "<a href="https://www.phcppros.com/articles/12189-careers-in-construction-month-ramps-up-with-commitment-from-reliance-worldwide-corp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jumpstart a Plumbing Career</a>" video that was released during Careers in Construction Month. Video Link: <a href="https://bit.ly/2HlsVOT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2HlsVOT</a>

Chris Carrier, Director of Marketing, Americas for RWC

Deana Wojcik

Sick of Silicon Valley? Shift from being an engineer to a dirtbag for less responsibility. Choose a lifestyle of mangos and mushrooms. But the no-brainer idea of growing mushrooms being easy became idiotic. Today’s guests are Chris Carrier and Deana Wojcik from The Mushroom Factory. Wanting a break from their software and education careers, they started something unique by making creative reuse of available resources.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/life-on-brand/message

Sick of Silicon Valley? Shift from being an engineer to a dirtbag for less responsibility. Choose a lifestyle of mangos and mushrooms. But the no-brainer idea of growing mushrooms being easy became idiotic. Today’s guests are Chris Carrier and Deana Wojcik from The Mushroom Factory. Wanting a break from their software and education careers, they started something unique by making creative reuse of available resources.--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/life-on-brand/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/life-on-brand/message</a>

Destroy Dreams and Do Something w/ the King and Queen of the Shrooms, a.k.a. Chris Carrier and Deana Wojcik

Detroit Mushroom Factory with Deana &amp; Chris Hello out there in listener land, this is Romy bringing you another episode of the Bonfires of Social Enterprise. This episode is all about mushrooms! Did you know there are all different types of mushrooms that can be grown indoors, and, that there is a mushroom factory in Detroit?  Well, you will meet Deana and Chris and hear all about their story from concept to now.  As customary, I also like to introduce a song from a Detroit artist at the end of each episode so stay tuned to the end.            For the full transcript – Click below   Read Full Transcript Hello out there in listener land, this is Romy bringing you another episode of the Bonfires of Social Enterprise. This episode is all about mushrooms! Did you know there are all different types of mushrooms that can be grown indoors, and, that there is a mushroom factory in Detroit?  Well, you will meet Deana and Chris and hear all about their story from concept to now.  As customary, I also like to introduce a song from a Detroit artist at the end of each episode so stay tuned to the end. Okay, let’s see what Luke has for our fun fuel today….. Hi, this is Luke Trombley, and I am bringing you the fun fuel for this episode. Did you know that there are over 30 species of mushrooms that glow in the dark? The chemical reaction involved in this is called bioluminescence which produces a glowing light known as foxfire. Some people will use this fungi to light paths through the woods. Thank you for listening to this fun fuel. Enjoy the episode! Very nice Luke.  Glowing in the dark….what a fungi….ha ha.  Okay, Romy, enough with the bad jokes. Let’s listen in to what Deanna and Chris are up to and how this all began. Romy: Okay, great. Well, welcome Deana and Chris to the podcast, Bonfires of Social Enterprise. Got your cool business here. Let's talk about the Detroit Mushroom Factory. Deana: Great. Well thanks for having us. To just give a little background, we are a mushroom farm. We grow right now just out of our home. We live in Detroit, and we grow mushrooms in the basement. We grow on a substrate that comprises spent brewery grain that we get donated to us from a brewery in Detroit called Detroit Beer Company, and we mix that with sawdust that we get donated to us from a local woodworker named Richard Ganas. And so those two things we combine, we add mushroom spawn, and then we grow those mushrooms and sell them, mostly to local restaurants. Romy: Wow. Let's go over that one more time just in case, just for terminology. So you grow the mushrooms in your basement on, what was that? It was a bent ... Say that again. Deana: Spent brewery grain. So when beer is brewed at a brewery, they are left over with all this grain that comes out of the mash tun and that's usually a waste stream [inaudible 00:01:26]. So our model, one of the aims of our business is to be a totally sustainable farm. And so we have committed to only growing on recycled materials and spent brewery grain is one of those materials. Romy: Okay. Brewery grain, just for those listening in other languages. Okay. Deana: Oh yeah. Romy: And then the sawdust. Okay. Wow, that's amazing. Do you need a lot of room for that in your basement? Deana: Well, we don't have it. Chris: I was just going to say; we have one of these old houses in Detroit. It's a four bedroom house, and it's just Deana, myself and our dog, so we really have three bedrooms and a basement and part of a backyard dedicated just to the mushrooms. So it does take quite a bit of space, I would say. It takes quite a bit of equipment, and it's a little more complicated on the front end than maybe your traditional farming or your gardening because it requires equipment. For instance, we take that [inaudible 00:02:34], which is usually barley, from the brewery, mix it with the sawdust and then we need to sterilize it. So the mushrooms grow in these special plastic bags that are sterilized. And so we do that in these autoclaves that are basically like big pressure cookers, and then we move that whole operation into one of our bedrooms, which has been set up, basically like a clean room, like a lab. And so nature really does not like sterile environments. It does not like cleanliness, so we're constantly fighting things like mold and things like bacteria. Nature really likes chaos, so it's always fighting us. We want to grow our one particular mushroom where nature wants us to grow all kinds of molds and things that are always trying to get in the way. Romy: That's so fun! All right. So the end product is the mushrooms. How did you guys originally come up with this? I met you, what? Was it three years ago? No? Four? Deana: Yeah. Three years ago, I think. 2014 is when we were in our build social class and in the markets I met you. We had the intention of starting a business when we moved to Detroit. We had both had careers in other sectors and were looking for a change. And we actually left where we were living in California and drove all around the country looking for where we wanted to live next. So we lived out of our car for about nine months and just toured around, went to different cities that people recommended to us, went to different towns and Detroit really stood out. We really loved it here, and once we decided to settle here, we thought, "Well okay. Maybe this is the place where we can try a business experiment." And Chris has had a lot of mushroom growing experience, even before we were in Detroit, that maybe he can talk about. Romy: Yeah, let's hear it, Chris. Chris: Sure. Yeah. I had grown mushrooms just as a hobby. I'm a person who takes hobbies way too far. So when I was in California, I got a little interested in growing mushrooms, I think I ordered a kit. And so you buy these kits online or wherever, you can get them in grocery stores now, where basically you make a little slit in a bag, and then you get mushrooms growing up. And they worked great. But my brain immediately went to like, "Well, I can't just keep buying kits. Now I need to figure out how to make my own kits." Or something like that and so I just started learning and buying equipment. And little by little, the apartment I lived in started getting totally filled with mushroom grow bags and the entire place was just set up for growing mushrooms. It was my living space and my lab, and it's not that different from how we do it now. Deana: Yeah. But that's when we were first getting to know each other. So as a perspective [inaudible 00:05:19] mate ... When Chris and I first started dating, I went to his house, and a few flags went up because there were mushrooms growing out of phone books and there's an old trunk with mushrooms growing out of it. He won me over, he did. He made me a delicious dinner out of mushrooms that he had grown himself and so he won in the end. But it was a lot to take in at the beginning. Chris: People talk about when they're kids; they want to be a fireman or an astronaut or whatever. I wanted to be a mad scientist. I would take everything and mix it together. I took all the chicken poo and all the whatever, all the mouthwash and I mixed it together. Luckily none of it was ... there was no bleach and ammonia or something. Romy: Right! Chris: But I wanted to mix everything together and see what would happen and entirely nothing happened. Now that I've gotten older, I think the mushrooms really rekindle that because, like I said, it's difficult in some ways, but it requires a lot of really weird equipment, and it's just strange in a lot of ways. So it just tickles me in that way, in that same mad scientistic way. Romy: That's so fun. Deana: When we got to Detroit, we were really taken with how much urban farming is going on here, and that was part of why we fell in love with the city. And when we were conceiving of our business, we wanted to find a way to fit into that urban farming community without directly competing with other growers, because it's hard to make your living growing kale and there's a lot of people trying to do it. And so it felt like we had this unique way to fit into the market because there aren't really other people growing mushrooms for commercial sales within the city. And so that felt like our niche and Chris had the experience, we had some of the equipment. My background was as an educator, so I quickly wanted to learn as much as I could and help other people understand the process and it just kind of snowballed from there. Now we have a house filled with mushrooms. Romy: Right. Deana: We arrived here somehow. Romy: And it sounds like you've got some customers. You said restaurants are starting to buy them, right? Deana: Yeah. We've been so overwhelmed and grateful by the support of the restaurants in the city. From the very beginning, really before we had our act together before we were taking ourselves seriously as a business, we kind of sheepishly mentioned to a couple of restaurants that we liked to eat at that we were trying to be a mushroom farm. And immediately they just open arms, welcomed us, said they would buy whatever we had. So we've had some really loyal customers from the very beginning. Rose's Fine Food has been buying our mushrooms since before we had mushrooms, basically. Their owner, Molly Mitchell said, "Whatever you have I'll buy." And they've been so supportive and so patient. Sometimes we have them; sometimes we don't. And then as the local food landscape has grown even more in the city, other restaurants have gotten in touch and been interested. Sister Pie uses our mushrooms sometimes, Brooklyn Street Local is a very committed customer. We sell through Grown in Detroit, which is a co-op of growers at Eastern Market. So we've been really lucky. We have a lot of different outlets, and people seem willing to go that extra mile to support local farmers, and that's why we're in business. Romy: Yeah. Wow, that's a good word. This is an odd question from somebody who doesn't understand your business, but does anyone have any trouble with the fact that you're growing them in your home? Because usually, it's probably better than just out in the random woods, right? Deana: Yeah. I don't think that's a- Chris: Yeah, I was just going to say, people certainly self-forage mushrooms. It's an entirely different set of skills. Foraging mushrooms and identifying them is really, really complicated in its own way. So the way we grow right now is, it's a business on the way to becoming a business. We came in with maybe the most important quality for new business owners or new business founders, which is, we were utterly naive about how difficult it was going to be. And we often talk to each other, and we say, "If we knew all of what we have to deal with now then, would we have even have done it?" Because a lot of what we're trying to do now is grow. So we grow in our house, but we're not producing at nearly the level we need to really have a business that can support our demand and ourselves. So we also have this warehouse that we purchased two years now? A year ago? Also in Detroit. Deana: Last July. Yes. Chris: Last July. About five minutes from our house, in the north end of Detroit. Chris: About five minutes from my house, in kind of the North end of Detroit. And so now we're trying to move basically from a large, hobby farm into a small true production farm, and just learning so much about the challenges that that poses, and very few of them so far are about growing mushrooms. It's about developing this building that's seen better days and growing, just continuing to grow, be aggressive. Romy: Yeah, that's so good. I love what you just said. I mean while you're growing mushrooms, you're trying to grow your business. It's like, there's always more shenanigans that happen than just the running the business part than I think people understand. It's just everything from the financial part, to operations, execution, marketing, communications, and I mean, oh my gosh, what about customer service? Chris: Right. Romy: So it's like everything. It's a lot when you're a small team trying to scale at least even just to the next step. Chris: Yeah, and it's funny- Deana: Right. Chris: How little of it ends up being like ... I'm a software engineer, that's my background, so I'm technical. I want the problem ... I wanted to grow better mushrooms, and it's amazing how little, at least early on, that is the problem. It becomes ... it's about running a business that's [inaudible 00:11:22] more so. Your passion takes you to a certain point and then you have to say, "Okay, now I gotta like do my books, and I gotta do the taxes, and we have to find funding, and we have

<h2>Detroit Mushroom Factory with Deana &amp; Chris</h2> Hello out there in listener land, this is Romy bringing you another episode of the Bonfires of Social Enterprise. This episode is all about mushrooms! Did you know there are all different types of mushrooms that can be grown indoors, and, that there is a mushroom factory in Detroit?  Well, you will meet Deana and Chris and hear all about their story from concept to now.  As customary, I also like to introduce a song from a Detroit artist at the end of each episode so stay tuned to the end. <a href="http://bonfiresofsocialenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/chris_and_deana.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="http://bonfiresofsocialenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2016-06-04_10.41.08_3.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="http://bonfiresofsocialenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2016-02-06_08.24.46-2_2.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="http://bonfiresofsocialenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017-01-20_14.45.12_1.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="http://bonfiresofsocialenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017-01-07_09.34.52_2.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="http://bonfiresofsocialenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2016-10-28_15.10.25_2.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="http://bonfiresofsocialenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2016-03-30_14.38.55_2.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="http://bonfiresofsocialenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2016-01-22_17.48.43_1.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="http://bonfiresofsocialenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2015-10-12_21.10.45_1.png" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <h4>For the full transcript – Click below</h4> <a href="#" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read Full Transcript</a> Hello out there in listener land, this is Romy bringing you another episode of the Bonfires of Social Enterprise. This episode is all about mushrooms! Did you know there are all different types of mushrooms that can be grown indoors, and, that there is a mushroom factory in Detroit? Well, you will meet Deana and Chris and hear all about their story from concept to now. As customary, I also like to introduce a song from a Detroit artist at the end of each episode so stay tuned to the end. Okay, let’s see what Luke has for our fun fuel today….. Hi, this is Luke Trombley, and I am bringing you the fun fuel for this episode. Did you know that there are over 30 species of mushrooms that glow in the dark? The chemical reaction involved in this is called bioluminescence which produces a glowing light known as foxfire. Some people will use this fungi to light paths through the woods. Thank you for listening to this fun fuel. Enjoy the episode! Very nice Luke. Glowing in the dark….what a fungi….ha ha. Okay, Romy, enough with the bad jokes. Let’s listen in to what Deanna and Chris are up to and how this all began. Romy: Okay, great. Well, welcome Deana and Chris to the podcast, Bonfires of Social Enterprise. Got your cool business here. Let's talk about the Detroit Mushroom Factory. Deana: Great. Well thanks for having us. To just give a little background, we are a mushroom farm. We grow right now just out of our home. We live in Detroit, and we grow mushrooms in the basement. We grow on a substrate that comprises spent brewery grain that we get donated to us from a brewery in Detroit called Detroit Beer Company, and we mix that with sawdust that we get donated to us from a local woodworker named Richard Ganas. And so those two things we combine, we add mushroom spawn, and then we grow those mushrooms and sell them, mostly to local restaurants. Romy: Wow. Let's go over that one more time just in case, just for terminology. So you grow the mushrooms in your basement on, what was that? It was a bent ... Say that again. Deana: Spent brewery grain. So when beer is brewed at a brewery, they are left over with all this grain that comes out of the mash tun and that's usually a waste stream [inaudible 00:01:26]. So our model, one of the aims of our business is to be a totally sustainable farm. And so we have committed to only growing on recycled materials and spent brewery grain is one of those materials. Romy: Okay. Brewery grain, just for those listening in other languages. Okay. Deana: Oh yeah. Romy: And then the sawdust. Okay. Wow, that's amazing. Do you need a lot of room for that in your basement? Deana: Well, we don't have it. Chris: I was just going to say; we have one of these old houses in Detroit. It's a four bedroom house, and it's just Deana, myself and our dog, so we really have three bedrooms and a basement and part of a backyard dedicated just to the mushrooms. So it does take quite a bit of space, I would say. It takes quite a bit of equipment, and it's a little more complicated on the front end than maybe your traditional farming or your gardening because it requires equipment. For instance, we take that [inaudible 00:02:34], which is usually barley, from the brewery, mix it with the sawdust and then we need to sterilize it. So the mushrooms grow in these special plastic bags that are sterilized. And so we do that in these autoclaves that are basically like big pressure cookers, and then we move that whole operation into one of our bedrooms, which has been set up, basically like a clean room, like a lab. And so nature really does not like sterile environments. It does not like cleanliness, so we're constantly fighting things like mold and things like bacteria. Nature really likes chaos, so it's always fighting us. We want to grow our one particular mushroom where nature wants us to grow all kinds of molds and things that are always trying to get in the way. Romy: That's so fun! All right. So the end product is the mushrooms. How did you guys originally come up with this? I met you, what? Was it three years ago? No? Four? Deana: Yeah. Three years ago, I think. 2014 is when we were in our build social class and in the markets I met you. We had the intention of starting a business when we moved to Detroit. We had both had careers in other sectors and were looking for a change. And we actually left where we were living in California and drove all around the country looking for where we wanted to live next. So we lived out of our car for about nine months and just toured around, went to different cities that people recommended to us, went to different towns and Detroit really stood out. We really loved it here, and once we decided to settle here, we thought, "Well okay. Maybe this is the place where we can try a business experiment." And Chris has had a lot of mushroom growing experience, even before we were in Detroit, that maybe he can talk about. Romy: Yeah, let's hear it, Chris. Chris: Sure. Yeah. I had grown mushrooms just as a hobby. I'm a person who takes hobbies way too far. So when I was in California, I got a little interested in growing mushrooms, I think I ordered a kit. And so you buy these kits online or wherever, you can get them in grocery stores now, where basically you make a little slit in a bag, and then you get mushrooms growing up. And they worked great. But my brain immediately went to like, "Well, I can't just keep buying kits. Now I need to figure out how to make my own kits." Or something like that and so I just started learning and buying equipment. And little by little, the apartment I lived in started getting totally filled with mushroom grow bags and the entire place was just set up for growing mushrooms. It was my living space and my lab, and it's not that different from how we do it now. Deana: Yeah. But that's when we were first getting to know each other. So as a perspective [inaudible 00:05:19] mate ... When Chris and I first started dating, I went to his house, and a few flags went up because there were mushrooms growing out of phone books and there's an old trunk with mushrooms growing out of it. He won me over, he did. He made me a delicious dinner out of mushrooms that he had grown himself and so he won in the end. But it was a lot to take in at the beginning. Chris: People talk about when they're kids; they want to be a fireman or an astronaut or whatever. I wanted to be a mad scientist. I would take everything and mix it together. I took all the chicken poo and all the whatever, all the mouthwash and I mixed it together. Luckily none of it was ... there was no bleach and ammonia or something. Romy: Right! Chris: But I wanted to mix everything together and see what would happen and entirely nothing happened. Now that I've gotten older, I think the mushrooms really rekindle that because, like I said, it's difficult in some ways, but it requires a lot of really weird equipment, and it's just strange in a lot of ways. So it just tickles me in that way, in that same mad scientistic way. Romy: That's so fun. Deana: When we got to Detroit, we were really taken with how much urban farming is going on here, and that was part of why we fell in love with the city. And when we were conceiving of our business, we wanted to find a way to fit into that urban farming community without directly competing with other growers, because it's hard to make your living growing kale and there's a lot of people trying to do it. And so it felt like we had this unique way to fit into the market because there aren't really other people growing mushrooms for commercial sales within the city. And so that felt like our niche and Chris had the experience, we had some of the equipment. My background was as an educator, so I quickly wanted to learn as much as I could and help other people understand the process and it just kind of snowballed from there. Now we have a house filled with mushrooms. Romy: Right. Deana: We arrived here somehow. Romy: And it sounds like you've got some customers. You said restaurants are starting to buy them, right? Deana: Yeah. We've been so overwhelmed and grateful by the support of the restaurants in the city. From the very beginning, really before we had our act together before we were taking ourselves seriously as a business, we kind of sheepishly mentioned to a couple of restaurants that we liked to eat at that we were trying to be a mushroom farm. And immediately they just open arms, welcomed us, said they would buy whatever we had. So we've had some really loyal customers from the very beginning. Rose's Fine Food has been buying our mushrooms since before we had mushrooms, basically. Their owner, Molly Mitchell said, "Whatever you have I'll buy." And they've been so supportive and so patient. Sometimes we have them; sometimes we don't. And then as the local food landscape has grown even more in the city, other restaurants have gotten in touch and been interested. Sister Pie uses our mushrooms sometimes, Brooklyn Street Local is a very committed customer. We sell through Grown in Detroit, which is a co-op of growers at Eastern Market. So we've been really lucky. We have a lot of different outlets, and people seem willing to go that extra mile to support local farmers, and that's why we're in business. Romy: Yeah. Wow, that's a good word. This is an odd question from somebody who doesn't understand your business, but does anyone have any trouble with the fact that you're growing them in your home? Because usually, it's probably better than just out in the random woods, right? Deana: Yeah. I don't think that's a- Chris: Yeah, I was just going to say, people certainly self-forage mushrooms. It's an entirely different set of skills. Foraging mushrooms and identifying them is really, really complicated in its own way. So the way we grow right now is, it's a business on the way to becoming a business. We came in with maybe the most important quality for new business owners or new business founders, which is, we were utterly naive about how difficult it was going to be. And we often talk to each other, and we say, "If we knew all of what we have to deal with now then, would we have even have done it?" Because a lot of what we're trying to do now is grow. So we grow in our house, but we're not producing at nearly the level we need to really have a business that can support our demand and ourselves. So we also have this warehouse that we purchased two years now? A year ago? Also in Detroit. Deana: Last July. Yes. Chris: Last July. About five minutes from our house, in the north end of Detroit. Chris: About five minutes from my house, in kind of the North end of Detroit. And so now we're trying to move basically from a large, hobby farm into a small true production farm, and just learning so much about the challenges that that poses, and very few of them so far are about growing mushrooms. It's about developing this building that's seen better days and growing, just continuing to grow, be aggressive. Romy: Yeah, that's so good. I love what you just said. I mean while you're growing mushrooms, you're trying to grow your business. It's like, there's always more shenanigans that happen than just the running the business part than I think people understand. It's just everything from the financial part, to operations, execution, marketing, communications, and I mean, oh my gosh, what about customer service? Chris: Right. Romy: So it's like everything. It's a lot when you're a small team trying to scale at least even just to the next step. Chris: Yeah, and it's funny- Deana: Right. Chris: How little of it ends up being like ... I'm a software engineer, that's my background, so I'm technical. I want the problem ... I wanted to grow better mushrooms, and it's amazing how little, at least early on, that is the problem. It becomes ... it's about running a business that's [inaudible 00:11:22] more so. Your passion takes you to a certain point and then you have to say, "Okay, now I gotta like do my books, and I gotta do the taxes, and we have to find funding, and we have

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Episode 97, of the Gangstercast series is brought to us by Chris Carrier. Chris is one of those rare kinds of artists that have an omnipresent quality and yet do not seek to make their name bigger than the music itself. Releasing his first EP in 1994, he has over 20 years under his belt as a producer and DJ, with a huge back catalogue of releases. With all of that in his locker, Carrier remains ardent in his quest to create more and more classic material and is revered as one of the most prolific and gifted producers around today.    Subscribe with iTunes - https://apple.co/1MQQ5me Subscribe with RSS -  https://imahousegangster.libsyn.com/   As a DJ in the early nineties Chris’ obsession with music led to gigs at some of the early techno raves, held illegally in warehouses around Paris. In these formative years he not only asserted his diversity, flowing effortlessly between techno, drum n bass, hip-hop turntablism and house, but he also invested a large amount of time and energy in collecting an equally electric range of music. His dedication to the art of DJing provided Carrier with a superlative skillset and the ability to adapt to a wide range of genres and environments, whether it’s a vinyl-only set in an intimate club setting or a live set at the legendary Rex or Weather festival.     Besides his long list of high quality releases, and a myriad of influential labels (Adult Only, Chronobrain, Combustible, Taka, X86 and Sound Carrier, plus the more minimal-focused Adult Only Shape) that he has set up over the years, Chris’ recent achievements include albums on Apollonia – ‘Lotus Seven’ with Hector Moralez’ – and the solo LP ‘True Step Locomotion’ on Slapfunk, together with a seemingly endless flow of new music pouring out of his Paris studio.  Driven by an unrelenting pursuit to continue producing music of all genres and to carry on exploring the realms of his own musical imagination, Chris Carrier is an unstoppable force and undoubtedly a legend in his own lifetime.    https://www.imahousegangster.com https://www.facebook.com/imahousegangster https://www.instagram.com/imahousegangster https://www.twitter.com/imhousegangster  

Episode 97, of the Gangstercast series is brought to us by Chris Carrier. Chris is one of those rare kinds of artists that have an omnipresent quality and yet do not seek to make their name bigger than the music itself. Releasing his first EP in 1994, he has over 20 years under his belt as a producer and DJ, with a huge back catalogue of releases. With all of that in his locker, Carrier remains ardent in his quest to create more and more classic material and is revered as one of the most prolific and gifted producers around today.  Subscribe with iTunes - <a href="https://apple.co/1MQQ5me" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://apple.co/1MQQ5me</a> Subscribe with RSS -  <a href="https://imahousegangster.libsyn.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://imahousegangster.libsyn.com/</a> As a DJ in the early nineties Chris’ obsession with music led to gigs at some of the early techno raves, held illegally in warehouses around Paris. In these formative years he not only asserted his diversity, flowing effortlessly between techno, drum n bass, hip-hop turntablism and house, but he also invested a large amount of time and energy in collecting an equally electric range of music. His dedication to the art of DJing provided Carrier with a superlative skillset and the ability to adapt to a wide range of genres and environments, whether it’s a vinyl-only set in an intimate club setting or a live set at the legendary Rex or Weather festival.   Besides his long list of high quality releases, and a myriad of influential labels (Adult Only, Chronobrain, Combustible, Taka, X86 and Sound Carrier, plus the more minimal-focused Adult Only Shape) that he has set up over the years, Chris’ recent achievements include albums on Apollonia – ‘Lotus Seven’ with Hector Moralez’ – and the solo LP ‘True Step Locomotion’ on Slapfunk, together with a seemingly endless flow of new music pouring out of his Paris studio.  Driven by an unrelenting pursuit to continue producing music of all genres and to carry on exploring the realms of his own musical imagination, Chris Carrier is an unstoppable force and undoubtedly a legend in his own lifetime.  <a href="https://www.imahousegangster.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.imahousegangster.com</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/imahousegangster" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/imahousegangster</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/imahousegangster" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/imahousegangster</a> <a href="https://www.twitter.com/imhousegangster" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.twitter.com/imhousegangster</a>

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Mix #196 - December 2015 - Third Week (Radioshow with Chris Carrier) - SPECIAL CHRISTMAS 2015

A very special milestone that marks our journey, we reach episode 400 with frenchman and underground icon Chris Carrier, one of the most prolific and gifted producers on the dance scene today. One of those rare kinds of artists that have an omnipresent quality and yet do not seek to make their name bigger than the music itself. Wishing you all a very bright 2015!

BITM #400 Chris Carrier guestmix

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