September 23, 2025 • 26 mins
In this episode of Quality Living With Peaceful Support, Amanda Whittemore talks with Jessica Smith, owner of Cosmic Grind, about her expanding coffee business and the transformative power of random acts of kindness. Jess shares how prioritizing family, community support, and small everyday kindnesses defines a quality life. The conversation highlights the importance of laughter […]
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Here we are on the Quality Living with
Peaceful Support program.
I'm Amanda Whittemore.
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I love it.
And what's really fun is we get to
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talk about all the things
that feel good or that
bring up peaceful actions.
And one of the ideas we're gonna be
talking about today randomly are random acts of
kindness. And we have with us today a
super special guest.
Her name is Jess. You may have met
her. She's super famous celebrity in town.
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The owner of the Cosmic Grind espresso drive
through at the harbor
and a couple of other new locations that
we have of the Cosmic Grind here in
town. Hey, Jess. Hey.
Yeah. You made it in out of your
insanely busy schedule.
It's a little busy. Yeah. Well, you got
you're so productive and so creative, and I'm
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so grateful to met you and know you
and learn more about you and hear your
story. Well, thank you. It's a pleasure to
be here. Yeah. With full full quality, peaceful
support. We are here for all the things
that happen in each other's lives, and that's,
like, the most
fun part of living,
I think. Well, you're always gonna be a
part of everything. You know? It's like a
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garden. It just grows. Exactly.
And speaking of garden,
there's a new place in town that opened
up, and I'm not really sure how many
of our listeners are familiar with this place.
And I learned about it because you invited
me,
the umbrella farm. Yeah. It's like where nature
meets community.
Oh,
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that's beautiful. Where is it?
So it's on Ocean View Drive.
We're located at 15447
Ocean View Drive, Brookings, Oregon.
And,
it's a really great place to
be with your friends,
bring family just by yourself, hang out, grab
a book,
sit by the water fountain and grab a
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cup of coffee and some flowers and just
relax.
Oh, yeah. That sounds scrumptious. It's such a
beautiful
layout in the way that they have
different
compartments
or how would you call it? Different zones
or different spaces for enjoyment. So,
Mike, he's amazing. And him and his family,
they they started this and they invited me
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out. So Cosmic Grind now has a little
spot in there. I'm a vendor at Umbrella
Farms.
And so I get to meet a bunch
of people that come in and
be another addition to the community. It's really
fun. And there's other vendors there. It's really
awesome.
Mhmm.
I love it. I love it. I love
it. And is there any events coming up
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there? Or
Yeah. You know, actually, I just talked to
Mike today, and,
he's got
music lined up for the next
handful of Saturdays.
I get I think it's, like, two
bands
Okay.
Every Saturday. Oh, my And we're open, ten
to five. Okay. And it's it's really awesome
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because you get to, like it's the community,
members that are playing music in town and
whatnot, and they're coming out there. And it's
just a a great place to just
have some peace.
Yeah. The locals
locals
Hangout spot.
Yeah. Yeah. It's kinda I think it's becoming
like the destination place. Oh,
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okay. Alright. And I remember
walking through when they first opened up and
there's a huge indoor area.
Gift shop. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that's where,
like, local artisans, you can and if you're
interested, get a hold of Mike. Go to
Umbrella Farms on Facebook and they got a
website also. And it's
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facebook.com/umbrellafarms.
And you can go to www.umbrellafarms.com,
and you can sign up and be a
vendor.
Just kinda
tell him what you're
you're selling and whatnot, and and he'll,
communicate back with you.
I love it. I love it. And so
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this is location number five. Or how many
how many cosmic grinds do you have now?
Yeah. Not five.
So we've got the first one down at
the port, opened up 02/2019,
January 1. And,
we opened up in Umbrella Farms just on
Saturdays, ten to five right now. Okay. And
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then we are we bought the drive thru
in Gold Beach. So we're gonna be,
it's Java pit stop right now. And,
looks like about September ish, it'll be Cosmic
Grind fully.
Oh my. Oh.
I know. Congratulations.
Thank you. And then Smith River looks like
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that's about six months
down the road, maybe nine months, and we'll
have Yes.
Down there. So we'll see. Goodness. There's one
out there that is never open, and I
asked them,
and they because it's right near the Latino
community. And I say, why are you guys
never open? They say, oh, we're open sometimes.
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I say, oh, but the you know how
it is. Yeah.
Exactly.
Yeah.
I love them. I just wish that they
would be open.
I know.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. But they're really great people. I
think it's, Casitas.
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Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Really great people. Yes.
I love their flavors. I love their chives.
I am, like,
man, I would go there every time I
drove by, but it just
well, I think they've got, like, a little,
what do you call it, a little trailer
as well. So I think maybe they might
do some events or something too.
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So Mhmm. No. They definitely are always out
And about. In action. Mhmm. Yeah. Which is
why they're not at their station. Yeah. Yeah.
And is that the spot you're talking about,
or is it a little drive through right
in the area? So,
it's where,
Java,
is it
the old Java stop or
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Java Hut? Yeah. Java Hut got hit right
in front of the Ray's,
so yeah. Yeah. It's the one right Don't
your store.
Right on the Before that. Queue spot. Yeah.
Well, it's now the new fire department.
Right. Right. Right. So, like That's what I'm
envisioning. Yep. Right. We're going right there. Right
in front of the new fire department. Yeah.
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Yes.
That's good stuff. Yep. Beverages are important, especially
when you're like, go go go.
Right?
They say there's no hurry in curry No.
Except for when it comes to coffee. Right.
Then it's now. No. Yeah. And this is
the funny part. I don't think they're enunciating
it properly. It goes like this. No. Hurry.
Hurry. No. Hurry. In curry. Hurry. No.
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Yeah. That's a good one. It's all about
they're not they weren't saying it. They weren't
saying
there is no hurry in curry. It's like,
no. No. No. No.
Hurrying curry. Yes. Exactly.
Yeah. I love it. I love it. So
yeah. It's I can't believe, like, it's been
so long. 01/01/2019
when we opened up. Yep.
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And it's gone good for you guys?
Well,
it's going good. Going good. Going good. On
number four, almost. Yeah. Yeah.
Nice.
And our listeners
really like to we have one question that
we ask. Mhmm. Well, we have a lot
of questions, but we have a couple questions.
And we like to ask,
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what does
the word or how does the word
quality
fit in your life? Or where do you
how is it what does it what does
it mean to you? What does it represent?
I think quality is family to me. And,
but,
you know, I'm faulty at quality.
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So I think that,
quality
is something that I am actually lacking because
I am always putting
everything
probably everybody else,
you know, first. And I I think it's
time to kinda step back and put the
quality back into the family.
Mhmm. So I think quality,
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people kinda
forget about it. Forget about the quality of
life. Like, what is the quality of life?
It's not always about working.
And it's like, what can you do for
other people? And I think that's kind of
what you're talking about. Like the random acts
of kindness. I think that's kind of where
quality comes in. And sometimes that quality needs
to go towards the family.
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And we forget about doing random acts of
kindness for our family. And people who are
close to us or, like, telling them how
special and important they are or just
Yeah.
You know? Yeah. We would hold the door
for somebody else that we a perfect stranger
or we might give a perfect stranger a
nice compliment.
Those random acts of kindness. How many times
do you look over at your partner and
be like, oh, that's a really great shirt
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on you? We forget to do that. Sometimes.
Yeah. Or your best friend, you know? Sometimes
you're just busy, hurry, hurry, hurry. Yeah. You
know? And we forget to slow down.
Yeah. Or we forget to do it for
ourselves. Mhmm.
Yeah. Forget to look in the mirror and
compliment yourself.
Right. Because for me, if you look in
the mirror and if you all know me,
then that means I have to do my
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hair.
So Well, if anybody knows me, it's just
a hair tie. I
don't. We are not hairdoers in here. I'm
not giving myself a style of time.
That's true. I don't. I don't. And, you
know, I teach Pilates and yoga reps gym,
and they have a huge mirror. And I
start the day looking out at all the
members,
and then I turn around. I'm like, oh,
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man.
It did not Well, they stay. What do
they say about the mechanics' cars are broke
down, the plumbers'
pipes are broken, and probably, I would imagine
the people that are encouraging
people forget to encourage themselves. It's true. Yeah.
It's true. And we have to I have
to remind myself all the time to bring
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it in, reel it in, like, spend a
half of a day doing all the things
I was supposed to be doing for myself
all week. It takes half of a whole
day
Mhmm. To really bring that quality love and
support back to myself.
Mhmm.
Yeah. It's a hard one. It is. We
have another hard one. Are you ready?
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You and your questions. Here we go. Alright,
listeners. We are here on the Quality Living
with Peaceful Support Show. We are talking with
Jess, the owner of Cosmic Grind.
And our other question that our listeners love
to learn about is
where do
you find peaceful support in your life
or do you or how what it what
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how do you get more of it if
you realize that I'd where is it? How
do how do you activate peaceful support?
That's a good one.
I I think it's about, like,
for me,
well, I
work a lot. So
who am I around?
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Probably not people that are like a part
of my family. Right? So,
I kind of look into support at other
people. And so for me, that means I
need to like, if I see something that
they're needing, then I support them.
And then in return, like there's a smile,
there's a this, there's a that. And then
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me, like, if I wasn't feeling very great,
that's gonna be
an unintentional support from them. Because I just
saw them smile, so that makes
me smile inside. So then
does that make sense? Mhmm. Where, like, I
don't It's just I'm running all the time.
Yeah. So it's like, if if I'm nice
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to someone,
you get that warm fuzzy feeling. Right? Yeah.
And then, so then it passes back to
you. So it's kinda like, if you're really
really sad, if you laugh, you can't,
like,
you you can't have two emotion. I mean,
you can have two emotions at one time.
But if you're laughing,
you are not frowning. Right. It's difficult to
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cry when you're laughing. Right. Unless you're crying
tears of joy and that's a really weird
sensation. Yes.
But it sounds like that peaceful support is
just naturally within you and it's everywhere you
go. That's really cool.
I never looked at it that way, but
try.
Yeah. It's pretty good. I I have that
laughing coping mechanism. So I always try to
find something to laugh about, you know,
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and it turns some really awful things into
something, like, I can just kinda
get through. I thought that came from military
background. I thought we were the only ones
who did that. I am not military. Okay.
So Yeah. It's like a technique. It's like
a tactic. It's like, just
keep them laughing.
So you have military background? Mhmm. Oh, so
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that's why you're so supportive
in yoga.
Okay. See, now I'm learning something about you.
Okay. Okay. Yeah.
Yep. Yep. The discipline, it is. Well, I
I
so I guess I'm gonna turn it back
on you for just one second. We have
it. So
in yoga, when I feel like I can't
go
another step forward Mhmm.
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You're just like, oh, you're doing great. Like,
this is awesome. Yep. Keep on going. And
I'm just like
in my brain, I wanna say I can't,
but you don't actually give me the moment
to say I can't.
And I'm like, oh, no. Really?
So
but but it makes you, like, continue to
go forward. Mhmm. Yeah. And so then I'm
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also finding my support through yoga. So
yeah. And it just happens to be you
sitting across from me. So I'm not trying
to, like, advertise for you, but, you know,
you you took me from where I couldn't,
like, move to where I I was almost
not mobile
to where I can, like, walk again. Basically,
it was so hard to walk the pain.
And so,
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you know, yeah. So finding support in the
community, which was really random because you came
in when I had
another shop in town, Yumberry. Oh, Yumberry. That's
how I met you. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. That's
right. And I was in so much pain.
And then you're like, I do yoga. And
I was like, oh. I was thinking that
would be amazing to do yoga. And then
you're like, you can. And I'm like, no.
I don't think I can.
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That was a really weird day for me
too because I was late for work.
It's like Sorry. I really should not be
doing this, but I need to support myself
right now. I need to do something for
myself.
Sorry, office.
I just I just needed to just,
like, breathe. You know? I just needed a
breath. I just needed a moment to just
recharge my batteries. And I was like, I
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love you. I'm very and whenever
I'm off work, like, they're not it wasn't
open. So, you know, I guess I have
a pattern with that with places, places, with
trade places. So I was like, okay, I'm
gonna stop. I'm gonna go and I'm gonna
meet a new friend and I'm just gonna
meet people everywhere I go. And I was
really, like, in transition of, like, telling myself,
like, how important it is to just stop
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for myself every once in a while. And
there you were, and you
were, like, ready to I didn't I had
you know, I was Oh, you were there
for Yumbury? Yeah. Yeah.
And then you're like, oh, I I was
once where I couldn't, like, hardly move, and
I'm like, um-mm. There's no way.
And so yeah.
It's very true. My personal journey, I've told,
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I I'm not sure how much of my
story I've explained here on the Quality Living
with Peaceful support program, but I was at
almost two years
where I was off of work. I was
young. I was 19
to 21.
I could not drive a vehicle.
I could barely even get in a vehicle,
let alone stand up.
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There's days I go to stand up. I
feel like I'm gonna be okay.
You know, kitchen's a disaster because you can't
stand that long. So I'm like, alright. I'm
gonna do the dishes today. It's gonna be
a big day. I go to the counter,
turn the water on, start the water, put
a plate down into the dishwasher, come back
up, go for a utensil, go to put
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it in the utensil thing. Boom. Thank god
it didn't poke my eye out, like, dropped
to the floor.
Completely dropped. And like I just I've had
a lot of, you know, even since I've
healed from it with yoga and
all every technique I've tried under the sun
and out through the galaxy.
Mhmm. There's just still days that it just,
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you know, it hurts. Disc injuries are real.
And Yeah. It was like
I think it was that morning or the
morning before,
my husband literally I couldn't even move my
arm. I could he had to open my
arm. He had to, like, grab my leg,
put it on the bed on the floor.
I couldn't even stand up. It was horrible.
I was like, oh my gosh. Am I
gonna be,
like, not able to walk here soon or
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something?
Yeah. And then I was like, aerial yoga.
Yeah. Right?
Jeez.
Yeah. Sometimes just
moving our perspective and just giving time and
room to breathe and just releasing some rest.
Yeah. So support in in actually a spot
that I never thought that I would even
be in. But,
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yeah, every Monday and we might be a
little late for yoga tonight. Right? Yeah. We're
gonna make it. We're gonna be, like, five
minutes late. But Yeah. It's gonna be We
will show up together on time. We're gonna
show up together on time.
That's for sure. We'll go a little extra.
Oh, man. It'll be fun. Yeah. Aerial yoga
is something that I never even knew
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and it has its own misperception
from a lot of people. They're like, oh,
I have to be this Cirque du Soleil,
like, dancer
or God only knows what else they think.
But, Nope. I'm a big woman. I went
upside down.
I did it.
It is for everyone.
And the fun part is it's it's yoga.
It's supported yoga. You know, it's not really
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Takes all the pressure off your spine.
Mhmm. Felt good. Good. Good. Yeah. Yeah. Well,
we're gonna get back up in it here
pretty soon. Sometimes it's important to do a
little bit of groundwork
so we can get the mechanics and things,
you know, just like flying an airplane.
Gotta
build different techniques and then
makes it more simple.
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And,
other random acts of kindness like
like, that was a random act of kindness,
you know, just like
introducing ourselves to each other.
Yeah. That was very random, wasn't it? Yeah.
Yeah. No. Random acts of kindness, I think,
is really important because sometimes if you can't
do something for yourself, it's really easy to
do something for someone else. Mhmm. And by
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doing a random act of kindness, you're also
doing an act of kindness to yourself. Mhmm.
And so it's kinda like a domino effect
because once you do something for someone else,
you don't know what they're going through. And
just that one
little thing
could just, like, completely, you know, keep them
from, you know, doing something that they shouldn't
do. Mhmm. You know? Mhmm.
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Absolutely.
And with this day and age, with all
that's out there,
with
the
social media as rad as it is and
as supportive as it is and
I mean, I get so much education
and so I had a time where I
didn't have a television in my house or
a computer or anything, and this is very
recently,
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because of
everything that comes through it. I mean, I
would There's a lot of negative. Yeah. But
then I learned there's so much good stuff.
Mhmm. There's so much good stuff. How you
use it. Right? Yeah. Right. With everything. Mhmm.
And, man, it's I even pay for YouTube.
I mean, that's how much I love it.
It's I mean, it's $20 a month, $19.99,
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but also then I can have stream endless
amounts of yoga music for everybody and, you
know,
it's just,
I really am grateful for technology
and, but
where I'm going with that is,
I can't
even imagine being alive as a young kid
this day and age, you know, because we
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got to go and play in the dirt
and, like, climb trees. And it was the
courage to
have other objects in our hands except for
we didn't even have cell phones. We didn't
even we barely even had pagers. Well, maybe
that's what we need here is a a
table full of kids
to talk, you know, to figure out how
to Do it. Yeah. Like, I mean, suicide's
real people,
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and it's happening. And I think there needs
to be some
times, you know, to, come together and get
these kids to do some random acts of
kindness.
That would that would help because there's a
bullying and whatnot. I think that that would
be amazing thing to have a, you know,
this table surrounded by other kids in the
community
to, like, support each other. A 100%.
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There should be like a is there a
kids radio group here?
We're about to make one. We're about to
make one. Yeah. Yeah. I think I think
there should be. Yeah. You know?
A 100%.
And I am all about it. Let's let's
round them up. Kids, you are all invited.
All ages are invited. Perfect time for school.
(23:25):
Station.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that would be great
for, like, a elective for school even. Yeah.
How do we do this? I don't know.
We'll we'll figure that out. So,
and I think this comes from, like, generations
and the parents and things. Just I'm noticing
a pattern because I had another guest that
was in here earlier,
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and they were talking we were talking about
how they're seeing
our
elected officials bully the citizens.
Mhmm.
And I will and I'm hearing it from
the citizens in public. They're coming up to
me. I don't know if it's because they
know I have a radio program, but I'm
hearing
concerned citizens in the public
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voice out against being bullied by their elected
officials.
And I'm thinking, how do we I don't
know anything about that, but I know that
the kids are being bullied in school enough
to where, like, you know, it's it's a
serious thing and We got Yeah. We need
to rally together and find peaceful support and
random acts of kindness and open up a
safe platform to communicate and share this And
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we can have coffee talk. We're gonna talk
about it. We're gonna get some coffee in
here. Cosmic I know it's gonna be a
fun story. Yeah. There's some kulfi in here.
Yeah. You know, roasted by Kissing Rock.
Locally roasted, fair traded organic.
Mhmm. Yeah. I love it. Yeah. Little floating
swim in here. Yeah. Cappuccino. You want it
wet or dry?
And that foam just right? Yeah.
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Yeah. I think this is great. Tom, do
you drink coffee?
We've got decaf and tea too.
We'll find out. We'll find out. We need
we need to find out. We gotta make
sure the sound man's happy. That's extremely important.
Yeah. I like that idea a lot. And
honestly, children,
youth,
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adolescents,
young fellas,
the big kids who are bigger than their
own britches,
everybody who just feels that you know that
you're somebody. There there is a microphone for
you and a chair,
and you are all welcome to join us
here on the Quality Living with Peaceful Support
program. You can be even anonymous. You can,
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like, make up your own radio name, and
no one needs to know who you are.
It's very true. Mascot. You can show up
as a mascot. That's the best
that's the best about radio. And so what
we're gonna do is bring that to their
next show and thank Jess for being here
with Cosmic Grind, and thank you listeners.
Thank you. Yay.
Here we are on the Quality Living with
Peaceful Support program.
I'm Amanda Whittemore.
If anybody
out there has seen me or met me,
I am so grateful and I pray for
you and think about all the people that
have touched my life in one way or
another. Even if it was just a smile
or any type of expression given, I am
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And thank you for listening to the Quality
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a lot of fun.
I love it.
And what's really fun is we get to
(02:27):
talk about all the things
that feel good or that
bring up peaceful actions.
And one of the ideas we're gonna be
talking about today randomly are random acts of
kindness. And we have with us today a
super special guest.
Her name is Jess. You may have met
her. She's super famous celebrity in town.
(02:49):
The owner of the Cosmic Grind espresso drive
through at the harbor
and a couple of other new locations that
we have of the Cosmic Grind here in
town. Hey, Jess. Hey.
Yeah. You made it in out of your
insanely busy schedule.
It's a little busy. Yeah. Well, you got
you're so productive and so creative, and I'm
(03:11):
so grateful to met you and know you
and learn more about you and hear your
story. Well, thank you. It's a pleasure to
be here. Yeah. With full full quality, peaceful
support. We are here for all the things
that happen in each other's lives, and that's,
like, the most
fun part of living,
I think. Well, you're always gonna be a
part of everything. You know? It's like a
(03:33):
garden. It just grows. Exactly.
And speaking of garden,
there's a new place in town that opened
up, and I'm not really sure how many
of our listeners are familiar with this place.
And I learned about it because you invited
me,
the umbrella farm. Yeah. It's like where nature
meets community.
Oh,
(03:53):
that's beautiful. Where is it?
So it's on Ocean View Drive.
We're located at 15447
Ocean View Drive, Brookings, Oregon.
And,
it's a really great place to
be with your friends,
bring family just by yourself, hang out, grab
a book,
sit by the water fountain and grab a
(04:15):
cup of coffee and some flowers and just
relax.
Oh, yeah. That sounds scrumptious. It's such a
beautiful
layout in the way that they have
different
compartments
or how would you call it? Different zones
or different spaces for enjoyment. So,
Mike, he's amazing. And him and his family,
they they started this and they invited me
(04:38):
out. So Cosmic Grind now has a little
spot in there. I'm a vendor at Umbrella
Farms.
And so I get to meet a bunch
of people that come in and
be another addition to the community. It's really
fun. And there's other vendors there. It's really
awesome.
Mhmm.
I love it. I love it. I love
it. And is there any events coming up
(05:00):
there? Or
Yeah. You know, actually, I just talked to
Mike today, and,
he's got
music lined up for the next
handful of Saturdays.
I get I think it's, like, two
bands
Okay.
Every Saturday. Oh, my And we're open, ten
to five. Okay. And it's it's really awesome
(05:23):
because you get to, like it's the community,
members that are playing music in town and
whatnot, and they're coming out there. And it's
just a a great place to just
have some peace.
Yeah. The locals
locals
Hangout spot.
Yeah. Yeah. It's kinda I think it's becoming
like the destination place. Oh,
(05:44):
okay. Alright. And I remember
walking through when they first opened up and
there's a huge indoor area.
Gift shop. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that's where,
like, local artisans, you can and if you're
interested, get a hold of Mike. Go to
Umbrella Farms on Facebook and they got a
website also. And it's
(06:05):
facebook.com/umbrellafarms.
And you can go to www.umbrellafarms.com,
and you can sign up and be a
vendor.
Just kinda
tell him what you're
you're selling and whatnot, and and he'll,
communicate back with you.
I love it. I love it. And so
(06:27):
this is location number five. Or how many
how many cosmic grinds do you have now?
Yeah. Not five.
So we've got the first one down at
the port, opened up 02/2019,
January 1. And,
we opened up in Umbrella Farms just on
Saturdays, ten to five right now. Okay. And
(06:47):
then we are we bought the drive thru
in Gold Beach. So we're gonna be,
it's Java pit stop right now. And,
looks like about September ish, it'll be Cosmic
Grind fully.
Oh my. Oh.
I know. Congratulations.
Thank you. And then Smith River looks like
(07:07):
that's about six months
down the road, maybe nine months, and we'll
have Yes.
Down there. So we'll see. Goodness. There's one
out there that is never open, and I
asked them,
and they because it's right near the Latino
community. And I say, why are you guys
never open? They say, oh, we're open sometimes.
(07:29):
I say, oh, but the you know how
it is. Yeah.
Exactly.
Yeah.
I love them. I just wish that they
would be open.
I know.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. But they're really great people. I
think it's, Casitas.
(07:50):
Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Really great people. Yes.
I love their flavors. I love their chives.
I am, like,
man, I would go there every time I
drove by, but it just
well, I think they've got, like, a little,
what do you call it, a little trailer
as well. So I think maybe they might
do some events or something too.
(08:10):
So Mhmm. No. They definitely are always out
And about. In action. Mhmm. Yeah. Which is
why they're not at their station. Yeah. Yeah.
And is that the spot you're talking about,
or is it a little drive through right
in the area? So,
it's where,
Java,
is it
the old Java stop or
(08:31):
Java Hut? Yeah. Java Hut got hit right
in front of the Ray's,
so yeah. Yeah. It's the one right Don't
your store.
Right on the Before that. Queue spot. Yeah.
Well, it's now the new fire department.
Right. Right. Right. So, like That's what I'm
envisioning. Yep. Right. We're going right there. Right
in front of the new fire department. Yeah.
(08:53):
Yes.
That's good stuff. Yep. Beverages are important, especially
when you're like, go go go.
Right?
They say there's no hurry in curry No.
Except for when it comes to coffee. Right.
Then it's now. No. Yeah. And this is
the funny part. I don't think they're enunciating
it properly. It goes like this. No. Hurry.
Hurry. No. Hurry. In curry. Hurry. No.
(09:16):
Yeah. That's a good one. It's all about
they're not they weren't saying it. They weren't
saying
there is no hurry in curry. It's like,
no. No. No. No.
Hurrying curry. Yes. Exactly.
Yeah. I love it. I love it. So
yeah. It's I can't believe, like, it's been
so long. 01/01/2019
when we opened up. Yep.
(09:38):
And it's gone good for you guys?
Well,
it's going good. Going good. Going good. On
number four, almost. Yeah. Yeah.
Nice.
And our listeners
really like to we have one question that
we ask. Mhmm. Well, we have a lot
of questions, but we have a couple questions.
And we like to ask,
(09:58):
what does
the word or how does the word
quality
fit in your life? Or where do you
how is it what does it what does
it mean to you? What does it represent?
I think quality is family to me. And,
but,
you know, I'm faulty at quality.
(10:21):
So I think that,
quality
is something that I am actually lacking because
I am always putting
everything
probably everybody else,
you know, first. And I I think it's
time to kinda step back and put the
quality back into the family.
Mhmm. So I think quality,
(10:41):
people kinda
forget about it. Forget about the quality of
life. Like, what is the quality of life?
It's not always about working.
And it's like, what can you do for
other people? And I think that's kind of
what you're talking about. Like the random acts
of kindness. I think that's kind of where
quality comes in. And sometimes that quality needs
to go towards the family.
(11:02):
And we forget about doing random acts of
kindness for our family. And people who are
close to us or, like, telling them how
special and important they are or just
Yeah.
You know? Yeah. We would hold the door
for somebody else that we a perfect stranger
or we might give a perfect stranger a
nice compliment.
Those random acts of kindness. How many times
do you look over at your partner and
be like, oh, that's a really great shirt
(11:23):
on you? We forget to do that. Sometimes.
Yeah. Or your best friend, you know? Sometimes
you're just busy, hurry, hurry, hurry. Yeah. You
know? And we forget to slow down.
Yeah. Or we forget to do it for
ourselves. Mhmm.
Yeah. Forget to look in the mirror and
compliment yourself.
Right. Because for me, if you look in
the mirror and if you all know me,
then that means I have to do my
(11:43):
hair.
So Well, if anybody knows me, it's just
a hair tie. I
don't. We are not hairdoers in here. I'm
not giving myself a style of time.
That's true. I don't. I don't. And, you
know, I teach Pilates and yoga reps gym,
and they have a huge mirror. And I
start the day looking out at all the
members,
and then I turn around. I'm like, oh,
(12:04):
man.
It did not Well, they stay. What do
they say about the mechanics' cars are broke
down, the plumbers'
pipes are broken, and probably, I would imagine
the people that are encouraging
people forget to encourage themselves. It's true. Yeah.
It's true. And we have to I have
to remind myself all the time to bring
(12:24):
it in, reel it in, like, spend a
half of a day doing all the things
I was supposed to be doing for myself
all week. It takes half of a whole
day
Mhmm. To really bring that quality love and
support back to myself.
Mhmm.
Yeah. It's a hard one. It is. We
have another hard one. Are you ready?
(12:45):
You and your questions. Here we go. Alright,
listeners. We are here on the Quality Living
with Peaceful Support Show. We are talking with
Jess, the owner of Cosmic Grind.
And our other question that our listeners love
to learn about is
where do
you find peaceful support in your life
or do you or how what it what
(13:07):
how do you get more of it if
you realize that I'd where is it? How
do how do you activate peaceful support?
That's a good one.
I I think it's about, like,
for me,
well, I
work a lot. So
who am I around?
(13:27):
Probably not people that are like a part
of my family. Right? So,
I kind of look into support at other
people. And so for me, that means I
need to like, if I see something that
they're needing, then I support them.
And then in return, like there's a smile,
there's a this, there's a that. And then
(13:49):
me, like, if I wasn't feeling very great,
that's gonna be
an unintentional support from them. Because I just
saw them smile, so that makes
me smile inside. So then
does that make sense? Mhmm. Where, like, I
don't It's just I'm running all the time.
Yeah. So it's like, if if I'm nice
(14:10):
to someone,
you get that warm fuzzy feeling. Right? Yeah.
And then, so then it passes back to
you. So it's kinda like, if you're really
really sad, if you laugh, you can't,
like,
you you can't have two emotion. I mean,
you can have two emotions at one time.
But if you're laughing,
you are not frowning. Right. It's difficult to
(14:31):
cry when you're laughing. Right. Unless you're crying
tears of joy and that's a really weird
sensation. Yes.
But it sounds like that peaceful support is
just naturally within you and it's everywhere you
go. That's really cool.
I never looked at it that way, but
try.
Yeah. It's pretty good. I I have that
laughing coping mechanism. So I always try to
find something to laugh about, you know,
(14:53):
and it turns some really awful things into
something, like, I can just kinda
get through. I thought that came from military
background. I thought we were the only ones
who did that. I am not military. Okay.
So Yeah. It's like a technique. It's like
a tactic. It's like, just
keep them laughing.
So you have military background? Mhmm. Oh, so
(15:14):
that's why you're so supportive
in yoga.
Okay. See, now I'm learning something about you.
Okay. Okay. Yeah.
Yep. Yep. The discipline, it is. Well, I
I
so I guess I'm gonna turn it back
on you for just one second. We have
it. So
in yoga, when I feel like I can't
go
another step forward Mhmm.
(15:37):
You're just like, oh, you're doing great. Like,
this is awesome. Yep. Keep on going. And
I'm just like
in my brain, I wanna say I can't,
but you don't actually give me the moment
to say I can't.
And I'm like, oh, no. Really?
So
but but it makes you, like, continue to
go forward. Mhmm. Yeah. And so then I'm
(15:58):
also finding my support through yoga. So
yeah. And it just happens to be you
sitting across from me. So I'm not trying
to, like, advertise for you, but, you know,
you you took me from where I couldn't,
like, move to where I I was almost
not mobile
to where I can, like, walk again. Basically,
it was so hard to walk the pain.
And so,
(16:19):
you know, yeah. So finding support in the
community, which was really random because you came
in when I had
another shop in town, Yumberry. Oh, Yumberry. That's
how I met you. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. That's
right. And I was in so much pain.
And then you're like, I do yoga. And
I was like, oh. I was thinking that
would be amazing to do yoga. And then
you're like, you can. And I'm like, no.
I don't think I can.
(16:40):
That was a really weird day for me
too because I was late for work.
It's like Sorry. I really should not be
doing this, but I need to support myself
right now. I need to do something for
myself.
Sorry, office.
I just I just needed to just,
like, breathe. You know? I just needed a
breath. I just needed a moment to just
recharge my batteries. And I was like, I
(17:01):
love you. I'm very and whenever
I'm off work, like, they're not it wasn't
open. So, you know, I guess I have
a pattern with that with places, places, with
trade places. So I was like, okay, I'm
gonna stop. I'm gonna go and I'm gonna
meet a new friend and I'm just gonna
meet people everywhere I go. And I was
really, like, in transition of, like, telling myself,
like, how important it is to just stop
(17:21):
for myself every once in a while. And
there you were, and you
were, like, ready to I didn't I had
you know, I was Oh, you were there
for Yumbury? Yeah. Yeah.
And then you're like, oh, I I was
once where I couldn't, like, hardly move, and
I'm like, um-mm. There's no way.
And so yeah.
It's very true. My personal journey, I've told,
(17:43):
I I'm not sure how much of my
story I've explained here on the Quality Living
with Peaceful support program, but I was at
almost two years
where I was off of work. I was
young. I was 19
to 21.
I could not drive a vehicle.
I could barely even get in a vehicle,
let alone stand up.
(18:05):
There's days I go to stand up. I
feel like I'm gonna be okay.
You know, kitchen's a disaster because you can't
stand that long. So I'm like, alright. I'm
gonna do the dishes today. It's gonna be
a big day. I go to the counter,
turn the water on, start the water, put
a plate down into the dishwasher, come back
up, go for a utensil, go to put
(18:26):
it in the utensil thing. Boom. Thank god
it didn't poke my eye out, like, dropped
to the floor.
Completely dropped. And like I just I've had
a lot of, you know, even since I've
healed from it with yoga and
all every technique I've tried under the sun
and out through the galaxy.
Mhmm. There's just still days that it just,
(18:47):
you know, it hurts. Disc injuries are real.
And Yeah. It was like
I think it was that morning or the
morning before,
my husband literally I couldn't even move my
arm. I could he had to open my
arm. He had to, like, grab my leg,
put it on the bed on the floor.
I couldn't even stand up. It was horrible.
I was like, oh my gosh. Am I
gonna be,
like, not able to walk here soon or
(19:08):
something?
Yeah. And then I was like, aerial yoga.
Yeah. Right?
Jeez.
Yeah. Sometimes just
moving our perspective and just giving time and
room to breathe and just releasing some rest.
Yeah. So support in in actually a spot
that I never thought that I would even
be in. But,
(19:29):
yeah, every Monday and we might be a
little late for yoga tonight. Right? Yeah. We're
gonna make it. We're gonna be, like, five
minutes late. But Yeah. It's gonna be We
will show up together on time. We're gonna
show up together on time.
That's for sure. We'll go a little extra.
Oh, man. It'll be fun. Yeah. Aerial yoga
is something that I never even knew
(19:51):
and it has its own misperception
from a lot of people. They're like, oh,
I have to be this Cirque du Soleil,
like, dancer
or God only knows what else they think.
But, Nope. I'm a big woman. I went
upside down.
I did it.
It is for everyone.
And the fun part is it's it's yoga.
It's supported yoga. You know, it's not really
(20:13):
Takes all the pressure off your spine.
Mhmm. Felt good. Good. Good. Yeah. Yeah. Well,
we're gonna get back up in it here
pretty soon. Sometimes it's important to do a
little bit of groundwork
so we can get the mechanics and things,
you know, just like flying an airplane.
Gotta
build different techniques and then
makes it more simple.
(20:35):
And,
other random acts of kindness like
like, that was a random act of kindness,
you know, just like
introducing ourselves to each other.
Yeah. That was very random, wasn't it? Yeah.
Yeah. No. Random acts of kindness, I think,
is really important because sometimes if you can't
do something for yourself, it's really easy to
do something for someone else. Mhmm. And by
(20:57):
doing a random act of kindness, you're also
doing an act of kindness to yourself. Mhmm.
And so it's kinda like a domino effect
because once you do something for someone else,
you don't know what they're going through. And
just that one
little thing
could just, like, completely, you know, keep them
from, you know, doing something that they shouldn't
do. Mhmm. You know? Mhmm.
(21:19):
Absolutely.
And with this day and age, with all
that's out there,
with
the
social media as rad as it is and
as supportive as it is and
I mean, I get so much education
and so I had a time where I
didn't have a television in my house or
a computer or anything, and this is very
recently,
(21:39):
because of
everything that comes through it. I mean, I
would There's a lot of negative. Yeah. But
then I learned there's so much good stuff.
Mhmm. There's so much good stuff. How you
use it. Right? Yeah. Right. With everything. Mhmm.
And, man, it's I even pay for YouTube.
I mean, that's how much I love it.
It's I mean, it's $20 a month, $19.99,
(22:01):
but also then I can have stream endless
amounts of yoga music for everybody and, you
know,
it's just,
I really am grateful for technology
and, but
where I'm going with that is,
I can't
even imagine being alive as a young kid
this day and age, you know, because we
(22:22):
got to go and play in the dirt
and, like, climb trees. And it was the
courage to
have other objects in our hands except for
we didn't even have cell phones. We didn't
even we barely even had pagers. Well, maybe
that's what we need here is a a
table full of kids
to talk, you know, to figure out how
to Do it. Yeah. Like, I mean, suicide's
real people,
(22:43):
and it's happening. And I think there needs
to be some
times, you know, to, come together and get
these kids to do some random acts of
kindness.
That would that would help because there's a
bullying and whatnot. I think that that would
be amazing thing to have a, you know,
this table surrounded by other kids in the
community
to, like, support each other. A 100%.
(23:05):
There should be like a is there a
kids radio group here?
We're about to make one. We're about to
make one. Yeah. Yeah. I think I think
there should be. Yeah. You know?
A 100%.
And I am all about it. Let's let's
round them up. Kids, you are all invited.
All ages are invited. Perfect time for school.
(23:25):
Station.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that would be great
for, like, a elective for school even. Yeah.
How do we do this? I don't know.
We'll we'll figure that out. So,
and I think this comes from, like, generations
and the parents and things. Just I'm noticing
a pattern because I had another guest that
was in here earlier,
(23:46):
and they were talking we were talking about
how they're seeing
our
elected officials bully the citizens.
Mhmm.
And I will and I'm hearing it from
the citizens in public. They're coming up to
me. I don't know if it's because they
know I have a radio program, but I'm
hearing
concerned citizens in the public
(24:06):
voice out against being bullied by their elected
officials.
And I'm thinking, how do we I don't
know anything about that, but I know that
the kids are being bullied in school enough
to where, like, you know, it's it's a
serious thing and We got Yeah. We need
to rally together and find peaceful support and
random acts of kindness and open up a
safe platform to communicate and share this And
(24:28):
we can have coffee talk. We're gonna talk
about it. We're gonna get some coffee in
here. Cosmic I know it's gonna be a
fun story. Yeah. There's some kulfi in here.
Yeah. You know, roasted by Kissing Rock.
Locally roasted, fair traded organic.
Mhmm. Yeah. I love it. Yeah. Little floating
swim in here. Yeah. Cappuccino. You want it
wet or dry?
And that foam just right? Yeah.
(24:50):
Yeah. I think this is great. Tom, do
you drink coffee?
We've got decaf and tea too.
We'll find out. We'll find out. We need
we need to find out. We gotta make
sure the sound man's happy. That's extremely important.
Yeah. I like that idea a lot. And
honestly, children,
youth,
(25:10):
adolescents,
young fellas,
the big kids who are bigger than their
own britches,
everybody who just feels that you know that
you're somebody. There there is a microphone for
you and a chair,
and you are all welcome to join us
here on the Quality Living with Peaceful Support
program. You can be even anonymous. You can,
(25:30):
like, make up your own radio name, and
no one needs to know who you are.
It's very true. Mascot. You can show up
as a mascot. That's the best
that's the best about radio. And so what
we're gonna do is bring that to their
next show and thank Jess for being here
with Cosmic Grind, and thank you listeners.
Thank you. Yay.
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