The Counter Chronicles
A podcast that explores the hustle of entrepreneurship or pursuing your dream career while tackling the realities (health insurance, rent, business failures, a second job!) of that pursuit. Hosted by Agatha Khishchenko, lawyer and former owner of a beloved neighborhood cheese shop, who is obsessed with all things food, restaurants, travel and hospitality.
Episodes
I am so honored to introduce you to today's guest, Alissa Timoshkina. In her teenage years, she left Russia for England. Now, having moved through a career in academia, she is a London based writer, cookbook author, creator of KinoVino, and activist.
Most recently, Alissa and her dear friend, Olia Hercules, founded Cook for Ukraine, an initiative they started within 48 hours of the war on Ukraine by Russia. To date, they h...
Today's episode is with Patrick Miller, chef, formerly of one of my favorite restaurants, Rucola, in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, and founder, distiller, and creator of Faccia Brutto Spirits. They are a Brooklyn based liquor company that uses a variety of botanicals to make Italian spirits, namely before and after dinner drinks (aperitivo and amaros) popularized in Italy.
If you're enjoying the show, it means so much to me if...
Today's guest is Kristen Carbone, founder of Brilliantly, a wearable warming device for survivors of breast cancer and mastectomies. Kristen tragically lost her mother in her early twenties due to metastic breast cancer. The followed a decade of testing, health insurance difficulties, anxiety, and stress about developing breast cancer, until she ultimately decided to undergo a preventative mastectomy and implant reconstructi...
This is the last podcast of 2021 and we are going out with a bang with someone I am very excited to introduce you to. Author, YouTube host, and podcaster, Katie Quinn. Katie has a very popular YouTube channel where she creates videos of her travels, cultural experiences, and of course incredible food.
Katie is also an author of a new book: Cheese, Wine, and Bread: Discovering the Magic of Fermentation in England, Italy, and Fran...
Today's guest is Peter Hoffman, a man I've long admired for his greenmarket ingredient driven food, his former restaurants (Savoy, Back Forty, and Back Forty West), his passion and commitment to the land and the food and farmers behind it.
Peter is the author of the highly acclaimed book, "What Good?: A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients." From the moment I cracked the spine and dove in to this book, I ...
My guest on this week's podcast is Brian Keyser, owner of Casellula, a cheese and wine focused restaurant in Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. Brian is a veteran of both the restaurant industry and the artisan cheese world, and I hope you enjoy and learn from hearing his story.
You can visit Casellula at west 52nd street and 9th avenue. It's a wonderful place to meet a friend, go alone for a glas...
Today's guest is Brewster McCall. Brewster and I met working in the restaurant industry 15 years ago. He was an aspiring actor and model, with a passion for wine, cocktails and hospitality. Brewster's southern upbringing and family connection made him a perfect fit for the food and beverage industry. Brewster and I discuss his career path, including a stint doing burlesque, how he found his way into the family busine...
Today's guest is Lisa Marie (LM) Falcone, founder of The Hungry Hippie, a vegan food delivery service. LM is on a mission to get people to eat more plant-based meals. We talk about how she transitioned from a career in fashion to owning and operating a vegan meal delivery service. LM was able to start this business on a shoestring budget, the sacrifices she has made to pursue this dream, how involved her family is in The...
Today's guest is Amanda Kerpius. We discuss how her career in dance and the arts eventually led to a career in yoga and massage therapy. Amanda is a also an avid runner with many marathons under her belt, and incorporates her love of sports and fitness into yoga and massage, coupling power and strength with mental health. Amanda discusses the realities of pursuing this career, how challenging it can be both financially and...
Today's guest is Amy Larson, founder of the popular business and website, Overseasoned. Amy has created a line of apparel and kitchen accessories that fuses feminism with the culinary world. She has created best selling tag lines, like Smash the Garlic & the Patriarchy and Cabernet & Equal Pay, worn by some of the most renowned chefs and culinary icons across the country. Chef Karen Aukownowitz, Priya Krishna, Gaby ...
Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed the first episode with my parents, hearing about their life back in the soviet union and their immigration story.
Today they share about how they built a life and a business in a new country, advice for future immigrants, as well as what they wish they would have known or done differently to make their early years a bit easier.
So let's get started...and stay tuned for th...
Today we have two very special guests on the podcast: my parents, Larisa & Misha Khishchenko. This is a two episode show. In part 1, they discuss their past life in the former Soviet Union, reasons for leaving, anti-semitism, and the immigration experience. Part 2 will be dropping next week and we will cover their chapter in the United States, the ups and downs as new immigrants, and how they built a business and a life for ...
My guests today are Anu Menon and Suyog Mody, the founders of Driftaway Coffee. Driftaway is a personalized direct to consumer coffee subscription service. Anu and Suyog tapped into their engineering backgrounds in creating and growing this business, supporting their team, the farmers behind the beans, and continue to work and make their company more environmentally sustainable.
Their story is so inspiring and Driftaway makes th...
My guest this week is Alice Jun. Alice is an entrepreneur and founder of Hana Makgeolli, an artisanal korean rice wine, brewed and bottled in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Together with her business partner, John, they are making makgeolli using organic rice, a natural wild fermentation process, and traditional methods, creating a complex and nuanced alcoholic beverage.
Alice learned to brew makgeolli from her father and bri...
Today's guest is Jasmine Graham. Jaz is the epitome of a hustling entrepreneur - after getting laid off in 2008 from her job in the fashion industry, she dove headfirst into opening her own fitness and training business, Pace4Success. she rented space from other businesses, trained clients in public parks and outdoor spaces, and in 2012 she opened Fit Factory. She was the first woman of color to own and operate this type ...
Today's guests are Amy Feezor and Pierre Haberer, the duo behind the instagram project Fed by a Frenchman. Amy is an American writer who met her frenchman, Pierre, while living in Paris, and the two have since fallen in love, gotten married, and started this whimsical account and project on social media. They document their love for ugly fruit, beautiful cheeses, market life, and so much more. It is such a unique way to exp...
This week's guest is Beth George, founder of BYOB bagels. Beth's first career was a lawyer working as a public defender and in corporate law. She eventually started her own private practice. but when her young son developed intolerances to wheat and gluten, Beth went on a mission to help her son and eventually to create a bagel that her son could eat. She has created multiple businesses in the bagel world, became an ...
Today's guest is Karen Ruocco. She has an incredible story, one that has taken many turns along the way until she discovered her passion for wine in her mid forties, left a lucrative career to pursue wine, became a sommelier and ultimately opened her own business, Five Flights Wines and Spirits. We discuss how she got to where she is today, issues in the wine world, including the court of sommeliers, and so much more.
If y...
Today's guest is Tory Williams. Tory is a Brooklyn based photographer with an incredibly diverse portfolio from portraits, celebrities, brand work, food photography and more. We discuss her almost two decade career path, what she loves about photography, the fun and the challenging parts, as well as also juggling motherhood with her flourishing career in the midst of a pandemic. Thank you so much to Tory for sharing her sto...
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