I Seay It This Way Stephanie Seay

I am so excited for this weeks guest on @iseayitthisway with Josè Meza @josemeza_c 

We talk about everything from his culinary journey to his cuisine at @tulumdallas and @jalisconorte where he is known for presenting traditional Mexican dishes with a modern twist. Tune in for a wonderful conversation about life and food and make sure to check out his wonderful cuisine if you are in Dallas!

https://www.thetulumexperience.com
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On the Season 1 Finale of "I Seay It This Way" I get to talk to Chef Junior Borges of Meridian Dallas about his career, the Dallas culinary scene,  paying it forward,  the meal that brought a tear to his eye and so much more. I get to ask him what makes someone a chef, and what is coming next in his exciting and growing career. I loved every minute of chatting with Junior and am so lucky to get to call him a friend. I know you'll love listening to this episode as much as I loved recording it.

https://www.thevillagedallas.com/meridian/
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I am thrilled about this weeks guest on @iseayitthisway, @courtneysworlddallas! Courtney  has transitioned from a reality tv star (Dallas Divas and Daughters) to successful Dallas realtor. Originally from Cincinnati, OH Courtney moved to Dallas, TX in 2008. She graduated from Highland Park High School and went on to get a bachelor's degree in Communication and Spanish from Southern Methodist University. She has become one of my favorite people and I love watching her career and instagram take off, and I cannot wait to see all of the big things coming for her. We touch on everything from this insane housing market, to friendship, letting go, the lunch specials at the strip club and what it feels like to get made fun of by Chelsea Handler.

On this weeks episode I sit down with the owners of Breathe Meditation and Wellness. Breathe was created to help ease the stresses of modern life and offer a place for healing and true transformation. We believe everyone deserves a happy and healthy life and we are dedicated to helping make this happen one life at a time.

Breathe co-founder, Chelsey Charbeneau discovered her life purpose—helping people become happier and healthier—through her own wellness journey which began over 15 years ago in Los Angeles. She was your typical type "A" type personality climbing the corporate ladder while working for an investment firm. As time went on, the effects of stress and neglect left her with a laundry list of diseases and ailments until she began to practice meditation and yoga which opened her eyes to the extensive therapeutic benefits of these ancient practices.Chelsey is a meditation teacher, certified yoga therapist with The International Association of Yoga Therapists as well as an experienced registered yoga teacher and continuing education provider with the national Yoga Alliance. She is also certified in Thai yoga massage therapy, Mindful Self-Compassion and is trained in prenatal yoga. Chelsey has offered her healing services at a physical rehabilitation center in Beverly Hills, with doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Methodist Hospital, Medical City, and The Brain Performance Institute. In 2014 she opened Just B, a meditation studio in Santa Monica, California and then relocated to Dallas in 2016, where she opened a mindfulness meditation studio serving as their Chief Mindfulness Officer. Upon her return Chelsey has created and implemented meditation curriculum for Dallas Independent School District, Adaptive Training Foundation, Unique Footprints and others. She has also launched the first 200-hour meditation teacher training in this region and continues her meditation studies with renowned experts such as Pema Chodron and Dr. Kristin Neff. Her work has been circulated globally and she continues to lead teacher trainings, retreats, workshops, and seminars nationwide. Chelsey's teachings have impacted lives from children to seniors, homeless to celebrities, trauma victims to veterans. With a deep commitment to science-driven health, her goal is always to provide an experience that is nurturing, personal, and safe.

Born and raised in New York, Breathe co-founder Jenn Moulaison spent more than two decades in the luxury fashion industry, managing finance and operations for Chanel, Inc. and, most recently, Dallas-based retailer Forty Five Ten. Her dedicated fitness routine brought some measure of balance to the industry’s high stress level and unrelenting pace, but ultimately only upped the pressure to perform and did little to nurture inner calm. Like many of us, Jenn had heard about the benefits of meditation and wondered if it might work for her. But, like many of us, she was always “too busy” to give the practice a consistent chance. That changed in 2016, when a friend persuaded her to attend her first formal mindfulness class. The instructor—Chelsey Charbeneau—was knowledgeable, approachable and helpful. Something clicked. Jenn went back the next day, and the one after that. Within a few months, she was meditating daily and enrolling in workshops and training sessions. Within a year, she’d left the fashion industry behind and partnered with Chelsey to begin to realize the dream of Breathe. Jenn completed her 300-hour meditation teacher training in spring 2018.
https://breathemeditationandwellness.com
https://www.instagram.com/breathemeditationandwellness/

If you have followed me for a while you know that I have dreamed of learning how to make a good cocktail and Raul Yeh of Jalisco Norte  was the ultimate teacher. Not only does he let me pretend to be a mixologist for a moment, but we also get to chat about his story, what makes a good cocktail, and so much more. 
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Jalisco Norte Lead Bartender Raul Yeh has been in the restaurant business for decades. Originally from Merida Yucatan, he moved to Dallas at the age of 12 and got his first restaurant job at 16. He worked through the ranks learning how to cook, mix cocktails, become knowledgeable about tequila, and excellent at customer service. He spent the next several years honing his craft as head bartender at notable Dallas restaurants including Sangrias and El Bolero. Yeh was the mastermind behind El Bolero’s signature cocktail “The Oilman,” which was recognized as best margarita in Dallas by D Magazine in 2017.  In September of 2018, he joined the team at Jalisco Norte as the leader of the bar program and believes it was the best decision he ever made.  The first cocktail he added to the menu is one of the restaurant’s most popular: “The Smoke Show,” a 45-day-aged mezcal cocktail.  Raul loves what he does because it provides him the opportunity to keep creating bitters and cocktails with the whole Jalisco team. His most recent creation is the Dragon Fruit Margarita (Corazon de Dragon). When he’s not bringing people together at Jalisco’s bar, he enjoys spending time with his wife, cooking, finding creative new ways to make drinks, and creating different types of salts for new cocktails

Trey Stewart is a local Dallas entrepreneur and restauranteur. While he is well known for being featured on the Real Housewives of Dallas, he is also the co-owner and face of Mr. Mister in Dallas and Sir in Denver (coming soon). We talk about everything from social media, reality tv, relationships, and the importance of having a space where you can not only be true to yourself but celebrate others.

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