The art of pickling is essentially the "golden rule" of effective communication & relationships. Pickling is a metaphor for preserving the best elements of ourselves & our interactions & how our intentions should be to leave everyone we come across, better than we found them
Mary and Jill open the video to introduce their series on "the art of pickling" and explain they are social-emotional learning experts. This chapter sets the topic and establishes who the hosts are and why viewers should listen.
They recount how, while building their girls mentorship during the 2020 pandemic, their favorite breakfast spot Snooze became a meaningful place that mirrored their energy. This section details the restaurant's vibe and why they kept returning, setting up the discovery.
After repeated visits they received free pancakes and asked why; a waitress explained staff gift pancakes to tables that made their day and called the practice "pickling." This chapter explains the custom and its meaning.
Mary and Jill explain that pickling reflects how they aim to brighten others' days through lively, positive interactions in retail, coffee shops, and beyond. They close by noting Snooze gave a name to their behavior and invite viewers to watch the following parts.
What's up everybody? We are here to do a little series on a concept that we lovingly refer to as the art of pickling. Now, I imagine that you are wondering what the hell is the art of pickling? And no, we're not talking about vegetables being in jars and pickling, pickling in that way. Pickleball. That's very hot right now. Pickling, pickling, pickling, but I digress. My name's Mary. This is my business partner. and best friend Jill and we are social emotional learning experts which basically just means we're here to help you people better not just with other people but with yourself as well.
So the art of pickling, we learned this concept in 2020. I know we all remember the year of the pandemic when we were stuck inside and we were going a little stir crazy. Well, Mary and I were in the very, very infant stages of building our business girls mentorship, where we help develop girls through life skills and our Our office became one of our favorite breakfast spots, which was Snooze, the AM eatery. And what we've learned is not all cities has this wonderful breakfast joint. I was going to say, if you know, you know, if you don't, I'm so sorry.
It's an incredible breakfast. When you come to Colorado or Arizona, you got to hit them up. But when we went to Snooze, what we found was Similarly to our values and energy, we walked into what felt like us, but in a restaurant form. The wait staff was incredible. The colors were bright. The vibe was good. The music was 90s. Oh my goodness. I mean, we were having the time. We really were. And we started to really spend more time there because we felt ourselves connecting with everyone who worked there from the hostess to the busser.
to the wait staff to the bartenders. And the more that we spent time there, we noticed that after we ate our meals, we would get what? Free pancakes. A free pancake. It was incredible. We didn't question it at first, but it was probably like the fourth or fifth time that a free pancake got brought to our table that we said, excuse me, what's with the free pancake? Why do we need to pay for this? What is this? And the waitress at the time said the wait staff has the ability to gift a table with a free pancake if that table made their day.
If that table made a positive impact on their life, this is how we show our thanks and we call it pickling. And this concept was not foreign to Jill or I. This is how we lived our life. We're vivacious, we're energetic, we're loud, we're exuberant. We like to loop people into what we're doing. So whether it's being at a retail store and checking out at the front saying, oh my gosh, hi, how are you? How's the day? Tell me about it. Whether it's driving through Starbucks, having a funny banter with the barista, there are so many areas of our day where our whole purpose is to be the positive impact that people see.
And I think it's probably because we both worked retail and we understand how one interaction with somebody negative can really ruin or Sway your entire day to feel that way. So we made it our mission to be that one positive person in somebody's life. The person that they went then home and talked to their spouse about and said, oh my God, this girl told the funniest joke today, or she said something so incredibly nice to me. She complimented me. She made my day. So what Snooze helped us do was put a label to the way we acted on a day-to-day basis.
We're going to stop here and we want you to check in for part two, three, and four to see what actually the art of pickling means.
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