The Art of Pickling

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 h*** is the art? What the h*** is that of pickling? And no, we're not talking about vegetables being in jars and pickling, pickling in that pickleball. That's very hot right now. Pickling, pickling, pickling. But I 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 gonna 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 gotta 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 weight staff was incredible. The colors were bright. The vibe was good. The music was nineties. 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 keep getting. 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, 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. 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.