All in Community
This week, Beck shares the sad blow of Summerland winery's closure despite "doing everything right," highlighting the fragility of the wine industry amid tariff concerns. Join our virtual Happy(ier) Hour community gathering on April 10th—a space to connect, share resources, and support each other through these challenging times.
The holiday season is a grueling time of year for hospitality professionals. In this piece, Rachel speaks to ABG community members and hospitality professionals who share their sacred self-care tips for the ‘silly season’.
This week, Beck recaps the Sip & Sabor Festival and the conversation around mindful hospitality and creating welcoming spaces.
WE ARE BACK! A brief check in and hint of what’s to come in 2024. Come and join us!
Fresh from the LatinX Wine Summit, Beck shares her Top 5 takeaways from the conference to support the latinx wine community.
Think about the last time you had a great conversation.
Like, a GREAT conversation. Where you felt like you were really seeing the other person. Where you learned something new about them. Where your curiosity was piqued. It may not be common, but it is possible, as Cathy explains.
Last week’s decision in the Supreme Court of the United States impacting women’s access to healthcare, and privacy rights, was not a complete surprise. But it is certainly confronting. This week, Beck offers ways to help support your mental health and those you love.
In the final post for 2021, Cathy and Beck look back on 2021 with some thoughts on clarity, presence and finding what's important.
Fresh from our session at @wine2wineverona, Beck recaps the session, “Can Working in the Wine Business be GOOD for You?”
In the final days before wine2wine Business Forum, it's honesty that makes the difference, as Cathy explains.
This week, we preview the responses from our short and anonymous survey that will help us present our session at this year’s wine2wine Business Forum.
It is encouraging to hear this community share how their own attitudes to mindfulness, moderation, and mindful drinking are changing for the better; how mental health conversations are becoming a little safer; and how a moderate or abstinence approach to drinking has become more normalized, but as an industry how are we doing?.
Loss, and grief aren’t typically topics of casual, everyday conversation, yet those topics have arisen frequently enough these past few weeks that it’s worth some attention and exploration.
When I was accepted to the Wine Writers Symposium, I told nobody, because I felt that same fear. But on Monday, as all the new and familiar faces started filling up the Zoom screen, I realized that it was happening. I was terrified.
ABG Moms say the darndest things, and I don’t just mean our Aussie friends from last week’s post! (Though, you have to admit, they pretty much take the cake, swearing and all.)
Fresh from a thought-provoking Lift Collective virtual conference, Beck considers the ways we can step up and take action to support ABG’s BIPOC community.
In Part II of the team’s look back at a year forever changed by COVID, Beck and Cathy share their personal perspectives.
With only 13 days until we can officially turn the page on 2020, you all deserve an enormous hug for getting through one hell of a year. So with many of our friends and family at their wits end, we turn to our ABG community to see what they are looking for to find some reprieve and sanity during the closing days that is to survive the sh*t show of 2020.
Here are ways they are planning to 'hack' the holidays:
"Work Like You Don't Have a Child. Parent Like You Don't Have a Job." Welcome to parenting, the 2020 version. It’s time to talk about it. That is exactly what we’ll do on Monday’s webinar, and we hope very much you’ll join us. Whether or not you yourself are a parent, you undoubtedly know someone who is. Monday’s webinar is for you too, to gain some insights of this aspect of the pandemic reality for friends and colleagues.
