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Ep. 0021 | Steep, Soak & Serve
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What if the thing you're building isn't just a business…but a space for restoration?
In this episode of The GR8TNESS Router, host Zena C. sits down with Sherry Waters, founder of Pauline Tea-Bar Apothecary, community chaplain, spiritual director, and stewardship coach. Through a conversation rooted in service, healing, and community care, Sherry shares how a simple green chair became the catalyst for creating one of Charlotte's most beloved spaces for reflection and connection.
From her early career in television news to decades serving nonprofit organizations, Sherry reveals the breadcrumbs that led her toward social entrepreneurship and the creation of a tea lounge designed to help people slow down, reconnect, and be restored.
Together, they explore stewardship, resilience, meaningful connection, spiritual discernment, and the courage required to honor a vision that doesn't look like anyone else's. At its heart, this conversation is about creating space…for yourself, for others, and for the healing work we're all called to do.
Find Sherry online at http://www.ienate.com/ or the tea bar at http://www.thepaulineteabar.com/
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Transcript
Introduction to 'The Greatness Router'
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This is the Greatness Router, where we connect purpose to process one conversation at a time.
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Great day, beautiful people. And thank you so much for joining me on another episode of The Greatness Router. Today, I have a dear friend and I'm so i'm so grateful to call her my friend.
Guest Introduction: Sherry Waters
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She's more like my aunt. um And she has just been an amazing and amazing being and beacon of light since I met her back in 2019 when she first opened up her business, which you're just about to hear about. um But we have Ms. Sherry Waters here today. And I do want to give you a little tidbit of her bio before we hop into the nitty gritty of this conversation. So Sherri Waters is a social entrepreneur and personal steward coach practitioner who is passionate about increasing awareness on community stewardship and personal responsibility. She coaches individuals on being better stewards of everything which which which which with which sorry they've been entrusted.
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Through INAH LLC, Sherry inspires others to use their talents, resources, and skills to live their lives serving others and the community. Sherry is also a community chaplain and interfaith spiritual
Career and Community Involvement
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director. She opened the Pauline Tea Bar Apothecary, a sacred tea lounge cafe, in July 2019.
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Sherri's vocational career has been in the fund development marketing field for several Charlotte nonprofit organizations, including the YMCA, Communities in Schools, the Harvest Center, and supportive housing communities.
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As a former clinical chaplain for Carolina's healthcare care system, Sherri infuses her spiritual care experiences as a chaplain and holistic integrative wellness support in the stewardship, coaching, and spiritual care that she provides. She has had the opportunity to work and volunteer in the nonprofit arena for over 30 years in Charlotte. And she serves on several community boards, including QC Family Tree, Brave Works Advisory Council and Novant Health CPE Professional Advisory Group, which she serves as chair.
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She has her Master's of Practical Theology, Pastoral Counseling and Care from Pfeiffer University, a Bachelor's of Arts degree in Communications from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her Certification in Nonprofit Management from Duke University. Y'all, I'm telling you, she's absolutely amazing. She is a member of the Spiritual Care Association, the NC Chaplains Association, Charlotte Mecklenburg Black Chamber, Next Charlotte Business at um Accelerators Cohort Number 9, Grafted Life Spiritual Directors, and a Ruth G. Shaw Leadership Mentor for Central Piedmont Community College. Yes, that was a mouthful, but I needed to set the tone for just the blessing that is in front of us today. So Without further ado, Sherry Waters, please, please, please come to the stage. How are you today?
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i am well. Thank you so much, Zena, for having me on this wonderful podcast. like I look forward to this conversation. Thank you. i was so I was excited with how excited you got when I asked you about it because I'm already excited. And you're you just lit up and I was just like, okay, this this is going to be an amazing An amazing conversation. asian So thank you again for gracing us with your presence. um I like to say that we're sharing audiences today because we're we're learning each other's ah each other's people and and and our
Conversation Preferences and Inspirations
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our energy. So I'm really excited today. um
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I generally start with a couple of icebreakers. Okay. All right. So my first one is if you could have a candid, unfiltered conversation with any historical or prominent figure.
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Who would it be and why? oh wow. You didn't, you didn't ah give me homework. didn't. I'm sorry. You got the rest of them though. but I figured you would know who you wanted to have tea with.
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Yes. I will be honest. The first person that came to my mind is um President, former President Barack Obama. I would love to sit down and spill the tea with him have tea and all talk about all of the things. Yeah, I love that. i i can see that. And I would want to be a fly on that wall, um which is beautiful because that takes me to my next icebreaker. What is your go to tea blend when you start your day?
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Oh, what I just finished, I'm sipping on now. It's um the yerba mate green tea with a dash of matcha and a little bit of elderberry echinacea.
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So that is how I start every single day. I need It it is so wonderful. That's my day. and That sounds delicious. Yes. Yes. I'm going to, I'm going to come in next time and be like, may I have the sherry special, please? Yes. Yes. I do have people that do that. Yes. ah So absolutely.
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I, that's absolutely what I'm going to do. I think last time I came, I got the yerba mate, the yerba mate. I look, I'm, I got that with matcha, but I think I had mint in it. Maybe, I don't know. It was, it was delicious. I don't know what I had.
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Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's a, you may have had the Sherry special because the elderberry Echinacea does have a little bit of mint in it. um And then I add some oat milk in mine. So yeah, you're fancy. You're fancy. I i love it. Thank you for sharing that, ah that wake up call with us. well I have my tea today too, but mine isn't as fancy as yours, but I do have my tea. What are you drinking, Zena? um This is a black chai or it's just a chai with honey.
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Oh, yummy. Okay. I did it just... You know, just a regular teabag. But I am coming for your your loose tees because they always make me so happy to go in there and just see how organized and herby everything. I don't know. it just it It's just an amazing location, which i'm allow you to talk about in a minute.
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Oh, thank you. Thank you. ah Let's let's hop into the router moments. This is what where we talk about your your your ah purpose and the why behind your purpose and your pivots and your your resilience, how that's
Purpose and Calling
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been built. So let's talk about the purpose behind your work. OK, so we have the T-bar and we have your stewardship and we have your your your chaplain. All of that's just all in one. If you had to pinpoint the moment you knew this was your calling, what would it be?
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You're talking about like where I am right now? Yes, ma'am. um I will say... It was at my previous nonprofit organization that I was serving at. I'm actually, they're one of my clients now, but the Harvest Center um in my office, I had, there was a, there's a green chair that was in there, green cushiony chair. And often my donors would come in and I would have conversation with them. I would have tea with them. We would talk about their stewardship of the organization
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and They would always, they started calling calling it the crying chair because they would end up crying, ah talking about something very personal and why they were donating to the organization. And it was there.
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It was that moment that I knew i needed to go ahead and move forward with providing a respite space for our community. no that was the moment That was the moment that I knew i needed to go ahead and move forward with my idea. I think the initial seed was planted when I was at the hospital in one of my patient rooms and are going along a journey into patient rooms and going in and kind of tweaking their rooms, the clinical space and making it more warm and cozy for their restorative healing. So the seed was planted deep down in the heart then. But it was that moment at the Harvest Center um in that green chair where a client was a donor was sitting that made me decide it's time for me to go ahead and leave.
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Y'all let me, ah thank you for that. Let let me give y'all some background information regarding the T-Bar. That's how i I refer to it because I send everyone to the T-Bar. Like, have you been to the to the to the Pauline T-Bar? I'd be like, no, we need to meet there. Y'all back in July of 2019, I think I was like one of the very first, like through the door customers. I, I went, was I by myself or was I with, was I with Mish mesh that time? You were with Mish. I think you were with Mish. So, so, and so I came through the door, but I had just had my first son. i had just had my first son and he was a teeny tiny. He, yeah I hadn't even left the house. So my very first venture out of my ah house was to the apothecary was to the Pauline tea bar. And as soon as I got there, I felt so hugged.
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like, like literally and figuratively to the point that Sherry was like, oh my gosh, it's a new baby. can can I, can I just smell him? Yes, please smell him. Can I, can I hold him? Please hold him because all he wants to do is sit on me and milk all day. And she just like went into auntie mode and walked him around. Now, mind you, we're talking about a month old child and just walked him around and showed him the artwork and everything that was in um in the tea bar. It was just an amazing... know, it me cry. i' I'm sorry. made me cry. Oh, it was so wonderful. It was such a beautiful establishing ah moment for the two of us. And I'm just so grateful for
Pauline Tea Bar Apothecary
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for you. But that just speaks for the space that you have created because I was comfortable enough to bring my little person with me at the time. Now, would I bring him now to disrupt everybody's peace? Absolutely not. Absolutely. if You can i cant take care of him. You will take good care of him. Yes.
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I got you. I got you. and I know. But it's just, it's such a beautiful space and it's so inspiring. There's even a prayer room in there, right? You have a play a prayer closet in in your, in your, it oh my gosh, y'all a labyrinth is outside. Please talk, but talk to us before I get into, talk to us about the T-bar.
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what what What do we need to know about it? Oh, thank you for that memory. That really, yeah he And he has been one of now a handful couple handfuls of of little babies that I've had the opportunity to bless. So yes, thank you for that.
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um I'll go back to that respite scene and thought um in my former office. Mm-hmm. I knew that the Charlotte community needed a respite center for people who were always pouring into others um and getting their, pouring their tea into other people and needing a place to be refilled.
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What I didn't quite know was what was going to be the thing to cause people to come to a respite center because that could be kind of ah spooky say sounding if you're talking about respite because people think about, oh, is this a place that people go to ah get ready to die or what, you know, what does respite mean? And I thought about my grandmother Pauline's and my grandmother, Lena, both of them, were just amazing ah community matriarchs. And they had a way of opening up their porches and their ah living rooms to community to provide conversation and, and um you know, ah respite. And so my grandmother Pauline specifically would have tea with me every single time that we would be together during the summers. I would spend with her during the winter break. And I said, oh, that's it. Tea. Tea is so calming. It is symbolic of friendship. It is good for the the body, good for the soul. And so I did my research. I started looking to see what tea shops or tea places were in Charlotte. And at the time, there were no dedicated tea places. Okay. So that's how the idea came.
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And it is really just that. It is a tea lounge for people to come, find community, find respite, solace, whatever it is that they need um through the apothecary of the space, which you've already kind of mentioned it, allows people to feel hugged, beloved, and seen.
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it's It's such a beautiful concept brought to fruition. it i i will always wait i will go there to to get away. i will come to meet people. i will come before I have a photo shoot. Look, I will pop up just to be reset before I have to reenter back into society and into the world. So, You are doing the thing and I'm i'm grateful that you have allowed that seed to grow and you are allowing the creator to guide you through this. So thank you. I'm going to keep saying thank you because that's what this podcast is about.
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Gratitude and giving thanks and and allowing me to give you your flowers. All of my guests, they're flowers while they are present. So you are doing the darn thing. OK.
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Oh, thank you, beautiful one. Thank you. Sure.
Mission of IONA LLC
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Yeah. ah So let's let's hop back in. And let's talk about a pivot point. All right. So you've told us about the crying chair, which is funny, because there is this beautiful green chair in your current establishment, which I presume is, is it really? That's the one that that green, ah it's a light sage green chair. That's the chair that was in my office. So that is April year. Look, it's just, it it's it belongs in there. Okay. So let's talk about a pivot point. um Was there ever a time when you chose, when you were, you almost chose a different path?
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and There was, there was a time. I mean, the beginning of my career was, was television news. So I did television news. That's what brought me to Charlotte.
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ah I did television news. I worked for channel nine news, for seven months and then moved over to WBTV for a year as a weekend reporter. And my idea was to do documentary work. um I really thought that I was gonna go into film documentary or you know television news documentary work like Steve Grump. And um the two years that I did that,
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I just, I really didn't like the ethics of news reporting at that time. And that was 33 years ago. well um i could have like I could have stayed there, but I am so grateful that what I ended up doing was going into public relations and and marketing for nonprofits, helping organizations tell their story. And in that work, doing that work, I got to meet some really fabulous donor stewards and community philanthropists who really are about sowing into the Charlotte community through their values, through their faith, through just what they've been entrusted, their own experiences. So it all kind of stirred up and it just kept being breadcrumbs for me to do the work that I, the healing work that I get to do within this this space. Yeah.
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And across the board, because I know i know my my family's foundation has worked with you, too. Like even that was a healing and healing experience and a teaching experience. So I just love how you have seamlessly been able to blend all of your different all of your aspects of of um of outreach. yeah Yeah. All in one. It's it's beautiful. What does Ionate mean?
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So, Ionate is a word that actually my husband and I ah created. It means Ionate and innate is combined. It's a combination of Ionate and innate, meaning...
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you um i innately know who you are. You are are settled within your yourself, your spirit. And innate means you are using those gifts to serve the community.
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So iate through Ionate, what I do is help people understand, go deeper in nourishing their inner lives so that they can um soak their So they can steep into the community and use their skill set, their expertise, their experiences, everything to whom which they've been given to support the community and live outwardly in a in a way that allows people to be cared for.
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It's the word play for me. Steak and soak. Okay. Like we are going to hammer this down. Okay. Let's stir it all up. Okay. Yes. Yes. still the tea That's, that's the tea, right? Yeah. It's all about the tea. I love it. Um, let's talk resilience and process for you. What keeps you in the game when things aren't going smoothly?
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Wow.
Resilience Practices
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Yeah, that's a that's a really good question. I'm actually going to be, after our podcast today, um ah teaching or facilitating a nonprofit group, their team leaders on resiliency and stress management.
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So i can I can say what helps me is staying um stayin grounded and rooted. So having... practices that allow me to be sustainable.
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um Starting my day on my sanctuary porch is kind of like a a little ah piece of what the T-bar is, but starting there with grounding, listening to nature, allowing myself to soak in my reading, to journal, um and then ending my day in my upper room at home um you know, journaling or meditating, doing a ah yoga practice. Those are some of my resiliency exercises. And then really having a tribe of people, mostly strong women,
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who pour into me, where I allow myself to be poured into and to receive that collective ah community with wisdom. That and my family, I cannot dismiss that they are so key in the resiliency and my sustainability. My husband, my five children, um all of them are just absolutely amazing human beings.
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i love that. I, you are such an inspiration because I'm just sitting here like, okay, I need to get it together in the morning. I need to establish a routine so that I can maintain and find my own equilibrium. And I'm like, so I'm picking up the gems you're dropping. Like, okay, these are things that I need to start implementing. So thank you personally, listeners. I hope that y'all heard what she said.
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But thank you for sharing that. um Five children. That's that's so beautiful. yeah Three that I birthed into bonus children from my marriage. um And they're all just amazing. Absolutely. that I mean, they have an amazing mom.
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Thank you. Yes, of course. I told you I'm gonna keep sizing. I'm gonna keep it up. Okay. So moving right along, let's talk about application and lessons for others. What is one mindset shift or practice that has helped you to succeed?
Embracing Failure in Entrepreneurship
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Yeah, that's ah another good question. i mean, good. Yeah, that's really good. I think for me, um being I never signed up I never thought that I was going to be a social entrepreneur um really you know I ah wanted to practice the stewardship um consulting work and the spiritual companionship work and I needed an office and um here it is this is my big big happy office but I love that and into a social entrepreneurship project. And i I will say one thing that I had to learn truly in the beginning was that it's okay to fail, and but not to stay down.
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to fail bell Falling down is a practice to achieve um and learning how to get back up again. Dust my knees off and...
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try Try something else, not to be afraid to do that. And secondly, this was a vision. i call myself the chief trustee of this space, but this place, this vision really was led by spirit. And um when people try to come in at at the beginning and say, ah you need to do this and ah maybe you should offer wifi and ah maybe you should have coffee here. why are you just doing tea?
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it I had to learn to respect the voice or the the discernment of the vision that was given to me and stay in my lane.
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I didn't need to, and I didn't try to, do what everybody else was doing. This is very countercultural. It is very um different than what a coffee house would be. it is about slowing down. it It is about... coming in and getting attuned to the calming nature. And here I am seven years later, um sticking to those values, having the the four values that um were given to me and sticking to that and um what that means for the T-Bar is truly what has kept us here for seven years.
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I love everything about the T-Bar. yeah absolutely answer You absolutely answered it. and And I love how you wrapped in the the fact that you're you're learning while going.
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But at the same time, you're you're learning while going. You're recognizing that the scrapes and the cuts are essential to the process. But at the same time, you're recognizing that...
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everybody's input is not necessarily in alignment with the mission that you have been bestowed. And all three of those are beautiful gems. So I hope I dug out what you were, what what you provided, but there's even more in what you just said that I really want our listeners to really play that back because she really did just give you a a street paved goal with that one. That, so thank you for that. Yes, i'm gonna keep sizing you. I know, I know, I know. Oh, I appreciate that. No, for sure. i i am learning as I go. And I think that that's a beautiful concept that most people don't take into into consideration. Like you don't have to know everything when you start. That's right. that's right Yeah.
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yeah Like, it's it's unnecessary to know every little thing, but go into it being willing with an open heart and being willing to be taught and to learn from your mistakes or even from your your your your accomplishments. But be willing to participate in the full process and don't just think it's all going to be sunshine and rainbows. Yeah.
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Even flowers need rain. That's right. And you just said something there. You said something really important I want to pull out is that, you know, you can repurpose the the bitter tea. So if you poured something, if you tried something and it tasted a little bitter, it didn't work. You can sow that, those tea leaves, you can put those, um, You can compost that. Yes. Post that in your soil, on the soil of your heart, the soil of just your space and do something different with it. It doesn't have to be thrown out. There's a lesson learned. And I have loved learning the lessons and growing on from things that I've tried. And maybe, maybe not, maybe a little bit of this, maybe more of this. you know
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And teaching them. And teaching them. yeah Yeah. I get to do that. i just Beautiful person. I love it. Okay. um I know ah your process. Let's talk about your process.
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How has your thinking evolved as you've advanced or as you've grown?
Values and Community Wisdom
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um i i believe that one of the things that has helped me is staying in a posture of receptivity. So you talked about the open heart. I call it open palms. So allowing the ideas to flow, um realizing that, no, I don't know everything and having people having people
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to serve on my team that know more than I do about certain things. So I have loved to see the the individuals that have come to be a part of this um this mission and that have offered something really unique to it.
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So open palms posture means allowing the wisdom, the collective wisdom of the community to pour in And then what is not necessary can just flow out. So let it stay in open palms means taking what I need, ah using that, um and um letting the other things that don' that don't necessarily work to go out.
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So the the other important part of the process is is having real clear values, being clear about who I am, what I'm not, And um sticking to those. So gracious hospitality, a peaceful presence, restorative environment, and meaningful connections. That was the the fourth one that was added shortly a couple of months that we opened.
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Meaningful connections was added because I was initially thinking that this was going to be a space that people would come and it would be quiet and people would seek solace and There would be no talking. There would just be, you know, calm, contemplative um reflection happening. And then I soon discovered somebody was sitting here at the fellowship table and then looking over there on the couch at somebody reading a book and saying, hey, what is that you're reading over there? I'd like to take a note of that. And then the connections would start, collaborations. I've seen so many
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you know meaningful collaborations to happen from the encounter that people have, the communion that people have with one another. So that's why meaningful connections became a ah fourth value. So sticking to the values and going ahead going ahead and dismissing anything that doesn't align with And doing it gracefully, graciously. um But that has been the true, that has been something that a lesson learned that has worked for us.
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I love that. i love that. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that with us. um it's It's so beautiful to be able to take the time to take the pause.
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Yes. Yes. You know, the pause the pause is important. So thank you for that. um What's next for you? How can how can listeners support your your journey, whether it be with INAID or whether it be with the T-Bar? How can we support
Engaging with the Tea Bar
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you?
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Yeah. um Thank you for asking that. for sure We are coming up on our seven year anniversary in July and we're going to have things going on. I know all month long July, ah but specifically Saturday, July 11th, we're doing an all day. kind of um a taste of the T-Bar. We'll have some exciting interactive engagement opportunities for customers that will pop in on that day.
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um We have a new music series that we're going to be launching in July. Stay tuned for that. um So that's one way to just come out, support us by coming and visiting. um i used to have people come here and say, oh I'm not going to anybody about this place because this is going to be my special third place.
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And I'm like, no, no, no, you got to tell others you have to share so that we can stay here because we're a small business. Yes. That's and a good way. Tagging us and posting a real as most a lot of people have done or posting their location.
00:30:58
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That's another way of people finding us. um And um the the biggest revenue stream that we have right now is people hosting private events here. So we have hosted weddings.
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We've hosted a memorial service here, book clubs, ah birthday parties, graduation ceremonies, affinity groups, all kinds of things. That is one of the ways that you can, one of the biggest ways that you can invite others to learn about us in one setting.
00:31:32
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they If you host something here, then all those 20 or 30 people can will find out about us and they'll tell their sphere of influence. So that's a way to to ah support us.
00:31:44
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And then, of course, we're on social media, Facebook and Instagram. And um yeah, that's another way of sharing about us. i I love this place so much and I'll make sure that all of your information is in the description box below attached to this this conversation. ah i have hosted a birthday party there before.
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um It was a tea party for my best friend and it was beautiful and it was it was an amazing experience. um There was another thing. I've walked the labyrinth that you have outside. um That has been necessary just to clear my my mind. I told you it's my solace, y'all. But it's truly an experience. So if you're ever in Charlotte, please, please, please stop by. Go say hello. Go go go experience. There's a Zen garden.
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You have, you have a Zen garden in the front room now. It's just been beautiful to watch how things have just expanded for, um, for the T-Bar and for you, um, just being a bystander and watching all of this. Um, is there anything that I did not ask you that you would like to put on the the podcast?
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You've asked a lot of great questions and I really
Wellness Classes and Community Building
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appreciate you. I am so honored to be here. i um I think the other thing that I'd like to add is because of my um integrative holistic wellness background, I ah host holistic wellness classes here that I've discovered wonderful facilitators. So we have a slow flow yoga class that happens. here one We have a sound bath um music, the therapeutic music class. artists who comes and does sound bathing.
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We have um meditation. We do Tai Chi, all kinds, i all sorts of um wellness classes that people can sign up and, and they, with their, their class fee, they get a cup of, a small pot of tea. And so all of that is happening. And we have those listed on our website as well.
00:33:54
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Which is one thing I wanted to bring up. And I meant to say it in my last little my last last time I was talking, but i love the monthly newsletter that I receive. And I i am gonna encourage everyone, if you're in Charlotte or if you're coming to Charlotte, go ahead and sign up for those those news for that newsletter. It's not invasive. They they literally send it once a month. And it gives you the rundown for what activities are going to be available at the T-Bar. So I wanted to let you know, don't think I've ever told you that I truly appreciate when those emails come out because then I can like plan around what is actually whats what's going on um But it's it's also...
00:34:35
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I get these send the same sense I get walking through your door. I get when I get that email and I don't like emails, but I enjoy getting your emails. So I just wanted to make sure I told you that and encourage our listenership to make sure that if you are interested in staying in the know, the newsletter is a great way to, in addition to visiting the website, of course, but it's a great way to to stay connected. Thank you. Yes, it is. And hopefully can get the link to this. And um because this is such a great conversation, I'd like to ask your permission and you can say no, but ask your permission to add the link into the upcoming seven year anniversary newsletter so that people can find out about you, dear one, and what you're doing and have an opportunity to view this conversation.
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I am honored. I am honored. That just means I have work to do, but I am honored. The answer is yes. I will get those deadlines from you and get this to you um in a timely manner. Now I have work to do. Great. Amazing. Look, God is amazing. I'm here for it. No, but thank you. I'm honored. um the i just feel like we just have a mutually loving relationship and I'm grateful um for you.
00:35:51
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i have one more question. Yeah. Uh-oh. It's my final one. Yeah, it's my final it's my final one. it's It's just as invasive as the the icebreaker question. Are you ready? I'm ready. Okay.
00:36:03
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What is one public-facing, and I'm putting that in parentheses, what is one public-facing thing that people don't know about you that you don't mind sharing? thing.
00:36:21
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I... I love to dance. Do you? I'm a dance, danceaholic. Now I have two left feet, just like I'm left. and and That doesn't matter. I love dancing. You love the boogie.
00:36:35
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Yeah, I love the boogie. So usually anywhere I'm at where there's music playing, if it's a game or if it's, where was I the other day? I was at a fundraiser, ah a nonprofit fundraiser, and they had a DJ.
00:36:49
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i I think I was the only one dancing. So yeah, I'm a dancer, Holly. I would be your dance partner. I would i would be right out there with you. I look i do not care. You'd do the bump with me. I would. I absolutely would. but Thank you. Oh my goodness. I love that. Thank you for sharing that. You're welcome. So when when I was doing the first collection of of this podcast, when I was interviewing the Black doctors, and I'm still doing it, it's an ongoing, i realized that that that's just never going end for me. And that's okay.
00:37:23
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But I was realizing that we need to humanize ourselves. Like people, people have a, a, a stereotype or they have a fixed image of what another person is. Like they, and i a glazed version, but we need to humanize ourselves. So knowing that you love to boogie. Oh man. do. I love to boogie. And it's somatic practice. Dancing is a somatic art practice yes um that allows us to release all of the tension that we store up in our bodies. So I can go on and on talking about somatic practices because i i I'm here for it. I'm ready for the book.
00:38:01
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I digress. And on that note, I i have asked all my questions. Once again, is there anything I didn't say that you would like to put on the podcast?
00:38:11
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I'm an open book. I really am. So thank you for this. I appreciate it. Absolutely. Well, I am truly grateful for your presence. Thank you for taking the time and energy out of your busy, busy, busy, busy existence to to grace us with your presence. To our listeners, thank you so much for tuning in. And I hope that you learned a thing or three. i hope that you take the time to go visit the Pauline T-Bar Apothecary. Apothecary. Apothecary. Yes. here in Charlotte, North Carolina. And I hope that you have a beautiful, beautiful day.
00:38:46
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And that's a wrap on this episode of The Greatness Router. If you found some value in today's conversation, be sure to subscribe, rate, and definitely share. It helps more people connect to the journey of greatness.
00:38:59
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Until next time, keep moving with purpose.