Date Night with Jake and Page

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Jeff Tonidandel & Jamie Brown Nov 07, 2019

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Welcome to another round of Date Night! In this episode we chat with Jeff Tonidandel and Jamie Brown, the husband-wife duo behind some of Charlotte's favorite restaurants. Jeff and Jamie co-own several of the NoDa neighborhood's favorite spots, including Haberdish, Crepe Cellar, Growlers Pourhouse and Reigning Doughnuts. Both are business-savvy, MBA-carrying entrepreneurs who had careers outside of the culinary industry before quitting and traveling internationally to figure out what they wanted to do when they grew up. Fortunately for the Queen City, they settled on becoming restaurateurs, and the rest is history. Jamie opened up about a health scare she experienced more than a year ago and how that helped shape an extremely regimented diet and approach to health and wellness. It's a new normal for the couple, and as they explained, provides for light-hearted moments when they get invited to food tastings and other culinary-related events and Jeff takes not only Jamie, but their chefs as well - a third wheel who will actually be able to eat. We chatted about their crazy lives, their three kids and an exciting new project of theirs coming to the Plaza Midwood neighborhood and much more. Be sure to check out Jamie and Jeff's restaurants in NoDa on your next date night! We’d love to hear from you as well! Please subscribe, share, comment and also suggest ideas for future guests! For past episodes please visit jakeandpage.com. Thanks for listening!

Power Coupling at EmpowerCon! Oct 17, 2019

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Hello there, Date Nighters. Been a while! For this episode, we're bringing back two of our favorites as part of a live show meets date night meets Page and Jake's takes. The audio is from a September conference in Charlotte called EmpowerCon. Our good friend Meredith Dean rounded up some of Queen City's finest for the event, and she also invited us. Speakers talked culture, politics, entertainment, and yes - parenting. Or adulting. Or how to make a fool of yourself in front of large groups. Either way, that was our topic...and we took this one a few places. Buckle up. Fortunately we didn't go down in flames alone, and in fact, we were carried by the other couple joining us: Jacinda and Derrick (aka "Fly Ty") Jacobs! Sound familiar? They should! Fly Ty and Jacinda joined us on Date Night back on Episode 12. Meredith asked us to talk about how we balance careers and family, and at the end of the day for us it always comes back to "Create Your Own Normal." Do what works for you and don't apologize for it. Every question we get asked inevitably ends up back there. Create your own normal. We’d love to hear from you! Please subscribe, share, like, comment and also suggest ideas for future guests! For past episodes please visit jakeandpage.com. Thanks for listening!

Page and Jake's Takes: Screens Sep 19, 2019

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Warning. Luke warm takes on screens are coming. Oh yeah. We're going there. What started as an idea to talk about screens and kids and how much kids should be on screens, quickly turned into a discussion about screens, technologies and behaviors among...ADULTS. And to say we disagree would be an unders---sorry...hold on one sec...sorry, a friend is texting...yeah, sorry, it's just that we haven't heard from him in a while...OK, yep...sorry, one more sec...OK where were we? What are your screen/phone rules for your kids? For your spouse? For the friend you're sitting next to in an Uber? All I know is that the picture you see here associated with this episode is of one of the rare times our family was all together AND screen free...and that's probably not a great thing. We’d love to hear from you! Please subscribe, share, comment, like and also suggest ideas for future guests! For past episodes please visit jakeandpage.com. Thanks for listening!

Page and Jake's Takes: Back to School Aug 29, 2019

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The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round...'round and 'round...'round and--OK, you get it. And much like the wheels on the bus, we're back around again for another dose of Page and Jake's Takes. This week marks Back to School week for many here in Charlotte, so we thought it was fitting to weigh in. Jake loves to make a big deal about Back to School, and while Page appreciates it, she doesn't think working parents should stress if they miss it. Jake reminisces on the one outfit he wore for essentially a year straight in 7th grade while Page hearkens back to her first day of high school when she realized she was now in school with WOMEN...and that she needed to grow out her bangs. We’d love to hear from you! Please subscribe, share, comment and also suggest ideas for future guests! For past episodes please visit jakeandpage.com. Thanks for listening!

Tera & Jamie Black Aug 15, 2019

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“I just want to be clear...this is not a man-hating thing. I LOVE men. The men I’ve worked with along the way are WHY I am where I am today.” That was the quote, from a “Women in Sports” panel hosted by the Charlotte Knights, that made Page fall into both professional and friendship love with Charlotte Checkers COO Tera Black. Ever since hearing it, Page and Jake have wanted to get Tera and the one man she loves the MOST onto Date Night. And Tera better love Jamie Black a lot, because not only are these two married, but they also work together! Jamie is a former professional hockey player himself, who, in addition to being one of the more pleasant and easy-going human beings alive, is a member of the Checkers’ Front Office as well, as the team's Controller. Listen in as Page and Jake talk with the Blacks about balancing their work and home lives that so often and so thoroughly overlap, what it was like winning the Calder Cup this year, how much fun they have raising their two daughters...and everything in between! Be sure to check out the Charlotte Checkers this season! We’d love to hear from you as well! Please subscribe, share, comment and also suggest ideas for future guests! For past episodes please visit jakeandpage.com. Thanks for listening!

Penn & Kim Holderness Jul 19, 2019

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Welcome to another round of Date Night! In this episode we're bringing back Penn and Kim Holderness of the Holderness Family, but this time, we're on their turf. This episode is a replay of a Holderness Family Podcast episode they aired of us on June 11. We talked Father's Day, making friends as adults and much more...and then we talked about it again, because Penn forgot to insert a memory card for the first recording. OMG, Penn. We love Penn and Kim. We don't need to belabor it here - you can listen to our first episode with them (Ep. 5 on May 9, 2017) - but they are some of our dearest friends. Page and Penn worked together, we had all of our kids around the same time and on and on. It's been incredible to watch them blow up and build their parody music video/parenting/relationship brand. And to think, that first Christmas Jammies video Christmas card of theirs was meant to catch up with family and announce their new video production business... We beatboxed, faked laughed at jokes we had to tell a second time and then they ran to jump on a flight while we hustled our kids into the car to head back to Charlotte. We know we're not alone in thinking it's hard to make really good friends as adults, so when you do, you drive three hours to hang for a quick 24. Be sure to check out the Holderness Family Podcast wherever you get your podcasts, and follow @TheHoldernessFamily pretty much everywhere on social media. Their videos and relationship content is on point. We’d love to hear from you as well! Please subscribe, share, comment and also suggest ideas for future guests! For past episodes please visit jakeandpage.com. Thanks for listening!

Page and Jake's Takes: My Thing Your Thing Jul 06, 2019

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You already know what time it is. Buckle up for another episode of Page and Jake's Takes, where parenting topics are bandied about. What? My thing. Your thing. Scoreboard. Keeping score. Whatever you want to call it, this is how we run our house, relationships, chores, trips, etc. Jake gets a guys trip? You better believe Page will have one with her girlfriends before the end of the year. Page primarily does laundry, dishes, communication with teachers; Jake does bills, car stuff and emptying bookbags/homework. No "secret contracts" no trying to sneak one past the other person. Some people think we're nuts, some people swear by this method. Knock on wood, it's worked for us for 13 years. What works for you and your spouse? Believe us, we are open to advice! We’d love to hear from you! Please subscribe, share, comment and also suggest ideas for future guests! For past episodes please visit jakeandpage.com. Thanks for listening!

Team Girl Tribe Jun 20, 2019

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You know the Girl Tribe girls, Carrie Barker and Sarah Baucom. But do you know their boys, Derek and Ryan? Well, you will after listening in on the triple date night we had with them. You’ll learn how Carrie and Sarah turned a high school “close acquaintanceship” into two besties starting and now running one of the fastest growing businesses in Charlotte, why none of us will be chairing our local chapters of the La Leche League anytime soon, and that “be the scientist” is the relationship advice you never knew you needed. Listen in and enjoy getting to know the masterminds behind this powerful business turned #girlpower movement, and their super supportive partners who help free them up enough to make it all happen. Jake, in particular, was pumped to commiserate (ahem... hear from) some other dads who do heavy lifting kiddo duties. And to accidentally play for the girls' team during Catchphrase. AGAIN. We’d love to hear from you! Please share, comment and also suggest ideas for future guests! For past episodes please visit jakeandpage.com.

Page and Jake's Takes: Babysitter Rules Jun 06, 2019

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Welcome to another round of Page and Jake’s Takes, where we offer super-extra-barely-mild opinions on parenting-related topics. The rules of babysitting...are they for the kids? The babysitter? The parents? Heading into this we always thought we had one main rule concerning babysitters: USE THEM. Early and often. (Sort of like how we wish we did for the wedding in the cover image of this episode!) Turns out there’s more to it than that. During this episode, Page and Jake discuss everything from how much actual work is reasonable to expect of a babysitter, or if it's OK to have them literally just sit and watch your baby. They also take on the age-old question of how/when to do the "double round-up," and Page tells a story that will make you question her worth as a human. Or at least as a babysitter. Sit back, listen and enjoy. Also, can you come by around 5 p.m. on Saturday? We could really use a night out... We’d love to hear from you! Please share, comment and also suggest ideas for future guests! For past episodes please visit jakeandpage.com.

Nick & Danielle Kosir May 16, 2019

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When Page first started interviewing for her job at FOX 46 back in 2014, it was Nick Kosir who kept her in the loop through the 807 step process. Teeing her up for good answers during auditions. Calling to tell her that their head of sales was the one voting for a different morning anchor. (Editor's note: She's never let him live that down.) When Page eventually landed the job, she and Nick realized neither of their families knew many people in Charlotte. We had kids the same age. His wife worked in TV too. A family friendship was meant to be. So, we planned a Kosling play-date. When Nick and Danielle showed up to our house they walked right around to the backyard with their kid, a grocery bag full of beer, frozen pizza, and sleeping bags. They were spending the night. This was gonna be a magical relationship. It’s been so magical that they moved an hour and a half away immediately after that and we haven’t socialized with them since. #life Until now. Nick has since gone viral in the most ridiculously fabulous of ways, dancing into all of our hearts on Instagram... much the same way he danced into Danielle’s years ago when he was her boss. Oh, snap. So much to unpack with these two. So much to love. It's time to get viral with the Kosirs. Enjoy! Wait, sorry, that came out wrong... We’d love to hear from you! Please share, comment and suggest ideas for future guests! For past episodes please visit jakeandpage.com.

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