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Good Morning SLO is our platform for sharing ideas, news and inspiration. A monthly program that brings community leaders, business owners, nonprofit executives and staffers together, and enables us to reconnect, engage and learn from each other.
Our goal is to provide insight into business, community and legislative issues and share the stories of those making a difference. We want audience members to leave with ideas and information about how to better their personal and professional lives.
Good Morning SLO happens on the fourth Thursday of every month except November when it is on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.
Thank you to this month’s featured sponsor:
EMPOWERING INNOVATION
Cal Poly’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is in the process of expanding its reach and support across the Central Coast. New facilities are opening with others on the way. Judy Mahan, CIE Economic Development Director, will update us on what the future holds for the incubator hubs and the many entrepreneurs they house across our region.
CELEBRATING 250 YEARS
At the heart of downtown SLO stands Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, an establishment rooted deep in our community’s history, but also a gathering space for diverse organizations and celebrations. Former pastor, Father Russell Brown, will join us to share more about the Mission’s history and the upcoming celebrations to commemorate its 250th year.
CULTIVATING CENTRAL COAST MUSHROOMS
Expanding the repertoire of crops produced in our region is always exciting. That’s especially true when new crops use little water, their byproduct waste is tremendously helpful for other growers, and they have local chefs giddy about new fresh flavors. Chris Battle from Mighty Cap Mushrooms will share the intricacies of starting and scaling a fungus operation on the Central Coast.
PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE
Through a NATO program, the California National Guard has had a decades-long partnership with Ukraine with the intent of increasing stability, diminishing threats to peace and strengthening security relationships. Retired Brigadier General with the CA National Guard, Kelly Fisher, will share the role SLO played in supporting the start up of this partnership and ways it is still playing out today.
THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW ON ROUND ABOUTS
With roundabouts becoming more common across the Central Coast, we wanted to get some direct answers about why they are trending. We invited one of the few non-engineers at Wallace Group, Chris Gardner, to give us the reasons in layperson’s terms on why they are becoming a more common and effective solution to our traffic woes.
STEPPING UP AND STANDING TOGETHER
An act of racism changed the course of one Cal Poly freshman’s college experience, inspiring her to create a peer-counseling group and ultimately switch majors. Kianah Corey will join us to share how she stepped up to fill a need for Black students when she couldn’t find the help she was seeking, and how creating this community has altered the course of her life as well as many others.
