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S2:E8 Small Business Spotlight: The Gathering Spot
In this small business spotlight, Kelli Daniels of The Gathering Spot, shares a behind the scenes peek at the day to day of running a private club centered on Black community and collaboration.
Season 2 – Call Paul – Spotlight
Paul: Hey there, I’m Paul Jarvis. In this season of Call Paul we’re doing something a little different -- in between thoughtful conversations with business owners, we’re sharing spotlights like this one, of small businesses we really believe in.
We hope you’ll enjoy this behind the scenes look at the day to day of running a business. And, if you’re picking up what they’re putting down, maybe you’ll consider supporting them too.
Kelli: I would define myself as a very personable person. I love talking to people, I love talking to new people. My personality is very bubbly.
Paul: In this small business spotlight we hear from The Gathering Spot, a private membership club, rooted in black community and culture.
Kelli: It’s Kelli, I’m with the Gathering Spot. I’m Ryan and TK’s executive assistant here at TGS. We are actually a private club here in Atlanta and we are basically just created in culture and connections and really focus on building community. Connecting people from all walks of life to other people. So we have our people in entertainment, we have our people in sports, we have our people in tech, we have our corporate people, we have entrepreneurs - we have everyone that you can possibly think of in any and every type of field here at The Gathering Spot collaborating with each other. So we have a workspace, we have a bar and restaurant as well as an event space, where we throw multiple events throughout the week.
I am actually headed to do a quick little trip of picking up some items for our event tonight. tonights’ event is in honor of Fathers day and we are inviting our men of TGS to enjoy us on our breezeway area, which is outside for complimentary cigars and cocktails. So I am actually headed to Fellowship, which is actually a cigar lounge, founded by Cam Newton, the football player here in Atlanta and I’m about to go pick up some cigars from that area. Because we are all about supporting black businesses .
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Kelli: What sound most represents work for you? I would say lots of chatter lotts of talking there's no just like silence where you can just drop a pin and then everybody here to pin drop is lots of chatter , but it’s good chatter. It’s chatter about what's next for DC what's next for ATL, how are we going to build out LA, what's our next city, how is connected cities going what's the event for the week what's the event for next month or 3 months. So we're always planning.
I’m going to let you listen in on this meeting
–– ”Then every TGS guest that is flying with us will be assigned a bus, they will have their own itinerary where they are seeing which bus they are on . Every team member from the bus team will be a leader of one of those busses. Yalls main role is to take good care of your 30 people that are on your bus” ––
Kelli: That was just a little snippet of our big connection flight we’ll be doing here in Atlanta for our Atlanta VIP / some of our supportive members here. So we’ll be taking our members up to DC . They’ll enjoy our club in DC and then we’ll just fly them right back the next day, but within those two days its a full itinerary and we have a huge black tie affair gala planned for them. We are so excited for this experience . This will be one for, literally one for the books.
I am actually headed to Slim and Husky's which is a black-owned pizza company. We were just working at our employee office space and a couple of us were just super duper hungry hungry. So I threw out pizza ‘ do y'all want pizza?’ So that will be our treat to get us going on this nice hump Wednesday so yes I'm headed over there now and I will take y’all inside with me when I pick up the pizza.
(restaurant sounds)
Hello
Kelli: I had an online order for Kelli - so it’s a whole bunch of them - Okay perfect, thanks.
I just met the sweetest employee while I was in there. She basically checked me out and everything she realized I needed a hand so she basically help me take all those pizzas to the truck and in conversation she was saying this is her first job that they've been super busy, she’s so grateful to be working at Slim and Huskies and that she is has been enjoying her experience thus far. But you know I just left running into people hearing, hearing what they love hearing what they're involved in and just to see that she just loves her job, I love that. I love that for her. That just made my day. It made my day.
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I’m a very spiritual person, so I usually listen to sermons in the morning. So one sermon I listened to by Dr. Darius Daniels and at the very end of his sermon, he mentioned, his goal for the entire sermon was I want you to know your value . I want you to believe how valuable you are and not allow other people to dictate to you your value. You should know how valuable you are. And a job or a person cannot get you there, you have to get there for yourself. I love that, you know those small reminders , we know that stuff in our heart, but just hearing it sometimes, I don’t know - it does something to you.
Paul: Many thanks to Kelli for sharing her story. For more information check out https://thegatheringspot.club
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