Unleashing Your Inner Magic: An Additional Conversation with Chef Terrell

In this episode, Chef Terrell, author of ”Squash the Beef and Accept Your Path & Purpose” shares with us how the talents/gifts we possess, can guide us through different phases of our lives creating conversations with those we encounter along the journey.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

Good afternoon and welcome to everybody. The podcast which shares stories that highlight people in life, that make the world an interesting place, which ultimately ties us all together in unique and wonderful ways. And who am I, you might ask. I would be the headwrapped socialite Weith mom, micro-influencer in the fashion and etiquette world, but on this podcast I will be introducing you to some people who I've had the opportunity to meet along my journey, who have helped enrich me in my life in beautiful ways and who I hope will do the same when you are. I do remember looking at your post on Facebook. Could you tell us a little bit about the magic that you were doing, because that was super fun. I could watch it all night.

Speaker 2: 0:54

Yeah, and that seemed so many years ago. One of my job descriptions is to go to the classrooms and talk about our program, talk about what we do in the school lunch program, and the first time I went in as a chef with the elementary students, they were not engaged at all. They were just looking and yawning and they didn't want to hear about food at all.

Speaker 2: 1:19

So, I remember saying to myself how can I engage these students? And I remember I used to do magic as a child. I was probably the only black child in the projects who was doing magic. And at that time I remember saying to myself I have to take all of my talents, combine them and use them. And so, with magic being so close to food service, you're going to say, okay, what you mean is so close to food service. Well, they always make an apples appear. They also use rabbits you know where rabbit is. And so they use eggs. They make eggs.

Speaker 2: 1:59

And I said, well, there's close proximity, I make some apples appear or something like that. That's going to wow them. And then I could talk about vegetables. I have their attention, but to an elementary child, wow, I had their attention. And then I was able to impart wisdom and knowledge of that food product. And that tickles me that you were bringing that up, Because during that time this was pre-COVID and I had a blast. I did not know it was going to take off like that and I had a blast. I was known as the magic chef at that time. And then, of course, COVID came and kind of shook up everything. But yeah, it was fun. The students still see me today and they say well, you know, do a magic trick, so I know I engaged them and so that was fun.

Speaker 1: 2:50

Right, you made it memorable.

Speaker 2: 2:52

I made it yet now Exactly.

Speaker 1: 2:56

Thank you.