278: Monica Samuels

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Monica Samuels is the National Sake Sales Manager for Vine Connections, a wine and sake importer. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Monica Samuels of Fine Connections on the show. Hello, how are you?
0:27.6	I'm great.
0:28.6	Nice to have you here.
0:29.6	Great to be here. Thank you.
0:31.4	Where did you grow up? I grow up in South Los Angeles County?
0:35.0	You know, people always ask me if I'm crazy because I moved to New York and I prefer New York.
0:41.0	I think I like nice weather but I think that New York has always been a
0:46.1	place I've felt more at home in. It's more international. I think LA is great. It's
0:51.8	very comfortable. I like visiting there, but I certainly prefer it here.
0:56.8	You seem like a driven type who gets a lot done in a day.
0:59.7	Yeah, thank you.
1:00.7	Right, I mean probably. Yeah, I try.
1:04.0	I've always really liked to be busy and almost probably to a fault because I just kind of rather than thinking
1:10.1	about a plan I just kind of like to keep myself really busy and see where it takes me, but it's worked so far.
1:16.5	What was your family like?
1:17.5	Well, I'm kind of an only child.
1:20.6	I have two half sisters and a half brother, but we have about a 25 year age difference between us.
1:26.0	So I grew up as the only child in the house with my parents.
1:30.0	And my mother is born and raised in Japan, and then she moved to Australia for a while and then to the US. So she loves to travel.
1:38.0	And my father was born and raised in California.
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