Hi, everybody, this is Carrie Diamond. I'm the editorial director of Cherry Bomb magazine and the host of Radio Cherry Bomb. This is a special episode of the show that we put together very last minute to talk about the issue of sexual harassment. As I'm sure most of you who are listening know, we have April Bloomfield on our cover that's out right now.

And a story came out the other day about April's partner, Ken Friedman, who has been a guest on this radio show, about harassment and just the very toxic workplace that existed at their organization. And it's,

you know, I'm not going to lie. It, it was a very sad day when I read that story. Ken was a friend.

April's a friend. April is, you know, an icon in this industry.

A lot of women have looked up to her. A lot of women work for her. A lot of women who worked for her went on and open their own organizations.

And it is never, it is never an easy day when you run a magazine that is about feminism and food to see things like this happen.

At the same time, and I'm not reading from a script, I'm just talking from the heart here, you know, at the same time, as painful as all of this is, it is necessary because we're going to have to go through some pain for things to improve. And as sad as I am, I am also heartened that these things

are coming to the surface because if we're not talking about them and if we're not shining a light

on the ugliness, nothing is going to get better. But what I wanted to do today was have some people on the show who have organizations

that are really models for the rest of us.

These are people who have given a lot of thought to the culture in their organizations.

They have put policies and procedures in place to make sure that they have

workplaces that are zero tolerance for things like sexual harassment. And these people very

kindly agreed to jump on the phone today, even though they're very busy, and this is a very

busy time of the year. So right now we have on the phone, Aaron Patankan, who is the CEO of Avonlea.

Erin, thank you for being on the phone with us.

Thank you for having me.

And we have out on the West Coast, Preeti Meastry, the chef restaurateur behind Navi Kitchen and Juhu Beach Club in Oakland.

Preeti, thank you for being on the line.

Thanks for having us.

Anybody who is familiar with Cherrybaum knows these two women.

We have written about them.

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