Wins, Glitter, and Lattes (with Ghiovanna Lora)

How To Not Lose Your Sh!t

Red Wine & Blue

Parenting, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family, News, Mental Health, Politics

4.7 • 892 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

“Sin, Glitter, and Lattes.” That’s what Ghiovanna, owner of Coterie Lounge & Cafe, recently started printing on t-shirts. Her friends and customers love it — not just because it’s a catchy phrase, but because it’s a reminder that community love can defeat extremist hate. Ghiovanna and her friend Roxie D. Mocracy had already worked together to put on drag shows at her cafe. The community loved the shows, despite being a fairly conservative suburban area, so Roxie and Ghiovanna thought a Dr...

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0:00.0	Not once did I say like, oh my gosh, should we cancel this?
0:04.3	Should we do this?
0:05.1	Should we do that?
0:06.1	It was always to keep going.
0:07.9	I wanted everybody to feel safe coming into my cafe and being exactly who they are.
0:18.3	Hi, everyone.
0:19.3	Welcome to How to Not Lose Your Shit.
0:21.4	I'm LaFonda Cousin a part-time, yoga instructor, self-care advocate, and the chief people officer here at Red Wine and Blue.
0:27.9	And I'm Katie Paris, the founder of Red Wine and Blue.
0:31.2	This week, we are joined by Giovanna, the owner of Coterie Lounge and Cafe in Ohio.
0:36.5	Her cafe was recently targeted by far-rightists over a drag hour event, but her community
0:42.3	rallied around her in a really, really inspiring way.
0:46.5	Katie, you had heard this story before.
0:48.4	Yeah, I mean, drag story hour.
0:50.8	Like, anytime that becomes a controversy, I'm just like, what? Why? This gets people
0:56.9	riled up every time. I don't understand. Exactly. I mean, coterie, lounge and cafe, I had not actually
1:05.7	heard about it until this quote unquote controversy. But because her customers and then people all over the
1:13.8	country rallied behind Giovanna and her small business, that's why I heard about it and got
1:21.0	excited about her and wanted to follow this story and learn more about Giovanna and learn
1:24.8	more about her business. So this is just such a great example
1:28.8	of why it pays to stand up for your values. I just want every business person, every corporate
1:36.5	leader across America to be exactly like Giovanna. Yeah. You know, there is somebody, you know,
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