Jul 12, 2018
After a series of unfortunate life events, Shelah Barr’s career went to the dogs...literally. She started her own canine massage and cross training business in San Francisco. Shelah has been a long time resident of the Castro, the gayest, proudest, most colorful neighborhood in the 7x7. She talks about how the AIDS epidemic has changed the residents of the Castro and finishes with a rant on bicycles. Find Shelah at HappyHoundsMassage.com.
Trigger warning: During the Castro portion there is talk of people dying of AIDS and suicide.
Show Timestamps:
0:00 - Introductions to Shelah
Barr and her career journey to Happy Hounds Massage and K-9 Cross
Training
6:00 -
Challenges to starting and running your own business and how to
reach out for help when you need it
12:55 - San Francisco’s dramatic changes from
1980 to today; how a city went from a clean, hippie city to a
densely populated area with a massive homeless
problem
18:10 -
Millennial Rant...or is it?
23:40 - The Castro neighborhood was intensely
affected by the AIDS crisis
*Trigger warning: talking about death from AIDS and suicide
31:10 - Taking a break from
career/life
37:25 - Dog
health issues, advice on alternative therapy and a story on Bunny
vs. the Vet Tech
46:15 -
Bitch Sesh: Bicycles’ responsibility on the road
Music
Credits:
Eterno
Retorno - Madame Rrose Selavy
Start Me Up - Rolling
Stones
All I Do
Is Win - DJ Khalid
San Francisco - Scott
McKenzie
Goodbye
Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Everyday People - Sly & The Family
Stone
Dog Stole
Things - Phish
Bicycle Race -
Queen
New York
Minute Prayer - Shlipa Ray