Yapaholics is the Florida Panhandle's podcast. Every week, we sit down with the locals, business owners, and characters who make Pensacola and the Gulf Coast worth living in — and worth moving to. Whether you've called this place home your whole life or you're still researching the move, pull up a chair. This is your insider's guide to Panhandle life, told by the people who live it.
Pensacola’s Sober Social Scene: How Run Roast Refresh Is Building Real Community
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Jon Richmond started with one cold plunge tub and 20 people at a local brewery. One year later, Run Roast Refresh is pulling 500 plus people every single month and it is just getting started.
Jon joins the Yapaholics Podcast to talk about building something Pensacola genuinely needed.
Run Roast Refresh is a monthly wellness and community event in Pensacola that is completely alcohol free. A run, a cold plunge, infrared sauna, red light therapy and a room full of people who actually want to connect. Jon built it because he saw a gap in the social scene here. The beach and the bars have always been Pensacola’s thing, but there was nothing for people who wanted to make real friends without alcohol being the reason they were in the same room. In this episode we talk about how the event grew from 20 to 560 people in just a few months, what the one year anniversary Halloween event at Fairfield Inn looks like, why Jon also started Plungeworks as a standalone wellness spa, and what his message is for people who feel stuck or isolated in a growing city. We also hit Pensacola Beach parking, the need for a parking garage, why Pensacola used to be the hidden gem until social media blew the secret, and a food deep dive on Grand Marlin and Sidelines.
In this episode you will learn:
How Run Roast Refresh grew from 20 to 500 plus attendees in under a year
Why Jon built a sober social event in a beach town known for its nightlife
What Plungeworks offers and why cold plunges and infrared saunas are taking off in Pensacola
How transplants are using Run Roast Refresh to build real friendships after moving here
What the one year anniversary Halloween event at Fairfield Inn looks like
Why Pensacola still needs a parking garage on the beach
Jon’s message to anyone feeling stuck or isolated in a new city
Jon Richmond is the founder of Run Roast Refresh, based in Pensacola, FL.
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2 Oct 2026
Zam's Grand Opening ft. JD Cobb (ImageMakers)
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An Australian restaurant chain with over 300 locations chose Pensacola, Florida as their first US location. Then they threw the biggest grand opening this city has ever seen.
JD Cobb of Imagemakers Media joins us to take us inside every single moment of the Zams launch from start to finish.
JD was on the ground for all of it. The Blue Angels beach takeover with three tents and a DJ at Casino Beach during the most chaotic weekend of the year. Sleeping in his car at midnight to secure a parking spot. Running ten miles before a full day of shooting. Getting lifted sixty feet in the air in a crane because FAA regulations would not allow a drone. And then a block party grand opening with world class DJ Vintage Culture, a stage that had no business being on Palafox Street, and nearly eleven thousand photos shot in a single night. We also talk about what Zams choosing Pensacola means for the future of the local business community and why the blueprint they created for launching in a new market is something every company coming into the 850 should pay attention to.
In this episode you will learn:
Why Zams chose Pensacola as their first US location and what their research revealed
How the entire Zams launch was executed by an all-local vendor team
What it was like shooting the Blue Angels beach takeover from inside the crowd
Why JD ended up in an eighty-foot crane to get shots a drone could not
How Zams created a buy one give one meal model that directly impacts food insecurity in Pensacola
What the Zams block party with Vintage Culture actually looked like from the inside
Why only two revisions were needed across nearly a thousand edited photos
JD Cobb is the founder of Imagemakers Media, a video production company based in Pensacola, FL. Find them at imagemakersmedia.com and on social at ImageMakers Media.
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18 Sept 2026
How to Start a Real Estate Career in Pensacola the Right Way
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You pass the real estate exam and suddenly realize the only thing you actually learned is how many square feet are in an acre. And you will never need that information again.
Carlyn Gray, Assistant Team Leader at Keller Williams Realty Gulf Coast in Pensacola, joins the Yapaholics Podcast to break down what actually happens after you get licensed and how to build a real estate business that fits your personality.
Carlyn consults, trains, and recruits real estate agents across Pensacola and the Gulf Coast and she has seen every mistake in the book. In this episode she walks through how to get your license in Pensacola including the free Kaplan option through Keller Williams, why most new agents focus on the wrong KPIs, the 201 person database rule that predicts your income, and why cold calling might be the worst thing someone with a relational personality could do. She also gets into what it actually feels like to move to Pensacola, the best spots to take out of town friends, haunted houses, ghost tours, the old Sacred Heart building in East Hill, and why Pensacola keeps pulling people back no matter where they try to go.
In this episode you'll learn:
How to get your real estate license in Pensacola including a free option through KW
Why most new agents track lag indicators instead of the KPIs that actually predict income
The 201 database rule and the 36 touch system that leads to 120K a year
Why real estate is not one size fits all and how to find the approach that fits your personality
The Keller Personality Assessment and how it helps agents stop wasting time on the wrong lead gen
Where to take out of town visitors in Pensacola for a perfect weekend
Pensacola ghost tours, Creepy Hollow Woods and the haunted listing that keeps falling out of contract
Carlyn Gray is the Assistant Team Leader at Keller Williams Realty Gulf Coast in Pensacola, FL. Reach her at carlyngray@kw.com (mailto:carlyngray@kw.com)
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