In Episode 75 of Downtown Depot, show host Austin Meek interviews Veronicka Thompson-Smith, owner of Flower + Ink Designs and community director of WacoWork. She shares what she's learned from her fellow entrepreneurs at Waco's first co-working space and gets personal telling stories of some uncomfortable realities stemming from her interracial marriage. Before that interview, Meek interviews commercial expert Gregg Glime on developments in the Silo District and residential expert Austin Hooper highlights the Dean Highland neighborhood.

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Inside the Episode:

Show host Austin Meek with Veronicka Thompson-Smith

0:42 - "What's Happening Here?" with Gregg Glime
4:35 - "The Residential Recap" with Austin Hooper
8:34 - Veronicka Thompson-Smith's Waco history
10:43 - Finding creativity every day
15:12 - The benefits of co-working
16:50 - What she's learned about entrepreneurship from her time at WacoWork
18:00 - Starting to work with flowers
19:28 - Floral workshops at Cultivate712
22:00 - Betting on yourself
24:17 - The realities of an interracial marriage
26:57 - Racism in every day life
28:26 - Upcoming programming at WacoWork