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Roderick worked at Catalyst Creative, a 90-person agency where the culture ran on freedom, trust, and communal lunches — until new CEO Waverly announced the office was going fully plant-based. No meat. No exceptions. No conversation about it. People started scattering at lunch, energy dropped, and the break room that used to bring everyone together went quiet. Then Declan found something: a forgotten basement space with its own ventilation, electrical hookups, and enough room for what came next. Within weeks, they had sourced a commercial smoker, mapped the ventilation system to route smoke out the back of the building, and launched what they called the Protein Resistance. Secret knocks. Encrypted group chats. A rotation schedule. Executives eating next to interns over brisket in a basement. It ran for four months — until Waverly followed the smell of hickory smoke down a stairwell one evening and found 15 of her best employees, plates in hand. The policy stayed. So did the tension. And one by one, the people who built that basement community left — and eventually built an actual agency together. They named it Ember and Oak. The lesson: control gets compliance. Respect gets commitment. And sometimes the best thing your workplace ever does for you is push you far enough to build something of your own.

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