Be My Neighbor

If you missed our live FINDING COURAGE webinar with the incredible, @MelanieGriffithnyc, your day is bound to get better with this listen. In addition to being a SoulCycle Master Instructor & Senior Director of Commercial Talent & Innovation, Mel is a proud cancer survivor, living with a form of chronic non Hodgkin's lymphoma and is currently undergoing chemo after a successful surgery at the beginning of 2020.

A mother of 3, leader within the @Soulcycle community, blogger and motivational speaker, she is a total force and a pinnacle of strength for many of you as she continues to champion ideals of unity, empowerment and limitless potential.

If you're looking for some extra words of encouragement (we all need this right now), Mel is here to offer her insight on ways to cope when your ground is shaky.

** Our sound is not normal here, but know a lot of you wanted to listen back, so we hope you enjoy!

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Has Your BIG EVENT been postponed or cancelled? You've spent months, possibly years, planning your wedding and big 

events leading up to it, and suddenly everything is shifting. Britt went through it when her wedding was postponed during Hurricane Florence back in 2018.

Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting a conversation with the Founder of LoveStories TV, Rachel Jo-Silver & Charleston Wedding Planner of Pure Luxe Bride, Francesca DiSalvo-Follmer, to take the next best steps going forward.

From developing a plan of action, to knowing you’re surrounded by a community that is here to help you, they offered such helpful insights and tips and we’re so glad that many of you could join us. For those that weren’t able to make it and would like to pass on to friends and other brides you know going through it, or are a newlywed and planning ahead, link in bio! 

**Forewarning -- Our sound is not our normal sound as this was downloaded off of the webinar, but it’s better than nothing. We hope you’re staying home and healthy with your loved ones. 

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Cancelled. It’s all cancelled.

Over the past few days, we have had our close friends and many of you reach out regarding all the COVID cancellations of major life events – weddings, baby showers, bachelorettes, girls trips. All events that you have been planning over a year and taken from you so quickly. It’s all scary, especially when you’ve been working so hard to make something so special.

Many of you reached out because you remember when Britt’s wedding was postponed back in September 2018 due to Hurricane Florence – we spoke about it all in Episode 3 – “Making Lemonade.”

As hard and sucky it was, with friends and family supporting them, Britt and Ryan got through it and always saw the silver lining. We don’t know why it happened at that exact moment, but also knew that things always, always could have been worse. These events will be rescheduled and if your friends are good friends, like their team was, they will make that moment EVEN better when it does happen. 

Another one of our amazing guests – @JeraBean is choosing to not cancel her wedding, but instead broadcast it LIVE from Central Park tomorrow-! Talk about not getting down! 

We both have never been through something like this and it’s a wonder of what having a neighbor close by can be. We’re so grateful to have each other, but also know that many of you have to be inside by yourselves and may be going (a little) stir crazy. For those on the brink, Bevin has partnered with her Soul literal sister, the incredible @Karynnez for “cancelled workouts” – the first one just went live yesterday, and it’s a good one, so you can check that out now in their stories. We’re also going to host a Cancelled” Zoom for all of our brides, bachelorettes and fellow entrepreneurs this coming Monday- nothing annoying, just a space to be open-minded and share how y’all are readjusting your plans through all of this.

Look out for that info on our social and until then, we hope you can continue to breathe through this new “cancelled” normal, find little bits of fun and put your plans into action with this episode.

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The holidays are A LOT. We know. Whether it’s deciding where to spend them (which family gets which day), or how you cope with being at home for an extended period of time and not going out of your mind, it can be stressful. 

In this episode, we talk about our holiday plans, how we divide the celebration with families and in-laws and some helpful tactics to maximize the time we’re fortunate enough to spend with the ones we love.  

How are you guys spending the holidays this year? Tips and tricks to stay sane are most welcomed.

Sincerely, Bevin & Brittney

PS – an early present for all of our neighbors. We’re excited to announce our collaboration with @discovernight -- If you haven’t heard about NIGHT and it’s silky black pillowcase, you’re missing out on life. The NIGHT Pillow has been called “the most comfortable pillow ever” by celebrities, influencers and customers alike.

For all our neighbors, head over to their site, www.discovernight.com to learn more about the NIGHT Pillow and their other luxurious beauty sleep products (they have scrunchies now- enough said). By using the code NEIGHBOR at checkout, you will automatically get 20% off your entire order. Happy sleeping! Link in bio to listen! 

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This week we bring to you by far the youngest person to come to the apartment --bestselling author of twenty-one books (!), digital content creator, social media influencer and anti-bullying activist – Carrie Berk! At only sixteen years old, Carrie wrote her first book in the 2nd grade and is using her voice to impact young girls across the nation. 

We didn’t know what to expect from Carrie and were both pleasantly surprised by her grace and maturity. She taught us a lot about social media (we even did a TikTok with her! YEP) and we got into the bullying issue and some of the helpful tactics we have both utilized growing up. 

In a world where the younger generation seems to get a lot of flak, we love seeing a positive effect that Carrie imparts on others, and know we will be seeing much more of her in the years to come – paging @VOGUE.

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This episode brought us back to why we wanted to start Be My Neighbor in the first place. At times it left us speechless, which y’all know never happens. We had been wanting to sit down with Zoë LePage for a while and so glad we finally had her to the apartment.

Zoë is an extraordinary women that serves as the founder and executive director of Exhale to Inhale, a non-profit that brings the healing power of yoga to survivors of domestic and sexual violence, especially those who could benefit from the practice, yet might not otherwise have access to it.  She started the non-profit when she was 23 years old and kept it going in tandem with her grueling consulting job.

Domestic and sexual violence is not just something that happens to others. With 1 in 3 women in the United States, and 1 in 7 men being survivors of this type of violence, it’s trauma has likely impacted your sister, your daughter, your mother, and/or someone else you love.

From speaking through the personal growing pains of starting a non-profit and shifting her career to head up Exhale to Inhale full time, the benefits of yoga for trauma, to how you can seek help or contribute to the organization, this episode served as a reminder of how grateful and thankful we are to have the ability to impart our voices upon y’all. To contribute to the importance of giving back and serving others, our cups are full. Happy Thanksgiving y’all.

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With a closet full of clothes, yet somehow nothing to wear, the TULERIE app is helping women nationwide singlehandedly solve that problem. They’re allowing you to do something that we do EVERY DAY, to raid each other’s closets as if you were living directly next door!

We sat down with the founders of TULERIE – Merri Smith and Violet Gross, and they broke down their visions for expanding your wardrobe across the country, peer to peer.

In this episode we talk:

-How the ladies took the leap in starting their own tech-derived business as Violet was simultaneously giving birth to her first child.

-How they pivoted when their first idea that was already in beta, was launched, by someone “very famous,” making them go back to the drawing board.

-Taking on a customer service based business that doesn’t “clock out” at 6 PM … or ever.

-How they grew their TULERIE waiting list to over 3,000 people !

We’d love to hear your thoughts and comments and would love to know if you would share your closet with someone you have never met before?! 

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And, we’re back. We’re so excited to release this episode with an actual neighbor from our building, Neha Govindraj @nehagov and her incredible partner Rachel Liverman @rachelista – the badass founders of one of our biggest new skincare obsessions - @Glowbar. We just visited the Tribeca location and are both going back on our own.

If you haven’t heard of the business that everyone’s been talking about here in NYC, @Glowbar is the spa-like experience that offers only 30-minute, custom skincare treatments ranging from any combination of chemical peels, extractions, dermaplaning, high-frequency and micro-current vibrations, and LED lights. Because who has honestly has the time and the dollars to pay for all of these every month? The best part about it - there only two price-points: $65 for a one-time treatment and $55 per monthly treatment with a membership.

We go in with Rachel and Neha about how they really started their business, what it took to launch (Did they quit their jobs first ? Have funding in place? Investors and raising funding? ) and what it felt like to take that risk. And how Rachel felt starting the business as a single woman, not taking a salary for over a year. The real sacrifices that you have to make in order to get what you want. At this point, we were more listening and writing down their advice, than actually hosting.

We would love to hear what y’all think of this one – we love the authentic notes behind it. And, as a special gift for our neighbors – if you follow us and @Glowbar and comment below, you will be entered to win a complimentary GlowBar appointment!!

*You can be from NYC or coming in for a visit!

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