Bold Like Her Podcast

Trisha Pérez Kennealy is the Owner & Culinary Educator of the Inn at Hastings Park, located in historic Lexington, MA. Trisha is a proud Puerto Rican Jewish woman, growing up in Puerto Rico before moving to Massachusetts as a teen. The Inn features 22 stylishly luxurious accommodations.

Before opening the Inn, Trisha had a successful finance career, but decided to pursue her true passions in life: cooking and teaching. Trisha is a graduate from Harvard Business School and has earned both her Diplôme de Cuisine & Diplôme de Pâtisserie from Le Cordon Bleu. Since opening in 2014, the Inn at Hastings Park has been featured in Forbes, Boston Business Journal, the Boston Globe, Travel + Leisure, and more.

The Inn offers hotel guests & the Lexington/greater Boston community an immersive food and wine destination unlike any other in New England with fresh, local ingredients, impeccable service & a farm-to-table philosophy. Trisha also shares her passion for teaching in her role as Culinary Educator, offering cooking classes, as well as immersive Culinary Weekends, for hotel and day guests alike.

Christina Gordon is co-founder, and CEO of the Women's Foundation of Boston. Christina is a charismatic business leader with an impressive resume who saw a lack of support for women and girls in Massachusetts' philanthropic community just 5 years ago. As a result, she decided to create WFBoston to develop, fund, and accelerate high-impact economic and leadership programs that equip Greater Boston women and girls to be financially independent and successful leaders.

In just five short years, WFBoston has become one of the top 10 women's foundations in the United States with a $5M endowment. Additionally, the organization's year-end fundraising increased by 90 percent in 2021, from $1.9M raised in 2020 to an astounding $3.6M raised in 2021.

Christina's incredible business acumen has allowed WFBoston to flourish into a vibrant organization that helps thousands of women and girls in Massachusetts.

I was drawn to a story that Caroline did on 7 News here in Boston highlighting a new stroke center in Charlestown, MA. At the end she mentioned it was especially important to her as she is also a stroke surivor.

As it turns out, she suffered a stroke at the young age of 27. Who knew that could happen right? She certainly didn't. She instantly went on to do research on the topic, share it and her story with her viewers and continues to do that!

On this episode Caroline and I connect on our home state of PA, the "Philly Accent" and so much more!

Since her stroke she's connected with Our Team - Tedy's Team (tedysteam.org) co-founded by Tedy Bruschi, a former New England Patriot who also suffered a stroke at the young age of 30. She even ran with his team to raise money and awareness for stroke victims in last year's Boston Marathon!

An experienced public relations, social media, and marketing professional with a passion for storytelling, after years in the industry Robbin founded her own firm, Wave Collective in 2016. Robbin has expertise working with a diversified portfolio across media, entertainment, retail and hospitality, as well as both regional and national brands.

While Robbin was building her PR/retail companies, she was simultaneously building her personal brand by amassing her following on Instagram, who were interested in/related to her day-to-day life of being a mom and female entrepreneur.

Stationed in Boston, Robbin continues to immerse herself in the city's growing business communities and developing relationships with top-tiered journalists and social media influencers. After seeing a growing trend in influencer marketing, she launched the region's first influencer management firm, representing some of the city's top talent, and securing partnerships with brands such as Walmart, Sperry, Dunkin Donuts, NIVEA, Free People, Home Goods, and more. Alongside her team, Wave handles the influencer campaign strategy and execution for clients across several different industries.

WAVE Collective (wearewavecollective.com)

We interrupt the previously scheduled program for this spontaneous podcast recording.

Out to dinner with my girl and fellow podcast host (Anything for Love | Katie Grimes on Apple Podcasts) she says "lets do podcast episode"...so we did.

I think it's her third appearance here and they get better every time! I originally had her on after seeing her at an event, finding her on insta, then became one of her coaching clients. After that it was clear we'd be friends! We now hang out, try different sh*t (thus the title) and laugh our asses off!

On this episode we get into dating, coaching, real estate, friendship and chicks that support eachother! Thank God for the magic of social media, coaching, scooters and hype women!

Katie Grimes | Business Coach

Abigail Hueber, RD, LDN is the dietitian behind Above Health Nutrition. Abby has a deep desire to help each unique client achieve long-term digestive health through nutrition and lifestyle counseling based on holistic, science-based functional medicine.

Above Health Nutrition works one-on-one with individuals to achieve their health and wellness goals. Above Health Nutrition offers virtual telehealth counseling services which help each client achieve their health and wellness goals anywhere their lives take them!

In our conversation she shares some of her own gut struggles & some "Abby Approved" supplements. She also shares lots of great tips on her instagram and during her own podcast "Your Body Has Your Back"

Home | Above Health Nutrition

Allison Bloch is one half of the duo that started the instagram "Beers Over Boston" She and boyfriend Bill Hall started dating right before the pandemic, with a first date, that was of course, at a brewery!

Before long they were checking out and sharing beers and breweries from all over and people loved it, now with a following of more than 11,000 they continue their passion together and so much more!

They've gotten involved with creating beers, doing collabs and Allison even runs social media for 3 local brweries, Small Change, 7th Wave & Distraction while continuing to work her "real job" in finance!

She has put that financial background to good use as the finacial liason for "Pink Boots Boston", a non-profit that assists, inspires and helps educate women in the alcoholic beverage profession.

She is definitley busy but loves every minute of it!

The doors of Canvas Studio/The Design Lab opened one year ago this month. I had the chance to sit down with the creator, Daphne Walker.

She doesn't necessarily consider herself to be an artist, but definitely has a creative side, which is clear but what she has and continues to create inside the studio.

Its not only a fun, amazing experience but she keeps in mind her community in the Hyde Park section of Boston, always listening to them and creating special events for all to feel welcome and represented.

The Canvas Studio was intentionally built to be an intimate space (fitting approximately 18 people at one sitting) where people could reconnect, especially coming off of the pandemic.

Clearly this unique space has gotten attention with viral social media videos and sold out events for months in advance! WIth this, Daphne is already making plans for expansion!

Canvas Studio | The Design Lab (canvasstudiobos.com)

Adrianne Haslet is a professional ballroom dancer and motivational speaker who was injured while observing the Boston Marathon in 2013. Despite the amputation of her left leg as a result of the bombing, she has been able to continue her dancing career and run in the marathon in 2016 & 2022 (coming in 4th place!) even after being hit by a car in 2019. Talk about GRIT!!!

Adrianne was featured in a 2014 TED talk, a movie with Anderson Cooper and has another on the way!

She's also working on a book and is a sought after worldwide motivational speaker!

I was so honored to be granted time to get to know her, she was warm, engaging, open and funny! I will never forget this conversation and know that you'll be inspired too. Thank you Adrianne! Keep going!

Sue-Ellen Anderson-Haynes, is a mother, wife, co-author, health writer, recipe developer, health speaker, holistic plant-based women's health registered dietitian. She has been featured in multiple media outlets including Harvard Health Publishing, CNBC, SELF and Huffington Post.

Anderson-Haynes is a dietitian of over 15 years with specialties in diabetes, weight management, girls and women's health, prenatal/maternal nutrition, vegan/vegetarian diet, integrative and functional nutrition and general health and wellness (cancer, heart disease, gastrointestinal disorders, etc).

Sue Ellen founded 360Girls&Women® at 360girlsandwomen.com – a holistic health & wellness company for girls, whose mission is to provide evidence-based information and services to help maximize a woman's complete health through the complete life-cycle.

She is also the co-founder of culturd™ at iamculturd.com – a Digital Healthcare App that connects Dietitians to Clients based on culture.

360girls&women | Plant-Based Women's Health Holistic Dietitian Nutritionist (360girlsandwomen.com)