Bold Like Her Podcast

Colleen is the Boston-based blogger & content creator behind Travel Like a Local: MA, with a focus on travel across Massachusetts and New England. She covers destinations, hotels and restaurants, as well as cultural attractions, outdoor adventures, events and local shops, businesses and products, all from the perspective of a local resident.

Colleen started Travel Like a Local: MA in 2019 and has organically grown her Instagram following to more than 17.5K engaged followers. She has become a trusted source of recommendations and travel inspiration for those living in and visiting New England.

With a background in public relations and marketing, Colleen is passionate about helping raise awareness of - and drive sales for - the partners she works with through storytelling and compelling visuals.

Monisha has always loved entertaining and being able to provide creative food art. So when the opportunity presented itself to create a charcuterie styling business, she jumped on it! BoardsbyMo started as a side hustle, and grew to her full time career shortly after.

While growing BoardsbyMo, Monisha has taught over 1,000 entrepreneurs worldwide how to start their own charcuterie catering businesses through her business courses. She was named a 2021 Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40 Winner, and a Harvard Business School ManageMentor.

During our conversation she shared some of the challenges she's encountered while building her business and does the same on social media. She also opened up about social media, saying that she likes it and sees it's place but also needs to build her business in a way that if social media went away tomorrow, she and her business would be ok!

BoardsbyMo

Simplify By Lauren was created in a small office on a cool fall night in New England. Lauren says she wasn't 100 percent sure of what business she would create but was ready to take the leap. What evolved is not just a business but a commitment to peace, happiness, and community within each project and client.

In this episode she shares the importance of a good support system (in her case, her hubby), some of the challenges of starting her own business (lots more hours than the 9-5!) and gives some great organizing tips!

Simplify is a way of life and they wholeheartedly believe transforming and organizing a space has the power to ignite your passion, inspire, and bring joy to you and your family.

Simplify By Lauren (simplifybylaurennh.com)

Little Cocoa Bean Co was created to make culturally diverse, ready-made, fresh and healthy baby and toddler food for the next generation of parents. Their meals are served in a chic, baby-friendly café setting that's every millennial parent's dream eatery!

My guest on this episode is Tracy Skelly, the Founder & CEO of the Co and owner of The Tot Cafe in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston. A place for parents and kids to connect, eat, play, learn and be themselves!

Tracy shares her story of making food at home for her first born, having other parents ask about it, start to sell it and then open the first Cafe! Wishing her the best and knowing this will NOT be the only location!!!

Little Cocoa Bean Company

Amy is a rare breed, she's been in the same industry AND at the same location for her entire career! There have been some changes along the way but, she started as an employee at Susanna in Cambridge and is now the owner of that location and a new store in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston.

She's also started an on line version of her store, geared mostly to women with clothing, jewelry, gifts and cards.

On this episode she shares how she came from the midwest to Boston, the origin of the name of the store and has a nice discount for Bold Like Her Listeners!

*Discount Code BOLDLIKEHER

Unique Women's Clothing Store – Susanna (shopsusanna.com)

Nike John is the founder and CEO of The Heritage Club and The Boston Heritage Fund. At 29 years old, Nike founded the Boston-based cannabis dispensary and its non-profit subsidiary to support safe cannabis consumption within the community and fight back against the war on drugs. Nike is currently the youngest dispensary owner in Boston. A Boston native, Nike is proud to support the growth of her community through her business and non-profit.

Home - The Heritage Club (heritageclubthc.com)

Starting the New Year with a conversation about goals & keeping it real!

My guest, Ashley has been an avid dancer all of her life, especially drawn to ballet. Once she found out about Barre, it became her go to work out! She then became Barre Certified in 2015.

On this episode she shares how she started teaching while doing her full time job as an executive assistant and it was actually her boss that suggested she buy the studio when it became available.

Ashley prides her studio on being a place to connect with others on not just fitness, but community, inclusivity and being a non-judgemental environment.

Ashely is very involved with her community and even highlights some of it's small businesses on her podcast "Coffee At The Barre". The name is inspired by it's hosts, she & her friend that owns a couple coffee shops in town.

Barre Life LLC (barrelifenh.com)

Cynthia's goal is to get you thinking differently about desert and she's doing just that with her new alcohol infused icecream!

While her first gig was at an icecream shop, Cyn never imagined she'd be back here in New England making it! But she will tell you that her Biology/Chemistry degrees are definitley being put to good use!

After college she spent 6 years in the IT space. It was her love of icecream to lead to starting the brand "Popscoops". It only launched about a month ago but is already a big hit with vendors, distributors and restaurants with more to come in the new year!

Cyn prides her business on her partnerships with other locals businesses and creates her icecreams using only milk from New England cows!

Check out the flavors and how to get yours on the website!

Popscoops

Yiota shares her experience of being on "So You Think You Can Dance-Greece", how her parents influenced her to not only be on the show but to get into dance at a young age and how its helped her in her journey back to Boston to start this amazing dance team!

WTF - We The Females is an all-female dance company based out of Boston, Massachusetts. The team was created in January 2019 by three Boston based female dancers. The team's mission is to empower women of all ages through the art of dance. The team takes special interest in locally owned businesses, fashion, community service, and youth outreach.

In 2020 We The Females was chosen as Adidas Game Changers and featured in a nationwide campaign about people who make a difference in their community. The same year, they launched the "We're The Future" program that brings affordable dance classes to young girls around Massachusetts.

Some of their professional credits include:

• Adidas Originals Superstar Campaign

• Boston Celtics Halftime performers

• Pride Boston, opening act for LGBTQIA+ artist, Todrick Hall

• Boston Cannabis Festival

Dance Company | WTF - We The Females | United States (wtfwethefemales.com)

Lynne is the founder of Power of Patients. She shares her journey of learning through her 2 daughters' distinctively different head injuries, concussions versus TBI, (Traumatic Brain Injury) that if you have seen 1 brain injury, then you have only experienced 1 brain injury. No 2 brain injuries are alike.

It was a test of her own patience, but more importantly, a test to her commitment to understand what has happened to my daughters and how to help them. And it is through this journey, that she wants to share her knowledge and help others.

She's spent 25+ years in the clinical trial industry and is now putting all of her knowledge and experience into the website and an app called "Sally" which allows patients to input their own data to be used for research. Lynne is now in the process of planning out the 2023 initiative which will include more reserach, fund raising, and marketing! In addition, she's on the hunt for George Clooney! #wheresgeorge As it turns out his Aunt Rosemary established the Betty Clooney Foundation to help those with traumatic brain injuries back in the 80's!

Power of Patients

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