Building a Remarkable Brand

Lisa Ludwinski is the owner of Sister Pie. Sister Pie is a bakery serving the Detroit area with seasonally driven pies and cookies. They re-interpret classic recipes with a range of quality, unique ingredients. Sister Pie has grown from a home-baked, cottage food business serving friends and family to a licensed brick-and-mortar bakery providing baked goods to the masses.

Samantha Cabaluna is the managing director of brand communications for Earthbound Farm. Earthbound Farm is the nation's largest grower, shipper, and brand of organic produce. Samantha manages a team of 12 and is responsible for all brand communications and marketing initiatives for the company.

Mavis Linnemann-Clark is the executive chef and owner of The Delish Dish, a boutique catering company that mixes gourmet food, global flavors, and a little southern hospitality. She’s also the creator of the Made by Mavis line of artisan jams made in French copper jam pots and featuring intriguing flavors like Cherry Jalapeño, Dark Chocolate Raspberry, and Honey, Pear, and Vanilla Bean.

Colleen Herman is the co-owner of CoCo Creative Wellness - a holistic salon spa dedicated to helping people renew, rejuvenate, restore inner beauty, and create total balance of mind, body, and soul.

Jeni Britton Bauer is the owner of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams - which she founded in 2002 with the singular goal of making better ice cream. Today, Jeni’s is basically a household name with scoop shops all over the country - you can find Jeni’s from LA to Atlanta, Chicago to Charleston, she's a best-selling author, and she’s really done an amazing job with the Jeni’s brand.

Josh Garrett is the owner of Cincy 360 Fitness - a personal training studio with a different approach - they really get to know their clients and help them discover their WHY behind their fitness goals.

Claire Krawsczyn started The Verano Group in 2014 and currently serves customers nationwide. The Verano Group is a communications company specializing in the development of smart content, consistent messaging, and strategic communications for businesses big and small.

Robert Clark is the founder of Rescoper. Rescoper is powerful task management software that allows you and your team to easily collaborate on and manage projects so work gets done sooner. It features include automatic daily schedules, project analysis, and scope creep elimination.

Tara is the brain behind Robot Inside - a local sewing lab dedicated to helping people - big and small - to learn how to sew. Her work is really cool and a little edgy. She really is the punk-rock Martha Stewart!

Amanda Grossman is the founder and CEO of Gamejoule - a monthly subscription service for the rental of board games and card games. Their mission is to get friends and family together, face-to-face, and bring the fun back into our lives. Amanda talks openly about the fear that grips us as entrepreneurs - the fear of failure, the fear of not being good enough, and she offers some great advice for dealing with that fear.