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This week, yet ANOTHER inspiring Milwaukee woman ...

If you’ve been to any craft or makers markets in the last few years, no doubt you’ve run into this week’s guest, Chloe Longmire of Chase My Creations. From her signature “BLK WMN ROC” to her “Take a Hike Racists,” her designs have been sparking conversation since they hit the scene. And that’s exactly what she wants! Listen as Shelly & Meagan talk with Chloe about where this dream came from, and where it’s headed. There’s some great takeaways for how YOU can be an ally beyond wearing the shirts (though we highly encourage you to snap one up if you see her around!)

Listen as we talk about … 

• How Chase My Creations got started, and spoiler alert, it wasn’t with t-shirts!
• How oftentimes, dreams begin when we create what we need or what we want to see. (what we NEED to see!) 
• Love them or hate them, how Chloe hopes that her shirts challenge the status quo and inspire more than ‘performative’ social justice work. 
• Ideas and ways to move beyond the performative if you’re stuck. 
• How she moved Chase My Creations from a side-hustle to full time (dream) job and the women who inspired her to take the leap!

Locals and Links we love! 

Chase My Creations Website
Chase My Creations at MKE Night Market
Journal Sentinel Press for Chase My Creations
Catrice Jackson (trainings and books)
Shiquita Mann of Blossom Candle Co
Kira Wendel of Swoon (FB Page)
MKE Night Market (summer dates coming soon!)

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We’re over half way through Season TWO so a quick (very quick!) check in with Meagan & Shelly this week. 

Listen as we talk about … 

• How you can help us get more listeners to these incredible stories
• What we’re loving about the podcast so far
• What we have in store for season three (and beyond) 
• A hint at a giveaway

How you can help us this week! 

Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (click this link!) 

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This week, yet ANOTHER inspiring Milwaukee woman ...

Listen as Shelly and Meagan talk with Marissa Jablonski, Executive Director of the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin. If Marissa’s enthusiasm doesn’t inspire you to change ONE small habit around your consumption of single-use plastics, we don’t know what will! In this episode we talk about what inspired Marissa to become an eco-warrior and what she’s doing to bring others along with her. We’re in this together people! GO TEAM! 

Listen as we talk about … 

• Why inspiration is SO important to our dreams 
• How (while it would be nice, of course), perfection is not the goal when it comes to our relationship with planet earth, but a little change by each of us can make a huge difference (or, a “megachange” as she calls it!) 
• How an expensive mistake on a project in Guatemala taught her an important lesson on global interdependency and shouldering this work together (“go team!”) 

Locals and Links we love! 

Marissa’s Website
Marissa’s Instagram account (follow her immediately!)
Marissa at UWM and the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin
Marissa on WUWM last week!
Plastic Free MKE
Milwaukee River Keeper (get involved!) 

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This week, yet ANOTHER inspiring Milwaukee woman ... 

We are brewing up a special episode with this week’s guest! Alesia Miller of Soul Brew Kombucha takes center stage today. Listen as we talk to Milwaukee’s ONLY Black, woman brewer (of anything!) about her path into this often male dominated space and how she’s taking care of our community by taking care of business in a very gutsy way! (pun intended, listeners!) 

Listen as we talk about … 

• How that year she spent Valentine’s Day alone may just go down in history as the dreamiest one yet
• Dreams that travel! How her dream began in a linen closet and moved to the dark dry basement of her now-friend, and fellow Season Two guest, Catilin Cullen, and then moved again when she outgrew that space. Smallwaukee strikes again! 
• How dreams happen step by step, and how sometimes you have to just hurry up and wait. In other words, BE READY. 
• How Whitney Houston strengthened her business acumen (and you don’t want to miss this gutsy American Idol story). 

Locals and Links we love! 

Soul Brew Kombucha Website
Alesia in Milwaukee Magazine
Alesia in The Journal Sentinel
Alesia on YouTube
Soul Brew on Instagram
Soul Brew on Facebook

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This week, yet ANOTHER inspiring Milwaukee woman ...

This week, we talk to Nicole Acosta, artist, photographer, writer, marketing maven, mother, DJ and creator of The Hoops Project, coming soon to The Milwaukee Chamber Theater and the Milwaukee Artist Resource Network. Listen as we talk full circle about Nicole’s life and how she was able to turn some harrowing experiences into a fierce and fearless determination to live into her dreams. This woman takes YOLO seriously because she’s been to the edge. And she’s back, so look out Milwaukee! 

Listen as we talk about … 

• How the traditional pathway wasn’t going to work for Nicole and how she found (and claimed) her own voice
• How finding her people in the city inspired and encouraged her creative calling as a Latina artist
• How a brush with death transformed her outlook on her life and her work (Hint: YOLO is REAL!) 
• How intuition and dreaming go hand in hand

Locals and Links we love! 

The Hoops Project (on Nicole’s website)
Hoops exhibition at MARN (Milwaukee Artist Resource Network)
Hoops production at The Milwaukee Chamber Theater (get your tickets!)
Hoops on Lake Effect
More Hoops Press!
Luna Collective
The No Stress Collective (on FB)

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This week, yet ANOTHER inspiring Milwaukee woman ...

Listen this week as we talk to Jessie Cannizzaro, owner and founder of Milestone Plumbing, Inc. We’re excited to welcome our first guest in the trades and our first listener-requested guest! 

Listen as we talk about … 

• The best way to tackle and take apart a faucet (but hint: it’s a great metaphor for life!) 
• How her experience of being a woman in the trades makes a difference in attracting and maintaining customers. 
• The important way her values influence her business model.  
• Best place for a bathroom selfie in Milwaukee and other rapid fire questions we ask this Master Plumber! 

Locals and Links we love! 

Milestone Plumbing, Inc. 

Milestone Plumbing on Facebook 

Milestone Plumbing on Instagram

Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation (WWBIC)

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This week, yet ANOTHER inspiring Milwaukee woman ... 

If you’ve lived in Milwaukee for any length of time, no doubt you’ve heard of our guest this week, Venice Williams. Pastor, writer, connector, gatherer of people at The Table, and Alice’s Garden, and Kujichagulia Producers Cooperative at The Sherman Phoenix. We hear all about her dreams and the dreams she’s holding space for in 2023. 

Listen as we talk about … 

• How Venice uses writing as an invitation to DREAM
• Hear about her latest (though longtime coming) venture and what she’s dreaming up at The Table on 5305 W. Capitol Drive 
• What she sees as her calling, and what it means to have a vocation

Locals and Links we love! 

The Table 

Alice’s Garden 

Kujichagulia Producers Cooperative 

Email Venice to get on the mailing list. 

Milwaukee Winter Farmer’s Market 

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No guests today friends, just your inimitable hosts, Shelly & Meagan talking about lessons learned from our pod this year! We're keeping it short and sweet with some takeaways and hope that you'll share your takeaways with us too! We LOVE hearing from our listeners.

Good things to come in 2023, we hope you'll stick with us!

Want to know more ways you can stay in touch or even work with Shelly & Meagan, check out their websites. (click the names!)

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This week, yet ANOTHER inspiring Milwaukee woman ...

Join Shelly & Meagan as they chat with Giannis’s favorite DJ, Shawna Nicols about her experience behind the mixing decks. But Shawna is SO much more than just the DJ for the Milwaukee Bucks. Podcaster, author, songwriter and producer, ambassador for Milwaukee, and all around STELLAR human being. 

Listen as we talk about … 

• Shawna’s best friend and role model (spoiler alert: another Milwaukee powerhouse and they’re related)  
• A dream she’s recently started sharing with friends in her circle since wearing the Championship Ring
• The three things she sees as bringing people together (and she provides two of them to fans) 
• The special treat she plans on sharing on her milestone birthday this December! 

Locals and Links we love: 

Shawna’s website
Shawna on instagram
Shawna’s new documentary series
Shawna’s podcast
Shawna’s single

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This week, yet ANOTHER inspiring Milwaukee woman ...

Graphic Recorder, Sketch Note Artist, Professional Listener, Author and Art Teacher Sherrill Knezel talks with Shelly and Meagan about her dreamy new book with Parker Palmer and how dreaming helped take her from the front of the classroom to the front of the board room. 

Listen as we talk about … 

• The art of listening and how adding graphics to a conversation can change the dynamic and power of a thought
• How giving voice to a dream gave her the confidence to turn the dream into a book with a beloved author, educator and activist
• How a simple book suggestion changed her life (twice!) and how we can listen for those small callings in our own lives. 

Locals and Links we love! 

Sherrill’s Website

Sherrill’s TEDx Talk

Parker Palmer’s site

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