Happenstance

Taking over the world with tiny trees...

Tim Arsenault is the founder of Bonsai Bar, a pop-up bonsai workshop held a breweries. As a self identified,  serial hobbyist,  Tim says "I get really into all sorts of weird hobbies that I find fascinating. Just to name ones that start with “B”, I’m into Birding, Boardgames, Baking and Bonsai.  My interest was first piqued by the bonsai collection at the Arnold Arboretum in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston where I used to go on picnics with my wife Annie. Later I stumbled upon the Rocky Mountain Bonsai Society’s annual member show at the Denver Botanical Gardens, and I bought a few trees from a vendor and got really hooked. Later, I took an intro to bonsai course with Hal Sasaki in Denver and heard about this bonsai artist, Ryan Neil, who does weekly webcasts on bonsai  (Mirai Live) and I’ve been looking for a way to work in bonsai ever since."

Connect with Bonsai Bar
bonsaibar.com

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From a career in education and teaching to freelance graphic designing and working on a graphic design story while traveling Nasrin Jafari's steps into print design and other creative endeavors came to a halt in 2020.  From there she began printing her designs on fabric, making masks during the pandemic and figuring out how to create, package, and sell a product.

From there Nasrin began to explore the process of taking something from a design sketch to a physical product, eventually leading to Mixed first collection launch in 2021

It's a story about taking the next step, having the drive to learn, holding on to gratitude, and making the decision to go all in. 

let's see where happenstance takes us...

Nasrin Jafari is the founder, CEO and designer of Mixed, a Brooklyn-based fashion brand inspiring you to be seen in full color.

Connect with Mixed
www.mixedbynasrin.com
Instagram

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Emily June Wilcox is a crystal loving, coffee drinking, money healer and business mentor.

Emily’s mission is to uplevel the planet through helping women heal their money wounds and build significant wealth – which allows women to act from purpose & passion instead of obedience & obligation.

While building three 6 and 7-figure businesses (e-com, agency, and coaching), Emily decided to ditch the belief that it had to be hard. She tapped into feminine energy to allow more ease and joy and support from her team. She uses energetics, woo woo, and a sprinkle of strategy to help women build their fempires and walk the joyous path to millions.

You can hear more from Emily by tuning into her Top 3% Global podcast – The Joyous Path to Millions Podcast.

Connect with Emily:
Website
Money Quiz
Instagram
Facebook 
LinkedIn
YouTube 

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How do we change the world? Josh Clifford is starting with Free Water.

Josh's career didn't start with selling ads on the side of bottles to establish his brand FreeWater. A journey that includes traveling the world, a dislike of taxis and conversation with his mom have let to both Free Water and his ultimate goal of creating the world’s first free supermarket in which all the products are ad-backed and free-to-consumer, and with charitable giving baked into every unit his team hands out.

Josh's Bio:
Josh Cliffords is the Founder/CEO of the largest start up in America right now: FreeWater. FreeWater is an innovative advertising platform that utilizes premium spring water as a new type of advertising medium while prioritizing philanthropy and sustainability. Ten cents from each beverage is donated to charity to build water wells for people in need. We only need 10% of Americans to choose FreeWater so we can solve the global water crisis permanently

Connect with Free Water:
Instagram
Website

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So many happenstance moments come from stepping out side of our comfort zones, embracing adventure, and pushing past fear. Other happenstance moment come from being in the right place at the right time and having the right person say "can you help with this?"

Today on Happenstance, Berta Medina shares all of these happenstance stories and so much more.

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Meet Coach Berta, an empowering force in the world of coaching, dedicated to helping coaches, speakers, and entrepreneurs unlock their full potential. With a passion for business solutions and accountability, Berta has transformed countless lives, guiding individuals to achieve unparalleled success in their respective fields.

Connect with Berta:
Website
Facebook
Instagram:  @coachbertamedina &  @dreamerssucceeding
LinkedIn

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Things will get better as long as you keep moving forwards - this is sentiment behind Sarah Ihori's mission.

Through coaching, building community, and sharing insights through content and blogs Sarah is passionate about helping people on their journey to well-being.

Her personal experiences with self-love, boundaries, and resilience have led her to create Moving Fourwords LLC.

Her  journey to becoming a Mental Health Coach started with her own personal struggles. In her words: " I felt overwhelmed and lost, I didn’t know where to turn.  Through hard work and self-reflection, I learned that well-being comes from within and I am “passionate” about sharing what I’ve learned with others."

Sarah's  goal is to create a space where people can feel safe, supported, and empowered to make lasting changes in their life and make a positive impact in the world.

Connect with Sarah:
Moving4words Website
Instagram
[email protected]

Other Links:
Nolan Sponsler, Owner of Deep River Jewelry
Stef Elsperman, The Fully Alive Movement & previous guest: Ep. 06!

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Forging new paths, navigating burn out, and seeking alignment is just part of Nicole Connor's story.

On this episode of Happenstance we learn about Nicole's journey reconnecting with her true self, the moments that lead to the creation of The Grand Rising Experience and how we can all take small steps to become more in touch with our own intuition.

About Nicole:
Nicole Connor: Quantum Initiator, Activator, Connector and Founder of the Grand Rising Experience™

Nicole is an initiator; a pattern disrupter; a visionary; and a wild unicorn gatherer; ​who cannot ignore or avoid challenging and transforming what feels wrong, inauthentic and out of alignment, personally or societally. This way of being can feel insightful, inspiring, intense or intimidating to those within my energetic sphere and has ignited immense creativity, chaos and conflict throughout my life. This is because I am a multi-dimensional, highly-intuitive and eternally curious Woman, with a gift for gab and the ability to seek out,  synthesize, curate, and action, ridiculous amounts of complex information, while making it look effortless and easy.

Raising up feminine Soulpreneurs who embody how to courageously voice, explore, and extract, the medicine embedded inside their pain, is my PASSION. Connecting them with those on a mission to curate their own bespoke toolkit that supports life-long healing, growth, and soul expansion is my PURPOSE... ​and so the Grand Rising Experience was created.

Connect with Nicole:
The Grand Rising Experience Substack 
Cassie's Episode of The Grand Rising Experience Podcast 

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A solo mini episode with Happenstance Host, Cassie looking at the energy that comes with a new school year, the start of fall, Q4 goal setting and a quick chat about the value of connection.

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Behind the scenes of a content creator's journey. Working a 9-5, reaching out to brands, navigating the self doubt, we cover it all in this episode of Happenstance with Stephanie Yamilett.

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Stephanie Yamilett is a content creator based in Florida, growing up using social media 24/7 to later find a career out of it is such a surreal feeling — now throw in there being able to work with brands she loves and create content for them is just the cherry on top. While she works a 9-5 job in higher education, after she clocks out she's focused on being a content creator on her own social media platforms.

Connect with Stephanie:
Instagram
Portfolio
Stan Store

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Making little pivots along the way. 
Allowing opportunity and interests to lead to the next career move.  
Knowing that a different choice wouldn't have been better, it just would have been different. 

Gwen Bortner embodies all of this an so much more. Her happenstance stories are all about 

• Navigating the unexpected turns and shifting paths
• Rediscovering a love of teaching 
• Turning hobbies into businesses & 
• Embracing a change mindset 

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Gwen Bortner is the founder of Everyday Effectiveness, an operations advisory firm that helps visionary entrepreneurs scale their businesses to seven figures and beyond. Before starting her business advisory firm in 2013, Gwen solved operations problems for corporate giants and for niche companies . To date, she’s advised executives, entrepreneurs, and solopreneurs in 45 industries. In addition to advising and speaking on operational strategy, Gwen is the author of the best-selling knitting book, Entrée to Entrelac, and teaches knitting internationally for Craft Cruises, Inc.

Connect with Gwen:
Learn more at EverydayEffectiveness.com
The Happy YouTube Video Mentioned in the Episode 

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