Lions on Leashes

Parked Prosecco is a traveling Wine Bar located in Hudson Valley, NY, and serving NY, NJ, CT + PA. They cater to Weddings and Private events with Tilly! Tilly is a restored 1968 Go Tag-A-Long camper.

Founded on integrity, quality, and service and with over a decade in the hospitality industry, Parked Prosecco has become the product of their passion for hosting and entertaining.

They have a new addition! The Parked Prosecco wine club! Discover new, unique wines sourced directly from Mom-n-Pop vineyards from around the word - three bottles a month right to your front door - order before the 25th of each month to travel the world without leaving your home. 

- Brainstorming of starting your own business  

- Trial and errors of figuring it out  

- Meet Tilly! 

- Why we love food trucks and mobile bars

- The power of spousal support 

- Showing your kids you can be a female boss    

- Unique ways to create experiences 

- What you learned by doing the job 

- It's about the cocktails ::Cheers::

- Give credit when you're inspired

- Advice for starting out

- Staying positive when if it's hard -- just try 

- Reflexion of your hard work 

- The Parked Prosecco Wine Club!

- Learning how to ask for help

Resources:

www.parkedprosecco.com

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Victoria Cubbon is a graphic designer, illustrator, and founder of the Creative Women Community. 

She founded Creative Women Community as a place where creative women can come together and help each other to overcome challenges and doubts that creative professional women face. 

You can check out Creative Women Community on Instagram at @CreativeWomenCommunity and wherever you listen to podcasts as the Creative Women Community Podcast. Creative Women Community is growing and they'll soon be launching the Creative Women Community store and a membership program. So stay tuned! Support the development of the store by buying the community a coffee and all that information is on their Instagram.

What We Talked About: 

- The fear that lead to Marketing  

Resources: 

When you buy CWC a coffee, you're supporting female artists and helping us to bring them valuable connections and opportunities for their small businesses. Send a coffee their way! 

creativewomencommunity.com

Victoria's Influences: Lisa Congdon, Amy Blackwell, Charlie Clemons

Coleen is a "Jill of all trades". Not having a clear direction of what career she wanted to pursue, Coleen explored many different industries before unexpectedly landing her dream job at a small lash and brow bar in Long Island, New York. She balances her time between her young son and husband, and the business that for her, started as a part-time job to pay for health insurance and quickly became her passion.

What We Talked About:

- Never sitting down

- When your job doesn't teach you anything

- Writing your draft to-do list and then your official list (if you know, you know)

- The 'Top Three List' Tip

- When the hard work of your parents rubs off on you

- Why is there no more loyalty to our employers? 

- Are people entitled or just have more options?

- Common curiosity is not so common anymore.

- Swapping "I quit" stories - Don't judge. 

- What fictional stories do to your brain

- Being addicted to imagination - even as an adult.

- The customer is not always right 

- Love being a people person

- Standing up for your employees

Resources: 

Instagram: @coleenrua

www.littlelashboutique.com

The book Coleen finished in 3 days: Queenie

Nina is a Marketer from Troy, NY with a passion for event planning and helping others. Her career has lead her from organizing senior events for her graduating class to organizing an annual 250+ cybersecurity conference with vendors, speakers and sponsors.

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Rachele Feisthamel was born and raised in the Capital Region of Upstate New York. She attended Albany Academy for Girls (2006) and graduated from Siena College (2010) with a Bachelor's in Marketing and Minors in both Creative Arts and Broadcast Media. After working in various industries up and down the east coast, including on NYC's Madison Avenue, Rachele opened a hospitality-focused advertising agency in March 2015, Little Dog Advertising. The full-service creative advertising agency is based in Albany, New York, and has proudly worked with over 50 independently-owned businesses since opening in March 2015. 

In her "free time," Rachele volunteers her & her company's time and talent to the Boys & Girls Club of Capital Area, with a notable mention of her creation of the "This Shirt / Sweatshirt Feeds Kids" donation-based apparel line that was featured on the "TODAY Show with Hoda and Jenna."

Rachele lives in Albany, New York, with her Husband, Daughter, and two chihuahuas. She enjoys long walks, food-focused trips, and being a Mom, Wife, Daughter, Sister, Grand-Daughter, and Neice. 

What We Talked About: 

- The poster from your childhood that shaped you

- Building a portfolio 

- Working for free

- Taking your personal experiences and putting them into your work 

- Dreaming on the train

- When your parents cut you off 

- Working as a contractor

- Women competing in a man's world

- What would be my story be?

- When you land the job and control all-out social media of Gerber Baby food

- Breaking-up with the city

- Pearl Founder of LDA

- Thinking Rich

- Not being the passenger of life

- Bouncing back in your 30's

- The bosses you have being your own boss

Resources: 

Purchase your "this Shirt/Sweatshirt Feeds Kids" apparel today to help put food on the table for families in need. Every $25 donation, to the Boys & Girls Club of the Capital Area, provides 4 meals.  Purchase yours today: bgccapitalarea.org/feedkids

Instagram: @LittleDogAdvertising

Sponsors: 

Valentine's Graze Boxes: $65 & Newly launched virtual build your own (BYO) cheeseboard workshops. I will be offering one on Valentine's Day as a special couples activity.

PROMO: Use code LIONS214 to get an extra jar of jam with your graze box, or $5 off your virtual workshop registration fee.

To take advantage of this promotion visit Grate-expectations.com! 

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Nedine is the owner and founder of Grate Expectations, the first custom graze business in the Capital Region. Nedine has always had a love for hosting and entertaining and decided to pursue her passion for making cheese and charcuterie boards as a side hustle in November 2019. Being a new business owner, with very few resources for a niche market, Nedine decided to build a network of "grazers" (called The Cheese Chicks) from across the country to work through challenges and share ideas; which became critically important once COVID-19 hit. Together, they have amassed a following of over 30k and secured sponsored brand deals. In late 2020, she lost her job and is now pursuing Grate Expectations full time. 

What We Talked About: 

- That drunken best friend conversation

- The trend of charcuterie boards

-When you tell yourself to take a risk 

- Helping people achieve their goals

- If they can do it...Why can't it?

- Finding your spark deep down inside 

- Calling yourself an expert

- Using your friends to experiment

- The 'use the test to take the test' method

- Still looking for convenience during covid

- Building a community

- When the side hustle is no longer just a side hustle

- All you hats you wear being a business of 1

- Learning to balance

- Why having a mentor is so important

- Getting comfortable with making decisions

- Food that brings you back

Resources:

www.grate-expectations.com

Instagram:  grate.expectations.ny

The Cheese Chicks: @the.cheese.chicks

Valentine's Graze Boxes: $65 & Newly launched virtual build your own (BYO) cheeseboard workshops. I will be offering one on Valentine's Day as a special couples activity.

PROMO: Use code LIONS214 to get an extra jar of jam with your graze box, or $5 off your virtual workshop registration fee.

To take advantage of this promotion visit Grate-expectations.com! 

Annie Delano is an EXTRAordinary Casting Director. Her casting company, AND Casting, has cast over 10,000 background extras, for Hulu and independent production, as well as talent for many many commercials. Aside from casting, Annie loves producing commercials and has worked on jobs for Microsoft, Lexus, and Coca-Cola.  She currently serves as the Vice President and Addy Awards Co-Chair for her local chapter of The American Advertising Federation (AAF). In her downtime, Annie is currently dreaming of all the places she’ll travel when the pandemic comes to a close.

What We Talked About: 

- Freelancer to Director

Resources: 

WATCH Hulu's original The Ultimate Playlist of Noise on January 15th, to see Annie's work, of casting background extras.

www.andcasting.com

Sponsors: 

Grate Expectations

Valentine's Graze Boxes: $65 & Newly launched virtual build your own (BYO) cheeseboard workshops. I will be offering one on Valentine's Day as a special couples activity.

PROMO: Use code LIONS214 to get an extra jar of jam with your graze box, or $5 off your virtual workshop registration fee.

To take advantage of this promotion visit Grate-expectations.com or their Instagram page @grate.expectations.ny

A native New Yorker with an eye for detail, Kjirsten has been fully dedicated to the sunless industry for over a decade with her dream finally coming to fruition in 2017 with TanGlam, a mobile spray tan company based in NYC. Her unparalleled ability to tan even the fairest of skin tones quickly gained her a devoted following across the city and beyond. Her work has walked the red carpet, been included in top magazines, and can be seen in some of the most popular tv shows and movies throughout the world. She firmly believes that a spray tan can be a semi-permanent boost of confidence that enhances one's natural beauty, effortlessly.

What We Talked About: 

- Moving by your dream college for motivation

- Someone taking a chance on you

- finding the start of your career on Craig's List

- Taking experiences from a job in your 20's and incorporating them into your business

- Proving yourself in 30 minutes

- When you have no other choice

- Taking opportunities even if you've never done it before

- The power of convenience

- Full circle moments

- the power of having a book of clients

- Doing something to make other people happy

- Having that 1:1 time with clients #day1vibes

- Realizing you need to focus on your personal life

Resources

Melissa Gaglio is a professional Makeup Artist and Beauty Boss in the New York Metropolitan area. Melissa has a versatile body-of-work and career spanning over a decade in the Beauty Industry.  Her career started as a young girl doing her makeup on her bedroom floor. She is now one of the best in the industry, doing it for a living throughout the streets of Manhattan living her dream.

What We Talked About:

- Influences through movies  

Resources:

www.melissagaglio.com

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