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Q: What does confidence mean to you?
A: It means knowing who I am, what I stand for, and what I am aiming for — letting that knowledge guide my daily decisions and allowing for grace when I misstep.
Q: Where can our community find you?
A: I am on Instagram as @SuzyStJohn and you can find my studio at @barre3powell. We offer all of our classes both in-studio (8882 Moreland St. Powell, OH 43065) and Livestream — check out our website to sign up! www.barre3.com
Q: What is your favorite part about working with/supporting your specific clients?
A: As someone who has always personally struggled with body image, I love showing women that working out does not have to be a punishment for how their bodies look or what they eat.
Q: If you could go back in time and give yourself any advice during the first year of owning your business, what would it be?
A: You’ll never make absolutely everyone happy, so keep your eye on the long-term goal and just keep taking the next right step to get there.
Q: Why was it important for you to create your business?
A: I get to help women work towards their goals, creating an uplifting and inclusive community, and staying physically active.
Q: When did you create your business, and what inspired you to start this specific business venture?
A: I’ve always had a passion for fitness. It only took me a month of teaching to know that I wanted my own studio, and just over a year later in 2017, I purchased barre3 Powell.
Q: What is your favorite activity when you aren’t working?
A: Reading – Once I start a book, I can’t put it down until I finish.
Q: What is a personal favorite quote?
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
— C.S. Lewis
Today’s guest for the #womensupportingwomen feature is Suzy Mihocikof Barre3 Powell – I love reading her posts which are full of honest talk, love, and support for her community.
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Last thoughts 💭
“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.”
— Jonathan Huie
Q: What does confidence mean to you?
A: I think sometimes, women feel like they don’t want to come off as “Bossy” but since owning my own business, I’ve realized that I am a boss! Now I just think of it as being “Confident” and it’s made a HUGE difference in how I see myself!
Q: Why was it important for you to create your business?
A: I think the freedom that it affords me in my everyday life is key for me. I can pick my own schedule and the projects that inspire me, I feel like I’m not missing any time with my family and friends due to work anymore.
Q: If you could go back in time and give yourself any advice during the first year of your business, what would it be?
A: Don’t stress out so much about taxes! Just hire the accountant to begin with, it’s really not as hard as you think it’s going to be!
Q: Where can our community find you?
A: I’m everywhere @winterandwillowdesign.co and online at winterandwillowdesign.co
Q: What is your favorite part about working with/supporting your specific clients?
A: I love taking someone’s vision and making it a reality for them. I love supporting my local community of small business owners and entrepreneurs in that way!
Q: When did you create your business, and what inspired you to start this specific business venture?
A: I always had a side hustle as a freelance graphic designer while I was working as a full time designer, but in mid 2019 I decided to take the leap into working for myself.
Q: What is your favorite activity when you aren’t working?
A: I love reading! I read almost anything I can get my hands on, when I’m not doing that, I love going thrift shopping (Mostly for old records) and hanging out with my two cats and two dogs… And my husband of course!
Q: What is a personal favorite quote?
“Just keep swimming”
— Dory
… I may or may not sing that song to myself when I’m stressed out!
Today’s guest for the #womensupportingwomen feature is Jacqueline Hoarty of Winter & Willow Design Co – a long-time friend and entrepreneur.
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Last thoughts 💭
“We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are”
— Max Depree
Q: What does confidence mean to you?
A: Acknowledging my strengths, while also recognizing when I need to ask for help. I used to think confidence meant pretending that I knew how to do something when I didn’t. Now I recognize that asking for help increases self-confidence.
Q: Where can our community find you?
A: You can find me on Instagram @Carlysdailycello. I am located in DeLand, FL so if you’re an adult in Central Florida looking for lessons, please contact me at CarlyCFleming [at] gmail.com
Q: What is your favorite part about working with/supporting your specific clients?
A: I specialize in teaching cello to adult musicians. I feel that it is a privilege to be trusted with their musical growth and I am always blown away by their commitment to the instrument.
Q: If you could go back in time and give yourself any advice during the first year of your business, what would it be?
A: It’s ok to not be good at every aspect of your profession. We all have strengths and weaknesses and that is ok.
Q: Why was it important for you to create your business?
A: Teaching gives me energy and deep gratification for those I serve.
Q: When did you create your business, and what inspired you to start this specific business venture?
A: Technically I began my music business in the early 2000s. I taught private lessons to cellists in elementary orchestras and had a quartet that would play weddings and events.
Q: What is your favorite activity when you aren’t working?
A: I love playing the mandolin, violin, piano, and ukulele (we also have a guitar and banjo, but I leave those to my husband). I also have spent an inordinate amount of time during the pandemic perfecting Overcooked 2.
Q: What is a personal favorite quote?
A: The lyrics from New Grass Revival’s Song “Do What You Gotta Do” I blast this when I have to do something that feels really scary and it ALWAYS helps get me through. I highly recommend people give it a listen!
Today’s guest for the #womensupportingwomen feature is Carly Fleming, my friend, and musician. When I think of “Winter Wonderland”, I think of walks in the snow and relaxing near a cozy fire with my blanket, hot chocolate, and some music.
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Last thoughts 💭
“The quickest way to acquire self-confidence is to do exactly you are afraid to do”
— Anon
Q: What does confidence mean to you?
A: Personally, confidence is about self-reflection and understanding myself, what I want, what I like and dislike, and not apologizing for those things that make me – me.
Q: Where can our community find you?
A: My business page on Instagram is @shopwilderrose, where I feature products and watercolor art. I do have another page, @jilliaanclaire, where I feature acrylics and oils.
Q: What is your favorite part about working with/supporting your specific clients?
A: As a creative, there is nothing better than combining two creative minds. When they give me a vision, it’s like a window into their creative process – which only inspires my own process.
Q: If you could go back in time and give yourself any advice during the first year of your business, what would it be?
A: Things take time. Ideas, inspiration, ART. Don’t rush yourself.
Q: Why was it important for you to create your business?
A: I’m the baby of my family. Anyone that is also the baby in their family might be able to understand what I am about to say and that is, I wanted something that was so authentically me.
Q: When did you create your business, and what inspired you to start this specific business venture?
A: I lost my job due to Covid so I was kind of thrown into starting my business but looking back, it was a time of healing for me.
Q: What is your favorite activity when you aren’t working?
A: Painting is my absolute favorite activity, when I’m not painting commissioned pieces though I am working on my own personal art projects. Also, gardening. Nature inspires my art tremendously.
Q: What is a personal favorite quote?
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for.”
– Georgia O’Keeffe
Today’s guest for the #womensupportingwomen feature is @jilliaanclaire of @shopwilderrose where she makes truly beautiful watercolor paintings, and has other gorgeous items like scarves and mugs that she sells on her online shop!
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Last thoughts 💭
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
– Jim Bishop
Q: What does confidence mean to you?
A: Confidence is when a woman finally believes the universe’s plans for her and lives up to them.
Q: If you could go back in time and give yourself any advice during the first year of owning your business, what would it be?
A: Learn SEO. Like, yesterday.
Q: Where can our community find you?
Q: What is your favorite part about working with/supporting your clients?
A: I think women deserve to find joy. Helping women solve a problem that may seem tiny in the grand scheme of things, makes me so happy because I know, it’s big to her.
Q: Why was it important for you to create your business?
A: I don’t like sacrificing who I am for the sake of a job that doesn’t even come close to paying me what I’m worth. Most of us are undervalued, overworked, and not appreciated for the true breadth of our capabilities.
Q: When did you create your business, and what inspired you to start this specific business venture?
A: I started this iteration of my business in 2020 after I quit my corporate job. However, I’ve had stores like this since 2008. Just different names and cities.
Q: What is your favorite activity when you aren’t working?
A: Exploration is the high point of my life: travel, trying new foods, learning new things.
Q: What is a personal favorite quote?
“Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Today’s guest for the #womensupportingwomen feature is Molly Allene, who founded a wonderful business with co-founder, Rachel Kim. These amazing women created @brooklynandrye, a clean beauty and self-care boutique and 100% women-owned brands and products!
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Last thoughts 💭
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…”
– Virginia Woolf
Q: What does confidence mean to you?
A: I saw a quote once that said something like, “Confidence isn’t telling yourself everyone will like you. Confidence is knowing some people won’t and being okay with that.” That’s such an important distinction.
Q: Where can our community find you?
A: My blog is at thetarotprofessor.com and I’m very active on Instagram at @thetarotprofessor.
Q: What is your favorite part about working with/supporting your specific clients?
A: My favorite part about teaching others to read tarot is demystifying it for them. While it is a rich and endless learning journey, getting started is often not as complicated as people think.
Q: If you could go back in time and give yourself any advice during the first year of your business, what would it be?
A: Stop worrying about what others will think. The truth is, people will judge you no matter what. There is NO WAY to come out unscathed, so stop trying.
Q: Why was it important for you to create your business?
A: This business basically allowed me to combine my passion for teaching with a more creative and self-employed business model.
Q: When did you create your business, and what inspired you to start this specific business venture?
A: I started my current tarot business – my tarot blog and online tarot course – in 2019. What inspired me to start it was the transformation tarot caused in my own life.
Q: What is your favorite activity when you aren’t working?
A: I read. A lot. Since I was a kid and to this day I need to be actively pulled away from books or I will probably never leave the house.
Today’s guest for the #womensupportingwomen feature is Annie the Tarot Professor, who runs a website where she shares about her journey into what brings her joy.
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Last thoughts 💭
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– Anne of Green Gables
Q: What does confidence mean to you?
A: Confidence to me is being unapologetically authentic. OWN what makes you, YOU!
Q: Where can our community find you?
A: Instagram: @kates_calligraphy
Q: What is your favorite part about working with/supporting your specific clients?
A: This one’s a coin toss – it’s between getting to see their projects from start to finish OR seeing them out at their weddings!
Q: If you could go back in time and give yourself any advice during the first year of your business, what would it be?
A: Don’t get your base prices from Etsy! It’s not “industry standard” and almost everything is vastly undercharged to stay competitive in the sea of creatives.
Q: Why was it important for you to create your business?
A: It was something that blossomed into what it is currently becoming. With the support of my husband (then boyfriend) I found encouragement and motivation to see what I was capable of.
Q: When did you create your business, and what inspired you to start this specific business venture?
A: I started my Kate’s Calligraphy Instagram just for fun to showcase all the punny cards I made – and I truly feel like I got into my groove around the fall of 2019.
Q: What are 3 fun facts about you?
Q: What is a personal favorite quote?
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls”
– Joseph Campbell
Today’s guest for the #womensupportingwomen feature is Kate O’Clair DiTullio of Kate’s Calligraphy and she is making some beautiful, perfectly flourished waves at weddings and special events.
As a personal fan of Kate’s work and her artistic talents, it’s been amazing to watch her business grow and see the collaborations she has been part of.
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New Style Spotlight!
In this episode In this episode of Demystifying Money, Bri White of Vostra Moda, and host, Misty Lynch, talk about how shopping may have too much or not enough room in your budget. Her Money Club, Bri White of Vostra Moda, and host, Raechelle Minney, talk about what it’s like to transition from a corporate job to an entrepreneur.
Check it out: Demystifying Money
Last thoughts 💭
“A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.”
— Unknown
Q: What does confidence mean to you?
A: It means being so comfortable in my own skin that I get lost in the moment.
Q: Where can our community find you?
Q: What is your favorite part about working with/supporting your specific clients?
A: It’s honestly seeing the 💡 lightbulb moment. The excitement. The realization that their dreams are within grasp and that they have made this happen for themselves. It’s the best feeling.
Q: If you could go back in time and give yourself any advice during the first year of your business, what would it be?
A: Stay scrappy. I see so many people caught up in the comparison game or wondering which social media is better to use, instead of just doing the thing.
Q: Why was it important for you to create your business?
A: I saw how many people were longing for something more. I saw them missing out on their lives and desperate for a change and I wanted to be a part of that.
Q: When did you create your business, and what inspired you to start this specific business venture?
A: I started my first business, @MuddyPawPR after graduating college. Later, I started business coaching to help early-stage creative entrepreneurs sign their first clients!
Q: What is your favorite activity when you aren’t working?
A: My favorite thing in the whole world is to pair a really good meal (like nachos or pizza!) with the most perfect trashy TV show (like Bachelor in Paradise or Temptation Island). There is no better combination.
Q: What is a personal favorite quote?
“People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.”
— Someone smart
Today’s guest for the #womensupportingwomen feature is my good friend, Angela Mastrogiacomo!
I personally worked with @Angela_Mastro when I first created Vostra Moda, and once all everything was up and running — I returned the favor and took her on as my client!
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New Style Spotlight!
In this episode of You Are So Not Alone the Podcast, Bri White of Vostra Moda, and hosts, Jessika & Ciara, talk about how your personal style impacts your success.
Check it out: You Are So Not Alone the Podcast
Connect with Stephanie:
During her transformation she went undefeated in boxing, most recently winning the Masters Division World Championship at 48 years old.
She now empowers women to set boundaries and say no without fear, as well as stop people pleasing, perfectionist and procrastinating behaviors.
👉 Come join us on June 10th at 7:00 PM EST for a live event, during which I’ll be talking about how to empower yourself through style as you learn to create boundaries by investing in your most powerful tool – you.
Stephanie is a Boundaries Coach for a group called No Boundaries in which she shares ways to build courage, reduce people pleasing behaviors, set better boundaries for yourself, and thrive emotionally.
She’s also a former boxer who self healed from over 20 years of chronic back pain and debilitating PTSD symptoms. It was the alchemy of pain science, behavior science and competitive boxing that allowed her to explore how pain and fear could transmute into power.
This month I want to give a special shout out to Stephanie Moniuk, business owner, friend, previous work-wife, and total badass. I’ve known Stephanie for over eight years now, which is crazy to think about.
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New Style Spotlight!
In this episode of Entrepreneur Spotlight, Bri White of Vostra Moda and Sandra Francisco talk about the journey of Vostra Moda, from inspiration to its first year in business.
Check it out: Entrepreneur Spotlight