People, Place, & Purpose

Henry Rosario and Rachel Willis are co-founders of Outpatch, where they’re turning 100% recycled post-consumer plastic into stick-on patches where the travel patches benefit nonprofits supporting the community each patch represents, and the humanitarian patches benefit nonprofits supporting communities in crisis, allowing you to give where it's needed most. Rachel is based in Colorado and is...

Emeran Langmaid is the Founder of A&E Coffee & Tea, based in New Hampshire, though her background is in textile manufacturing and design. She has a contagious passion for really good coffee and a desire to share that with others which has helped her build her company to a very successful one. We talk about so much in this amazing episode, including the value of building relationships, for...

Trent Sanders and Steve Gabriel are co-founders and managing partners of 36creative based in Windham, New Hampshire. They grew up together in neighboring towns, discovered their professional compatibility while working together to install radios in friends’ cars when they were young, and concocted the idea to start this now about 20-person agency while hanging out in Steve’s attic during a Hallowe...

Erika Cohen was previously a reporter, investigative journalist, and is now a freelance writer, editor, ghost writer with a recently recognized niche in the world of numbers, math, and finance, an adjunct professor, and chair of her local school board which in turn makes her, as she says, “a reluctant activist.” She’s so transparent and reflective, and shares so much of what she has learned thus f...

Shana Chauvin is a multi-faceted entrepreneur whose background includes the medical industry, massage, reiki, owning a yoga and barre studio, teaching a wide variety of fitness classes, including yoga which she still teaches, studying interior design, and her current business, WildCraft Co. where she handmakes and sells macramé decor & creations with, as she says, “a modern boho-chic vibe.” Wh...

Joanne LaCarrubba Steenberg, the Founder of The Love Card, based in Maine, is a self-proclaimed “entrepreneuraholic,” or as I might call her, a serial entrepreneur, but through all that she has done over the years, she is an educator, and a tremendously caring and passionate person with a huge heart. We met by happenstance, on an airplane, and spent hours on our flight home talking about our all t...

Karen Koutsavlis is the Founder & Chief Motivating Officer at New England 360 Fitness, whose motto is Practical Solutions for a Healthy Lifestyle. As I both knew from our many intersecting paths over the years and discovered more of in this conversation, she’s a wife, a Mom, a lover of bikes, nachos, being outdoors, and is tremendously dedicated to bettering the health and lives of her clients...

Chelsea Stoddard is the Founder of both Queen City Cupcakes and Pop of Color in Manchester, NH. Prior to being a dual business owner, Chelsea was in the social service and insurance worlds and one day, spontaneously decided she was going to open a cupcake shop. Her insurance co-workers were lucky enough to be her taste testers and when the perfect recipes and ideal location were found, her delicio...

Welcome to our inaugural episode where we hear the story behind Penumbra! Alison Murphy and Alyssa McClary are a married couple living in Concord, NH. Alyssa is a former nurse; Alison is a lifelong entrepreneur – now they own a plant and gift store in NH’s capital city called Penumbra. They started their business in March 2020 just as the pandemic took hold, so as you can imagine, even though thei...

Do you love to meet amazing people who have taken the leap into entrepreneurship and turned their passion into a successful venture? Join Kate Luczko as she interviews and gets to know business owners and tells their stories - the passion, the learning, the pivoting, the joy…. Do you find yourself wondering where someone got their big idea, or how they took the leap to leave a traditional role to...