Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership on Visibility, Authority & Owning the Room

We all know, either from first-hand experience or via media coverage, how hard New York has been hit with COVID-19. This week we speak with Melissa McLoughlin owner of MB Studio Salon & Spa in Rochester, NY. Since the time of this recording, hair salons in certain regions have been able to reopen in NY as part of phase 2 announced May 29. We discuss the impact of COVID-19 on Melissa's bus...

Oh my goodness. This woman has such a story, such a mission. This week we connected with Crystalyn Aucoin of Crystalyn Aucoin Jewelry. She has built a solid business over the past 18 months - so solid that you would think she has been in business for a decade. Out of New Orleans, she has gone through personal tragedy that brought her to Houston and back home to New Orleans again. She emerged from...

The real estate industry is one in which many flock to with aspirations of financial gains, schedule flexibility, and fulfillment by helping others. Our guests this week, Sarah and Stephen George of Magnolia Realty (yes, the same Magnolia of the infamous Chip and Jo Gaines) take this to a whole other level. Coming from different backgrounds and family lifestyles, these two weave their strong feeli...

One of the most loved industries that has been one of the most impacted during the global pandemic has been hair salons. I can tell you (from personal experience) that when public officials call a press conference to announce the gradual and safe re-opening of local businesses that many of us are on the edge of our seats to hear when we can get our hair done. (Especially those of us with grey hair...

This episode has an additional layer of specialness to it, as Muscle Creative's own Joey Ramirez is reunited (via Zoom) with his best friend since he was a little tike. This week we welcome serial entrepreneurs, Gabriel Gonzalez and Maya Sanchez. Gabe and Maya have a variety of business interests that they are in the process of expertly weaving together. Gabe's background is in music; ha...

 The fitness industry is a crowded one, with every one and their neighbor seeming to have some sort of health and wellness related business. So to be in business for 15 years with no signs of slowing down (well, except for this pandemic the world is currently experiencing), is quite the feat. We had the pleasure of chatting with Harry Shaw, owner of Lakeway Elite Fitness, who not only has accompli...

This week we chat with baker extraordinaire, kid entrepreneur, and finalist on Food Network’s Kids Baking Championship Season 6, Madison Totaro, as well as her mom and 'Momager', Mindy Totaro. It continues to be a strange time as at the time of this recording, Austin, TX had just begun their quarantine lockdown and students were beginning ‘distance learning’ as school buildings were clos...

If you've ever wondered how to create a business from scratch after relocating your family out-of state, within an industry you have no experience in, expand that business into multiple markets, win multiple awards and esteemed recognition, and still have it going strong more than ten years later, this is the podcast episode for you.  This week we're chatting with Wade Lombard, co-founde...

This week we are focusing on the question, 'Why does every small business need content marketing'? The Content Marketing Institute defines content marketing as “the marketing and business process for creating and distributing relevant and valuable content to attract, acquire, and engage a clearly defined and understood target audience – with the objective of driving profitable customer a...

This week we are chatting with Melanie Wright of Melanie Wright Photography. We booked this session weeks before we were aware that COVID-19 had entered the United States. Rather chatting in our home studio we tested out our first (and not our last) technology solution for doing podcasts remotely. In this episode we discuss: How COVID-19 has impacted her business Unique offerings she has shifted t...

In this episode, we go over who the heck we are. You'll learn how a Texan married a New Yorker, why our kids are unimpressed with our studio, and all the amazing stuff you're about to learn in this series.  It's about to get lit.  Can we get away with saying that? No? Didn't think so.