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Marcas poderosas: Latina SafeHouse

Meredith Vaughan

Read this profile in English. Ha pasado más de un año en el que muchos de nosotros hemos estado esperando. Esperando que bajen los números de los casos. Esperando una vacuna y luego esperando una cita para la vacunación. Esperando que el COVID “se acabe.” Y nosotros somos los afortunados. En este […]

PowHERful Brands: Latina SafeHouse

Meredith Vaughan

Lee este perfil en español. It’s been well over a year that many of us have been waiting. Waiting for case numbers to go down. Waiting for a vaccine, and then waiting for a vaccine appointment. Waiting for COVID-19 to be “over.” And we’re the fortunate ones. In this same time period, […]

PowHERful Brands: Three Dog Bakery

Meredith Vaughan

The puppy tail wags were nearly audible on our call with Mandra Ryan, owner and executive pastry chef at Three Dog Bakery in Denver. Officially, she shares her home with just one dog, Bella, but describes herself as the ultimate dog sitter. The puppy sounds were coming from her brother’s border collie mix puppy, who […]

PowHERful Brands: Soul Popped

Meredith Vaughan

As she relayed the story of starting Soul Popped, a remarkable black-owned brand for our Brands We Love, De J. Lozada projected a question that unites all entrepreneurs. “What do I have that’s authentically mine that’s not being replicated on the market yet?” For De J., it was soul food. Her gift was […]

PowHERful Brands: Wolf+Friends

Meredith Vaughan

With a new year comes a host of opportunities to change, grow and help. Help, in a word, is one of the foundational motivations for our series of features on women-owned and -led brands, which we call PowHERful Brands. As a women-owned and -led company ourselves, we want to support other women-powered and women-focused brands. […]

PowHERful Brands: American Indian College Fund

Meredith Vaughan

Wrapping up a true powHER-packed month of features on women-founded and women-led brands, we have the American Indian College Fund, one of our clients since 2014. The College Fund’s direct support to American Indians and Alaska Natives and a network of tribal colleges and universities quite tangibly lifts up and sustains positive forward momentum […]

PowHERful Brands: Smart Playrooms

Meredith Vaughan

Whether or not they can fully verbalize the feeling, all kids dream of playing in spaces designed and organized just for them and their unique interests. And while it’s true for grown-ups too (many of us are just older “kids”), this blog post is not about us. It’s about the fact that playroom design matters. […]

PowHERful Brands: Bee Downtown

Meredith Vaughan

The day we connected with Leigh-Kathryn Bonner, founder and CEO of Bee Downtown, she and the team were on day 12 of extracting the company’s 2020 honey. Twelve very long days that, in the end, will result in about 2,500 pounds of honey (the good stuff). Typically, small groups of employees at partner companies […]