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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 […]

PowHERful Brands: Lantern

Meredith Vaughan

We’re back with our second annual series of PowHERful Brands, a close look at women-owned and -led brands that intrigue us, in celebration of Women’s Small Business Month. So, speaking of intrigue, let’s get right to it. Who in their right mind thinks about death when they’re busy living? Lantern co-founders Liz Eddy, […]

Brands & Bloodlines: Delgado Guitars

Meredith Vaughan

Sounds, smells and tastes have distinct powers over us—enhancing our present experiences and, at times, transporting us back to times, places and people that we knew previously. And then there’s sound on emotional steroids, otherwise known as music. While many of us listen only, some others also perform, and still others perform and create instruments. […]

Brands & Bloodlines: Source Booksellers

Meredith Vaughan

Janet Webster Jones was reading Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson, in which the author positions race and class hierarchy in the United States as our country’s own version of a caste system. Alyson Jones Turner was reading Memorial Drive by Natasha Tretheway, two-time U.S. Poet Laureate and winner of a […]