Kathy Nolan
I was raised in the suburban town of Garden City, NY., fortunate to come from a privileged background where I was encouraged to explore my interests and passions from an early age. While still in high school, I began to clarify those things which would eventually define my life:, Horses, Spanish language, travel, culinary arts, and later on, yoga. Like many a young girl, I was obsessed with horses and began riding at age 9 or 10. Riding camps on Long Island and Minnesota were my summer playgrounds where I learned to handle and care for horses. At the age of 16 I began volunteering for an equine therapy organization called ‘The New Riders of the Viking Horses’. It was there that I fell in love with Icelandic horses, the breed that would change my life as an equestrian. Read more>>
Sage Woods
When I was in high school, I thought that I would go into the medical field, but my love for the metaphysical and holistic arts won me over.
I trained and practiced as a Quantum and Reiki Master as well as an Asian Bodywork Therapist for 10 years.
Loving herbs and natural medicine, I also started to create my own blends and services for healing the chakras and meridians through energetic therapies and herbal formulas. Read more>>
Trish Brewer
The culmination of years of burnout, the overwhelm of working mom guilt, unrealistic expectations, juggling multiple roles and responsibilities, and the lack of self-care and boundaries landed me in the hospital for a week. This medical emergency knocked me out of my comfort zone and forced a change in my lifestyle. I could no longer ignore my own needs. I realized to take care of the ones I loved I would have to start with myself. And so began my recovery to heal not just my body, but all of me, finally recognizing the connection of the body/mind/ spirit. I started to meditate daily and journal my thoughts and feelings. I went to therapy, did yoga, and received Reiki and acupuncture. Read more>>
Minnie McBride
My journey into the art of organizing and clutter clearing began when I realized that repositioning an object could make a space feel better. Through self-experimentation I discovered that reducing clutter and being intentional with the objects within a room created a positive shift that felt more inviting. Then, through reading the book, “Sacred Space: Clearing and Enhancing the Energy of Your Home” by Denise Linn, I discovered the many layers of a space and different ways to enhance it. I continued to try these practices in my own home. Coupled with the lessons from Marie Kondo’s book “The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing,” I began to see and interact with spaces differently than I had before. I liked how my life felt less chaotic and more open for good things to come in. Later I took a course offered by Linn on becoming a clutter clearing coach, which enabled me to support and apply my skills in helping clients to organize a space. Additionally, as a Montessori trained teacher, who has worked in classrooms for over 15 years, I have observed how a prepared space impacts and improves learning. As a mother, I extended the principle to my home and children’s spaces. My experience allows me to help others achieve their organizing goals. Read more>>
Jeet Bahra
My journey began when I started doing my friends’ makeup for formal events in college. I went on and got a corporate job after graduating, but my friends’ gentle nudges, heart, and life led me back to makeup artistry in the end. I had done a boudoir mini shoot for my 5th anniversary and a makeup artist got me ready for it. I asked her if she had any room to teach me so that I could work weddings with her, and she happily said yes! I was so excited to finally learn how to properly curl hair for the first time, do a couple of updos and learn the basics of applying lashes and makeup on different people. I practiced a bit and then jumped in military ball season 2014 at Quantico, and never looked back. I became a full time artist within a year because the Fredericksburg VA area is full of many creative photographers that shoot inside + outside and there was a dire need for diverse artists that could do all types of skin tones. Around the time that I became a full time artist in 2015, clients started asking me if I taught makeup lessons as well as if I was open to helping shop for the correct makeup colors beforehand! That is when my popular Shop & Learn was born and it still is one of my most sought after services to this day. By 2018, my branding firm Posh PR, coined me “confidence creator”, and I made it on the Best of the Burg top 3 makeup artists list. By 2019 I won #1 best makeup artist in the same competition! I also started traveling internationally to provide makeup artistry for photography retreats and bridal work the same year. Fast forward to 2024, I have moved 3x and successfully restarted my business back to full time status in every location, opened up a brick and mortar studio location called the Bethesda Beauty Collective with my amazing business partner Valentina of Bronzed Beauty Bar, hosted client appreciation parties, Barbie pool parties, as well as a Holiday parties. I have expanded my service offerings to include permanent makeup (Microblading, powder brows, and lip blushing) and also create legacy films for small business owners and those that want to share their stories with the world- being creative is at the core of who I am and it’s been amazing exploring everything that my brain wants to and my clients have been so supportive!. I regularly teach masterclasses a few times per year to dozens of every day women so that they can go out into the world more confidently. I love being my clients’ beauty bestie and have built a brand around spreading confidence and love everywhere I go. It’s infectious and I love it so much. Read more>>
Corine Channell
I have worn many hats in my life – teacher, singer, songwriter, filmmaker, office manager, wife, mother, grandmother – and now I have added to that life list – author. I started out writing poetry as a teenager, then when I was a music teacher I wrote programs for my classes to perform. As the years flew by writing was always the thing I was pulled to the most – to express my thoughts on paper. After raising my family and becoming a widowed empty nester, I found myself free-falling into journaling which then turned into blogs for an international media network. After writing for them for a few years, it seemed my blogs were becoming books. I didn’t plan for that – it just happened. During COVID lockdown I felt like I had chunks of time available to do what I loved most, and with no distractions. so I wrote a book in 2020. Then I wrote another one in 2021, and here we are in 2024 and I just completed my 4th book. I blogged about real-life struggles and issues, the pains of trauma and abuse, the secrets we keep that are so destructive, and in doing so I unintentionally began to tell my own story. In my writing, I found self-awareness, self-healing, and a great purpose. I am a conceptual writer/ a storyteller / and I use a lot of allegory- I try to write so that the reader can find themselves in between the lines, thus uncovering and discovering the purpose in their pain and the value of their own story. Read more>>
Amber Williams
My Name is Amber BKA Amber sweettreats!
Im a small black business owner, I started out in my grandmother’s kitchen baking out of tuna fish tins. She taught me Everything from baking to cooking. My passion grew over time with the help of my Aunt we would go to Ac moore and they 1,000’s of character cake pans and we would purchase them go home and bake and decorate them for special occasions and parties our family would have. I continued thru high school where I attended Cat North won regional and state cake decorating competition, was also listed in the Maryland gazette as teen of the week! I then went on to work for giant, weis and Miss Nancy fancy’s bakery there I learned pretty much every scratch recipe possible from cakes, breads, scones, cookies, icing and fillings. I went on to work at safeway as cake decorator then moved up to bakery manager. I took sick years later with a brain Tumor that was causing me to have seizures…after removal and treatment I later started working from home where I would do orders by word of mouth then to social media platforms and the rest is history!! I Absolutely love what I do! Read more>>
Leigh King
My path to becoming a reiki master and professional tarot reader and intuitive has been a winding one, to say the least. As a child, I was extremely sensitive and empathic, traits that have followed me throughout my life. Around the time I was 8, we moved to Franklin, TN, a town rich in Civil War history. It was there that my love of history and the paranormal combined and my sensitivity began to become more apparent. It was also in Franklin that I started doing children’s theatre, and my lifelong love affair with performing began. Theatre became my main focus, and I eventually attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC as well as the New School in Manhattan where I received my BFA in Musical Theatre. Throughout the years, my obsession with the paranormal has turned out to be an asset, as I’ve found work as a ghost tour guide and have written an original show based around the local legends and lore of the Lowcountry of South Carolina, where I currently reside. Despite my love of all things spooky (along the way I’d picked up reading tarot as a hobby) and my love of performing, it wasn’t until I experienced a devastating miscarriage in January of 2022 that my life took the sharp turn towards working professionally as a healer today. I’ve experienced a lot of loss in my life, among the most pivotal being my Mother at the age of 21 and my best friend at the age of 27, so when I miscarried, there was an unfortunate part of the whole thing that felt like familiar territory. In the past, when I’d gone through these significant losses, I’d done everything I could to numb the pain- drink it away, smoke it away, run as fast as I could away from the feeling of it all- but when I lost the baby, something shifted. I knew I was at a crossroads and I had two choices- to numb it away and keep on keepin’ on (at which I was a pro) or to actually feel it and actually heal it, which felt like a much scarier option. In retrospect, these options were not as clearly laid out as I state them now, of course, and having no idea what to do or where to turn, I decided to reach out to a dear friend of mine who is a certified yoga teacher to work with me one-on-one. It was during our first session, where I’m expected to move into a vinyasa flow and a downward facing dog, that she tells me to lay down so she can access my chakras. I had no idea what a chakra even was, but I obliged. As I laid there on my yoga mat in her apartment and she moved the pendulum down the energy centers of my body, I could feel a physical shift. This was the first time that I’d truly experienced the power of energy healing and there was no going back. I dove in head first. It was like the world cracked open and everything looked so different. It was undeniable then that I’d found my calling and knew that I was meant to be using my experiences with loss as a catalyst to help to heal others and guide them along their paths. So, that’s what I’ve devoted my life to. In the past 2 1/2 years, I’ve started my own LLC, studied to become a reiki master, and began reading tarot professionally. It is the most fulfilling and purposeful work I’ve ever done. Read more>>
B. Edge
Peace , upon my Honorable discharge from the Army I’ve been living out my dreams . I’ve been been modeling , curating events , and creating music . Currently I am in CDL school to began my journey as a truck driver , while sell maintaining to continue to live our every dream and passion .You can follow my main IG page @melaninpapi111 Read more>>
Shannon Doty
When I reflect on how I got to where I am today, it feels like a journey that’s come full circle, with a few unexpected but rewarding detours along the way.
My academic journey began at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where I earned my Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. It was here that I first developed a deep interest in understanding human behavior and how it shapes the world around us. This interest led me to pursue a Master of Arts in Strategic Communication at the University of Delaware, where I learned to blend my passion for psychology with the art of communication. I immersed myself in marketing, public relations, and strategic communication, and later deepened my expertise with leadership and executive persuasion training at the University of Pennsylvania. Read more>>
Luis G. Juanes
After obtaining a degree in Physics many years ago, I decided that research was not my place. Science fascinates me, but I discovered that my real passion is filmmaking. So I was lucky enough to study cinema and to be able to work in it, but without ever abandoning science.Nowadays I work at Filmociencia, an audiovisual production company created together with my partner, Paloma Banderas, which builds bridges between the world of research and the general public by making scientific audiovisuals and documentaries. We work directly with institutions, companies and researchers in almost all areas of science who want to spread their work. In each project we always carry out in-depth research to be able to make audiovisual pieces that are rigorous but with a cinematographic approach that captivates the audience. But I have also had the opportunity to work on feature films and documentaries. The next one is an own production that we are going to premiere in cinemas in 2025! Unfortunately, at the moment we can’t give any further information (keep up to date on our Instagram!). Read more>>
Rebecca Culbreth
My interest in photography began in high school with an old Olympus camera. I began by capturing the vibrant cultural hubs of Singapore and also of friends in costumes I had styled for them. At that time I think it was both a creative lens through which to engage and as a buffer between myself and the world. Years later I moved to Idaho, which was like being given a blank slate from which I had to find new ways exploring what was interesting. I often found myself on nature walks with my camera, searching for beauty in a landscape that seemed sometimes harsh and foreign. I began to notice how interesting the natural word could be when you slowed down and noticed the details. Moving from Idaho to Los Angeles several years later marked another paradigm shift. It was there that I began experimenting more with staged environmental projects, creating scenes that felt like fragments from a surreal dream. Some of my favorite shoots were using an underwater camera in a pool with people, props and flowers and seeing how the water refractions transformed them into weird and wonderful shapes, reflections and rainbows. Working with friends in creative fields—musicians, actors, artists and writers—offered a collaborative process of coming up with something together that transcended traditional boundaries and engaged in a deeper dialogue with the subjects’ creative identity. Now, as I navigate the art scene of the Bay Area, I am at the start of a new artistic venture. Exhibiting my work in this context has been an engaging experience that I would like to expand upon in the future. Looking ahead I am excited to go further with creative portraiture by working with clients that are looking for unique photographs of themselves and, in addition, to working on projects of my own that are more personal. Read more>>
Shardae Seals
I am the CEO of Don’t Silence Her a brand “Don’t Silence Her” is a movement empowering women to share stories, heal, and succeed. Services include Motivational Speaking, Spoken Word, Authorship, and tools for empowerment. The platform offers one-on-one conversations, affirmations, quotes, and a network of supportive women. The focus is on overcoming challenges and healing from within. Read more>>
