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Category: Brunches with the Best

Toast of the Town | Nicolette Mason

An interview with Nicolette Mason |Blogger |NicoletteMason.com

The energy eminating from Nicolette Mason is infectious. When she sat down on the couch with me at this year’s Create & Cultivate it felt like I was at home catching up with a good friend.

Nicolette describes herself as “a Los Angeles native who lives and works in NYC & LA with my wife Ali, our pug Frankie, and our cat Lily. I’m a freelance creative consultant, contributing editor at Marie Claire, and pen this blog, where I share personal style snaps, travel, and the many things I love.

Since launching my blog and graduating from Parsons School of Design, I’ve contributed to dozens of publications including Marie Claire, Vogue Italia, Brooklyn Magazine, The L Magazine, Refinery29, Glamour Italy, and more, and have partnered with brands like ModCloth and Addition Elle, where I have a cocktail dress collection launching Spring 2016, to design collections. I also partnered with Target on the heralded launch of their plus-size brand, Ava & Viv.

I’ve been featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America, New York Live, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Time Out New York, Vogue Italia, Teen Vogue, Lucky Magazine, Glamour Magazine, Refinery29, Elle Decor, and many more”. – http://www.nicolettemason.com

In our interview together Nicolette gets real about her rise to blogging fame and dishes out some amazing advice for those aspiring to follow in her footsteps. Watch now to learn her story and catch her advice for achieving your own influencer success.

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A toast to you and Nicoletet too,

Jen

November 3, 2016
Toast of the Town | Jessy Fofana

An interview with Jessy Fofana |Founder |La Rue PR

Jessy Fofana has the kind of story that entrepreneur dreams are made of. Her first company, Femme Arsenal, (yes, she’s had more than one) was born almost by accident. What started off as a fun hobby whipping up beauty products in her kitchen turned into Jessy’s first enterprise which she built and sold all by age 27. Coming off that success Jessy went on to found her second company, La Rue PR.

The La Rue website describes the company as a project “born out of Jessy’s love for finding emerging designers and amazing indie retailers to help them realize their full potential and achieve success. Together with her LaRue PR team, Jessy’s strategy is to bring attention to each client by targeting media in regional, national and international markets to create the kind of take-notice, multi-faceted publicity campaign that delivers brand-changing buzz and media exposure. From brand development and marketing to traditional and new media relations services, LaRue PR provides the skill and experience of a large agency with the creativity, singular attention and affordability that can only be offered by a boutique firm.” – (c/o http://www.laruepr.com/about.html)

In our interview together Jessy talks about the entrepreneurial journey she’s traveled. Watch now to learn her story and catch her advice for landing your own PR success.

Want to catch more great advice from women like Jessy? Make sure you SUBSCRIBE to the The Jam weekly newsletter. Every week I’ll be delivering exclusive interviews, the best advice from around the web, tools and resources to help you build your business, listings of the must-attend the conferences and events, and much more!

A toast to you and Jessy too,

Jen

October 26, 2016
Toast of the Town | Hilary Sloan

Director of Business Development | Shop Style

I met Hilary Sloan at this year’s Create & Cultivate – a conference designed for female entrepreneurs in the digital space. Her outfit was on point and she looked every bit the part of a fearless woman rising the ranks in the fashion world. Not to my surprise, her savvy extended far beyond her flawless leather jack.

As we got on with our interview, Hilary shared how she made her way to the role of Director of Business Development for ShopStyle, the e-commerce arm of the hugely popular site PopSugar. Would you be surprised to learn that the journey started with a position in the U.S. government’s department of Homeland Security? You can bet I was. She also talked candidly about the challenges that came along the way including being told that she would never get a job in fashion.We also get the insider scoop on her Insta-famous dog Ella Bean and where the idea behind her account came from.

If you’re looking for an example of a women who knew her passion and followed it with all of her heart, look no further than Hillary. And for anyone who’s wondering if that crazy career change is possible this is an interview not to be missed. Hilary is a true example of the power of perseverance and a creative talent to be admired.

Watch our full interview now to hear her story and catch her advice for all with a dream they’re after.

Watch our full interview now to hear her story and catch her advice for all with a dream they’re after.

Want to catch more great advice from women like Hilary Sloan? Make sure you SUBSCRIBE to the The Jam weekly newsletter. Every week I’ll be delivering exclusive interviews, the best advice from around the web, tools and resources to help you build your business, listings of the must-attend the conferences and events, and much more!

A toast to you and Hilary too,

Jen

October 19, 2016
An Interview with the All-Female Film Crew of The Empowerment Project

Director Sarah Moshman and Co-Producer Ashley Hammen dish on the making of the documentary, The Empowerment Project.

Last month Catherine and I had the pleasure of attending a screening of the female driven documentary, The Empowerment Project: Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things. The film seeks to answer the time-tested question, “What would you do if you weren’t afraid to fail?”. For Sarah Moshman and her crew of female filmmakers, the answer was easy. It was the creation of this project.

Over the course of 30 days and 7,000 miles, these women hit the road to interview 17 women in leadership. From ballerinas to brew masters, they interviewed women in industries as varied as they come, all the while negating stereotypes of what it means to be a women in charge.

As far as we think we’ve come, the truth is that we still have a long way to go to accepting powerful women as the norm. The Empowerment Project seeks to see that change by sparking conversation about what it means to be a successful woman and what it takes to join the ranks. Needless to say, we wanted in on the conversation.

For the latest installment in our Brunches with the Best series, I sat down with Sarah Moshman the film’s director and Ashley Hammen one of the film’s co-producers to find out more about the making of the film, what they hope to see it accomplish, and the advice they’d offer to our Single Girls.

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February 14, 2015
An Interview with the Co-founders of Vrai & Oro

Learning to Live Authentic with the founders of Vrai & Oro

“Be true to the way you are and live in a way that makes you feel good. Live in the moment in a way that makes the next even better.”

Vanessa Stofenmacher and Chelsea Nicholson, co-founders of Vrai & Oro

One of the thing that most excites me about leading The Single Diaries is that it has been an incredible way to get to connect with other entrepreneurial young women. The more time we spend growing the site, the more women we come across with inspiring stories to tell. From starting their own yoga practices to traveling the world volunteering to building their own companies, we have been able to use the site to tell some pretty amazing stories from our Single Girls. It is my hope that not only does our site help to spread the word about the work they are doing but also inspires you, our readers, to go after whatever it is that you are most passionate about. At the end of the day our mission is to help you be authentically you and to provide you with the advice to help you live the life you want to lead.

The latest Single Girls I had the pleasure of sitting down with have built a company around that same vision. Vanessa and Chelsea are the leading ladies behind the just-launched jewelry site Vrai & Oro. Their brand promise is to bring you fine jewelry without the markups but their purpose goes much deeper.

I sat down with these two to learn more about the lifestyle of authenticity they hope to inspire through their high-quality jewelry and to learn more about the journey that has led these two young women on a mission to disrupt the long-standing jewelry industry.

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February 13, 2015