Howdy there, mates! I’m coming to you right now with some very thrilling information….to introduce our 2024 “Funded By LIY” winners! We launched this program in 2023 and couldn’t have had a greater expertise with our stunning and proficient women from Inexperienced Woman Items, My Classroom Occasion, and Posh Pickler. When you aren’t acquainted with what the “Funded By LIY” program is, properly – allow us to clarify!
The imaginative and prescient assertion of Residing In Yellow is, “To be the most effective useful resource to girls within the most enjoyable approach attainable.” This neighborhood is full of superb and distinctive girls with so many skills and we thought there can be no higher solution to dwell out our mission assertion than to pour into the goals and visions of these on this stunning neighborhood! Consider “Funded By LIY” as our personal little Shark Tank (BIG Shark Tank followers right here). You’ll be able to be taught extra about this system right here! There have been SO many unbelievable girls owned companies that utilized…we actually want we might have picked all of them [very tough decisions!]. You’ve already proven an outpouring of affection and assist not solely to those 3 winners, however to the opposite small companies inside this neighborhood as properly; so THANK YOU for being you and supporting small companies!
We had been blown away by the merchandise, entrepreneurial spirits, and ambition of those three girls and might’t wait so that you can fall in love with them [and their businesses] too! Are you prepared to satisfy them?!
p.s. get to know final yr’s winners right here!
Founder & Proprietor: Cari
What’s Clutch and Kindle?
Clear small batch fragrances and fragrance rollerballs made in Indiana!
When and why did you begin Clutch and Kindle?
Clutch and Kindle was based in 2017 when Cari completed bilateral breast most cancers remedy. Cari was 40
years outdated when she was identified with no household historical past of breast most cancers. This led her to wanting on the
elements of her magnificence and perfume gadgets. She wished cleaner and extra clear elements.
Clutch was based in Cari’s kitchen. Each Clutch and Kindle merchandise is hand poured in small batches in
Noblesville, IN.
The rollerball perfumes and colognes are made utilizing lower than 3 elements. They’re made with clear
perfume oil which means they don’t have phthalates, parabens, and are free from any identified endocrine
disruptors. They’re vegan, cruelty free, and freed from artificial dyes. The posh elements are sourced in
the USA utilizing high quality elements.
Cari wished merchandise she and her daughters might safely use, and nonetheless take pleasure in stunning advanced fragrances as a part of their self-care routine.
What excites you most about being a “Funded By LIY” winner?
We’re so excited to be the Funded by LIY winner as a result of we have now been following and loving LIY for
a few years. We love the neighborhood that LIY created. It’s a neighborhood of girls that assist different
girls. We love that we’re capable of share our clear perfume with girls everywhere in the US due to
this platform. We had been past thrilled to have the ability to make investments the LIY cash into constructing our model and
shopping for stock. It’s a enormous blessing for a small enterprise. We’re most wanting ahead to working with
the ladies on the LIY workforce. The experience and information that Erin and her workforce have is actually priceless
to a small enterprise like ours. This has been the largest blessing we’ve had but as a small enterprise.
Inform us about any upcoming launches or new merchandise!
We’re so excited to share our first collab. We simply launched a collab with Two Chicks District Co. Mina
Starsiak Hawk who was the star of HGTV’s Good Bones. She moved her boutique to my hometown in
Noblesville, IN and we did a collab of rollerball perfumes and automobile diffusers. Private effective fragrances
embrace Dangerous Choices, Rihanna, and Beyonce.
We shall be releasing a brand new effective perfume rollerball fragrance referred to as Charisma which is floral notes, musk.
Iris and ambrette.
Founders & House owners: Alicia
What’s Wondermint Items?
Wondermint Items is a colourful and light-weight jewellery and accent firm, all designed to amp up the enjoyable on each outfit and aid you discover extra marvel in type.
When and why did you begin Wondermint Items?
My grandfather made jewellery – every part from mining the stones, sharpening them, and doing the metalsmithing. As a baby I discovered a lot marvel in his course of and creativity. I’ve at all times been a dreamer and a DIYer myself. Wondermint Items was born after I left my company profession in promoting; all stemming from the love of creating, designing and serving to to encourage my neighborhood to discover marvel and pleasure within the small issues in life. It has been a phenomenal enterprise for me to develop and preserve flexibility as I elevate my 3 kids.
What excites you most about being a “Funded By LIY” winner?
It actually is a humbling feeling to be picked as a winner amongst the opposite superb girls owned companies. I consider what excites me probably the most is to increase my community and join with the LIY workforce and different winners, hopefully serving to us all develop collectively immensely but additionally creating significant friendships.
Inform us about any upcoming launches or new merchandise!
We’re gearing as much as launch our upcoming summer time subscription field! A customizable quarterly jewellery subscription service the place we ship the newest seasonal kinds + a free present that includes one other lady owned enterprise!
Founder & Proprietor: Marcelle
What’s FeelLinks?
The identify of my enterprise is FeelLinks. Every thing that I create and produce is expounded to our
capacity to “hyperlink to our emotions and the emotions of others”(really feel links- get it?). The validity and
normalization of feeling all of our feelings, whether or not they’re nice or powerful, is significant to our
psychological, emotional, and bodily well being.
FeelLinks was based due to my urgent considerations over the psychological and emotional well being
disaster going through our youngsters. As a mom, instructor, and neighborhood educator, I’m deeply
enthusiastic about nurturing the well-being of all kids and knew I needed to take motion to
assist adults – mother and father, caretakers, lecturers, and healthcare professionals – in supporting the
future generations. FeelLinks is pushed by the mission that collectively we are able to create a kinder,
extra compassionate, empathetic, and inclusive world by means of rising emotional intelligence
expertise in our youngsters. Our instruments and assets goal a variety of social-emotional expertise, with a selected deal with emotional intelligence.
By fostering self-awareness (one’s personal feelings), social-awareness (others’
feelings/empathy), self-management (emotional regulation), and relationship administration
(forging and sustaining relationships), FeelLinks goals to empower people to navigate life
with resilience and authenticity.
At the moment’s analysis tells us that emotional intelligence influences our efficiency in class and
work, our psychological, emotional and bodily well being, and {our relationships} with others. Due to this fact,
it’s completely essential to put money into these expertise for our youngsters. Collectively, by prioritizing
emotional intelligence in ourselves and future generations, we are able to work in the direction of a extra
compassionate, empathetic, and equitable world.
When and why did you begin FeelLinks?
My journey to founding FeelLinks has been formed by my private accomplishments and hurdles.
Rising up in a small neighborhood with my mom and brother, our family was wealthy in love however lacked steerage in understanding, expressing, and managing feelings. In class, I felt ignored. In our neighborhood it felt as if there was extra concern with tutorial success and social standing and this outweighed our emotional and psychological well-being.
The challenges that I confronted ignited a deep need in me to pursue a level in elementary training. I used to be pushed by the conviction that training ought to embody extra than simply grades.
Shortly after school, I confronted a life-altering traumatic occasion—having a stroke—which pressured me to confront my very own emotional limitations. It was then that I spotted my very own shortcomings in understanding, expressing and managing my very own feelings. By means of persistent dedication, I regained my well being and launched into a profession in instructing.
For over twenty years I devoted myself to nurturing younger minds within the kindergarten and preschool lecture rooms. Regardless of the absence of any formal curriculum on the time, I emphasised essential life expertise in emotional communication, self-awareness, and empathy.
Changing into a mom additional solidified my dedication to making a supportive, secure surroundings for kids to develop in these essential life expertise. Our kids turned a driving drive behind FeelLinks— devoted to fostering emotional intelligence in kids.
FeelLinks was based in 2020. Concepts had been flowing for years earlier; nevertheless, the pandemic additional solidified the pressing wants for our youngsters.
FeelLinks gives a variety of assets to assist mother and father, caretakers, lecturers, counselors and healthcare professionals in supporting kids. Our hands-on assets embrace: emotion plush dolls, a emotions journal, and our youngsters’s e-book (co-authored with my daughter), Really feel Journey: A journey by means of abnormal feelings. FeelLinks additionally gives digital and in-person programs, weblog articles, printables, TV and podcast interviews, and displays — all designed to assist kids’s psychological and emotional well-being. As I proceed to develop FeelLinks, I’m pushed by my deep ardour and perception that nurturing emotional intelligence in our youngsters can pave the best way for a kinder, extra compassionate, and inclusive world for generations to come back.
What excites you most about being a “Funded By LIY” winner?
Wow! There’s a lot that excites me about this large alternative! I’m thrilled and energized by the unbelievable alternatives that lie forward! Only one dialog with the LIY Staff has crammed me with pleasure for the present state of FeelLinks and the promising future it holds.
I’m deeply grateful for the possibility to collaborate and be taught from such supportive and insightful girls, and I eagerly anticipate assembly the opposite two winners! Receiving the LIY grant funds opens up a world of prospects for FeelLinks. At the moment, I’m exploring inventive packaging concepts for the FeelLinks Final Emotions Bundle; creating potential to deliver our distinctive, purposeful, worthwhile (and darling) merchandise to retail, increasing our attain and affect.
Inform us about any upcoming launches or new merchandise!
At FeelLinks, we’re repeatedly creating new assets and programs to empower mother and father, educators, and healthcare suppliers in nurturing the kids of their care. We frequently add weblog articles, free printable assets, and talking occasions.
Most lately, we launched a closed Fb group: Parenthood with That means and Goal. Our supportive group is open to FeelLinks clients. It’s devoted to folks and caretakers who’re dedicated to elevating their kids with intentionality. Inside this group, members interact in significant discussions, share private experiences, and change worthwhile insights on numerous facets of parenting, equivalent to fostering emotional intelligence, nurturing wholesome household dynamics, and cultivating a way of goal of their kids’s lives. The group serves as a platform to hunt steerage, supply assist, and join with like-minded people who share related values and objectives of their journey by means of parenthood. By means of shared assets, articles, ideas and sensible recommendation, members empower one another to embrace the challenges and joys of parenting with a deeper sense of which means and goal.
Moreover, I’m overjoyed to announce, for the primary time, that our FeelLinks journal and Really feel Journey kids’s story are being translated into Spanish. This has been a long-awaited endeavor, and I’m thrilled to see it come to fruition! We hope to have the ability to publish Spanish variations within the (near-ish) future, offering kids world wide with higher entry to our merchandise and our mission.
There are at all times new and thrilling issues popping up on our web site! Keep related at myfeellinks.com (@myfeellinks on social) to find the thrilling alternatives, assets and merchandise as they emerge!
Residing in Yellow is a life + type model that gives a enjoyable house for girlfriends to assemble and really feel empowered by means of actual speak and attainable style.
