Tomorrow is the Enneagram for Entrepreneurs workshop, which has us thinking a lot about the power of the main type that guides BWB - 7 - The Enthusiastic Visionary.

All types have primary motivations, qualities, and characteristics. Here's what BWB's 7 helps us lead with:

• optimism and adventure: exploring new territories and experiences with joy and pleasure

• creativity and practicality: balancing vision with what is possible 

• flexibility and adaptability: seeking options and shifting easily in the face of change

• future-oriented: anticipating and creating exciting futures

In just one week and a day, the Enneagram for Entrepreneurs workshop will make its debut. Unlock new potential for yourself as an entrepreneur and explore your main type(s) in a welcoming and communal environment. Hosted by BWB and led by Enneagram coach, Maren Gauldin, you can be sure to walk away from our time together with new insights that may even stop you in your tracks, and have you asking key questions about your life and work. 

Can you BELIEVE it is already October?! As the season shifts, and the weather begins to change, we are holding questions around what this past year has brought, and how we want to show up for ourselves and each other right now, while deep in the inquiry around future growth and preparing for what 2025 may bring.

Have you ever wanted to take a deep look at that juicy intersection where you and entrepreneurship overlap? Put a microscope right into the soil of that rich terrain that lies at the center of your businesses and careers? Well, good news! We've got just the workshop for you.

This month, we've been having a lot of conversations about how our businesses can go beyond compliance to truly center accessibility in design. This is an evolving area of growth where there is continual room for learning and improvement as new understandings and technologies emerge.

We believe accessibility is our responsibility as creators, and a mandate in business.

June was a HOT month for us (and we don't just mean the temperature)! There is a lot of momentum at BWB and we've had many great conversations with friends, partners, and our contractors as they plan their summer schedules.

Happy June to you! We have been slowly easing into the summer over here. By "slow," I mean slowing down with the intention of reprioritizing and focusing on intentional growth for BWB. Sometimes a break is everything we need to take stock of how to move forward, and how we want to approach/navigate the ebbs and flows of entrepreneurship.

We are fresh off the BWB Retreat, and had an absolutely amazing experience at Ellingwood. It was more than we could have even imagined, bringing together seven folks from around the country, with beautiful weather, accommodations and nourishment all around. It felt restful, it felt creative, it felt full, and honestly...exciting. We left feeling in our element and full of hope for the future and the collective.

We've been thinking about how 95% of our current projects are leveraging the power of audio. Audio can help establish deep bonds, and center accessibility in our communications and branded environments.

In a podcast workshop we facilitated with Amelia Hruby last year, she talked about audio's unique ability to build trust, and the light bulbs went off for us.

It showed us how we could apply this insight to virtually every client we work on - for podcasts, of course, but well beyond that, too.

It is offfiiiiccciallllyyyy spring time where we're based (NY and CT!), and we are feeeeelllling it. We could not be happier. Capping off the long weekend, we will also be hosting an event at Casey's restaurant, Coray Kitchen, on Monday, April 29th.

This will be the first event launching the restaurant's new community event series: Community at Coray. Read on to see more about what we're cooking up.

We are so excited to announce the winner of the first-ever partnerUP scholarship: Jana Smith & Renée Wilson.

Renée is the Executive Producer and Jana Smith is the Writer and Creator of Red for Revolution, a six-part narrative audio drama written and directed by Jana Smith centering intergenerational stories of Black women, queer love, and liberation set in both the present and during the 1970s Black Liberation Movement.

In celebration of Women's History Month, we are recognizing the layers and complexities of what that really means. Who is getting left out or not being recognized?

We have seen a ton of International Women's Day posts and want to honor the work that is being done on a daily basis - in communities all over the world. For example, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, who shared an IG post with seven movements and organizations that fight for women's rights across various sectors. This is not a one time a year celebration. This is an ongoing effort to fight for gender equity. Every. Damn. Day.

We're continuing to have really amazing conversations as part of the Partnership Series on the Questions to Hold podcast. This week, we are proud to share our interview with Marti Konstant. Marti has always inspired us and we were delighted to chat with her about how partnership and agility have impacted her life and life's work.

We are honoring Black History Month by learning about the past, and by celebrating the organizations and individuals that are uplifting all of us. One of those is Right at Home of Essex County, a client we've had the pleasure of working with for the last few years.

We're thrilled to be sharing the first episode of Questions to Hold: Unpacking Partnership Series.

This collection of episodes will feature some of our mentors, partners, and collaborators, where we dive into some of the biggest questions and mysteries in partnership.

Hello Questions to Hold podcast community and listeners!

We are celebrating one year since the podcast launched, and are reflecting on all the incredible conversations and insights that emerged on the journey.

Each episode confirmed over and over again the deep and vast terrain that exists when we let questions guide us into deeper relationship with ourselves, the world, and each other.

We're not sure about you, but we are loving the energy so far in 2024. We are entering this year feeling refreshed, recharged, and frankly: excited about the upcoming year. It also happens to be BWB's *official* FIVE YEAR anniversary. Can you believe it? Were toasting the celebration of how much we've learned and grown over the past five years and are so freakin' pumped for what is to come.

Hello friends! Somehow it is already mid-September, and we're over here reflecting on how Labor Day weekend felt like a threshold into a new year. You feeling that, too?

We're back from our Lead with Questions Retreat at Raven Crest and feeling as rejuvenated and dialed into inspiration as ever. Six incredible clients joined us for group, individual and 2:1 process all centered on holding and leading with questions.

Our first client retreat since 2019 is happening in a few weeks at Raven Crest Botanical Retreat Center. As we look back on last year's experience at Raven Crest with our team, I want to share a story with you.

In traditional brand identity work, identity work has been left out. This is a large part of why the status quo has gone unchecked and permeated our industry.

There lies the opportunity to revolutionize how this work is done on a fundamental level. We’re not here to advocate for adding identity work as a supplement, a bandaid, an afterthought, or tacked on at the end of the sentence.