Keepin' It Real with Stylish Patina

Time to highlight another mom boss in the NOVA area! Erin Messner is the own and brains behind Lemon Lane a high end children's consignment boutique in Falls Church City!  She is a mom of 2 who decided to pursue a path where she saw a business opportunity!  She talks about starting her business as well as pivoting through a pandemic! 

Jaclyn Robertson, owner of FIT4MOM Falls Church Vienna Fairfax is a full time mama to three kids, 11, 8, and 6.  Her business offers fitness classes for mamas in all stages of motherhood! Are you a Mom struggling to find time to workout? Our guest Jaclyn chats with us today about how and why she started her business over 6 years ago.  She also discusses how she approaches balancing motherhood, business and self care.   

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Kelly is chatting about her relationship with her dad today and how it impacted her path along the way!  

Yvette and Kelly are soul sisters and have been starting, building and scaling businesses together for over a decade now. Yvette will be a regular on Keepin' It Real since she is Kelly's partner in crime and #1 sanity checker. Between the two of them they have enough business ideas, strategies and plans for everyone!  ** Pardon the poor audio ....we are doing what we can in a Pandemic. ** We promise the content is worth sitting through.

More about today's guest my bestie Yvette Freeman -- For more than twenty years, Yvette Freeman has been designing and building award-winning, luxurious, and unique spaces in the District of Columbia and across the Southeast. This passion has taken her around the country and throughout Europe rummaging through barns, warehouses, flea markets, and estate sales. Along the way, she’s reclaimed materials, furniture and home décor — some centuries old — to incorporate into her distinctive, contemporary designs. Yvette’s two-decade obsession has become more than a personal hobby. It’s a story of professional excellence and commitment to the preservation and repurposing of some of the most magnificent mixed-use and single-family homes ever built. If you ask Yvette she will tell you that every piece has a story and you should collect what you love, if you do that, you’ll never go wrong.

1:30 How Yvette and Kelly met.

3:30 Yvette leaving for school and how it impacted her love for design.

6:00 Why as a woman it’s important to get a ”Seat At the Table”.

12:00 Where is your personal space for your home?

14:00 Yvette and Kelly discuss the gift of sisterhood in business.

17:00 What does Yvette love about designing?

19:20 Yvette opening a new store in the middle of a pandemic?

24:00 Keepin’ It Real with retail!

27:00 Staying true to your brand and finding your confidence in your business.

27:45 Why did you name your business Foundry?

Hello there! Before we get into our eclectic interviews of an eclectic group of entrepreneurs Kelly Millspaugh Thompson owner of Stylish Patina Home and our host of Keepin' It Real with Stylish Patina Podcast is going to chat about her background. In this episode Kelly details what drives her to balance being a wife, mom of 4 and serial entrepreneur operating multiples businesses.  Kelly talks about the imperfect lifestyle of being a mompreneur and validates that if she can do it so can you.  If you're interested in turning your passion into a business and leaving your 9-5, this is the podcast for you.  

1:00 How Kelly became a "Serial Entrepreneur"

5:00 How and why Kelly left Corporate America

7:00 What is Keepin' it Real with Stylish Patina Podcast and a few Business tips

8:00 What are you Spending Your Time on as a Business Owner

10:30 Venturing Into Real Estate

13:10 How does Kelly continue to Scale Her Business and Grow Her Family

15:00 Local Business Owners Please Connect For a Chance to be Featured

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Welcome to Keepin' it Real with Stylish Patina.  Our host Kelly Millspaugh Thompson, owner of lifestyle brand Stylish Patina in Northern Virginia, decided the  business world needed a dose of reality.  In this trailer she details why she decided, in addition to all of her businesses and balancing family life, to launch a podcast in 2020.   If there's anything the world needs more of it's real stories from real entrepreneurs who are currently in the trenches running their business amidst a pandemic.  This is a beautiful blend of honest hour with a few laughs and of course some insight .  If you're a fan of Keepin it Real, tune in.