Catalyst Ranch’s
Creative Juice Blog
by Ida Abdalkhani It’s interesting how of my varied journeys and adventures in life—getting my MBA right after my undergraduate degrees (with no full-time work experience), going from corporate employee to entrepreneur, becoming a laughter yoga instructor, and even bungee jumping in Victoria Falls—the one thing that people most want to talk about is my backpacking [...]
We are pleased to present a new blog series featuring Women Entrepreneurs. We meet so many women who are hard- working, tenacious, creative and generous and we want you to meet them too. We ask about life, inspiration and curiosity and they answer as we would expect. With honesty and amazing spirit! Our first fabulous guest [...]
Please stand up and do some jumping jacks for guest blogger Kim Ready! Fitness Engaged is our newest meeting mix-in vendor and is a full service wellness company offering corporate wellness programs, seminars, and retreats along with 4 programs designed to give your meeting a healthy balance. We live in a world of demanding deadlines, calendars [...]
Welcome today’s guest blogger, founder of Heartfelt Catering, Chef Cecilia Hamilton! Heartfelt Catering seemed like the perfect partner for Elbows on the Table on May 12. We hope you can join us for a conversation about philanthropy and community and, of course, a delicious dinner! We’re honored to partner with Catalyst Ranch for this year’s [...]
Welcome guest blogger and Catalyst Ranch Art-Work Program Facilitator, Troy Cicero! Diversity and Inclusion are indeed my passion, and what I have discovered is that as organizations attempt to embark on a diversity and inclusion journey, one of the biggest challenges faced is executive level commitment. Executives often view their role as approving the diversity and [...]
Sheryl Kosovski Artful Work Area of Expertise: I help creative entrepreneurs, artists, designers of all kinds and craftspeople grow their businesses and make more money doing what they love. What is your business & what makes it unique? I have been helping artists, designers, craftspeople and all kinds of creative entrepreneurs for over 20 [...]
If anyone can attest to the joys (and challenges) of being a creative entrepreneur, it’d be our owner Eva Niewiadomski! In a recent interview with Womenetics, she said: “I worked at Quaker Oats for 15 years. My last year there was post the Pepsi merger with Quaker Oats. As is typical with mergers, the environment is stressful as the organizations try to meld together two disparate cultures. It was just not a good fit anymore for either of us. I took the severance package and decided to take this once in a lifetime opportunity and start my own business.”
Our friend, Jeff Marinucci, wowed us with his innovative, customized and online training program that works with clients to create a unique fitness schedule. We asked Jeff about his business, inerTrain, and his new reality show, Taking the Lunge. Taking the Lunge is a reality-based program following 5 individuals as they fit fitness into their busy [...]
Freelancers and one-person businesses are a growing part of the workforce. And it’s just not just the journalist and artist we typically associate with freelancing. Educators, miners, construction workers, and cooks—they all have a growing ratio of contract work to full-time jobs. WBEZ’s Front and Center hosted a free event here at Catalyst Ranch, Making Your [...]
We know that everyone could use a little inspiration in their life - after all that is precisely what we at Catalyst Ranch learn, teach and live. Longtime friend, Mitch Morrison, started and is now leading a community of business people who are fascinated, curious and passionate about the power of inspiration and how it can [...]
