The Passion Project: Recent Episodes
Alyssa Williamson
Alyssa Williamson, founder of Apollo Digital Marketing, interviews her fellow female entrepreneurs who have turned their passion into full time businesses. Guests include notable photographers, Etsy store owners, diversity speakers & jewellery designers- all of whom have interesting stories to tell about how they got their start and what advice they would give to others trying to turn their passions into careers.
Amy Taylor is one amazing photographer with an incredible following. She's known for moody romantic photography and after 5+ years running her full time business, she's beginning a new venture: Black Label Boudoir- a full service female empowerment boudoir company. Listen in and she shares her journey to success with Alyssa Williamson, Owner of Apollo Digital Marketing.
Abbie Kingsbury is most known for her original business name, Young Huron, a jewellery brand focused around custom meaningful jewelry made with heart. Abbie has decided its time to rename her well known brand and reevaluate what it means to be truly active against racism, starting at home. Join Alyssa as we discuss her journey and what she does to connect with her community in a way that is authentic to her values.
Pearl Steel is is a plant mama and proud of it. She's the woman with the magic touch behind Plants with Pearl, an Etsy based business that specializes in hand raised plants with an amazing customer experience. Listen in and she shares her journey to success with Alyssa Williamson, Owner of Apollo Digital Marketing.
Created and launched by Ren Navarro in early 2018, Beer. Diversity. strives to educate, enlighten and make beer more approachable for a more diverse audience. Ren is on the front-lines to initiate change both in and out of the industry. Additionally, using her perspective as a queer black woman within the industry, she has talked extensively about diversity in craft beer as the sole Canadian panelist at the 2019 Craft Brewers Conference in Denver, CO.
She sits down with Alyssa from Apollo Digital Marketing to discuss how her business began, and what we can call do to include diversity and support BPOC.
Doctor Tara Hosie is co-owner of Encompass Health & Wellness- a full service wellness centre located in Kitchener, ON. Providing chiropractic care to not only adults but post natal women, babies & children. She sits down with Alyssa to discuss her journey to becoming a chiropractor and how it lead to running one of the cities premier health centres with amazing service offerings.
The photography industry is full of talented artists who all offer similar products- so how do you cultivate a community and scale your business? Ariana del Mundo from Ariana&Alex & Ariana del Mundo Photography in Guelph, ON, chats with Alyssa how she scales her her business using social media marketing and how she grew from a facebook post to now managing multiple photography businesses.
The passion project is a little podcast out of Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario where we connect favourite fellow female founders entrepreneurs from my hometown who are making waves in their industries, inspiring others, and how their passion lead them to building the businesses they have now.
I’m your host- Alyssa Williamson- founder of Apollo Digital Marketing, a holistic marketing agency for small business owners that specializes in branding, website design and custom digital marketing strategies.
Let's talk passionate entrepreneurship!!
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