Richmond Curious: Women’s Small Business Month

Attend Richmond Curious, a monthly networking series sponsored by Gather Arts District. You think you know Richmond? There’s so much more to discover. Richmond Curious is a Friday networking opportunity based out of Gather Arts District. For this event, we will have light breakfast bites and plenty of hot coffee or tea for you to enjoy. Our Speakers: Nicole Parker - Nicole Parker Consulting Previously a working artist, with 12+ years in Richmond's small business community and a term as Executive Director of a federally affiliated women's business center, Nicole Parker now serves as President-Elect of NAWBO Richmond and is the founder and principal consultant at Nicole Parker Consulting, where she works one-on-one with founders, creatives, and nonprofits as a small business development strategist. Website // Follow Nicole Parker Consulting on IG // Connect on LinkedIn Katie Santoro - LIFT Business Resources Katie Santoro is the Founder & CEO of Lift Business Resources, a US-based fractional firm that provides business owners with high-level executive assistants, admin support and bookkeeping solutions. Lift delivers reliable, tailored help without the overhead of a full-time hire. Katie also owns Cork & Courier, a subscription based curated wine delivery service. Website // Follow LIFT Business Resources on IG // Follow Cork & Courier on IG // Connect on LinkedIn Angela Edwards - Castle Thunder Consulting Angela Edwards helps leaders stop white-knuckling their way through growth. As founder of Castle Thunder Consulting, she created the CASTLE methodology and the Done Is A Decision™ program to build businesses that actually work, without the burnout. If you're leading hard and still feel like something's missing, that's usually where the real conversation starts. Website // Follow Castle Thunder Consulting on IG // Connect on LinkedIn Nadia Anderson - Virginia Grace Equal parts imaginative and analytical Nadia S. Anderson is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Wedding and Event Planner (CWEP) who combines creativity with business experience to delight and inspire clients and guests of Virginia Grace, an event management company focused on planning, designing, and coordinating lush weddings and events. Her first commercial property, Lavender Hill, is an intimate rental venue for celebration and collaboration in the Monument Avenue Park neighborhood. A seventh generation Richmonder, Nadia is deeply rooted in this community. Website // Follow Virginia Grace Events on IG // Connect on LinkedIn ==================================== Our goals for the Richmond Curious series: • Promote the downtown area and businesses like yours that flourish in a thriving city. • Bring people in the city together in a curated, engaging and structured networking experience. Let’s get in a room and create connections! • Gather is a community hub - we want to invite outside businesses into our space and create intentional connections between our member business owners and our amazing downtown community. If this sounds like a fit, we invite you to join us at the next Richmond Curious! Doors will open at 8:20 am and we'll begin promptly at 8:35 am. If you join us, feel free to stick around for a free day of coworking.