Amy Wyant finally feels like she\u2019s on the right path.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery January, I always do a review of the last year,\u201d said Wyant, who owns Total Geekery, a business coaching and tech training firm in Syracuse. \u201cAnd this January was the first one that I can remember that I was actually satisfied with the work I’ve been doing. I felt like I was really making a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wyant credits the change to a two-day workshop led by 2018 Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (WISE) Symposium keynote speaker Rick Tamlyn, who co-created the \u201cPlay Your Bigger Game\u201d motivational philosophy.<\/p>\n
According to Tamlyn\u2019s website, The Bigger Game is \u201ca philosophy and methodology that inspires executives, leaders, and individuals to get out of their comfort zones and create intentional positive change.\u201d For the 10 women who took part in Tamlyn\u2019s two-day seminar last year, the event was nothing short of life-changing.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow all I could see in front of me was opportunity to do even more instead of always wondering if I’m doing the right thing,\u201d Wyant said. \u201cI finally got on the right path.\u201d<\/p>\n
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WISE women<\/p>\n
So who are the women entrepreneurs who attended the Play Your Bigger Game seminar in Syracuse last year? These 10 women received scholarships to attend the program, thanks to the Key Bank Boost and Build program. They are:<\/p>\n
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Christin Chandler: Christin Chandler Designs<\/strong><\/p>\n Christin Chandler operates a landscape design business called Christin Chandler Designs in Auburn. She opened it in July of 2017, promoting herself as a \u201cbotanical stylist and horticultural consultant.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI grew up in the landscape industry and the garden center retail market for about 15 years. And I loved it,\u201d she said. \u201cI grew up in agriculture community. I invested my whole life in plants and what that means.\u201d<\/p>\n Chandler was working at an existing landscaping business when some changes took place in upper management, which she saw as an \u201copportunity to take flight.\u201d Shortly thereafter, she connected with WISE for help in growing her business.<\/p>\n \u201cI was like, this is where I need to be,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Eileen Collins: Admin-On-Call<\/strong><\/p>\n Eileen Collins watched her sister\u2019s business shut down because she didn\u2019t have the administrative support to keep it going.<\/p>\n \u201cHer time to grow the business was consumed by the time needed to run the business,\u201d Collins said.<\/p>\n Determined to help others avoid the same fate, Collins, who has more than 30 years of administrative assistance, started Admin-On-Call, which provides executive administrative support to businesses on an as-needed basis.<\/p>\n \u201cThese services are customized to effectively meet the clients\u2019 needs,\u201d Collins said.<\/p>\n Collins said WISE has been \u201cinstrumental\u201d in helping her to grow her business.<\/p>\n \u201cI credit WISE for being the stepping stone on my journey to entrepreneurship,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bryony Grealish: The Fingerless Kitchen<\/strong><\/p>\n Unlike many of the other women at the seminar, Bryony Grealish wasn\u2019t looking to grow her established business when she showed up to learn about The Bigger Game.<\/p>\n \u201cI was really contemplating having to get rid of my catering company so I was kind of sad about that,\u201d Grealish said. \u201cI couldn’t make it work. But I also could feel that it wasn\u2019t the right thing for me to be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n Grealish had left a career in social work a few years earlier in hopes of helping people with disabilities learn how to cook, but she lost confidence and never got anything off the ground.<\/p>\n \u201cI had [an idea] like six or seven years ago to write a cookbook to teach and inspire people with disabilities to cook,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd the idea kind of resurfaced last year of\u2026 maybe doing a couple of videos [in the same vein to] reach people. But I let it go and then gave up on myself.\u201d<\/p>\n Grealish heard Tamlyn speak at the 2017 WISE Symposium and was inspired by his message.<\/p>\n \u201cI was really interested just from that short breakout session,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat he was talking about was where I was at and kind of what I needed.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Anna Hartwell: Excelsior Wealth Partners<\/strong><\/p>\n When Anna Hartwell first started her career as a financial planner, there were people who explained in detail the pros and cons of each different insurance plan, allowing her to make an informed choice. But as time went on, employees were only given an 800 number to call and a website where they were to sign up for benefits.<\/p>\n \u201cThey really didn\u2019t understand it. People were making uneducated choices,\u201d Hartwell said. \u201cI wanted people to have someone they could trust to take the time to explain all of the tools available to them so they could make educated decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n Hartwell works for Excelsior Wealth Partners, specializing in advising women on financial decisions.<\/p>\n \u201cI especially enjoy working with women who are transitioning from coupled life to single life,\u201d she said. \u201cWhether your loss is from divorce or being widowed, it\u2019s traumatic and frightening. Women need someone who they can trust to help them sort out the pieces, build a plan and help them move forward with confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jody Hatch: Snowmass Alpacas LLC<\/strong><\/p>\n Jody Hatch was looking at a major change as last year\u2019s WISE Symposium approached. Having bred alpacas on her own for 17 years, she had taken a position with another company and she needed advice on how to be an employee again.<\/p>\n Hatch started working with alpacas after leaving a teaching job. She wanted something that would allow her to be home with her kids. Her husband saw a commercial about raising alpacas, and the enterprise turned out to be a good fit.<\/p>\n \u201cI do anything with alpacas,\u201d Hatch said. \u201cI do coaching, consulting, we have a shearing service. I worked on my own throughout the country for the last 15 years, but the last year and a half, I was hired by one of the largest firms in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n She reached out to WISE for some direction.<\/p>\n \u201cI was like \u2018Okay, I need like a brainstorm session. I don’t know what I’m doing,\u2019\u201d Hatch said. \u201cBecause for me, I had not been an employee for a really long time, and was kind of struggling.\u201d<\/p>\n Lenweaver suggested Hatch attend last year\u2019s symposium and offered her one of the Key Bank scholarships to Tamlyn\u2019s seminar.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Agi Letkiewitz: Active Joy<\/strong><\/p>\n Agi Letkiewitz started Active Joy because she was concerned about the waste in the fashion industry.<\/p>\n \u201cThe statistics on it are imperfect, but I hear quoted all the time that the fashion industry is the number two most polluting industry in the world,\u201d Letkiewitz said. \u201cThe problem is going to keep getting worse.\u201d<\/p>\n Active Joy is sustainable, ethically manufactured direct-to-consumer activewear. The clothing is made in the USA with recycled fibers. All packaging is 100 percent post-consumer recycled content and recyclable. The company uses a waterless printing method to prevent any runoff.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery step of the process we look at minimizing,\u201d Letkiewitz said. \u201cIt’s all about those little like decisions that that make it make it better.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Holly Scherzi: Holly Scherzi Design<\/strong><\/p>\n Holly Scherzi has been involved with WISE since its beginnings, when women met at the Southeast Innovation Center.<\/p>\n \u201cI loved those meetings,\u201d said Scherzi, a graphic designer who owns Holly Scherzi design. \u201cEveryone was super supportive of each other.\u201d<\/p>\n Scherzi honed her design chops at Chase Design in Skaneateles, then at Timex Corporation in Connecticut. She moved back to CNY when she got married.<\/p>\n \u201cI felt it was time for me to start my own business,\u201d she said. \u201cI really wish WISE had existed then.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CJ Sturtevant: Edward Jones Financial Advisors<\/strong><\/p>\n Catherine \u201cCJ\u201d Sturtevant worked as a scientist for Bristol-Myers Squibb for 20 years. When the company downsized, Sturtevant \u2014 who already had an MBA in finance and a master\u2019s in accounting \u2014 went to work as a financial planner for Edward Jones.<\/p>\n \u201cI really just went from helping people with medicine to helping people with finance,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was a really easy transition for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Sturtevant was always interested in money management. She started learning to invest at 19 and was part of a women\u2019s stock club while her three daughters were growing up. She even did taxes on the side while working for Bristol-Meyers. When she came to Edward Jones, she found a place where she could help other female business owners.<\/p>\n \u201cI found that there’s a lot of female entrepreneurs that have great ideas, but they don’t know how to [handle the logistics],\u201d Sturtevant said. \u201cI just really want to be part of helping other women\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Debbe Titus: Halfmoon Bakery and Bistro<\/strong><\/p>\n When Debbe Titus retired from her career in education, she decided it was time to follow another passion: she opened a bakery.<\/p>\n \u201cMy husband and I had talked about opening up a little bakery\/cafe kind of place, and I just decided that I would do that,\u201d said Titus.<\/p>\n She started as a vendor at the farmers market, but demand was such that she soon had to look for her own location. She and her husband found a bakery for sale in Jamesville, and Halfmoon Bakery and Bistro was born in June of 2012. In addition to baked goods, the shop sells lunch and breakfast items, gluten free and vegan foods, and it does a thriving trade in local goods.<\/p>\n \u201cI have a little corner of the shop where people can come in and buy Primo & Mary\u2019s Salsa, Salsacuse, or I have Simple Roast coffee,\u201d Titus said. \u201cSyracuse Salt is here. We have Dutch Hill Maple Syrup. Clean Slate Farm Honey.\u201d<\/p>\n Titus said it\u2019s important to her to support other local businesses.<\/p>\n \u201cBy using local products, you’re supporting your neighbors, you’re helping them build their business, but you’re getting a better product,\u201d she said. \u201cYou bring all these people together, the energy there is so great.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Amy Wyant: Total Geekery<\/strong><\/p>\n Amy Wyant thought she was going to be a marine archeologist \u2014 until she discovered in her senior year of college that she couldn\u2019t be on a boat without getting terribly seasick.<\/p>\n \u201cI was like, \u2018Okay, well, here’s some lemons. Let’s figure it out,\u2019\u201d Wyant said.<\/p>\n She ended up in IT, working on the west coast for a while before moving back to her hometown of Richfield Springs in Otsego County. She opened a tech firm called Tech Geekery in 2013, but she found it wasn\u2019t a great fit for her.<\/p>\n \u201cI realized that the part that I really loved was not the broken technology, it was the people,\u201d Wyant said. \u201cI loved helping them develop their business ideas. I love finding the right technical solutions for them.\u201d<\/p>\n So she decided to shift the focus of the company, renaming it Total Geekery. At the same time, she had bought her parents\u2019 former home. She and her husband were living in the renovated barn and converting the house into a business retreat center. And she was managing Syracuse Co-Works, a collaborative workspace for entrepreneurs and freelancers without their own office space. AND she wanted to bring together all of the farmers in her area and create a co-working space in Richfield Springs and bring high-speed internet to the area.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was all about community,\u201d Wyant said. \u201cI had all of these diverse ideas, and I felt like there was something I was supposed to do, but I couldn\u2019t put my finger on it.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On the game board<\/p>\n Though they have very different stories, these 10 women came together last April and stepped onto Rick Tamlyn\u2019s Bigger Game board. At his seminar, Tamlyn uses an oversized game board, set up like a Tic-Tac-Toe board, which include the following phrases:<\/p>\n Participants move from square to square depending on where they are in their lives and\/or business journey (see biggergame.com for more information). The goal of the exercise is for participants to examine themselves and their goals to take more control of their lives. This is accomplished through a deep and honest evaluation of what participants want and what they\u2019ve done so far to get there.<\/p>\n \u201cWithin five minutes, some people were in tears,\u201d Chandler said. \u201cAnd that was his intention \u2014 to get everybody to really get to the bottom of what was holding them back.\u201d<\/p>\n For some of the women, the impact was purely professional. Collins is in the process of filing the paperwork to make Admin-On-Call an LLC, while Titus has brought in a partner to help at the bakery.<\/p>\n \u201cHer expertise is a pastry chef and decorator cake decorator custom cake decorator,\u201d Titus said. \u201cWe’ve been able to already implement a few different things that have taken off at the bakery.\u201d<\/p>\n For other participants, the workshop had more of an effect outside of their work lives. Scherzi has tried to bring more art into her life.<\/p>\n \u201cI have been letting myself pull more fun, creative stuff into my life, like taking watercolor and gardening classes and visiting more galleries,\u201d she said. \u201cI can see the results spilling over into my design work.\u201d<\/p>\n Wyant finally found a way to connect all of those loose threads she had been picking at.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought I was going to the class to hone in and develop Total Geekery a little bit more,\u201d she said. \u201cBut Rick\u2019s thing was don’t force it \u2014 it’s okay to let it kind of see where it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n Instead, Tamlyn\u2019s Bigger Game helped Wyant to create a food cooperative, caf\u00e9 and co-working space in Richfield Springs. They\u2019re also in the process of building a commercial kitchen.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat ended up happening was that, going through the step-by-step of the picture, we brought in a lot of different elements that we saw that the community needed,\u201d Wyant said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2018A compelling purpose\u2019<\/p>\n Wyant feels that she\u2019s found her \u201ccompelling purpose,\u201d the ultimate goal of the Bigger Game \u2014 something that inspires and drives you. Grealish said she found hers at the seminar, as well; since attending, she\u2019s launched The Fingerless Kitchen, which includes a series of videos meant to raise awareness about cooking with disabilities. She hopes to eventually have a TV series to help teach people with disabilities how to cook, as well as launch a line of adaptive kitchen utensils.<\/p>\n \u201cThis was what my life has been calling to me since the beginning,\u201d she said. \u201cIn that those two days, I really looked at myself in a whole new way, and I was able to kind of let go of some of those blocks in my own head.\u201d<\/p>\n Letkiewitz said the compelling purpose isn\u2019t necessarily set in stone.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is all a process. You can constantly be evolving the idea of your bigger game. You’re not going to decide what it is today,\u201d she said. \u201cYou don’t have to have a single life purpose that you’re working towards. You can have a compelling purpose that compels you today. And that kind of helps me have a little bit of grace with myself for the journey.\u201d<\/p>\n While the lessons from Tamlyn\u2019s workshop have been life-changing for all of the women who took part in the seminar, perhaps the biggest gain has been the friendship the participants have developed as a result.<\/p>\n \u201cSince then we\u2019ve just been supporting each other and our endeavors, whether it’s to go show up at someone’s filming or to a seminar or whatever they’re doing, just to be supportive,\u201d Sturtevant said.<\/p>\n Chandler said she\u2019s come to rely on the other women in the group.<\/p>\n \u201cThis group has been instrumental in my life from, you know, a companionship standpoint, but also from a mentorship standpoint, because of the variety of women that have participated in that group and the commitment that they have to better themselves,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Wyant noted that the other women, and the experience as a whole, has made her bolder.<\/p>\n \u201cI’ve always been relatively fearless on the outside,\u201d she said. \u201cBut it finally helped me be fearless on the inside.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The following disclosure is required for compliance purposes:<\/em><\/p>\n Anna Hartwell, Financial Advisor, Excelsior Wealth Partners<\/em><\/p>\n 225 Wilkinson St., Syracuse, New York 13204; (315) 907-6032<\/em><\/p>\n Securities and investment advisory services offered through SagePoint Financial, Inc. 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