by Maggie Mutch | Sep 30, 2025 | Financial
You’ve daydreamed about it during long meetings, endless calls, and over your morning coffee: working for yourself. Maybe you have a product or service you can’t wait to share; maybe you just want freedom from rigid schedules and micromanagers. Before you...
by Kelsea Rounds | Mar 23, 2021 | Style & Beauty
Authenticity is a top priority for Renise Warners, Owner of Basic Bee, a boutique she opened in Grand Rapids in November 2020. Warners has used her extensive past retail experience to fill a unique gap in the Grand Rapids fashion market. West Michigan Woman sat down...
by Kelsea Rounds | May 23, 2018 | Career
Some of the first lessons we learn have to do with etiquette and manners. From sharing to saying “please” and “thank you” to following the Golden Rule, it was made clear that there are certain rules of decorum. These all followed us into...
by Kelsea Rounds | Nov 28, 2017 | Profile
Going into business with your friend? Sounds risky! But the women from Rustic City Living will tell you otherwise. Bypassing the Best Friends Forever necklace, pals Amy Calvert and Kristy Dipiazza decided owning a business looks a lot better on them....
by Kelsea Rounds | Nov 1, 2017 | Style & Beauty
The founders and owners of your new go-to lifestyle shopping site have business cards that read fashion zealot (for the clothes) and home girl (literally procuring stuff for your home). We love them for that, right there … Cloth + Cabin is an online shop...
