Pivot With Purpose Season 6 Episode 8 Nayline Carrion Full Transcript
Meghan Houle (00:03.911)
Neylene, welcome to the Pivot With Purpose podcast. How are you? So good to see you. Yes.
Nayline (00:09.734)
Great. Thank you, Megan. How are you today? Thank you for having me.
Meghan Houle (00:15.591)
I mean, I'm doing fabulous and I know this podcast will air a little bit afterwards, but shout out to Nailene. It's her birthday tomorrow. So, woo, gems gonna gem. We got lots of gems in the family too. But, you know, thank you for coming on and spending your time where I know you are a busy woman, but I really love this. At almost like six months in, we started the year off together too in like a really cool.
Nayline (00:28.902)
I'm going to go ahead and close the video.
Nayline (00:39.91)
I'm sorry.
Meghan Houle (00:40.967)
vision boarding party where like your vision board was so amazing like mine sits on my desk and shout out to Marina for bringing us all together at my house and and just like very organically and Serendipitously meeting with you and now getting to know you and you know all of the incredible businesses that you're running I'm just so excited to share you and your story on the podcast. So thanks for being here
Nayline (01:03.59)
Thank you, Megan. Thank you for having me. And you're right, we met the first week of January. Vision board, a lot of amazing women put together by Marina. And we've been, I feel like we've been just friends since then. So thank you.
Meghan Houle (01:16.135)
Yeah, I mean, I love your social media is on fire. I mean, you are unstoppable. I'm like, can you adopt me also so I can go on all your trips with you? We need we need a fun trip. But no, you just have a fun energy. And, you know, I just feel like from that connection that we had, you really gravitate towards people who you truly feel like are like authentic souls. You know, I see like what you see is what you get with you.
Nayline (01:29.606)
I was pretty.
Meghan Houle (01:44.775)
and I so appreciate that. So I guess tell the listeners a little bit, where are you based and what are you up to these days? Like let's talk about the here and now before we dive into your journey, really. Yeah.
Nayline (01:44.966)
Thank you.
Nayline (01:59.494)
Yes, well, thank you for that intro. I feel a little special. So hi, everyone. Thank you for tuning in. I'm Nailene and I live here in Boston. I live in the beautiful neighborhood of Rosendale. And I originally am from Springfield, Mass, Western Mass. I don't call it a city, even though people say it's the third biggest city in Mass. I feel like where I live, it was very towny. I moved to
the city of Boston for college almost 10 years ago and I ended up staying here. Right now I am a full -time entrepreneur, creative director. I create and manage a lot of brands under me and my husbands and friends and sisters and people that have helped with their brands. And yeah, I'm a mom of an eight -year -old. He's turning nine.
I love to travel, I love to do pretty things, coffee shops. I go around the world just to find coffee shops. And yeah, that's a little bit about me.
Meghan Houle (03:04.199)
Yeah.
I mean, same. Are you addicted? I like love coffee. It's really, if, yeah.
Nayline (03:11.526)
I was addicted to coffee. I just recently went through a weight loss journey where my taste buds even changed. Like I can't have coffee like I used to. So I'll have a coffee like maybe once a week now or twice a week if I'm super stressed out and I need to stay, you know, wired.
Meghan Houle (03:30.663)
going. Yeah, I know it's a well so I, you know, thank you for sharing all of that and shout out to like the Boston area and my female entrepreneurs. Yes, love this community so much. But I agree, I used to be a girl, you know, at Duncan's with like the extra extra and the sugar. And you know, there was a point where I I like literally just drink like stream black coffee. Like dark black, juicy, bitter. It's like my soul.
Nayline (03:48.774)
and
Nayline (03:57.478)
I love sugar, so I had to definitely add my sugars and my cream and my, you know, flavor.
Meghan Houle (04:03.143)
Yeah. I used to do that. yeah, all the creams back in the day. There's so many options now. But now there's like a lot of non dairy things where I feel like early on, like we didn't have those options. It was just like, you know, delights or like whatever it was. And you were like Girl Scout Oreo cookie creamer. And you're like, this is delicious, but also terrible for us. And it's fine.
Nayline (04:18.214)
Yeah.
It's almost like I wasn't, if I'm headed to a business meeting, I wasn't ready if I didn't have that coffee next to me. Now I'm like, I can, you know, I can figure it out. So I slept with that with like a fruit smoothie now, and that's part of my 2024 journey, my goals. So I'm still, I'm still eating healthy.
Meghan Houle (04:30.183)
Yeah, amazing. So jealous.
Totally.
Yeah, yeah. Get healthy. Yeah. I love it. Well, so tell us early on. Early on, Nailene, is, you know, in all that you've built today, do you feel like that early on is what you kind of set out to do as you navigated working, you know, your career goals? Yeah, tell us a little bit about that journey for you.
Nayline (05:05.062)
Yeah. Early Nailene, I was, since very, very young, Megan, I wanted to do it all. It's almost like I love the feeling of challenging myself and overcoming challenges and like, all right, I did that. Let me do something else. So early Nailene, I would say, or young Nailene in my early 20s, I went to college. I still didn't know what...
I wanted to do, but I'm like, all right, let me just get a degree. I wanted to do a lot of different things. I've always been like a social butterfly and accidentally became like an influencer because I just know a lot of people. And I think that early in the year, I was confused of what I wanted to end up doing as my long -term career.
because I loved so many things. Now that I didn't want to do anything, I just loved so many things. I wanted to get into fashion. I wanted to get into media. I wanted to do so many things. And one thing that I realized that every project I encounter or every job I had, one thing that everything had in common, I realized that I don't do well taking orders from people.
or being someone else's time, I like to delegate and I like to do things my way. And I think that that was when the entrepreneurship spirit grew in me when I'm like, hmm, I want to do things my way. So then I didn't know exactly where, what kind of business or what kind of path I wanted to take in my entrepreneurship career. But I knew I'm like, I have to be like my own CEO one day.
and my own boss. And I think that's how like things started.
Meghan Houle (07:01.703)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (07:06.727)
I love that. Yeah, how old were you when you got that clarity and were you working in like maybe under like a corporate umbrella or for somebody and you're like this, isn't it? So what did that clarity moment look like for you? Yeah. Yeah.
Nayline (07:16.134)
about it.
Nayline (07:20.55)
Okay, so I think that moment, I think I was 25, 25. Even though when I was 21, my sisters and I, we launched a online boutique. So I dived into entrepreneurship very early on, even before social media, even before Instagram. And so I kind of dabbled into that while in college, but I never thought, my God, this can pay my bills. This can be a very powerful move.
Meghan Houle (07:24.263)
Mm -hmm.
Nayline (07:50.054)
Four years later, I'm now what, 25? I became a mom and I feel like that's when I really felt it. And I said, there's a power within me that I haven't really quite figured out what it is, but I feel like I can turn something into gold. And that's when I completely launched and dived into entrepreneurship.
I was working corporate and I'm like, this is not for me, the deadlines. And it's funny because I can commit to deadlines for myself. When it's on somebody else's time, it's a little challenging for me and it's okay. I'm able to accept that and be true to that. And that's when I decided, let me dive into entrepreneurship. I want to say, Megan, I do come from a family where my father rest in peace.
Meghan Houle (08:32.807)
Mm -hmm.
Nayline (08:47.654)
He was an entrepreneur. He owned a couple of bakeries, coffee shops. So I think that it's somewhat in my blood. I just didn't figure that out till late 20s. So.
Meghan Houle (08:59.171)
Yeah. Well, what was your first, you know, your online store? Amazing. What did you guys sell? Was it like clothing and fashion early on? Yeah.
Nayline (09:07.654)
Yeah, we did have a little bit of clothes, jewelry, accessories, shoes. And it was before Instagram times. And when Instagram launched, we kind of went out of business. There was a lot of online boutiques and it was so easy to shop on Instagram in 2011. And it kind of just like our small business suffered from that. And I'm like, I want to run.
Meghan Houle (09:11.431)
Awesome. Yeah.
Meghan Houle (09:23.143)
Yeah. Yeah.
Meghan Houle (09:33.223)
Right, yeah, pivot with purpose, pivot with the times. I mean, we're always pivoting, right? So what did that next level entrepreneurship look like when you were like, okay, not subscribing to corporate and also same, and I feel like your message of, I mean, we can be told what to do, but also like don't tell us what to do. I feel that too, yeah, you know.
Nayline (09:35.622)
Ready to go practice!
Nayline (09:52.454)
Yeah, it's not for everyone. I have a lot of amazing women that says, I need to be told what to do. I need to have an agenda and I need to not run things myself. So it's not for everyone.
Meghan Houle (10:01.127)
No, totally. Yes. Yeah.
Yes. No, it isn't. It totally I mean, because when we are your own boss, like as you and I know, who you know, that's a whole different animal that we're we're managing. But where did that next business come in? Yeah, what did that look like for you? Yeah.
Nayline (10:20.614)
At this point, I am a mom. I have a son at home. I'm staying home mom at this point and I couldn't stay at home. I'm like, I need some big money. And even though my amazing partner was like, I got this, you just stay home. I'm like, wow, do you know how much more powerful we can be together? If I, you know, and I knew that I was, I'm not the type to stay at home. I wanted to.
have my own thing going. At that point, Megan, I decided to open a party rental business. So anything from backdrops, lounges, you name it, cake tables, chairs, people. Do you notice that like to throw a party these days, it's a luxury, right? It's not, it's very expensive to have a party. And I'm having one myself this Saturday and I'm not gonna tell you how much money I'm in and I feel my best...
investor side of me is like, Melee, what are you doing? Anyway, so I said, why don't I just have, buy things and rent them, right? It doesn't depreciate in value. I can buy a sofa for a thousand dollars, rent it for $400 for weddings and things like that. And it just multiplies and multiplies and it doesn't appreciate in value. So it was just this bright idea that just came into my mind. I feel like back then,
Boston was missing that boutique rental company. You know, we have amazing other companies, but nothing small, nothing where I can cater to your backyard with pretty umbrellas and lounges and things like that. So that was my first one. And did I kill it? my God.
Meghan Houle (11:53.031)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (12:06.407)
I bet you did. I'm also like, is that still going on? Because I know you still have your party company and your events, right? Yeah.
Nayline (12:11.43)
So that was what? 2000 and I want to see 617 I just sold that last summer. I sold it June 20 year. I sold it. I did it with purpose, right? I I made tons of money for five six years and you change you change as a person you psych you every five years you start liking different things.
Meghan Houle (12:22.311)
Wow, good for you. Damn girl. Yes.
I bet. Yeah. Wow.
Nayline (12:40.038)
And I'm in my soft grow era where I'm like, I want to work a little smarter, a little less and make more money. And unfortunately the rental company, there's a lot of labor. So I have a lot of muscles, there's a lot of labor. And I decided to sell it. And I have from that little baby, an event space when Inveni was born, the Blanc event space in Canton. And I don't have...
Meghan Houle (12:45.799)
Mm -hmm.
Meghan Houle (12:52.551)
like hustle. Yeah, yeah.
Nayline (13:09.03)
I don't have to move a thing there. People come to you, they rent your space, they come party, and I don't have to move a thing. And I decided to pivot there.
Meghan Houle (13:16.231)
Wow.
Yeah. Wow. No, amazing. And I agree with you. I think the gold mine of that idea where you're right. I mean, I remember throwing an event last September for Pivot With Purpose Live. Now we need to come to Canton in your space, OK? So that's coming. But I was like Googling chair rentals or things and not the huge wedding things because they'll charge you up the wazoo, of course.
Nayline (13:25.894)
Yeah.
Nayline (13:32.134)
I'm... Jeb.
Nayline (13:44.166)
They're small moms.
Meghan Houle (13:44.583)
But like this like boutique -y, but also like you don't want it to feel sterile, right? So you're like, where is a place where I can go and get like really cute couches? You know, that's kind of your personality, your vibe. So I have no doubts that, you know, you were crushing it because I think it's such a need and also like a niche in a white space. You know, did you feel like when you had that big idea that you were like seeing a white space or do you feel like it did it just like come out of like the narrow like?
I'm going to start this because I have pretty things and I have a great visual eye. Yeah. Yeah.
Nayline (14:12.742)
Yeah. Okay, so I'll tell you what that, that, that the idea of opening up a space came from, from it's, it's a no brainer when you have a very successful business and you start a second one that can piggyback from the clientele that you have from business one, this is, you know, do you notice how I'm going to give an example, a lot of photographers become very, very successful with photography. Why wouldn't they want to learn videography?
Meghan Houle (14:21.159)
Yeah.
Nayline (14:40.39)
So now you keep your same client cell, you learn a different trade, but it's in the same umbrella, same thing with rentals. I said, all right, I have literally over 300 client database or even more, right? Why wouldn't I open up something? I couldn't figure out if I wanted to do like an ice cream car or like something that was kind of tying into rentals. And then I'm like, my God, an event space where I drop off my own rentals.
Meghan Houle (15:07.847)
Yeah. Yeah.
Nayline (15:10.054)
So that's how that was born. And the reason why the whole, the space is, that's why it's called the Blanc for French, white. It's an all white canvas. I wanted to do something clean, something for my designers, people like you that want to throw a party and you want to keep it simple because maybe you're on a budget. And all you have to do is splash a little bit of color. It's already white, beautiful chandeliers, it's very industrial, modern chic. I have to bring you over Megan.
Meghan Houle (15:38.023)
No, we're already doing an event sold, so get ready. Okay. Okay. Mm -hmm.
Nayline (15:40.646)
I got you. We work with a lot of companies, we sponsor online. It's all about giving back to the community. So that's a different conversation. Maybe we'll talk about that. But that's how the space was born. And sure enough, my clients sell just transfer. Some businesses take years to see profit. I saw profit within three months. It was great.
Meghan Houle (15:46.343)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (15:50.823)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (15:58.535)
So smart.
Meghan Houle (16:02.503)
So smart. Well, and also too, I feel like go and Google event space in Boston. And unless you have like $10 ,000, even to get your foot in the door, you're just like, no, the math ain't math in. And I'm not throwing a wedding, so where's that white space? So tell me a bit more about the space. Are you able to come in? And do you still have like furnitures? And you can help people conceptualize?
like the vision of it and bringing in or in do you work with like other vendors to like bring things to life? Like how can somebody work with you in that space in all that you deliver? Yeah.
Nayline (16:32.902)
I'm sorry.
Nayline (16:37.286)
Absolutely. So we rent the space, our capacity is 100 people. It's a blank space, so it doesn't come with furniture. Other than your tables, we do give you round tables. We give you beautiful clear, chivalry chairs. No more covering chairs. I think that's so 1990s. And I see it sometimes and I cringe when I see beautiful banquet halls in hotels and they're still covering chairs. And I, why are we doing that?
Meghan Houle (16:48.583)
Mm -hmm.
Meghan Houle (16:59.943)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (17:04.903)
You're like, no.
Nayline (17:06.118)
I know fans, some people like it. I just think that I like to keep up with trends. I like to keep up with things that are more modern, things that are in style. It's like fashion, Megan, you know that. It's same thing in the party industry. We have to, you know, we have to elevate our, our, our styles anyways. So we do give you the clear chairs. We have a beautiful live room, loungy area with furniture.
Meghan Houle (17:21.191)
Yeah.
Nayline (17:32.262)
Other than that, you would have to bring your own backdrop and lounges and anything else that you want to rent. We connect with vendors. That's a great thing. We have a list of preferred vendors that we connect you with, whether it's the florist, DJ, balloon artist. So the great thing about the Blanc, Megan, and for everyone that's listening, when you rent our space to throw your party, we hold your hand through the process.
Meghan Houle (17:42.951)
Awesome, yeah.
Nayline (18:00.678)
You're not paying us a fee for planning. We don't charge you fee for planning. We hold your hand. We give you here, this is the list. This is a jumpstart to find your vendors. And we are basically available for you all week to call us, hey, I need a baker. And we'll connect you.
Meghan Houle (18:01.799)
So nice. Yeah. Wow.
Meghan Houle (18:20.295)
Awesome, wow, no brainer. All right, everyone throwing parties, yeah.
Nayline (18:23.526)
And I will say we also have, we do have our liquor license. So you don't have to worry about spending money on liquor. We have the liquor bar that we don't add or we don't charge additionally for a bartender. I know a lot of places do that. We don't. So it's pretty, I mean, we really got something going. I hope that the listeners get to check us out.
Meghan Houle (18:28.711)
wow.
Meghan Houle (18:44.423)
A one stop shop. No, you totally do. Well, go in those show notes and make sure that you connect and link up with Nailene and is it the Blanc or just Blanc? The Blanc. Beautiful. Wow. Okay. So million customers coming in there. Everyone use her space. And I feel like Canton is such a good like midpoint for a lot of places. And assuming too, is there like easy parking, like easy access, all of that? Yeah.
Nayline (18:55.366)
The block. The block.
Nayline (19:00.198)
Thank you.
Nayline (19:05.606)
It's a new look.
Nayline (19:11.43)
Right next to the highway, we're very, you know, like 20 minutes from Boston, 30 minutes from Rhode Island. We're really in a great location. It's a very charming town, too. It's so beautiful. So beautiful.
Meghan Houle (19:13.735)
Awesome. Yeah.
Meghan Houle (19:21.831)
I love Canton. Yeah. Yeah. Look at you go. Okay. But like we also know Lovelock is like not the only thing. So let's talk about some of these other pivots. So you pivoted and you built this amazing space. We I know I personally know you have some other stuff going on before your listeners. You know, was there a pivot where you're like, okay, I'm doing this. But also there's like something else burning in my soul of an idea or something to bring to life. So tell us a little bit about
Nayline (19:32.23)
Yes.
Nayline (19:38.982)
you
Nayline (19:47.302)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (19:51.495)
Maybe that next move. Yeah.
Nayline (19:52.262)
Right, absolutely. So we all know 2020 was harsh and hard to a lot of people. When COVID happened, the entertainment industry suffered. My rental company suffered, my venue suffered. I'll tell you why. We were phase four to open or stage four, whatever. We were stage four to open, which means that we weren't able to operate till the end of 2020.
That's a great 10, 11 months without operating. And I want to mention, Megan, I opened my doors to the block January, 2020. So I shut down two months later. With that being said, I did not qualify for PP loans. I wasn't open 2019. I didn't qualify for a grant. I wasn't open in 2019 to prove profit.
Meghan Houle (20:32.839)
So you had like those three months. Yeah. Ugh.
Nayline (20:45.03)
So I suffer, when I say suffer, I really mean it. And a lot of folks are like, all businesses got money. she probably, no, I didn't. And with that being said, I noticed that the beauty industry flourished. I noticed that beauty industry flourished. It was the number one phase, first phase that opened. It was actually an essential to do your hair and nails. And I decided to life up again, pivoting. I am the queen of pivot. That's why I think you and I,
Meghan Houle (20:45.159)
Sorry.
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (21:13.671)
pivot and like ideas and like white space like opportunities. You're like, boom, boom, boom, like you're all but you're always forward thinking, right? So yeah.
Nayline (21:17.19)
I don't know.
Absolutely, absolutely. And the great thing about me, when I think about something, Megan, and I believe in the idea, I don't just think about it and try it out. I execute the idea. And then if it's not for me, I have no shame to say, I did it. It's not for me. Let me sell this. And that's how you, kind of like you, it's almost like you flip commercial real estate. That's really what I do. So.
With that being said, Megan, the idea of opening up something in the medical, in the spa world, a medical spa and nail salon came into mind. Fast forward, making the story super short, I'm currently opening up a nail salon in Bryan. It's super chic. I was inspired by, I did a trip to London a couple of years ago and I was inspired with how pink and feminine London is.
Meghan Houle (22:16.711)
Yeah.
Nayline (22:16.774)
It's, who have not been to London? It's like, you have to go. I just, it's one of my favorite cities and everything there is so pretty. Like even like your local laundry mat, it's pretty. It's like there's flowers and it's all chic. And I wanted to bring something into Boston with that look, but in the beauty industry. So I, I'm opening up a nail bar, it's called Nailor B. Nailor stands for N -A -I for nails and or is,
or B or the letter B stands for boss, babe, brows, brands, beautiful. I think the letter B is so powerful. So I combine it into the names and I call it Nate or B. That's a separate conversation, but I'm really into branding and coming up with these names and ideas. So I'm opening up a nail bar and I just recently, I opened up a Med Spa a year ago, which I recently actually sold.
Meghan Houle (23:00.071)
Love it.
Meghan Houle (23:14.455)
wow, okay. Yeah, it's a lot, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nayline (23:15.206)
I did it for a year, Meg. It is a different ball game. It's a different monster. It's not for everyone. And I think that I think we get so stuck in like, my God, it's so much money for Botox. It's so much money for hydro facials. I could just open up a business and make all that money. There is tons of overhead. And if you're not the provider, and this is for all my bobs bays that are listening and they want to tap into the beauty of a medical spot,
Please do your research. Please make sure you have a team and please make sure that you either go into aesthetic school, because I'm not even in that position. So I wasn't able to get provider and I think that there was a lot of challenges and I am just telling, I'm very happy. I actually celebrated my closing. So I'm happy with that. So I did it, I did it there.
Meghan Houle (23:52.519)
Mm -hmm.
Meghan Houle (24:02.151)
Awesome, yeah. Well, congratulations. And I can't wait. So where is yours, Nail Flunk, where is it going in Brighton? Yeah, what part of Brighton? Yeah.
Nayline (24:11.366)
It's on Market Street in Brighton. It's really close to the, I think there's a Celtics Arena practice near by. There's a new balance. it's an amazing location. I'm set to open, I believe, the second week of July. We're waiting on some installations that are happening and some, we're still doing a couple other things to the salon, but it's super, it's gorgeous in there.
Meghan Houle (24:14.503)
Okay.
Meghan Houle (24:19.079)
yeah, yeah, so like that part. Yeah, so great.
Meghan Houle (24:26.631)
Yes.
Nayline (24:41.126)
It's beautiful. Yeah, I cannot wait.
Meghan Houle (24:41.255)
I can't wait. I can't wait. It's so, no, and it's so crazy. I used to live over in Market Street in that part of Brighton and to see, like I laugh when I drive down the mass pike, like my old road that I used to live on, you know, where you're just like scrounging by and you're this like three decker in Brighton, like barely hanging on with like a stove that doesn't work.
And now, like the gentrification of Brighton, there's like million dollar condos, like at the end of my charade, you still live on it. I was like, my God. And then across the way, yeah, it's like the arena, Celtics, Bruins, New Balance. Like I think there's like a concert venue over there now and like so much, which is so great. Yeah. Yeah.
Nayline (25:13.574)
Yeah.
Nayline (25:18.726)
Yeah, there's lots of restaurants in Brighton. Brighton has, it's definitely, I wouldn't say up and coming, I feel like it's already been up. It's definitely a nice little melting pot for a lot of different types of businesses. Yeah.
Meghan Houle (25:29.991)
It's been there, yeah.
Meghan Houle (25:38.599)
Yeah, and people, it's kind of like the Southie of the West. Right? Because then we have like South Boston, you know, which is also like the melting pot. But I feel like you're either like Brighton, Southie, you know, if you can come in and kind of like swing it in back bay, good for you. But you know, I think that there is no, that's a you. my God, it's gonna be so successful. Like move over mini locks like.
Nayline (25:52.422)
Yeah.
Nayline (26:02.406)
It's.
Meghan Houle (26:04.007)
Sign me up as your first customer. I will be there every other week. Yes. Thank you. I love you. Yeah.
Nayline (26:08.23)
And also, right up, if you're looking at Market Street, you know we have Washington Street, which is off market, and there's lots of bars, ice cream shops, boba teas, smoothie teas places. Right next to my nail bar, we have an Irish pub, we have a pizza shop, and there's so much to do. There's a lot of walking, there's a lot of walking traffic. So I have a good feeling we're gonna do well.
Meghan Houle (26:18.215)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (26:26.055)
Awesome. Yeah.
Meghan Houle (26:34.151)
my God, you're gonna do so well. Because I also feel like there's like nothing over there like that. Right?
Nayline (26:39.366)
No, and the other thing is, and this is the business side of me, just I want to share this, overhead, right? So when your overhead is not as large as business B, it's a little easier to manage a business, for it to be successful. And nail salons, there's not a lot of overhead in nail salons. When you think about it, yeah, you have the white bill, you have...
the heat, that's really, it's really not much, but inventory, machines, I mean, you don't really need much. So I think we're going to do well. I also want to say our menu is like no other, and we'll launch the menu end of June, our menu of services. So we're definitely, I grabbed a little bit of London, I grabbed a little bit of Paris, and I am definitely bringing some amazing services.
for the Boston area, so I cannot wait.
Meghan Houle (27:35.271)
Okay. And I feel like, you know, a franchise coming, like multiple cities, like let's do it girl. All right. We're manifesting it on this podcast. We're going to listen to this next year and you're going to have like three locations. Okay. Boom. So amazing. Well, so with all those pivots, and I always love to ask about a pivot maybe gone wrong, but do you feel like that was the MedSpot pivot for you or has there been any kind of decision or something that you're just like, Ooh, wow.
Nayline (27:42.406)
I would love that. Yes, that's the goal. Yes, that's the goal.
Meghan Houle (28:03.559)
you know, maybe could have done that a little bit differently. Yeah, where where's like a pivot gone wrong? And like, how did you get back on track? Or where was that self awareness? Yeah.
Nayline (28:05.19)
Yeah.
Nayline (28:09.414)
Well, yeah, that's a good question. And I would say to remember how I mentioned a little earlier that I sold a party rental business and I expressed how successful that was. That made so much, so much money. When I sold that in last June, I had some extra cash to invest in something and I invested in the Med Spa along with another individual.
This individual already owned the spa. I kind of came in as a partner, kind of like helped rebranded revamp it. And I lost, I bled a lot of money there. And it's almost like I just sold a very successful business, Meleen. I probably could have bought a couple of houses. I don't know. And you know why? I think it was a hard pillow to swallow, Megan, when something, it's the first time a pivot goes wrong.
And I had a hard time. I feel like over the winter, I suffered a lot from anxiety, a little depressed. I felt where I didn't feel like myself. I feel like, my God, I knew I'm too deep in and I knew that there was no way out. Easy, easy way out. I'm under a lease. I'm on our contract. I'm under this. And long story short, I tried. I didn't give up. I tried. I tried to do everything.
that that was in my in in my under my control to do and I think that's when I came to realize in the beginning of 20 of this year I said I spoke to God and I pray a lot I do I pray a lot I don't really go to church often or anything like that, but I do have that in my heart and I pray and and I said to myself Why I asked I asked him I said, you know what I know in my heart I this is not that this this pivot is not it. I'm bleeding
I want you to help me figure out my next step. And sure enough, Megan, a little bit after that, and by just me not forcing anything and letting things go, I got the answer I was looking for. And the answer was, you're right, Neely. This is not it. Stop forcing it. Stop trying to make something work that it's not for you. It's not in your calling. It's not in your life book. Let it go.
Meghan Houle (30:29.799)
Yeah.
Nayline (30:31.942)
Let it go, forget about the money you lost. There's people that lose millions and millions of dollars. And sure enough Meg, after that, I had a conversation with my business partner. She felt the same way, so that was good. I'm like, that's one of the toughest conversation. And we decided to sell and when we sold, we sold within seven days. It was insane.
Meghan Houle (30:37.479)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (30:50.183)
Right.
Meghan Houle (30:57.063)
Wow. Yeah.
Nayline (30:59.014)
Every machinery that we had, we were able to kick it back. There was only one that we challenged with. And I'm telling you, our machines each were like $20 ,000, $30 ,000. They're so expensive. And okay, how did I handle that? Accepting that pivot went wrong. Just accepting it. Just saying, you know what? I can't call myself a successful entrepreneur if I haven't failed.
Meghan Houle (31:09.091)
they're so expensive. No, I know that. Yeah. Wow.
Meghan Houle (31:20.583)
Yeah.
Nayline (31:29.766)
If you don't fail, you can't be really successful because all you know is the goods, but you don't know the bads and the negatives. And you kind of learn from mistakes. You really do. And you can apply that strategy to another business. And if I'm business coaching, which I have helped a few people around me, if I don't know a mistake is a mistake, how can I help you not commit that mistake and do better? So I...
just saw the positive out of this wrong pivot and I've accepted it and it feels good. I'm even like, I can talk about that closing with pride. I'm not dwelling on it. Okay.
Meghan Houle (32:09.575)
Right. Yeah. Well, you're right. And so many people shy away from the failures of, you know, just like thinking that's going to define you forever and who you are. It's like, no, you move on. You know, no one's going to remember that, you know, five days from now, you know, you're the only one that's like your worst enemy, right? That like sits on your soul, sits on your heart. And I knew we were talking a little bit earlier about like forcing things and versus like letting it flow. And I think you accept. It's so great to hear like,
amicably, the transition was like super smooth, because I think sometimes you're in business with a partner that is not as kind, and it doesn't work out as great and you're managing through that, but it's all learning lesson. And I just feel like especially to if you are coaching people, and I'm sure, my god, there's, there's a business there too, as so many people coming to you for advice, in building like their own businesses, like, your failures are also like their, you know, their benefit now because you can.
Nayline (32:47.334)
You're welcome.
Nayline (33:07.014)
I agree.
Meghan Houle (33:08.455)
be able to show them that way. And sometimes I feel like we need to learn things the hard way, girl. I'm from the school of hard knocks. Nothing was handed to me. I was never asking for help. I'm like, I can do it. And unfortunately, I think there are some things I wish I learned a little differently. But I am who I am today because we went through those things.
Nayline (33:16.933)
Yes.
Nayline (33:31.462)
Right.
Meghan Houle (33:33.639)
And I'm like, okay, I'm not gonna do this again, or I'm gonna do this differently in all aspects of life. So I think that's so beautiful. So tell us in this amazing business woman, mom, all the things you are like, how do you take care of you? Because I do feel like it is something where, and I know you do, you pour yourself into everything. Like you love working, love seeing things through, or like nonstop. I know you were texting me before, I'm a night owl plus an early bird. I'm like, same girl.
Nayline (34:01.702)
I'm going to go ahead and turn it off.
Meghan Houle (34:02.663)
But we need to take care of ourselves, right? So how have you found balance? And is there a moment maybe this year that you've recognized no more? Like, I can't do any more of this, or I'm saying no to that. Yeah, where do you take care of Nailene? Mm -hmm.
Nayline (34:17.607)
Yes, yes. Okay, so obviously I learned a hard way that taking care of yourself is crucial. It should be priority. If you're not well and you're not taking care of yourself, you're not healthy, you're not sleeping right, you're not, you know, eating good, it affects everything you do. I learned that a hard way. I do feel that I overworked myself for a lot of years.
And until I started going to my doctors and I'm like, I have anemia. I have anxiety. I'm like, how? Like these things just, they come out of nowhere. They come out of, I don't know where. And I no longer have anemia because I'm taking care of myself. So it was like, as a woman that comes and go, I think anxiety, I'm going to have it forever. I think it's just like a woman and a mom thing. But, and I diagnosed myself there, but I...
In the past couple of years, and I'm going to say this, if you would have asked me a few years ago, I probably would have been stuttering right now because I'm like, I don't take care of myself. But now, the past few years, I've prioritized myself. I take care of myself by setting boundaries, by saying no to a lot of things, right? Not every money is good money. Not every network event is good for you.
I set boundaries with business conversations, even my personal conversations.
Nayline (35:56.934)
Being selfish, taking time to myself. I used to have a guilty conscience as a mother if I went on vacation without my kid. And I stopped doing that. I said, no, I actually just went to Martha's Vineyard a few days ago with two of my girls, two of my friends. And, you know, I feel good about it. I didn't bring my kid. It's fine. So being selfish a lot because I'm a very selfless person and I am so very selfless, but.
Meghan Houle (36:17.639)
Yes. Yeah.
Nayline (36:26.214)
I know how to turn that switch off and on when I want to be selfish and I'm like, all right, this is me time. I like to go to coffee shops and I know I keep saying that, but I do find peace in there. I find like I can just be me and kind of just have a coffee and read a book and do my emails, like a different setting. I like the vacation and I...
Meghan Houle (36:49.927)
Yes.
Nayline (36:54.022)
I do spa dates with myself. And I have a great support system around me that allows me to be selfish, that allows me to say, I have Jace, that's my son's name, go do what you need to do, go take that break. I also, the other thing I want to say, Megan, I also, what I do to take care of myself, I come into terms with my feelings. A lot of us hide a lot of things.
And it's okay to hide to other people, but be true to yourself. There's days Meg that I can't even cook and I can't even take care of my kid. And I just be true to myself. Like I am overworked and I tell, you know, my, my hobby that I'm like, Hey, can you, can you take care of the house for tonight? I'm going to bed at 6 PM. So it's just, I think that's it. And then just having a schedule for everything. I have to be organized enough that takes care of yourself.
Meghan Houle (37:44.519)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (37:50.151)
Absolutely. No, I know operating from chaos. And I mean, we've been in it. We know what that chaotic operation looks like. And I think it's like as you get older and I feel like the lessons that you learn of having to take care of yourself, because I know just like you very early on, I'm like, how much work can I do? How many things can I do? I was like commuting like crazy, driving from Cape Cod to Boston every day for like six months, like working in downtown Boston, but living on Cape. Like.
Nayline (37:56.038)
Good luck.
Nayline (38:13.51)
Thank you.
Meghan Houle (38:17.863)
And I think I probably took like seven years off my life just doing that. But at some point, you're like, this is not sustainable. And if you're not showing up 100 % and being able to pour in your business, don't have to do it. Give yourself a moment, breathe, ask for help, and surround yourself with an amazing community, people that can come in. And unfortunately, not everybody has that. But maybe it's like one or two really great people. I think that.
Nayline (38:44.454)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (38:45.159)
for so long, we're like, we have to have all these friends. And you were mentioning all these network things and show up and show face and support everybody. It's like, no. If that's not who you are and those friends aren't pouring back into you, I always say it has to be a two -way street. So I love that for you and your self -awareness. Well, I guess tell me, because I'm sure with boundaries of your time that you are inundated constantly with like, Nailyne, how'd you do it? Nailyne.
Nayline (38:53.318)
now.
Nayline (39:00.006)
I agree. Thank you.
Nayline (39:06.214)
I'm
Nayline (39:30.262)
are you there, Meg?
Nayline (39:41.702)
May.
Nayline (39:45.862)
Bye.
Meghan Houle (39:47.226)
Like, and that's okay, because we can keep going. They'll record. my God. Like, what is going on with my TV right now? And my internet. I'm like, please. Okay, so tell me what are some questions that people are constantly coming to you with? Like, can I get your advice here? Or I'm struggling with, you know, giving someone like a live coaching session now on air with Fave It With Purpose. Like, what do you love to talk about? And what do you help a lot of maybe women with?
Nayline (39:51.91)
Okay. All right.
Nayline (40:05.574)
Yeah.
Nayline (40:16.726)
Yeah, yeah. So I get a lot of questions asked. I get emails every other few days throughout the week. I get messages on my Instagram maybe once, at least once a day. And people know how to find me because I'm social, I'm out there. I have my social medias. I go to a lot of events. And a lot of questions that I'm getting, it's like, hey, I mean, what can I do to...
Meghan Houle (40:17.05)
in your, yeah.
Meghan Houle (40:28.442)
about.
Nayline (40:43.91)
get business lending or business funding? How did you do with your first business? And, you know, what about like branding? Like, what do you think, how does this name sound? Like right now I'm actually helping a friend create a name for her fitness wear business. I get a lot of, a little bit of everything Meg, from like branding questions to like, lendings and funds for businesses. And,
So the questions are all over the place. They're a little bit of everything. What I enjoy answer, and the funny thing is I don't, and I want to make clear, I don't have like a business coaching business or business mentoring. I don't know, there's different needs to things these days. I've never thought of that. But as of lately, I find myself taking a good hour or two out of my time. And it's so, it happens so natural where I'm not realizing that I'm actually coaching someone.
Meghan Houle (41:16.634)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (41:24.89)
Mm -hmm.
Nayline (41:44.998)
And they'll ask me a question and I like to, I'm a phone call type of girl. So I'll give someone my number, call me, I can help you, I'll answer that question. So with that being said, I find myself lately being very intrigued and very excited helping someone with their brand and their creative direction with their business that I don't realize.
Meghan Houle (41:45.626)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (42:04.602)
huh.
Nayline (42:11.398)
you just gave this person two, three hours every time and it's okay. I get it from kind of my heart, but my business side of me is like time, money, time. So yeah, I think I find myself loving all the branding questions from like color schemes of your brand, from your logos, from your fonts, from your, you know, your interior design. I think that's where like I'm obsessed with those topics for sure.
Meghan Houle (42:16.218)
Right.
Meghan Houle (42:21.242)
No, 100%. Yeah.
Meghan Houle (42:26.586)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (42:37.658)
I love it. Maybe there's like a masterclass, you know, or LeBlanc watch out because Naily and Megan Hall were coming in hot for like a community day of like onto women entrepreneurs like build your brands. Because like I, I love a good creative, but like I'm not the creative, like I need to tell somebody to tell me, you know, what looks good. And like, you know, it doesn't make sense.
Nayline (42:40.838)
I'm sorry.
Nayline (42:48.038)
Give us a service.
Meghan Houle (43:06.202)
I can conceptualize and like I know once I see it, I'm like, yeah, but like I need somebody to help me with that. I'm definitely more, and I feel like you have such a good blend, but like the hiring operations kind of like talent strategy, who you need in your business, like how they're gonna benefit you. You know, so I think there's like, there's more to come. So stay tuned to be determined. Not only are you gonna franchise you, we're gonna do this like business conference, okay.
Nayline (43:23.718)
Yeah.
Nayline (43:29.574)
Absolutely. I think we definitely have different strengths. You and I definitely have different strengths. That area is not my thing. But yeah, that's cool. I'd love to meet somebody else that has like strength on where my weaknesses are because I'm like, we can be a team somehow.
Meghan Houle (43:36.09)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (43:42.234)
I love it.
Meghan Houle (43:48.922)
I mean, I feel like you can. And I listen to so many women in business, like podcasts. Like I love Lori Harder, who just launched this like supplement line called Glossy, which is this like lemon water supplement. And she wound up taking on a co -founder. And I mean, I think there's a point where, you know, you say like, cool, yeah, can I bring in a yin to my yang? But like, it has to be the right balance of a person. Have you, it looks like with the MedSpot you did, but have you,
Nayline (44:10.598)
Right.
Meghan Houle (44:18.426)
had any other experience working with co -founders or like other business partners? And what does that look like for you and how have you identified? Yeah.
Nayline (44:22.726)
Yeah, absolutely. So for the blog, I do have a business partner for the blog. We're both co -owners. I founded the business and I brought her on board. And she was a great friend of mine for years. So it's someone that I just met, great friend of mine. I knew she was very, very smart with investments. And I knew that I'd have to have someone that's equal.
Equally as or at least as close as organized when it comes to like my credit in my you know investment and money because that's Crucial for you to have a partner buddies It's great there and the reason I brought her on board too or like yeah It's it's it's the difference in in weaknesses and strength between the both of us. So she's more into Let's say logistics in and she's done event management
corporate managing for years. That's her background. She has a background in liquor. She still is working with corporate and she works with a lot of big liquor brands. And those were my weakness where I learned how to be organized and how to handle things like from logistics to planning through being in business with her.
Meghan Houle (45:20.15)
that's nice. Yeah.
Meghan Houle (45:28.314)
Awesome. Yeah.
Nayline (45:44.838)
So we've been in business, we're gonna be five years old now in January. And I think that that's the recipe of our success. She's great at things that I lack or I have little knowledge of. And then we teach each other. I have to know what she knows if she has people missing on me for one day or. She has to know how to run the, and then I run the brand, the marketing, the public relations, like, you know, the.
Meghan Houle (46:00.506)
Totally.
Totally, right? Yeah, yeah.
Nayline (46:14.79)
relationship with other people. Like I bring in the influencers, the bloggers, the media, just through my connections. I haven't hired like a PR media firm or anything thus far. It could be an option for the future. I think I just wanted to make sure I'm able to budget and afford that. But yes, I think that's so important to keep going to business with someone for you guys to have different strengths for sure.
Meghan Houle (46:36.218)
It is, yeah.
Yeah, I love that. Well, and anyone listening, and I mean, for so many entrepreneurs listening to the podcast that are solopreneurs right now, I think sometimes there comes a point where you're like, hmm, can I take somebody on or what am I doing right now that is just like, I hate and taking up so much of my time. And I think it depends on the business model for sure. But I think it is so important if you are getting into business with someone, not only that it trust that is going to add value in different ways. Yeah, I mean, it has to be that.
Nayline (46:56.678)
Yeah.
Nayline (47:08.038)
and grace.
Meghan Houle (47:10.362)
What would you say you're most proud of in terms of this entire pivot journey that you've been on, on the days where you sit back? And I know we have a hard time at times celebrating ourselves and our wins because we're like, up onto the next, onto the next. But do you take time to sit back and celebrate and be like, damn, I did that? And what would you say you're really proud of within this?
Nayline (47:26.662)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (47:38.138)
you know, 15 plus year journey that you've been on of like bringing these businesses to life and pivoting. Yeah, what, what do you celebrate? Yeah.
Nayline (47:45.254)
Yeah, yeah. So I do celebrate myself. You have to. You have to celebrate your closings, your openings, your milestones. It feels good when you celebrate. It's almost like you're feeding your soul. Like, yes, girl, you did it. You know, and then you have everybody else. First of all, I want to say something very clear for the people who are listening. You don't need approval and congratulations from anybody else. And if you get them, it's a plus. It feels good.
Meghan Houle (47:49.498)
That's good. Yes.
Meghan Houle (48:00.506)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (48:10.426)
Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nayline (48:13.03)
Doesn't it? Right? It feels amazing when someone else is like, my God, Naili, congrats. my God. You're like ultimate power girl. It does. I will be lying if I tell you it doesn't feel good, but I don't rely on that to, to feel good for myself. So I celebrate myself a lot. I'll go to, I'll take myself to dinner. I'll tag a friend with me. I want to have tears over cocktails because I did this.
Meghan Houle (48:36.41)
Yeah.
Nayline (48:39.526)
so that's, I wanted to say that first. Second, what I'm most proud of, or when I think about my, my journey as entrepreneur ship, I'm proud of myself building a table when I have been, when I wasn't given a chair at that table, a seat at that table or building a door when I wasn't giving, given an entryway to certain things. I've had more no's in my life than yes.
starting from professional knows from banks, from lenders to landlords when I try to lease the commercial space to personal ones where I would ask a friend for a hand or I would say, hey, I need help here. And those were challenges that...
are always going to happen in life. I'm prepared to get more no's and that's okay. So I think I'm most proud of myself overcoming those challenges by creating a way to get there. And there means anything. There means either to get to that business, to get to that money, to get to that connection. I made it possible when I had challenges.
Meghan Houle (49:53.018)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (50:02.65)
Yep.
Absolutely, well, and not to get super cliche, but also where there's a will, there's a way. And that determination of not giving up and keep moving forward, knowing that you're worthy of receiving those yeses. I mean, we have to imagine, and I just feel like we live in a world right now where there's so much instant gratification, where someone can't see it.
Nayline (50:12.71)
There is life.
Meghan Houle (50:31.802)
and it's like a tangible thing, right? Then they're like, no, it's not for me. And it's just like, my gosh, imagine if you had given up early on. Imagine the things that, you know, someone's saying you can't do this or someone said, no, you're like, okay, fine, I guess I'm not doing this. Like, where would you be? And I feel like that's where so many people get stuck in those fear moments of I can't do this or they're listening to the opinions of others.
Nayline (50:34.15)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (50:55.226)
I'm always like, is that person paying your bills? I'm sorry. How do they have equity in your life? What would you say? What is some of your advice to maybe somebody who is sitting with a heavy decision or wanting to pivot with purpose and maybe feeling fear or stuck? What would you say to them? Yeah.
Nayline (50:59.174)
Yeah.
Nayline (51:15.814)
Yeah. So first I would say, block some time for yourself to think things through. Decisions are normally not made overnight. Every decision that I've done or made, every business that I've opened, anything that I've done, before it actually goes into place, it's maybe a 10 months a year thinking and doing my research. I don't just think of something today. Meg, if you see me opening a
Meghan Houle (51:40.346)
Yeah, yeah.
Nayline (51:45.958)
I'm just gonna make something up, a zoo. A zoo in three months, that just means I've been working on it for a year. So things don't happen overnight. Please take some time to yourself. Block the outside noise because you need to really focus on the pros and the cons and do your research on this idea that you have with anything, right? Whether it's business, professional, personal. And I would say,
Meghan Houle (51:48.858)
Yes, sign me up.
Yeah. Yeah.
Nayline (52:19.238)
Definitely scout advice, but from people that are doing the same thing you're trying to get it into. Don't take advice from everyone. No one, it will, it does, how do I say this? It can change the way you feel about something. And I think someone that's not speaking from a position where they have experience in what you're trying to do shouldn't be advising you.
I think that a lot of us are scared to take risks because we allow a lot of that. And I must say, when you look out or when you reach out to folks that are doing what you're doing for advice, you're going to get a lot of, might get ignored, you might get a lot of no's, they don't have time because that's just the world we live in, right? But don't give up. There's...
Meghan Houle (53:11.61)
Right, yeah.
Nayline (53:14.31)
Powerful women and there's women like you and I make that are okay sharing and that are okay in watering somebody else's seed because we flourish ourselves and lastly Do your research not just getting advised your research on it market research find your numbers You know go volunteer to doing whatever that you want to do And Patience do not rush into anything, please don't
Meghan Houle (53:33.626)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (53:43.61)
Right, yeah, I know and I think, no, it's such good advice and I think that that's where it's too, it's the patience piece that, you know, like this isn't happening for me. I'm like, when did you start? You're like, like four weeks ago. I'm like, it's gonna take some time. Yeah, yeah, such good advice. And I think, you know, same thing for listeners that tune in, the career professionals looking for pivots. It's like, you know.
Nayline (53:45.03)
That's my advice.
Nayline (53:50.79)
Yeah.
No, it takes moments a year.
Meghan Houle (54:08.474)
that someone leaves a job. And sure, I think there's a moment where you can get hired very quickly, but also too, if there's a clarity moment where you're not sure what you want to do next. Not forcing, as we've been talking about it. Not just fitting yourself into any job or any opportunity just because, I need to do this, or I need a job, or I need to make this business happen. It's like, if it doesn't feel aligned and authentic, really trust your gut. And also,
Nayline (54:17.35)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (54:35.738)
things aren't going to happen. And it's like spiritual, I'm the same. I pray, you know, we vision board, obviously, I get as woo woo as I need to, but like we can sit and like manifest like, I want all this to happen, but like you have to take aligned action. And I think when you're strategically aligning yourself with the right conversations, you know, the right opportunities, like steps every day to kind of get there and not give up. It's not easy, but in the end, it's...
it feels very worth it. I'm sure you feel fulfilled. I mean, especially with this new nail salon nail bar and like your amazing event space that you have. Is there anything else in the works like going into the rest of this year? And like, what are you really excited about? Like, tell us a bit more about? I don't know what what else do you have up your sleeve? If anything? Yeah.
Nayline (55:21.606)
So I think, as I mentioned to you, or maybe it was probably off the record, this year I want to go with the flow. So I just want to focus on the nail bar and before I tap into anything else. My hubby owns a hat store in Back Bay and I help a lot there with branding and marketing. So that takes a lot of my time.
Meghan Houle (55:35.994)
Good. Yeah.
Meghan Houle (55:44.686)
awesome.
Nayline (55:49.382)
I want to focus on nail bar. My other businesses are doing great. They're running itself. I think the nail bar is my baby. In my personal life, I want to buy a home before the end of the year, a bigger home because we're outgrowing this one. I want to have a baby too Meg. I want to get pregnant. So that's why I'm just taking it soft and slow. My business career stuff. But...
Meghan Houle (56:11.962)
Mm -hmm. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Nayline (56:18.31)
I think and I have been thinking of coaching some folks. Obviously I can't do this full time. But I think that if I'm just focusing on one thing and any more time at home, I can probably devote some time. As a business owner, we always gonna need funds. We're always gonna need money. It's not that I wanna keep working and working, but there's still things that I have. I have my bills, so it's like, I'm gonna actually still work and business coaching has been.
a thing in the back of my mind. And I want to say something else to for all everyone that's listening as either a small business owner or aspire to be. Stay in touch with your business. I work. Megan, do you know something? I'm the bartender. Am I then you? Like I bartend. I do things and I think that there's something so special that you can pick up a shift and work in your own business and be normal.
Meghan Houle (57:14.522)
No, well, and I think being in the business is so interesting because you're in it and you're seeing what's going on. And, you know, it's kind of cool. It's like, you know, I think when you have like store visits or, you know, back in my day when I was in retail, you know, kind of like the big owners and when they coming and then they're on the floor with you and they're like working and you're like, my God, you know, so.
Nayline (57:25.766)
It's so cool.
Nayline (57:36.038)
Just put that line if they're helping you.
Meghan Houle (57:38.746)
Yeah, you build really great camaraderie too. And I'm sure people love meeting you in real life. Because obviously you can attend every event and you're renting out spaces. But do you have any events coming up that you're leading, like going into the end of the year at LeBlanc or anything people should be checking out there? Yeah.
Nayline (57:47.494)
Yeah.
Nayline (57:58.534)
Well, at the moment, no, we just finished hosting a lot of graduations for the month of June. Lots of weddings coming up in our space. We recently just had a woman empowerment event that was powered by another company, but we hosted at our space. So,
Meghan Houle (58:04.634)
Awesome, yeah.
Meghan Houle (58:09.21)
Yeah.
Nayline (58:21.99)
No, but if you guys want to follow the Blanc on Instagram or our website, so our website is www .theblancspaces .com. And our Instagram is the Blanc Venue. We usually post our flyers for events, especially like networking events. We have something on the works with a nonprofit company and it's going to be once a month. And because it's not solidified yet, I won't mention it, but...
Meghan Houle (58:38.97)
Like what's going on? Yeah. Yeah.
Nayline (58:52.006)
If you check us out on those social media handles, you'll be able to keep up there.
Meghan Houle (58:56.602)
Yeah, totally. Well, we'll link everything and we can't wait. When does it open? Yes, yeah.
Nayline (59:03.11)
So I'm aiming for the second week of July and it's all pending and so many other things. So that's why I don't have like an actual opening date. So let's hope.
Meghan Houle (59:06.778)
Okay.
Meghan Houle (59:13.114)
No, it's okay. And things happen. I mean, like you said, flow, it's all gonna come together. It's gonna be beautiful. I can't wait to come and visit you. And thank you so much. I mean, I feel like this year has definitely brought some challenges and I know we're kind of mid year here, but also has brought me some like really beautiful, new, meaningful connections. And I think being surrounded by women like you in a community where you like genuinely are clapping.
Nayline (59:17.478)
Thank you.
Nayline (59:37.83)
Thank you.
Meghan Houle (59:40.858)
for people is like super refreshing. So you are amazing. I'm just so honored to know you and I can't wait to support like all you're doing. And I also can't wait to mastermind our event that we will throw. So there's so much more to come from this episode people.
Nayline (59:43.686)
Yeah.
Nayline (59:47.142)
What? Why?
Nayline (59:52.454)
I love talking about that. But I want to give you your flowers, Megan. I want to tell you that since the day I met you at the vision board, your energy is so authentic and it's real. And it's the same energy you kept with me through social media, because I don't think I've seen you since in person. Right? Okay. So through social media, through direct messages, through comments, I feel like some folks meet someone...
Meghan Houle (01:00:13.658)
No, not yet. Yeah.
Nayline (01:00:20.742)
in person, they're like girl fanning with each other, they're asleep because there's some drinks and then you're like, yeah, follow me or here's my number and then like the energy shifts because you're like, all right, I don't need them anymore or I meet so many people, whatever. So I wanted to give you your flowers and tell you that you've kept that energy with me since day one and I feel like there's so much woman empowerment coming from you even through the screen. And I don't know, is this podcast, can they see us or is it just listening?
Meghan Houle (01:00:33.754)
Yeah.
Meghan Houle (01:00:50.202)
I love you. We can pull a little snippet, but typically it's more of the audio. Because you know, as I was saying, we want to be like a good visual if it is a good visual. So yeah, we'll get a good clip. Yeah. Yeah.
Nayline (01:00:54.106)
So, yeah. So I'm saying that to say that even your energy through, because I can see you while I'm recording this, but it's radiant and it's real and it's authentic. And thank you. I'm so happy I've met you and I'm even more excited for what's to come.
Meghan Houle (01:01:14.362)
I know, lots to do. Well, thank you so much for that very genuine compliment. I just try to show off. I mean, we all have our days, but the day where maybe my energy isn't radiating, I'm just laying on the floor and I'm not talking to anybody because I have a reputation to keep, right?
Nayline (01:01:18.47)
I'm sorry.
Yes.
Nayline (01:01:30.406)
It's okay, it's almost day.
Meghan Houle (01:01:32.826)
Self care. Well, force not flow everyone. You know, please go follow Nailene. She is amazing. So inspirational. Her instances are amazing with all of her businesses. I can't wait to see the new salon and support you and all that you continue to do. So thank you for sharing your advice, your journey and all your pivots here at Pivot with Purpose and we'll see you soon. Bye, thank you.
Nayline (01:01:51.622)
Yes, bye everyone. Thank you, Meg. Bye.