Episode 39: Creating intentional space and interaction w/ Bailey Feldman

Welcome to the 39th episode of the Self-Employment Success Podcast. My guest on today’s podcast is Bailey Feldman. Bailey is the founder of Fount and Flourish, a business whose mission is to redefine the female experience through a combination of their two pillars: Fount and Flourish. Through Fount they gather at events and their dedicated coworking space to build connections, share stories and skills, and enjoy and embrace the community of women. And through Flourish they grow through a combination of leadership training, consulting, and coaching that supports the development of a path forward towards a purpose driven life. In this episode Bailey shares how she came to experience such an intense passion (and frustration) with the lack of support for women in different stages of their life and career that led her to the realization that if she isn’t going to do something about it, no one will. She shares how her background in customer experience, consulting, and coaching equipped her to be able to foster this community for women. And how she is passionate about disruption and how Fount and Flourish is more than a business for women, but a business that is designed to change the mindset that women have with themselves, and society has around womanhood. In this episode we discuss the challenges of starting a business, including the loss of income, the head trash, and experience of an ever changing and growing business. Bailey’s passion is contagious. Whether you are woman or not, everyone can benefit from the wisdom and experience contained this episode (but if you are a woman, or know one, you should go check out Fount and Flourish). So with that introduction I hope you enjoy this episode of the Self-Employment Success Podcast with Bailey Feldman.

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Transcript:

Leland Gross (00:02)

Alright, welcome Bailey to the Self -Employment Success Podcast.

Bailey Feldman (00:06)

Hello?

Leland Gross (00:08)

Bailey, go ahead and tell us about yourself personally and professionally.

Bailey Feldman (00:15)

Thanks, Leland, for having me. So my name's Bailey. I live in Annapolis. Been married to my husband for about eight, almost nine years now. We have three little girls. There is Izzy, Junie, and Etta, five, four, and two. Lots of chaos, lots of fun. We also have chickens and a dog. So that's a little bit about me. I come from like a consulting as well as a nonprofit background. And last year,

actually pretty much about a year ago, officially launched my new business, Fount and Flourish. So Fount and Flourish is two words and it's kind of like two pillars. I kind of came up with the name because I had these two ideas and I was like, how do I connect these? And I just used two different words. So, but Fount and Flourish. So our overall mission is creating like intentional space and interactions for women to connect to each other as well as to their most wholesale.

So it's kind of connection to self and connection to others. Fount being like a source, a source of nourishment for female mind, body and soul. It's really kind of how we gather. It's driven by a women's community. So we have like a social membership as well as like a community co -working space for women. It's a really cool because that part of the business, it doesn't matter if you are like...

You work, you're a mom, you stay at home, you have like empty nesters, you're CEO, executive, you're in your 20s, like it's multi -generational, like a really cool group of women. And then Flourish is vigorous development and growth. And so it's all about professional development and kind of leadership and growth. So that's where I use a lot of my consulting and coaching skills. It started off by supporting women, like navigating maternity leave, like keeping women in the workforce.

And it's kind of evolved because something that I think is really important about keeping women in the workforce is a lot of like training in their 20s. So I support women a lot through like their 20s and 30s and through like leadership development programming.

Leland Gross (02:20)

Okay, so there was a lot there. So FountainFlourish and the two pillars of it, Fountain being kind of like a source of nourishment and growth for women, kind of a community of women. You said that's both just like communal as well as there's like a space, like you said a co -working space for women as well, multi -generational. And that's sort of one pillar of your business. And then the other pillar being the professional.

Bailey Feldman (02:24)

Yeah.

Leland Gross (02:49)

personal and professional development for women, mostly in their 20s and 30s surrounding like workforce or like, well, personal and professional development. So, okay. And what does that look like from, like, are those different packages? Is like, how do people pay for this, pay you? Like, what does the business structure behind that look like?