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Seeds of Change

Tey Stiteler raises flowers and sells them at her The Secret Spot flower shop, Camille Terk’s Terk Consulting helps entrepreneurs raise money

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Tipitina Bienville

Robert Mercurio co-owns Tipitina’s along with his Galactic bandmates, J.T. Nesbitt designs superfine motorbikes at his Bienville Studios

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Inspiration Perspiration

In the 1800’s Thomas Edison invented, among other things, the light bulb, the record player, and the first motion picture capture device which paved the way for the birth of movies. Was Thomas Edison a genius? In response to that question Edison said, “Genius is one percent inspiration and 99% perspiration.” Meaning, you can have…

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Mezcal Glitter

Maybe this has happened to you. You stumble onto a great new show on Netflix – and when you tell your friends about it, everybody seems to know about it already. But for some reason you never got the memo. Peter’s lunch guests today don’t have shows on Netflix, but they both have unique stories…

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NOLA Girl Power

I’m going to hit you with some statistics. About women. Here’s the first one: Around 50% of the population in the US are women. You probably knew that one. Here’s another one. Women-owned businesses. According to the National Association of Women Business Owners, 42% of existing US businesses are owned by women. So, pretty good….

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