The Blog for Hospitality, Venue & Event Professionals

Find resources you need on leadership, teamwork, and business growth here.

Here, you’ll find interviews with other business professionals, behind-the-scenes stories, and learning moments from our own experiences. Look for our Conversations with Sisters posts, where we review the previous week’s podcast interview and break down that topic even further. If you want candid, encouraging, and sometimes sarcastic advice that you can apply to your business, you’re in the right place.

Giving your team A Place at the Table, with Maggie Kane
Dana Kadwell Dana Kadwell

Giving your team A Place at the Table, with Maggie Kane

How is running a nonprofit pay-what-you-can cafe different from other businesses? Founder and executive director of A Place at the Table in Raleigh, Maggie Kane has a lot to share about the power of community, teamwork, and making others feel seen and heard.

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What teaching others teaches you, with Dr. Anissa Reilly
Dana Kadwell Dana Kadwell

What teaching others teaches you, with Dr. Anissa Reilly

At some point you have to evaluate if it's in the best interest to walk away - when you are considering walking away, are you walking away because that's the easy thing to do? Are you walking away because you just don't have any more fight?

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Can you be both a supermom and a badass entrepreneur?
Dana Kadwell Dana Kadwell

Can you be both a supermom and a badass entrepreneur?

When you've been in business for that long, I'm sure there were moments that were dicey and lean and hard, but you can look back and think that even though it felt like a low at that time - all things are working together to get you to where you're at.

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