Dog owners cherished this canine conscious café manners class, “Cocktails and Commands “, offered by Lucky Dog Resort, a luxury Dog Resort and daycare social club and Eye to Eye Dog Training. learning how to “speak dog” and demand better behavior while fireside patio dining at Hotel Viking. $757 worth of prizes were handed out! Def stay tuned for the next event or reach them direct for sitting and training! @GambitGibson loves Lucky dog resort!
SIREN Stories on La Sirena – showcasing the personal side of professional women and SIREN Women’s Cooperative members that live, work and play on Aquidneck Island located in alluring Newport County.
Get to know Sarah Nadimpalli the director of SWC through the signature SIREN questions…
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Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles.
I’m Christon and we are here with Sarah Nadimpalli from the SIREN Woman’s Coop
and she has put together and organized an entire series just for you
with all the co-op members on La Sirena.
Yes your beautiful boat Christon thank you so much for allowing our SIREN members
who have wonderful businesses, to come on and talk about, not only their businesses
their professional side but their personal side too. I think I’m
gonna get to know you today a little better as well.
I don’t know we’ll see…
You have organized signature questions for everybody today, so this will be really
fun to get to know the deeper side of some of the business owners.
Tell us a little bit about your business.
I opened siren women’s cooperative
along with about 14 founding members one year ago in September . We’ve almost
been in business for a full year and we’re a group of professional women who
come together for one two three monthly talks, that center around topics that
matter to them, such as, work/life manage, women’s health if you’re over 30, telling
your birth story, how to start a startup business. We focus on a range
of personal and professional topics that resonate with women. The talks are
really the beating heart of Siren. We have a lot of fun events, community
collaborations like the one we’re doing with you, many of you know our SIREN book
that’s out and benefiting our community service arm, which is called the “Ready to
Work Exchange” so that’s the the business of SIREN and it’s been a fabulous eye
opening, exciting and enriching year. I’m really thankful to have met you and
so many other women. You are a remember a SIREN.
You are so right,
there are so many great women involved in this program that you’ve started all by yourself.
Well, we have founders and they really contributed.
I kind of say I’m the catalyst, I’m the
lightning rod, but really, you know, at our meetings
members shape what happens, they shape the talks that we host, they shape the
events that happened, the the culture and the tone of the group, really comes out of
member meeting. I can’t, I really cannot take all the credit.
Well somebody with this ambition and this thought is pretty deep person so
let’s get to know a little bit about you. What are some of the things, hobbies
activities or interests that you may get lost in?
Oh so I lose time in painting.
I use acrylic paints and canvas, my favorite class in high school was always
art. My teacher would always have to tap me on the shoulder and get
me to pay attention to go to the next class. My little hobby is art. yeah.
That’s really unique, people have so many different interests.
There’s a lot of that on Aquidneck Island.
What is it that you like about it Aquidneck Island so much?
I was thinking about this actually the other day and I like
that there are so many secrets and hidden gems.
One of our friends Karen Chabot found a mermaid pool off the cliff walk and now
I’m gonna tell everyone about it. I am going to spoil the mermaid pool. I just love that there’s always something…
There’s a couple, I think.
There’s more than one, I’m willing to bet, but I like the secrets the hidden gems.
What has motivated you or pushed you past a struggle in your life.
I think just coming from the Midwest, we have kind of a Midwestern
sense of ethic, you know, when the tough gets going, you just, you know, you bear
down, and you push further and you just keep going. yeah.
Would you be able to name three women that have changed you whether locally or
abroad or internationally or celebrities that have made a difference in your life?
That’s a good one, that’s yeah, that’s a good one. so Ruth Bader Ginsburg has, you know, done so
much for women in shaping policy and law in our favor so she’s one woman.
I was just talking about Lizzo who is this kind of newer to the scene R & B rap artist.
She’s from Detroit Midwest like me and she’s all about being body-positive, and
embracing who you are, and showing up, being seen, so she’s someone I’ve really enjoyed.
Hey Lizzo do you think we can get her up on stage with you?
Come on Lizzo, hook a mid western girl up!
and then, you know, tomorrow we’re at CK Bradley, we were so honored to be
invited to present our book and talk about SIREN there and Suzanne Ramponi
who has done so much for our “Ready to Work Program” will also be there and so
she’s someone I really am thankful for.
Yeah, she’s really special.
Thank you so much for joining us today on La Sirena representing the SIREN Womens Coop.
Wait a minute, Wait a minute. You’re not getting out of this without knowing a little more about the woman…
People don’t need to know about me.
Yes we do and so I want to know
what’s your passion or hobby you lose time in?
Oh boy, um uh let me just say
since moving to Rhode Island I have expanded my interests and hobbies and I
have taken up so many things that I couldn’t just name one. Yeah, so I’m
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Joe Nicholson, City Manager and part of the A Team that helped launch Innovate Newport ( I.N. ) , speaks to the difficulties to launch, the collaborations that made I.N. come to fruition and the opportunity that I.N. has to capitalize on the strengths of the region, strength of Rhode Island’s economy and, it’s blue economy.
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We are with Joe Nicholson, City manager of Newportand he’s gonna tell us a little bit about being on the A-teamto get Innovate Newport, to where is today.Innovate Newport, as you are probably aware, is not only aconstruction infrastructure project if you will, but it’s a plus one idea.The construction project was difficult, re-purposing of a 33,000 squareold school building , but we did it. We did it in collaboration with a number ofgovernment agencies and private partners. We are here.Innovate Newport is an opportunity, it’s an opportunity to capitalize on the strengths of the region,strengths of Rhode Island, strengths of Newport.Which of course are the ocean economy,defense economy and quite frankly our people.The innovative people that we have here in the State of Rhode Island.That’s what we’re trying to capitalize on is is the ability to move industry forward,move small business forward.You just take it to another level and just strengthen the economy.not only locally but in the state and regionally.The most important aspect as I saidis you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand that the strongest suit is the ocean.so we want to enhance the blue economy and all the things that go along with that.well Joe has been an integral part of making this happen.Always raising is hand in the good times and the bad times.Thank you for making this come to fruition so that we have a space here.English
A groundbreaking app that will help you navigate the city whether you are a local or resident offering you insights into restaurant specials, pet friendly establishments, events and more! Download the app at https://www.heybuki.com/newport-rhode-island/
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Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles.I’m Christon and joining me today is Buki representative John Muggeridge.Great, thanks for having me.Absolutely, well I like to call him Mr. Muggs.So, you can do that too, I think? You’d accept that?Anytime, Anytime.So JohnJohnWhat is a Buki?Buki is an app that’ll provide you a mobile experience throughout Newport. Giving you information that you might need or want to help navigate the city whether you’re a resident or whether you’re a visitor.It’s really a very handy thing to have and it’s a free download.You have different sections?Yeah, yeah, the app is kind of structured with a look like Instagram.So you scroll up, it’s got a photo with a little bit of information.Across the top there are channels.What are some of the favorite channels?Well the mansion’s Channel is a big one.There’s a lot of information about the mansions,if you’re visiting the mansionsThere’s a channel for Fort Adams.To learn a little bit more about the history of the fort.in addition to like going to their concerts,and their eventsand their events and things.There’s a special channel for people from Newport.Which is all about pets.MmmHmmmm….. everybody’s FavoriteThere’s all sorts of pet friendly things,pet supplies, there is a pet boarding service.If you want to take a night out without your dog.They can put the put your dog up for the evening.There’s a lot of different ways to use the appIncluding dining other things to do.Like Restaurants and suchYeah, it’s all in there.That’s fantastic, Thanks so much for telling us all about Buki.How can people download this app? Where do they go?They go to www.LetsBuki.comIs it LetsBuki.com? Love it.Here is the visual.That little guy is Buki.and this is a dog?Buki is a dogOkay now, where did the name Buki come from?Originally?… Honest to god, I can’t tell you.It’s secret guys, its secret…If you can find out, please let me know.I have seen the dog in person, he’s very cute.What is it? English bull dog…?Ah Man… I don’t know…We’ll look it up and we’ll report back.We will get back to you.Named after an actual dog that the owners have, and the dog talks.WOW…so this is like a talking dog app.It’s communicating with you through the app, Buki talks, Buki Speaks.Well thanks so much for sharing that with us today. Download this app atLetsBuki.comAgain, its a free download. We’d love to get you downloaded.We’d love to get the feedback from you and what you like and what you don’t like.If you need to get a hold of me, get a hold of Christonand she can certainly hook you right up.I’ll put you a link in the bio.That works for me !Alright right ! Thanks so much!Thank You Christonand we look forward to seeing you onNewport Living and Lifestyles