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Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles.
I’m Christon and joining us today is Kim Fuller of Kim fuller photography.
I know you have some other things but you’re also a SIREN coop member.
I am and very excited to be.
How long have you been a member?
Wow, almost from the beginning because it hasn’t been quite a year yet
that it’s been around, but yeah I came in pretty early so I’m excited about that.
Welcome to The La Sirena Siren Cooperative Series.
Thank you.
Which is a little bit more on the personal side,
but we’d like an overview of your business,
before we get to know you a little bit better.
First of all, thank you for having me,
because I’ve been following you for a long time.
Oh , Thank you!
My business has been evolving
I’ve been a photographer for you know 30 years,
but I’m starting to use my photography along with mindfulness,
to help women really,
really see who they are.
I do everything from empowerment shoots,
branding shoots for their businesses and
trying to capture something that they feel is authentic to them.
We get away from sort of that stagnant you know coffee cup on the white bed,
kind of business shot, because that’s really not everyone, and so I’m
trying to pull out something in them that they feel attracts the kind of
clients that they want to work with, first of all. I really feel like the more
authentic we can be, the more, the more our life can feel a little freer
especially in our businesses, so I do that and then along with that, a little
mindfulness coaching, along with the photo shoots, as well as, just separately.
With all of your background and your diverseness,
What are some of the hobbies, on the side that, or activities, that inspire you or get you get lost in ?
I study Buddhism so I do a lot of reading and try to listen
to a lot of YouTube videos from various monks and teachers, so that’s a
lot of work, but I love it. I’m just kind of a nerd in the analytical side of
the life so Buddhism is my analytical…
An analytical Buddhist?
I know, imagine that? Well Buddhism is very analytical at least Tibetan Buddhism is.
There’s a lot of layers to it and so
it gets me really thinking, it gets me really thinking and then meditation along with that.
I really love just going out and hiking in the woods and and being,
being on the water as much as possible and just sitting and being.
Is that your favorite thing about Aquidneck Island?
Oh my god yes, like that hour between like
5 and 7 or 8PM, when the sun’s going down my husband and I
just get the chair out, we get our snacks and go down to the beach and it’s
like a big exhale. I just love it, that’s my favorite thing about living near the beach,
is you can just pop down there in a second.
What are some of the things in life that have made you who you are today, that have motivated you?
I would have to say my kids more than anything, my own children and they just,
this generation is so smart to me. I just think they have a lot of tools at their fingertips
and they’re using them really well.
My youngest son is adopted and he has inspired me in a different way than my other kids did,
because he came from such a tough beginning, which I did not have at all, so
I didn’t really know a lot about that kind of thing, so he’s particularly
motivated me, so much so that I wrote a book and did a TED talk.
The book is called Finding and it brings in my whole Buddhist practice and how that helped me
get through the whole adoption slash issues that my son had.
“Our son” had, I always say that, but the whole family…
Changing peoples lives, even in the household.
Would you say that there’s any three women in in the world, in your life, that have helped you become the person you are today?
Yeah you know, like you said, and I know in a previous interview that I watched,
my daughter inspires me every day. She’s so creative and she’s a go-getter.
She doesn’t let anything, like you said, like she knows,
No Fear
Very little fear and she battles a touch of anxiety,
but she’s really learned to overcome that and I’m very proud of her
for doing that and she looks for tools to do it.
She has a great role model.
Well thank you and
I really love Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez I always mess up her name Ocasio-Cortez the new U.S. Representative.
She’s the Hispanic woman who came from literally like working in a restaurant,
grassroots, and became a U.S. Representative and she is kicking butt.
and I love her because she didn’t let the fact that she came from a grassroots
organization or worked in a restaurant to stop her from making change in the world.
I really admire her.
She’s motivated.
Yeah and then I would say my grandmother because I think that she was
she was from that generation where women didn’t necessarily have careers but she
was a legal secretary and I think if it been this time, now, she would have been a lawyer for sure.
She would get dressed every day with the pin and the buttons and do the whole thing.
It was great, she was very inspiring.
If you were gonna look back at yourself, younger, what would you give yourself for advice?
Wear more bikinis!
Let it go, Let it go!
Cause something is happening with this body!
Something is happening with this body and I’m just not recognizing it
so I’m saying wear more bikinis girls ! Show what you got it!
Let’s get real
We are not getting any younger over here.
I’II love my body for what it serves me
and how its help me get my kids and the whole thing but yeah,
wear more bikinis!
High-five on that!
Well thank you so much for joining us today.
We hope to learn more about you in the near future and
we look forward to seeing you on
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Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles
I’m Christon and joining me today is
Katie Annulli from KMA Organizing. Welcome.
Thank you
Also SIREN Women’s Cooperative member.
Yep
Welcome to La Sirena
Thank you, I appreciate it.
We are doing a series of boat interviews where we get to know some of the
SIREN members businesses and a little bit more on a personal level.
How exciting, tell us about your business.
I am a professional organizer. I have a residential side of my business as well as I work with small businesses.
I help people to organize their homes from kitchens, closets,
basements , garages, I help people with moves, purging and packing for a move
as well as unpacking and setting up their house when they get to their new place.
Then on the small business side I do bookkeeping, data based organizing,
digital files, processes, productivity, kind of just getting the business flowing
so that they’re in a good place and can run it more smoothly.
What about a home office?
Yeah , I definitely organize home offices too
You need a space where you feel comfortable going in to do your taxes, right?
Definitely, Yes
Thanks for sharing that with us
How can they find you?
My website is KMAOrganizing.com
I also have a Facebook as well as Instagram and they’re both
@KMAorganizing
Did this startup is a hobby or passion for you
or do you have other things that you get lost in ?
I do get very lost in organizing. I find it very fun and I often lose time with my clients.
Another hobby that I really do like lose time in is sewing.
I started to sew earlier this year and I really enjoy being able to make something. .
It’s a very detail-oriented hobby so I like it, it fits my personality.
You get sucked into it, Wow, well I have some dress ideas, maybe we can….
I don’t know if I am there yet.
Okay, so when did you move to Aquidneck Island?
I actually live in Warren but I’ve lived in Rhode Island for about a year and a half.
What is it that you like about Aquidneck Island?
I love the landscape, I moved to Rhode Island to be closer to the ocean
and I get to see the ocean every single day so I love that.
It is really beautiful, is it not
What is something that motivated you or pushed you out of your comfort zone?
I would say yoga. I’m a big yogee and and yoga has changed my life.
I’ve been practicing for about 10 years and it has taught me a lot of patience and
perseverance and through my breath, I’ve been able to get through a
lot of challenging situations off the mat.
I want to ask you so many more questions.
We SIREN’s have set a protocol with very SIRENista questions.
Did any women in the world help inspire you to become the person that you are today?
Yes, definitely, I have… it’s hard to think about just three women,
because there are a lot of people that really do inspire me.
I would say my mom first of all,
Yes, They always do, Its almost like an inside unspoken rule.
She did instill a love for order and organization in me.
She also is just so unselfishly loving and supportive and it’s really inspiring.
I’d say someone else Christa Ripa
who’s one of my clients, she’s a virtual client of mine. She has a branding and
marketing company in San Francisco and she has really taught me a lot about
building a business based on something that you’re passionate about and making
something you’re passionate about into a successful business.
Also balancing self-care and having fun as well as running a business so
she’s been very helpful to me.
Work hard , play Hard.
Then I’ll say Michelle Obama as my last one.
What about Michelle Obama?
She’s had a different upbringing than a lot of people and she’s been very
successful in our country obviously and supporting of President Obama.
Yeah, Definitely , did you read the book?
I did
It was really enlightening.
If you were going to go back in time and give yourself a nugget of advice when you were younger, what would it be?
I would say have more confidence in yourself and your ideas and
you can achieve what you put your mind to.
I love that. Thanks so much for joining us
Thank you
on La Sirena today and telling us your SIRE story.
Thank you for having me.
We will have to have you back in the near future and we look forward to seeing you on
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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
surfing, I’m sailing, I’m boating, I’m painting, I’m running, I’ve done
triathlons. These are all new things since moving to Newport Rhode Island in
2005 that I never, never would have done before, I don’t think.
So you lose time in a lot of things.
I love it, I just stay busy, it’s wonderful.
Favorite part about the island?
I actually have to go back to that same concept.
Everybody here is very outdoorsy, very, I don’t use the word athletic, but
they have so many broad interests about being outside we get a very short season.
I mean in the winter people ski down my street, on Pelham Steet, I mean it’s the main thoroughfare downtown
and in the summer there’s, you know, paddleboarding and I love that about this place and
people will just say come and work out with us, come and come over here, let’s do this,
and most people have memberships too many different gyms.
that’s cool.
You can do yoga and tennis and it’s just so fun. Everybody’s very welcoming to the community.
Always keep busy. What is something that has motivated you during a time of challenge?
You know, I think that my daughter has inspired me in my entire life.
You know I’ve always wanted her to have somebody to look up to,
and know that no matter what decisions that you make, you can make a change.
You don’t have to you know succumb to either how you were raised or
whatever life that is and says she’s always pushed me to go forward and to
keep going, even in my times of melancholy, and we all have them, We are up, we are down.
So every day I wake up, I say my daughter probably would not like it if I stayed so sad.
It keeps me going every day.
She sounds like one of your three women that you admire.
I have learned a few things hanging out with you.
You know she actually is really special.
She is in a mindset that she makes happen whatever she wants.
She will dream it and it will come.
That is a really unique quality that I think a lot of people want and it’s so natural for her. Yeah.
What other women, that you know of, anywhere,
What other women inspire you?
I have to say all the women that I surround myself with
inspire me every day, just whether it’s, their motivation or
the way they communicate or the way they dress or
their sense of abilities to do certain things.
Everybody has a unique quality so I really find that very unique.
but I have to go back to Oprah
I knew you were going to say Oprah.
You know who doesn’t love Oprah?
She changed the forefront of the way we think, and the way we speak and Super Soul Sundays….
Totally!
This is almost like a Super Soul Sunday right here. We are getting to know each other.
Thanks for answering those questions, that was fun.
Thank you for forcing that out of me, unexpectedly, I appreciate that. It wasn’t
as traumatizing as I thought when you first asked it.
well thanks so much for setting this whole thing up for us.
Check out SIREN women’s Coop www.sirencooperative.com
Sign up, call Sarah, It’s a great program.
and we look forward to seeing you on Newport Living and Lifestyles.