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Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles.
I’m Christon and joining us today is Lynda West from The Nest.
Tell us a little bit about your business and
you’re a member of the SIREN Women’s Coop
How long have you been a member?
Just, maybe since December yeah December.
Fairly new, but it’s very exciting. It gets me out, gets me social.
I’ve met some really wonderful women. Happy to be apart of it.
How can the women of the Women’s Cooperative enjoy what you do?
The Nest is a center for babies on up to teens
concentrating on yoga and mindfulness.
It is like a youth program.
Yes, we have a center in Portsmouth , a beautiful studio there.
We also like to do some community outreach go to schools and
do some yoga and mindfulness there and just make ourselves a little bit more mobile.
Yeah from babies on up to teens and tweens everything in between. We’ve got
classes where parents can participate with the child or you can drop your
child off and go take a yoga class yourself at Tenth Gate and it’s really
just about making sure that the whole child is looked after so not just the
physical part of yoga but also the emotional and the mindfulness and
teaching them how to breathe at a young age, which I wish I would have learned.
De-stress, Yes, was definitely
self-regulation self-soothing, getting them getting them used to doing
that at a young age so that when they’re my age it’s just natural and it comes naturally.
Wouldn’t that be nice, because we have to tell ourselves every day every,
every second, breathe a little bit more.
Obviously Yoga is your passion. Are there are other things, activities or
things that you do that you get lost in?
I don’t have a lot of time for getting lost in things.
But my go to, are crossword puzzles.
It comes from my Grandma and Grandpa. I remember them sitting in their chairs
in the evening. They don’t watch a lot of TV and they were just crossworders, crossworders.
It’s just something I go to, it’s relaxing for me.
I hadn’t thought about that, just takes your mind off things.
Yeah, it does. Yeah, no TV, no phone, no nothing.
and I can just crossword anywhere, it’s very relaxing.
Are you from Aquidneck Island?
No no I was born in the Bronx
but moved to Fort Lauderdale when I was 2. I grew up in Fort Lauderdale.
What brought you to a Aquidneck island,
Whats your favorite thing?
A man ! I followed him
That is a story of many.
My husband grew up here he grew up in Portsmouth
We moved almost 20 years ago.
I’ve been here a long time. Raised the family here.
How many children do you have?
I have four. They’re older, college, high school and middle school.
What are the things that keep you motivated every day or
something a trivial thing that happened in your past that maybe changed your life?
I don’t know when this happened exactly but I remember realizing what I
wanted to do and that changed everything.
It was very empowering and it just sort of changed my outlook on everything.
It changed the way that I was raising my daughter’s and it
changed the way I made business decisions, so that was extremely
empowering. Just really, this is what I want to do, this is what I love, let’s do it.
And let’s do it !
Did any three women in the world have an impact?
It’s so hard to pick three! I have to give a shout out and this is
and this is gonna be like 300 women
to women who are doing what they love
That’s you!
and being creative and
and saying, you know what
this might work for a little while, it might not work at all,
it might be a great success, but I know that this is what I’m good at
and where my service to others lies and I’m just gonna go for it.
Like you ! Right ?
so here we are!
You have a talent and you want to share it
and that to me is… those are my women.
well I’m glad to be grouped in there.
If you were gonna go back ten years and tell yourself something
that would help change your life today.
Let’s see, so… 42 year old me, I would probably tell her
just get over the fear.
You know when you’re 42, you’re sort of running from it,
We don’t want to be uncomfortable, I don’t want be uncomfortable.
I don’t want to be afraid.
Fear of failure.
Yeah, so now, it’s just like,
I really don’t care. It might fail, it might not, it might be a great success,
Just to don’t worry about the fear.
It’s all part of it
and usually if it’s scary, it’s something really good to go after.
That is a great point,
Thank you for making that and
Thank you for joining us today on La Serena
Yeah, thank you !
and you can contact the SIREN’s Women’s Cooperative and
You can find your contact information there. www.SIRENcooperative.com
www.TheNestAtTenthGate.com
Perfect, well thank you.
Thank you
and we look forward to seeing you on
Newport Living and Lifestyles