Bridget and Robbie Jenkins kept delaying their dream of growing and distributing local flowers. Eventually, in the future, one day, someday -- they told themselves -- they'd go all in on their business.

They found excuses. They couldn't find the time. They had other businesses to tend to. Yet, the inner voices pulling them toward their future remained.

And as fate would have it, the universe gave the couple the push they needed. At that point, they couldn't ignore the voices any longer.

In today's conversation from their (echo-y) farmhouse, Bridget and Robbie sit down with me to discuss:

• Bridget Jenkins' Seacoast Story (00:00)
• Bridget's intuitive eating counselor career (08:31)
• The beginning of Nowadays Flowers (15:10)
• The scary moment that changed everything (23:10)
• Reflecting on Nowadays Flowers' success (33:56)
• What's your mission? (48:58)
• The Final Final Question (50:56)

Bridget and Robbie Jenkins are the co-founders of Nowadays Flowers, a micro flower farm seated on unceded Abenaki, Pennacook and Wabanaki Confederacy land in Dover, N.H. With the help of their beloved flower truck named Clover, Bridget and Robbie host educational workshops, design custom arrangements, and also deliver unique arrangements for weddings, bridal showers, and the event of your dreams.

--For more information on how you can support Bridget and Robbie, visit NowadaysFlowers.com.

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This podcast is hosted, written, researched, and produced by Spotify's ⁠Troy Farkas⁠, who lives in downtown Portsmouth.

*TRIGGER WARNING* This episode contains references to addiction. Listener discretion is advised.

Steve Ivanoski wanted to help people. So he chose to pursue a career in pharmacy.

Then, after spending years in the industry, he'd had enough. The peeks behind the curtain, coupled with his own personal battle with drug addiction, led him to leave behind everything he'd ever known in search of a better way to help people.

With the hope of filling in the blind spots left by Western medicine, Steve forayed into entrepreneurship with Dr. Beewell, a Seacoast-based wellness company that combines the nutritional benefits of honey with the therapeutic benefits of cannabis to provide consumers with a holistic path to better health.

In today's conversation from my home studio, Steve and I discuss:

• Steve Ivanoski's pharmacy education (00:00)
• Painkiller addiction (06:17)
• Using cannabis as medicine (15:50)
• Leaving the pharmacy industry (17:37)
• Steve's wellness company, Dr. Beewell (22:32)
• Simple advice for a healthy life (31:32)
• What's your mission? (33:55)
• The Final Final Question (35:26)

Steve Ivanovski is the owner and founder of Dr. Beewell, a wellness company serving Mass., N.H., and Maine. Originally from Easton, Mass., Steve attended Northeastern University, where he worked hard to become a pharmacist like his brother. After leaving the industry behind a few years ago, he founded Dr. Beewell and also began the Dr. Beewell podcast. He currently lives in Dover, N.H.

--For more information on where you can purchase delicious Dr. Beewell honey, visit Dr.Beewell.com.

--To support the telling of more Seacoast Stories like this one, please FOLLOW this podcast on our ⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠ and/or ⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠ feeds. It helps more than you know.

This podcast is hosted, written, researched, and produced by Spotify's Troy Farkas, who lives in downtown Portsmouth.

For the first 20+ years of her life, soccer was all that Katy Marshall knew. It was her entire identity.

But when reality set in that she wouldn't play professionally, panic ensued. What was her purpose without sports, and where should she go to find it?

Over the next few years, Katy asked herself these questions as she left the Seacoast in search of self-discovery. She eventually found the answers she craved, but she found them in the most unlikely of places.

In her first podcast interview, Katy opens up about life before, during, and after the founding of Studio One, the Dover-based cycling studio that gives Katy everything she's searching for in this life.

In today's conversation from the Studio One lobby, Katy and I discuss:

• Katy Marshall's Seacoast Story (00:00)
• How Katy lost her sense of self after school (05:30)
• Katy's path to becoming a spin instructor (14:00)
• Studio One's CRAZY origin story (17:35)
• Building culture and community at Studio One (37:38)
• What's your mission? (43:23)
• The Final Final Question (46:09)

Katy Marshall is the owner and founder of Studio One Cycling, Dover's first indoor cycling studio. Originally from Eliot, ME, Katy played Division III college soccer, worked barista jobs in Seattle, and taught spin classes in Nashville and California before eventually returning to the Seacoast to start her business in late 2020.

--To learn more about the various fitness classes Katy's studio offers, please visit StudioOneCycling.com.

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