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Bhakti Wellness Yoga, provides yoga and mindfulness training to organizations, institutions, and individuals. Corporate clients include a Division 1 University and a national active wear brand. In addition, Bhakti Wellness Yoga has a virtual yoga studio providing group yoga classes online.
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Clarissa Silva is a behavioral scientist/entrepreneur. The company focuses on improving brain health outcomes for communities of color. Since COVID-19, it has pivoted from her relationship practice to focusing more on cognitive outcomes (Social isolation, loneliness, abrupt changes to daily habits, and unemployment or financial insecurity, which have all been characterized as risk factors for major depressive and post-traumatic stress disorders with potentially long-lasting effects on brain physiology and function).
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Arion Long
Femly
Baltimore, MD
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After the sudden realization that 90% of feminine care products on the market contain harmful ingredients linked to reproductive illness and cancer, Femly was launched. It provides plant-based alternatives to toxic personal care. During the pandemic, the company pivoted and used its raw cotton materials to produce and distribute over 10,000 face masks.
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Ebony Johnson
Career Connector Pro
Brookefield, MD
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Career Connectors Pro is a startup that provides employment transition services to women. Their mission is to reduce unemployment and underemployment of women by offering career coaching aimed at helping them earn jobs, get promoted, and train for careers in new industries. The Career Connector Pro employment and coaching services directly helps clients impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic where many have faced job loss and financial insecurity. The focus will be on education and outreach specifically helping women transition into new careers.
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Goat and Bear provides modern men simple, natural, and safe facial haircare products. Their products assist in eliminating bacteria and fungi while also providing calming aromatherapy for the everyday stressors of life. The company focuses and prides itself in using natural-certified products, free of pesticides and synthetics and backed by a certificate of analysis to validate 100% authenticity.
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