The Virago Collaborative

Fabulous story from Molly of about her transition in grooming and dog treat baking here in Helena! With special guest Fia!

Celebrating the New Year with our Vision Board Workshop during our Tuesday Morning V Connect meeting. These professional and personal development sessions give us life!

Loved having executive coach, Mary Larson, lead our discussion today on work/life “fit and flow,” communication styles, and the passion/burnout connection. Our weekly professional and personal development meetings are so awesome!

We hope to see you tomorrow at the 6th Ward’s Holiday Stroll from 5 until 8 pm! Live music at Vanilla Bean, Santa Hayride compliments of Mae and June + our members will have shopping booths set up in the Virago Space. Lots of our neighboring businesses will be open late, too! 🎄🎁

Thank you to Kim Lloyd and for talking to us about Lentils! 🌱

You might ask, what the heck do lentils have to do with female small business owners? 📈Let us tell you! So much!

Beyond being a superior nutritional source, 🍲they are pantry stable and they help with so many health outcomes.

Montana is this country’s top producer of lentils! So it helps drive our local economy.

Teaching our kids about these whole super foods allows us an avenue to teach kids and families nutrition and recipe reading/following. Too many of our young people in our community are cooking at a young age for their families. But we can make this a positive by teaching them variety and options now.

Food security in Montana is also all about eating what we grow locally, and providing lentils to our neighbors can help in this process AND this crop adds nitrogen to the soil improving soil health for other crops like wheat!

And you already know how we feel about local food sources and Helena’s fabulous CSA programs and supporting these programs with education for consumers. We can all learn and keep working on food systems that enable all of us to buy more locally because it helps all of us! 🚜🌾

They are in the schools so ask your fourth graders all about what they are learning. And then be sure to check out the Kids Nutrition Coalition, Montana Harvest of the Month and for more information like this!!

Thanks again, Kim! 😊

Join some of our favorite small business owners who are set up with stocking stuffers galore today from 10 am until 2 pm for our annual Small Business Saturday Holiday Market! 🎁

We look forward to seeing you at our Small Business Saturday Holiday Market on November 25 from 10 am until 2 pm. We have lots of vendors with great stocking stuffers including jewelry, self-care goods, locally grown herbal teas, and more! Mimosas and kid crafts, too! 🎁

Girls Thrive is a Helena-Based nonprofit on a mission to help girls empower themselves through a variety of physical activities and educational lessons designed to promote self-confidence, self-esteem, and positive body image.

Help support this great organization by donating your time, skills or money and go check it out for your girls!

Grateful for today's enlightening session with .your.flow_ , who shared valuable insights about cyclical living. 🌱 Embracing this wisdom in both personal and professional spheres, finding harmony in the ebb and flow of life. Thank you for the empowering lessons! 🙏

DO NOT MISS THIS!

Join us and as we plan for Black Friday/Cyber Monday business offers starting NOW. She will give some ideas of what to offer, lead discussion about pricing and strategy, and walk us through how to grow our email lists between now and then.

Join us, guests welcome, and grow and learn while we connect together.

Wednesday, Oct. 11th from 9:15-10:15am

Join for a fabulous presentation and discussion we could ALL use right now! Tomorrow (Wednesday) from 9:15am-10:15am at The Virago Collaborative. Bring a friend and don’t miss this convo! 🤘📯🤩

Whether for yourself (in the way out future 😉) or you get hit with it unexpectedly, most of us have to navigate end of life scenarios. Come to those situations prepared.

Join us TODAY at 9:15am as we hear from .well.death.doula on the essentials for navigating end of life situations and conversations. 💙🪦