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Meet Linzi Murray, owner of Reading in Public Bookstore + Cafe

Story and photos Emily Kestel, Fearless editor Age: 27 Hometown: Shawnee, Kan.  Education: Drake University, bachelor’s in painting and graphic design Family: Husband, Gooi Hobbies: Planning, reading Rest assured that when you walk into the new Reading in Public bookstore at 315 Fifth St. in West Des Moines’ Valley Junction, Read more…

By Emily Kestel, 2 weeks2 weeks ago
Business Ownership

Community raises $3,000 for new joint bakery during fourth annual Flourish Fund event

By Emily Kestel Imagine pulling open the door to a small neighborhood bakery. The homey smell of yeast, butter, sugar and spices gently wafts through the air. You peruse the counters for freshly baked sourdough bread and pie to take home to share with the people you love the most.  Read more…

By Emily Kestel, 5 months5 months ago
A stack of three planners, one red, one white and one light red. They all say The Agenda Period on them.
Business Ownership

How one Iowa woman is helping dismantle the stigma surrounding periods, one month at a time

By Emily Kestel, Fearless editor Period shaming is pervasive: A 2018 study by Thinx revealed that nearly 60% of menstruators have felt embarrassed simply because they were on their period. Additionally, 62% admit feeling that they feel uncomfortable using the word “period.”  Before she created a planner to help menstruators Read more…

By Emily Kestel, 1 year1 year ago
Business Ownership

Third annual Flourish event raises $3,500 for ‘plant-based, allergy-friendly, lesbian-owned’ bakery

By Emily Blobaum, Fearless editor Much like the rest of the world, Marti Payseur did not know what was in store for 2020. In 2019, Payseur and her partner, Ash Bruxvoort, opened Thistle’s Summit Bed & Breakfast, a 2,800-square-foot Victorian home in Mount Vernon that became “a beacon for the Read more…

By Emily Kestel, 1 year1 year ago
Business Ownership

Funding ‘ideas that matter,’ Flourish event back for third year

BY EMILY BLOBAUM, FEARLESS EDITOR Around the same time that Emily Steele left her job working for a community development nonprofit to get FemCity Des Moines off the ground, the state of Iowa found itself at the bottom of the list of women-owned businesses. In fact, in 2015, Iowa was ranked dead last Read more…

By Emily Kestel, 1 year1 year ago
Business Ownership

UNSELFISH | AMBER COLLINS

Amber Collins is the owner of the Healing Source and the Soul Book Nook, both bookstores that opened this summer. The Soul Book Nook is the first Black-owned bookstore registered in the state of Iowa. Before opening her bookstores, Collins worked at a nonprofit she founded to address the needs Read more…

By Emily Kestel, 2 years2 years ago
Advocacy & Community Involvement

INTRODUCING: FEARLESS

This summer, I traveled 1,453 miles across the state to ask 12 women the same questions: When was a time that you were fearless? What does being fearless mean to you? What does it look like? What does it feel like?  In doing so, I’ve had a lot of time Read more…

By Emily Kestel, 2 years2 years ago
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