September 4 2020
What's Next for Entrepreneurs? Micaela Brown — the visionary behind Blush & Whimsy — offers insight
September 2020: A Note from Hope & Cynthia, hosts, Inkandescent Women magazine — It is with a big giant WOW we introduce you to Micaela Brown, an uber successful brand consultant and strategist who fell in love with entrepreneurship in 2010. In a decade, she has accomplished just about anything she sets her mind to, from developing Blush & Whimsy LLC, a skincare and cosmetics company, built around the belief that all people deserve the opportunity to have magic in their everyday lives.
And, she is always on the lookout for ways she can support other entrepreneurs.
“Entrepreneurs have to become masters of many skill sets: product development, sourcing, packaging, graphic design, marketing, public relations, websites, messaging, and more,” knows the entrepreneur with a social media reach of over 100k followers. Her work has been featured by Forbes Travel, The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, and more.
Some of her past events included The Running of the Chihuahuas (she really did race 150 chihuahuas), The Whiskey Classic, Diner en Blanc Albuquerque, and gaining permission from JK Rowling to produce Christmas at Hogwarts.
“When I founded Blush & Whimsy in 2016, it meant building infrastructure around a demographic of people who are typically marginalized and unable to find work,” she explains, adding that all of Blush & Whimsy products are warehoused, assembled, quality controlled, packaged, and shipped by people with disabilities — including disabled veterans. Those products have been featured in the Grammy Gift Bags, Honoring the Academy Awards Gifting Suites, “Everyone Wins” Gift Bags given to Oscar Nominees, Cannes Film Festival, and the Real Housewives of NYC Hamptons event.
Last year, Micaela was invited to become an Enterprise Advisor at New Mexico State University’s Arrowhead Center. This tech incubator is responsible for nurturing entrepreneurs as they solve market problems through tech advances. She joined the board of experienced venture capitalists and startup veterans to advise, coach, and prepare young startups for their next stages of growth.
This truly amazing woman holds a B.A. in Psychology and Communications from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and an M.A. in Government and Politics, with a focus in Public Administration, and Certification in International Law and Diplomacy from St. John’s University in Rome, Italy.
Micaela was formerly an international trade and development consultant in Washington, D.C. with Target Market International, LLC., USAID contractor for Chemonics International, and International Trade Specialist with the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, International Buyer Program, International Trade Administration. She was also a paid intern at the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See in Rome, Italy.
So what’s next in her world given that we are in the midst of global pandemic?
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- And click here to read more about this Truly Amazing Woman — Our cover girl in the September 2020 issue of Inkandescent Women magazine: What’s Next for Entrepreneurs!