Already having hassle tackling your New Yr’s resolutions?
Some native enterprise homeowners will help you out with merchandise meant to inspire and encourage, from comforting crystals to energizing juices.
Moreover, these breakout entrepreneurs (the oldest enterprise within the bunch opened in 2019) shared what impressed them to get began, and what pushes them to maintain going and attain their 2022 objectives.
Little Shoppe of Crystals
Lenny and Melissa Speicher have a shared curiosity: crystals.
Lenny has at all times been intrigued by crystals and fossils. His spouse, Melissa, collected them as a child. Whereas vacationing along with her household, she’d enterprise into little outlets that offered gem stones.
Now, the Speichers personal a type of shops collectively. In November 2020, Little Shoppe of Crystals opened in Sayville. Their earlier enterprise, a bead retailer, had closed earlier in 2020.
“But it surely was very serendipitous,” Lenny Speicher says. “The universe opened up all the data we wanted on the time.”
He says that the therapeutic qualities of crystals have been drawing in curious prospects for the reason that store opened. For good luck within the New Yr, he recommends inexperienced aventurine, citrine and pyrite. Crystals have totally different functions, and it’s stated that holding them or maintaining them in your purse or pocket will improve their qualities.
As for inexperienced aventurine, citrine and pyrite, “all of them reference luck, abundance and luck,” he says. “Pyrite is sweet for positivity, too.”
Little Shoppe of Crystals additionally sells candles containing these gemstone crystals inside. As soon as the candle is burned to the underside, you may take away the crystal from the jar. Two of the three main candle traces carried by the store are created by Lengthy Island lecturers, Speicher says.
In 2022, Speicher hopes to get the shop’s web site up and working, so prospects can browse stock and store on-line. He additionally wish to begin providing courses on crystals, astrology and studying tarot playing cards.
To different up-and-coming entrepreneurs, Speicher says this: “Crucial step is step one, and be sure you have a very good plan.”
The Six Juice Market
In November 2020, Ron “Six” Montgomery signed his lease on The Six Juice Market’s first stand-alone location in Sayville. In November 2021, the doorways lastly opened.
“It’s been a curler coaster,” Montgomery says. “But it surely’s been an ideal trip.”
Coping with permits and constructing codes triggered the delay, however now of us from Sayville and Oakdale are welcoming his enterprise with open arms, says Montgomery. And the workers appreciates it.
“We’ve a really inclusive work surroundings, so far as totally different workers’ ages, backgrounds and nationalities,” Montgomery says. “We work collectively and attempt to put out the perfect customer support and product doable.”
That product is a line of handmade juices, made with contemporary fruit and veggies. The flavors embody Energy 6, which accommodates kale, spinach, pineapple and lemon. Kale and spinach are “nice for digestion” whereas nonetheless forsaking wholesome fibers and nutritional vitamins, Montgomery says.
One other taste, known as Inferno 6, options watermelon, beet, ginger, orange and lemon.
“It’s nice for power,” he says. “You may drink it post-workout, pre-workout or in the course of the day if you’re lagging.”
The substances of every juice serve totally different functions. One other instance is Melo 6, whose celery and pear mixture is helpful for pores and skin and abdomen well being.
No matter which one you attempt first, “it’s an ideal jump-start to a wholesome way of life,” Montgomery says.
Montgomery began his juice line as a method to assist most cancers sufferers, as he says it “restocks the physique stuffed with nutritional vitamins and minerals.” Throughout his personal mom’s radiation therapy, he knew she wanted nutritional vitamins again in her physique greater than ever.
When he was simply beginning out, he enlisted the assistance of his buddies’ kids to taste-test the juices. Why? “Kids are essentially the most sincere folks on the planet,” he says.
Going ahead, his aim is to start out a line for youngsters — the identical juices, simply in a extra lunchbox-friendly format. (The bottles could be 4 ounces as a substitute of twelve.) Then, Montgomery hopes to get these bottles in native faculty districts.
This 12 months may even convey in-store exclusives, together with protein shakes and a line of vegan soul meals.
Hidden Gem
It was a matter of good timing for sisters Tanya Willock and Temidra Willock-Morsch.
Willock had simply left a job in retail, and after working a textile enterprise for six years, Willock-Morsch was on the lookout for her subsequent step.
“Inside six months, we opened up the shop, which was sort of superb,” Willock says.
Nestled in Southampton, Hidden Gem opened within the spring of 2019. The enterprise has turn out to be a artistic house for Willock: she sells her personal work and images there. The store additionally options clothes, equipment and residential décor.
“We prefer to say we’re artists first, businesswomen second,” Willock says. That may be tough at instances, she admits, however their mission has remained intact: “Our essential focus is to create private work in addition to showcase the work of others.”
Hidden Gems carries Hope Playing cards, an initiative began by psychological wellness firm KindSide. Hope Playing cards are available in a deck of 28, and each accommodates unique paintings and affirmations that promote positivity and create conversations round psychological well being. These embody: “What disappointment have you ever was a constructive?”
Willock purchased a deck for herself earlier than she and Willock-Morsch began carrying them of their retailer. Psychological well being is a vital a part of general well-being, she says.
“You simply decide one each morning and it’s one thing to carry and carry with you,” she provides.
The sisters turned buddies with Lindsay Quinlan, the founding father of KindSide, in the course of the pandemic. The artwork on the playing cards was created by painter and illustrator Lindsay Stripling.
One of many massive sellers at Hidden Gem are phrase band bracelets which have phrases like “Dreamer” and “Good Vibes Solely,” a little bit reminder to maintain your power constructive within the New Yr.
“The phrase band bracelets had been actually in style all through the summer time; lots of people bought them as friendship bracelets, they usually had been massive as stocking stuffers this 12 months,” Willock says.
And Hidden Gem carries embroidered material in frames with sayings comparable to “Fear Much less.”
“That’s a very good factor to see each morning if you get up,” Willock provides.
Hidden Gem will reopen after a vacation recess on Jan. 14 for the weekend, after which by appointment solely within the retailer. Their web site is offered for putting on-line orders.
Willock has realized quite a bit alongside the way in which to changing into an entrepreneur. Her recommendation for different artists and hopeful enterprise homeowners is twofold: First, simply take the leap, and plan as you go.
“Planning is sweet as a result of it’s simple and protected to sit down in your room and write down concepts, define all the things you could do,” she says, “nevertheless it by no means will get to really doing it, so it’s simple to get caught.”
And second: “Pretend it till you turn out to be it. Second-guessing your self isn’t productive.”
The Collective Consciousness
In Oakdale’s Lighthouse Commons, there’s a busy performing arts theater, a jam-packed collectibles retailer and an enormous vintage retailer. You will have simply missed The Collective Consciousness, intriguing but unassuming by its storefront.
Inside, there’s an oasis of religious instruments that can assist you begin 2022 on a peaceable be aware.
Beginning a enterprise in September 2020, although — that wasn’t simple, says proprietor Karen Valentine.
“It’s like being on the ocean throughout a storm and it’s your first day trip,” she says. “It’s been tough, nevertheless it’s been very instructional.”
The shop options loads of crystals and incense, plus uplifting décor, quite a lot of soothing candles and gemstone jewellery. The house is split up into its essential retail part, meditation and therapeutic rooms and the Curiosity Shoppe, which is a separate space with equipment and tarot playing cards. There’s additionally a station the place you may create your personal candles, utilizing important oils, crystals and herbs.
As well as, there’s an assortment of handmade journals. Journaling is crucial to reaching mindfulness within the New Yr, Valentine says.
“The massive factor I like to inform folks to do of their journal is to maintain it by your mattress,” she says. “I name it mind dumping. Each single factor you’re desirous about, write it down. It relaxes you into sleep.”
The shop additionally carries a wide array of calming important oils, a few of that are infused into soaps, candles and sprays.
“I’m continually on the lookout for merchandise which are vibrationally matched to what we’re doing right here,” Valentine says.
Within the 12 months forward, Valentine hopes to proceed elevating consciousness about The Collective Consciousness.
“I need to get the phrase out that we’re right here,” she says. “And that there’s a place for folks to satisfy which are aligned with them and their journeys.”
MORE INFO
Little Shoppe of Crystals: 12 Essential St., Sayville; littleshoppeofcrystals.com; 631-337-1618
The Six Juice Market: 291 W. Essential St., Sayville; the6juice.com; 631-892-6260
Hidden Gem: 47 Jobs Lane Suite B, Southampton; hiddengemny.com; 631-259-3494
The Collective Consciousness: 945 Montauk Freeway, Oakdale; 914-600-8391