[Encore] Chelsea Powers and Flannery Buchanan of Bluebird & Co. Artwork

Sincerely, Your Small Business

You’ve always wanted to get to know your favorite local business owners. But with everyone’s busy schedules, it can be hard to actually sit down and chat with each other and learn about the dreams, setbacks, successes, failures, and everything in between! All of which help shape us into the humans we are today.The Sincerely, Your Small Business podcast is your window into the lives and identities of small business owners that you support year-round. What inspires them, what makes them tick, and what has helped them grow as business owners, parents, community members, and friends.It’s a way to get to know them, so that when you DO run into one another at the grocery store, park, or place of business, you’ll know that at the end of the day, we can all build relationships and connect with one another through shared experiences.

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Sincerely, Your Small Business

[Encore] Chelsea Powers and Flannery Buchanan of Bluebird & Co.

October 23, 2024 • Jess Norby • Season 4 • Episode 2

This episode originally aired on October 16, 2023.

What do you do when you meet a friend who shares your same dreams, energy level, and passions? Why you start a business of course!

Chelsea and Flannery met through the small business network of Crozet and immediately started hosting pop-up markets together to encourage and support a variety of female entrepreneurs in and around Crozet. What started as a small side hustle quickly became a dream for a shared retail space to house their two businesses, Bluebird Bookstop and Fancy & Nell. They agreed it would have to be the Just.Right.Place. When the little blue house became available, they knew they had to take a leap of faith. Together.

Flannery and Chelsea's vision from the start has been a place to house their businesses, for Bluebird to ship out of the back AND a place where they can bring in novelty products by all of the awesome female-owned businesses they continue to come across. Bluebird & Company's mission remains constant which is to encourage, empower, and support female entrepreneurs in whatever stage of their business journey.

Learn more: https://www.bluebirdcrozet.com/ and follow them on Instagram @bluebirdandco