Author: NY Weekly Staff

With the success of her debut book, “A Safe Place to Land: Mood By a Millennial,” Pria Showalter is not only penning the sequel but has also expanded her lifestyle brand, Mood By a Millennial. The brand has recently added a line of greeting cards and accessories to their impressive catalog, which includes apparel, home decor, and books.

The Mood By Millennial brand is a clarion call to all to recognize and utilize their unique talents, potentially birthing a new generation of entrepreneurs. In essence, the brand serves as a retail motivation oasis for those navigating the convoluted labyrinth of adulthood. The new line of accessories bears the brand logo and allows fans to show their support via a selection of premium products.

Mood By a Millennial focuses mostly on women of color within the millennial generation – aged 25 and up – but is committed to providing a safe haven for everyone in need, reflecting emotions and thoughts that many may feel too inhibited to vocalize. 

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The brand’s message is disseminated through innovative mediums featured in Showalter’s book, “A Safe Place to Land: Mood By a Millennial”. These include workshops, pop culture quizzes, affirmations, playlists, business tips, and more. The book serves as a beacon of hope for the younger generations, challenging the parochial views of success and perfection. Showalter embraces authenticity and resilience as the keys to thriving, encouraging her readers to strive for their goals irrespective of life’s hurdles.

Pria Showalter is also a self-care enthusiast, millennial lifestyle maven, and an astute co-pilot guiding her audience through the journey of life. A graduate of the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising, New York, Showalter’s passion for creativity has found expression in diverse forms like art, film, and content curation, reaching people across the globe and inspiring them to pursue happiness on their terms.

The visionary author and entrepreneur sits on the board of the Sandra Showalter Williams Foundation, leveraging her platform to mentor people and help them sharpen their entrepreneurial skills. Her lifestyle brand, Mood By a Millennial, celebrates individuality while navigating the complexities of adulthood.

In the next five years, Showalter envisions Mood By a Millennial transforming into a household name, empowering women across all demographics to have their voices heard. She sees her brand expanding its reach by organizing interactive workshop conferences globally, fostering partnerships with major retailers, and promoting her product lines. Most importantly, she aims to break old mindsets and nurture a community that values setting personal and professional boundaries.

“Staying in your lane is important, but knowing when to switch lanes is too,” Showalter shares about her pathway to success. “Good timing is everything. What’s meant for you won’t pass you. You are the main character of your story, so define what success is on your terms.”

The launch of the new Mood By a Millennial products – which includes greeting cards as well as the new accessories – stands testament to Showalter’s unwavering commitment to her vision, setting a stellar example for aspiring entrepreneurs.

“This marks an exciting milestone for our brand,” Showalter says. “It’s been a journey to get to this point but now that the company is really growing and expanding, it’s all paying off. I honestly feel that entrepreneurship, though challenging, is a path worth taking. With consistency, work ethic, and vision, the recipe for success is inevitable.”

With Pria Showalter’s vision and commitment to empowering individuals, the brand continues to provide a safe space for self-expression and personal growth. As they strive to become a household name and empower women across the globe, Mood By a Millennial remains dedicated to helping individuals define their own success and pursue their dreams with unwavering passion and authenticity.

Learn more: https://moodbymillennial.com/ 

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Home improvement and renovation projects can be so cumbersome and unfulfilling.

Between isolating and prioritizing projects to finding contractors who can work within a budget and offer competitive bids, homeowners are sometimes expending more time and energy than if they picked up a hammer and saw themselves. 

Identifying issues with a home. Finding a contractor. Waiting for that contractor to show up and assess the situation. Sorting through quotes. Working within a budget. Trying to agree on a contract. All of this wastes time.

Home renovation and improvement projects should be gratifying and fun. They should instill in a homeowner a sense of pride, rather than a sense of confusion and frustration generated by many moving parts.

Working to resolve these issues is Zuriel Babalola, who launched the revolutionary startup Homezze to streamline the home renovation industry and simplify the process for customers and the professionals hired to serve them. The Homezze solution illustrates a range of issues plaguing the industry, including:

• The lack of price transparency and difficulties in obtaining quotes.
• Limited competition and downward pressure on prices in existing platforms.
• The need for a solution that benefits both customers and professionals.

Any homeowner or contractor who signs up with the platform—there is no charge—will see in short order how Homezze generates competition, drives quality and decreases costs. Costs are market-driven. Milestones drive project management. Pay-as-you-go defines how financial obligations are met. The removal of barriers to getting work done underscores the entire process. 

Contractors have immediate access to project notifications, which extend into the local community. Once a project is created, service professionals can engage with the homeowner directly through a messaging app; video conferencing; or in-person meeting. 

In addition to renovations, Homezze services include fire and water damage services; lawn and garden; cleaning services; gutter services; painting; tree services; HVAC installation; pool installation and servicing; and more.   

Homezze expands its reach through a series of partnerships, with financial institutions providing home improvement loans and retail stores creating project funnels for contractors.

Key to the Homezze solution is its unique bidding system and the way in which it offers direct engagement between homeowners and service professionals. This feature offers control and choice for contractors as they place bids on projects, and provides homeowners with transparency and fairness in their selection of service professionals.

Zuriel devised the bidding system in the wake of his own frustrations with home renovations. What he envisioned as a straight-forward project turned into a two-year ordeal, and he ended up simply selling the property. One of his biggest takeaways was how the bidding process failed homeowners. So he developed a model in which contractors competed against their peers for a job, rather than submitting price quotes to homeowners in a vacuum.

This approach solves a number of problems by:

• Bringing efficiency to a market saturated with lead generation engines and fake leads
• Avoiding counterparty risks that can emerge when services are paid for but not delivered, or are delivered with poor quality.
• Saving time that can be wasted when homeowners and service professionals are negotiating a contract. 
• Emphasizing bilateral project management synchronized between clients and service professionals. 

“Our team empowers both homeowners and service professionals,” Zuriel said. “That’s the uniqueness that my team understands and what we’re trying to do in this space—and that’s what motivates them.”

He added that, even with Homezze’s small team, “They see the big picture, and that fosters their collaboration and their energy—their intensity. And that, of course, translates into deliverability, delivering products and services that truly add value.”

The Homezze core values, Zuriel said, revolve around “Our team. It’s the collaboration between team members and the sense of urgency to create solutions for consumers. We’re solving problems that are affecting people’s lives. To create that solution, we really had to challenge ourselves with the idea of what it means to collaborate, what it means to have a sense of urgency and what it means to take a complex idea and make it simple.”

As the leader of this team, Zuriel relies on the experience he gained as a senior product manager who worked in tech for the last dozen years. With his past work, he developed applications in a range of business verticals, including the Victoria’s Secret and Express fashion companies. He has also worked in multiple product roles focusing on energy, logistics and club management sectors.

Now, customers are weighing in with positive reviews on Zuriel’s latest endeavor—Homezze. 

“I needed a door replacement for a newer one I got from Home depot,” said Cindy S. “Within one hour, I received competitive bids from professionals in the area. I would recommend Homezze simply for the ease of use and responsiveness.”

Barbara C needed to replace a tub.

“So, we took a picture and posted a description of what we wanted done,” she said. “I was really surprised to see how easy it was to receive competitive bids from many plumbers and how professional they were. We will be using Homezze again.”

Service professionals can learn more by visiting homezzepro.com. Homeowners can learn more by visiting homezze.com.