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Founder & CEO 🍦• @katesicecream @kateswafflecones
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Portland. I love you so 💚

Thank you to @rouxportland for the honor of being a panelist for the Secret Sauce panel with such incredibly talented and passionate entrepreneurs @katesicecream @pipsqueakbagels @keia_and_martyns_coffee

This weekend was a blast and a reminder why I love this city so much. The community and support for small businesses is vast. I repeat often that if @getchowines had launched in any other place, I don’t believe we’d have the strong sense of community we’ve fostered today.

Go support all these amazing businesses and hosts that were a part of this weekend:
@thehoxtonhotel @pamanapdx @decadentcreationspdx @baileyscalligraphy
@gadogadopdx @musangseattle @cafeolli
@pdxfireside @cascadapdx
@straightawaycocktails

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The girls come out to play ☀️🥂
#businessladies #womenowned

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@xceleratewomen and @prosperportland are hosting the Secret Sauce panel again this year during the @rouxportland weekend. An inspiring panel conversation featuring women in food, beverage, and CPG sharing honest stories about growing their businesses on their own terms.

The panel theme is placemaking and the role that physical spaces (cafes, shops, cities, regions) play in creating community and informed decision making about when and how to sustainably expand product offerings.

Featuring:
♦️Katelyn Williams, @katesicecream
♦️Lois Cho, @getchowines
♦️Su Embree (moderator)
♦️Keia Booker, @keia_and_martyns_coffee
♦️Madilyn Gibbons, @pipsqueakbagels

🎟️ TICKET INCLUDES: panel discussion, snacks from @cascadapdx and beverages from @straightawaycocktails
📆 Sunday, Oct 11
⏰ 3-6pm

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Have you been to @katesicecream yet? We recently met up with Kate to sample some ice cream and hang with their cutest employee 💕 Just a few blocks away on 23rd, it’s the perfect post Yo shopping treat!

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Proof of life👋🏽

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🍒🍒🍒PROBABLY MORE BTS THAN YOU WANT💣💣💣

Howdy good people!! Welcome to another episode of “What happened to the time?!?” Where I post something from months ago that I meant to post MONTHS AGO!

This episode is from my second trip to NYC back in April for the exquisite and hotly-anticipated annual @cherrybombe gala, JUBILEE!

Kerry & Team have really upleveled this entire experience. Last time I attended Jubilee was back in 2024 and oh how the gals have grown! It was a full-blown, legit GALA. Stars, the hottest and best chefs in NY, curated snacks and bevvies, and enough cookbooks to build a culinary castle with. All wrapped up in every hue of pink and red and glamour! 🤩🥂💖 Truly, what an amazing day!

All the moms were there: the Maher sisters’ mom, Kerry’s mom, and of course my mom! Matriarchal vibes!

Thank you to @adriannamaher and @liviemaher for being the most fun and welcoming to share a stage with! And for signing Mom’s copy of the magazine! 🥰💝

Huge thanks to @kateyoungwilliams for finding me in the sea of women to bring me a familiar hug from PDX!

Massive thank you to the many wonderful humans who shared their love and passion of women’s sports and spaces made for us with me throughout the day. 🥰

So eternally proud of women in the food and beverage industry that have changed the game and continually smash systems to create spaces, opportunities, visibility, joy, vision, and of course the most delicious experiences. ✨🫶✨

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If you saw me spinning in a crosswalk with a little donut… No, you didn’t 🤝

#pdx #pdxairport #marketing #behindthescenes

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In case you missed last week’s episode of Kate’s Reality TV…

We have been overwhelmed by all the love from this situation. Thank you all for showing up in stores and online, we truly have the best community🩷

#pdx #pdxfoodie #realitytv #foodindustry

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Life was getting crazy. Too crazy. Decided to take a breath & surprise my best friend & newborn nephew in Portland. Showed up on her doorstep and FaceTimed her (she didn’t answer for 30 minutes, but whatever 🤣)

The power of a thirty year friendship is forever healing ❤️‍🩹

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The Collab of the Year has arrived.
Meet your newest Collab Cousin 💜

We spent 22 days in the hospital.
Not the plan.

The plan was two days in mid-December, not all of November. We were there so long I knew the nurses, security, and Starbucks staff by name. They started asking me what the Collab of the Year was.

Like many people, we had a due date. But due to medical complications, our little guy had to arrive early. About four weeks early. It was one of the scariest experiences of my life. So many unknowns.

Machines. Cords. Nurses, doctors, specialists coming in and out at all hours. Day and night blurring together.

To add another layer, my wife and I are both entrepreneurs. She’s running her ice cream company Kate’s, still wrapping up business calls while all of this was happening. And yes, the team and I still produced Collab of the Year from the hospital.

But none of that mattered more than making sure mom and baby were safe.

Turns out the most important collab this year had nothing to do with brands.

Thanks to the incredible people at Providence Portland Medical Center, we’re home healthy and together.

Appreciate everyone who checked in, sent love and DoorDash giftcards, or gave us space these last few weeks. Big love to our @nuna_usa fam.

Cousins, I’ll be back mid-January. I’m fully in dad mode.

Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays. Happy New Year. 💜

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Easy to fall in love with these two… (soon to be 3!) ❤️ @kateyoungwilliams @bimmawilliams

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