Hey everyone, welcome back. This week I'm joined by Nicole Crenzel. Nicole is an entrepreneur and CEO at Black Girl Fest. She has a love of art, technology and design. And so before I sat down to record when I was preparing, researching for this episode, I really thought that Nicole and I were going to talk a lot about entrepreneurship

and about business. But actually, the conversation really was centered around the post-pandemic

hybrid working digital world and why self-care is actually way more important than now than ever

before and how those blurred lines are

really impacting us. So it was really great conversation and I really hope that you'll enjoy

this week's episode as much as I did. Let's dive in. Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert,

wellness coach, international speaker and author.

Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches, change makers and innovators,

to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by and what motivates them to get up out of bed each day.

Personally, I am on a mission to encourage, motivate and inspire.

So I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal and professional goals.

All right, Nicole, welcome to the Power Hour podcast. How are you doing? I'm very well. Thank you. Thanks for asking. How are you? Yeah, I'm good. Thank you. I've really been looking forward to this conversation. I think, you know what, if we just dive straight in because you are, of course, the founder of Black Girl Fest. You're an angel investor and a creative entrepreneur. So we have so

much to talk about. Not to mention that Time Out magazine called you a visionary, wow, which I mean,

you know, they're not wrong, but seriously, congratulations on all of your well-deserved success,

because we love to see the recognition for all the work.

Thank you so much. Thank you. So I guess we should start there. So for anyone listening to the show

who may not know you and what you do in your journey and also maybe they don't know everything

or anything about Black Girl Fest, I'd love to start with that. So it's a platform dedicated

to Black women, girls and non-binary

people. And I know that you initially did, you know, as I say, getting things off the ground

takes a lot of work. You initially did a crowd fund and also utilised the power of social media

and community to really get it started. But I can only imagine really how much,

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