Spotlight on Women-Owned Small Businesses
In this new series on The Three Tomatoes Happy Hour Podcast, we are highlighting women-owned businesses, a powerful force in the global economy, driving innovation, job creation, and community development. In the U.S., women own 39.1% of all businesses, with their growth rate outpacing men’s by 82.4% from 2019 to 2023. Despite these strides, challenges like funding disparities and industry biases persist. Let’s support women-owned businesses—whether through direct purchases, mentorship, or advocacy
Confused about CBD products?
Watch or listen to this episode (or wherever you listen to podcasts) of The Three Tomatoes Happy Hour. This episode features Oksana Pidhoreckyj, co-founder of Roman Empire Farms, who discusses the movement towards natural plant medicines for self-care and her small-batch CBD hemp company based in upstate New York.
Established in 2019, Roman Empire Farms offers tinctures, gummies, and topicals for humans and pets, emphasizing natural, hand-planted, and hand-harvested products. Oksana and her partner, both media professionals, started the business after noticing the benefits of CBD for their senior cat. They use organic fertilizers and biodynamic growing methods. Despite challenges like weather and marketing, they aim to expand their product line and become a household name. Oksana advises entrepreneurs to persist through challenges.
The tomato behind The Three Tomatoes.
Cheryl Benton, aka the “head tomato” is founder and publisher of The Three Tomatoes, a digital lifestyle magazine for “women who aren’t kids”. Having lived and worked for many years in New York City, the land of size zero twenty-somethings, she was truly starting to feel like an invisible woman. She created The Three Tomatoes just for the fun of it as the antidote for invisibility and sent it to 60 friends. Today she has thousands of friends and is chief cheerleader for smart, savvy women who want to live their lives fully at every age and every stage. She is the author of the novel, "Can You See Us Now?" and co-author of a humorous books of quips, "Martini Wisdom." Because she's lived a long time, her full bio won't fit here. If you want the "blah, blah, blah", read more. www.thethreetomatoes.com/about-the-head-tomato
