Episode 29 of We Built This Life with Mandy Memmel of Hon’s Honey is about building relationships and community and helping women rise through social enterprise.

After spending a decade serving the community of Curtis Bay in Baltimore, Mandy Memmel founded Drink at the Well (The Well) to provide an opportunity to build relationships, as well as a range of support services, for women experiencing trauma, including addiction, abuse, and/or generational poverty.

Five years later, Mandy took the next step for her nonprofit and opened Hon’s Honey, a social enterprise business. Hon’s Honey offers local honey, bath and body products, and gifts, all made with raw local honey, beeswax, or royal jelly powder. But most importantly, the business provides stable employment and financial independence to women from The Well.

In this episode, Mandy talks about:

• How the decade she spent mentoring women and building relationships in Curtis Bay led to this idea of opening a nonprofit, The Well, and how she has built trust in the community through the years;
• How The Well provides a range of support and community to women, from making sure they have basic needs to helping them build their own life plan through the COR Life Mentorship Program;
• How she got Hon’s Honey off the ground and developed the concept of The Hive for her business model;
• A critical thing to consider when hiring within the nonprofit world, and how Mandy approaches her role as manager to an organization with a number of employees;
• The challenges, what she is most proud of, and what she wishes she knew when she started her nonprofit and social enterprise business.

Mentioned in this Episode:

• Drink at the Well (The Well)
• Hon’s Honey
• Hon’s Honey Specialty Honey Flight
• Hon’s Honey “Warsh” Soaps

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