We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Nicolette Sweeney. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with nicolette below.

Nicolette, appreciate you joining us today. One of the most important things small businesses can do, in our view, is to serve underserved communities that are ignored by giant corporations who often are just creating mass-market, one-size-fits-all solutions. Talk to us about how you serve an underserved community.

It’s always been very important to me to serve the underserved. I didn’t necessarily grow up with a lot of money but I was lucky enough to be born an American citizen with a roof over my head, a loving family, and all the opportunity in the world at my fingertips. I was lucky enough to pursue a dream and know that it could be, potentially, in reach.
I was always a sunny positive-outlook type as a kid. I remember waking up every day and thinking things like “today is the day it’s all ahead of me.. Anything can happen and I’m ready for all of it.”
Growing up in a city like DC, I was always surrounded by a greater homeless population. My family, however, never treated the homeless as dangerous or unworthy of love. Instead, they treated them like anyone else– Someone that deserves a chance.
As a child, I remember putting goody bags together for our local homeless friends. They would be full of food, toiletries, and a little cash.
I have such wonderful memories of this and, since then, I have always made it a priority to give back to those without. As my mom says “No one wants to beg.”
My parents taught me to check my privilege at the door and be conscious that what I had was just a matter of circumstance. In the end, everything is fleeting except the moments of connection we share with each other.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I am an actress, writer, and yoga teacher.
I grew up between Washington DC, Italy, and Spain. I’ve spent my adult life between Spain, New York, and LA.
Film acting was always what I wanted to do: It was my dream since I can remember and I could never imagine any other path for myself.
I was in love with movies from the moment I could see and, somehow, I knew I wanted to act from watching animation films (principally Sleeping Beauty). I watched as characters poured their heart out and I felt like I could see through them to the other side of life where everything was different in a beautiful way.
I am most proud of my collaborations. I write for TV and Film as well as act and I make sure working with like-hearted people who are trying to tell the story in the same way is just important as the project itself.
In the creative world, everything is made up but we’re pulling from a real place. We’re creating the manifestations of an emotional reality. The only job, as far as I’m concerned, is to tell true stories and make people feel less alone.
There is life as told my society and structure and then there is life told by music and art… We cannot survive one without the other.
I’m proud of my dedication to never give up on telling something I believe is important and always search for the right people to tell it with– People I admire make me better and I know when I’m in a privileged position of working with one so I leave my ego at he door and start taking notes.

We’d love to hear about how you met your business partner.

BARON! My writing partner.. I met him at an improv class at the Upright Citizens Brigade in Hollywood. I’ll never forget, a little 23-year old version of me, looking around the room and seeing various people slumped over in their chair. No one had a notebook out and no one cared how they look. I thought this was beautiful. Everyone was half-paying attention and then there was Baron. He stuck out like a sore thumb with a tight theory sweater on his extremely buff chest, a tiny notebook and pen on his extremely buff thighs, and his hair gelled back into a coiffed JOHNNY BRAVO look.
From deep inside my soul for no reason at all, I knew I needed to work with this person. I followed him after class and interrogated him into being my friend. He was skeptical and taken aback. I gave him a few weeks of gentle stalking to realize that I was nothing but a star-lit screenwriter looking for someone to share the page with and I assumed, or hoped, my exact opposite would be my greatest counterpart.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

The most rewarding aspect of being a creative is to be able to share this spectacular language with others. Creativity, in its nature, can’t fit into a box. That means that it exists in a universe parallel to that of bill paying and sleep schedules. Creativity is the invisible stream of light that connects our souls to one another. it knows no fear or schedule and it speaks to us in the most magnificent of ways. To me, being a creative is to be exposed to magic constantly and it drives me every day to know that, no matter what lies ahead, that stream of light will make its way into the equation and a story will be gifted to the world for all of us to empathize and identify with.
At the heart of this magic, I believe, is empathy. How it connects all of us every second of the day is beyond me and I wouldn’t dare try to understand.

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