We were lucky to catch up with Skye Vaillancourt recently and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Skye, thanks for joining us today. What’s the backstory behind how you came up with the idea for your business?
Over the last several years I have worked to harness my yoga skills. Yoga is a passion especially Kundalini. My mother and I both love cats and have rescued many in our home. We had an opportunity to start a business and decided to combine our passions, as well as adding a small little store with unique and fun items. It is truly a combination of our loves coming together to create this amazing space!
Skye, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
The space was created first and foremost as a place of peace and acceptance. We offer several different yoga classes, such as wheel yoga, yin, hatha, flow and kundalini. As well as special events such a a meditative tea ritual, self-love yoga, ritual foot bathes and more. We also have a separate cat lounge, that is spacious, clean and comfortable, for a small fee you can sit and snuggle cats with sipping coffee or tea. We also offer card readings and have a fun little store that has crystals, tarot cards, books and many cat themed items.
How did you build your audience on social media?
We are still working on building a strong presence, my advice is to post content often and to make it visually pleasing as well as interesting.
Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?
Starting a new business takes patience, we have had some set backs, mostly we had to pivot from being a full cafe to a lounge because it was not cost-effective at this time to continue in that direction. It took a huge amount of faith and perseverance to make this change as we had many elements already in place and purchases made. It was a scary decision at the time, but one that worked better in the end.
Contact Info:
- Website: Www.thelotuscatfe.com
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/lotuscatfe?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thelotuscatfe?mibextid=ZbWKwL