Creating Compassionate Connections

Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in health and wellness but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Katie Fournier and Shari Flight, Founders of Ember Holistic Care LLC, located in Plymouth, MA, USA.

What's your business, and who are your customers?

Ember provides dementia consulting to families and businesses. This is anything from coming to your loved one's home to make it a safe environment to visiting elder care communities to consult the employees on specific challenges with dementia-related behaviors. Ember believes in taking a holistic approach to tending to dementia symptoms. We offer Reiki, meditation, aromatherapy, and so much more as an alternative way to assist the person living with dementia.

Tell us about yourself

Ember Holistic Care LLC was developed by me and my friend, Shari Flight. After working together in a Memory Care Assisted Living community, we realized we both shared the same passion for helping their residents living with dementia age in place through a holistic approach. Together, we started exploring the benefits of the approach, essential oils, reiki, proper training for family and professional caregivers, etc. With this newfound knowledge, we were able to see a visible benefit to the residents residing in their community. This sparked the idea of taking this holistic approach and perfecting it to a point where we can assist individuals living with dementia both in their homes or in an elder care community and provide support to professional caregivers by giving them the tools to successfully care for the person living with dementia.

In addition to our holistic approach, we also noticed the increased need to take care of the caregiver. Too often, we see burnt-out caregivers who can no longer enjoy their time with their loved ones or live the life they did before becoming full-time caregivers. To combat this, we have created a program that allows the caregiver to become the friend or family again while ensuring that the person with dementia is living with top-notch care. Ember Holistic Care LLC prides itself in its knowledge and individualized approach to each person they care for.

What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?

Doubling our income from last year and getting our name noticed by our targeted audience.

What's one of the hardest things that comes with being a business owner?

As a newer business, one of the hardest things we would say is setting healthy boundaries in a way that can be conducive to serving all of our clients and meeting all their needs equally.

What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?

Fail, get up and try again, fall harder, get up and try harder; when you are always trying and learning from your failures, your success becomes inevitable.

Where can people find you and your business?

Website: https://emberholistic.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EmberHolisticCareLLC
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ember_holistic_care_llc/

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