Portfolio

Bridge the Gap and Learn With Me

Bridge the Gap & Learn With Me is founded by Lizzie Bate, a former schoolteacher turned expat education consultant based in the Netherlands. Lizzie helps expat families, primarily American and British parents relocating to the Netherlands with children aged 4 to 14, navigate the Dutch education system, choose the right school, and support their child's emotional and academic transition with confidence. What sets her apart is her child-focused approach. Where most consultants in this space speak to anxious parents, Lizzie speaks to the whole family, keeping the child's experience at the center of everything.

Wrathletics

Wrathletics is an athletic wear brand fueled by rage. Founded by a man who believes masculinity is complex and that too many brands lean into the toxic parts of gym culture, Wrathletics exists to parody the whole thing into absurdity. Inspired by metal music and hardcore culture, it sits somewhere between athletic wear and streetwear, where the design and the culture matter as much as the clothes. Irreverent, aggressive, and genuinely funny, but never mean. Just angry. At something. At everything. At the system.

Business Bloom

Business Bloom was founded by a woman who has been building businesses since she was 13 years old. With a long career as an executive, an MBA, and a track record of successful ventures, she turned her focus toward helping others do what she has spent a lifetime learning. Specifically, she helps DAFT visa holders start and structure real businesses, validating concepts with detailed research, clarifying business models, identifying founder archetypes, and building strategic plans grounded in the actual numbers. In a space dominated by tech tools and AI generated advice, Business Bloom exists as a human guide for founders who need real expertise and real support.

Inner Rising

Inner Rising is a counseling and coaching practice built for the people most therapy spaces have historically failed. Founded by Ryn, a licensed counselor with lived queer and trans experience, Inner Rising serves LGBTQ, polyamorous, neurodivergent, and gender expansive individuals and polycules who want support that actually reflects their reality. Offering counseling to Oregon residents and coaching worldwide, the practice centers on identity, relationships, communication, intimacy, and personal growth, approached with warmth, honesty, and zero judgment. Inner Rising exists as a genuine alternative to systems that misunderstand the communities it serves.

Iron Root

Iron Root is a small batch tea company founded by two best friends who discovered their calling on an extended hiking trip. When they realized the blends they'd brought lacked the energy and soul the experience deserved, they came home and started making their own. Every blend is crafted with organic, ethically sourced ingredients, designed specifically for life on the trail or out in the wilderness. The tea leaves are sourced from a farm they personally visit to ensure ethical production, and most other ingredients are grown on their own land. Iron Root isn't just tea. It's a product built on friendship, ethics, and a genuine connection to the outdoors.

GTFO Tours

GTFO Tours is a founder-led social enterprise run by Bethany Quinn and Jana Sanchez, two Americans who built lives in the Netherlands and now help others do the same. Through relocation coaching, consulting, and guided tours, they walk Americans through the overwhelming complexity of moving abroad, covering visas, housing, logistics, and community, and turning what feels impossible into something clear, supported, and actually doable. This isn't a faceless service. It's two people who have lived the experience and built something to make it easier for everyone who comes after them.

Heart of the High Country

Heart of the High Country is a locally rooted brand founded by someone born and raised in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina. The business curates provision boxes filled with coffee, teas, and goods from local makers, delivered to Airbnbs, hotels, and restaurants to welcome visitors and introduce them to the area. The vision is simple: a brand that feels like a genuine connection to the people, places, and heritage of the high country, never touristy, never mass produced, always like home.