As a family law attorney, Jessica Swetcky Lang works with clients during the most challenging periods of their lives. It’s critical that she has a private area for her practice so that she can help guide them through the judicial process and offer them confidentiality. With Venture X Holyoke, she’s found the perfect office on the second floor of the coworking space that provides a level of privacy and security for her clients ...

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Being a member of Venture X Holyoke means being a part of the community. The coworking atmosphere makes it easy to connect with other professionals and learn from their experience, whether through one-on-one conversations or the monthly lunch-and-learn sessions. As the first presenter of these monthly sessions, Bill Duguay, president and CEO of Duguay Consulting Group, LLC, discovered the program benefited him as much as it benefited other entrepreneurs. “More importantly it was a great ...

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Being able to separate work from home can be challenging for anyone. At Venture X Holyoke, coworking members can find a dedicated place to focus on work without distractions. They also have access to conference rooms so they can meet privately with clients. “Trying to work from home may work for some people and some types of business, but when you’re meeting with clients you can’t really bring someone into your living room ...

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Holyoke, Mass. - Being able to give patients one-on-one physical therapy is a priority for Dr. Katrina Banks. It’s a main reason she started her own physical therapy practice and through Venture X Holyoke Holyoke she’s able to continue to help patients recover. Banks started Neurologic Optimal Wellness Physical Therapy in 2020 as a mobile practice, then opened a dedicated in-person clinic at Venture X Holyoke. “People can come to a very nice comfortable ...

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For many, the lines between work and personal life have become blurred over the past two years. Being able to separate those boundaries physically can benefit business owners mentally. Articles in Forbes, Inc and CNBC.com contend that productivity increases when there’s a distinct separation between work life and home life. Working from home “has felt like one perpetual Zoom meeting since March 2020,” according to Katishia Gallishaw, owner and CEO of KG Virtual ...

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After being in staffing for twenty years, Daphne Phalon couldn’t ignore a feeling that her employer at the time didn’t hold her same priorities for putting people first. “I started to realize that what I liked most about staffing was missing from my current job,” she said. “It felt really transactional and all about filling a job, not about finding the right job for a candidate, and finding the right candidate for a ...

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Small businesses don’t always have access to the same resources as large corporations. Venture X Holyoke can help, offering benefits like a state-of-the-art conference room for businesses when they need them. Companies like Graduate Pest Solutions have been able to utilize these tools when the need arises. Several years ago, the owners of Graduate Pest Solutions opted to invest in pest-control technology to directly benefit their customers rather than rent a larger office space ...

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Share Beauty and Joy's Transcendental Counseling Helps Clients Open their Minds The last several years of working through a pandemic shifted the way that Kristine Sliwa thought about work and how she was using her skills. She decided to take what she had learned from meditation, journaling and intuition, and share those methods with others. Last fall she left her job to create Share Beauty and Joy. Her transcendental counseling gives people the freedom ...

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Walking into Venture X Holyoke, therapist Ramon Lorenzi knew the space would offer a different ambiance than most mental health offices. “If you think about mental health, pre-Covid,” he said, “sometimes there were no windows, it was two chairs and a desk. It was not a good space for someone with depression to go into.” “You walk into a place like Venture X Holyoke you feel like you’re in a space where you can ...

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Venture X Holyoke Provides Office Space for Virtual Recruiter to Succeed Virtual recruiter Hire Standard Staffing was created to fill a need for remote workers, giving people the freedom to work wherever they would like. For one of the company’s partners, the freedom to work at a place like Venture X Holyoke has been an invaluable opportunity to collaborate with others. “Once you get in here, you have a network of not just business ...

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