Hudson Community Incubator

01/04/2026

How do you do New Year’s Resolutions? My recommendation is to pick one main objective and plan out how you’re going to achieve it. Focus on this goal for 30 days before adding in a new goal. You want to be ambitious but also realistic about what you can accomplish within time constraints to remember to time block out your weekly schedule to see wha is possible. There are always tradeoffs, but you are capable of more than you think.

12/31/2025

Loved ending our 6th year in business with our first ever in person retreat!

We did our year in review, cooked a great lunch, did some tarot with , and planned our 2026! Can’t believe it took this long to do a retreat (granted we launched into Covid, so virtual became default), but we just want to do more of them now in 2026!

This year we refreshed our programming with a quarterly Supper Club and virtual monthly Mastermind group. You can apply to join the Mastermind by Jan 8 to start Q1 with us! Limited spots available. Visit our website for more details.

And thank you to our Mastermind member for hosting us in his beautiful home! If you do want to rent his place for a retreat, he loves to host so DM him to get in touch!

11/25/2025

I used to read Snapple caps all the time as a kid, and I just happened to notice this one from ~ and now I want to share their branding and messaging because I thought they did a great job 👏 … even the detail about their food quality being beyond US standards, which is the future of sustainable food product.

11/06/2025

Sometimes when you’re a solopreneur—or part of a tiny but mighty team—you don’t get a holiday party. So… we got you covered!

Join us for the Holiday Supper Club at . It will be a cozy evening of connection among fellow founders, creatives, and friends. We have a delicious veggie menu by the wondrous and programming guided by ~

✨ HCI Holiday Supper Club
🗓 Thursday, December 11
🕠 5:30 – 8:30 PM
📍 Made X Hudson Shop, 391 Main St. Catskill, NY
🎟 Details & RSVP on Partiful: https://bit.ly/hciholiday (direct link in bio)

Come as you are, bring a friend, and celebrate the year with your creative community.

08/07/2025

I’m on a personal mission to read a book/week, and the goal is getting done. It was my main resolution this year after years of attempting and falling short by a lot. The joy of one focused goal is that everything else aligns and organizes itself to it, so I do end up achieving my secondary and tertiary goals.

This particular book of interviews with Arundhati Roy took me since January to finish because it was particularly heavy (I’ve been focusing more on fiction as distraction), but it is one of my favorites from their year because her voice is so human and crystal clear. She reminded me of why I started this Main St incubator and continue to fight for our creative and resilient community of creators and small biz owners.

07/14/2025

Fresh food or processed meal bar? 😂 😭

What’s your take the on the latest protein push craze? Recently I caught myself all consumed by it, finding it impossible to meet daily goals. Lately I’ve pivoted to more intuitive and mindful eating and movement, which may not be perfect but I find to be more sustainable. Also, it’s a form of resistance to the constant societal pressure to be peak productive at every moment.

Protein is definitely great for helping manage hunger issues, but if I have to supplement with a bunch of processed powders and raw chicken breast every day, then I choose a different life.

07/01/2025

🚀 Ready to Set Your Goals for Q3? -

If you’re building something meaningful and need a space to be seen, supported, and challenged — we created the HCI Mastermind for you.

06/30/2025

I was watching a video of talking about how we’ll all be following AI influencers in the near future. I hope that’s not the case; just like how we were told NFTs were the future in 2020. He did follow up by saying that people will value in person experiences more, and I think that’s why the Hudson Valley is popping off. America is suffering from a loneliness epidemic, and the best thing you can do as a business owner is make yourself and your products and services more human 💗 Thought this photo captures the moment we are in right now. Choose people (immigrants) over artifice (Facetuning).

06/23/2025

Supper Club #3 is here this Wednesday at 6pm at in Catskill! Please RSVP to the Partiful link in our bio so we can plan appropriately ✨

has graciously offered to pour some of their delicious local wines that we’ll pair with some pizza from ~ unfortunately our original chef can no longer make it, but we hope we can bring her back for a next club! As we say in startup land, we had to pivot ~

See you there! 💗 🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride!!

05/28/2025

SUPPER CLUB #3! -

We’re taking you on a mini-Greek vacation with emerging chef, Katerina Liakos, for our third Supper Club of the year! See details and RSVP here. Spots are limited!

04/04/2025

How will your business weather these tariffs?

Small business always takes the gut punch in America. These tariffs are the cherry on top.

The irony of a country that “celebrates entrepreneurship”.

While we want more things made in America, that is not happening overnight. It’s extremely cruel to do this without subsidizing domestic factories. At , it took us 4 years to build our production talent and any new fabric comes from abroad; the few American mills are limited, expensive, and have high MOQs.