Colleen Budde

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Colleen Budde

Business advice from a mom who refuses to shrink. No guilt. No gatekeeping. No pretending it’s easy.

Just strategy, survival, and success in the middle of real life.

09/17/2026

Good morning and happy networking Thursday! It is officially season and that means it’s a great morning for networking with my 60+ closest business buddies. We had a big congratulations to the newest future parent in the group and a big thank you to the current and outgoing leadership team for their year of service.

Our presenters this morning were the dream duo of Mark Nakisher and Mike Sher who brought a BINGO game to their morning presentation. Although I didn’t, there were winners in the room and that is good enough for me.

BNI BEN Chapter

08/27/2026

Good morning and happy networking Thursday! It may be summer but the weather is doing a great impression of fall this morning and it’s a great morning to get together for some networking!

We did a business card swap where we did a commercial for another member in the group and in pure meeting stimulant fashion, it was such a disaster that no one did a commercial for Office Evolution so here it is:

Love working from home? Keep doing it. Work from your clients’ homes? Even better. You don’t need an office just to look professional.

With Office Evolution Troy, you can get a professional business mailing address for your business cards, website, Google profile, and more—without putting your home address out there or settling for a P.O. box.

Office Evolution Troy. Your business deserves a professional address, even when you work from anywhere.

Our first presenter was Shannon Piwinski - the gorgeous and impeccably styled business baddie that is here for all of your title needs. Devon Title does commercial, residential, in person, online, international, you name it, they can make it happen.

Our second presenter was Cindy Nunnery - heath and wellness extraordinaire! I love Cindy especially because her career has taken some wild turns. From tech sales to helping her clients live healthier lives, Cindy made the active decision to take her career into her own hands to do meaningful work.

08/20/2026

Good morning and happy networking Thursday! The days are getting shorter, the hot weather is fewer and further between and school is on the horizon but it’s always a good day to network with my small business besties.

Our first presenter today was Sari Cicurel, our PR specialist and I can’t wait to be one of Sari’s clients! Sari is professional and she absolutely knows what she is doing.

Our second presenter was Josh Kaplan, criminal defense attorney and prosecutor for hire and I hope I never have to be one of his clients. I love having Josh in my business back pocket. I have referred several of my colleagues to Josh and I have heard nothing but good things about the care he brings to his clients and his tenacity to make sure the law is followed.

08/17/2026

Former test engineer Colleen Budde left her six figure corporate career to build a life centered on flexibility, family, and purpose. In this episode, she breaks down her journey from corporate employee to coworking franchise owner, why business growth shouldn’t become a new jail cell, and how to design a business around the lifestyle you actually want.

Listen Here >>> https://www.vroomvroomveer.com/colleen-budde/

08/16/2026

Great afternoon out at Escape with Brandon Budde - we were headed to a baseball game but got rained out. Thanks Rebecca Bullock for being the little voice in my head reminding me Escape Entertainment Center is a great time for a family day date!

08/13/2026

Good morning and happy networking Thursday! It’s a great day to have a great day and it’s an even better day to get together with my professional network to help each other make more money.

We heard from financial expert and all ar round wonder woman, Jen Bessen, and Todd Wolfe, your life and disability insurance super hero this morning. Both of these individuals are some of my favorite networkers. They take business seriously and know how to refer their network to spread the business love around. I cannot recommend both of these professionals enough!

Remember, at Office Evolution Troy, not only do we offer virtual mail solutions, we offer professional mail handling. Scanning, forwarding, shredding and everything in between. If you need someone else to help you with your mail, business or personal, we’ve got you covered.

08/11/2026

Wonderful to connect with my fellow FoundHERS in Royal Oak last week. It was such a great meeting of minds, discussing our wins, going deeper into our professional backgrounds and learning more about each other to make us better referral partners.

08/06/2026

Good morning and happy networking Thursday! It was a lovely morning to be up and networking with my favorite group of small business owners.

Our solo presenter today was Nate Varilone of Varilone Construction. Nate is such an inspiration because he started his professional life as a tiler working for someone else, then started his own business tiling and has grown into Varilone Construction in the past 10 years. This is a great example of taking your skills, making them work for you and then scaling into a professional business empire.

We has speed one to ones and I was paired with Alyse Belkin, owner of Belkin tutoring. Alyse is a long time school teacher that took a tutoring side hustle and grew it to 30+ employees across multiple states. A master connector, warm and talented educator, if Alyse can’t directly help you with your tutoring needs, someone in her network surely can!

As always, it is an honor to represent Office Evolution at all of my networking events. This week I am struck by how nice it is to have a social environment to work from. Don’t get me wrong, I am an introvert at heart who loves to close my office door and dive into a juicy excel sheet but it is so nice to come up for air and have other professionals to socialize with at the coffee maker several times a day. If you know anyone that happily works from home but needs some socialization a couple times a month, Office Evolution could be a great solution for the days they need to get out of the house to work but still find a group of familiar faces to hang out with.

04/14/2026

Some people might say having three drinks at once was a personality flaw…
Turns out it’s just how I function as a small business owner.

At any given moment I’ve got:
Water (because I’m trying to be responsible)
Diet Coke (because survival)
And a fully creamed up coffee doing the emotional heavy lifting

And yes… I rotate between all three like it’s completely normal.

Then I heard that Sarah J. Maas talked about having the SAME emotional support beverage lineup in her interview with Alex Cooper on Call Her Daddy and suddenly I felt very validated.

So now I’m convinced… this is just a thing.
Hydration, caffeine, and a little emotional support carbonation.

If you only have one drink at a time, I honestly don’t know how you’re doing life.

Tell me I’m not alone… what’s in your emotional support beverage lineup? 🥤☕

03/28/2026

This week was a reminder of why we chose this path.

One of our kids had a medical emergency that turned into an ER visit and surgery the same day. Everything else immediately became irrelevant.

As a small business owner, in situations like this, I didn’t have to check with anyone. No asking for time off. No worrying about how it would be perceived. No reshuffling “allowed” vacation days.

Five years into building our businesses, we’re not where we ultimately want to be financially yet—but we’ve built something just as valuable: the ability to be present when it matters most.

The work will still be there. The emails, the bookkeeping, the content… all of it can wait.

Time doesn’t.

And right now, I feel incredibly rich in that.

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801 W Big Beaver Road, Suite 300
Troy, MI
48084

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http://BuddeConsultingGroup.com/

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