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GUIDING LIGHT: Erica Davies got her boutique travel firm, The Well Traveled Soul LLC, off the ground in 2022 after years of working in corporate America. She calls the business “my baby.” 
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DAVE HANSEN

She’s on a journey curating trips for clients

Erica Davies’ heart belongs to Cranston. “It’s the center of the universe,” she said. “I’m super proud to have grown up there. I live...
CHARTING HER COURSE: Cheryl DiGennaro, owner of Newport Yacht and Home LLC in Middletown, says the desire to design living spaces in houses and boats is something she was born with. 
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DAVID HANSEN

On land or sea, her mind is always on the décor

When Cheryl DiGennaro was growing up, she’d watch her mom, an interior designer, working on various projects; that passion passed from mother to daughter. “I...
GAME ­PLANNING: Lori Manni, center, president of Capital City Construction & Management Services Inc., goes over documents with Al DeRobbio, left, project supervisor, and Oliver Carias, operating engineer of Local 57, at the company’s Cranston office.
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Manni not daunted by changes, challenges of commercial construction

Lori Manni knows her way around a sewer system. She’s spent the better part of two decades building miles of them. It’s not a...
ORDER FROM CHAOS: After years working in different accounting roles, Keeping the Books NE LLC owner Marsha Thayer launched her own firm that helps businesses build efficient, accurate financial systems and reports.
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Thayer’s drive, work ethic added up to success

Marsha Thayer didn’t seem like a typical math nerd in high school. Far from it. “I aced pre-algebra and then started failing,” she said, “which...
CONSTANTLY EVOLVING: Beauregard Built LLC owner Olivia Beauregard launched the Providence-based design-build firm, specializing in interior and exterior work in residential and commercial new construction and renovation, five years ago. 
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Designer travels ‘Amazing’ journey to build her career

Olivia Beauregard has always been fascinated by how things work. While some kids spend their free time playing video games, Beauregard would lie in...
A GOOD YARN TO TELL: Katy Westcott started her company on a shoestring in 2012, and now Katrinkles Inc., a maker of tools and other items for crafters, is a substantial manufacturing business in Providence. 
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Fabric of her company crafted from a hobby

Katy Westcott is a designing woman. She knits socks and crochets sweaters. She spins yarn and even sews her own clothes. So her life...
FLYING ­COLORS: 
Elaine Felag opened Feminine Fancies in 1982 and gave herself five years to work. Forty-three years later, the women’s boutique is still going strong. 
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4 decades later, Felag’s store stays in vogue

There’s no obvious connection between customers at a women’s boutique needing help with a chunky necklace and customers at an appliance store needing help...
IN THE KNOW: Patricia Lyons-Bousquet, owner of CompLyons HR Consulting LLC, says her recent graduation from the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program in Rhode Island has been transformative for her as a businesswoman. 
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She’s put her resources into building an HR firm

There’s a truism in life that you can’t go home again, but whoever coined it obviously hadn’t met Patricia Lyons-Bousquet. After decades working around the...
GETTING CREATIVE: Sascha Roberts, left, and Laura Afonso, co-owners of marketing and content creation company Honey Buns Social in Providence, look over photos during a session at a local studio space.
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She’s made it her business to show companies how to use...

Way back in the “digital Dark Ages” – 2005 to be exact– 14-year-old Sascha Roberts used to pass the time building a Myspace page...
HELPING PEOPLE: Cameron & Mittleman LLP partner Karen G. DelPonte created the firm’s estate planning practice group, specializing in advising individuals and business clients with respect to family-owned businesses, limited liability companies and family partnerships. 
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Cameron & Mittleman’s DelPonte leaves an indelible mark based on trust

Business Women Awards 2025 CAREER ACHIEVER: Karen G. DelPonte, Cameron & Mittleman LLP partner KAREN G. DELPONTE’S FINGERPRINTS are quite noticeable around Cameron & Mittleman LLP’s...
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