Latham Thomas, Founder of Tender Shoots Wellness
Single Entrepreneur Spotlight
Latham Thomas
New York, NY
Founder of Tender Shoots Wellness
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1. My business and how I got started:
I founded Tender Shoots Wellness in 2006 to meet the lifestyle needs of busy women in the city that are on a path toward optimal wellness. Offering green culinary services, holistic nutrition counseling, and yoga, I am interested in helping women navigate pregnancy and offer them lifestyle solutions that would be sustainable. I have been in the wellness field for 10 years, but officially doing the work I do now for about 5 years.
2. Why my product/service is better than the competition:
My service is comprehensive, boutique, and result oriented. You can come to one place to learn what to eat, how to cook it, and how to incorporate yoga into your life.
3. A typical day for me:
My days alternate between kitchen/cooking days and yoga/counseling days. The first client of the day is usually a cooking client. I shop for groceries in the morning and prep meals for the week, store and clean up and head to the next client to do the same, until the day is over. Another typical day is a line up of group and private yoga classes that I teach at various locations throughout the city, including: vinyasa yoga, anti-gravity yoga, and prenatal yoga. Sprinkled in between I will see my nutrition clients, who come for counseling sessions.
4. What I love most about my business:
I love that I wake up every day and do work aligned with my principals and I get to help empower people to help themselves. I also love that I get to create a schedule that is conducive to my lifestyle and allows for “me” time.
5. I’m cool because:
I’m vegan
6. If my friends nominated me for an award, it would be “Most Likely to…”
Achieve her Dreams
7. A movie made about my life it would be named:
Hustle Mode or Blissed Out!
8. Strangest thing you’d find in my fridge, wallet or closet:
In my fridge…Lotus flower tea blossoms, in my wallet- a real 4 leaf clover, closet- an ’80s biker chick motorcycle vest.
9. Personal qualities I admire most in others:
Honesty, Follow through, compassion
10. Three things I hope to accomplish in the next five years:
1. Publish 2 books.
2. Expand my business to take on full-time employees
3. Get married 
