THE SALON
Inspired by Gertrude Stein’s Salon and early 20th century tea rooms.
Weird Specialty Salon is a members-only sanctuary for entrepreneurial creative women building distinctive businesses at the intersection of financial sustainability and authentic expression.
We celebrate those who transform their unique approaches—their "weird specialties"—into strategic market advantages rather than liabilities.
Our community welcomes women entrepreneurs at all stages of business, from just launching to mid-career to established institutions many years in business. We embrace founders working across all creative mediums and practitioners in diverse modalities, creating a rich ecosystem of expertise and perspective.
Our flagship community is based in the Hudson Valley, with regular pop ups in cultural hubs nationally and abroad!
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Our Approach
We design intimately-sized, beautifully structured gatherings where meaningful connection replaces superficial networking.
Through curated, topical meetings focused specifically on the needs of micro-to-small creative businesses, we create spaces where our community celebrates women who embrace unique approaches—their weird specialties—as strategic market advantages.
Our Values
Holistic Entrepreneurship - Recognizing that sustainable businesses require attention to emotional dimensions, bodily wisdom, and practical business concerns in equal measure—a "whole person" approach to business development..
Values-Driven - Creating successful businesses where profits and purpose reinforce each other and enabling members to make decisions aligned with their deeper values while achieving desired outcomes.
Authentic Expression - Honoring the wisdom that comes from aligning business models with personal truth and evaluating business decisions against both markets and intuition.
Community-Powered Growth - Leveraging structured peer support to strengthen strategy, expand offerings, and navigate challenges through meaningful connection (rather than superficial networking.)
Feminine Leadership - Addressing the gender-specific experiences of business ownership while developing traditionally feminine strengths like intuition, collaboration, and relationship-building alongside strategic thinking.
The mission of Weird Specialty Salon is to provide space where creative entrepreneurs can collaboratively rise to real-world challenges by balancing pragmatism with authenticity—regardless of scale, tenure, or medium/practice.
We do this by staying true to ourselves and supporting others.
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The Studio
Not just an office, not quite an event space.
located in the heart of tivoli NY, the Studio provides a rich atmosphere for hosting intimate in-person events for Salon & community members.
Our thoughtfully curated calendar of events amplify the values driven creative founders we work and engage with, inspiring new levels of artistic and professional growth while celebrating the diversity of our members
