A Note from Hope Katz Gibbs, founder and publisher, BeInkandescent.com — the Health & Wellness project of InkandescentLearning.com / www.InkandescentPR.com

email: hope@hopegibbs.com • call: 703-346-6975

Hello and welcome to Inkandescent Health & Wellness magazine — dedicated to bringing you interviews with the people, organizations, products, and services that will feed and fuel your mind, body, spirit, and soul. The point is, we’re all heart — we sometimes just need a gentle reminder, and some serious support.W

I’m Hope Katz Gibbs, creator of The Inkandescent™ Group — and this is the health and wellness division of the firm I founded in 2008.

In the decade that I ran my PR and publishing company, I utilized the tools of education and storytelling to help my clients build trust and increase their visibility and bottom lines. Not only was I consistently putting to work my years as a reporter, and my MA in educational leadership — I was harnessing the power of distance learning.

As a dear friend once told me, “how we do anything is how we do everything.” 

So in 2018, I decided to turn my firm into a full-throttle distance learning company — complete with online classes, workshops, and events focused on women, wellness, and kids: Inkandescent™ Learning.

My team and I gave birth to Inkandescent Women magazine in the winter of 2019, which gives new bones to the Truly Amazing Women project that I created in 2008: www.InkandescentWomen.com.  Soon, we’ll launch our K-12 kids project, which includes an online magazine for kids, by kids, about kids: www.InkandescentKids.com.

Today, on the first day of spring 2019, we published Inkandescent Health & Wellness magazine: www.BeInkandescent.com.In addition to bringing you insights into how you can amp up your health and wellness initiatives, this site is also a portal to Your Well — our pop-up yoga, dance, fitness and coaching initiative that brings movement and mindfulness classes to restaurants, coffee shops, art galleries, spas, nonprofits, corporations, hotels, events, and more. We’ve gone from one venue in Richmond in January to nearly a dozen this month, and we are thrilled to report that our reach continues to grow. 

Indeed, we have put Your Well on Wheels and are adding more teachers and business partners each week! Scroll down to meet our team! And be sure to check out their columns, which will be featured in each issue of this magazine. 

WE HOPE TO BRING YOUR WELL TO YOU!

Be a Member: For $20/month (or $200/year) members have access to all of our classes online from movement to mindfulness, lunch & learns, workshops, and more. You get discounts to all of our in-person classes — and get additional discounts on one-on-one coaching sessions ranging from fitness to nutrition, and life coaching, too. Sign up for a year and receive a free t-shirt, yoga mat, and tote compliments of Your Well! 

Be an Inkandescent Teacher or Coach: For $50/month ($500/year) our teachers get promoted and booked to teach classes at our growing number of venues and events where you’ll earn income. Each teacher gets a page on our website, and we shoot and introductory video to introduce you to our network. And, we create videos of your classes that are catalogued on our website for our members to watch at their convenience. For each view, you earn additional revenue. Click here to apply.

Be a Sponsor: For $100/month ($1000/year) we will list your events, classes, and promote your business on our magazines, promotional materials, and Sponsorship pages. Click here for details.

Try us for free: Each of our in-person classes is streamed on Facebook and Instagram for anyone to participate in from the comfort of their homes. Our events are posted on the website, and announced on our social media pages. So check out our calendar, then log on to work out with us. 

Questions? Don’t hesitate to reach out to see how you can become a part of this exciting project: hope@hopegibbs.com / 703-346-6975.

We look forward to meeting you at Your Well!  — Hope Gibbs

About Our Team

Hope Katz Gibbs is the founder of The Inkandescent Group, LLC. A journalist since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986, her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, The Miami Herald, Costco’s magazine The Connection, and dozens more. In 2008, she founded InkandescentPR.com, a full-service communications company that has served more than 100 small business owners. In 2018, she morphed her firm into an educational distance learning company focused on supporting and promoting Women, inspiring and educating Kids, and bringing health & wellness to Every Body. Her magazines — InkandescentWomen.com, BeInkandescent.com, and InkandescentKids.com — spotlight people and organizations around the country. Learn more about Hope at here. Click here to send an email.

Nelson Benavides is the video editor and chief videographer of The Inkandescent™ Group, LLC. Since he came on board in 2014, he has shot and edited more than 200 videos for the company, helping to generate nearly 200,000 views on our YouTube channel, Inkandescent.TV.

Michael Gibbs is the chief graphic designer of the Inkandescent Speakers Bureau. A freelance illustrator and designer since attending Pratt Institute as a photography and illustration major in the mid-70s, his award-winning artwork has appeared in Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Worth Magazine, Consumer Reports, Harvard Business Review, and publications for United Airlines, Verizon, IBM, Sears, American Airlines, CitiGroup, and Oracle. Learn more about Gibbs here.

Max Kukoy is The Inkandescent Group’s web guru. A Washington, DC-based freelance developer/designer since 2000, Max earned his master’s degree in Environmental Science from the University of Oklahoma in 1993, then started working in public health and environmental policy at nonprofits in Washington, DC. After a few years of policy work, he started working on his organization’s website. Check out Kukoy’s work here.