What is your name and occupation?
Naomi Raiselle, filmmaker, videographer, coach and speaker
How long have you been a Boston Business Women’s Member?
2+ years
Were you born and raised in Boston? If not, what brought you here?
My then-boyfriend (now husband of many years!) decided to go to Emerson College. We met in NYC, and both of us moved to Boston.
Tell us more about your job or company and what led you to your career?
I had started my career teaching high school and college creative writing and literature; some years later, when teaching became teaching for the MCAS, I left, opened Urban Revival Personal Growth Consulting on Newbury St. I offered consulting and counseling for couples and individuals. I studied Svaroopa yoga and included yoga classes for my clients. In 2004, my husband (who had been a successful corporate videographer) and I showcased at the first LGBTQ wedding expo in Boston – sponsored by the Lenox hotel and Bloomingdale’s. We met many lovely couples, one who contacted us the day Equal Marriage became law in Massachusetts, to film their wedding on the first day Equal Marriage was legal. The couple turned out to be one of the plaintiff couples who filed the lawsuit against the state and won. I got behind a camera for the first time at their historic wedding and was hooked.
What would your clients say about you and your company?
Check out client reviews at WeddingWire
What is the best advice you’ve ever received?
This, too, will pass.
What is your favorite book?
Lou Reed’s biography
What is your secret weapon? An app, a tool, an organization method, anything?! (Can be a personal or professional life tool)
LOVE
What advice would you give to your younger self?
Learn how to manage finances. Start saving early.
How do you enjoy your free time?
Dinner and drinks with friends, visiting, work – (when you work for yourself it’s somewhat free!)
What is something that not many people know about you?
I grew up in an Orthodox Jewish household.
Thank you so much Naomi for sharing with us!
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