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Don't Be Boring: TOV Furniture Founder Chaya Krinsky on Building a Cult Brand

She started with $2,500 and three kids at home - and built one of the most recognizable women's furniture brands in the country.This week I'm sitting down with Chaya Krinsky, Co-Founder, Creative Director, and Lead Designer of TOV Furniture. Before any of this, Chaya was a preschool teacher for ten years. Then she stepped into her husband's furniture startup during a recession - and helped turn it into a cult brand that women across the country are genuinely obsessed with.We talk about the pivot that changed everything, what it actually takes to build a business with your spouse, navigating a male-dominated industry as a woman who refuses to be underestimated, and what it means to create something people don't just buy - they feel.This one is for every woman who has a big idea and cant see the path through. This Episode is sponsored by Recollection Brand.Clothing you will wear. and rewear.Follow:  ⁨@RecollectionBrand⁩  Shop: recollectionbrand.comFollow Chaya: @chayaxkrinsky & @tovfurniture Sponsorships & Inquiries:@podbypen | podbypen@gmail.com

Chani Berns: No Filter on Business, Body, and Boundaries

Chani Berns doesn’t hold back. She’s the founder of Chani Wigs and Boxe, but this conversation isn’t a pitch deck - it’s a real, unfiltered talk about trust, boundaries, confidence, and what it actually takes to hold motherhood and ambition at the same time. This week on Pod by Pen, Chani gets honest about the stuff most people only think about - and says a few things you might not expect.Business, boundaries, and a whole lot of honesty - Chani Berns holds nothing back.Dont forget to like & subscribe!Follow Chani on instagram: @chaniberns For Sponsorships & Inquiries:podbypen@gmail.comFollow on instagram for more:  ⁨@podbypen⁩  @penkunstler

Rena Kutner: The Family You Step Into

Rena Kutner is a marriage and family therapist who specializes in blended families and second marriages - and she’s not just talking theory. She’s lived it, built it, and now helps others do the same.This week, Rena sits down with Penina for a conversation that touches everyone - whether you’re navigating a blended family, stepping into a partner’s world, or figuring out where you fit in a family that existed before you arrived. We get into the real stuff: what you need to know before you blend, how kids experience it, the loyalty pulls, the small moments that make or break a home, and why everything you bring into a second marriage gets magnified.And then we bring in someone special. Rayzee joins the conversation as a bonus kid who’s now grown and married - and she takes us back to what it was actually like at 16, navigating her blended family from the inside. Her perspective is honest, warm, and something you won’t want to miss.If you’ve ever had to earn your place in a family - or watched someone earn theirs - this one is for you.Rena Kutner | Marriage & Family Therapist | Blended Families & Second Marriages renakutnerLMFT@gmail.comFor Sponsorships & Inquiries:@podbypen | podbypen@gmail.com

Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt: Journalist, Rebbetzin, and the Courage to Say the Hard Things

Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt is a journalist, rebbetzin, mother, and co-founder of Altneu - one of the most talked-about synagogues in New York City. Known as the spiritual First Lady of the Upper East Side, she’s also the journalist who was once warned her writing would cost her a shidduch. She joins Pod by Pen to talk about co-founding Altneu, living between the Orthodox and secular worlds, and why she’s never been able to stay quiet about the things that matter. Avital opens up about shidduchim, the ancestral weight of truth-telling, and what it costs to be the person in the room who says what everyone else is thinking.Connect with Avital:Instagram: @avitalrachelEmail: inquiries@avitalchizhik.com For Sponsorships & Inquiries:Podbypen ⁨@gmail.com⁩  Follow Along: @penkunstler  ⁨@podbypen⁩ 

Rivkah Fox: Jewish Matchmaking, Unfiltered

Rivkah Fox has been matchmaking since she was sixteen - and she’s not afraid to say the system she inherited needs work. Rivkah Fox, third-generation Jewish matchmaker and founder of BlindFate, joins Pod by Pen to talk about her 4,000-person singles database spanning 8 countries, the accidental Instagram experiment that turned into a movement, and the wild, funny, sometimes heartbreaking messages she gets as a matchmaker. We get into what men and women actually want versus what they say they want, the “shidduch crisis” debate, and the match that shouldn’t have worked on paper - but did.Follow Rivkah:Instagram: @rivkahfoxLink to join free databasehttps://form.fillout.com/t/kMMqHXnjBbus?src=warWebsite: rivkahfox.comFor sponsorships & inquiries:Podbypen@gmail.comFollow along:@podbypen @penkunstler