BOOK GRATITUDE
FOR MY MOM
For being my muse. For sharing with me a dark shadow and writing/righting it into golden rays of light. You are always and in all ways with me and within me. Thank you for bringing me into this world.
FOR MY DADDIO
For your heart and the ways that have helped me heal. For making me understand that “when one of us has a pain in the ass… we all have a pain in the ass.” We rise by lifting others. Thank you for doing the work with me. Thank you for bringing Mother Teresa into our lives. She, alongside Jackson, Brendan and Anthony are the best gifts you could have ever given us.
FOR MY SISSIES: CHRISTINA & SANNA
For all the things that we have been through. For the ways that we show up for each other… even when it’s not easy. For knowing what happened to one of us, happened to all of us. Thank you for being by my side through all of this… Thank you for your support yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
CAROLINE NIXON
For staying with me the entire way through. For being my accountability guide, my cheerleader, and the midwife of this book. Thank you for the alignment.
TRACY LEDDY
Editor extraordinaire. When I walked into your home, I felt home. Thank you for shaping this book into the gift that it is. You are exactly who I had been searching for and I am so grateful to Vanessa Larabee for connecting us.
SARA FEATHER FARLEY
Dear dear friend, longtime graphic designer and fellow traveler on this road. Thank you for the way you brilliantly laid out this book… and so many other things for me over the years. And for our talks on Sara and Ruth.
JASMINE TAKANIKOS
My mentor and my friend. Thank you for the ways in which you helped me see myself and my worth clearly. For the brand development and the deep connections… always and in all ways.
MIKE MOLLOY
For the cover and the build out of the imagery throughout the book. You are SoSo so amazing and I am honored to work with you.
GEORGIE MORLEY
For helping me to see mySelf and my work in new lights… for your gift of photography, for the advice of the double take and for the trips out to Quonset.
MARY GOODE
For helping me understand and write the blACKbook and internet chapters. For your sunshine… and reminding me to stay close to people who make you feel like sunshine.
CALISTA WEST
For being the first reader. For getting me to see this as my own Chicken Soup for the Soul. For the ring, the diamonds, the emerald … and most importantly, for your friendship.
KATIE NORTON
For coming into my life divinely during the summer of 2020 and the feeling like we had been waiting for each other for lifetimes. Thank you for introducing me to Flowcode and for being a champion for women supporting women
SEANA ZELAZO
For the 2017 Akashic records reading that brought me home to why I am here. Here is to living as the unapologetic goddess.
TO LAURA CUNNINGHAM & CHRIS WENDZICKI
For the videos, for helping me see myself as an entrepreneur before I even knew what that word meant. For being such incredible professional videographers and also such good friends.
AMANDA HOWLAND
For the copyediting of this book and the ways in which you helped me see its power when I was feeling low energy. I am grateful for your eyes.
KARIN CROMPTON
For story coaching me and refining this book down from coal to the diamond. Your advice was priceless. Thank you for you.
AMY BELL & ROB COCUZZO
For Amy, for showing up and editing this when it really was a giant piece of coal. You helped me start this process years back… and thank you Rob Cocouzzo for introducing us and for encouraging me to continue my heart work throughout the years.
TISH EMERSON
For housing me in her Sconset cottage during the winter of 2021 in Sconset so I could really do the work to make this book dream into a reality.
NANTUCKET OFFICE PRODUCTS
To Jesse and Ray for all the printing and helping me to see and edit hundreds of drafts of this book before it became what it now is… and to Lisa for listening to my stories and cheerleading me to finish what I started.
TEACHER GRATITUDE
PUNNU SINGH WASU
For being my Teacher, for helping me remember how to meditate and for the gift of healing the relationship with my parents and my Self.
JOANN “JOEY” BURNHAM
For being my Teacher, for bringing me back to my Dharma, for believing in Wake Believe from day one. For seeing me before anyone else did.
JANET HANSON
For being my Teacher, for helping me to stop so grossly undervaluing myself and for taking me to the dance. You are a gift to all women.
CHELSEA ETIENNE
For being my Teacher, for helping me clear out my womb space and shining a light on my shadow of people pleasing. That was a gift I will cherish forever.
ANGELA RAYNOR
For being my Teacher and for all the heart's medicine you have nourished me with over the past twelves years. Thank you for the graceful dismount. You are my Corazon Del Mar.
MICHAELA GRACE
For being my Teacher and for introducing me to the Hawkins Scale of Consciousness and how to release, understand and gift stories.
DAVID ELLIOT
For being my Teacher, for helping me to dive deeper into the sacral chakra and for having me come back to the power of my breath… always.
EVIE O’CONNOR
For being my Teacher and for the way you show up in the world and advocate for mental health. Thank you for the ceremonies that shifted my consciousness and for the laughs that keep everything spiritual real.
BRIANA SMITH
For being my Teacher and for the Taos ceremony which reconnected me back to the Golden Serpent.
REBECCA NEEDS
For being my Teacher, for helping me attune to my moon and harness the power of Self Love rituals. I am “over the moon” for what is to come… you are a pure beacon of light.
BLACKBOOK GRATITUDE
FRANK KODIAK
For the idea and for believing in me throughout it all.
COUSIN SAM
For taking the idea from offline to online and for being the closest thing that I’d ever have to a twin.
MARIA CAREY, JAIME MICHELE CONNELLY, YOLANDA GRANT, BETSEY BROOKS & DAN DRISCOLL
For the original #blACKbookstyle team … for the ways in which your hearts collaborated on so much beauty from Daffy Fest to Garden Fest to the Music Fest to Stroll Soirees and beyond. Thank you for believing in the power of social media and for your creative hands. I am so grateful for you all.
SARAH FRAUNFELDER
For being model #1 from day one. And for the Cutting Edge, the cats, for encouraging me to go to the Corner Table open mic night and the endless bliss that is being with you and laughing.
LINDSAY WALSH
For the blonde, for #blACKbookstyle, for every fashion show and most importantly for your friendship.
MATT SCHIEVELLA
For being on the OG blACKbook team. For all the incredible design work and your belief in the brand. For blACKbook weekly and for your support.
CARA MARQUIS
For all the web iterations and making the blACKbook site so clean, bright and fun. For your incredible eyes.
TO ALL MY INTERNS FROM 2013 UNTIL 2021
Mara, Courtney, Caroline, Mary Kate, Molly, Sinead, Alex, Claire, Emily, Sarah, Gracie, Meredith, Maryelle, Brooke, Marina, Ryle, Taylor, Audrey, Ella, Maddie, Ashleen, Morgan, and Sydney. Thank you for believing in me and for your time, your trust and your hearts work. I love you all.
JASON BRIDGES
For the ways in which you started education around social media… For you and Courtney and the Handlebar … and for your dedication to making the island a healthier and more connected place.
DAVID HANDY
My #ACKpartyhosts cohost… for all the big laughs, for the Blue Moon and for the ways we were able to throw one hell of a party on Nantucket while documenting it all on social media… we were pioneers.
MARLA MULLEN SANFORD
For always being game for a good fashion shoot, experiential open house and Nantucket collaboration. Your eyes are a gift to this world and thank you for sharing your time and your talents with me and so many others.
TIM EHRENBERG
For believing in the power of social media marketing. For our nights in the Pink and our last decade evolving with each other. Thank you for all the help from blACKbook calendars to being an early reader of this book and sharing its message with your loyal following. We are truly the OG Nantucket Instagramma and Instagrampa.
CHARLIE MERRITT
The first ever MANtucket blACKbook who took blogging to new height for the guys in 2015. For the spikeball tourneys, the videos and for taking your love of a great sandwich to new heights with your own FRESH entrepreneurial spirit.
JONATHAN NIMERFROH
For sending me the Slurpee wave and in turn having me understand the power of going viral. For your eyes… and understanding of Self worth.
JAY HARMON
For your insight and understanding of the deep need to bring a Trashion Show from Hawaii to Nantucket. And also, thank you for getting me my first job off island after my first summer on island… which made me realize that I never wanted an off island job again. Thank you for you.
PATRICK RIDGE
For believing in me from the get go, for housing us at Happy Place and for making me laugh like none other.
CHRIS BLOOM
For believing in me and trying something new. For helping me see my worth clearly and what I was capable of in the real estate world.
LISA & ERIC MCKECHNIE
For becoming the most wonderful home for the Happy Place brand in the heart of downtown at Nantucket Clothing Company. One of the best gifts I’ve gotten from Nantucket was the connection with you two.
JIM NORTON
For having me understand the power of Flowcode and the way it is the connective tissue for offline to online marketing.
THE NANTUCKET SOURCEBOOK LAUNCH PARTNERS
For those who helped create the first ever 100% inclusive Nantucket Dining Guide… Nancy & Tim Armstrong, Michelle & Bob Atchinson, Dinah & Barry Barksdale, Philip Bloom, Lynne & John Bogle, Carolyn Durand, Janet Hanson, Lauren & Tim Miner, Katie & Jim Norton, Michele & John Slapp, Jennifer & Tom Sleeper, Catherine & Rod Walkey, Kim & John Wepler … THANK YOU.
MATRIARCHY GRATITUDE
KAREN STARR GOLOV
For your EYE… for all the times I wore Eye of the Needle and felt like a queen. For your heart… for your love for the Happy Place… for Venice, California… For being often imitated, never duplicated. I love you.
MER HANSON
For every collaboration, for all our heart to hearts, for all the happy place walls and for the beauty you bring to the island and the world every day. You are sunshine in human form.
JENNY JOHNSON
For being the city to my sand. Thank you for your love and our walks and talks around the world. Thank you for being the best person to scream underwater with. Thank you for your big, beautiful, bright heart.
NANCY JAKUBIK
Thank you for being the happy to my place. Thank you for all the ways you helped me see the power of myself and this book in numerous different lights. For being six at heart … always.
LYNN BOGLE
For your friendship and having my back as soon I said I wanted to do this recreate a dining guide. You are a straight up gift to humanity.
KATE AMODIO
For our longstanding friendship, the way you make me save more and spend less. For being by my side throughout this crazy, beautiful journey.
ERIN WILSON
For being the first person to introduce me to the advocate/influencer marketing world… and for showing me how real estate transactions work and persuading me to get into the business exactly when I did.
BETH ENGLISH
For knowing the perfect balance between current and vintage…For your spirits and your Spirit. Thank you for believing in me.
EMILY OTT HOLISTER & LAUREN MARTILLA
For gifting me the book Eastern Body, Western Mind after my heart surgery which in turn changed my life and became the heart of this book. I love you and am forever grateful.
JULIE BIONDI
For all the beauty and style that you have brought to the island and to the world at large. For the ways you believed in me and blACKbook from day one… And for making me feel so LOVELY throughout the last ten years.
MONIKA RUDNICKA
Thank you for Monarch, for the cocoon, for your healing hands and your hypnotherapy sessions. For giving me a space to do my hearts work. Thank you for your wisdom.
LYNNE BEGIER
For ROASTD, for all the times you reminded me to slow down and all the ways you’ve supported my spiritual journey. Chica, I am so grateful for you.
KATIE JETTER
For my sister lioness. For the way you show up for women and for yourself. For all the beauty you bring into the world. Thank you for the beauty that is your heart… the heart of a lion.
JEANNA ATCHINSON
For your marketing brilliance, infectious energy, the ways you helped bring the Dining Sourcebooks into a reality.
ERICA MARRERO
For your healing gifts through your hands and your heart. For being the earth to my wind. Thank you for breathing and being with me.
STACEY DUTRA
For the sacred contract, for the unending support, for the Omega entry, and for the unconditional love that you embody.
THE O.M.M.M.’S
For the women who showed me the way to the mothering of Self. I love each of you and love the ways you love and honor yourselves.
JULIE GAMMILL
KATIE PICKMAN
SUSIE TAPLEY
KATE GARRETTE
GRAHAM VEYSEY
LO MCSHAY
JANE BOURETTE
For your dedication and for the ways you advocate for meditation and Self care and for me. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
SHERI PERELMAN
For helping me understand that the word project and how it’s a way more high vibe word over injury as we go to explain anything that may be ailing us. Thank you for discerning this for me. And for the tongue scraper. That thing is a game changer :)
CATIE CONTE
For the pixie dust and for the belief in me and my spiritual practices … for being a warrior on this path and spreading the light.
JESSICA HICKS
For being there with me… from the beginning… my mamma bear… during the good, the bad and the 110th birthday weekend. You are a warrior.
ELIN HILDERBRAND
For the oh so important guidance in January 2020 when you told me, “silence and dedication” is the secret sauce to completing a book. Thank you for paving the way.
CORINNE NEVINY
For the way you support women, for the radical relief fund and for your bright spirit and your energy to change the world. You are an inspiration.
JEANNIE VINCENT
For reminding me that a step back is often not in the wrong direction. FLAF you forever.
SUZANNE KEATING
For my annual readings… for the way you see the stars. For the “book club reading” where you reminded me to spend as much time with my mom as I can. You are a gift.
ALEXANDRA CATCHPOLE
For our friendship, for the healing arts, for paving the way, for helping me step in to my role as a teacher and for the time on the beaches in Madaket and Madequecham. Thank you for your heart.
MAGGIE CONNORS
For your hot pink energy, the way you see the world and for always doing everything with loving kindness.
LIZ FEELEY
For the car ride home from Omega that spawned the next book…and for helping me see therapy as a guide.
VAL SAMPIER
For being my original therapist who helped me through dealing with my parents, through my past and shined the light on the night in Miami.
MARA LANCEY, THE OG INTERN
For being the first to be by my side and remembering that asking for help is a sign of strength. You’ve seen it all and stayed by my side. I love you.
ALEXANDRA CATCHPOLE
For seeing me clearly especially when I didn’t see myself…for leaving me your meditation blankets and tea mugs and helping me transition into my own healing arts.
ERIN LEE
For helping me get back offline in 2016, for Kripalu, for the awakening in Nosara in 2017 and for being my snake sister and friend always and in all ways.
COURTNEY OWENS
For your persistence and creativity. For always being open to the next thing. For your heart and for you and Britney for @cobblesideACK
EMILY ZONA
For being there for me from 2016 blACKbook, to that night at Ventuno, to helping redefining blACKbook to the epic assistance at the 2022 Trashion Show.
SYDNEY SYKES
Whose brilliance brought the Happy Place Brand back downtown and for your dedication to everything Sourcebook/Trashion Show/Happy Place driven in 2021 and 2022.
KAREEN WALSH
For the snake sweatshirt, the snake medicine and for empowering me as a teacher.
FAMILY GRATITUDE
FOR NANTUCKET
To the Grey Lady who held me over the past 18 years, rebirthed me and helped me learn how to mother myself so I can become a spiritual mother in my own way. Regardless of where I am, Nantucket is my happy place.
FOR MY ISLAND PARENTS
Hope & Stevie – for your constant form of support and friendship and love as well as for all the best writing that I did from your Surfside deck.
FOR MY AUNT COURTNEY
For the treasure hunt and making me realize I wanted to be an aunt.
FOR MY AUNT NINA
For supporting the writing from day one in Bali.. and for giving me the early love of travel with my first trip to Italy at 4. For your love… thank you.
FOR MY BESTIE: CEILEIGH HAMMOND
For the endless laughs, for waking our moms up out of a dead sleep, for the bus rides in Hawaii, for the beaches in Venice, for delivering the 1000’s of blACKbooks to the island while pregnant in 2017 and for the tears while always being there for me when I really need it… Besties since 1995!
MY FAMILY OF ORIGIN…
Dad, Christina, Sanna, Teri, Jackson, Brendan, Anthony, Steve, Matt, Kevin, Shelby, Julia, Ava, Hope, James, Liv and Luke… as I stated in the front of the book. For the support always and in all ways.
AND FINALLY… FOR JIBO
For being the bright light that guides me home everyday. You get me and I get you. Your support and dedication is unlike anything I have ever encountered. I yiiiike you and I love you…
Wholeheartedly,
Holly
