Meet your creative sidekicks
We founded Lemonade Communications with a passion for community, storytelling, and creativity.
We’re Emily Sollows and Meghan Doucette, the founders behind Lemonade Communications.
We met as neighbours on Nova Scotia’s South Shore. Our friendship started with a shared desire to support our mental health through cold plunging in the winter. Our commitment to build our lives outside of society’s standards drives our business journey.
We discovered we both had lemonade stands as kids. We’ve always wanted to forge our own paths in life. The name Lemonade Co. refers back to our days selling lemonade on the side of the road, trying new things, figuring it out as we go, and being refreshing as hell.
Emily SollowsHey there— I’m Emily Sollows (she/her), a writer, strategist, and communications professional with a drive to connect businesses and organizations with their communities.
I lead our digital marketing and communications strategy projects. With a formal education in community leadership and journalism, and 10+ years of communications experience, I approach projects with creativity and fun.
I'm passionate about helping you develop your unique voice, connect with your community and meet your goals. I want to help highlight the stories of the people, the passion and the work of your business or organization.
Meghan Doucette Hi there— I’m Meghan Doucette (she/her), a designer and urban planner with a passion for crafting visually captivating materials for businesses and organizations.
I lead our community engagement, brand identity and website design projects.
My formal education is in management, sustainability and urban planning. I combine graphic design and an equity lens to create accessible visuals that resonate with your audience.
I am fueled by contributing to meaningful initiatives that make a positive difference in our communities.
what we stand forLemonade Co is a queer, neurodivergent, women-owned business. We reject hustle culture and approach our client relationships with grace and understanding.
We are conscientious of our environmental impact. We travel by bike instead of car when we can, we reduce waste as much as possible, and we use energy efficient heating sources in our homes (which double as our offices). We believe that our natural world is a deeply healing space and that we must protect it.
We both occupy space as white women who are generally well-resourced and we acknowledge the privileges and opportunities we have based on our position in society. We are committed to ongoing interrogation of our unconscious biases. We are on a life-long journey to unlearn what society has taught us and to forge our own paths.
Lemonade Co is located in Mi’kma’ki; the unceded, unsurrendered, and contemporary land of the Mi’kmaq people. Canada has a history of social exclusion, genocide, and systemic discrimination of Indigenous peoples. The ongoing impacts of this exclusion are felt throughout our shared cultural experiences today.
We commit to take action towards justice for all equity-deserving groups in our society through our work and our personal lives.