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GAME CHANGERS • ANDEE HOIG
Holiday Joy Through Seafood
ABSOLUTELY FRESH SEAFOOD MARKET
We are continuing our tradition of being Omaha’s go-to place for the best seafood. Make our delicious cocktail shrimp, smoked salmon, party trays and even smoked prime rib part of your Holiday celebration. Check out our full selection and prices in our online store where you can place your holiday order fast and easy 24 hours a day.
1218 S 119th St. • Omaha, NE 68144 (402) 827-4376 • www.absolutelyfreshmarket.com
Build-A-Brownie
BROWNIE BAR OMAHA
The Brownie Bar opened in 2019 and makes all brownies and toppings from scratch! Start with three “naked” brownies (traditional, blonde and dark chocolate) and choose from nine homemade frostings and toppings like fudge sauce, butter mint frosting and peanut butter frosting. Mix and match how you please! All brownies are created with LOVE and from real ingredients (real butter, real vanilla, real cream, real fruits … ) Gift idea: The sauces are available by the bottle and gift cards make a wonderful HOLIDAY GIFT!
1217 Leavenworth St. • Omaha, NE 68102 (402) 506-4337 • www.browniebaromaha.com
For the Mind Body & Soul
BUDDHA MAITREYA SOUL THERAPY
Buddha Maitreya Soul Therapy Center provides a range of different healing tools & energetic modalities to enhance a person’s energetic field and help their mind, body and spirit to heal.
Soul Therapy Sessions provide the person a heightened energetic vibration and increase in soulful light. Benefits: Ozone spa detox, Color Super Tuning chakra balancing, Sensitive Imago for de-stress & relaxation.
Locatons:
Buddha Maitreya Shambhala Monastery, Lake County, California Montclair Shopping Center, 13013 West Center Rd • Omaha, NE 68144 (877) 444-7685 • www.shambhalahealingtools.com
Indian Restaurant & Brewing
JAIPUR BREWING COMPANY
Family owned and operated oldest Indian Restaurant & Brewing in town since 1991. We are voted 17 years in a row as a best Indian Restaurant in Omaha by Best of Omaha. We are included in “ Hall Of Fame.”
We do not compromise with quality of food and service. Our main goal is to make our every costumer satisfied.
Locatons:
Rockbrook Village 10922 Elm Street • Omaha, NE 68144
Dundee 5018 Underwood Ave • Omaha, NE 68132 (402) 392-7331 • www.jaipurindianfood.com
Locally Made Gifts & Goods
MADE IN OMAHA
Locally made, handcrafted gifts all come with a story to tell and the personal touch that make the perfect holiday gift. Shirts, candles, soaps, jewelry, candy, salsas, jellies, goodies for kids & pets, and more! Support local entrepreneurship, creativity and Omaha’s economy all at the same time. Shop our locally made gifts at madeinomaha.com!
With more than 30,000 animals covering 160 acres, Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium strives to inspire all who pass through its gates to conserve and protect the natural world. The Zoo, an independent non-profit accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, is consistently ranked as one of the world’s top zoos for conservation, animal care and exhibit design.
Locatons:
Shops of Legacy - 16901 Wright Plz #163 Countryside Village - 8722 Pacific St. Old Market - 1013 Howard St. (402) 916-4960 • www.madeinomaha.com
3701 S. 10th St. • Omaha, NE 68107 (402) 733-8401 • www.omahazoo.com
Zoo More Good
OMAHA’S HENRY DOORLY ZOO & AQUARIUM
Locatons: Address 1
In 1996, Andee Hoig purchased a small, struggling publication called Metro Monthly from her father, Midlands Business Journal founder and publisher Bob Hoig. 25 years later, she reflects on the evolution of Metro Monthly into today’s metroMAGAZINE and multimedia company ALH Publications, Inc.
It’s a question that has served as both a motivator and a theme of sorts for Andrea “ANDEE” Hoig since she began her journey as an entrepreneur over a quarter-century ago. It hasn’t been an easy path—she’s faced setbacks as a small-business owner like the 2008-2009 recession, a 2010 fire that decimated her office space, and the recent pandemic—but she’s also seen many triumphs including expanding beyond print publications into online, television and podcasting channels.
“I am always looking for ‘What else is possible?’ What else is possible with what we’re doing, how we’re doing it, who we’re doing it with? The processes and procedures, can we do it a different way? Can we do it virtually?” she said. “You can’t stay stuck in what has been and what you have done and how you did things. You have to keep looking at things differently, and that also invites opportunities to actually create new things.”
Hoig has certainly created new things. In 2006, she transitioned Metro Monthly into metroMAGAZINE and formed ALH Publications, Inc. That same year she started The BIG Event, an annual celebration recognizing local charity events and their volunteers, supporters and sponsors. After turning 50 in 2016, Hoig celebrated the milestone by participating in 50 5K walk/run events the next year and launched My 5K Journey on social media. In 2018, the first episode of metroTV hosted by Hoig aired on the City of Omaha’s new community television station, KPAO. In 2021, Hoig’s global podcast, Contribution Rocks, debuted. She also purchased her late father’s weekly newspaper, the Midlands Business Journal, and introduced a contemporary redesign for the 46year-old paper in October of this year.
The purchase of MBJ continues her father’s legacy, but it also brings Hoig back to her beginnings, in a sense. As a teen, she worked for her father’s publication in whatever capacity was needed.
“I’ve done everything from doing layout back in the day when we were waxing pieces of paper and putting them on layout sheets, making our own black-and-white prints, selling advertising, invoicing, cleaning the office. Any aspect of a publishing business and any task that needed to be done, I’ve done it,” she said.
