About

Founded out of a desire to improve relationships between the planet, people, and animals, VINE started with Steph Silver, her connections, and her passions. Building on the foundation of solid relationships, and decades of experience, VINE has connected people, organizations and companies who have a purpose to improve the world, empower people, enliven our environment, and connect to their community.

Our agency is built on a solid understanding that marketing isn’t merely a series of advertisements; it’s an ongoing and evolving dialogue – a relationship with your customers, vendors, and partners. VINE collective helps organizations like yours foster those relationships and create meaningful and memorable connections through brand experiences.

Purpose

To radically improve the world we live in, enhancing as many lives as possible through cultivating meaningful and memorable brand experiences.

Values

Love & Compassion
Strong Relationships
Happiness & Life Balance
Great Work for Great People
Amplification of Passionate Leaders

Why

To Help Humans Thrive!

Cultivating Your Brand Promise

Does everyone in your organization know what the guiding purpose behind your organization is? If so, do they know how their role directly affects the ability of your organization to fulfill that purpose? The more engaged your team and your customers are with the purpose of your business, the harder they’ll work, and the more willing they’ll be to pay for your product…making it easier for you to continue to fulfill your purpose.

VINE collective trains, educates, and aligns leaders who live through their mission, vision, and passion. Our ideal client engagement begins with an interactive evaluation and leadership training. Together, we assess the goals of the organization, get to the source of what is in the way of desired outcomes, and empower meaningful changes to achieve real results. We then offer ongoing solutions to keep everyone on track and on message with the mission and vision. We determine the true brand position and potential, and fulfill the complete brand experience if you need it created, defined, refined, or amplified.

Just as people cannot live without eating, so a business cannot live without profits. But most people don’t live to eat, and neither must businesses live just to make profits.

**Are you a good client for VINE if you don’t have a clear purpose yet?**

Most organizations were founded on a drive to improve lives in some way. We’ll work with you and your team to unearth the roots of your organization and give your purpose wings.

Going Deeper

On a daily basis we work tirelessly to radically improve the world we live in, enhancing as many lives as possible through cultivating human connections, and our connections with the world we live in. We say we do this by fostering meaningful and memorable brand experiences but until you work with us, you don’t really know what that means, or why we work so hard.

Steph Silver’s Why

I have a few glimpses of what I think may be my first memories. The one I think about most often is of walking through a field and not knowing where to step out of fear of stomping out the tiny flowers. Another memory that may have happened around that same time is of meeting my step dad. I walked into a small trailer home and he was sitting on a couch in the room to the right. He had coke-bottle glasses, a thick dark beard, and a very large smile. He motioned for me to sit on his lap and I went to him without fear. The third memory, is me (around age 2) sitting in the red leather seat of a car, crying with all my heart. I was in the back seat by myself with a lap belt on and a clear idea that I was far away from safety.

My life has been a series of huge peaks and valleys but I’ve always been absolutely in love with the human spirit and the beauty of this planet we share life with. As I’ve grown older and I look out on life from a slightly higher standing (in many respects) I still actively avoid stepping on the flowers in each field I walk in or dance through. I’m also acutely aware of the trees that continue to be pulled from their hundred-plus year homes so that humans can live in larger and larger ones; the sea life that is suffocated by our plastic so that we can have more stuff or have a convenience; and my heart aches for the children – the people – who don’t have families or a foundation of love and thus have a grim view of their future.

For hundreds of years humans have worked tirelessly toward our collective idea of progression, but as a descendant of the Cherokee tribe, I can’t help but believe some of that work has reduced our humanity and sacrificed our health and happiness.

I believe fully in capitalism, but like John Mackey, founder of Whole Foods Market “I think one of the most misunderstood things about business in America is that people are either doing things for altruistic reasons or they are greedy and selfish—just after profit. That type of dichotomy portrays a false image of business… The whole idea is to do both.”

For Life, For Health, For Happiness

At VINE Collective, we work tirelessly and joyfully to bring humanity into the core of business and bring nature to the core of our lives. We work directly with leaders to discover their true passions and purpose and then we bring those passions to life through every member of the organization, into every vendor, and every customer.

Steph Silver, Owner of VINE Collective, Host of MVP Business Podcast

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