Kim BrattainFounder/ CEO, Kim Brattain Media · Award-winning Corporate and Documentary Film Producer

National Association of Women Business Owners - Keri Bonfili | Partner Video Inspiration

7 Dec 2022 · 3 min

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In this partner‑inspiration video, Keri Bonfili, the sole owner of Cape Bonfili PR Strategic and Communications Agency, introduces her boutique virtual PR firm and reflects on the experiences that shape her work. She explains how her six‑year run as a solo, virtual agency is bolstered by her former career as a broadcast journalist, giving her a competitive edge in national media relations, crisis communications, and media training. Bonfili credits her mother as her greatest influence, describing lessons in empathy and genuine connection. She shares personal details about her love of baking bread, cooking, and entertaining, as well as her blended family life with a husband, four teenage daughters, and dogs. Finally, she praises the National Association of Women Business Owners (NABO) for providing a supportive community that combats isolation for women entrepreneurs, offering confidence and comfort through shared experiences.

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I run the Cape Bonfili PR Strategic and Communications Agency. It's a virtual agency, a boutique agency if you will, and I am the only one there. And I've been doing this for going on 6 years. I think the fact that I used to be a broadcast journalist Helps tremendously. My competitive edge for national media relations, crisis communications, and media training is really all about my experience that I gained when I was in news. The person that's inspired me the most over the years is, um, the one that's had the most influence on me, and that's my mother. She's lovely. She taught me how to love and like people and really want to get to know them for the wonderful, unique humans that they are. I love to bake. I love to cook. I love to entertain. So I started making bread, and I'm getting decent at it. I wouldn't say good. I'm not going to get that full of myself, but people eat it. And they seem to like it. Well, we have a blended family. My husband and I, this year we'll be married 5 years, and he's got 2 daughters, and then I have 2 daughters, and everybody's ages range from 11 to 17 this year. We're a busy household. There's a lot of coming and going, and there's dogs in the mix, and it's not a crazy pace, It's just right. I think NABO is fantastic. It's not an easy place for us in the position that we're in, and a lot of times it can be isolating. And so to be able to rub elbows either virtually or in person with other women who understand where you are and where you're coming from, it gives you a level of Confidence along with comfort, that's amazing.