Two transplants.
One village.

I’m Bella Rose: an entrepreneur, holistic private chef, and fellow transplant who knows what it feels like to start over in a new city. When I moved to Dallas, I wanted to build meaningful friendships, connect with people who shared my ambition, and find a community that felt like home. That desire inspired Not From Here, Either.

As a chef, bringing people together around a table has always been at the heart of what I do. This community is an extension of that same intention: creating a space where people feel welcomed, seen, and connected.

I’m passionate about introducing good people to one another, supporting fellow entrepreneurs, and making it easier to turn a room full of strangers into familiar faces. My hope is that you leave our gatherings with a new friendship, a potential collaboration, or simply the feeling that you’ve found somewhere you belong.

Brittney McKinley is a Dallas-based multipotentialite, visionary, and storyteller creating a world where healing, beauty, and truth-telling all live in the same room.

Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and shaped by a chapter in Los Angeles before landing in Dallas, Brittney has always been a woman in motion, and that journey is the pulse behind everything she creates.

As the author of the “Dangerously” Collection, beginning with Details of a Dangerous Woman: 4 Things To Do After An Uncoupling and continuing with the soon-to-be released, Dangerously Soft; these books were birthed from her uncoupling and rebuilding, written to hand others the map she drew herself.

She has a natural instinct to hold space for transformation, which lives in her work as a Floral Stylist with her brand, Contained Stems, intersecting wellness and floristry to create something than arrangements.

She brings that same energy to the mic as host of Dangerous Discussions: In Bed With Bee, a podcast where the conversations are real, raw, and rarely spoken.

As a two-time trauma-aware certified breathwork coach, Brittney doesn’t just talk about healing; she facilitates it, one breath at a time.

She knows exactly what it feels like to relocate and start over from ground zero and is excited to build a community, beyond events, with Not From Here, Either.