 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. October is National Women's Small Business Month. Pikeville is a city brimming with unique locally owned small businesses, many of them owned and operated by women. Downtown Pikeville has been wonderful to be a female business owner. Because there are so many other empowering women owning businesses in positions with the city that are super helpful. And we all kind of have like just a little bit of a camaraderie about it. So that's been wonderful as far as specifically like in this location. Many women who own small businesses, need included, are mothers. They carry the responsibility of juggling their business as well as their parental duties, both of which are full-time jobs. Women ran small businesses are amazing. Even if you don't have children, women in general carry the majority of mental loads in their homes and their families and things like that. So I think that it's, I mean I think it's so impressive to see such a concentrated amount of women owned businesses, especially in a small eastern Kentucky town. Mead expressed her gratitude for the community of women business owners in Pikeville and the community they've created for each other. Small businesses are the backbone of many communities and supporting them helps keeps more money local. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Deane.