June 7, 2025 (Denver, CO) – STIMULATE, North America’s only B2B sexual wellness trade show, conference and community, returns to Nashville August 4+5, 2025, for their third, annual flagship experience and will welcome over twenty new brands making their trade show debut. To help support and applaud these new-to-market brands, STIMULATE will host an Emerging Mentor Experience that will take place on the Sunday prior to the show opening and support these brands with industry leading insight. Aimed to help each of these brands best support their launch, growth and overall understanding of the market, STIMULATE will welcome six industry leaders to support these brands as mentors. STIMULATE’ Emerging Brand Mentors for 2025 are:
- Dee Bertino | CEO + Attorney at Fantasy Gifts
- Sasha Harris | Director of Women’s Health, Personal Intimacy, Fem Care + Baby Care at CVS
- Josh Porter | VP of Operations of Romantix, Inc.
- Tiara Trudeau-Gullotta, ACS | Owner + CEO of Sultry Company
- Sean Quinn | CEO of All Point Retail
- Joe Vela | Senior Director of Sales of Dame
Additional, highlighted experiences at STIMULATE will include a Sex Tech Spotlight presented by Find My Fem Tech, a Third Time’s a Charm Bracelet Bar presented by Like a Kitten, a Female Founder’s celebration honoring 21 Trailblazing Female Founders with the sexual wellness community and more. STIMULATE will also return to Nashville with their STIMULATE+Educate experience that will bring over thirty sessions for attendees to learn from, an opening night party for all attendees to enjoy, a retail-intense workshop experience presented by industry leaders and many other memorable moments.
Part of the STIMULATE experience is supporting all attendees – including exhibitors – in their professional success. We are thrilled to welcome industry leaders to STIMULATE that will share their professional insight to these young brands,” shares Nicole Leinbach Hoffman, Founder of STIMULATE.
In addition to the emerging brands at STIMULATE, returning vendors will include Vella Bioscience, Tenga, Aneros, Sportsheets, Future Method, Popstar, Foria and many others. New to STIMULATE brands will include Promescent, DanaMedic, Astroglide, Julie, Phexxi and many others.
To explore all the exhibitors of STIMULATE 2025, click here. Please note this link updates as each year passes.
Interested in attending STIMULATE? Potential exhibitors and attendees alike can email stimulate@retailminded.com for more information and explore the agenda and learn more here.
About STIMULATE
STIMULATE was founded in 2023 and will host it’s third annual trade show + conference in Nashville, Tennessee, on August 4+5, 2025. Founded in an effort to bring connectivity of products to retailers, medical leaders and more together in combination with education supporting these same professionals, STIMULATE has been recognized by Trade Show Network News as one of the best community focused trade shows (2023) and continues to gain further reach of medical leaders, brands and retailers alike as each year passes. Hoffman, founder of STIMULATE, is also a longtime retail professional who also the Founder of Retail Minded, an adjunct professor of Retail Marketing and frequent contributor and speaker to a variety of publications and events. STIMULATE also holds various events throughout the year separate from it’s flagship experience. Explore more at StimulateTheShow.com.
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