Regina Colantonio is the founder of Here Comes Gina, a newsletter-based media company that helps women feel less dead inside. With an extraordinary 90% open rate, the Here Comes Gina newsletter delivers brightness, comfort and inspiration to women each week.

Regina also works individually with women founders by providing business/sales consulting and hype.

Regina is in recovery from a 13-year career as a corporate real estate lawyer, an experience that gives her plenty of content for her work as a mental health advocate. She lives in suburban Philadelphia with her spouse and two children.

A Brief History of HCG

In 2009, I was a miserable law firm associate when I started a blog named Here Comes Gina. I wrote mostly about fashion and beauty plus books, travel and my disgust of a local Dairy Queen that refused to stock chocolate ice cream for an entire summer.

I loved it.

I escaped the law firm for an in-house lawyer job and allowed Here Comes Gina to become dormant. For about a decade, I suffocated my personal dreams with lawyering, busyness, anxiety, overspending and refined sugar (plus I had two children within that decade). I was angry, resentful and bitter when I thought about the website that went untouched — and the life I wished I was living.

But over all those years, a tiny little fire in my heart refused to go out. I kept paying for the HCG domain name. I let myself daydream about what I could do with the site. I joined an incredible coaching program. I started taking baby steps.

I began to feel less dead inside.

I finally reignited my dream when I relaunched Here Comes Gina in late 2020 as a weekly newsletter with two promises to readers: (1) I will do my best to show up in your inbox every Thursday with something to bring fun, connection and laughter to your life and (2) I will never lie to you. 

I am thrilled that I am now in recovery from 13 years of working as a corporate lawyer. I live in suburban Philadelphia with my spouse, Joe, and our two children, each of whom I love very much.