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Hey! I remember being right where you are now - doubting the path forward, questioning my abilities, and saying, "there just has to be a better way," when I made mistakes.

Truth is, there is.

I started my handmade business the day I took a Brother Project Runway home sewing machine and set it on my $30 craigslist desk that I'd painted with oops paint.  I built a multi-six figure sewing business that supports a life I love… while generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue each year.

Then I launched a podcast, and now here we are - teaching makers and designers how to build businesses that thrive.

Designing great products and making them with your bare hands demands a LOT of your energy, skill, and focus. It's hard enough out here already just bringing your product to market.

Are you operating on empty by the time you approach the business aspects of running your handmade hustle?

No one should be walking through entrepreneurship alone. Wanna walk it together?

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THE PODCAST

episode 1: Reverse engineering success

episode 4: Four Lessons I've Learned from Four years in business

episode 2: How bra makErs put a man on thE moon

 As we move into 2021 (and away from 2020 as quickly as possible), it’s the perfect time to define what success looks like as a creative, and set your three most important goals for your life this year. In this podcast, I’ll be diving deep into topics surrounding entrepreneurship that matter to me, and answering questions like:

- How do I make my craft profitable?
- How do I market my craft based business?
- How do I brand a craft-based business?
- How do I get my clients to pay more?
- How do I know I’m producing my craft as profitably as possible?

episodE 3: 5 Things I wish I whEn i first startED my sEwing businEss

Just a few years before sewing the first American flag, Betsy Ross ran away across the river to get married in a bar against the wishes of her entire family. She sat near George Washington in church and built a friendship with him that lead to her legacy-filled role as the first seamstress of the American flag.

After sewing the flag, she went on to operate a successful business for decades. I wonder what advice she'd have for us sewing business owners today? Would it be the importance of choosing a good church pew?

I'm no Betsy, but I know what I wish I did. In this episode, I highlight five things I wish I had done when I first went into business, as well as some important things to note in doing business in a craft-based industry.

When I first started my sewing business, I thought my biggest struggle would be finding paid work. I doubted that I could find enough clients to pay me to sew for them, which was actually a reflection of how I viewed my trade… little did I know, my biggest lessons and struggles I would have over the next four years actually all related to growth, and how I would cope with it.

Fast forward to four years of lessons, mistakes, windfalls, nightmares, and insane amounts of plot twists and growth, and I can confidently say that the four lessons I’m sharing with you come with a lot of thought and retrospect.

While it feels like year 40, I now have a good handful of gray hairs, a few annoying regrets, enough perspective to sink a ship, and so much gratitude for the journey and love for the process. But four years in and I’m just now starting to figure a few things out. I've made this list of four things I’ve learned about launching and growing a sewing company in four years.

If you’re an Astronaut, the process of getting dressed for work is labor intensive. You might have known the spacesuits Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong were expensive… but I bet you didn’t know the seamstresses who made them came from Playtex. 

The success of those suits were a matter of life and death. I’d imagine the phrase ‘good enough’ was not one that was said that day about their uniform. 

What if I told you, that the spacesuits these astronauts wore only passed half of their field tests? 

How do you know if your handmade work is good enough to sell? In this episode, we go behind the scenes at NASA and pull the thread on imposter syndrome, taking imperfect action, and learning how to let the market decide what's good enough to sell. I teach you how to let the market decide, and why.

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