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After moving to Paris almost 5 years ago, my perspective on fashion, design and above all, business changed. Here, I share my daily banterings, learnings and sounds from the city I love. Let the classes and articles be a guide to inspire you and your business ideas. |
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Introducing a New Class!
Guidebook to Your Creative Business Journey Craft an effective 10 page personal business guidebook for a happy business on your own terms.
A five week online class great for creative thinkers! Put away the boring business plan and create steps and strategy to your idea. More here |
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After I finally settled on the perfect business idea, I told everyone about it! Every night I'd go home and research material, sew, hoard fabric and tell people "I was doing my dream." But little did they know I was as scared as a deer in headlights...I never passed the research phase and got self defeated! I needed a little guidance, someone who knew me and my process and say, "do this next" and definitely some accountability. I reviewed my b-school notes, read books, asked for advice, but nothing was that "special sauce", the magic fairy dust, the right... "thing".
This class is that..."thing" that's missing. It's the work every entrepreneur needs to do after forming the idea but before you start producing or selling. It's the "thing" that's needed as you restart a business or even as you tackle a side job. Click here for details. |
Recent ArticlesI remember I was dating this tech guy in San Francisco. Wait, envision the very stereotypical 20 something Silicon Valley tech guy with millions in funding for his startup, driving a 80K car with a reminder app on his phone to "call mom" every month. I just came back from the fifth pattern maker I hired, flinging my latest bag re-design, side to side and the slyness in my eye was the exclamation point. His response was a shaking head and eyes extra round, "all this again?...ok, but why don't you just..."start" already? My eyes matched his. This is the start, right? I answered him with a nervous run on sentence, "I have to get the final specs...fabric...and then when one price changes, the whole thing-what do you know anyway..." What I didn't realize was that creating a product is not the start of designing my business. See stories like this and more articles here.
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As I work on my business, I find I'm not alone and it's easy to be "not-perfect" with them. Phew! Being honest and vulnerability is work but with them, I'm in a safe space. So who's in these groups and how did I find them? The deal is that everything is free, organized and perfectly random...
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Florence has been reflecting recently around what it means to be successful. She said that she would get stuck in making decisions, trusting herself less. “When it feels natural...or meant to be, it should be easier...right?”
She explained that in November 2019 she had a mild response to her brand's launch because of Covid. "A lockdown doesn't give people... |
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So I finally created a due date for the first draft of my book. How did I almost forget I had that as a goal? Last week I was making a list of my 6 month objectives and what I needed to do to accomplish them by May. I went through the list and I was like, ok….create new classes check, revise website check, write more consistent blog posts check. But there is something else...something about writing..what is that again? Write ..write….oh! Of course! Write the BOOK! How did it not make it on my most important thing to do list?
Does this mean that writing the book wasn't important... |
Design an Idea Class
For Creative Problem Solving and Decision Making
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I had such a hard time changing from pharmacy to fashion, moving from San Francisco to Paris, figuring out my first collection, I needed a method to untangle it all. Be your own coach! Consultants, counselors, best friends are not always there and journaling only goes so far. I created this class for you to structure your ideas, get clearer on your creations and business planning.
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Covid taught me many things, but to not procrastinate is top on the list. This is my ode to the independent creative- a story a resource, a guidebook. Sign up for my newsletter to get snippets of the book in progress!
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You know how sometimes you have cravings? Usually mine come in the form of Tyrrell's potato chips but around February of last year, I had this intense need to... share. Ok, it's not a crazy revelation where the seas parted. I'm not about the crappy day at the factory nor "tips and tricks" to solving whatnot. But in fact, sharing my design life, the crazy and absurd working in France, Africa and US. I'll be diving in deep into process and helping people figure out the tough stuff for the independent creative ... in a quirky way. 'Cause, you know sometimes I dream of fish but most of the time I leave the illogical logical stuff to Instagram posts.
I'd love to share snippets of the book at various periods with you. It's always nice to have company on this sort of journey. You'll get behind the scenes perspectives I don't talk about on the blog and personal learnings I only share with mentees. |