Founder's Journal

Pause

It has been a quiet week at KAEIU. So quiet that my weekly Sunday letter went completely over my head.  My manufacturer is deep into production on the new Woven...

Coach

This week I attended my niece's high school graduation. She graduated from the same school I attended, and I had not been back in twenty-one years. When I arrived at...

Team

There are changes coming... Like a seafarer who has learned to read the ocean, who feels the wind shift before anyone else notices, I have been sensing a change in...

Tea

On Friday, I attended an afternoon tea event hosted by Nasrin from Mixed by Nasrin. She gathered thirty women from her community, customers, people she has featured, people who simply...

Paid

This week, I paid myself for the first time. Yes. For the first time. In five years. The first year in business, I was in the red. The second, I...

Small

When I was seven, we lived in Argentina. My parents were missionaries and traveled frequently, sometimes for what felt like weeks at a time. We would stay behind with our...