I knew my role with Jill was friendship and we built it around conversation and helping each other with projects. We did stuff. We went places. We talked daily. We supported each other.
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Community is essential as it becomes an integral part of your story of success.
The people you surround yourself with can reinforce your story, raise the bar or cheer you on.
I know it annoyed me because I felt insecure about not having a brick n Mortar yet, but for some reason, sarcasm is easier and faster than vulnerability.
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Please pay here became the guiding light in the trailer as people try to navigate a senses overload while trying to find the checkout counter.
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I can still remember my Grandfather telling me how important my attitude will be in shaping my life. He used to say attitude is everything. The only thing you can control is how you respond. He was right.
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I thought back to my experiences working for others. I thought about what I liked and what I didn’t like. I had a lot of bad bosses over the years.
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Our kitty, Loki was the first animal I was ever involved in rescuing from a shelter. He was already 15 years old when he was surrendered by his aging owner to the animal shelter on Camano Island.
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Fred asked the hard questions - Questions no one had ever asked to this point.
Do you pay your taxes?
Do you report all your earnings?
Do you carry business debt?
Do you know how much inventory you have?
Do you know your profit and loss for the year?
I swallowed hard at these questions but I heard myself answer him honestly.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS TO EVERYDAY CONVERSATIONS IN THE STORE
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The day he thought to gift us this box, FFV had never bought or sold a single belt buckle. Since then we have bought and sold close to 600 buckles.
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Perfection paralyzes, keeps us from starting a project or shipping finished work. I’ve been clean of perfection and self-criticism for 5 years. Within these 5 years, I have watched my business exponentially grow because I finally got out of my own way.
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Over the course of hundreds of hours, thousands of hours, we grew as individuals, we grew as a couple, and we grew our business. Our time on the road was raw and it was rough but it was rich in life’s lessons.
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Dreaming about being a business owner and actually being one, are two different realities.
Recently, I asked her what she learned from our time spent on the road from 2016-2019 and she responded:
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When we shop in our local neighborhoods we are supporting the communities we live in and benefit from. By shopping on main street instead of buying on Amazon we are generating sales tax revenue for our city, creating local jobs which are often held by women, infusing our downtown with diversity, character & community.
What stories are you telling yourself? What stories are you telling others? How long have you been telling yourself these stories? The stories we tell ourselves create our narrative and shapes our future.
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Every event we did we found more momentum around this customized hat experience. Hats were selling as fast as we could source, reshape, trim, and place out for sale.
The next logical step was investing in wooden hat blocks, liquid starch, and books about the hat-making trade. We started deconstructing vintage fur felt hats, washing the felt, re-blocking to larger sizes, hand sewing in new calfskin sweatbands and new satin liners.
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FFV+H is a generous hustle. We are building something to last. We are creating a slow fashion movement. We are dedicated to educating the public around slow fashion, fast fashion and supporting our local economy.
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Why have we always been ok with the vintage fur industry? We certainly don't condone the killing of animals, nor do we support the new fur industry, nor do support factory farming for food production. But when it has come to buying, wearing and selling very vintage furs we have not blinked - and still don’t.
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I remember being struck by her beauty, felt shy when she smiled, and intrigued by her mysterious quietness. To make the story even more dramatic I met her in the company of my boyfriend of 4+ years. ⠀⠀
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