Mind Your Business started as an idea between two friends. Mind Your Business started as an idea between two friends. Amanda of La Palma Cart Co. and I have known each other for years, and somewhere between building our own businesses, collaborating on projects and having plenty of conversations about what it actually looks like to create something of your own, we started talking about bringing women together in a different way.

I used to think this feeling lived just beneath the surface. Something only a few of us noticed but never quite put into words. The more time I spend with people who love this city the way I do, the more I realize it isn’t rare at all. We’re the ones who still look up. Who notice when the light catches a cornice just right, or when an old cast iron column peeks through scaffolding, reminding you what was there first. The ones who feel a subtle ache as another glass tower rise

There was a time when I was a yes girl. Flying through time zones, crossing state lines...