Pull The Thread

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In July of 2020 I was interviewed by a dear friend, Koos Klooster on his podcast, Confused Confucius. This episode is an exciting one for me because most entrepreneurs never pull back the curtain on the psychology behind their businesses, and the emotions behind managing the methodologies. We cover:
| How Krystal Got Into Sewing
| Her Career Coming Out of College & Changing Her Career Path
| More On The Transitioning Period
| The Mindset of Charging for Your Work
| Spontaneous & Calculated Pivotal Moments On Money Mindset
| Balancing Logic & Emotion In Creative Work
| The Value & Pricing of Creativity
| How Money Affects Doing What You Love
| Setting Boundaries For The Projects You Take
| Time Allocation - Creative, Production & Business
| Krystal's #1 Tip When Starting Out As A Creative Business
| Working "For Love" or "From Love" Process vs. Outcome Focus
| Learning To Love All Parts of The Process
| Lessons From Scaling The Business
| Feedback & Communication
| Perspective On Leadership - Commanding v.s Serving
| Three Key Components of Motivation
| Delegating Creativity & Micro-Managing
| Moving Forward Regardless of Your Pace
| Mental Fatigue & The Power of Recovery
| Krystal's Favorite Mental Tools
Check out Koos's podcast Confused Confucius on Podcast Guru, or wherever you like to listen to podcasts!

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5% of employees in the US are millionaires.. and 88% of millionaires are business owners. Success leaves clues, wouldn't you say?

This summer, my primary business, Music City Sewing, will turn eight. Eight years of running a small service-based sewing business that on the surface looks super shiny & glittery, peppered with Getty images and exciting opportunities, but when it comes down to it, it’s a blue collar business. It’s alterations, it’s softgoods and merch... it’s just your typical business on Main Street.

But it's changed my life, in a way that I could only pray more people get to experience if they have an idea that's bursting at the seams.

Interested in reading up about the Six-Figure Sewing Pattern? Head to sixfiguresewing.com.

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The color chartreuse has a bit of a boozy background. It was named after a French liqueur called “chartreuse” which has a greenish-yellow hue.

The liqueur was first produced in 1605 by the Carthusian monks of France.

François Hannibal d’Estrées discovered a secret recipe that allegedly helped its consumers ‘live a long life.’ He brought the recipe to Monks near Paris, who ultimately sent it down to La Grande Chartreuse abbey. The recipe was eventually tested in 1737, and about 60 years later, was tweaked to create Green Chartreuse.

This new and improved Chartreuse boasted a more mild flavor profile and is the recipe still used today. 75 years later, Frère Bruno Jacquet crafted another tweaked version of the recipe, which became the Yellow Chartreuse that we know and love today.

It takes 130 botanicals macerating for eight hours in copper to create Green Chartreuse. The final product’s ABV? 55% - and it’s flavor lands herbal/slightly medicinal on the palate. On the contrary, Yellow Chartreuse is a bit lower in alcohol (40% ABV) and leans sweeter on the flavor profile.

Green Chartreuse gets its color from chlorophyll, whereas Yellow Chartreuse gets its pigment from saffron. Both colors are naturally occurring, but the steps to this beverages outcome are nothing short of extraordinary.

Having your own clothing manufactured is a lot like brewing, the perfect chartreuse liqueur. In my years of running both a fashion design incubator and small batch manufacturer, I’ve come to find three common themes among the issues new fashion designers experience. This episode reaches deep into those issues and provides two different examples of each three.Three mistakes new fashion designers often make during manufacturing:

• Manufacturing too many colorways, or contrast stitching details.
• Manufacturing too many designs at a time, or too much product in general
• Signing a manufacturing contract before the design is sale-ready (stitching, fit, supplies)

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Have you wondered why you can’t seem to break a pay ceiling in your own business?
The things that we did to get us to our current level in business will not get us to the next level. For that, we need to expand and learn next level capabilities. I share with you a tool I use in my business to see what’s truly moving the needle, and what’s just taking up space.

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We don't rise to our goals, we fall to our systems.
Last year, I was gone over HALF of the year, but solely because our business processes are practically muscle memory at this point, our business still continued to grow.
I go behind the scenes in housekeeping for my business at the top of the year, to teach you exactly what steps you should take if you own a handmade business and want a peaceful, organized start to your year, as well as a framework for structuring your craft work!

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