I quit toxic growth culture and that’s when my businesses finally took off.

You know that advice everyone loves to throw around? “Get outside your comfort zone.”
“Do the things that scare you.”  “If you’re not uncomfortable, you’re not growing.”

We’ve been convinced that if you’re not uncomfortable, you’re not growing.

And I believed this for way too long, until it nearly destroyed me and my business!

Everything changed when I stopped trying to force myself into anxiety-inducing situations and instead started expanding my comfort zone.

That’s …

There were only four factors that contributed to my polymer clay charm shop achieving its highest-ever sales year, $200,000 in revenue with a 53% profit margin.

These aren’t the usual things most creative business owners are doing, but trust me, they still work today.

Sure, artists are hustling on social media or at craft shows, but we’re not going down that rabbit hole because, let’s be real, those are super time-consuming.

So I’ll show you what those four things are, how you can do them yourself for …

You only need to get four things right to start a successful online store in 2026.

I’ve been running online stores full-time for 14 years. A lot has changed since then.

If I started over today from zero, these four new steps are the only things I’d focus on in the first 30 days.

In this blog, I’ll walk you through those steps so you’ll know exactly how to start an online store that lasts and stands out from the competition.

Deciding What to Sell

When you’re …

I made $54,000 a month selling personalized art and I did it with only 5 Apps. 

Most people think you need a dozen different apps, a huge team, and endless hours to scale a personalized art business. 

Others assume it’s not even possible to automate something customized. But I’m here to prove otherwise.

We’ve built a streamlined, highly profitable art business using just 5 apps and in this blog, I’ll walk you through each one

Everything is so systematized that my husband, Peter, who now runs the …