Small Island, Big Ideas
Five businesses, thirteen kids, and the reset we all needed
By mid-January, the month’s bleakness was starting to get to me. Maybe it was the tail end of snake-year energy, but the first two weeks of the New Year brought a whole lot of “no’s.” I could feel my momentum dipping. I needed a reset, a little pep in my step.
So I texted my founder group chat, dropped a link to a four-bedroom villa on Harbour Island, and said, “Let’s book it.” Two and a half weeks later (between five businesses and thirteen kids) we made it happen.
There’s something incredibly powerful about stepping away, creating space, and expanding your thinking alongside other women who are building, solving, and dreaming big.
Since high school, one of my favorite quotes has stayed with me, and it still hits today…
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When I get together with these women, I leave inspired to try new things in the business. I feel connected as mothers. I feel less alone in the weight of it all, and a reminder that, ok, we can do hard things.
Here are a few of the questions we tossed around:
A tool that’s actually working
Channel mix (ecommerce / retail / wholesale)
How AI’s helping
Where the marketing spend is going
The metric you obsess over
Most recent hire
A limiting belief you had to outgrow
Your energy non-negotiable
I went a night early before the group arrived so I could get ahead on a few things — shoot some extra content for the team for our spring drop and carve out a little alone time where I was able to dive into my latest read.
