Once upon a time, there was a girl wearing a required uniform of polyester polo shirt and orthopedic shoes, on her feet for 16 hour days, promising herself this would be the last mindless insulting job she would ever work because unbeknownst to anyone she had just launched a styling business called Dean Street Society.
{My first photo shoot that launched the blog.}
Once upon a time was 3 years ago today.
Happy 3rd birthday Dean Street Society! Read more about my story from a Broadway tour to a steamy industrial kitchen in this post I wrote last year on my 2nd birthday.
*Alright so we didn't literally win any awards, but that's what all the emails and Instagram comments of love, joy, delight and aha moments felt like!
So pencil us into your social calendar, darling! Then pause for just a moment and ask yourself:
It's one of my favorite questions.
3 years feels just far enough to dream big, and just close enough to taste the reality and see the path there.
And today it's especially poignant because 3 years ago I never imagined this would be true:
Those things sound fancy. And they are! {Cue Iggy Azalea.} And I would never in a million years have believed you if you'd told me they would happen in the first 3 years.
So dream big, betty. I believe in fancy.
Nor could I have imagined how much hard work it would take, how many tears, anxiety attacks, how little sleep. But I can't imagine anything bringing me more joy or fulfillment.
So hustle hard for the things that matter, m'dear.
And whether in your style, business or life -- from the bottom of my heart -- I'm here to help you have more authentic confidence and deep joy.