Hey guys, I’m Kachen could see, a fashion designer to stars. My business is primarily a fashion house. It’s really about designing clothes that is superior quality and really invokes that feeling of confidence. My mom and my sister are physiotherapists, so they work together in that. And then my dad and my brother are businessman, so they are entrepreneurs. And I think that’s where I got my entrepreneurial spirit because for their love of me, they just saw that I was completely different to anybody else in the town. And then they just supported it. At some point, when I really was getting into sewing and fashion, my dad realized one day, if he’s not gonna take me to the little fabric shop, I’m just gonna cut up a curtain. So they just took me there and they just completely embraced it. What motivated me to start catching could see I was really this passion I had to create art, this entity that comes over me that just has to and create something beautiful.
I think what people don’t really talk about is how much self study you have to do and how much of emotional intelligence it takes. Entrepreneurship is as much of a emotion as it is a practice of finance, have been installed that through my parents and seeing how much they love what they do. You really need to have that spirit of always wanting to know more. You have a limitation, and you have to find a very creative way around it. And for me, that has, we’ve been part of the game. I mean, it’s always been so much fun to think of this is what we have, especially around Covid 19 where things were so limited. I’m sure everybody was so sick of hearing about this covered drama thing and you couldn’t really see anything. So I think my, my, my, to a mom and my partner got the worst part of that. But then my partner was helping as well. So we were all in it together.
I am a big believer of surrounding yourself with a very good support structure. Sometimes when I don’t feel like doing this anymore, then there’s always somebody. And when I do strip and fall and I don’t feel as motivated, I do a bit of a reality check and just kind of go back and be grateful for everything that I have accomplished and everything that has worked out for me.
Succession planning is not really something that I like to talk about, but we have definitely have plans in place. I employ a few designers that also design under the hatching umbrella. And of course, we have all the life insurances and company insurances and things for the day that I’m not there anymore, so that there will be people to take over. The investing smart is a very important part of that. And making sure, Wayne, I’m not there anymore, that I believe a legacy behind, I think artists in general change to your late supplies and fabric and all the beautiful fun things run away with them. So many times I would buy fabrics that I won’t need immediately, maybe in a year or two’s time. And that type of impulsiveness has been remedied through budgets and planning and forecast and things like that. So now I keep my sticky little fingers out of the fabric shops and only buy what we need. And it’s also a way more sustainable in a creative field.
But the creative mind, especially in the beginning, you can quickly finance runaway. So I have always made sure knowing that was one of my initial weaknesses that I needed to educate myself on finance and business procedures and also surround myself, again with somebody that specializes in that.
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