This week a good handful of friends have asked if I regret closing Manic Trout last year. So I thought it a nice time to talk about reinvention. I’m a […]
How often do you push yourself through fear and do things that scare you? And I don’t mean things like walking alone in a dark park at night. I’m talking […]
An interesting side effect of deciding to close a business after 15 years is how many people congratulated me on being able to quit. At first, I was surprised by […]
About six months ago, I made the incredibly difficult decision to close Manic Trout, my handmade jewelry brand that I had poured my heart into for 15 years. I wrote […]
I started Manic Trout 15 years ago when I was in my mid-twenties with the excitement of having a way to sell my art and digital work. It was mostly […]
I started Manic Trout in January of 2003. For years, I worked full time as well so I could put all of the income from the business back into it. […]
I joke around with friends of mine who have related businesses that kids these days have it so easy to start a handmade business. There are shelves of books, hundreds […]
I am one of the many, many people who can’t seem to turn off the thoughts in my brain when it comes time to go to sleep. This means that […]
There are many things I have learned in building and running a business for 10 years and many things I of course still need to. There are also things that […]
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