A mother-daughter duo has to be one of the rarest kinds of business partnerships out there - and honestly, building this company with my mother has been the craziest decision I've ever made.
My co-founder spent thirty years in the kitchen before she ever sat in a boardroom. Three decades of running a household, and then one day she's at the table in a meeting, managing our entire production and operations like she'd been doing it her whole life. Watching her step into that role - and truly own it - is one of the biggest wins I've had so far.
People often ask what it's like to work with your mom. The truth is, the perks are endless. The biggest one? I never have to do the work of making someone understand my vision. She just gets it. There's no long explanation, no convincing, no translating what's in my head into something a stranger can follow. She's already there before I finish the sentence.
She's also my inspiration in a way that's hard to put into words. Every new idea I bring to her, she says yes. She's always ready to try something new, to experiment, to take the leap. Growth feels easy with her beside me - not because the work is easy, but because I'm never carrying it alone.
I think about Shark Tank a lot when I reflect on this. When we decided to apply, I was the nervous one. "This isn't the right time. We can't do this, we can't do that." I had a hundred reasons to wait. She had one reason to go: why not?
She was the one keeping us in a positive mindset. Whatever happens, happens - we're applying anyway. That was her entire philosophy. And we did it. We walked in, and we walked out with deals from two sharks on our side.
That's the thing about building something with your mother. She spent thirty years believing in a family. Now she believes in a business the same way - completely, fearlessly, and with a steadiness I'm still learning from every single day.
The rarest kind of duo? Maybe. But I wouldn't build this with anyone else.
