#23 Embracing Failure & Surviving. 2017 Global Boutique of the Year, The Lace Cactus owner Kelsey Darby
Boutique Chat
Ashley Alderson
4.9 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
We know, we're a day late, but..
*que the bells and whistles*
The Hub team was launching The 2018 Boutique Awards!! And holy cow, our boutique members rallied their customers. We've had 100,000+ votes in less than 24 hours.
The timing couldn't be better this week, then to have on the show the reining 2017 Global Boutique of the Year - The Lace Cactus, and founder Kelsey Darby of Hico, Texas. This episode is near and dear to our hearts. Kelsey Darby started as a 19 year old single mom, blew up the boutique world, and hit rock bottom. She went from The top of the world, to wanting to completely give up, selling nearly everything she had, to back again and winning The 2017 Global Boutique in the same year.
She is a woman on a mission, and her authenticity speaks for itself. Get the tissues ready, girl. She is speaking to us all.
More about the 2018 Boutique Awards here: http://tbhub.co/tba
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| 0:00.0 | Get ready for episode number 23 of boutique chat with the raining global boutique of the year, Kelsey Darby and the lace cactus from Highco, Texas. |
| 0:12.3 | Let's talk about your business, strategy, and the juicy details of what actually works. |
| 0:17.1 | From mainstream fashion to fashion on Main Street and the entire ecosystem behind it. |
| 0:22.1 | How do we scale your company and do it with the balance and the happiness that we all seek? |
| 0:26.8 | Let's hear from those insiders, experts, and strategists that actually make it happen. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm your host, Ashley Alderson from the boutique hub, and I can't wait to chat. |
| 0:49.8 | Hey guys, get ready for an emotional and fulfilling and inspiring episode this week. |
| 0:53.7 | I can't wait to share this story with you because we're chatting with Kelsey Darby, |
| 1:05.2 | the owner and founder of the Lace C cactus, which is currently the global boutique of the year named in the 2017 Boutique Awards, which are just relaunching for 2018 this week. |
| 1:12.2 | So there's never been a better time to visit with Kelsey and to hear all about her story from being a single mother at 19 and dreaming about starting her own business and exactly how she did it from home and |
| 1:18.5 | selling almost everything she had to make this business work. Now this isn't just a Cinderella story |
| 1:24.8 | of starting from literally nothing and building something amazing, |
| 1:29.5 | but it's also a story of what happens when you get to the top and things fall apart, |
| 1:34.7 | which they definitely can. We're talking about business issues, we're talking about marriage |
| 1:39.6 | issues and family issues and what it's like to have it all, lose it all, and then figure out how to get |
| 1:46.6 | it back again. Kelsey has been so honest and so transparent with her journey, not just on this |
| 1:51.3 | podcast where she's honestly sharing more on this podcast than I even knew existed. She's told me |
| 1:57.2 | this story, but she goes into so much more depth in this show than we're even aware of. |
| 2:02.0 | And I'm so proud of her authenticity and her ownership of what her journey has really looked like. |
| 2:08.5 | And I think you're going to appreciate this open, raw interview with Kelsey as well. |
| 2:13.3 | Now, this girl has accomplished so much in such a short period of time. I'm so proud of what she's |
| 2:18.8 | done with this business, and she's so humble on top of it. So I hope you listen to this episode, |
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