#708: What No One Tells You About Opening a Second Store

Boutique Chat

Ashley Alderson

Business, Marketing, Retail, Boutiquetips, Fashionindustry, Fashionbusiness, Entrepreneurship, Businessstrategy

5 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

What’s the secret to growing a successful business while staying true to your roots? Join me as I chat with Kimmy Almon, founder of Kimmy’s Boutique, about her journey from side hustler to boutique owner. Starting in 2014 with online and pop-up shops—while juggling a full-time teaching career—Kimmy took a bold leap into brick-and-mortar retail. With deep ties to Waxahachie and Galveston, she reveals how her community connections and personal values fueled an unexpected yet rewarding expansion.

Resources:

· Kimmy Almon: Website | Facebook | Instagram

· Boutique Summit 2025

· Retail Bootcamp

· 2025 Boutique Boss Planner

· Join The Boutique Hub

· Ashley Alderson: Instagram

Transcript

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0:00.0	Business can be a lonely game, but it doesn't have to be.
0:09.0	Welcome to Boutique Chat, where we explore community over competition and how to scale your company with the balance and the happiness that we all seek.
0:16.0	We'll hear from product-based businesses of all types, retailers, e-commerce, and wholesale brands,
0:21.7	along with industry experts shaping the future of our industry.
0:25.2	I'm your host, Ashley Alderson from the boutique hub, and I can't wait to chat.
0:33.5	Hey guys, welcome back to the podcast this week.
0:35.6	I have such a friendly face that I'm so excited
0:38.0	as joining me, fresh off of getting to see you in person not that long ago at our Hub
0:43.0	Mastermind retreat. Kimmy, thanks for joining me on the podcast today. Yes, I'm so excited to be here.
0:48.2	So good to see your face again so soon. I was joking and telling you before we started to record, I was like, oh, I'm going to see Kimmy today. I should wear something bright. I didn't. Like, I even, like, I got out like a bright
0:59.6	pink blazer and I put it in my car and I was like, yes, I'm going to take that to my office today.
1:04.1	No, I left it in my car. So, you know. I wore enough for the both of us. Pink chair, leopard, pink and purple dress.
1:11.6	So you're good.
1:12.4	I got you covered.
1:13.4	It's definitely on brand.
1:14.7	I love that.
1:16.4	All right, Kimmy.
1:17.0	Well, for those who are listening who don't yet know you, give me the backstory.
1:20.8	It's been 10 years.
1:22.5	How did you get started in business?
1:24.7	Yes.
1:25.1	So I've been doing this for 10 years.
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