Faith, Love & Building Agape with Codi and Tabby
Barely Famous
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
This week on Barely Famous, Kail sits down with Codi and Tabby, the women behind Agape, Delaware’s piercing-only studio, for a conversation that goes far beyond body jewelry.
Codi and Tabby open up about building a business from the ground up, creating a safe space in an industry that has not always felt welcoming, and what it really takes to work, love, and grow together. From their unexpected love story to navigating faith, sexuality, entrepreneurship, and the pressure of being women in business, this episode is honest, funny, emotional, and deeply thought-provoking.
They also get into what Agape means, how faith shaped Codi's journey, the conversations that challenged both of them, and why creating an experience matters just as much as offering a service.
It’s a conversation about love, purpose, community, identity, and choosing to keep showing up even when the path does not look the way people expect.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, guys, we're back. |
| 0:01.6 | You asked for it and we're delivering. |
| 0:03.9 | Killer is going on tour. |
| 0:05.2 | We're super excited for the fatherless behavior tour, 23 cities, three countries, all in one summer. |
| 0:11.4 | And you guys can check out tour dates and see if we're coming to a city near you on kaleowry.com. |
| 0:16.2 | And if you want early access to information and announcements, head over to Patreon because you might get it before |
| 0:20.9 | everyone else. |
| 0:26.1 | Welcome to the shit show. |
| 0:29.2 | Things are going to get weird. |
| 0:30.8 | It's your fay villain, Kail Wally. |
| 0:32.7 | And you're listening to Barely Famous. |
| 0:36.3 | All right, y'all, welcome back to Barely Famous podcast. I'm sitting with Cody and Tavi, the owners of Agape here in Dover. Thank you for coming on Barely Famous. Thank you for the advice. And you own Agape, which is, to my knowledge, one of the first piercing-only studios here. To our knowledge, still the only one in the state. So any other piercing service that you get from what we know in the last few months. Right. We are the only one where you get piercings only without the tattoo side of things. So we're really excited about that. So people know that like this is what we do all day every day. Right. Why piercings? God. So that story's a little crazy. So I used to be a club promoter out in LA. I lived in L.A. for a few years. And there was this guy who used to come in and just spent racks on racks. And that was back when that used to impress me. Right. Like back in my L.A. party days. And he used to spend $10,000, $20,000 every night on bottle service for him, a bunch of his homies and a bunch of his broads. And so I obviously looked up to this man because, again, that's when that stupid stuff used to impress me. And so met him when I was a club promoter out there. And then when I moved back home, I was overqualified for every job. I had two degrees in English in business. I had the Marines under my |
| 1:44.6 | belt. I applied everywhere. I mean, even to the point where I applied as a manager at a royal |
| 1:49.3 | farms, legit, and got denied everywhere. So I said, you know what? If an opportunity is not there |
| 1:54.0 | for me, I'm going to make one. So I called my boy up and I was like, yo, bro, like, you know, |
| 1:58.2 | be my distributor. So what he did to make all that money was he owned a bunch of body jewelry places, like in the middle of the mall, like those carts. |
| 2:05.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. You know, rather inexpensive jewelry. Kind of. But it was like a little cart and he just sold the jewelry. He didn't do the piercings like piercing pagoda does. Okay. And so he had like 110 of those all up and down California. |
| 2:16.0 | So that's where he made the stupid money that he did. |
| 2:18.1 | I was like, bro, be my distributor. |
| 2:19.9 | I love the culture money that he did. |
| 2:18.1 | I was like, bro, be my distributor. |
| 2:19.7 | I love the culture of piercings. Let me sell the jewelry. So he was like, all right, cool. So he became my distributor. I opened up in the Dover Mall way back in 2011. Are you serious? I kid you not. I opened up a little cart in the middle of the mall, right? I had like, I think I had like a couple thousand dollars worth of inventory, just whatever I had in my savings at the time, and started there. |
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