Welcome to Gear Up. I'm Emily and I'm Kristen.

And today we are here with Mina. You might know her from Blue Groove Media or she's the better half of Grant Harlan.

Welcome. Thanks for having me. Thanks for coming. All right. So for those that don't know you, let's get to know you. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Yeah. So I'm originally from

Michigan. I grew up in the Tri-Settys. I never was in Moto at all. I didn't like grow up like most

people around bikes. I was a suburbs kid, and in high school I played music. I was in symphony orchestra

and band. So like it was just, I was just an artsy kid, right?

And after that I went and got my undergrad at Alma College.

And then a few years later after working for a while, I went and got my master's.

And that was in user experience design.

And then let's see, while I was working in automotive, I was looking for something else to do.

And I've always been like in photography, it's always been my back pocket thing, always a hobby,

always a passion.

And I used to do really fun, like, shoots with families and horses, and they were

like these smoke grenade kind of fun, experimental kind of shoots. I did them from Halloween for a

couple years. But I was looking for something else because I got bored. And so at the time,

my friend group were getting bikes again because their kids started riding or, you know, the balance bikes and Stasics and stuff like that.

And I was like, oh, this looks cool. I could do that. If I can shoot horses, I could shoot Moto.

So I bought a better camera and kind of dove right in. And then I realized

that, you know, the people that I were my clients, so the families, the horse people, that side of

photography, and weddings. They didn't really care about Motto.

So I had to split what I called myself.

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