What If It Works Out? How Alexis Stetler Bought A Business Mid Divorce & Rewrote Her Story
Powerhouse Women
Lindsey Schwartz
4.9 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
How do you make a brand your own? I'm joined by Alexis Stetler, the owner & creative director of Whxte Atelier, a modern fine jewelry brand rooted in meaning, craftsmanship, and quiet luxury. Today, we talk about Alexis's internal and external journey of buying Whxte, what her process looked like behind making such a huge decision, and how her creative vision is now expanding the brand post-acquisition. We explore what it looks like to build a business with intention as a single mom, and how to bring your vision to life by tapping into your intuition and creativity. Alexis also shares her favorite spiritual shifts to help you fully commit to the woman you want to become and overcome the limiting beliefs that keep you playing safe.
HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 Welcome to the podcast, Alexis Stetler, the owner of Whxte Atelier!
03:35 What made you take the leap to buy a business?
07:30 Advice for women going through a massive decision.
10:00 Spiritual shifts to support yourself through the gap.
13:55 When is the moment of exact certainty and clarity?
15:50 What motherhood teaches us about entrepreneurship.
19:30 How can motherhood make you better at business?
22:15 Ways to support yourself through hard moments when you're trying to do it all.
27:05 A BTS peek at my collaboration piece with Whxte Atelier.
30:05 What is the story behind the Phoenix Ring?
36:25 How to creatively evolve a brand post-acquisition.
39:40 How does your intuition and inner voice influence your creativity?
45:20 Celebrating Alexis's Powerhouse moment of living out her dream.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I bought the business in the middle of a divorce. |
| 0:03.0 | Everyone was like, don't do it. |
| 0:05.0 | You're like, I did it. |
| 0:07.0 | We didn't have conversations like that. |
| 0:10.0 | Acquisitions and buying businesses. |
| 0:13.0 | That was not the world that I lived in. |
| 0:15.0 | You can't run a business and be a single mom |
| 0:18.0 | and have it all be successful. |
| 0:20.0 | People like you don't make things like that happen. |
| 0:23.5 | That's not my story. |
| 0:25.2 | All the limiting beliefs, all the reasons why this won't work out. |
| 0:29.6 | It's almost like this moment where you kind of like wink at all that and you're like, |
| 0:34.9 | let's just see what happens. |
| 0:36.2 | What if it doesn't work out? |
| 0:38.3 | But what if it does? |
| 0:39.3 | What if everything that you want comes to fruition? |
| 0:43.3 | Going all in on not just buying a business, but it was like the commitment to the woman you were becoming. |
| 0:48.3 | What got you through the moments that were the hardest? |
| 0:51.3 | Oh, there's so many answers that I want to give to that. I think. |
| 0:59.2 | Today we are having just a really beautiful conversation with someone who came into my life |
| 1:10.2 | and into the powerhouse women family in such a special way. |
| 1:13.8 | I'm sitting down with Alexis Stettler, who is the owner, the creative director behind White Atelier. |
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