We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Jessica Gallup & Stephanie Kheder a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Jessica Gallup & Stephanie Kheder, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?
We get our resilience from many experiences of standing in our own ground to protect our peace and voice our ideas as creatives constantly outputting content in many collectives. Creativity requires spirituality which means faith in oneself to manifest a vision into reality. The resilience is unwavering belief that we can make what we dream up and because belief is the hardest part our partnership is a catalyst to keep going forward even if in small steps.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
We started Coven and Cloche as a retail expression of our favorite things and an outlet to create a platform that is true the things we love with no rules just indulgent endeavors and something of our own. The two of us met many years ago working for a jewelry brand and we’ve stayed connected forever since as we dipped into various collabs with each other along the way always wanting to create a brand through our own vision until during the pandemic when we decided to finally dive in and build a niche e-commerce shop for spiritual, witchy, and mindful books and products. Coven and Cloche is a place for everybody.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Looking back we’ve gotten the biggest return on the technical creative skills we’ve built, our ability to read one another’s mind and how well we know each other, and the way our abilities compliment and support one another to see through creative visions. Our advise for others who want to develop these is work with as many people as possible, say yes to as much as possible while also knowing when to say no, and lastly know that there is something for everything there will always be lovers and haters so find your people and do what you love.
Do you think it’s better to go all in on our strengths or to try to be more well-rounded by investing effort on improving areas you aren’t as strong in?
There’s a balance in finding the sweet spot between going all in on our best strengths versus when to round out skills by learning new, which will lead to different paths from where we can bust out our strengths to leap forward. Things like running a business require merchandizing, marketing, art direction, content creation, accounting, inventory management and so much more that to not understand parts of what is necessary to keep moving would be a limitation. Part of what to improve on includes knowing when to get help for the things we can’t do. One way to move forward is to leave a comfort zone.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://covenandcloche.com/
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