Ep. 7 — Behind the Kimmy's Brand: Meet Katie English

Will you tell us a little bit about what it was like running the Waxahachie store and then also communicating constantly with the Galveston store at the time we called it the Galveston store and being Galveston? What was it like not having me in town and running the show? Like, what was that like?

Well, I mean, I missed you dearly.

I mean, you know, I was very sad to see you go.

But I knew that, you know, we're all about family, too.

You know, family is number one.

And that's, you know, you were born and raised there.

So, of course, I understood you wanted to go back there.

And so running the Waxahachie store, I left because I was new to Waxahachie.

So I got to meet so many people there.

It gave me something to where I could be a part of this little town because, you know, it's such a small town and I wasn't born here.

So it really gave me a good start.

But talking back, I feel like we text every day.

So I didn't think it would be a challenge at first.

It was definitely a challenge, you know, with dealing with inventory in Galveston and Waxhatchee.

So that was kind of hard, just like bigger, you know, growing.

But, you know, with growth comes change and, you know, growth doesn't happen without challenges.

So I think we hit that on the nail and, you know, look at us

now.

But yeah, I loved working in the walk statue store.

I know you were like the heart of the walk statue store.

And like, I think, and I, I love this about my business.

And some people ask me like, is it hard to give up that control? Like, I'm like, no, I want my managers to feel like this is their baby.

Like, that's the only way this is all going to work is if y'all feel like you have that ownership, you have that, I don't want to say control because it's so much more than that.

It's more like y'all, y'all deserve to be proud of something because y'all are working so hard at it.

But like, I think people come in and think, okay, are you like, they would ask you like, wait, you're Kimmy, right? Because that's who they always saw.