3 More Weeks of IndieGoGo
Last Thursday our company Queen Bee launched its IndieGoGo campaign to raise $11,500. To us, it seems like an impossible goal. How could we ever raise that much money? But it’s an honest budget- we need that much to build…
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The World Is Round?
I have officially been in Germany for a week now and I have so much to tell! But First: Germany won the World Cup! This had to be the coolest, most adrenaline filled moment of my trip- and I have…
Amazed by the amazing
It is just beyond me how time can move so fast! I am in my 6th week already! However, I am still amazed by the beauty of the place I get to call home (I will never get over the…
Schinkel, Schinkel, Little Star…
So much has happened already! Please excuse the jumbled mess of this post. My brain is still scrambled from all the things ive seen and learned the last few days. My first experience travelling overseas was….interesting. I arrived at…
I don’t read as much anymore.
A few months back I remember posting something about how much we read and how we were running out of books to fill our extra time. That’s really not the case anymore. Now are nights are filled with work- Queen…
La Abuelita
There’s a woman that I’ve never met, but she’s all I’ve heard about since I arrived here in Guatemala. She’s Abuelita Lipa. She’s the most “Jill of all Trades” that there ever was. She could farm, sew, and cook with…
One More Day…
In less than 24 hours, I will be on my way to Germany! I am SO excited and nervous! I have spent this first half of my summer with family in Daytona Beach, so it feels extra surreal that Im…
Moving Seasons
Now that I am a bit more settled I can tell you all what I have been up to the past couple of weeks! Let’s start off with the big news… I finally have a new phone! My wonderful, amazing,…
Social Enterprise in the Developing World
As we embark on the adventure of finally selling our first Queen Bee products, I feel obligated to stop for a moment and relate my educational preparation to this current experience. To start, my personal definition of social enterprise is…
Entrepreneur as Autodidact
Sometimes I regret choosing Social Entrepreneurship as a college major. As I work with Hilary and the Monte Cristo team to start Queen Bee from scratch, I often wish I would have gone to school for engineering, chemistry, or computer…