Our staff fashionista Avery Sadler Hill, Mississippi, is today’s host with guest Kate Walsh, Georgia. Kate is the founder of a booming online clothing store, Katie Bop—balancing classes, Tri Delta and a social life as she is still in college! Known for its funky, colorful and sparkly aesthetic, what Kate calls “sophisticated” fun, Katie Bop has taken off on college campuses in a big way!
Kate shares her incredible journey from selling her first pieces on Etsy, to creating a brand that’s taken over campuses and pop-ups! Avery and Kate chat fashion trends (rethink animal print ...) and what she’s learned in business so far. She talks about how important Tri Delta is in shaping her collegiate experience as well as actively playing a role in her success—from sisters modeling for photoshoots to supporting her at her pop-up boutiques and shows. Kate opens up about what it’s like to be a young entrepreneur, the highs (and lows) of running Katie Bop and how she’s positioning herself to stay ahead in the fast-moving world of fashion, all while excelling in her college classes. Find out what’s next for Kate in this episode packed with wisdom, style and a bit of sparkle.
Visit KatieBop.com to see what she has in store—and use code “podcast” for 25% off sitewide! Thanks, Kate!
This transcript was created using automated technologies and may contain errors. Hello everyone and welcome back to our Let's Talk Tri Delta podcast. I'm Avery Sadler
Hill and I serve Tri Delta as the housing development manager. If you're a returning
podcast listener, you may recognize my name from our Tri Deltas in the TV Room series with
Meredith, Mindy, and Lexi, but you've probably heard me talk about on that how much
I love clothes, fashion, the young adult experience, and I'm so excited today to be
hosting today's podcast with Kate Walsh from our Alpha Rho chapter at University of
Georgia. Welcome Kate! Hi Avery, thank you so much, I'm super stoked to be here.
I'm so excited. So, Kate, you are the owner of KatieBop, which I love the name,
which is an online clothing store featuring the latest funky, colorful, and sparkly
fashions, which I heard you like to call sophisticated fun, which is so great
because that's how I would like to identify myself as sophisticated and fun. So I
think that's so wonderful. I just have to start right off the back by saying,
customer service, five out of five stars. If I could already give it to you. I'm
actually sporting one of your own pieces today that I got from Katie. I love it.
I love it. Um, your business is booming. Um, but the catch is Katie is Kate.
I'm sorry, Kate. I'm going to get that mixed up. Kate is still a collegiate member,
balancing Tridelta, full of classes. We all remember how hard college was and you
are a business owner. So I'm so excited to talk about all things fashion and try
Delta and everything. So welcome once again. How's everything going?
I'm great. I'm in the middle of a busy semester. Spring for me is always crazy,
but everything's such a blessing and I couldn't be happier. Okay, great. Is spring
like a, Is it a booming time for your business as well? Yes, for sure. Spring and
summer are my busiest seasons. I was wondering that. I was thinking about this
recently as I live in Boston and so I'm online shopping and I still need winter
clothes but it seems like the boutiques and the businesses like they're on to spring
and summer. Obviously I got this from your website for my New England summer that
I'm so excited for my little seashell top. So you guys kind of get pretty far
ahead, like pretty early. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was back in the street four chores
about four to six months in advance at all times. Right now I have Easter ordered,
I have graduation ordered and I'm thinking about summer. I'm thinking about starting
recruitment season and going into game. It is very much in advance. - Okay,
love that. So I also went to an SEC school. I went to Ole Miss. And on your
website, I loved how you have broken down each, like you have a category for
recruitment, game day, four moles. I realized I had graduated to the workwear
category. I was like, okay, I guess I'm done with all these and got my cute
business dress that I chose not to wear today, but another day. But tell me,
how did you choose to go to Georgia? What are your favorite things about going to
school there? - Yeah, so my college experience was a little untraditional,
like very not traditional at the very beginning. I was actually waitlisted here and
ended up going to college in Dallas at Southern Methodist University. And then a
week after classes started out there, I got into UGA for the following January. so
I was only in college in Texas for one semester and I loved SMU. I loved Dallas.
I missed my friends there so much, but once I had the opportunity to go to a big
SEC school, I couldn't give that up. And I'm from Georgia, so Georgia being close
to family and my hometown friends just I couldn't pass it up. So I ended up here
that next January and have loved Athens more and more every year. Okay,
that's so awesome. I did not know that you were at SMU for a little. I'm actually
from the Dallas area. So I grew up outside of Dallas, went Ole Miss,
and then moved to Dallas Dallas. If you're from the area, you can't claim it until
you live there. So I actually moved to Dallas Dallas for two years before coming to
here is hard for anyone and it's hard to kind of find your groove and to make
those choices to say like, okay, you adapted, you got waitlisted, you adapted, and
then you said, I know what's best for me and I'm going to make a shift in that.
So that's awesome. I will say I miss the food like more than anything. Mi Cucina
was my first Dallas meal. Oh, so good. I sat there when I decided I'm coming to
school here and Oh my goodness, I see it on my friends' stories all the time and
I'm so jealous, the food there is unmatched. - It is great, but you can always go
back and visit. - For sure, yeah. - Okay, well, you went to Georgia eventually,
what led you to Tridelta throughout that process? - When I came to Georgia,
I did not know much about Tridelta. I remember seeing a girl in Starbucks after my
first class at UGA, and I recognized her and thought like, I need friends, I'm
gonna go up and say hey to her, introduce myself to her, and we became immediate
best friends. She was one of the most genuine, intentional, welcoming people I'd ever
met. And I later found out she was a try -dote, and I met her friends, and I
watched how they really uplifted each other, and I just remember saying to myself,
when I go through recruitment, I want friends like that, whether it's try -dote or
not, I was like, "Wow, these girls showed me what genuine friendship is." And they
had been friends all year and welcomed me in like I had been friends with them
forever. And I had never felt so supported and loved for who I truly was in a
group of friends. And fast forward to fall, going through recruitment, I had an
incredible experience at every house I went to. Recruitment was such a blessing
'cause I made so many friends along the way, but it was the hardest choices I've
ever made. Every time I went back to Tri Delt though, I did just feel at home. I
felt like I could be myself. I felt like I was supported and it just felt very
intentional and you could see the love that the girls had for each other. They
weren't just there because they had to be there. They genuinely loved Tridel and
they loved each other and it was so evident. I even cried at breath and I was
like, okay, maybe this is my sign. So I joined Tri Delt and I, similar to UGA,
I have fallen more and more in love with Tri Delt as I've been here. They are the
best friends I could have ever imagined and they've shown me what true friendship is
and they've shown me what genuine sisterhood is and I couldn't be more thankful for
them. That is wonderful and so touching and making me miss my collegiate Tri Delta
experience. Okay, so you love food, you love the SEC, you love Tri Delta.
But you've also loved fashion since childhood. Obviously, it's led you to be the
business owner that you are. So tell us about your earliest inspirations. Who would
you say is your like fashion icon? What got you to where you are? Yeah,
oh my goodness, it's so hard to pick one. I love brands like Love Shack Fancy for
Love and Lemons, Elliott, I think that's how you say it. I love the sophisticated
fun kind of brands that are out there. When I was little, I wore princess dresses
everywhere I went until I was about six years old. Whether I was going to a
doctor's appointment or going to get Starbucks with my mom, I was always in a
princess dress. I could spend hours in the Disney store, that was that was my
thing. And then I got my tonsils taken out and I insisted that I wear little pink
heels. My lower school had a dress code, like a uniform dress code,
and I would wear a sequin scarf or like really, really weird jewelry just to spice
it up a little bit. I really should have seen this coming like throughout my life,
but that I would own a fashion business, but. So cute. Who was your favorite Disney
princess? Who are you wearing the most? I think I wore Belle the most.
I think that's the most I've seen the photos of as a kid. I think that's the one
that I gravitated to. - That's so sweet. When I was younger, I loved Little Mermaid
and I would ask my mom to do my hair, you know, like the big swoop that she had.
Of course, I have like thin, just not, she tried, she made it work the best she
could. Obviously also I don't have beautiful red hair like that. - Okay, that is
wonderful. So when did you, you said, you should have seen this coming. When did
you finally, when did that click and how did you get started actually selling
clothes? - I started selling clothes on consignment apps like Poshmark and Curtzy.
Some of those were about 15 with parental supervision, of course. But I really liked
connecting with people over something like fashion. And I did it just for fun. And
later down the road, looking back, I realized it taught me so much about marketing,
about pricing, about customer service, about timely shipping, all the things that I
use now in KatieBop, it taught me that at such an early age that I gained those
kind of skills. And then the summer after I graduated from high school, I attended
America's Mart with my mom. It's a huge like vendor wholesale place. And I went in
Atlanta and I remember just falling in love with like the endless levels of clothing
and there was such an energy there. It was such a fun community and I met a bunch
of vendors, young women, girls that were in college and had just graduated college
and I loved hearing their stories and I just I felt so excited. And I remember for
as long as I can think back there's always kind of that need for something special
to wear like oh that's something that I need to wear and I knew that need would
only increase going to college and I felt called to start a boutique and I'm so
blessed to say it's still going today. Wow. And you are, you're surrounded by your
target market like you said those special occasion things. So I'm sure that's helped
like those little the tabs on your website I just that is so brilliant as a
college student, like, oh I met Kate in class today. I want to go.
UGA has really supported Katie Bubb. I've worked with the American Marketing
Association, student government. I've worked with student fashion and merchandise clubs
to do collabs, giveaways, pop -ups, all the things. And being surrounded by my target
audience is such a blessing because I'm able to provide for them like ready to go
on hand. I had a girl just this past week, she called me and she was like, hey,
I ordered a dress from another place. It's not gonna be here. And I needed this
dress yesterday. Like I have a date night in a couple hours. Can you please help
me? And I love being able to like at the drop of the hat just help my friend
like that. And give her the perfect dress that she needed. That was an incredible,
just one example from last week. But being surrounded by my target audience,
I'm able to see what girls are wearing. I'm able to see what they're starting to
shy away from, what they're saying they need more of, and really tailor it to like
myself too because I need game day dresses too. I need date night dresses too. So
it's really, it's really such a blessing to be surrounded by people just like me
who I am ordering for. Yeah, I mean you are the math, you know exactly what they
want because you are also that person that you're looking to please and to provide
for. Okay, I have a question about where you I'm just trying to like envision this
small business startup. Are you like putting these clothes in your closet and do you
have them organized like just in a in another room or have you graduated to a
separate building yet? Like what does that look like? Yeah,
I like I never had my own room. It was like my bed and then Katie Bob and I
would have bins floor to ceiling stacked full of inventory and That eventually was
no longer. I was no longer capable to do that. Sorry. I'm stuttering Katie Bob
outgrew that situation. So I ended up this year. I did end up getting a small
warehouse space. It's little but it's really cute. So I keep all my inventory there.
It's about five minute drive away from my apartment. It's so easy, but I'm able to
have my own room now. It's like, okay, Kate room and Katie butt room, but at the
beginning I did live with my inventory. So everything was piled under my bed,
stacked floor to ceiling and bins, all that kind of thing. - I guess I was like,
I just feel like that would be, especially when you're doing Poshmark, like starting
off, you're selling the stuff from your closet. Well congratulations for getting your
own. I feel like you're just leveling up one step at a time. Okay, we need to
pause because I don't think that I asked you this at the beginning, but how, your
name is Kate. Yes. How did we get to Katie Bopp? I think that is like the cutest
thing ever. If it's a nickname, I love it. But how did, how did that name come to
be? Yeah, so it's funny. A lot of people that kind of loosely know me, like maybe
they've heard of Katie Bop or they have a mutual friend, they think my name's
Katie. Like I get Katie so often and I've just started answering to it. And I've
even had people ask me if my middle name is Bop, if my last name is Bop, all the
things. So growing up, my dad called me Katie Lady and that was the original idea.
It was gonna be Katie Lady. And then I thought like, it sounded a little too
mature for the vibe I was going for. And I was sitting at the kitchen table with
my mom, and we were just spitting back ideas back and forth. And I really liked
the name Katie Lady, like the rhyme of it. So I started looking at other businesses
that had names that rhyme. And I don't know if you've heard of shop bop, but that
came up. It's like similar to like a revolve. And I loved that. And then I just
started spewing out ideas with my mom. And I said, Katie bop. And she said, wait,
like say that 10 more times. And it just stuck. And it's been, it's now like my
second name, I guess.
I mean, I bet if you're walking down the street, like, oh, wait, that's, that's the
Katie Buck girl. That's, that's her. Okay, I also want to pause and talk about your
adorable Valentine's Day party. Now that I'm an Instagram follower of yours, - It was
like, this is so cute and also seemed like such a big milestone for you.
- It was, it was incredible. One of, I did an interview with the beginning of the
year and the girl asked me like, what are your big goals for this year? And I
thought like, bye, I don't, I don't know. Like I hadn't really thought about it.
And then later I was kind of writing out some stuff that I want to do throughout
the year, like some designing ideas and all that kind of thing. And I thought like,
I want to have an event. Like I want to have a Katie up event. And one of my
roommates actually said completely unprovoked said you should have an event. And I'm
like, okay, well, if you're telling me and I thought it like, okay, I got to do
it. And there is a couple that lives here and the husband owns a couple of bars
and the wife manages a boutique downtown and they have been incredibly supportive of
me all the years I've been in Athens, I met them at my first pop up. And I
texted them and I was like, hey, I know y 'all have a bunch of venues and I know
y 'all have a lot of event planning things and experience. I want to do an event.
And it was right before Valentine's Day and they were like, let's do gallantines,
let's do pink martinis, let's do macaroons, let's do all the things. And it was it
was incredible. It was such a blessing.
That's so fun. I was so jealous because this, I started following you right after I
found out that I was gonna get to interview you. I said I was like so excited. Oh
my gosh, I have to go buy something. I have to go look at all this stuff. So
when I saw that I was so jealous. I would have flown out if I could have because
it looked like so much fun. Okay, you are really having to put yourself out there
is what I'm hearing like you're having to text these people connect with everyone.
Yes, if you're lucky opportunities can arise, but what gives you the confidence to
go and reach out to these people and how what like fuels that ambition for you.
Yeah, I mean connecting with people is really where I thrive any environment like a
pop up or even delivering a package locally like that gives me so much fulfillment
enjoy when I'm able to connect with another person. So it's become easy for me to
reach out to Um, even if it's like an influencer I want to work with or another
business owner to do a collaboration or something, it's become really easy and most
people are so kind and so supportive and they really want to help and they want to
support, especially if it's like a mutually beneficial thing. It's, it's become really
easy. So I guess I would just say through experience. Yeah, just keep it going.
Wonderful. I find that to be so impressive and a hard thing I think for Our
generation I'm only a few years older than you but people to like get over that
hump a little of like The nervousness of talking to someone and like you've just
got to go for it And the worst anyone can say is no right like the worst anyone
could say is no and then you're gonna go on and ask the next person So that's if
you never try then knows your answer right there. Yeah, exactly. So true Okay,
I want to shift a little bit and talk about the philanthropic side of Katie boss
monthly to just organizations that are touching my heart. I had two family members
diagnosed with breast cancer at the same time. And so that was a big thing back
then. I think that was 20, it was a couple of years ago. But that was like breast
cancer awareness became a big thing during that time. But I always say like, no
matter how big Katie Bob gets, I always want to say yes to each opportunity to
give back to a bigger cause or a philanthropy or something like that. Wonderful.
Well, we need to start working with you for Tridelta. You can get back to
Tridelta's foundation or St. Jude. We're definitely gonna we'll get something going
after this. I actually last summer I did a big competition just through social media
between all the sororities at UGA. I made discount codes for each sorority and the
sorority at the end of the summer with the most or was like one, two, and three
with the third most sales, the second most sales, the first most sales, I would
donate a percentage back and try to out one. And so I had this huge like pink
check and I surprised everybody at one of our chapter meetings and I came like
running in with it, like jumping up and down to announce that try to head one. So
that was really special. But yes, I mean, definitely, thank Jude's incredible. And I
would love to work with y 'all further. - Oh, of course, the answer is already yes.
We're just gonna figure out how. Okay, so tell us more about working with tri
-deltas. Obviously you do St. Jude give back, but how have your sisters, your tri
-deltas sisters helped in playing a part of your success? - My sisters are an
incredible support system for me and for Katie Bopp. A lot of my models have been
sisters. A lot of my sisters have spoken for me in interviews or on the phone for
newspaper articles. I've had a sister, one sister in particular, has done an entire
pop -up for me by herself because I couldn't be in two places at once, but she
didn't want me to lose out on one of the pop -ups and she was like, "I got you."
I've had sisters travel with me to other universities just to help with a pop -up.
They really are, I mean, they dedicate time and effort and a lot of makeup to
support Katie Bup as best they can. And I'm very thankful for them. That's awesome.
And such a great way to spend quality time together. Like, come with me and we'll
just have a weekend. That's so cool. Okay, so you have a full, your plate is full.
You have a small business, you have your you have trade -alta, you are also running
your own philanthropy in a way. And you are still going to school,
so tell me what is your major? I am an economics major and I am getting a,
it's a MSBA master's in business analytics, but it really was just an excuse for me
to stay in Athens for another year, but don't tell my parents that. I'm here for
another year getting a master's in - Okay, congratulations. Really, really nerdy stuff,
but...
has been just through experience through my own kind of like research about the
industry, but school has definitely taught me a lot of practical things like how
taxes work with the business and what kind of financial systems even exist out
there. And if I wanted to code my own website, I'm learning how to do that. So
there's lots of things that the school is teaching me. Okay, that's awesome. Those
are some skills that you just you don't realize until you're in it and then you're
like, Oh, wow, It would be so great if I could do this on my own, if I could do
the coding, if I, whatever, okay, great. I took a class in college.
I do not remember the name of it, but we had to read a book called How to Start
Your Own Business. And I ended up giving it to my mom because she has all of the
greatest business ideas that she doesn't do anything with. And I was like, here, I
think that you would be better served with this book. I'll find it and I'll not
that you need any more help because you're already succeeding at it, but it was it
was interesting to learn about.
Obviously, yes, we all want we all can be learning at all times. I was talking
about that today with one of my colleagues. Okay, I want to know what is your
favorite fashion trend right now? Oh, that's a tough one.
I will say I have-- I've definitely noticed some things that I am shying away from.
I'm shying away from cutouts. And I'm shying away from leopard. I've never been a
huge leopard girl, but I know that's so popular right now, definitely a hot take. I
am loving pops of red. I love a red detail on a shoe or a red bag with an all
-neutral outfit. I would say that's a huge thing. I'm loving all the colorful
necklaces that have like a million different charms hanging off of them and their
different colors, all that kind of thing. I'm loving crochet. I'm seeing a lot of
crochet like midi dresses and even bikinis like made out of crochet, which I think
is really cool. I would say those are kind of the main ones I'm focusing on right
now, but are yellow too. I know that was big last year, but that's I think going
to be big again this year. Okay, this is great insight for me because I did notice
that the leopard was coming back. And I was actually visiting Boston University's
campus a few days, weeks ago, I don't remember. And this girl was wearing these
really cute leopard pants, and then I couldn't find them. So this is helpful. If
you're a strange way, then maybe I should as well. Maybe I should say no to that.
To each their own. I think to each their own. Done in a way. They're cute in a
way, but I will say when I order inventory for Katie Bob, I focus mostly on the
personal brand aspect of it. So like my creation and I'm never going to sell
something that I wouldn't wear and love on myself. So if I don't love it, I'm not
going to sell it to other people. And, and I've never been a big leopard girl so
I'm just like, so you will not. I feel like that's a great way to build trust
with your audience too because people know okay this isn't this isn't on here like
should i wear this should i not i don't know like it's gonna build confidence in
you and in your brand i think if you're being so authentic in that way that's
awesome i mean i do want it to be a personal brand and one day if i start
designing it's gonna be the same thing i'm never gonna make something and promote
something that I wouldn't wear and love myself and I've always kind of stuck with
that even if it's trendy because I'm not I'm not in this for the money or to just
make as many sales as possible or to you know please as many people which you
can't please everybody everybody likes different things but like my main thing is
just grow this personal brand and and stay authentic to what I like and what I
would wear myself so that's definitely a big part of it too. - That's so cool.
Okay, so the end goal for you then is to be a designer. - I would love-- - Maybe
one day. - Maybe one day. I would love to get more acquainted with that side of
the fashion industry. I don't have any experience. I've worked with a couple of
independent designers to do a couple of collections. I did a Valentine's Day
collection that was completely exclusive to Katie Bop, handmade. She also was a try
-dote that I worked with. And she's incredible. And that was, that was so cool. And
I kind of got to see a little bit of the design process, but that was handmade,
kind of small batch things. And, but I definitely am interested in getting more
acquainted with the design side of the industry.
This is just so cool. I just, I love it all. I think it's so wonderful. Okay,
What is the best part of running KatiBop and what is the hardest part of running
KatiBop? The best part is definitely connecting with people. When I do pop -ups, I
mean especially in a big SEC school, I'm sure you know going to Ole Miss, I am
able to meet hundreds of girls and sometimes even their parents within the matter of
a few hours. So the networking never ends, the opportunities never end. I would say
that's definitely the biggest plus for me 'cause I get so much fulfillment out of
connecting with people. And it's such a blessing of a job because the hardest part
isn't even about the job at all. It's the time management.
Partizing time and figuring out what, how I want to spend my days. I don't like to
say no to anything, but time management sometimes means missing out on something here
and there. And I would say that's the hardest part is figuring Okay, what is going
to be the best for my day figuring out ahead of time, what days should I spend at
the warehouse taking packages and then what days should I spend planning the next
few collections, reaching out to influencers and planning photo shoots all that kind
of thing while juggling everything else. I would say that's definitely the hardest
part, but I do drink a lot of coffee so that helps. I'll keep you awake. I feel
like balance is definitely something that as you grow up and do start adulting,
as they say. It's like the hardest thing to schedule for yourself because we grew
up with so many people doing everything for us and saying, okay, now we have recess
for this long and that's your physical activity. And now you need to go study for
this amount of time and then adding something totally new on your plate, I'm sure
that's tough to to balance all of that. But it sounds like you're doing such a
wonderful job in giving back and thinking of others. And like you said,
you're not in it for the money or in it for the connection. And my personal
beliefs are that you will go farther because you're thinking so much more broadly
and not just about me, me, me and success, success, success. So I am just so
inspired by you. You're welcome. What advice if you could give to any maybe we have
some younger people listening in maybe we have some older people who are just they
need to get over that hump like we talked about earlier they need to just make the
ask and say yes and take the first step, what advice would you give to those
entrepreneurs, fresh entrepreneurs? Yeah, so for young girls in college wanting to
start a business, my biggest piece of advice is to not let the business become your
life. Experience college while you're in college, you only get to go to college
once. Do not let the business take over everything, it will still be there when you
graduate. And my biggest piece of advice for older entrepreneurs who are out of
college, but just needing to take that first yes, that first step is to not let
the fear failure discourage you. It is scary to put yourself out there. It is scary
to invest money into something that you don't know if it's going to succeed or not.
However, it's so important to recognize that you're going to learn so much through
the process, whether it succeeds or fails. And I believe there's a lot of really
smart people that say that success is getting through failures. So I would say
that's that's a huge part too. It's just taking that leap of faith and and know
that even if it doesn't work out, you're going to learn so much through the
process.
Okay, that leads me to maybe two more questions for you, if you're willing to
share. Would you tell us something that was a great lesson you learned through a
failure that you've had in this process? Yeah, that's a really good question.
That's a really, really good question. I would say just, it's more about my personal
life, like not even about Katie Bop necessarily, but kind of the summer I got Katie
Bop. I would say being waitlisted at Georgia was a really huge disappointment for
me. And having to decide, okay, how am I going to adapt to this because I saw it
as a huge failure and I saw it as oh my grades weren't good enough or I didn't
write a good enough essay or whatever the thing was um and I saw it as like a
really huge blow but if I hadn't have gotten weight listed and if I hadn't have
gone to SMU and if I wouldn't have gone to market with my mom um all that stuff
I wouldn't have Katie bought so I would say probably the biggest thing I've learned
is there is light in the darkness like you can find positives out of any negative
situation and you can really make the best out of any negative situation but you
have to say yes to the opportunities that do come and just trust that if a door
is closed it's closed for a reason and it might open later.
That is great advice. Thank you for sharing that. I know those things can be hard
and sometimes you don't want to say like oh this was embarrassing or this was tough
for me but if you're going through it, somebody else is going through it. So thank
you for sharing that. Okay, last, probably not, but maybe almost last question.
What are you most proud of that you've accomplished so far with Katie Bob? Also a
really good question.
Yeah, I mean, I've learned so much through all of it. There's not really one thing
that's And I mean, I feel like I've learned, I've learned so much about how to be
a young professional. I've learned how to talk to adults about business and then
turn around and talk to my friends about clothes. I've learned how to carry myself
in a way that is still fun and still a young college girl,
but is a professional manner that is still respectable with people that are older
than me. I have learned to ask for help when I need it and not feel like I have
to know it all. I mean, there's so many things that come to mind. There's not one
that's really sticking out, but I would just say probably like how far I have come
with it in the past four years while juggling other things like juggling sorority
and in my own personal life and trying to experience college at the same time as
build a business. I'd probably say that's probably the biggest thing. - Wow, well,
that's so wonderful. I'm proud of you, Tridelta is proud to have you. I'm sure your
friends and family just think the world of what you're doing. So congratulations for
how far you've come and good luck with so many more things on the horizon.
I just, I was so excited to talk with you and I'm only getting more excited to
see what's to Well, I think you so much experience is like this too, like this
opportunity to talk with you has been incredible and makes all the work worth it.
Well, we're so glad to have you. Okay, I do not want to be the only person who
shops on KatiBop. So tell us, where can we find your website, social media, if you
have any special discounts or offers at the moment? I know you had a little
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- Okay. Well, catch She's not going to take it off right after this because I was
having too much fun before. It's going to be dangerous dangerous for me. Um, Kate.
Thank you so much. This has been just great to listen to great advice.
Um, great perspective, such a cool story. Um, and I think really inspirational and
encouraging for any of our collegiate women who are going through college and trying
to figure out what is the right move for them. And so, I hope that they can hear
this and go and do it and just say yes and put themselves out there. Thank you so
much, Avery. You and Lisa both have been such a blessing, and I'm so honored to be
a Tri Delt and meet you and meet Lisa and other Tri Delts that have gone before me.
Yes, well, thank you. And shout out to our podcast team who helped put all of this
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