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This Girl Is A Gun Shirt

2020 was a rollercoaster in terms of being put on this pedestal of a successful Black founder. Everyone wants to tell your story, and that’s exciting; you can grow your business that way, and you’re getting new eyes that you couldn’t have imagined previously. But it also means your likeness is being leveraged to tell a story that someone else needs to tell, and it’s not always your narrative. Those are the This Girl Is A Gun Shirt But I will love this things you can’t fix or do away with, but you can figure out your truth and not feel the pressure to keep evolving based on what the world wants you to be this week. One thing people get confused about with Golde is they say that because I am a Black woman, I make products exclusively for Black women. It’s this idea that it’s impossible that I could be creating things for a larger market than that. That’s a tricky one, because of course our products are for Black women, but they’re also for everybody else on the planet. It all can feel like this narrowing around you of, I need you in this box.


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I came into the This Girl Is A Gun Shirt But I will love this public eye, to some extent, through building Golde. At a certain point, I had that sense of feeling overexposed and like I wanted to retreat. I felt like people on the internet had the right to place judgment down when, of course, they didn’t really know me. In 2021, I really had to work on reassessing my sense of balance and how much of myself I’m going to share with the outside world vs. what I can do to continue to support the business. Finding the balance that feels right for you is critical. For me, it was taking a step back and not feeling the pressure to share every cool thing that happened and doing things without my phone, like going on walks and visiting family and reading a book. And therapy’s good. That helps.


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