Welcome to Thrive by Design, the podcast for ambitious, independent jewelry brands, looking to profit from their products, get ready to make more and sell more doing what you love without spending every single waking minute doing it. Hey, and if you're a creative fashion or product-based business, I want to welcome you to the show. I'll be dropping big tips on launching, growing and scaling your business. So you can spend more of your precious time using your creativity to make money. You ready? Alright, let's do this. Welcome to the Thrive by Design Podcast. This is Tracy Matthews, the host of the show today and I am very excited to have a special guest who has done some really incredible things as a solo jewelry business owner. Her name is Stephenie Denault. She is owns a company called Le dragon or Dante and that's my best French are love dragon are jaunt if you are here in the US. And she's going to be sharing her journey, and how she was able to grow significantly throughout the pandemic, and ended 2021. With her best year ever, she almost doubled her previous year's sales and close the year out with about $265,000 in revenue. And what's incredible is that what Stephanie did is she really learned and discovered how to lean in to best sellers, she discovered how to pay herself first by using a special system that we're going to talk about, she learned how to really increase your average order value, and how all these things impactful together. And really dialing in on her niche audience for who her dream clients and niche audience were, that allowed her to expand and grow. And it's a really inspiring story. She's also going to talk about how she's stepped into her role as chief visionary officer using some of the tools that we teach in our momentum program, and so much more. I think you're gonna be really fascinated by this story, especially because Stephanie is very similar to a lot of artists out there, she has ADHD, she also is dyslexic. Not that all artists are that way. But I mentioning this because, you know, I really resonated with some of the things that she was saying she had family members who didn't really support her, and thought that she was making a mistake by going in and training as a jeweler and also starting her own business, and so much more. And she's going to share with you how she overcame some of those things and leaned into what she was naturally gifted at to overcome some of the challenges that she faced as an entrepreneur. And so before I introduce Stephanie, I just like to share with you she's going to be sharing a little bit more about our momentum program and the growth that she experienced, she more than doubled her six figure sales in the program last year. And I'm just so so proud of her and everything that she's done. And we are open for enrollment for our momentum program right now. And I wanted to mention this because Stephanie also mentions how powerful the retreats are in the momentum program, and our next spring retreat is coming up at the end of April. And so if you've been considering joining this program, or you're looking for coaching or mentorship, and you really want to lean into some of the tools that are going to help you scale, and maybe double your sales or triple your sales this year, then here's your official invite. If you'd like to learn more head on over to flourish, thrive academy.com forward slash momentum, you can fill out your application right there. And if you're approved, we will get you on a call with Natasha who will talk a little bit more about your situation. So we're really looking forward to this and I'm looking forward to learning more about you. So let's dive in to today's episode. Stephanie is the founder of Lucia Gong, RS en de jewelry company in Quebec. Montreal, Canada, I have I