
She outgrew her first partner on a Tuesday.
Now she needed a room that could hold what she'd built.
I'd been running the studio for six years. My partner and I had built something real — but somewhere around year four I realized I was the one holding the whole thing. The work was good. The clients were good. I just had no one to talk to about what it actually cost me to show up every day. I needed people who'd been in the same room.

