In 2018 I began thinking about how to align my career in vocational education with my passion for empowering   women. Creating The Hive  was a love letter to my community. Designed as a creative coworking space, The Hive   served local ambitious women by hosting workshops, and pop-up events, and standing as a warm and artistically   curated place to meet up with clients and customers; it was a space for women to show up in their   entrepreneurial  talents - in their own way - and on their own time. While this venture was not able to thrive   amidst local politics and a global pandemic, I am deeply proud of what I created.  From business planning and   cultural development, defining levels of scalability, and branding and design, to marketing, communications,   public speaking, and community engagement, everything I learned from opening (and closing) The Hive, was     experiential - and profoundly impacted my existence as a creative professional.