Q. Can you tell us a little bit about your background and how you got started in the beauty business?
As early as 24, I realized that I needed to work for myself to blend motherhood and entrepreneurialism in a lifestyle that could inspire change in the products I wanted for my family. In Southern California, my husband and I created an environmentally preferable industrial cleaning company to provide alternatives to hazardous chemicals for cities, school districts, and municipalities. Then, several years later, I had my first daughter. We wanted to raise our family outside the hustle and bustle of Orange County, in a clean, healthy environment of nature, which for us meant the Garden Isle of Kauai. We sold everything, including the company that started it all, jumped off a bridge, and moved with our little girl in our arms to the most remote landmass in the world.