Money Talks: The best friends running parallel businesses

Meredith and Julia have swapped tips on everything from pricing to fighting off self-doubt as they’ve grown their own craft companies. Welcome to Money Talks, a series in which we interview people about their relationship with money, their relationship with each other, and how those relationships inform one another. Meredith Artyukhina is 31 years old and lives in Washington, DC. Julia Beaumier is 27 years old and recently moved from DC to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Meredith runs CapitalStitchCo , an embroidery kit business, and Julia runs a handwoven home decor business called Jetta&Jules (Jetta is her dog). These business besties work together to improve their practices and increase their sales, to the point where both women are earning low-five-figure incomes on their side hustles. Here’s how they got started — and what they’re hoping to do next. This conversation has been edited and condensed. Meredith: I have ADHD, and I think of it like a superpower. I can hyperfocus on an activity for a long period of time. During the height of the pandemic I spent months learning about embroidery, and then I started making my own patterns. The activity was such a relief to my anxiety, and it […]

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