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Inspiration July 7, 2017
Imagine co-running your own startup while raising a four-year-old son.
Logan Rae and Kim Hruda were sophomores in college at Florida Atlantic University when they found themselves sitting on their kitchen floor with an open bottle of wine discussing how they could turn their new bacon-esque business idea into a lucrative reality.
That business became Bacon Bouquets and is premised on making bacon a deliverable gift. After Rae made a bacon bouquet for her fiancé and brought it to their office, all of the women in the office went crazy over the unusual gift. And Rae realized her bacon gift had potential as a serious business.
The business model took off and has been rapidly growing ever since they started in 2015. The two women support a staff of two to three people, occasionally rising to five people during the busy season. They had a 357 percent increase in demand from their first Valentine’s Day to their second, but they still remain woman-owned.
In an age when most companies are focusing on quantity over quality, Rae and Hruda have made it their business priority to keep the quality of their company up. They have resisted taking on investors, Rae says, because “[t]he minute we start talking to investors, they say ‘outsource outsource outsource,’ and to create this type of product, we can’t.”
These two women are not ready to sacrifice the quality of their product just so they can get a few more hours of sleep or take off a shift.
On top of creating and maintaining an admirable and successful brand and finishing her college career, Rae is also raising her four-year-old son. Rae is hard, cold proof that women are capable of being in college and running an entire startup business while simultaneously raising a four-year-old.
“It’s good that he’s getting it early on, what it means to work for yourself,” Rae says of running her business with her son by her side. Even in her unimaginably busy life, the quality of her product and business is never compromised. No corners are cut.
Rae isn’t asking for empathy or admiration, she just does it… because women are that good.
That’s what we call a #MothaBoss.
