The Lakes has always had a special place in my heart, so much so that now I’ve made it a part of my business too.

"You can’t be what you can’t see."

It’s a statement I have repeated to myself constantly over the past couple of years while building my business. Growing up, I don’t remember there being any openly gay women at my school, “lesbian” was a term I was acutely aware of but not something I ever identified as. Everyone around me was straight, so logically, I was too, right?