Kiersten Hathcock
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Kiersten Hathcock
@khathcock.bsky.social
I’m an author, the co-founder of the nonprofit NILJ.org, a self-taught carpenter/designer, a Shark Tank alum, and proud 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally. I’m also an intuitive medium who works on homicide cases with retired NYPD detectives.
6. But don’t let that stop you. Be radically defiant. Be you. And I’ll cheer you on every step of the way.
November 19, 2024 at 4:08 PM
5. How dare I step out of line and do something that they considered a “man’s job.” I never thought that mentality would get worse over time. Only better. And it did for awhile. But now, with women’s rights slashed and patriarchy on the rise, you will face a lot of the same crap I did 20 years ago…
November 19, 2024 at 4:08 PM
4. Retailers from 17 different countries are requesting orders, can you believe that?!?”

Until recently, I hadn’t considered how defiant my mission to build furniture was in the early aughts….
November 19, 2024 at 4:08 PM
3. I walked up to the counter to purchase the last piece of ply I’d ever buy there, and I said, “Well boys, it’s been real. Thanks for all of your support over the past 4 years. I’m happy to say I won an investment deal on Shark Tank & found a manufacturer to mass produce my line of furniture….
November 19, 2024 at 4:08 PM
2. This would go on each time I went back, week after week. At every level with every supplier. All men teasing me and questioning my skill. Until one day….
November 19, 2024 at 4:08 PM
It’s such a rollercoaster.
November 16, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Ha! Yeah, my life isn’t boring, that’s for sure! Lol Thanks for the welcome!
November 13, 2024 at 3:07 PM