From HSCG Attendee to Speaker

“I want to be up there next year.” At last year's Handcrafted Soap & Cosmetics Guild Conference, I sat in the audience during a demo on layers inspired to share my knowledge too. And share my passion for this craft among my soapmaking peers.

When I got the email that I'd been selected to present my Hot Process Soapmaking demonstration, I was thrilled. And then, I was nervous. Like wake-up-at-3am rehearsing nervous lol.

But the reason I could stand there and deliver with joy?


All of you.


Everyone who's ever taken a class with me in Houston.

Everyone who's found me on YouTube at Super Power Soap.

Everyone who booked a workshop and asked questions, and shared the story behind the soap they made.

As I walked through the steps of hot process soapmaking on that stage, I remembered something powerful:

✨ Enthusiasm is contagious! I got got people on board to try something new.

✨ What's normal to you might be magic to someone else.

✨ Let people help. You don't have to do it alone.


Thank you to my family who made this dream logistically possible!


Thank you Feleciai and Venessa for helping me rehearse.

To Lori for taking notes during Q&A.


And to Martina and Emlyn (who I also met at the same conference the year before) for snapping photos I'll treasure forever.


I'm so excited to keep creating more of these moments. Especially inside #ERG's and leadership development spaces.

What's something you've done 100+ times… that someone else is waiting to learn for the very first time?


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