Growing up my parents ran their own construction business. I watched them work day in and day out to provide an amazing life for my two siblings and I, and I know that the three of us will always be grateful for the life we got to live. 

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As we grew in to adults, the life lessons they taught us have shaped us in to the people we are today, and we now pass those on to our own children. My daughter is my entire world, and I want to make her proud by showing her that yes you can follow your dreams, and you don't need to get stuck in the mundane life of unsatisfaction. I do this for her. 

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The reasoning behind the business being called Harpiste is the simple fact that it is my daughters name in Latin, and what could be a better name for it? A company ran by a woman, named after another. 

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I first started Harpiste in January of 2023 but I never put all my energy in to it. Staying in an industry I had been part of for over a decade was much easier, and safer, to do but I knew in my heart that I couldn't be in the hospitality industry forever. It had already taken so much from me and in November of 2024 I was dismissed from a job I almost gave my life to under "Short term service", the biggest crock of s*** I had ever heard of. So there I was a month before Christmas, moving in to my new home, with a mortgage and no job. I will admit I panicked...Alot. But with the support of my amazing family and friends I decided to take the plunge and do the thing I had been dreaming about. 

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So this is where we are now, starting a new business, in a new industry, in a new home and I couldn't be more afraid. But as W. Clement Stone once said "Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will" 

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So if anyone needs me I will hopefully be covered in paint or wallpaper paste, doing what I love and making people fall in love with their homes. 

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Thank you for reading, 

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Amy,
Owner of Harpiste