Hello and welcome to best laid plans.

This is Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the show where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.

And I have a really fun treat for you today.

I interview Karina, the owner of Honey Press NC,

a small, highly curated stationary online shop

with some pop-up locations as well based in North Carolina.

And I hope you really enjoy hearing her story.

I know I really did.

So here she is. I am so excited to have Karina from

Honey Press with us today. I have wanted to have Karina on for quite some time. And she is going

to tell you all about her wonderful, both online and physical pop-up shop called Honey Press.

So without further ado, Karina, go ahead and introduce yourself.

Yay. Hi. I'm so excited to be here. Thank you so much, Sarah, for having me.

But yeah, so Honey Press, it's really hard to get into it without kind of telling you my life story. But just

kind of as a brief overview for those of you who are like, what the heck is Honey Press? What is it?

So it is a stationary and gift shop, but there's a heavy emphasis on Japanese and Asian stationary,

as well as other stateside creatives and artists

who have those snarky and quirky cards and stickers and candles and all of that. So, but yeah,

like I said, in order to kind of dive into it, I really have to tell you my life story, but in a nutshell, I promise it won't be long.

No, you totally can. I actually would love the life story. Please.

So I grew up in California, Bay Area, so San Jose, Silicon Valley, all that fun stuff. And actually, no, sorry, I was born in California.

I was raised in North Carolina.

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