We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Kasha Reese a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Kasha, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Risk taking is something we’re really interested in and we’d love to hear the story of a risk you’ve taken.
The idea to provide locally sourced Tea and Honey as well as a space to relax and recharge in a turbulent pandemic timeline was a choice. To be able to help Folx relax and recharge in under 5 minutes in the air all from Sitting and laying down in my Aerial Fabric.
Pandemic made it difficult. Black Lives Matter made it horrifying to approach random event spaces for a chance to talk about my business idea.
So I went to grassroot events, fundraisers, community events and creating my own.
I still do not have insurance that costs well into the thousands to achieve. I’ve applied to multiple grants for aid and have gotten responses from 3 of them only for the Pandemic to cancel them yet again.
I am a Person of Color in America with a business idea of helping Folx to relax and recharge for 5 min in the air safely. From this ice helped Folx with a fear of heights, recently healed from surgery, looking for better sleeping positions or a way to ease nerve pain without having to go swim in a pool or wait months or for a visit to a chiropractor.
Kasha, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
This is me Aerial Tea Lounge
https://www.facebook.com/andbreathenaturally/
“I am a Relax and Recharge Decompression Safe Space that can provide a cup of Tea for free. In that time frame I can help you to decompress and stretch out your body in the Air with 7ft or 10ft of 360° comfort. This provides many Mental and Physical benefits for everyone that signs my Waiver of Liability on site. Being Wheelchair and Disability Accessible, I am able to provide Serotonin, Oxytocin, Dopamine, Adrenaline, Endorphins to Every Body.”
We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.
Black Lives Matter and the Breanna Taylor Door Knock Weren’t as well as countless others are many factors that a person of color are always mindful of when approaching a new event, interview or job opportunity. Still, in this current economy you have to make a form of profit to striving. Regardless of if you may die because you walked into a building and your skin tone is different.
It is exhausting.
How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?
I don’t have a car. The cost of current living is tough. Self marketing without a webpage to afford and maintain is draining. Repeatedly getting promised that I’ll receive an email or a phone call and then being forgotten is crushing. Not having thousands of dollars to pay for my much needed business insurance is a huge road block.
So for now, I have paused Aerial Tea Lounge and started Crocheting.
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Photos by Aerial Tea Lounge AMC Shutterbug guests.