We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Katrina Doss-Owens. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Katrina below.

Katrina , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?

K.I.M.I. Fashions, LLC x The Kyrie Brand’s mission is to provide services and products that aim to help others begin their own healing journey. No matter what you are going through or have been through the mission of my brand is to help people find their inner courage to heal. Healing is not an easy process and the pandemic really made a lot of us have to sit down to take a good look at ourselves from an internal perspective. We live in a society where everything is moving at such a fast pace that many of us miss the lessons within our struggles. However, the universe has a way of making you be still. I know firsthand how uncomfortable the healing process can be. There were many times I wanted to give up on life because for me it was just too hard to process trauma after trauma. Being alone in isolation gave me a different perspective of myself. We are so heavily influenced by our social interactions that sometimes we can’t separate who we truly are from who we believe we are based on the environments we grew up in or live in currently. Therapy not only helped me heal so many traumas that I was carrying from childhood into adulthood but it helped me to find myself. I just want to be transparent about my healing journey so others don’t become discouraged as they begin to walk into their own. Social media has a funny way of making everything look so easy when nothing about life is easy. People want instant results with little or no work because they see what others have gone through and came out of. We don’t talk enough about the ugly parts of the healing process. The doubts, the loneliness, the losses, the breakdowns, the list goes on. I think if people saw more of that side of the healing process then they would be less likely to give up when their journey starts to get tough.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. I went to school for the majority of my life in DC until my parents moved us to Oxon Hill, MD my sophomore year of high school. I was already a shy & introverted person so I really struggled to find my place in my new school. Growing up an introverted person, I spent a lot of time home alone. I attended Prince George’s Community College after high school, but becoming a mommy halted my goals of getting my degree. So here I am 13 years later finally back in school finishing my Psychology degree. I’m a mom of 3 amazing boys & have been married to my wonderful husband for 7 years. I really enjoy teaching & coaching others so that is what I’m hoping to do with my psychology degree as I continue to grow both K.I.M.I. Fashions, LLC & The Kyrie Brand.

Any advice for growing your clientele? What’s been most effective for you?

The thing that I believe helps me grow my clientele is my transparency. I have always been open about my failures, traumas and achievements. My clients are always telling me how much they appreciate my honesty and vulnerability. Sharing stories of my experiences with being a mother, a boy mom, marriage, and now loss is what makes the relationships I build with my clients stronger and deeper than the normal consumer – client relationship. Overall, just being intentional in knowing that empowered women empower women. But as a mother of boys extending the knowledge of emotional intelligence to them as well because we can’t begin to understand each other until we have some understanding of ourselves.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

I had to unlearn how to stop feeling guilty about saying no. I’ve always been a people pleaser and naturally a supportive person. After losing my daughter I was still showing up for everything and everybody like I didn’t just experience one of the most traumatic situations of my life. What I went through wasn’t for anyone else to understand. It was my experience and my trauma but I was expecting others to understand. So when they didn’t it made me angry. Until one day I just decided to be my own cheerleader. To pour into myself everything that I’ve poured into others. See I was helping other people to see and become the best versions of themselves. Meanwhile I couldn’t even recognize my own self. I stopped looking at myself in the mirror because I hated who I saw. I didn’t know her and I desperately wanted to. So everything I was feeling, all that anger forced me into isolation and it was there that I found myself.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://kimifashions.com
• Instagram: @kimifashions; @the_kyrie_brand
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trina.lovinghimandmyson
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrina-doss-owens-46a608149/
• Twitter: @The_Kyrie_Brand
• Other: TikTok: @the_kyrie_brand

Image Credits
TwinTookIt Photography IG: twintookit