Welcome to Farm With Zee / Hampden Farms 2024

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

-Oprah Winfrey

Welcome to Farm With Zee : Hampden Farms 2024! As we prepare for the season, I am amplifying how important authenticity and vulnerability as a mentee is to your personal and professional journeys.

In 2023, I let go of my ideas on how to build this farm. In the video I share how we didn’t put the farm to bed last season. Exhausted and burned out there were times I was hopeless and navigating intrusive thoughts. Life was lif-ing and the unrest in my personal and professional life caused me to reevaluate my “why”.

In May of 2022, I met my multi hyphen fashion mentor Angela Medlin through the REI Co-op X FAAS Design Program. Please check her career journey as she’s likely designed for your favorite brand(s). Angela has a sustainable doggy lifestyle brand House Dogge, along with products for their humans, a 2020 Oprah's favorite! Angela recently joined HOKA Brand as Design Director for Apparel.

I share all this to say as a recovering people pleaser, my initial pattern was to try to “impress” Angela by sharing the more glowing parts of my life and business. Instead, I was vulnerable and authentic; I shared with her the unease in my personal and professional life. While I felt like my world was falling apart she reminded me that it wasn’t. That this was part of the process. I thought she was going to teach me how to create a fashion line, but what I needed was someone who could talk me through the heartbreak of sun-setting a project . I listened as she shared her illuminations and I accepted that mentorship is like farming. I have planted seeds and I am watching them blossom.

My tips for connecting with a mentor:

⭐ Be authentic about your personal and professional journey

⭐ Be curious about their personal and professional journey

⭐ Be flexible about your mentorship journey

🌻 Please follow as we align this wellness farm business to our now and amplify the people, small business and organizations whose encouragement, coaching and or mentorship has supported us through the contrast.

What are your tips for connecting with a mentor?

🏞️ Go outside

🧘🏾‍♀️ Take 3 deep breaths

🫶🏾 Be well Dear Hearts

Video Id: Zephrine is looking at the camera talking about the Hampden Farms 2024 season and touring her garden that is brown and in hibernation. She says she is going to clean-up next week…stay tuned.

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