I want to be honest with you about something. This season, I’ve been making decisions that most business owners would never make, especially when things are going well. I made my classes smaller. That means fewer students per session and technically less revenue per class. But it also means the people who ARE in that room get the real experience. No noise. No shortcuts. Just deep, hands-on work the way it was meant to be taught. I temporarily closed the doors to Raising the Bar. Not because something is wrong, but because I refused to keep letting people in until we were fully equipped to support them, especially when it comes to CRM and the tech side that so many of you struggle with. You deserve more than a membership. You deserve real support. I rebranded. Because who I am today is not who I was when I started, and I refuse to keep wearing a coat that doesn’t fit anymore. I’m expanding my team. Because growth without infrastructure is just chaos with a cute face. None of these decisions made me more money in the short term. Every single one of them cost me something. But here’s what I know for sure. You cannot build something lasting on a cracked foundation. And that got me thinking about YOU. A lot of you are doing what I used to do, chasing the next booking, the next student, the next dollar, without stopping to ask whether the foundation underneath your business is actually solid. So I want to ask you something. What area of your business have you been avoiding because you know it needs work, but slowing down to fix it feels like losing ground? Is it your systems? Your pricing?| Your client experience? Your tech? Your offers? Comment below and tell me. I’m reading every response. Because the next moves I make, in my content, in my programs, and in how I show up for this community, are going to be built around where YOU actually are. Not where I think you are. Where you actually are. Let’s build businesses with real foundations. Precious The Draping Queen

Someone just sent me this photo and asked if I could do it for $500 flowers and all🤦🏾‍♀️

Hi all, my name is Justyna and I am new to draping and events decoration in general. Looking to learn from the best 😊 I am located in Poland 😊. Just starting out and I think I landed in a great community to grow 🤩.

Good afternoon, I got an email with this message. I don't know if anyone else need to hear this, but it resonated with me. Sometimes, the reason you’re tired isn’t because you’re working to hard. It’s because you’re carrying the weight of being misunderstood. And instead of letting misalignment be a signal…you turn it into a project. You try to fix it. You try to explain it. You try to make them get it. But you can’t make people value what they don’t have the capacity to recognize. So today, I want to invite you to do something different: Stop trying to be chosen. Start choosing. Choose the standard you live by. Choose the way you work. Choose what you allow. Choose what you no longer tolerate. Because the moment you stop performing… You get your power back. --Akeshi Akinseye--

Hey Fam ! I just wanted to share that I had to turn down the opportunity to decorate the 60th birthday party. I was really excited about it, but the amount of work and rentals she wanted didn’t align with the budget she had in mind. She was asking for three backdrops, a dessert table setup, 40 chairs, and the serpentine table, and was looking to spend around $1,000–$1,500. Based on everything she requested, I provided an estimate of about $4,600–$6,500, give or take, to properly cover the rentals, materials, setup, and the overall look she wanted. I always want to make sure my work is done at a high standard, and at her budget I would have ended up spending much more out of pocket just to make it look the way it should. As much as I would have loved to do it, I had to stand firm on my pricing and respectfully decline.