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You will always have memories of it which is kind of weird and you always remember the

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smell or where you were in that space like how to would smell and it just it gives you so much

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peace and joy. My name is Tonda Nicole Thompson and I am the founder of She Slings Wood Company.

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This was at the heart of the pandemic where I was just put in a place where we all had to sit down

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and rest and think about our lives. We didn't know if we were gonna live or die so I was really

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being on having a coffee table. So I went to YouTube and learned how to make a table

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sure enough by within days. I had a table, I posted the item online and it went viral

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and I had about 10 orders later that week and it went from just oh my god this is a cool thing

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to okay is this a real business. This was a hobby that just we would just took off. I have

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you know other people that are you know that I paved the way for basically who are making their

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own uh name in the industry now you know within with the work that they're doing themselves.

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It turned from a small hobby to this organization that is traveling across the world right now.

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So this small hobby of building a cute table just from my living room turned it to this.

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I call it a dynasty because there's so many components of what She Slings Wood is and what it does for the community.

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So I went on this voyage of trying to get a team and trying to get a location and this is where we

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are now. I am teaching people lucrative skills so they can create lucrative jobs whether it's

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with me or within themselves or they want to go start their own business. We're eliminating

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poverty, we're eliminating joblessness, we're eliminating homelessness, we're eliminating

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food deserts, we're teaching people hey let me build you a raise garden so you can grow your own

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foods. So this is changing the whole dynamic and the aspect of who do we wait for to come

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save us. We got to save ourselves. We got to teach ourselves and we got to do whatever we need to

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do to eliminate that issue yourself. I always tell my team like don't overthink it. I just do it.

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Like literally like I'm I'm a risk taker and I think that's a good thing when my teaching skills

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like I might just do it. It's if whatever happens we don't figure out if it worked or if it didn't

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work. So I think that's my way of teaching people on how to just be yourself and how to learn from

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their mistakes and just being a common ear and saying hey you can do it. I thought I'm building

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the table in my head and I could have waited for my dad or or a significant other to do it right

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but it was so liberating just doing it myself but when you do it it's like I could do anything

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in this world and it really changes your whole perspective of life and it gives you confidence

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in many other areas other than just woodworking pretty much.

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you