Plateau Magazine June-July 2023

Women
In
Business
THE
MOLLY GRACE
KEDRA MCCALL
828.526.8390 • THEMOLLYGRACECORP.COM
Our Business: The Molly Grace, named after the owner’s mother and two
daughters, is a small boutique right off Main Street in Highlands. Some
consider us a gift store, but we carry clothing, jewelry, home goods, baby
items and more! You can shop with us in-store or online.
Best Business Advice I Ever Received: Have faith in yourself. If you believe
you can accomplish it, it’s halfway done. Whatever goal you’re reaching
for may take longer than you expect, but you’re perfectly capable of accomplishing
it.
Words of Wisdom to Other Women: Be exactly who you want to be. The retail
world has so many outlets, but who’s to say you can’t draw all of your favorites
together? Obviously, you have to reach your market, but you can make it representative
of you at the same time. Brand yourself alongside your company.
Why I Chose This Career: I was thankfully introduced to this career at a young
age when my mother opened the business. I immediately fell in love with it. I
was young, so I’ve gotten to grow alongside it and have developed a passion
for it. I genuinely want to keep learning and growing.
redFOX DESIGN SHOP
MARLEE BERES
864.784.5199 • REDFOXDESIGNSHOP.COM
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Our Business: redFOX Design Shop is broad in scope, pulling together all aspects of architecture:
houses, offices, furniture, cabinets and more. It is a full spectrum design shop. The work is collaborative
and has ambitions to be “aesthetic” and systematic in a way that serves its user.
Best Business Advice I Ever Received: I feel like the important advice for this business, outside of the
details of bookkeeping, is really just personal advice, and it’s a version of “never stop putting things in
your brain.” Keep learning, thinking and growing. This business is manifested in curiosity about forms
and materials and digital tools.
Why I chose this career: It feels to me that “choosing” architecture happened when I learned it described
what I was already interested in. I grew up on job sites, carefully entering future front doors
on the wood planks the crew laid out over the sunken perimeter, climbing ladders to imagine second
floors, and dodging material hoists. When I was older, I proudly delivered material to job sites, sometimes
had to sweep up the night before a client came into town, and occasionally I would meet the
client—there were so many different decision-making personalities. I could not have known what
architecture would really be about then, but I starkly remember a stranger telling me that I would
change my mind about the major I had chosen, and I resolved that I would not.
Why I love doing Business in Highlands-Cashiers: I love doing business in Highlands-Cashiers because,
hands down, there are some of the coolest clients here! I feel lucky and proud to be from Highlands, and
it feels like full-circle moments when I get to work on people’s homes here.