From Mom to Entrepreneur: Building Sweet Dreams with Boll & Branch Cofounder Missy Tannen
In this episode of Mom to MORE®, host Sharon Macey chats with Missy Tannen, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Boll & Branch, the luxury home goods company known for its award-winning 100% organic cotton sheets.
From her roots as a third-grade teacher to building a renowned brand, Missy shares her journey of reinvention, innovation, and balancing life as a mom of three.
Missy reveals how her attention to detail and commitment to sustainability shaped Boll & Branch’s iconic sheets and drove her vision for ethical production. She also opens up about the challenges of entrepreneurship, overcoming imposter syndrome, and the pivotal moments that helped the brand reach its 10th-anniversary milestone.
Tune in for an inspiring conversation that showcases Missy’s journey of growth, resilience, and innovation, with family at the heart of her work. She continues to lead with passion and a commitment to doing things differently.
[00:00] Introduction
[01:04] Missy’s Southern roots and life as a mom in New Jersey
[05:01] The hilarious inception story of Boll & Branch during a bedroom upgrade
[07:52] Building a sustainable brand with 100% organic cotton
[13:57] Why thread quality matters more than thread count
[17:28] Leveraging mom skills to grow a business
[20:46] Facing struggles and taking risks to grow Boll & Branch
[26:20] Overcoming imposter syndrome in a male-dominated industry
[31:49] Creating a supportive, women-centered workplace
[33:28] Missy’s advice for moms starting their reinvention journey
[34:23] Missy’s MORE
Meet My Guest Missy Tannen:
Website: bollandbranch.com
Instagram: @bollandbranch
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Keep an eye out for episode #30 of the Mom to MORE™ podcast where Sharon is joined by Caryn Carruthers, food writer, photographer and healthy living mama. Coming soon - you won’t want to miss it ♥
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Sharon (01:04)
Welcome back to Mom to More. I have a fascinating guest today who has the world's dreamiest job. Let me tell you a little about her. Missy Tannen is the co-founder and chief product officer at Bowlin Branch, the luxury home goods company. Missy has totally raised the standard in bedding with her uncompromising attention to detail.
quality and perfection. Okay, that is so mom. Her drive has led to innovations in comfort and design, starting with the award-winning 100 % organic cotton sheets that launched the brand 10 years ago. Before co-founding Bull & Branch, Missy spent years running a third grade classroom, arguably more difficult, I would assume, which shaped her entrepreneurial spirit and her beautiful eye for detail. Missy and her husband Scott are the proud parents of three daughters and no surprise here,
Missy was also a stay at home mom. Missy, I'm so glad you're with me today.
Missy (02:01)
Sharon, it's such a pleasure to be with you.
Sharon (02:04)
Thank you.
Well, we have
so many fun things to talk about today. And I want to make just a funny note upfront. When we first met, we realized we both went to Southern schools and we bonded over the whole like football thing, right?
Missy (02:17)
Absolutely, where you go with the date and you would get dressed up in cocktail dresses. This is back, you know, in the late 90s, early 2000s in the South. So a little different now. Yeah.
Sharon (02:26)
Right.
In the south is a whole different animal. Yeah,
it's a whole different animal, but yeah. Okay, so I wanted to start with, I have what I call my essential mom question. And that is, we know you have three daughters, but where are you raising them?
Missy (02:45)
So we are raising them in New Jersey. Our offices are in Summit and we live about 10 minutes away. And yeah, I'm from Ohio originally. I never really knew I'd be a Jersey girl, but here I am raising three Jersey girls and it's great.
Sharon (02:49)
Okay.
There you go.
Nice.
So was being a stay-at-home mom or home parent, which is really the more modernized version, which I love that it was really coined by another mom named Neha Rush, was that something you intended to do? What did that look like for you?
Missy (03:23)
not sure that...
for us we just kind of take everything as it comes and as it goes. You know went to college to be to study education at Vanderbilt and graduated with my education degree and became a third grade teacher in Bridgewater, New Jersey and I really love that. But after five years when I got pregnant with our first daughter, I think it was just at a time where
you know at first I wasn't really sure and I just kept extending my leave and then just we felt that was the right thing for me to do at that time and then sure enough just a couple years later we had twin daughters so at that point you know it was a really nice period of my life to be able to be with them that I just stayed home till they were you know an early elementary school.
Sharon (04:19)
Right, which is first of all, big job having twins. I was always afraid that I was going to have twins and I just, have three single births and I thought, my God, what if I have twins? know, but what a blessing. Yeah.
Missy (04:25)
Yeah, they're each other's best friends.
And I think, you know, the idea for Bowling Branch came up and I wasn't really, I would say, for a job at the time. I was happy. was volunteering my heart out, really involved in the community, really involved in the girls' schools and in the art room.
Sharon (04:43)
Right.
You're doing all the mom
things. Right. Yeah.
Missy (04:53)
all the mom things and just
really embracing it and loving it. But you know, we had kind of a,
Sharon (05:01)
Well, wait,
actually, I was going to say you took my next question. And that was, I wanted to talk about the inception of Bowen Branch. But when we spoke the first time, there was a moment, right, when you and Scott were like, we need to do this. Share that moment, because I think it's hilarious.
Missy (05:16)
Yeah, like I said, we were just going about life and renovating our bedroom, moving from a queen bed to a king, which is such an exciting time in your life to have that much more space after being married for like 15 years. And it really
Sharon (05:26)
Right. Big bad. Yeah.
haha
Missy (05:33)
You know, we had renovated this bedroom so many decisions and then when we're choosing what bedding, you know, that was my department that was not Scott's department to figure out our bedding and it just, you know, at that point in my life, I was probably like 33, 34 and I just wanted quality bedding and really hard to figure out what was I getting for my money? How much did I spend? What, did thread count mean? And
all the different marketing messages seem so confusing and home, you know, from a couple days of shopping for sheets and Scott was like, this shouldn't be that hard. Let me just Google that for you and find out what you know, what's the best sheets. And, you know, he was like, actually, there's like no real, like, real definition or real, like guidance of, know, what brand or what products are the best and
For me, I know I was also looking for something that would last, that would be soft and, you know.
my definition of quality and just sleeping on it. He literally woke up and was like, sheets. That's an area where no one knows what they're sleeping on. Yet it's a product that everybody uses every single day, touches your skin. It's so close to you. It's something that like, you know, why don't people actually, you know, have any brands that they really truly love? We were just, you know, asking friends and family and most people would just reference
Sharon (06:46)
That's so true.
Missy (07:06)
the department store, the big box store, you know, where they got their sheets from. It wasn't like other areas where you know what brand your water bottle is or your yoga pants or, you know, your shoes. So that really led us to just dig a little deeper into the bedding and the textiles industry.
Sharon (07:22)
Mm-hmm.
the fact that it started because you were going from a queen bed to a king bed, so you had to get all new sheets, I think is all at once it's funny, but it's so human. And it's just, it's a wonderful jumping off point. Like who would have thought, right? You just, right.
Missy (07:32)
Yeah.
We're just consumers, right?
then that just, and then who were we to even decide like, we're gonna go figure this out? Well, that's exactly what we did.
Sharon (07:52)
And I love that. OK, so clearly, from your time as a teacher and as a mom, and you did all the mom things, you're also a woman that I've read who is obsessed with details. Aren't we all, right? Aren't we all? It's another very mom trait. So what inspired the 100 % organic, sustainably sourced hallmarks of your brand?
Missy (08:17)
That's a great question, Sharon. You're right. I am absolutely detail obsessed. But I would say Scott and I are also super prideful. if we were starting this business or just even exploring, let's say we weren't even starting the business yet. We just wanted to learn about
textiles and well actually it is made out of an actual cotton plant you know and going all the way back and I guess part of my interest in details is just like wanting to know anything about it if we were going to put our name on this or we were going to share this product with our friends with our family we truly wanted it to be the best and so in doing our research and learning the difference between conventional cotton growing and
and
organic cotton growing, it's night and day. I mean, they're two totally different methodologies. And while it could be the same seed, the mindset and the way that the soil is treated and the crops are rotated is totally different. And also,
you know, in other parts of the world where these, farms that farmers that we're working with in India, you know, each family might have two acres of a farm. It's not like in the U S where we have these huge industrialized farms, you know, people are hand planting the seeds, taking care of it. and then hand picking the cotton at the end and there's no irrigation other than, you know, it's rain fed. so I think
Sharon (09:56)
And is that something they
can count on? Okay.
Missy (09:58)
No, it's, you
know, and growing organically is harder for sure, but it's beneficial to the farmers because then they're not carrying backpacks of pesticides around, dripping on them, spraying them. Again, it's not these huge machines that they would be using. It would just be like a sprayer on your, you know, on with the backpack of chemicals. And at the time we started, there was a farmer suicide epidemic that was happening in India.
Sharon (10:22)
Interesting.
Missy (10:28)
meaning that farmers were becoming in debt so much to having to buy seeds and then chemicals to companies like Monsanto and really getting in debt because they couldn't pay back the loans. And so we just didn't want to be part of this cycle of poverty that was continuing to happen over and over.
we realized
that
there was a better way to grow cotton. It was underutilized. At the time we started working with one cooperative when we very first started, they had about 15,000 farmers who were growing organically, but only 30 % of their cotton was actually sold as such.
So we were just like, wow, there are people who believe in this, that it's changing villages and it's changing the lives of the farmers.
could we actually use this cotton and make our products out of it? And so I think we became really inspired by that notion. But like you were just asking me before, you were like, well, how did you come up with organic cotton? At that time, we didn't know. You know, it was all just a big research project. And what I did was, you know, when we found this farming cooperative, it was actually called, and it still is, we still work with them called Chetnell Organics in Indiana.
They
they're farmers. So we said, we'd like sheets. They were like, well, we're farmers. So that's when we started building a supply chain and okay, you're just not going to take this special cotton and then just go dye it anywhere, weave it anywhere. And then we got in touch with a finishing factory where they would cut and sew the fabric. And so from that time we had that set of fat, you know, that fabric, but I had fabric from all over the world,
other mills, other purchase samples, and what I would do to figure out what hand feel I wanted, what was the raw material. I would keep one pillowcase clean and wash the other pillowcase in the set 20 times because I really was curious about how would it feel over time for a customer. To me that was the most important thing.
In addition to how it felt coming out of the package, of course, but I really wanted it to last. I wanted it to be the softest it could be. And luckily, you know, I could have told you about different stories with 20 other supply chains, but one rose to the top for both the hand feel, the softness, the durability. And that's what became our signature sheets, our signature fabric that still now 10 years later is our very best seller. we've built our
entire brand on it.
Sharon (13:22)
And you know what's interesting about that, Missy? I remember your early commercials when you were the one doing the voiceovers on radio, and like some of the local radio stations in the Northeast. And also I bought a couple of sets of sheets like 10 years ago and they really do get softer in time. Cause I've had them all these years and they just, I've had friends stay in that guest room and they're like, your sheets are so soft. I'm like, well, they're Poland branch. mean, so.
Missy (13:40)
Yeah.
That
really was by design.
Sharon (13:49)
Yeah,
yeah, and you really achieved that, is amazing. Hey, talk to me super quickly about thread quality over thread count, because everyone always thought it was about thread count.
Missy (13:57)
This
was one of the biggest like myths, myth busters that we came across, you know, and actually now looking back and learning more and researching more in like the 1980s, 90s, that's really when the betting companies in the US started really advertising the red count.
And you know in America, the bigger the better. So if we have a thousand thread count, that's going to be better than 500 thread count versus 300. And it really isn't true. What thread count means is it's just a unit of measure of how many vertical yarns there are and then how many horizontal yarns there are within one square inch. So let's say you just have 150 yarns vertically, 150 yarns horizontally.
that equals 300 and that's in one square inch. But if you think about it, if you're going to sleep at night, you're not thinking like, I love this thread count of my sheets, you know?
Sharon (15:04)
You're right, you love the softness, yeah.
Missy (15:06)
know if you like a lighter or heavier fabric or breathable like and you might not even be able to verbalize it but you just know if you're sleeping like what does any of that matter like just how does it feel to you does it feel great or does it feel scratchy or like there's sandpaper or you know so
While it is a unit of measure, so certainly, you know, I know all the thread counts for all of our fabrics and actually we created every single fabric we make. But that's just like one component of it. And it really does start with the quality of the yarn. So that's why we always are talking about like.
thread quality over thread count. And so it really starts from the beginning. What is the quality of the cotton or whatever raw material? How has it been processed and cleaned and spun?
And then there's so much that happens in the weaving process and then
There's there's many steps to actually finish it to make it the hand feel that you desire like you could not use any fabric that comes right off the loom
Sharon (16:14)
Gotcha.
Missy (16:17)
So there's so much that goes into making fabric. And that's really, I know, you we were talking about me being an elementary education teacher, but my other major at Vanderbilt for quite some time was a math science major.
So I do, that's where like, really love to know how does that staple length of the cotton, like how long is it? What kind of yarn can that make,
Sharon (16:43)
I'll just say to the listeners, you heard it here, from the pro that it's all about thread quality and not about thread count. So Missy, we are going to take a short break. And when we return, we're going to talk about mom skills because I know you have a lot.
Missy (16:48)
Yeah.
Sharon (17:28)
OK, Missy, as a mom, you develop all of these mom skills and you fine tune them, you know, from being a teacher to a mom and then being home with your girls and then starting starting and growing Bull & Branch. Let's talk about
how they helped you in the growth of this fabulous company of yours now.
Missy (17:50)
Yeah, you know, that was, I think where, when I look now back on it and, you know, being at home with, with our daughters and then jumping into a business for me, it was a really natural and gradual progression.
meaning at first, you know, we didn't even have a company. So it's just like my husband and I dreaming of this. And even with our daughters, you know, just talking over the dinner table or, you know, they would be at school and we would go and, you know, I don't know, shop, shop them all or talk about sheets and fabrics and meet with, meet with different people and have lots of phone calls.
Well, I think the moment that the website launched was really the moment that it became really real because our whole year of just like exploration and meeting with people and Choosing our fabric and coming up with our name That was pretty dreamy and then when the website launched and we were like, my goodness our product This is the fabric that I made
Sharon (18:50)
This is real, yeah.
Missy (18:54)
I was so nervous to just, know, what are people saying? I hope they like it. And knowing I had to put everything into it that I could possibly dream of. But then, you know, you start growing a company and you can't do it all yourself. You have to, you know, rely on other people and grow your business, grow your team. So I think for me, because it wasn't like I jumped from zero to 180. It was like,
every four months at Bull & Branch, it felt like a new company. So there's so much from what I did when I was home that helped me and it still is helping me. Just even volunteering and being on committees or leading a committee, working with people, managing time, and how do you juggle
Sharon (19:46)
attitude.
Missy (19:49)
different priorities and being there and being present with your kids and you know, now working full time. I think for me that that time management was something that
at beginning, was really hard to juggle, but as my kids have also matured and grown over the last 10 years too, they can also appreciate and realize like sometimes I do have to do something for Bowlin Branch and sometimes I have to do something for them that comes first.
we've all been juggling life together. So that's been really helpful.
Sharon (20:28)
Right. That's a great answer. Thank you for that. this sort of like segues into struggles because as any new business owner, you go through ups and downs and like, what are we doing?
in the early days and even now, like what are some of the struggles that you find yourself dealing with
Missy (20:46)
Yeah, for us, one of the biggest struggles I would say early on was just the financial pressure of starting a business on your own. And we wound up needing to borrow money to be able to fund all of the inventory that we were buying.
In a business where you have goods that you're selling, and especially the way that we're doing it with organic cotton, we were making commitments way ahead of, and we still do to today, way ahead of a normal process and when you pay for the goods. So we were actually paying a third upfront.
at the time of making another order so that the cotton farmers could get paid. And for us, that was fine for the first year. And that was like our savings we sent to India and got our first order. But what happened was In our second year is to build up enough inventory for the second half of the year.
We had to have, you know, lay out so much money at that point. and then also my husband decided, I should say I supported him, but he was a big fan of the Howard Stern show so wanted to advertise there. Yeah. Yeah. And believe it or not, that was a $2 million investment. Close to that. We just borrowed.
Sharon (22:07)
Yes, that's where I heard you was on the Howard Stern show. Yeah
That's huge. But how he's he's really good. That's huge.
Missy (22:21)
money off of our home and took out small business loans to fund all of this. So I would say That pressure there was really intense. and for a good period of time because You don't know is it going to work? Is it not?
Sharon (22:35)
Yeah.
Right. I mean, you really,
It sounds like you really bet the farm. Yeah. Yeah.
Missy (22:42)
We did. We did. Which
Now looking back is wild, like wild that we that. but we really believe so strongly in what we're doing. that it was different than what's out there. We really felt like, you know, our sheets are different and they're made different from the very beginning and there's no other company out there like it. So we went for it.
Sharon (22:47)
Yeah.
everyone goes through that, right, when you're starting something new. So thank you for being upfront about that, yeah.
Missy (23:09)
And you're just like how
this and it was really really scary but that that risk is actually and taking that leap Just knowing and I think because we had a year and a half of sales at that point You know, we had confidence that we were growing and we could do this It wasn't just like it was like right out of the gates. We spent that kind of money, you know to be able to advertise but
that national awareness is really what helped us grow and have customers all over the country.
Sharon (23:46)
Right. Well, thank you, Howard
Stern, for getting really, it was a huge jumping off point for you. And it also sounds like you've, with your farmers in India and the cooperatives, you've really created a real family business on so many levels, not just you and Scott, but your partnerships over in India.
Missy (23:52)
Yeah.
Yes, that's so true. The farmers, the weavers, the cut and sew partners that we work with, we were just over in India a month and a half ago and got to celebrate an anniversary of one of our mill partners with them. mean,
one of the most incredible moments, you know, here they've been weaving for 45 years, they're expert weavers, but they've just been weaving, right? So imagine at that point of the supply chain, and then they would sell their fabric to other people.
They believed in what we were doing and they built 10 years ago, a factory right at this, you know, on the same campus, just dedicated to ball and branch. And then five years later expanded it. So there's 600 workers that every night we're sleeping here in the U S they are working so hard to make our sheet sets at night. and then likewise, when I was there, I told them, I was like, thank you for what you're doing, because then when you're sleeping,
Sharon (24:51)
Wonderful.
Missy (25:09)
We are working as hard as we can to share what you're doing with everyone here in the US. And that's one of 25 partners that we're working with now. But it's been a journey with every single one. really, our sweet spot is working with those small to middle sized factory partners who they're all family run. In the case where I was just mentioning how they're
Sharon (25:15)
That's an incredible story, yeah.
Missy (25:38)
one of the best weavers in all of India. His mom actually started the factory by herself and was just quite a trailblazer for women and getting women to come work in the factories and make their own income. It's really special.
Sharon (25:56)
important.
Yeah,
it's impressive. And there's, love the family aspect of it as well, which makes sense
coming from a mom
Talk to me about imposter syndrome. because as women, I mean, I have it, I think we all have it as we start a new venture. And what was that like for you? How long did it last? Do you still feel it?
Missy (26:20)
Totally, because on one hand, I felt confident in myself that I could figure this out. I could learn whatever I needed to learn to make decisions and build this supply chain. I don't know. guess Scott and I just, we felt like we could just do it. We could figure it out. And that's kind of what we did is.
But at the same time, there's so much you don't know. There's so many questions and that you have and you wanna be honest and vulnerable and find out because you want.
You know, you want to able to make the best decisions with the best information available to you. And so we're just very inquisitive. But I would say the flip side of that is here, you know, we were up against a whole industry that had been operating in the same way. I remember even in the beginning, there were some people in the US were really involved in organic cotton farming and here we were outsiders. They've been trying to use organic cotton and sell it for years and various forms of products and felt like
we were just like stealing their thunder a little bit and, that we were just being selfish and you're coming in and doing this. And we weren't, it was genuine. Like we wanted to do what's right for the, you know, the farmers and our products and our customers. And so I think there are always naysayers. And so a lot of time I would feel like,
Gosh, I didn't even know what Pantone was when we started. How can I be so obsessed with our colors? And I am because I love painting and I love color. I just didn't know Pantone was a tool out there, you know? So I think, yes, I think it's taken all of these 10 years for me to kind of chip away at that imposter syndrome. And the moment when this fall I felt
Sharon (27:58)
Learn something new every day, yeah.
Missy (28:12)
like I wasn't an imposter anymore. I was asked to speak at FIT in New York. And, you know, such an exceptional design school product development that I didn't even know existed, you know, when I was going to college, but this kind of place was out there. And
when I got to speak, there were some professors, some students in the audience. And I really said to them what the questions they were asking and you know, some of the we could speak the same language. I said to them, I was like, wow, I've really found my people now. we all just understood what it takes to build a supply chain and be so detail oriented in your your design decisions and your manufacturing decision decision. So
I would say that was such an incredible day for me that I really felt like I wasn't on the outside anymore that I had something I could share. And at the same time, I had amazing conversations because I'm still curious. There's still, you know, there's a whole world out there. I still want to keep learning every single day that I could ask the professors what they're seeing or what they think of a certain dye technique. So.
Sharon (29:20)
Mm-hmm.
I love that. I love that.
You have a growth mentality, which is so cool.
OK, you had a really cool thing happen this year, and that was your sheets were used for costumes at the Met Gala.
Missy (29:42)
That's right. you know, this year's theme for the Met Gala was sleeping beauties and our three daughters are now teenagers and Met Gala obsessed and said to us last fall, mom, dad, the Met Gala theme, sleeping beauty, like, you know, taking it very literally, like, my gosh, ball and branch. have to be part of
Sharon (29:48)
There you go.
Yeah, yeah.
Missy (30:06)
coincidentally, Prabha Gurung had been using our fabric, loved the drape, the sheen.
of it and then we shared with him that we actually had a new fabric called our Summit Supima fabric that came out in May. And that's where we took organic cotton from Texas, took it to our incredible weaving partners I was just mentioning in India and made this most incredible fabric with even more sheen, more drape, more luster. And he was like that, I have to have it, I have to use it for a dress. So it was an incredible experience getting to
partner
with him, be in his design studio and get to see how he thinks. And yeah, he was inspired by our fabric. Maria Sharapova was
Sharon (30:56)
That's right, she
wore the dress. Yeah.
Missy (30:58)
He wore
the dress. She was stunning, absolutely stunning. And of course he took our fabric and dyed it in an incredible bright yellow shade. Not one that's in our color palette, but one that was absolutely drop dead gorgeous for the Meg palette. Yeah, exactly.
Sharon (31:14)
But maybe it will be, you never know. That's incredible.
Missy (31:17)
after all these 10 years that like here, our organic cotton, we really knew we were kind of.
you know, bucking the system, going the organic route and having our fair trade factories, like just doing everything the right way. It was a hard road. And now after 10 years for our fabric to be red carpet worthy was a dream come true. Yes. You never know where an idea is going to come from, right?
Sharon (31:37)
Truly. And that's incredible that it was your daughter's idea. So go girls. That's fantastic. That's fantastic.
100%. You also have a lot of women working at Bowling Branch. I think you said like 80 % are women. That's a lot of estrogen. Okay. I'm sure you have a lot of moms. Was that by design or did that just happen?
Missy (31:49)
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
It's just happened. Honestly, I think the design of it is just were a very welcoming culture very supportive my husband Scott You know while he loves his sports and football. He has a sister had three has three daughters like myself He's just been around women his whole life. So You know, it's just
and he is so supportive of me and what I'm doing and our girls. I just think it's just like that in our office.
Sharon (32:37)
also makes sense. I we know how incredibly competent moms are. And I just love the fact that you have such a female forward company.
Missy (32:41)
Yes.
there are plenty of moms who their their children are my children's age, you know, that are teenagers in college. But then there's also so many who are just becoming moms or having their first child and, the way we love to make sure they're taken care of and eased back in to the work, you know, to their jobs, like it's just a really supportive
So I think that that draws more people in and yeah, we're really proud of it.
Sharon (33:17)
Wow, what a great story. OK, I've got two more sort of short answer questions. One piece of advice for a mom starting on her reinvention journey.
Missy (33:28)
I would say to any mom out there, you have so many skills that you've learned acquired over the years, whether it's being a mom, whether it was volunteering, it was a past job, just your childhood that I would say, go for it. You know, you never will have.
all of the knowledge to make every decision. So there's no sense in thinking like, I can't do something because I don't have this skill or I don't have that. Like anybody's journey in life, I've realized you pick it up as you go.
don't feel like you need to hold yourself back because you can do even more than you ever think you can.
Sharon (34:11)
I love that. Thank you for that. Okay, so Missy, last question. Since this is the Mom2More podcast, Missy Tannen, what is your more?
Missy (34:23)
Sharon, that is such an amazing question. I feel like every day I am still learning, I am still growing. I'm not sure even what's next for me or what else I'm gonna do, but I love every day being challenged. I would say I can't wait.
for more bullet branch, more changes, more growth. And like I was saying at our company, every six months, it feels like a new company. Every year, it feels like there's new obstacles, new challenges. So for me, I just feel so lucky to be able to do what I do every day and can't wait to continue that.
Sharon (35:04)
I love that. And you've built it from the ground up, which is truly, truly extraordinary.
Tell me where can my listeners find you online? And folks, everything is going to be in the show notes.
Missy (35:08)
like that.
So we are online at bollenbranch.com, B-O-L-L-A-N-D-B-R-A-N-C-H. So at bollenbranch.com, you can always shop, but then we also have retail stores that are, you know, we're in eight cities right now between Greenwich, Connecticut, Chicago, Atlanta, Boca Raton, Houston, Dallas, and Short Hills, New Jersey.
but adding more stores next year. So look for us there or in Bloomingdale's or Nordstrom as well. We are at the Harlem branch.
Sharon (35:49)
Okay, and also you're on Instagram, right?
at Bow and Branch, right? All right, well,
all that will be included. Missy Tannen, you are so cool and I love your story and you're just absolutely lovely. And I'm so grateful to have been able to share this time with you today.
Missy (36:07)
the
pleasure is all mine. Thank you for having me and I love what you're doing. So this was wonderful to get to spend the time with you.