23/08/2026
Ahh I’m dying at these episodes but love it & I hope you are too! 😂👇🏼
I said i would start sharing the stories behind the scenes I’ve never shared before. And here’s the first of that. If you’ve not watched the first, go do so! This is early 20s me in 2014/15
BUILDING ME — EPISODE 02.
I got investors Not long after the Rihanna moment, a ‘succesful’ couple approached me wanting to invest in my art business.
We signed a 50/50 of Aymsdesigns… yes, I know, stupid 😂 we were doing great though! Life was good But then they wanted to launch another business too, under Ayms Designs. At the time, I didn’t question it. I was in my early 20s, excited, ambitious and honestly just saw opportunity where I probably should’ve seen one massive red flag 🚩why did I not question why they wouldn’t want it in their names seeing as it had nothing to do with art?
But for a while, it felt like everything was working.
I moved into this huge art studio. We launched Wizboard. Brooklyn Beckham had one. The Vamps were involved. The Ramsays were involved. Then Costco started placing huge orders with us.
Within the first three-six months, we were doing about 30k months (all organic no paid ads) and then Costco orders ontop! Money was going in, but going out just as fast. I remember seeing the first 100k order in the account I was so excited!!
To me, as a girl in her early 20s, seeing that kind of money coming into a business I’d helped create felt absolutely insane.
I thought I’d made it.
Then I watched the bank account empty.
They had put everything under my name and I guess all consequences were on me
And, as you can see… things went very wrong 😂
Just a young 20 something girl wishing she just kept painting away. But weirdly, I think this part of my story taught me more about business than any of the success ever did.
It did teach me a lot of lessons, but did I learn from them? 🙃 guess we shall see!
ALSO side note… the investors depicted in this story do not look like the real people and have no resemblance to them. The events and story being told are true.