Alright, friends—it’s happening. After months of scheming, dreaming, and meticulous planning, we are officially kicking off the restoration of the old St. Vincent’s school property in Corktown! We’ve been deep in the trenches with our…
As it happens this time of year, we’re taking the time to reflect on last year’s accomplishments and lessons learned, while looking ahead to 2025 with excitement and anticipation (and a healthy dose of anxiety!)….
One of the things we wanted to accomplish in our journey was to try to do in a local Detroit community what we had done in our business community…to bring a sense of purpose, values…
One Saturday afternoon… It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon and we were on the grounds of our new building in Corktown, cleaning up and removing landscape debris. As we opened our gates and were doing…
Now that we’ve secured our building, the real work starts! What we’re embarking on is called “adaptive re-use,” a term used in the construction industry to describe taking an existing building and remodeling it for…
We’ve been excited for months after identifying a property that had a historic church and school that could house our Kintsugi Village campus. But as with anything in business and in life, things don’t always…
When the Kintsugi name came to us, so did this Kintsugi heart* which became the inspiration for this project and would later bring all the initiatives together – hospitality, education, arts, retreat & training. To…
We quickly realized that this project is very ambitious and there is so much that we don’t know or have experience with. What we do have is passion, drive, many years of business experience and…
Now that we can visualize what we’re looking for, we need a place to put it all! So over several months, we’ve been looking at potential sites for what will become known as the Kintsugi…
It was June 2023 and I had just traveled to Detroit filled with anxiety and anticipation. Hamsa and I had not seen each other since the Small Giants Leadership Academy graduation almost a year earlier….
