09/29/2025
Hello my lovely people👋🏼
I just thought I’d introduce the face behind the brand after realizing that I have no photos of myself on my business page. So, here I am lol💁🏻♀️
My name is Mackenzie Stephan. I’m 26 and live in southern Alberta near the blood reserve. I grew up in southern Alberta and have lived here all my life. I love spending time outside with Mother Nature and I love spending time with my little circle of people. I work at my full time job and I come home to keep working on my small business. Making all of my product has become the most rewarding, never ending job lol. But like they say “a hustla’s work is neva throooo” (iykyk)😂
I’m part Native American from my mom’s side and it’s always been the dream to be of service to my Niitsítapi community. Being part of the healing that’s taking place amongst our people at this time is a huge deal to me. Because of inter generational trauma that came from the effects of residential school and not being allowed to partake of my culture as a child, I didn’t start learning about our way of life (Kípaitápiiyssinnooni) until about 4 years ago. Learning our language from elders, getting to attend and learn about the Sundance and being more involved with the community have all been such life changing experiences.
I got my Reiki 1 and 2 certification in 2022 and went back for my Advanced Reiki in February of 2024. Originally I wasn’t sure if I would ever use my newly acquired skills on anyone but myself. Just as anyone else, I have my fair share of childhood trauma among other things. Around the time that I got my Reiki 1, I was going through some deep healing within myself and figured I would just do Reiki on myself to assist me in my own healing journey.
By the time I went to do my Advanced Reiki course, I started to receive support and encouragement in regards to doing Reiki for others. If I’m being honest, I was pretty nervous and didn’t have much confidence in myself to go outside of my comfort zone (typical Ta**us behaviour)😆 I was eventually able to break through the heavy cloud cover over my life that was stopping me from doing something big with this newly acquired ✨education✨
In June of 2024, I decided to take the next step and got my small business started.
Still no small business training or anything like that so far, but I’m learning things as they come my way and making mistakes here and there. What is life without the “living and learning” part right?
The last thing I’ll say is if you’ve ever thought about starting a small business, DO ITTTT. Life is too damn short to make excuses to not do that thing you’ve always wanted to do. Making an income whether big or small from something you actually enjoy doing is where it’s at 🫵🏼
All the love,
Mackenzie
