looking back | how it's better together started

So much has happened since that first fateful get together of just a few Central Florida creatives. It's crazy to look back at these old photos and remember how we all met and how this group started. In case you're curious, here's a history lesson...

There was a business seminar held in town. It was about blogging and it was led by the ever-amazing Liene Stevens of Think Splendid. There were all kinds of people there with one thing in common, they wanted to learn how to leverage social media in a new way. And as luck would have it, a bunch of us were there. Friendships were formed over coffee and soon we were all chatting about how we should "do this again". 

We decided to meet up again and to invite some friends. Anna Bond, of Rifle Paper Company had just opened up shop in a small studio in Winter Park next store to a print shop called Mama's Sauce and together they hosted a tiny group of young professionals over snacks and letterpress. 

Anna designed the gorgeous logo as a surprise at that first meeting not thinking it would ever become the cornerstone belief of an entire group of young artists and business owners but over frozen yogurt shortly after the idea was formed... this group needed to exist because running your own business is hard, but it is better together. 

Since then the core group has grown and changed. Founding "members" have started on new endeavors, launched dreams bigger than they'd ever have imagined, had babies, moved into bigger studios, opened shops, and more. It's been an amazing ride, one we hope to continue as we move forward into a new generation of It's Better Together. 

We hope you will help us write the next chapter!