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In the latest episode of her podcast,Mina AF,Starsiak Hawk admits it’s been a “very unsure time” for her.
“I’m trying to figure out, like, what the way forward is,” she said. “What does it look like? What is the business? And does the business sustain just me, like it used to, or can I sustain two employees, or do I need more employees again?”
Starsiak Hawk, who has renovated Indianapolis homes on the series for eight seasons, started the business Two Chicks and a Hammer with her mom,Karen E. Laine,in 2007.
“For the last eight years, while it’s not been earth-shattering, the regular income I’ve had is from the show and I don’t have any regular income anymore,” she said. “I actually don’t have any income, unless I do something to create it.”
While she’s currently renovating two houses that she’s planning to sell, they’re still three or four months out from completion.
Starsiak Hawk says she and husband Steve Hawk — who share a 5-year-old son, Jack, and a 3-year-old daughter, Charlie — have been having “a lot of conversations” about the rental properties they own
“Of our 11 rentals, five of them flipped the same month,” she said. “The leases were up, and we missed that school move-in time, and for the first time in five years, half of our rentals are empty and that’s super, super, super stressful.”.
“The point is for them to be long-term investments for us to be able to retire on, but we’re also in a position right now where the next three months are super, super stressful,” she added. “There is so much money going out, and not regular money coming in for either of us anymore because [Steve] works for himself.”
Hawk owns his own personal training and nutrition company, HawkFit.
Mina also addressed the difficult decision to close her store, Two Chicks District Co. On Oct. 6, she announced on Facebook that the Indianapolis-based home goods store would be shuttering at the end of 2023.
“The store is really struggling,” she shared.
“I was so excited when we opened D. Co., and it’s just not been able to be what I wanted it to be,” Mina said. “People come in from all over. They come in from outside of the country ‘cause of the show. And they love it, and they take pictures, and they walk through it, and they look at it and say how cute things are, and then they don’t buy anything and they leave. So the store’s not doing well, and it’s barely covering its costs.”
“It’s just a lot right now,” she acknowledged.
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Mina announced theend ofGood Bonesin August on an episode of her podcast.
“Something I’m super, super proud of, and really grateful to the network for, is making a show for the last eight years that, for the huge majority of the time, has been super representative of who I am, who the boys are, what we’re doing, and it was really important to me from the beginning to do that,” she added.
She noted, however, “The end of anything is just hard.
source: people.com
