"I’ve followed you and your design journey and I just wanted to say how much you inspire me. I’m not kidding when I say that you’ve quite literally saved my life by giving me hope in having a career like yours. I’ve always been the kind of person who followed the plans everyone else had for me (college being the most draining of them all), so stumbling upon you and your success as a designer opened my eyes to the possibility that I don’t have to spend my young adult life slaving away for someone else. I just wanted to say thank you for always being you and showing up authentically."