I've set a gigantic goal for myself. I'm going to be in the best shape of my life by the time I'm 40. I just turned 38 in March, so I've got time,' s… - Jennifer Moss

I started embroidering on watercolor paper – black on white at first,” but inspired by a black-on-black painting she’d seen in a show in Nashville, “I began to coat wood panels in graphite, drilled holes with my jewelry tools, and embroidered in white. I am in love with graphite because it can be perfectly matte all the way to reflectively shiny.”

I have no problem with change. I disarm the emotional fear of it and other hard things, and I just keep moving. I think that's probably a lot of people's hardest moments – when they get stalled with indecision and fear. I read an incredible book earlier this year called The Gap and the Gain. And being an engineer's daughter, everything's a math equation. I just have to figure out the right variables to solve for X. And I approach all of life like that.

When I was managing the restaurant, I had to make very big decisions on the fly. And I didn't have a super strong mentor in that space, per se. I didn't have a bad one, they were a little bit more passive. And because of that, I was abrasive in my management, and I would anger easily. And that trickled into the greenhouse for a little while. I started to pay a lot more attention to how I was showing up to conversations. What was my body language, was my tone of voice right or how did I leave people feeling? And I have really worked on that over the last four or five years and fine-tuned it.