Meet Micaela Fox of Dallas, TX

Today we’d like to introduce you to Micaela Fox.

Hi Micaela, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
Ever since I was a kid entrepreneurship has been in my veins. As a kid, instead of playing house, I played “business” and would pretend to invent a whole new product, selling it to my customers aka my grandma.

Then it all really began when I got in trouble for soliciting mini rockets I developed from mechanical pencils in the 5th grade, for .50 cents each. No one told me I couldn’t start a business in the school hallways. hehe

Entrepreneurship has been my passion and natural bent since I can remember. I live with a belief that anything is possible and to risk, is a gift. I am driven by the insatiable need to discover potential. I see potential in everything. Taking vision, dreams, ideas and seeing them come to life through innovation and creativity for the purpose unlocking potential, is the core of what I love to do.

My creative agency, Club Vinify is the convergence of my greatest passions of cultivating creativity, culture, art, writing, development, and building belonging through story telling; all to uncork the depths of our potential together. There is no end to what we can do together. Your dreams matter.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
If it was a smooth road, I’d be questioning wether or not I’m risking enough. Henry David Thoreau says, “The cost of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” I’m the type that gives my whole heart to something without bounds, and I’ve felt the cost and growing pains of that deeply-but that is what has made it worthwhile. It has been anything but a smooth road. I’ve lost relationships that we’re incredibly dear to me, I’ve lost businesses that I’ve built from the ground up. Where I felt the need to let go entirely, asking for nothing in return. A business coach once told me that “a good leader knows when to end something” and I would add, knows how to do humility and continually grow. I’ve experienced disappointment, after disappointment. The imposter syndrome screaming in-between my ears. So much so, that when going to start my creative agency I had moments in my car crying, telling God that I didn’t want to do it anymore -the cost, shame of fear of failure and vulnerability was too much. Yet, what you are called to, will keep calling. Entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart and is like gardening. It requires deep vulnerability and there will be seasons of winter, where everything dies, but this doesn’t mean you failed–it just means the new ahead is coming out of the soil of our endings. You must not give up, you must give into the seasons; the pruning, the dying and then the blooming. You must keep going back to tend the soil–stewarding the ideas, dreams and vision in your heart. At the end of the day, the mountain is you and you have to take the risk of taking yourself seriously. That you are worth your dreams and to stop waiting to go after them. To press in, doing the work day in and day out. Showing up, consistently, growing. Leaning over the garden of all you’re building, even when your back is aching. Inviting the right people to help, those who champion you and who stay when it gets turbulent. Too many of us, give up too easily. Yet, I promise you will see it sprouting into full bloom, if you just keep tending.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I am a photographer, published author/writer, and entrepreneur. I am most proud of how I’ve relentlessly gone after whats authentically in my heart and how I’ve held onto faith through some pretty brutal seasons. I’m 30 and I have started 7 different ventures in my 20’s, some still thriving. As well as, published my first poetry book “Iridescence”. I am an artist/writer at heart and am known, for how I can take any vision and bring it to life. I think what drives me most is the pursuit of intimacy, connection and unlocking potential. How writing has the unique ability to pull back the curtain of our hearts for someone to peak into and say, “oh my goodness, me too.” How photography captures the eternal beauty held within the mundane, that we could (and do, all too much) easily just pass by. It opens our eyes, it causes us to be present and reflects what matters most back to us. It connects us. The pursuit of intimacy is why I build entrepreneurially. Beautiful ideas are uncontainable and the story held within them connects us together. Ideas and dreams are worth acting on, for the pure sake that what originates in the human heart matters. Think of if Vincent Van Gogh stopped painting just because he never got recognized, devastating. It matters to me, to bring visions to life for the sake of connection and being seen. Life is created and held together by goodness far grander than we can comprehend and its unfolding is inside the human heart.

What are your plans for the future?
Currently, I am shooting photography and working intently on further building my creative agency, Club Vinify which is purposed to convert others dreams, visions and ideas into reality. As well as, writing on Substack until I begin working on my second book here in about another year. Which will be a Side B to my first book, Iridescence. The big change on the horizon is that I am looking to move from Dallas to Nashville, Tennessee where I am hopeful to connect with more artists, musicians and like-minded dreamers.

Pricing:

• website $2,500 up
• photography–wedding $3,200
• photography–album shoot $1000
• logo design $500

Contact Info:

• Website: www.clubvinify.com & www.micaelapfox.com
• Instagram: @micaela__fox
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/foxmicaela/