05/06/2024
🎈 5 years ago today on my 22nd birthday, I launched my website under the name “Nathia by Nathia Wray”, which has now evolved in to the Human Resource as we know it today. I created this brand with the intent to give others some of the tools and support I myself wished I had. One year in, we navigated the pandemic alongside all the rest of you, and were somehow still able to stay afloat through the madness. Two years in (2021), I unfortunately, began facing health struggles, which persisted until the end of 2023. I just want to say thank you so much to those of you who have supported me from the beginning, those of you who are new to the HR community and all of you in between. Thank you for sticking with me during my year and a half hiatus when I was forced to take time off in order heal my body. Thank you to those of you have invested your time, resources, energy and love into me and my brand. Thank you to those of you who have provided me with opportunities and given my brand a space outside of simply being online. Thank you to those of you who cheer me on, who share my creations, who wear my creations, there are so many many instances in which this has felt so surreal; that out of nothing, I was able create not just a brand but a community. Seeing photos of my clothing under your Christmas trees, having people come up to me, excited to meet me, having already known of my brand. Having heart-to-heart with some of you at pop-up shops in markets, to now being able to allow you all to shop our designs in store . Thank you all for giving my brand a chance, for believing in me, for being patient with me as I operate as a “one-woman-band”. Thank you for allowing me room to grow. Thank you for being a part of this community. There are so many more amazing things to come and in the works, and I’m so excited to share them with you. I am so proud of this space, not even because I built it, but because of the beautiful souls it has attracted. Each and everyone of you are just so kind hearted and loving, and the fact that that is the type of energy that my brand is drawing in, affirms to me that I’m doing the right thing. I am so very grateful. Thank you.