I built my company out of my lived experience as a pumping mom who just needed a better bag. Like so many small businesses, it started at my kitchen table—bootstrapped, fueled by grit and purpose, with no big investors behind me.

But today, it’s not innovation or hard work that determines whether I survive—it’s tariffs.

Small businesses like mine are carrying the cost of global trade policies we had no voice in. I’m not a multinational corporation with teams of lobbyists. I’m a mom, an employer, and someone trying to make life better for parents—while barely holding the line myself.

That’s why I’m speaking up. Because when small businesses get crushed, communities lose. Moms lose. And the economy loses something human, something hopeful, and something worth protecting.

This isn’t just my story—it’s the reality for millions of us.