Brylee Williams
Junior - Digital Communications / Journalism
I always dreamed of having my own small business, so finally in the summer of 2023, I launched my very own business Golden Honey Designs. Golden Honey Designs is a custom boutique that provides handmade accessories for women and girls at an affordable price. We specialize in sustainable accessories that are cute and trendy. I started by selling paintings but then moved into selling hats, monogrammed pouches, greeting cards, and bracelets. I plan to continue selling my art and accessories until I graduate in 2026. After that, I plan to get my masters in business, and I’m saving up to invest in a storefront. I would like to open a store here in Jackson that is a combination of a café and a boutique. I would like to specialize in selling quality tea, coffee, and sweets, while also offering handmade art and accessories from creators here in the Jackson community.
Austin Marlow
Eagle Staining Company
Sophomore - Pyschology
I started in December 2022. We stain fences, decks, pergolas. Last summer we started house painting—exterior and interior. My business has grown a lot over the past three years. I have a team that I contract out on some bigger jobs. For smaller jobs I also have teams—friends from high school and church—that I hire to help. The reason I started this business was to help pay for a car for college and to help pay for college itself.
Rebecca Powers
Senior - Marketing
May 2024 I opened up Bec’s Boutique, which is an online women’s clothing store. Right now it’s strictly through social media, and I have a website in the works. My goal is to open up a storefront after I graduate and move back home to Martin, Tennessee. Bec’s is a women’s clothing store. It has clothing items, accessories, and jewelry. And my goal with Bec’s is to eventually partner with places to use it as a ministry opportunity, whether that’s through partnering with a nonprofit and giving part of my earnings to them or partnering with a place and selling their products in my store, but it is important to me that it be a ministry, too.
Morgan Daniel
Janis Creed Photography
Junior - Zoology
Morgan is the creator of Janis Creed Photography. Through photography, her goal is to share with others the beautiful creatures that God has created, in all stages of life and seasons. She aspires to one day work with wild or exotic animals and to show why they are so amazing through photography!
She founded Janis Creed Photography because she wanted to give others the opportunity to see animals the way she does, full of life and uniqueness as God made each one himself and knows every one of them. Each photo in her shop has been mounted on a mat board and signed with the title, each one assembled and inspected by hand. All of the photos currently offered depict local wildlife, either around campus or nearby parks!
Amelia taphorn
Amelia Taphorn Books
Freshman - Film Studies
Amelia loves writing books. She wrote her first novel, Solum’s Wand, when she was 13. The story stuck with her, so she wrote a sequel, and is currently working on completing the series with a third volume.
Amelia enjoys writing about dynamic friends, magical realms, and Christian truths. Her mission with each book is to explain God’s love for His people through a magical story.