Alma Wolverton
“Thank you for shopping”
Time: 10:15am
Session 1-05 (Room: TBD)
After a decade in business, Alma is sharing her story on her journey in entrepreneurship, the challenges that motherhood has played in her life, and her desire to help women look, and feel their best. “Just like the abs we all have hidden in each and every one of our bodies… fashion can be for everyone too.” Alma was diagnosed with social phobia at a very young age. The education system at the time had proposed speech therapy since Spanish was her first native language and, a cause for social anxiety. “I was good at hiding in a restroom during my lunch breaks and during recess…basically any time the school gave me as a child to avoid contact with others.”
During her pre-teen years, Alma’s parents enrolled her in a modeling and acting school. “Modeling wasn’t a pursuit of vanity, but rather it was a desperate attempt that my parents took to help me interact with others.” She was lucky because modeling then paved the way to the career she has now in fashion. Alma was a student at this modeling and acting school and was subsequently offered a job as an instructor when she turned sixteen years of age. It is safe to say that Alma has been celebrating women for a very long time.
After college graduation, marriage, and kids Alma took on her dream of starting a business. “My father was an entrepreneur. He was, and continues to be fearless, but my mother had the discipline and the smarts to run the business; they could not do it without one another. I was lucky because I inherited the two very best parts of them.” Parents are not perfect; I have heard the famous motivational speaker Tony Robbins say if you are going to blame your parents for the bad
make sure you blame them for the good too. I could not do this life without the gifts that my parents passed down to me.
At 27 years of age, Alma opened her first business… “I had this idea…I suppose…one that many have when starting out a business and thought it would be a part time job initially, but I could work my own hours and call it a day,” (Laughs) Little did she realize, running a business is far, far from that. It has been ten years and Mrs. Wolverton claims she is never ‘not working’; however, she is doing something she absolutely loves. “My job does not feel like a job on most days. I love that I get to meet new people every day… I love hearing the updates on their life… I love that I get the privilege in knowing who they are even if it is in a small way. I have community in the most unexpected of ways, and I am so proud to share my gifts with everyone.”
The last two years have been everything, but normal. So, tune in on how the pandemic has impacted the fashion industry. Get to know your body and style with a discussion and presentation on body types, dressing for all life events and the joy you can obtain in styling every moment. Discover your unique style with an audience Q&A on fashion tips and raffle prizes you do not want to miss.
XOXO -Alma
