Founding Mothers 

This woman even had the audacity to wear pants! She raised Stephanie’s mother, a small-town farm girl, who at the age of 22, left rural America with her new husband and flew 24 hours to live in Marrakesh, Morocco. Her parents’ wanderlust lifestyle worked out nicely for Stephanie, who was later born on the outskirts of Paris. After working her way through college in a steel mill (hard hat and steel-toed boots included) she piled her belongings into her bluebird-colored car that she purchased with her steel mill earnings and drove 1,300 miles away. (No radio or phone but lots of singing.)

As her 60th birthday approached, Stephanie decided she had the energy, passion and commitment to see another adventure through. In homage to her mother and grandmother and to leave a legacy for her daughters, granddaughters and the deep pool of women in Houston, she decided the time was right for her to launch her first entrepreneurial venture, SheSpace.

Stephanie’s mantra believes in the power of SHE. We will provide a home away from home to build a community of bold, intrepid and fearless women. We will push and lift each other to create, learn, inspire, and grow to be better tomorrow than we are today.

This girl has seldom slowed down since. While all the other girls were curled up reading, Katie fell in love with numbers and basketball, and went on to get a degree in mathematics.

An original from the beginning, she was decisively thrown off balance by the way women were undervalued in the work force. Imbedded in the local Oil and Gas industry she noticed how often women were overlooked for promotions, earned less for performing the exact same jobs as men and often sank into the sunset if they took maternity leave. In her very Katie-like way, she decided enough was enough, and joined forces with her mother-in-law (yes, that is correct and not a typo, like we said Katie is an original) to create a space designed by women for women where women can bond together to reach further, faster.