Mina Starsiak Hawk is moving on from in-person retail.
The former “Good Bones” star closed the only remaining location of her brick-and-mortar shop, Two Chicks District Co., in the Indianapolis suburbs.
In an interview with the local newspaper, the Indianapolis Star Tribune, Starsiak Hawk said that the home furnishings store wasn’t profitable enough to stay open.
“By the time it came to make a decision to stay, I just couldn’t … we were losing money,” Starsiak Hawk told the paper.
Starsiak Hawk — who rose to fame with her mother and TV co-star Karen Laine — had already shuttered the original location of their home goods in Indianapolis’ trendy Fountain Square neighborhood back in 2023.
In a post to social media, Starsiak Hawk said fans would still be able to shop online on the Two Chicks District Co. website.
Starsiak Hawk has been in headlines lately for her ongoing rift with her family. In an episode of her podcast, “Mina AF”, Starsiak Hawk opened up about how she intended to share her side of the story surrounding her family after wrapping her longtime HGTV show.
In an episode shared on Aug. 5, Starsiak Hawk revealed that she felt like she “existed in a bubble” while filming the TV show and felt “confined by the narrow definition of who I was.”
She went on to say that the podcast ended up being “more problematic” because the people she “wanted to understand the bigger picture aren’t the people that listen to this podcast.”
After her episodes would drop, Starsiak Hawk said, media would pick up “clickbait articles.”
“Then the people that I am trying to have understand more just read the headline on the clickbait article and think even worse about me,” she said. “And that’s been tough.”
Starsiak Hawk went on to say that she felt like the podcast has made her closer to loyal fans but has been more of a “double-edged sword” for her public-facing personality.
“Just on a very human level, it’s hard not to care what people think about you,” she said.
“The amount of comments that are just not nice about me, not nice to me, it’s most of them, it’s a huge chunk of them, which is really hard to hear,” she said. “I always try to find where my personal responsibility is in whatever situation, no matter how unfair it feels…’OK, enough people are saying this about me so what do I need to reflect on?'”
“There are so many things that I can use to excuse what these people think …but at the end of the day, it still sucks. it still hurts,” she continued. “I’ve made my life public, I made that choice, so I’m kind of out there for public comment and I really just shouldn’t read it.”
Starsiak Hawk revealed that as of early August, she was still wrapping up two home renovation projects that had not been profitable and looking for her next opportunity.
“Other than that, I don’t know what I am doing. I don’t know what job I am doing, how I’m making money and it’s super stressful,” she said, noting that in the past, she would just keep working hard to make ends meet.
“If I need more money, if I want to do something, whatever, I’ll just keep working. And I’ve worked so hard and so fast the last eight years, I haven’t really had to think about it.”
She said that financially, it doesn’t make sense to keep renovating homes or build on the empty lots she owns.
“Right now, doing what I love doing, financially doesn’t make sense to do,” she said, noting the podcast also doesn’t make money.
“Everyone did all their projects during COVID, construction was booming. Now people don’t have as much expendable income and they’re not stuck in their homes staring at the kitchen that they hate. Life has gone on.”