Why HGTV star Mina Starsiak Hawk closed her Indianapolis store after just 7 months

Mina Starsiak Hawk is moving away from personal retail sales.

The former “Good Bones” star has closed the only remaining location of her brick-and-mortar store, Two Chicks District Co., in suburban Indianapolis.

In an interview with local newspaper the Indianapolis Star Tribune, Starsiak Hawk said the home furnishings store was not profitable enough to remain open.

“Before I made the decision to stay, I just couldn’t… we were losing money,” Starsiak Hawk told the newspaper.

Starsiak Hawk, who rose to fame alongside her mother and TV star Karen Laine, closed the original homewares location in Indianapolis’ trendy Fountain Square neighborhood in 2023.

In a social media post, Starsiak Hawk said fans will still be able to shop online at the Two Chicks District Co. website.

Starsiak Hawk has been making headlines recently due to her ongoing rift with her family. In an episode of her podcast “Mina AF,” Starsiak Hawk talked about how she plans to share her side of the story surrounding her family after her long-running HGTV show ends.

In an episode shared on August 5, Starsiak Hawk revealed that while filming the TV show, she felt like she “existed in a bubble” and felt “limited by a narrow definition of who I am.”

She went on to say that the podcast turned out to be “more problematic” because the people she “wanted to understand from a broader perspective are not the people who listen to it.”

Starsiak Hawk said that after her episodes end, the media will start picking up “clickbait articles.”

“Then the people I’m trying to understand just read the headline of the clickbait article and think even less of me,” she said. – And it was difficult.

Starsiak Hawk added that she felt like the podcast brought her closer to her loyal fans, but was more of a “double-edged sword” to her public persona.

“From a very human perspective, it’s hard not to care what people think about you,” she said.

“The amount of comments that are just plain mean about me, mean to me, that’s the majority, that’s a huge portion that’s really hard to hear,” she said. “I always try to determine where my personal responsibility lies in any situation, no matter how unfair it seems… ‘OK, enough people say that about me, so what do I need to think about?'”

“There are so many things I can use to justify what these people think… but in the end it still sucks. It still hurts,” she continued. “I’ve made my life public, I’ve made this decision, so I’m kind of waiting for public comment, but I really shouldn’t be reading this.”

Starsiak Hawk revealed that in early August she was still finishing two home renovation projects that were not profitable and was looking for another opportunity.

“Besides, I don’t know what I’m doing. I don’t know what job I’m doing, how I’m making money, and it’s very stressful,” she said, noting that in the past, she just had to work hard to make ends meet.

“If I need more money, if I want to do something, anything, I’ll just keep working. And for the last eight years, I’ve been working so hard and so fast that I haven’t really had to think about it.”

She stated that it did not make financial sense to continue renovating houses or building on empty plots of land she owned.

“Right now it doesn’t make financial sense to do what I love,” she said, noting that the podcast also doesn’t make any money.

“During the pandemic, everyone was implementing all their projects, construction was booming. Now people don’t have as much income to spend and they don’t sit at home staring at a kitchen they hate. Life goes on.”

This article was originally published on TODAY.com