Dec. 7, 2022
Downtown’s longest running boutique soon could have a new owner.
Chelsea Giedd, owner of Chelsea’s Boutique, has put the store on the market to focus on her next career path.
In a deeply personal announcement, Giedd shared that she has been working through multiple traumas from her past that led her to focus on a life outside of retail.
The store, which she started as a 20-year-old in Chamberlain, “was my first baby,” she said. “It’s hard. It has not been easy at all, and I’m going to grieve this for a while, but I also know I’m being called to something different, and the store is ready for a new leader. It’s not that I’m not passionate about it; it’s just that things have changed and shifted.”
Now a mother, Giedd spends part of her time at home while focusing about 90 percent of her business time on her second venture, My Purposeful Life, where she uses her skills as a Reiki master healer and…