Celebrating 8 years of Good Stuff Partners.

This week marks our eight-year anniversary here at Good Stuff Partners.

A marker we didn't know we'd make when we first set up shop at one end of our dining table back in 2013. It was nerve-wracking to say the least, not knowing if anyone would see the value of working with a purpose-driven agency, especially if they didn't even know what one was.

Although we'd learned a ton from the brands we'd built in our previous lives, we didn't want to spend a minute more working on stuff we didn't believe in. That gets old after a while.

But sticking to your guns on day one is a tough thing to do when you've got bills to pay and we were either brave or naive or maybe a little of both. What we discovered was that our gut was right, and there were other folks out there, just like ourselves, that didn't particularly want to partner with people that didn't believe in the same things as them. They just didn't have much choice before, so they were happy to find us, and that made us happy too.

Each year, we'd meet more and more cool people, often because the cool people we were working with introduced us to other cool people, and our community of cool partners kept growing.

Now that we look back at how far we've come, we owe an immense debt of gratitude to the people who put their faith in us to build their brands, and who rolled up their sleeves to work with us side-by-side. Some of those partners we now call friends, and it makes us so proud to see their nonprofits and companies continue to grow and create a real difference for people, animals, and the planet.

Eight years ago, we really couldn't have asked for anything more.