In Part 1 of our two-part conversation, we sit down with Michaela Weisskirchner-Barfod, founder of Fabelab - one of Scandinavia’s most beloved children’s lifestyle brands. Michaela shares how she went from a steady career in architecture to building a global creative brand and business she never planned for. She opens up about outgrowing a path that once made perfect sense, the challenges of starting something new, navigating the realities of scaling growth, and the impact COVID had on both her direction and the evolution of Fabelab.

Part 1 is an honest, grounded look at reinvention, courage, and what it really takes to begin again from a founder’s point of view - even when the next step isn’t fully clear.