‘Good Bones’ co-star growing business brand
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowMina Starsiak Hawk has become a household name thanks to her HGTV show “Good Bones,” currently in its seventh season. But Hawk, who was named to the inaugural Indiana 250 by IBJ Media, is going solo with her own spinoff show, “Good Bones: Risky Business,” which premieres next month. That’s on top of running her own retail business on the near south side of Indianapolis.
Hawk talked about her new series and business growth with Around INdiana reporter Mary-Rachel Redman.
“Good Bones: Risky Business” focuses on Hawk’s efforts to revitalize what she says is one of the oldest homes in Indianapolis, located in the Fountain Square neighborhood southeast of downtown Indy.
“This home has changed hands [from] probably half a dozen investors in the last decade, maybe, and they would start a little work, and then there’d be a problem, or they were out of state and there were squatters,” she said. “It was set on fire a couple times. So, it’s definitely a little bit different now.”
The property totals about 6,700 square feet between the main house and carriage house, and Hawk says the investment to renovate the property is more than $1 million.
For comparison, she says an average renovation on “Good Bones” is about $300,000 for a 1,200-1,400-square-foot home.
In addition to her two TV shows, Hawk also co-owns Two Chicks District Co., which sells a variety of home decor items and furnishings, as well as a bistro. She says opening the store was a difficult process.
“It’s a lot of moving parts, and retail’s tough, particularly brick and mortar,” she said. “We opened a brick-and-mortar [store] in the middle of COVID. It was our two-year anniversary in June. Particularly, given those circumstances, the store’s doing really well.”
Hawk is also making an impact on women by speaking out on issues that many don’t like to talk about such as infertility.
“When I started talking about things and got thousands of messages from women saying, ‘Thank you for talking about this. It makes me feel better about XYZ,’ or ‘It makes me feel like I can talk about this,” because that’s something that’s easy for me, I will do that. I didn’t really realize how many people really struggle talking about infertility or babies or plastic surgery or weight loss or weight gain or being a woman in the construction [industry].”
“Good Bones: Risky Business” premieres September 6.