Mina Starsiak Hawk Is ‘Still Scared and Anxious a Lot of the Time’ After ‘Hardest’ Year

Mar. 15, 2025

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Mina Starsiak Hawkis answering fans’ questions about the life changes she’s made since her long-running series,Good Bones,came to an end in October.

Starsiak Hawk went on to say that she still doesn’t feel “settled” or like she’s in the “next phase” of her life.

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“I’m still scared and anxious a lot of the time, but I know where I want to land (at least personally) and am just working towards that,” she continued. “And trying to not screw up along the way. We’ll see where my career lands once I get a good handle on the rest.”

When someone else wanted to know “the best and worst outcome” of the recent changes, Starsiak Hawk replied that the worst is “being misunderstood.”

“People fill in the blanks based on their own personal experiences I’ve found, not typically with facts,” she added.

However, the best is that the Band-Aid “has been ripped off.”

“The hardest part is done,” she explained. “I get to make new choices or re-choose things I had fallen out of love with. Getting to choose my store again is a privilege and one I’m excited about.”

Starsiak Hawkrevealed to PEOPLElast month that she’s looking forward to  “a nice fresh start” as she’s planning to reopen her recently closed Indianapolis store, 2 Chicks District Co., in a new city.

Its next incarnation will be in Noblesville, Indiana, about 30 miles north of Indianapolis.

Mina and husband Steve Hawk, who share 5-year-old son Jack and 3-year-old daughter Charlie, are even looking at homes to renovate there.

Another fan asked whether having a show and a business ever overwhelmed Mina.

In a December episode of her podcast,Mina AF,she shared that she’d been“feeling funky”following a work-related disappointment.

After opening up abut an opportunity she thought was a sure thing falling through, she said, “When I get in that space, I realize what is happening is I’m just doing a lot of comparison to a lot of people that I shouldn’t,” she said. “I’m making so many changes and so many decisions and not knowing if they’re the right ones or the good ones or the ones that are going to backfire.”

She continued, “I’m just constantly questioning everything I do, or don’t do. And every once in a while it just kind of gets to me when I am feeling a little bit, I don’t know, I guess vulnerable. I let that outside s— creep in."

Mina — who’s been candid about her falling out with her mom and costarKaren E. Laineand her brother Tad —acknowledged the challengesthat came with finding fame on the show in a previous episode of her podcast released ahead ofGood Bones’ series finale.

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“I think I knew … that this was going to be hard and it was going to challenge relationships, because when you put anything under a spotlight, in a pressure cooker, there’s the opportunity to explode,” she said. “And I myself am not stable enough to not explode at times."

source: people.com