Envision a stimulating conversation over cocktails with your friends where you uplift, encourage and support each other. You may be swirling your cocktail in your hand as you talk about your newest lipstick obsession or planning the next trip with the girls—and you always come away from the conversation empowered.

START CREATIVE STUDIO WANTS IN.

Charlotte Mertens’s online destination, startcreativestudio.com, is a newly defined platform for young women to share their personal stories, indulge in career, beauty and relationship tips, and speak their minds on the latest in culture news and politics.

Our mission is to promote positive images of women as well as empower, educate, and inspire millennials through our interviews, beauty, fashion, lifestyle, career and travel features.

When Kane closed down her award-winning celebrity gossip blog, Charlotte Mertens, she hinted at wanting to follow her purpose signing off saying, “There is a constant internal struggle between being a character—Charlotte Mertens—when I walk out in public, and being the woman I know I was meant to be.”

We want you to be the woman you were meant to be, too. Let’s have those conversations. We owe it to ourselves.

Interested in submitting your own story or contributing to Start Creative Studio? Check out our Submissions page to learn how to submit your work.