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About Morgan

‘Meant for more’. It just took me a few years to believe it.

Portrait of Morgan Bartow, founder of Mosie Kate Kollective

I grew up around home building. My Dad is a general contractor, and that’s where I first fell in love with design and the way a space comes together. So starting my career in custom home building in Minnesota, coordinating luxury builds, made sense on paper.

I had a few roles over those years, and each one looked like more opportunity than it turned out to hold. The growth I was told to expect never showed up, and neither did the room to use what I’m best at. I am a creative. I see how something should look and I want to be the one to make it. Instead I was coordinating other people’s projects and pulling the same handful of photos off a server, wishing someone would just let me run with it.

It took me a while to see the pattern, and to be clear, it wasn’t the people. It was that I kept trying to grow in a lane that was never mine. Home building gave me my eye and my love of a good story. It just wasn’t where I was meant to use them.

Black and white photo of Morgan Bartow filming on her phone Morgan Bartow holding a laptop

The shift came from my parents. I told them I was unhappy and didn’t know what was next, and he said, why don’t you just start your own thing and do that for people. It took someone saying it out loud for me to believe it. That was the whole business, right there.

Mosie Kate is my childhood nickname, the one my family gave me and the one that never left. So when I finally built something of my own, putting that name on it wasn’t a branding decision. It was personal. It’s the most me thing I’ve ever done!

Meant for more

One phrase had been following me around for months: meant for more. I stopped waiting for a job to prove it and bet on myself instead.

Morgan Bartow filming content on her phone by a window

What I believe

What I think about social media

That’s why I care so much about the businesses I take on. I know what it feels like to be good at something and watch it go unseen. I’m not going to let that happen to yours.

Most business owners treat social media like it’s optional. It isn’t. If you’re not investing in it, it’s not neutral, it’s working against you.

The good news is it’s not hard when someone with an eye is running it. You don’t even have to have the ideas. That’s what I’m for!

If that sounds like the kind of person you want in your corner, let's talk.