Hanah is not an idea but a purpose!
Hello! My name is Ric Basanese, a friend of Christine and Megan. I had the honor and delight to meet Christine and Megan over the past few years, and was struck by their story! It is a story of immense challenge and transformation, strong vision and giving back to those in need. It starts with a way-too-early, cancer diagnosis. Christine, a young, married woman, thriving fashion executive, having just given birth to her first child, learned a short time later she was facing terminal cancer! Like so many with this diagnosis, she experienced shock, fear, despair. Even guilt, believe it or not, as the weight of her son growing up without a mother took hold.
Instead of allowing herself to get swept up in all the fear, anger, and hopelessness cancer entails, she chose to surrender, find love in herself and live – ‘NOW’! She started to live every day with her full potential. And in so doing she shifted her way of being and joy followed! Joy?! Yes joy, coming from surrendering to her circumstances without fear, reigniting a love for herself and her body and living in immense gratitude for what she has and her willingness to shift and indeed heal! And as Christine says, “healing is contagious!” So why not heal others?
Excited about the possibility of creating products to help cancer patients like herself, Christine pulled in her close friend, Megan, and dreamed ‘Hanah’ (HAN-ah - A as in “father”) into existence. Instead of choosing a name for this endeavor, it chose them!
This is the story of Hanah. To carry that purpose out in service to others. As Christine says, “We are building the first-ever fashion brand, 'Hanah,' to serve people in their healing journeys by offering empowering fashion products. Our vision is to not only offer the very much-needed fashion products, but a joyful experience to chemo patients and beyond, transforming their lives to be filled with the care, dignity and worthiness they deserve, while inside and outside hospital treatments and surgeries.”