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Register for your Free Membership for The Riveter Newsletter or Upgrade to a Subscription for the Impact Report Feature and gain full access! Join the Revolution! Already a Member/Subscriber: Login Here The Industry’s Best Advice is Already in the Bay Collision repair has never suffered from a shortage of opinions. Useful advice, however? That usually …
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Register for your Free Membership for The Riveter Newsletter or Subscribe for the Impact Report Newsletter and gain full access! Join the Revolution! Too Glossed to Care, Too Gritty to Quit: To the Future Collision DisruptHERs By Jannifer Stimmel-Watkins, Technical Editor If you knew how much the concept of “frame of mind” affects me from …
Sunday, March 29, 2026, 9:57am. I was up until 3am prepping Easter eggs for my 2-year-old to find next weekend – because apparently I like setting myself up for success on something a week in advance mere days before the debut of something huge; completely logical, right? – so I slept in only to wake up in a cold sweat with one word rattling around in my brain like a loose lug nut:
FAILURE.
In roughly 48 hours (give or take a panic spiral), Glossed & Gritty officially launches. I am excited. Ecstatic. Hopeful…and absolutely, completely, borderline-unwell levels of terrified (cue my therapist).
My hands are literally shaking as I type this. That might seem a bit dramatic, but it’s also – unfortunately – completely, totally 100% truthful and accurate.