Jessica: Being a military spouse, it's a very special kind of life. It's a hard life, but I really don't think I would trade it for the world. As soon as you get to a place and you start feeling that comfort and you start feeling like this feels like home, it's time to go again. When we move, I'm going to have to start everything over. We're going to have to find new friends. We're going to have to find a new house. Everything we're going to have to start over, but I get to take this stability of R. Riveter with me.

Lisa: R. Riveter is a company that was started by military spouses to empower and engage other military spouses across the country as they move with the military. R. Riveter makes canvas and other handbags but we make the handbags in support of military spouses. Parts and pieces are made by military spouses across the country wherever the military takes them. They're sewing liners, cutting the leather, making a canvas shell that eventually is sewn into an R. Riveter handbag.

Cameron: Lisa and I met when our husbands were stationed in Dahlonega, Georgia, which is the mountain phase of Ranger School. We knew that we had to do something for ourselves. If we were going to have anything at all as military spouses we were going to have to make it, and if we can do something for ourselves and other military spouses, that's a success. So we actually had the mission, the why first, and then the handbags came later.

Jessica: Right now I actually make the canvas part of the bags, and the canvas part is the outside of the bag. I do it from home. Starting with R. Riveter made me feel very independent. It helped me to know that I was actually contributing to my family. Not that I wasn't contributing before, but it was a different kind of contribution to the family. I'm not just at home doing dishes or laundry or cleaning up toys. I'm doing something that's a part of a company that's empowering military spouses.

Cameron: The idea of having riveters was part of the fundamental reason why we started R. Riveter. It was the idea that we knew military spouses needed not just flexible working environments, but mobile working environments. Once all the parts are shipped from the military spouses' location, we receive them in North Carolina. We built a 5,000-square-foot assembly fab shop, and we have about 20 employees working there to create the bags.

Lisa: At R. Riveter, it's a connection of people that all have a commonality of helping our country and being an American and what it means to truly be a military family here in America. So when a handbag is made at R. Riveter it's that connection between each and every one of those military spouses that takes part in creating that handbag and what it means to be a military spouse.

Jessica: I've now been kind of welcomed into this R. Riveter community where it's a family. It's a family of people who just kind of get each other. It's people supporting each other with things going on in their personal life. Everybody just enjoys each other and likes each other, and it's like we all take pride in working for R. Riveter. A lot of people I think sometimes really do focus on [how hard it is] for a military spouse, and it is. But I think a lot of the times it's us keeping it together for everyone else.