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Gregory Ducharme

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Good Medicine

About:

  • Good Medicine is a brand that consists of vintage furniture mixed with contemporary design.
  • http://www.goodmedicine.store
  • @good.medicine

How are you using your experience and passion?

Gregory: I’ve learned a lot along the way about antiques. There is a lot of furniture and home décor that has been discarded and I’ve learned to restore it and give it a new life with my own spin. I’ve always been interested in design. I’m a maker, a designer, a collector. I like to take all these things and mold them into one neat little package that is Good Medicine.

“I’m a maker, a designer, a collector. I like to take all these things and mold them into one neat little package that is Good Medicine.”

What did you take away from your experience at BUILD?

Gregory: I joined BUILD Institute to get a better financial understanding of my business. However, the support from the community and hearing everyone’s varying ideas really opened my mind up to learning a lot more about owning a business.

“I’ve learned to restore it and kind of give it a new life with my own spin.”

How do you bring new life to furniture and home décor?

Gregory: There are some objects that don’t need any help and they can be left alone, but there’s a lot of stuff out there that gets discarded. It’s got great bones and I hate to see it be thrown away so I reupholster it and refinish the wood. It really gives me a close connection with each individual object and ups its game. It makes it contemporary and something really unique that no one else has.

To the BUILD Institute Community,

On behalf of the BUILD Institute Board of Directors, we want to share that the Board has made the decision to pause operations at the end of 2025.

We recognize that we are living in a time of great uncertainty for small business support organizations across Michigan. This moment offers us an opportunity to reassess how BUILD delivers on its mission, retool our programming, and evaluate new partnership opportunities and our overall business model to ensure long-term sustainability and impact.

In the coming months, we will continue all scheduled programming through December to ensure that all commitments to entrepreneurs and partners are honored. During this time, we will also explore new ways to align our work with the evolving needs of our community, including our network of over 3,000 alums.

Please join us in showing appreciation for the team members and facilitators who have served Detroit’s entrepreneurs and supported BUILD’s mission since our founding in 2012.

If you have any questions about this decision or what it means in the near term, please email us at [email protected].

Thank you for your continued support and for being part of BUILD’s legacy of inclusive entrepreneurship.

With gratitude,
The BUILD Institute Board of Directors