Women’s Entrepreneurship Day
What is it like to be a woman entrepreneur?
I’m assuming not much different than a man entrepreneur.😉
But in all seriousness , what is entrepreneurship to me?
It’s about finding your ✨spark✨, one day at a time.
It’s about Connecting, Creating, and Celebrating.
It’s about helping others tap back into their creative mind to solve problems the world has come to accept as the norm or too broken to fix.
It’s about bringing the world exactly what you know it needs. And kicking ass at it.
Life has never appeared linear to me. It’s a universe of endless possibilities that most don’t tap into. Sitting in stillness is a blessing and a curse. There is a lack of quiet and calm in my mind, a flood of ideas. And in that comes amazing innovation; and sometimes just taking action on what others spend more time talking about.
To me it’s a way of exploring the world and adapting while I take it all in, much like a chameleon. Then comes an awareness and a need to move forward and explore more. To some it seems “flighty”. To me it has created a worldview that’s been the incredible catalyst for my business.
Being called a natural is terrifying. While I am not ignorant to the compliment it’s intended as, to me it means conformity. That I fit into a box. And to a creative that feels suffocating. I’m not truly succeeding if I’m not feeling occasional discomfort or challenging my assumptions. That is what helps us grow.
I want challenges. I want to fail. I want to learn more. {and thank goodness I’ve figured out how to do it without any more student loans}.
I’ve been called a dreamer. Heard that my ideas are impossible. Been told that I don’t get it. And I just politely smile. Take a step forward. And turn that dream into a reality while showing that I do in fact “get it”, just in a way many minds are too closed to conceptualize.
People sometimes tell me how they wish they could be more like me, taking chances. My 14 year old self probably would have loved to realize the value others saw in me. Yet now, I hear that and like to stare awkwardly at people letting them know how much of them I aspire to be.
The only thing that may seem different about me is that I am an adult that has never stopped asking “why”. I’ve become far less afraid to take a leap. After going down a few damn hard roads in life you realize the biggest blessing and pathway to success is existing in a childlike wonder.
To all the women in business, mothers, and entrepreneurs; to the visionaries, dreamers, and doers, that paved the way, thank you.
To my daughter, may you find the value of your voice far before I did.
All it takes is One Spark.
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