My Story…

I feel like I have been an entrepreneur all my life. From selling greeting cards door-to-door when I was 8 to having a vision of forming a craft supply import company, my mind was always swimming with business ideas.

The problem was, I had no idea how to go about starting a real business! I didn’t have a college degree (I rectified that later in life) and the more I put off pursuing my dream, the less I believed it to be possible. After all, who did I think I was anyway? No education, no skills, and no bank account to hire a bunch of people to do it for me.

Despite these roadblocks, I forged ahead in baby steps. I went the MLM route and became a Mary Kay consultant where I learned foundational things about sales and customer service. I also built a successful craft business where I learned valuable business basics on pricing, marketing and presentation.

As time progressed, my faith and trust in myself waned. I longed for encouraging words and assistance from “someone” to show me the way and never once believed I already had what was needed inside of myself.

Then one day I made a SIMPLE DECISION. After several years of internal struggle, I made a decision that changed the course of my life forever. In 1989 I decided to go back to school and learn about computers. I knew that foreign contraption sitting on my desk was going to revolutionize how we did business and wanted to explore my creative juices through that medium.

Then I met my second husband, Daniel. Through his loving guidance and support, I began to trust myself again. He helped me believe in myself that I could do anything I set my sights on. The newly empowered “me” was finally emerging after years of self-pity and unworthiness…

However, by this time I was working for corporate 12-14 hour days, 6-7 days a week and only getting paid for 40 hours a week. I loved what I was doing as it was in the web development world, but as Daniel kept pointing out: why was I working so hard for so little in return?

As fate would have it, that job ended a year and a half later and I immediately knew I didn’t want to go back to something like that again. So I decided to go back to school and earn a business degree with a concentration in Computer Information Systems.

This time my intention was to become a “Chief Information Officer” where I could be telling someone ELSE to work the long hours while I lived the easy and luxurious life of an executive. Haha!