"I'm getting all these messages... "
Oh. My. Goodness!!
Something is happening at my end and I wanted to reach out and tell you all about it!
I’m going to apologise right up front as this is going to be a long post but, if you can stay awake long enough to stay with me to the end(!) I will be eternally grateful…
The other day I stayed up for 36 hours without even getting a teeny bit tired! I was cleaning like a crazy woman and ideas were popping out of me every minute! I felt like I was nesting! Like I was about to give birth and it was sooo cool!
That night I wrote the basic skeleton of a book and content ideas and strategies are written all over the place now too!! My whiteboards are covered, I’ve created a new vision board… the house is spotless… it’s like that night time stopped for me and all this stuff kind of HAPPENED!!!!
I felt like I’d been plugged into some kind of ULTIMATE power source and like I was literally downloading all this information without even thinking about it while simultaneously cleaning out the icky stuff and making it all fresh and new!!! LOL!
Ok… so you already know, I’m a Social Marketer and my private clients have generated around £700,000 in additional revenue in the last 18 months… I seem to be pretty good at this stuff but I’ve taken the plunge knowing that it’s time for me to find ways to take myself out of the ‘trading time for money’ scenario so I can still help people get results AND so I can put it all into practice for myself instead of making other people lots of money and not being able to make MY OWN difference… which is working with MOTHERS!
After my mentor Dr Joanna Martin suggested I take the Wealth Dynamics test and I realised I’m a Creator Profile – I took the first step and created my first product with my friend and partner Yvette Taylor. So that now means anyone who wants to create a Social Strategy can now do so for £497 instead of anything up to the £2,500 price tag that it can cost to have a professional do it for you!
This will leverage my time, allow me to serve more people, hopefully make more money and make a difference too…
What I love most about what I do is showing people how to become that business at the centre of a community – like the old village sweet shop was in days gone by… I love recreating the energy from a time when your customers were not just people who spent their money with you but people who you considered your COMMUNITY – friends, family… people you’d do anything to support… I love creating a movement online!
But I’m still just a baby in the business world ladies! And actually I’ve not done ANY of the stuff I teach FOR MYSELF – I’ve only done it for other people!!! Now it’s time to get it working for MY MISSION IN THE WORLD! 
Rewinding a little bit here I only actually started this journey in business around 18 months or so ago while I was on benefits and living on beans on toast!! I had been living with my husband and our son and a very big pregnant tummy containing my daughter at my parents house in one tiny room struggling to makes ends meet after my husband was declared bankrupt a few years before… and we lost our livelihood, our home… and everything we had basically…
All we had was each other and things got really hard for a while.
My hubby had taken a big knock and became very depressed. We hardly saw each other and when we did we argued because we were both so stressed and unhappy. All the life had been knocked out of my hubby, he felt useless and unable to provide for his family even though he was working as many hours as he could. This was the only income we had as we have two little ones to care for so I was the ‘at home mummy’… trying to be strong and positive for my children AND for my husband but inside me something was stirring.
Things eventually completely fell apart and we ended up on benefits and I woke up one morning a different person. Like I did when I became a mother. I was just different. Do you know that feeling?
I looked around me in wonder at the craziness of the situation we were in! Here we were, two intelligent people with a positive contribution to make in the world… struggling to even feed our children and keep the roof over our heads! And I knew I wanted to give our children a better life than this… I wanted to give our children the BEST life! We both did! This was not what I wanted their experience of early childhood to be!
So I just got up and started up my own business as a Social Media Manager and within 12 weeks I was earning around £4k a month. My services were in high demand which was great in one way but it also meant I ended up working too long hours and eventually it became very apparent that I had to change things because having an AWOL mummy was also not what I wanted for my children!
I wasn’t happy being in front of the computer all day. I’m a people and nature girl… I need to be outdoors lots… I need to be meeting people and talking and learning and growing in all areas of my life and I felt I’d hit a ceiling!
Right now, I’m getting the feeling that the journey I’ve been on the last year or so has been the universes way of helping me change my way of thinking about what is possible.
Coming from a background as an employee who never even considered the possibility of running a business, it was a big leap in thinking to realise I could make good money doing something I enjoyed from home at all! This is what the last year has taught me because now my thinking is MUCH MUCH bigger!
I have dreams of making the world a better place, I dream of creating a 7 figure business that makes people HAPPY within the next 3 years… and this is all stuff my mind couldn’t even conceive 12 months ago… so it’s been a big growth period. I’ve overcome a lot of limiting beliefs.
Also – I KNOW that being a mother has given me a certain something as an Entrepreneur. This is something I am just so incredibly passionate about! I talk to anyone who’ll listen to me about the creative power, resourcefulness and focus that being a mother gives you… as you probably already know being that you’re here on my site reading this!
My dream is to help other mothers overcome their limiting beliefs too. Many entrepreneurial mothers feel that they can’t possibly have it all – they feel as though they have to choose between their family or their business but I TOTALLY disagree.
They also live with a LOT of guilt about being in business but actually… I see SHINING and fulfilling your true potential, living your passion as a DUTY if you are an entrepreneurial mother!
My business journey is now completely integrated with my parenting journey. I have a very deeply held belief that if we want what is best for our children (and who doesn’t?) we have to teach them to live happy and fulfilled lives by leading by example and doing it ourselves! How can an unhappy, unfulfilled mummy bring up happy, fulfilled children who love themselves, each other and the planet?
Anyway… I’m getting all these amazing signs from the universe and it’s really making me sit up and take notice!!
My website isn’t even really ready yet (those of you who are here with me from the very start will see lots of tweaks happening over the next few weeks… and I’ve not really started marketing at all) but nevertheless lots of ladies are starting to subscribe to my list and it’s starting to grow organically… which is forcing me to start communicating with the women on that list… and as I’ve started to do that… things have started happening…
I’m getting daily requests for help in finding the self belief to do what I’ve done and just go for it and set up in business… I am being asked how to find the strength and courage to put yourself out there and commit to growth… and the other biggies are questions about dealing with guilt and how to manage time effectively… and here’s the weird thing – the other night I literally wrote a book on all this stuff overnight!
Yeah sure, it needs a lot of editing and proofreading but it’s all there – a mixture of my own experience, women I’d love interview who have already been successful in balancing family and business life … and all the stuff I’ve learnt attending courses and seminars and investing in mentoring and reading books and going to conferences… just EVERYTHING I’ve done in the last 18 months!!!
I feel like I’m being called!! What is going on? I have NEVER felt like this before… have you ever felt like this? I’d love to hear about it if you have!
This stuff just lights me up!!!! I’ll be honest, I’d just not really factored this into happening right now… but it’s like I can’t stop! It has a life of it’s own!
But here’s my big thing though… the Devil on my shoulder keeps on telling me that I need to be more successful than I am now in order to be able to give any advice to other mothers. I mean, I’ve literally just peeled back all the layers of my business and I’m starting again in 2012… I FEEL like I need a 6 or 7 figure business under my belt before I start supporting other mums with this stuff…
The angel on the other shoulder says that’s a load of old Poop of course… but the devil is really having a go at getting under my skin I can tell you!
You see, with social media I’ve got the track record to back me up… but am I qualified to help other mums to Dream Big? I mean – yeah I can show them the processes I go through myself and I’m a BIG DREAMER I can tell you! Am I qualified to help them to manage their time when this is an area I am still mastering myself? Is it enough for me to commit 100% to becoming the best resource available to Mumpreneurs and Work at Home Mothers in terms of ‘Big Thinking and Big Doing’ by learning from uber successful mentors in these areas and then passing on what I learn? Can I really do this?
I look around and see lots of big Entrepreneur Mentors basically passing on the knowledge they glean from Mastermind groups / conferences etc… and I wonder… can I be that person for Mumpreneurs?
I’m so sorry for the crazy length of this post… but I’d sooo appreciate your thoughts on this ladies.
If I’m out there investing my own money, time and effort learning and perfecting everything us entrepreneurial mothers need to know to make our difference – in all areas of our lives – Health & Wellbeing, Wealth & Contribution and Lifestyle… is it cool with you if I pass that knowledge and those learnings on to you?
I hope 2012 has started beautifully for you too. I just know us mothers are going to rock it this year! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
