She Did It Her Way

There may come a time in your life when your side hustle becomes more important to you than your corporate job. You know that your heart isn’t fully in your day-to-day job, but you feel guilty. Maybe you have invested more time and money than you can count into your job, and you are scared to start over. Now is the time to overcome the fears, doubts, guilt, and start doing what you love by controlling your destiny.

Today’s guest, Lauren Felix, combined the skills she used in her corporate job in retail merchandising and her side hustle of blogging to become a social media consultant. As a social media consultant, Lauren helps lifestyle businesses find, engage, and convert their audiences into future customers using social media. Learn more at Lauren’s website socialmediawithstyle.

There may come a time in your life when your side hustle becomes more important to you than your corporate job. You know that your heart isn’t fully in your day-to-day job, but you feel guilty. Maybe you have invested more time and money than you can count into your job, and you are scared to start over. Now is the time to overcome the fears, doubts, guilt, and start doing what you love by controlling your destiny.

Are you frustrated with a need in a particular market? If only there existed a product or app like the one you have created in your mind—life would be so much less complicated, and more commonsensical. You tell your family members and friends about it and they agree that it’s something that would make life better. You have two options: continue to be frustrated or be the one to change the market and create that product that would improve your life, and the lives of many others.

Today’s guest, Megan Grassell, was one of these frustrated people when she took her 13-year-old sister shopping for her first bra, and the few options available were overly sexualized. On the car ride home, she decided that, if no one else were going to make an alternative bra option for girls, then she would be the one to do it. At just 17 years old, she founded yellowberry to boost girls’ confidence in finding their first bra, encourage them to dream big, and support them in whatever they choose to do in the world.

Are you frustrated with a need in a particular market? If only there existed a product or app like the one you have created in your mind—life would be so much less complicated, and more commonsensical. You tell your family members and friends about it and they agree that it’s something that would make life better. You have two options: continue to be frustrated or be the one to change the market and create that product that would improve your life, and the lives of many others.

It’s time to stop feeling guilty and shameful for wanting to leave the job or industry you’ve poured so much time and so many resources into. You CAN take the leap and you may not be the only one considering that particular leap! There are many other entrepreneur lady bosses who have similar leap ideas and are ready to collaborate and create!

It’s time to stop feeling guilty and shameful for wanting to leave the job or industry you’ve poured so much time and so many resources into. You CAN take the leap and you may not be the only one considering that particular leap! There are many other entrepreneur lady bosses who have similar leap ideas and are ready to collaborate and create!

Have you ever talked about creating an event with a friend or colleague and, a little while later, found yourself putting that very event on for a crowd of more than 500 people? Thinking and talking about it, you feel comfortable, confident, and capable. But when it comes time to walk the walk, fear of failure – or of success – starts to sneak in and threatens to hold you back. Don’t give it the satisfaction. You were made to do great things; learn to embrace, rather than fear, your potential success.

Today, Amanda shares her experience with creating and running the Young Entrepreneur Convention, which brought together like-minded individuals who have a passion around entrepreneurship.

Have you ever talked about creating an event with a friend or colleague and, a little while later, found yourself putting that very event on for a crowd of more than 500 people? Thinking and talking about it, you feel comfortable, confident, and capable. But when it comes time to walk the walk, fear of failure – or of success – starts to sneak in and threatens to hold you back. Don’t give it the satisfaction. You were made to do great things; learn to embrace, rather than fear, your potential success. Today, Amanda shares her experience with creating and running the Young Entrepreneur Convention, which brought together like-minded individuals who have a passion around entrepreneurship.

Some days you may feel like you are stuck in limbo, on a path that you are supposed to follow, not one you want to follow. Maybe you are leaving the office another hour later than you said you would last week, or working on a paper that you feel no inspiration towards, going through the motions of your daily work grind. And then – it hits you: You would rather be working on a website about fashion—your real passion, or blogging about real estate, than trudging on one more day in the accounting position you chose because it felt safe and seemed like the right move to make.

Today’s guest, Lindzi Shanks, decided to pursue a career in psychology, something that she felt she was supposed to do—until she realized that doing so was making her unhappy. She took the fearful leap from the familiar to the unfamiliar world of fashion and ecommerce, and spent her graduation working on developing her website. She is now the successful creator of thetrendysparrow.com, and she did it all without a business degree.

Some days you may feel like you are stuck in limbo, on a path that you are supposed to follow, not one you want to follow. Maybe you are leaving the office another hour later than you said you would last week, or working on a paper that you feel no inspiration towards, going through the motions of your daily work grind. And then – it hits you: You would rather be working on a website about fashion—your real passion, or blogging about real estate, than trudging on one more day in the accounting position you chose because it felt safe and seemed like the right move to make. Today’s guest, Lindzi Shanks, decided to pursue a career in psychology, something that she felt she was supposed to do—until she realized that doing so was making her unhappy. She took the fearful leap from the familiar to the unfamiliar world of fashion and ecommerce, and spent her graduation working on developing her website. She is now the successful creator of thetrendysparrow.com, and she did it all without a business degree.