My dad at the time had a business that made hot tubs ( yes, really) and naturally in his tinkering away on these hot tubs, his brain was infused with an idea for a hovercraft boat (this was in the 80's, people, less than a year after Back to The Future came out). there had to be a way! And then it came to them. I was chillin' ( or let's be honest, I was probably shifting all over the place because anxiety and I are BFF's) while my parents were busy cooking up plans to involve me in something entrepreneurial. I like to think it all started for me when I was a mere sprout in my mama's belly. It takes a certain breed, I'm certain, to enjoy the masochistic torture of entrepreneurship, but we all do. Each member of my family would classify themselves as a serial-entrepreneur, which makes for lots of yelling, and hand gesturing and fits of uncontrollable excitement all at once during any given family get together. But you know what they say, don't hate the player, hate the game. I'm a pickup artist when it comes to business ideas, guilty of the flavor-of-the-week syndrome and all of my projects would probably call me a player ( if only they knew). I'm not saying I'm not crazy, probably the opposite in fact, but I truly ( perhaps conveniently) believe that I operate better when I have lots of pots boiling at once and it's during this perma-stress that my creative juices start flowing and I get my best ideas. I'm your typical slashee/gig-collector/side-hustler/whatever-label-you-want-to-apply Echo Boomer. Read on for more).Ĭurrently, I'm working on two wildly different startups also running a luxury travel company that I partially own additionally, making and attempting to sell etched wine glasses ( peep them here) simultaneously, helping people push their websites out of the nest and into the world wide web through workshops and one-on-ones and one other business baby that is on the backest, backest burner, all at the same time. First comes the idea, then comes the compulsive brainstorming and far too often than not, then comes the business baby in the baby carriage. It's almost like Business is my beau and we are K-I-S-S-I-N-G. I can be an over-thinking machine and it's ok ( so far). It's the only thing for me where it seems socially acceptable to completely over-analyze and over-think things and not have it turn into an issue with um, any ex-boyfriend ever. arranging all of the pieces together and having them fit perfectly into a system, feeds my perfectionist soul like carbs do when I'm feeling, well. Business models, financial models, marketing models, website models. The little niche of this "hobby" that I like to curl up in is putting together models.
It's a hobby, that's turned into my job and I love it. My absolute fave thing to do, in the entire world, is come up with ideas for building and developing businesses. FOR FUN!! But, I'm also good at minding my own business too, buh dum tss! Maybe too good, actually. I devour stories about how people got started with their business, how it grew, where they're going and how they stick with it.
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