Family of Entrepreneur's Prepared Me to Run A Business, but Yet..

As an entrepreneur, I've faced numerous challenges and opportunities throughout my journey. Growing up in a family filled with business-minded individuals, I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by an atmosphere that influenced my knowledge of finances. However, one area where I felt less prepared was in forming partnerships. It was a lesson I had to learn through personal experiences and a deep reliance on my gut instincts. Let me share with you how embracing intuition and listening to my gut helped me recognize a remarkable collaboration that instantly felt transformative for my career.

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Understanding Money from My Upbringing:

Coming from an entrepreneurial family, discussions about money was a regular part of my upbringing. I saw my parents and siblings work hard to build successful businesses, side hustle, and financial decision-making was a fundamental aspect of professional advice. Their emphasis on understanding the value of money, business development, saving, budgeting, and making sound investments instilled in me a deep understanding of business & finances from an early age. Advice like how to save 10% for tithes, "What's stopping you" method, name brands are not important, and put aside $100 per paycheck regardless. Also by witnessing our own black Accountant during tax season coming to the house it set a normalcy around money, which proved invaluable in my entrepreneurial endeavors.

While my family's teachings helped me navigate the world of business successfully, they have a different view on partnerships. Parents were quick to delegate family business responsibilities like, painting baseboards, cleaning the stoves, Babysitting, or shampooing carpets. I witnessed independent entrepreneurship growing up, where individuals were self-reliant and saw themselves as the sole decision-makers in work-life. Consequently, I had little exposure of communications around sharing responsibilities, collaborating, and forming meaningful partnerships. This absence of guidance became evident as I embarked on my own entrepreneurial journey.

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Listening to My Gut:

By filling the gap of what I lacked, I realized the need to trust my gut instincts when it came to forging collaborations. Learning the hard way throughout the journey unfortunately. Speed bumps like trusting wrong individuals that cost me money and a job, taking on too much work because I didn't want to look lazy and wanting to be helpful, or feeling like I needed to lead instead of listening. Harnessing intuition became my way to navigate the unfamiliar territory of partnerships. It required me to speak up for myself and end things before I hinder someone else's plans. Listening to my inner voice allowed me to uncover opportunities, potential risks, and potential collaborations.

The Sync with Lani G

It was during the pandemic found a bond on social media with Lani G, a Certified Spiritual Life Coach. At first glance, our fields seemed unrelated—me, a financial strategist, and her, a Coach focused on spiritual self-improvement. However, as I dove deeper on my own self love journey and following her work, a feeling of synchrony developed within me. I became heavy supporter by doing the simple things like comment, liking, sharing, and being present to her works on and off social media.

Discovering Lani's "Mothering Yourself" Session:

During my job as a nanny, an opportunity screamed for me to attend, and that was Lani's signature session called "Art of Mothering Yourself." The concept resonated deeply with me, as it promoted introspection and self-awareness related to spending habits. Listening to my gut, I enrolled in the session, eager to explore my personal relationship on a deeper level with an open mind.

The Transformative Collaboration:

Through the "Mothering Yourself" session, Lani G provided a safe and nurturing space for me to reflect on my spending habits and beliefs surrounding money. This deep dive into self-exploration allowed me to uncover hidden patterns and identify areas for growth.

During our collaboration, Lani's intuitive approach to guiding me through self-discovery sessions awakened a side of me that I had previously overlooked. Her unique perspective, combined with her expertise in personal development, helped me develop a holistic understanding of money—a perspective that went beyond pure financial strategy.

"Mothering Yourself" session, she not only helped me better understand my spending habits but also pushed me to think beyond the realm of pure finance. This transformative collaboration has opened up new horizons and deeply enriched my professional journey. Start of the year Lani shared a post that she sees her one day retreat could turn into more one day. I instantly saw her vision was possible and I reached out for a future collaboration for not just one day, but a full weekend of empowerment. We have been meeting weekly for months to build out a blueprint for the retreat experience. How we flow during the meetings and being in sync emotionally showed strongly between us in how we communicated. Even though we met online we talked to each other as distance friends. When she shared her feelings of patience it was again a gut feeling or empathy to be okay and assured the decision made sense for us both. This retreat will be a beautiful three day or four day event of discovering your own wealth path, holistic understanding to embrace freedom, and ignite your inner voice. Stay tuned to both our pages, website and newsletters

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In the entrepreneurial realm, partnerships play a vital role in expanding horizons, expanding community, and achieving success. Though my family background prepared me well in understanding money, my journey has shown me the importance of listening to my gut when it comes to forming partnerships and collaborations. I can not wait to share what else is up our sleeves and other collaborations to come. I have new view on this journey as an entrepreneur going into partnerships.

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