Mood: CEO

I remember feeling so incredibly inadequate, not only as an entrepreneur but as a marketing mentor because I wasn't living a luxurious lifestyle. 

I wasn't on private jets or vacationing in Bali or flying around the US. I wasn't buying handbags the same price as used cars here, and I didn't have multiple homes and I wasn't showing off high end jewelry.

I'm sure all of us know an entrepreneur or two whose lifestyle is like this. 

Truthfully, I have NO desire for that.

I am such a homebody. I'm almost always home with my babies just focusing on raising them. I love our schooling style that we have for them… 

I love gardening. I am unapologetic about the fact I have a faith and I'm focusing on Jesus. I'm focusing on my healing era, both with mental health and my physical body, and those were things that I feel like don't get displayed on social media! 

I know these people highly sought out luxurious, high-end, multiple six figure businesses that shut down due to the burnout, overwhelm, lack of support, that feast and famine cycle. And you know what? My business has been around for years and it's sustainable, it's predictable.

I just came to this realization that I might not be a luxurious mentor, but that doesn't mean my ability to generate consistent and incredible sales, or develop a magnetic marketing strategy that's digestible for my clients, and my ability to break down a vision for any business is any less than someone who is living a flashier lifestyle!! 

If you are someone who just feels like that imposter syndrome creeping up on you every time you're trying to post on social media and make waves in your industry, I think what's really important to note is at the end of the day, people are going to resonate on such a deep level with YOU for being the real version of YOU.

One thing you cannot fake is authenticity and vulnerability.

My husband ended up quitting his job a couple months ago and I've been allowed to just go full into my business again, which has been the most beautiful gift anyone has ever given me if I'm being truthful…

I recognise that this season of life is different from any other season of business. I have the time and the capacity to take on A LOT more clients. I have the time and capacity to be running more ad campaigns, having multiple team members. I have that capacity now where I didn't before and I'm bringing this up because in retrospect, I feel like I'm able to share some of that hardship of knowing that some of my dreams just had to wait. 

I know so many of you guys who have conversations with me are always talking about how you feel so inadequate because everyone else in your industry acts like they're making so much more than you. At the end of the day, yes, there's so many other people in your industry who are doing so much better than you, that is such a bitter sweet kind of experience… It's really community over competition, and there's room for us all! 

So let me break it down:

If you are looking at someone else in your industry and you're like, why do they deserve it? This is so unfair. I wish I was in their footsteps. I'm so bitter about the fact that they're further along than me… It really takes away from the fact that you have the opportunity to decide. 

The piece of advice I have for you is when you see someone else doing really good in your industry, take the time to celebrate them and also look at that as proof that it's a possibility for you as well. Going back to the luxurious talk though, I can't tell you how many business owners I know put themselves in extreme debt because they were spending more than they actually had…

And the money management was NOT there. So they're making all this money, but their bank accounts were still nearly at zero. And it's just really interesting because you really never know what someone's reality is!!! 

Know that you being your down to earth mundane self is extremely magnetizing for the clients who are looking for someone to help ground themselves. 

I felt like maybe I was missing something and in reality I wasn't. I just needed to focus on becoming more me. And the more I do that, and I am that imperfect person, the more I find my people. 

You don't need to be this millionaire flashing at all in order to have your “success”.

And it really comes back down to how you define success. <3

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