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WHAT YOU DIDN’T LEARN IN SCHOOL @ MONEY
My Story
Witnessing my own beauty business of 11 years slowing becoming less and less able to support itself, the reality was I took it VERY personally. How could I not?
It was like my livelihood was vanishing before my eyes. This was the business that literally changed my life. From 2015 into 2017...I had grown my revenue to over $120K a year, doing lashes and brows. I had found my ‘IT’.
Ticking all the important boxes, this business was supposed to carry me and my family into whatever retirement looks like for me. But 2023 proved to change that story in the most painful way I had experienced.
Fear of not being able to cover my rent, my expenses, my bills flooded my thoughts.
What am I going to do? What is happening? Did I do something wrong? How could I stop it and get things right again?
Month after month...no answers were found...my mental health tanked, and depression fully took a seat at my table.
I had wholeheartedly tied my identity and my confidence to my business. What would people think and say now that my business was barely scrapping by? What would I say when people would ask me: “What do you do?”
My thoughts were the darkest they had ever been and I wasn’t kind to myself at all. I had convinced myself that I had no purpose and no reason to even be here...it was Bad!
I wish I could say there was a magic epiphany or an Ah Ha moment and my outlook was better, more positive...but that wasn’t the case for me.
I would reel in cycles of depression, anger, frustration and pure sadness.
What did work was surrounding myself with people who care about me...and kept encouraging me and letting me know that This Wasn’t My Fault! There wasn’t something invisible that I “Did”...
I started working out again, and focusing on the things that were/are in my control. Paying attention to what I was eating, how it affected my mood, and my body while getting outside any chance I could.
My relationship with God really changed during this time as well. From 100% believing that he was not there for me...to then re-framing that idea to He’s always been there...but giving me some tough...yet Direct love.
This was the end of this cycle...and I had to direct my eyes to see that God has something better in mind for me and I can’t hold onto the old anymore...because I’d miss the new coming.
Which brings me to now. All of the grief, sadness and frustration truly boiled down to...I didn’t know enough about my money, and it was truly devastating!
We don’t know what we don’t know, and for me I had to experience the loss of my business to see that.
Armed and dangerous with the tools and strategies I wish I had 3 years ago...I’m here to help other entrepreneurs and those of us who never got the insider deets on how to REALLY understand money.
So that when things start to go a lil cray(and trust...at some point they will)...you’re not pressed...or stressed about it. You’re Ready For It!!
Teaching what we didn’t learn in school about money has been so incredibly eye-opening, and rewarding, that I cannot wait to show you all the thingsss!!
Whether your ready to have Peace Despite Money Devastation...or wanna know how to be prepared when your business needs a life line. I got you!
And I’ll be your wing Gal every step of the way...
If you’d like to hear more about how I can help, take one of my free quizzes to see if we’d be a good fit together? Or shoot, send me an email and let’s chat for a few to see where your business or your personal finances need the most input.
Phew...that was a lot, and if you made it this far!
THANK YOU!
Sharing painful experiences is never easy, but I’m here because of those experiences and I cannot wait to ensure you don’t have to go through what I did.
Rickina
Rickina