Welcome back to the Become a Heartpreneur Series, where we’ve been talking about how to do well by doing good and connecting to your calling while still making the moolah. This next installation in the series is aimed specifically at those of you who have taken a leap of faith in order to fulfill your life’s destiny, only to find yourself stuck.

Does This Sound Like You?

Are you a woman entrepreneur who risked everything to pursue your passion, only to find that things aren’t working out according to plan? Do you worry what everyone will think if you can’t make it after all that you’ve given up? Do you just know you’re here on earth to change the world, even though the stars don’t seem to be aligning right now?

Are you ready to finally get out of your own way so you can skyrocket to the stratosphere?

Oh yeah, baby. Trust me. I hear you.

Have you ever let fear and self-doubt hold you back from launching a new business, or starting a creative project, or leaving a toxic relationship? It feels really defeating, doesn’t it? Like you’re drowning. Trapped. Enslaved.

How many times have you decided to move towards a dream, only to sabotage your own efforts? How often have you let self-doubt, fears, and other limiting beliefs get between you and your goal? What if the path between you and your dream was free and clear of any self-imposed obstacles? What if the only hurdles you had to jump over were real ones, rather than ones you’ve erected yourself? How would that feel?

Babies take a lot of time and money.

I know, that’s a news flash, right? But I really had no idea that an infant business would take so much of my time and money when I started.

My whole life I’ve been a care provider and never received a bit of business education. Over the last year I’ve spent a lot of time and money giving myself that education.

When I started my business, my husband and I looked at our savings and decided that I could use $5K of it to launch my business. When that was gone, the business would either be profitable or I would give it up.

The beginning

I was so sick.  I had been vomiting every day, several times a day for about a week.  If I wasn't running to the bathroom I was laying on the couch unable to function as a result of this strange "June Flu."  This flu of mine was so severe that I had even called off work a few times in the last two weeks AND this flu was so body altering that I wasn't even getting my period.