Let's get to know each other + what we do. Normally we have a "no self promotion" rule, but let's make this post the ONE exception. Feel free to promote your socials, website, product, or service. 🥰 Depending on your responses, we may do this once a month. So you have more chances to let us know what you’re working on and how you can help others. You may want to use this format: - I help NICHE to get OUTCOME through MECHANISM. And feel free to link your socials, emails, or website. Then reply to other people's comment giving them advice or motivation. Have fun connecting! P.S. Even my shareable phone contact info tells people what I do. Copy it! 👇🥰

To our NEW & SEASONED MEMBERS: Before you became an entrepreneur (or started moving toward it), what were you doing? And if you’re in a transition right now...What are you shifting from to becoming an entrepreneur? Share as much or as little as you want. I’m just listening. 🥰 It’ll be powerful to see how many paths lead to this season. 🤗

Thank you for responding to my question, "Why you became an entrepreneur?" @Kelly Childs @Sara Fredrick @Cheryl Grogan @Dipa M @Mindy Iannelli @Tianna Knudsen @Pamela Igwe @Crystal Johnson @Reema Rana. 🙏 As I read your responses with mine, I noticed a silent pattern about us. 🥰 Most of us didn’t wake up dreaming of “being an entrepreneur.” We became one to ADAPT. 🤩 👉 For self-preservation, family protection, and meaning. I saw 6 repeating themes from our responses: 1. Entrepreneurship as a solution to our constraints 2. Freedom with our time is really about emotional safety 3. Entrepreneurship as family protection 4. Meaning matters more than money 5. Entrepreneurship as autonomy & dignity 6. Entrepreneurship as a way to rewrite our painful story -------------------------------------------- Let me explain more. Again, this is based on what I saw in your responses. 1. Entrepreneurship as a solution to our constraints Many chose entrepreneurship because traditional systems excluded us based on the seasons of our lives: - Chronic illness & health issues - Disability or sensory limitations - ADHD & its comorbidities and RSD - Parenting demands - School schedules Business became a way to design around our realities, not escape them. 2. Freedom from our time is really about emotional safety When we say we want “time freedom,” we don’t mean beach laptops. We’re saying: - “I want to be there when my kid needs me.” - “I’m burnt out from rigid schedules.” - “I don’t want to live in constant stress or guilt anymore.” For me, this is not about wanting to be productive; it’s about needing to regulate our nervous systems.

This is your first Action Item: Remembering or discovering your WHY. I’m truly curious - WHY did you want to become an entrepreneur? The keyword is “why” (if the all caps wasn’t enough). 😄 You can read mine here. 🥰 BUT before you do, I invite you to comment your response to the WHY question first. Then read mine; it'll be more insightful for you that way.💡

So, Katherine asked me to share my new website www.showmescoopers.com . It's not perfect, and that's the point. I did the thing and didn't let perfectionism get in the way. I'm a local pet waste removal business, not looking to get anything from anyone here. I'm still waiting on some help to get the Ninja forms working. If I don't get them working, I will use something else. But the main purpose of this site is that someone can instantly get a quote and sign up for our service, and of course to learn a little about us and our services. Hopefully it's worth it to get rid of the Godaddy hosting and put it on SIteGround. A little about the process: April 2025 - decided to start a dog waste removal business May 2025 - launched and needed a website to help people sign up and Google etc. Didn't know anything about websites, so made one on Godaddy after buying a domain from them. September - wanted to get a WordPress site after learning more about the limitations of Godaddy October - purchased a WordPress theme by a developer in my niche, edited it and published it last weekend on Siteground. Now - working on Google tags, schema markup, site mapping, getting Ninja forms to work, optimizing speed without breaking forms or media again, etc. A web developer I am not, but this was not too difficult with a theme and Elementor.