I looove this @Krista Brea

@Cristal Vancarson

Wow!! I have one of those accidental online stories too. In 2009, I was a statistic in the Great Recession. My husband lost his gig in television in New York at the same time my "steady paycheck" job as a community based therapist was ending, both of us had employers shutting their doors. It was shocking to find ourselves living off our credit cards and facing foreclosure days after we missed our third mortgage payment. Our kids were five and nine. I set out to cure our foreclosure and in 90 days i did just that, and within 6 months i had wiped out the credit card debt. People wanted to know what i was doing and HOW was i doing it so simply. So i started sharing my journey as i built out an 1800 square foot studio and grew a multiple six-figure makeup artistry business around some lip gloss and mascara. It was wild. The more i learned, the more i shared. before long training sellers and artists and boutique owners had become my fulltime weekend travel itinerary. In Dallas in July, my husband said, "Do you think you could gather these folks online? And maybe take the summer off to stay home?" I was game. I passed out some post cards with a little info and before i new it i sold $10k in 72 hours of a $39 product. It was all going to happen online but i had to learn how and where to go live. Google Hangout was my option, streamed live through YouTube, and posted links inside a FB group. My month end we'd enrolled 700+ girlfriends and i needed to find an assistant fast to help me manage links and set up a website, maybe even an email list and checkout pages. That was the start of my Signature program BYOB: Bring Your Own Business. I never thought i'd end up fulltime online. i certainly never thought i bring my programs to thousands and i never imagined that my little lip gloss business would launch a seven-figure online coaching practice that would allow me to care fulltime for my dad for the last 3 years of his life. my girl boss business did just that. i'm so grateful for the private school educations it gave my kids and the mortgages it allowed me to pay off for family. But the most important thing it has allowed me to do is be where i am needed most, with my people. Time is a finite resource. More than money my business has given me time.

Love this framework @Nick Nebelsky. you are getting me excited about writing again.

Oh I had a gig where I justified a haircut from a London trained Vidal Sassoon beautician!!! I told the stage director who had cast me that I had have the cut for the modeling gig. I told my agent I needed to talk to the booker for the upcoming catalog job and tell them my stage director INSISTED I have the haircut. Both agreed they would not want me to miss out on another opportunity and that a new haircut would work. I got my incredible cut which has basically been my haircut for the last 30 years. lol Now it’s just platinum or silver or sometimes a rainbow 🌈

@Heather Di Rocco we used to build programs in the neighborhood ms around schools and students building graphic novels and learning sequential storytelling

@Heather Di Rocco that’s why I looove graphic novels