Celebrating 4 Years In Business!
I made it!
I made it to four years in business!
The last two years have been filled with lessons— not just about what it takes to run a business and how, but I learned so much about myself and who I’m becoming. In the process, I gained a new perspective of what my business gets to look like to work for me and how I serve my future clients .
I think it’s fair to take a trip down memory lane to share a moment I experienced in the first year of business that helped me tremendously emotionally and spiritually in the year that followed. I don’t think I ever shared this moment before.
First, a little background.
I started my business while I was working a 9-5 office job and working for Havenly, an online interior design company; you may be familiar with them. While I was excited to have the opportunity to get my feet wet working with Havenly, I was exhausted from the workload and it took away time I’d spend with my family. So, a few months after founding my business, I made the decision to leave Havenly after a year of working with them since I wasn’t going to be able to realistically leave my 9-5 job at that time.
At the top of 2019, I felt like things were shifting for me and I had a gut feeling this would be directly affecting the way I ran my business, but I couldn’t figure out the how yet. Also, I knew it was becoming time to leave my 9-5 job and that scared me because I had no clue what that would look like. I didn’t want to leave prematurely, but at the same time, I knew it was time to go. There were transitions happening within the tiny office and company already and the culture of the company was draining.
At the height of 2019, I partnered up with my dear friend who was my accountability partner in terms of business, but we quickly found out we were on a similar path spiritually, too. I started therapy as well which helped me to talk about and figure out my next steps. I remember my therapist told me as I contemplated the date I would decide if I would resign that I actually didn’t need to make that decision— I already decided unconsciously. It took me until May 2019 (I put May 16th in my calendar as my “decision date”) to finally take action and I gave a month’s notice to my manager (out of courtesy) that I would be resigning at the end of June. The funniest thing about it is I found out in June that they were officially closing the office I worked in.
I was a bit upset because I wondered if I should’ve just waited it out since my manager was leaving in August anyway, but I couldn’t stomach being there any longer. The game of “Chicken” was exhausting. The company wasn’t transparent about their intentions of what was going to happen when she left so, I made a decision to remove myself.
Now, for the story.
A few days before Juneteenth, my step-mother’s family celebrated the holiday at a beautiful park that had a river flowing right where we were gathering. We were completely immersed in nature, lush trees all around. You could feel the energies were high and the ancestors, all of our ancestors, but especially those being honored within her family, were present. Juneteenth is a special day and it became even more special when my ancestors guided my business to be officially founded within five days of me filing for my LLC in 2018. To me, it purposefully reflects they had their hand in the process of paving the new path to freedom I would soon be experiencing. This first-year anniversary was truly a magical day and the story I’m about to share explains it even more deeply.
After one of my step-mother’s aunts gave us a history lesson on what Juneteenth symbolized and after the honoring of one of their ancestors, a new face came up and shared her personal testimony with us. I had never seen her before and learned that she was the step-daughter of one of my step-mother’s aunts. It was her first time ever coming to a Juneteenth celebration and the first time I saw her at any family gathering.
The timing was immaculate.
There’s no other way to describe it other than divine intervention.
As this woman shared her testimony, she shared that she had just left her job to begin volunteering and working for a non-profit which was fulfilling work for her. She shared how she was afraid to take the leap, but by the grace of God, she’s been able to do it. As she told her testimony, my mom and I made eye contact across the crowd. My mom knew how I had been feeling about leaving my job.
It was “safe”, well, safer to work for someone than it was to work for yourself.
I was terrified for so many reasons, but I was going to do it in the next two weeks. Overwhelmed with emotion, I started to cry, borderline sobbing. I knew deep down that this was confirmation that all would be well. It wouldn’t be easy, but I was being guided through this transition because I decided to bet on myself. By taking the first step, my spiritual team would support and guide me following that step. My parents suggested that I talk with this woman and that we should exchange numbers, but I knew that our paths crossing was temporary and served its purpose at that moment. I needed reassurance and proof that I was making the right choice and that I would be able to handle the obstacles ahead of me.
I had to trust myself and have faith in myself as well as allow my support system to support me more than ever.
On the last day of my 9-5, it was also my dad’s birthday. He was celebrating in downtown NYC so my husband and I took the train to join him in the celebration. That night, my mind was all over the place.
I thought, “I finally did the scary thing… what happens now? ”.
I was happy to be back in my hometown for the night celebrating my dad’s birthday and so unsure of where I stood going forward after all of the festivities ended. It was helpful to be able to take my mind off of the future as I celebrated the present with family. I remember going up to the rooftop of the club we were at and just staring in the distance at the beautiful city that never sleeps. Staring North towards the Empire State Building and Times Square. Staring West where there were fireworks going off across the Hudson River in New Jersey.
I shared more about the events that transpired in this blog post where I received further symbolic confirmation that all would be well. And truthfully, all has been well, just not in the way I anticipated. There’s been a heavy emphasis on being grateful for what I currently have, creating healthy and supportive boundaries, and getting clear on my core values by disconnecting from what was said to be the things that lead to one’s success. For me, deepening my faith in myself has been the biggest test for making moves forward. My therapist reminded me in one of our sessions, as I shared some frustrations with her, that I am a trailblazer in my lineage. The first to tackle things head-on with inner willpower and courage. It isn’t one of those situations like in movies or TV where I’m being praised left and right. I have to give myself my own flowers (and I do that literally) because the work I’m doing cannot be seen by others and it’s not necessary, though, of course, I’m human and we all crave validation at times.
Entering this year and last year, I didn’t really have a goal and I have been okay with the year showing me where to go. In case you missed it, I became a mother of two last Summer! My main priority has been doing what I can to support birthing a healthy baby into the world, recovering, and finding my way forward. I’m learning to go with the flow with where this journey is taking me in my personal life. Seeing how I can best show up in my business and home has been challenging when so much has changed in such a short amount of time. Kind of like this term I heard a while ago from Victoria Washington, a wealth embodiment and business coach, who coined the term “Quantum Legacy” which she describes as “quantum leaping” your entire lineage by making just one decision that will ripple through to those before you and those after you.
Quantum is defined as, “using the minimum amount of energy to reach the maximum result in the shortest amount of time”.
When I look back, the last four years actually reflect that in my household. I took the leap forward, taking a risk on myself, on my passion and purpose, to gain the freedom I desired and as I did that, it prepared my husband and mom for their own journey to self-liberation in their own ways for their own growth. They supported me how they could and I am supporting them how I can. One thing I’ve had to remind myself over the last year is I need to support and cheer for myself twice as much as I do for others. The journey can feel lonely when you don’t have examples of what you are going through, but that’s what it’s like to go first.
Here’s To Four Years In Business
For my fourth year in business, I am looking to deepen my connection with my audience and to attract clients who not only want to have a beautiful space to live in but who are committed to setting the foundation for their own legacy within their lineage. I work with predominately Black mothers who are visionaries and creatives changing the narrative in their careers and families. It is such an honor to guide them through the process of creating a true sanctuary. I want to focus on the aesthetics and the energetics to really allow them to unpack, settle in, and set the foundation for themselves and the next generations. The foundational work looks like being clear on the values they hold for their household and life, what they desire for their home to provide energetic and physical support, and what items they need in their home to support these wishes. This work starts before the mood boards, before the designs, and before the sourcing. This is the prerequisite to aligning with our spaces more intimately so no matter where we move, we’ll know what home gets to feel like deep within us.
This is a mission I’m taking on to help women feel more relaxed, grounded, and at home in their bodies, the first and official home by definition, and in their immediate environments. I want to help and guide them as they undergo the transformation process to be more present and do things differently than those who came before them. It’s a mission of freeing ourselves from the mindset that we must work ourselves to the ground and wait until we’ve retired to feel like we’ve earned the privilege to rest and enjoy life. We deserve to enjoy life with our families now and to live in beautiful homes that make our hearts burst open with joy and acceptance now. My journey “back home to myself” was profound and the tools I picked up along the way have helped keep me afloat to continue doing this work. My goal is to integrate and share these tools in my practice to help women who resonate with my mission and story to come back home to themselves. The journey is personal and I want to be of support for those ready for their new chapter.
Right now, I offer three ways to work with me (click the + to expand):
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Then, I’ll:
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