I’ve been in the world of online websites and marketing yourself for 25 years!
In 1999, I bought and created my first website. I quickly developed my design and graphic skills to get into the world of making and profiting off of informational websites and graphics for hobbies that I enjoyed.
I’ve built followings of 12,000+ people in the early days of the Wild Wild Web. (Before social media even existed!) And I’ve reached 100,000 new people daily at one point with hobby websites! I’ve even frequented the top 10 of company sales when I previously sold products not my own. (Not sure whether I should be proud of that or not. But, hey, it’s something I did.)
My hobby websites (just like this one) enabled me to actually be hired as a web design professional! I started to venture into the world of computer programming prior to having my son. After that, I fell out of tune with coding overall. Things have changed quite a bit over the last 20 years.
I attended culinary school starting in 2012; and worked in the restaurant industry until the restaurant I was working in closed. At that point, we decided to move to the mountains of Colorado to find ourselves as a family.
Working in the restaurant industry was an absolute highlight of my life! I very much enjoyed the entire process from running a kitchen and designing desserts to managing/ordering new inventory and running front of house. The entire industry is very unforgiving, time intensive, and does not pay well. But it is a labor of love. And I’d do it again, if in my retirement years, I had time daily to spend with my family.
In 2019, after having my little girl, I decided that I needed to be home for my family. Working the restaurant industry, which I loved, did not have family friendly hours to enable me being present and assisting with the home daily. At that time, I decided that I wanted to create an all-natural ingredient skincare business. So, in 2019, I started my own business! I created an LLC, paid sales taxes, obtained proper permits, and formulated products that my skin loved! I even started to create a following in various states of ladies that loved my products over other store-bought products!
Sadly, we all know what happened in 2020. My business model was never a model of high profit margins. But a business model where I could create my products at home while caring for my family. A business model depended on the plan that I would attend summer farmer’s markets to share my hand-crafted creations. And, without being able to show up and market like intended, renewals for the business were too costly for me to continue.
So at the end of 2021, I officially closed up shop.
In 2020, with an eye on efforts to still work from home, I found myself immersed in the world of network marketing. I engaged in the business model of selling online a company’s product not my own for three years while I struggled to find who I was, provide a little income support to my family, and be home for my family.
In the process of finding myself, I learned that I have no wish to sell a product not my own. But I have found an overwhelming desire to help people.
This website will be the process of my attempting to help people during the continued discovery of who I am.