Women Entrepreneurship

This is a topic I have thought a lot about over the last couple of years as I have grown and got to know the business industry better but could never (or should I say didn't want to) put the words together for this post.

Why? Because what I am about to say and the tips I am about to give for me fellow lady business owners is going to be a sensitive subject.

1). The first is lack of excitement from people you'd expect to be the happiest for you. Thankfully, my close family and friends are happy for me and my accomplishments. However, there has been a number of times in which I have felt like someone should be happy for me, yet I didn't get a sense of them being genuine. Theres also the low key Debbie Downers.

I don't understand this AT ALL. I am so happy for other people when they accomplish something or crush a goal. Found out you're pregnant? I am over the moon! Graduated from college? You go girl! Got to go on an amazing vacation? I AM SO EXCITED FOR Y'ALL. I may be a little jealous, but Y'ALL HAVE A BLAST! Starting your own business? You got this!

We live in a world where everything is a competition and we all have to keep up with the Jones. Stop it, because its robbing your joy.

Also, I greatly believe that one persons success does not take anything from you, so why not support each other?

2). I often find that another problem women in business face is not being taken seriously. My career is in the beauty and anti-aging industry, so my services happen to be something women love. However, many men have made comments about the business I have (most of which who have done so in good fun, so I do not get offended) because they don't see the point in it.

I had a man tell me that his wife won't come to see me because HE doesn't see the point in what she wanted done.

But does he see the point in the things he wants? Probably so.

3). Down playing our own worth. This one is something we do to ourselves, but I feel like it stems from the other comments people may make or the ideas we have in our own head about worthiness. So we naturally down play whatever it is we do. I know that I am not out curing cancer with my cosmetic services.

But you know what I am doing?

Restoring self-esteem to women who feel they have nothing left.

Giving women who have lost their brows hope. Hope that for whatever reason they may have lost them, that they will be able to leave their house again without having to draw them on. Hope, that as self-conscious as they are, they will no longer get a surprise visit and someone see them without brows.

Helping women feel great in their own skin and no longer feel the need to hide behind makeup.

As I am writing this, I think about my friends who own clothing boutiques and the stories I have heard about women who shop with them and it makes me realize that they don't just sell clothes. I KNOW that they spend a lot of their day building women up.

You see, there is, most of the time, something much deeper going on behind the scenes than what it may appear. Most women in business care so much about their clients or customers. Don't be that person who makes your friend in business feel like what she is doing isn't worthy enough.

My biggest piece of advice is learn to not take things personally. I feel like a lot of the time its not you, its them. You can beat yourself up and try to read into things people have said, but at the end of the day it doesn't matter.

Keep doing you and keep improving yourself!

If you have a friend who is in business, offer up help, motivation, or kind words whenever you can. It would mean more than you know to her!