When I hear from entrepreneurs who say they didn’t make a penny for eight months, or fourteen, I know what they mean.
Because I’ve been there.
When I first started experimenting with online business, I made nothing. I tried different ideas, sold a few ebooks, built a few things, scrapped them and started again. It was humbling and sometimes frustrating, but that’s the learning curve everyone goes through.
By the time I finally launched something that worked, it looked like “overnight success.” Our first product launch made $20,000. Our second brought in $50,000 in two weeks.
I remember thinking, “We’ve made it! This is it! It’s only going up from here.”
I couldn’t have been more wrong.
What I didn’t understand yet was that business, much like bamboo, spends a long time growing underground before anything visible shoots up. It can take years of unseen growth before the surface-level results start multiplying.
Looking back, those early “failures” were essential. They weren’t mistakes. They were part of learning what it means to do business as me.
And here’s the good news: you don’t have to wait as long as I did.
The reason our first product launches did so well is because of all the actions taken before, and all modeling mentors who’d done it before me.
You can shorten your learning curve by staying in action and by surrounding yourself with mentors and communities that reflect you back to your own wisdom.
That’s exactly what we do inside the IMPACT Membership.
It’s a space where your growth is accelerated and amplified by the collective energy of people who get it, who are experimenting, creating, and letting business be an act of love.
And it’s only $123 per month.
If you’d like to shorten the time between planting the seed and watching it flourish, join us here:
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Yours in love and play,
Steph
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