AUSTIN, Texas — It is by no means too late to pursue one thing you are captivated with. That is the message one Texas feminine entrepreneur is passing alongside to others who wish to comply with the identical path.
Cheryl Williamson is a serial entrepreneur who has quite a lot of companies and types below her belt, together with being the founding father of her personal successful magazine, creator of a number of books and founding father of Soul Reborn, a company created to assist disenfranchised and previously incarcerated ladies.
Williamson is executing a marketing campaign all through the month of August, often known as “Black Enterprise Month,” that can join Black ladies who’re 45 years outdated and older with all of the instruments they should begin the companies they have been dreaming about.
“The attractive factor about while you get 45, you have already, generally, raised youngsters and you have made some choices and now you are prepared to maneuver ahead and do this factor that you have wished to do as a result of the chance is offered,” Williamson mentioned.
Williamson mentioned loads of girl within the 45-and-up class could also be discovering themselves at a crossroads. They could be empty nesters, lately divorced or simply realizing that they need a change however do not know what path to take or learn how to make that change occur.
By way of her “I Am a Millionaire Mindset Academy,” Williamson affords teaching and coaching to assist ladies understand their strengths and objective and to supply tricks to make their companies occur. Williamson mentioned via writing, taking part and benefiting from enterprise courses, the ladies she works with have all of the instruments to achieve success.
“I take them via a collection of six weeks of courses, educating them the artwork of affect, learn how to create your imaginative and prescient, how to answer the issues in your imaginative and prescient board. And that is completely blowing ladies’s minds all throughout the nation as a result of they understand that they’ve all the things inside them with a view to perform this factor that is been burning inside them that they could have postpone for just a few years,” Williamson mentioned. “But it surely’s by no means too late to be nice.”
The Texas resident mentioned one thing she tells individuals on a regular basis is to benefit from the courses accessible to them, like via the Small Business Administration.
“What individuals do not understand is a small enterprise can’t turn out to be huge if we do not assist it whereas it is small. So we wish to attain out and assist these companies which have poured into the communities wherein we reside, and particularly women-owned companies. We wish to assist them and propel them into locations and areas the place they thought that they could not get into,” Williamson mentioned.
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One other tip Williamson shared for aspiring CEOs is to have a board of administrators that consist of people that will let you know the reality. Additionally, discover individuals who do not thoughts mentoring and bringing you into roles that you do not even know can be found.
“Don’t encompass your self with individuals who can at all times let you know why your goals won’t ever come true. ‘You are too outdated. It may well by no means occur for you.’ You wish to encompass your self with like-minded thinkers,” Williamson mentioned.
Based on a report earlier this yr from LendingTree, simply 2% or 915 out of the Austin metro’s 44,908 companies are Black-owned.
Williamson mentioned for any girl contemplating beginning her personal enterprise, it is by no means too late. She additionally mentioned you should not be ashamed to ask for assist. She affords all the things from one-hour personal development coaching to one-on-one mindset periods.
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