"I truly believe in my heart that the only reason why I'm making lemonade out of the lemons that life handed me, is because I was connected to the uplifting power of the EPM community and because I had CLARITY!!..."When I joined EPM I had no idea what I wanted to create or how I was going to serve people. I knew my idea had to be based on personal development and had to be relatable to people with substance abuse history, but I also wanted to incorporate the use of creativity for the healing process, such as visual arts creations from repurposed/recycled materials. However, marrying the two ideas into one that made sense was impossible in my head.
EPM helped me realize that as a starting entrepreneur with no digital marketing experience and no credibility points yet, I needed to break it down to the most basic, most simple and doable idea that addresses a pain-point for a lot of human beings today -- switching from surviving to thriving.
Hearing other EPMers share their own challenges and successes helped me realize this and helped me be okay with dropping the creativity component (for now) and even feel enthusiastic about the simplified version of my business idea.
Clarity continued to reach me and I realized I wanted to work with middle-aged women because in that group is where I see the most prospects for this type of solution, based on my own observations from my affiliation with AA over the past 15 years. Although I didn't reach Mission Accomplished by the deadline, I'm okay with it and I'm confident I will get there soon.
In December, adversity began to taunt me and I started to fall behind on Module 3. I was feeling the frustration and anxiety big time. Then life hit me with a bizarre curved ball, I became "literally" homeless in the first week of January and my marriage is no more. I never saw it coming and I felt like the rug had been pulled from under my feet.
The shock of the circumstances had me on the edge of giving up. Had it not been for the support and uplifting words from other students and Coach Jen, I wouldn't be writing this testimonial tonight. Although I fell behind on the course, as soon as I found a place to live I worked up the courage to face life straight on and grab it by the horns.
I finished my Milestones Doc and completed all the core track videos and tasks in modules 3, 4 and 5 within the last 10 days. I just signed up for Heroic Lifetime and I plan on creating a decent website for my business sooner rather than later.
But most importantly, I'm now writing the training content of my experience product, which will include the science behind the innate process I discovered to quickly bounce back from my grapple with adversity. This is now becoming one of the top pain-point solutions I can offer to my clients as part of my program.
I truly believe in my heart that the only reason why I'm making lemonade out of the lemons that life handed me, is because I was connected to the uplifting power of the EPM community and because I had CLARITY!!...
I'm now able to see life from angles that I never saw before. I feel more confident than ever about the type of message I wish to share with my future tribe and how to serve them better. This is hands down more rewarding and more valuable to me than making $2,000 in revenue by 5-Feb. This entire experience has been a huge success for me!