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Where did the vision come from to start empowering women

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in their business?

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What started that?

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Yeah, well, I will say that this actually started May 2012.

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I became a first-time mom.

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Gave birth to my beautiful boy, Joshua,

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and just excited to start this journey of motherhood.

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Well, during his first six months,

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the pediatrician noticed that he was not

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quite meeting his milestones.

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And at 12 months, she knew that something

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was significantly wrong.

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And so she suggested that we take him to speech therapy,

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physical therapy, and then later on,

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it became occupational therapy.

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So at the time, I told my employer

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that I would have to scale back from full-time to part-time

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so that I could go to all of these doctor appointments

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and make sure that Joshua never skips a beat when it comes

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to his therapy sessions.

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And so they were fine with that.

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I said, give it about a few months,

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because our goal was to just get him caught up.

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And then I would be back full-time.

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Well, a year had went by.

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And we were doing all the things.

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We were taking him to all of his appointments.

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And he had made some progress, but he was still

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significantly delayed.

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And then we later found out that he actually

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has an abnormal chromosome and that this would be

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more of a long-term disability.

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This was also at the same time that my employer was like,

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Charlene, when are you coming back full-time?

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And I said, I can't.

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Things have changed.

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I'm just going to have to remain part-time.

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And he said, we don't do part-time here.

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And so I gave my two weeks' resignation.

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And we didn't have anything in our bank account,

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but I just had this fire that I just

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refused to allow any employer or anybody dictate how I

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will spend time with my family.

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And so I went gung-ho into entrepreneurship.

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I started creating content for these big brands

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as a ghostwriter and was able to legitimately make a stay

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at home income where I was able to support my family.

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And so I want to provide women with those same opportunities,

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particularly women entrepreneurs who are out there

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busing their tail trying to get their brand out to people

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who are looking for them, helping them create a content

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strategy, because I have no idea sometimes

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what's the motivating factor that's pushing them to do

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the things that they do when it comes to being a business

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owner.

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But I go back to that time when I

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was told I could not work this job because of my family

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situation.

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And so that just motivates me to empower and encourage

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women in their businesses and to see them win and grow.

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Thank you.