Where did the vision come from to start empowering women
in their business?
What started that?
Yeah, well, I will say that this actually started May 2012.
I became a first-time mom.
Gave birth to my beautiful boy, Joshua,
and just excited to start this journey of motherhood.
Well, during his first six months,
the pediatrician noticed that he was not
quite meeting his milestones.
And at 12 months, she knew that something
was significantly wrong.
And so she suggested that we take him to speech therapy,
physical therapy, and then later on,
it became occupational therapy.
So at the time, I told my employer
that I would have to scale back from full-time to part-time
so that I could go to all of these doctor appointments
and make sure that Joshua never skips a beat when it comes
to his therapy sessions.
And so they were fine with that.
I said, give it about a few months,
because our goal was to just get him caught up.
And then I would be back full-time.
Well, a year had went by.
And we were doing all the things.
We were taking him to all of his appointments.
And he had made some progress, but he was still
significantly delayed.
And then we later found out that he actually
has an abnormal chromosome and that this would be
more of a long-term disability.
This was also at the same time that my employer was like,
Charlene, when are you coming back full-time?
And I said, I can't.
Things have changed.
I'm just going to have to remain part-time.
And he said, we don't do part-time here.
And so I gave my two weeks' resignation.
And we didn't have anything in our bank account,
but I just had this fire that I just
refused to allow any employer or anybody dictate how I
will spend time with my family.
And so I went gung-ho into entrepreneurship.
I started creating content for these big brands
as a ghostwriter and was able to legitimately make a stay
at home income where I was able to support my family.
And so I want to provide women with those same opportunities,
particularly women entrepreneurs who are out there
busing their tail trying to get their brand out to people
who are looking for them, helping them create a content
strategy, because I have no idea sometimes
what's the motivating factor that's pushing them to do
the things that they do when it comes to being a business
owner.
But I go back to that time when I
was told I could not work this job because of my family
situation.
And so that just motivates me to empower and encourage
women in their businesses and to see them win and grow.
Thank you.