If you earn money and you’re not employed then you have a business
I remember being in a poker game in about 2004 . The guy sitting next to me (who I really fancied and wanted to impress) was a senior executive at Disney. He asked me what I did, I told him I owned a porridge company. Soon after I *berated myself for misleading the guy as my 'company' was me and my sister and we didn't know what we were doing (what we were doing was selling to Waitrose every month). Since then the identity of women freelancers and founders has changed dramatically and there are a hundred different ways we can describe ourselves but STILL I meet women all the time who struggle like I did that night with feeling like they DESERVE to call themselves certain things. Do you have this? I know you do right?
'oh but it's just me'
'it's not really a business'
'It's not, you know, a proper business or anything'
I'm here to tell you that if you earn money and you're not employed then you have a business and whether you earn £100 a month selling on Etsy or are in a business that turns over £100k a month that you started yourself; you are part of a community of women changing history by working and earning on their own terms and you are my people.
Don't worry about words like founder or freelancer or entrepreneur (or entrepreneuse) just focus on who you are and how you want your working life to look and we are here to help you get there.
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*I also relieved him of a couple of hundred quid and used it to pay my gas bill.
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