You listen to the gold digger about guest episode, number two hundred and sixty four before the insight Graham pain before her partnerships ignored, Stroman, Sephora and may baleen and more before she, a million dollar business Suzanne Hendricks, grew up the daughter of immigrant middle eastern parents. Her face revalued hard work, but a career in the public spotlight. It wasn't encouraged she vase. Cultural opposition and yet she pushed through to find her voice an identity, firing women across the globe to do the same design. Success is undeniable right: a million, are sold out products. The top rated podcasting today, I wanted to rework the tape was designed and take a peak out her life before she grew all of this. Curious about how she crafted this life and blasted her own fears in doubt to take action in build something so much bigger than herself. We then talk

little bit about navigating new seasons. And what do you do when you feel like you're, not an alignment with the work you ve been doing and why it and never works to just imitate. What's working for someone else, this episode filled with so much goodness so much wisdom. I I'm so excited to share this incredible woman with an incredible story with you today. So here she is Suzanne Hendricks, your listening to the gold digger podcast, where we firmly believe that work doesn't have to feel like work, made millionaire and marketing guru. Jenna culture will help you redefine what success looks like it's time to hear from the exports, listen in on onest conversations and learn the best tips and tricks that helped others pay their own way and craft their dream career. If you're

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our rights, design, I'm so excited to. Have you on the show today, and I had to just make you stop talking because you're saying all these good nuggets of wisdom and unlike we need a record right now, so we are recording, welcome to the gold digger Pied so excited to be here. I'm such a fan of the show and it's a really great day when I can honestly just takes in time and just hang out and talk to another woman, because most of the time I'm running round him you don't have a world, and now I'm so excited so give our audience this kind of look at whose design is like you do all of these different things and if anyone lands and your feed they're going to see so much content but you can hear. How would you describe what you do and who you are today? Oh my gosh. I think that is a loaded question, because what route do I want to take with its lesson? Ok, you know. For me.

Started my career path, so to speak as a bloggers, civically. You know creating content on my fashion blog and fast forward at you seven years my life has, changed my passion, have changed, but I'm still kind of under this umbrella of being destroyed. Gentle influence are right, and now is that title? It's just well, so broad everybody's kind of an influence arrayed. So for me, over the past seven years, I've kind of had to figure out like what that means to me, and how I want to kind of direct my career path under that, I under that umbrella. So for me, along the way, I've just kind of figured out that I love inspiring but I love, motivating and encouraging people. So even though I would do tons of tutorials on my channel and my blog, I think as life was happen. For me. I realise that my brand is sort of my personality and I feel like I've resonated with an audience

just likes following somebody: who's real, like falling so you just shares what's going on in real time, and so I kind of been able to create Maria around being myself hand, it's just crazy, because if someone only seven years ago. Oh, you could you know you could be yourself for a living. I would have been lightweight. Why When shall I ve been able to kind of figure? how to monetize Being myself, I guess you could say and husband, I you know we now work together and we ve been able to do a pod cast together and that's kind of been a new career path for us, and we ve been getting more into that. So you know The influence, her role is definitely a huge part of my life in my day to day, but then there's a whole another side where you know my husband and I manage a subscription box company called you Noblesse Box, and this box was something. That we started in two thousand, sixteen as a way to

necked my audience to sort of a tangible products as I'm reviewing and try new things. I wanted them to experience a kind of like this box of happiness, so we kind of got into the subscription box world. That was my first business I ever launched. I never had a background in business. In fact, my background in radio television film. So I know what I am getting over the right kind of have to figure out what it means to be this entrepreneur and figuring out my pants you know along the way, so it's just been the exciting, throw a baby into the mix? We had a little baby girl eighteen months ago, Life is just crazy. We're bouncing business, babies and married life, and I'm still figuring out to be honest with you kind of what that next thing is. For me, you know as the simple answer so in an I shall that's kind of what you're gonna do If you go to my say, Instagram page or my my Youtube channel you'll just see me kind of figuring out why

as I go, but sharing the things that I love along the way and in hopefully encouraging people so kind of in a nutshell, not one think. What's so great about what you just said it like you, don't have it figured out and I think something: that's happen, and I think a shift is coming is p. Or tired of seeing everyone looking like they have it together. They haven't figured out in there's something so awesome about seeing real images and videos and why for you're like she's in it with me too, like were in the thick of this together, I feel so much more like community than comparisons, I love that you just time come out and say I'm just wing and because I feel like, if we're all being honest, were all winging at right and you know what else you like. You know when I first started out as a core unquote influence. Sir, I say quite unclear because this title really hadn't been created at the time you knows I'd like your gavel, tastes makers and then bloggers and then now influencers content creators I mean so when I

sorted out. There was not there many girls at the time that were doing it full time right. You know, I am move from Texas to allay thinking. I wanted to get into tv hosting broadcasting, and I met a group of influencers and alive and I quickly realized that way. You guys are actually getting paid to do these blogs. In these channels, but even at that time there Wasn't really strategy that going into it? There wasn't really a formula, so I trying to figure out what is this formula for really making it as this influence are making money consistently? But then, I noticed along the way and the beginning, I would trial the things or try to bees. Something that I wasn't and I feel like the girls that follow me. From day one. They have seen this kind of evolution. Then happen in my career, and I've had to be very vocal and honest about it, because when you put your life there on the internet, for everybody to see your standing on a stage, but at the same time, behind this,

and you're still trying to figure it out to so. There is no real in error and there's all of this, but then there's that pressure of like ok, I'm on a public stage and as I started, to grow as I started to really have eyes watching. You know I start to feel that pressure and a lot of my friends were doing something, and I noticed it would work for them. So I was like you know what I'm gonna do doing that and then I would do it I would notice I kept heating dead end after dead end, because I was shrank away from all what it was that, like I needed to pursue and I was too busy trying to tap into what other girls were doing, that. I wasn't happy into what I needed to be doing. So I found myself in so many seasons, early on where I was just going in circles. Trying to do with everybody else was doing and it wasn't working for me you know I would notice that, even if I would do it now, do it well, I notice I wasn't really ultimately passionate about it anymore.

How long I'd be in that season of going in a constant circle. You know doing something that I knew I was it passionate about, so to speak, always end up hitting a dead end, and then I have to start back over again. So for me, I wish that I was somebody that could say you know when I started out. I just knew from the beginning. I had to be authentic and real and true. I think there was always parts. Me that would show who I really was in those small parts where the parts that people were holding onto you know I scare little struggles and obstacles that my husband and I were going through as we were about to be married at that time was cultural issues. You know, like my family, support our marriage and even though I was this beauty Mysel influence, sir, I started I feel the need to share more of those parts of myself, but it was just ass. It was just a small part, whereas fast forward, today and kind of this or of it all is those big parts like what I'm

tourism, mom and just the more real parts of who I am and those of the parts that I feel like I've been able to connect with women out their women, who you don't just like when they started following me. They were all into the cute, see the fashion, the oh, let's filter things and look perfect, all that, but then his life has happened. I love that, like my audience, we ve grown together so loud the women who started following me in the beginning. They were also like young and single and now they're here when kids and there you know getting married, and I love that I can grow with my audience. I think that has been the key for my six. Ass is just to not be. Fraid to grow into change and to kind of change your path when you need to come to redirect something. So it's funny because I think you know a lot of times. We think there's

certain formula. Furs whole influence. Sir Instagram were all life, but the truth is like you have to figure out you're a and then when you figure out you're a. U have to figure out your be and then your see, whereas a lot of career pass, it's great, because you know me you get to kind of that a has already been paid out for you. Then you get nearly and then you get your masters and then you can go to like medical school, but with create your own business, you ve gotta, create your own formula and you ve got to figure it out, but I think the one key thing for me, but I wish somebody's head me years ago was just do not stray away from who you really are and that are helping create your unique formula is when you're, just staying. True too, who you are you now? I agree, a hundred percent, and I feel like there are so many it short cuts, to success, but they all hinge on the fact that you have to be confident in who you are and likes and true to that, because no

system. No steps are going to lead you in any direction. If you're not grounded and nine, I think, like you said it so easy to losers. Often it- and I think so many of us have experience out one thing- that I would love to talk about: find it fascinating, and I think that a lot of people can relate is that you face a toy of and you touch shut it lightly, but I'm not letting you off the hook because sleek culturally, which is something I didn't experience. I received opposition in different ways of my parents thinking. I was crazy for leaving corporate Amerika things like that, but walk through what that was like. I want to know how they felt in how you pushed through that in and what that opposition wise yeah for sure I think for me. You know when I moved out LOS Angeles. That was the first time I was leaving my nest. So I was living with my parents throughout college and says- and I was kind of in this really safe, comfortable bubble,

and so when I felt it in my heart that if I wanted to get into a entertainment news or whatever else like I know, I have to be an allay. So for me not was the first time I was had been out on my own and in the mid. So all of that behind the scenes I was going through so much privately. My online world time, which was very small they didn't know, about it and I'm is moving to allay knowing that I had this secret relationship with my husband now, but at the time, I was in a very secretive relationship which really it was. It was kind of heart I need to figure out how mega launch this career and become the sort of influence her and then How am I also going to deal with this personal life stuff? So it was just really overwhelming, because my parents, just their souls, Having and so they want the best further is but I faced a lot of obstacles even as early as a kid where you know my parents were always liked, if it's scary, don't do it, whether that, whether that's relationships, satellites

you need to stay kind of in arse are protected bubble and for them that Mobile met, you need to marry somebody within our culture. You need to just have a very simple job, You know, and it was more like just try not to go out there and have big dreams in a sense whether its personal dreams or professional, and I think it just because my parents, we know that- they were immigrants and they came to America and they had to face so much opposition so much hardship and struggles and work so hard that, like they just did not want their kids to feel that way. So for them they try to keep us safe and protected from going down a path that would just become stressful and challenging, whereas for me I was always this kid that felt like I wanna go above and beyond. I want to do something that Sir give me a little bit. I was always the different, I guess child of my forces, I always wanted to do something that I knew I wasn't supposed to be doing.

Just knew that I had and when me and when they found out. I was this marry Steve this american boy from completely it just completely know everything you know a shattered, my relationship with my parents, you know I was disowned for you know a couple of years, I didn't have tons of money in my bank account by you know, I was making little deals with my blog at the time. You know why, just through little at sea at sea, the liberation that I would set up for myself and Steve. My husband was helping me kind of fuel, this little blog of mine, and we knew we had to pay. For our wedding together, because by parents just did not support us. So you know we were just hustling and war. King so hard, so in a way, the hardship and what we were going through hide the scenes facing this kind of cultural barrier with my family. It kind of motivated me even more to step out to pursue my dreams and to figure out how to make a career for myself

as this digital influence, her with the tools that I had in front of me, which was a very small blog at the time, and it was is this spark in me that I was gonna. Do it. I was gonna become my own boss, because there was, no other option. I had to figure it out and I had to have those sleepless nights, and it was just incredible too, because I had this incredible man with me along the way to help me figure it out, so Stevie would be taking my photos. And then we would try to. You know reach out to little brands on at sea to create collaborations, and I remember the first deal that I got that really made me smile like getting this opportunity with target, which was, these small campaign opportunity, but it was kind of this sign, and I felt like it was one times in my life, where I felt like God was telling me like. I got you, you know you're gonna be ok, whether its correct. Or personally like put in the work

and show up, and I'm gonna help you water that may help you wrote that and since then I just feel like my faith in everything. It's just been surrounded. It's been at the core of everything, personal and professional, and I have just seen what God has truly. Not only in my career but also in bringing my family back together. It wasn't long or my family came back into my life and they were able to and they fell in love with him and it's crazy, because my dad met my husband at the same time when he met his granddaughter It was all my guy Valentino, my daughter was eight months old. Yeah I was not long ago. So imagine going back to taxes. My dad, you know was there and my husband and my you know was there and my husband and my daughter got to meet my dad at the same time, and that was just such. It is one of those weekends. When I felt like everything kind of painful

circle for me, and you know wasn't that long ago you know my daughter of eighteen, so you know you just I've seen everything that has changed my career and in my personal life, but it's only been good things. You know if it was like. If you do the hard things now life, it's easier and I felt like early on as a young twenty five year old at the time, I was figuring out how to build this business, but how to also have a normal, beautiful life behind the scenes which I think you're is important. When it comes to success, you dont have to compromise one for the. Other- and I am now in a season of my life, where I just have seen that you can. You can have both you can have both and you can you want both things and feel successful and that you can enjoy hard work, but you can also enjoy rest, and I think that's really him

more n when it has come to my own personal success story, is I can't not have a normal life like my day, starts at eight o clock. It ends at five every day. And I have created that structure for myself, because when you work for yourself, as you know, like noughties, the. But at the same time I'm going allow myself to be editing. Videos till three, a m or missing out on dinner with my family at six, p m you know, so I think, having a child having that sense of importance in family has kind of allow me to build my business around that too, because it so important and so vital to you are given mean good spam. Sorry now I did a posts, I say or I'm thirty, I them and thirty one No, I just had a baby, and I said like if you think my instagram is my highlight earlier so wrong, because a moment's and never see the light of instagram are the best moments and I feel like motherhood has

gotten meter exactly what you're describing so, I feel like you're, just speaking in a world in such a beautiful way, and I want to ask woman to woman mother to mother I know a lot of people, fear of- and I feel like theirs is weird stigma of like. If you are a blogger or you have a business and then all the you have a baby and then you become a mommy, blogger and theirs is weird disk. Act as you grow in MIKE. You said. A lot of your audience has grown with you, but how did you get comfortable in that season when your content was transitioning because guess what your life transition. Knowing that hey you're gonna repels unviable, that might have been following, but you are also going to attract new people who are also in that season of your life. So good. We are speaking the same language, because that is you know after I, my daughter, you know my,

in a joint eu- and just you know the team around me was: they were all kind of plugged in any kind of just ass. Well, what are we gonna focus on now became? Will you are going to become this mom and even before having my daughter, we had that converse Should we had that conversation of life? Are you gonna, be posting tons of families let us now and it wishes- I mean it's. It may sound ridiculous to some listeners like what you're like having meetings about this stuff, but who in search you know that Dr Weir end. They need to understand what direction were going in and I Honestly, I remember vividly before having my daughter. I said I dont want to become a mommy blogger. Like I put that instantly Ike, I have said I dont want to become a mommy blogger and little did. I know what that would mean, because you know at the time when I would see mommy content. It was just very much like commercial eyes, and I was like I just don't want to put my child, out there to try to make money off of it? That's just not wipers towards that goal. Achieving success like I don't want to do that

So after I had my daughter when I kind of started getting back into creating content. Ok, I would later I was lit. We probably three months posts pardon and I'm in my Youtube, filming room and I'm doing a glittery okey. I tutorial, as in one club, just like after I film that video I literally had this type of this I mean awakening moment, listen, mice! and I was like, I looked at me, often a mere. I said so on what the heck are. You because I was like you know, darn stray that you are not about to actually practically where this make up cause. You are not in that season of life and drew me I was trying so hard to get back to this. Like old says I'm, but what I needed to do was kind of surrender that and just embrace becoming this new says on whatever that was, and I mean it, you big

I find myself during that process of change and to embrace that like you're, not that girl anymore and I it really hit me when I noticed like those of it those when I would pose them my followed, in my audience, my online SAM, as I call them they were just like girl. What why are you not resin because my audience they knew what I was going through, like a usual mom, and so I will. One of those girls that could just get back into the beauty space and just create this lavish glam full face content. I think that was his awakening moment. For me, when I realized, like start trying to be something you're, not you're, going back again down that path, that's like. Let me try to be something: I'm not give the audience what maybe they want to see. But the truth is this idea, never gonna know what other people want from you. So if you're gonna try to create content, build a brand build a product, whatever offers, what use

I think the world needs or what they like you're setting yourself up for failure, because you're never gonna be in the mind of somebody else. So for me, when I finally tapped into the fact that likes design, what is it that you want to do right now, and I said to myself: I dont want to be doing smoky eyes right now. I don't want to be doing tutorials. In fact, I want to share with the world what I'm really going through and my has been an I my husband, so supported I mean he works with me, but he also is my biggest supporter, and he saw at first hand when I was going through. I remember it sitting in our kitchen. I was about for almost three out three to four months. Post pardon and I was crying in my kitchen and I said Steve, I dont want to go in my youtube. Room right now and shoot a video. This was after I did the glitter content anymore, but I dont know what to shoot. I dont know what to do. I feel like I'm having. But what to shoot. I dont know what to do. I feel like I'm having in online brand identity.

Dislike. What is it that you want to do, and I said to be honest with you: I just want to tell them what I've been going through and I just want to like I wanted I've been going through- and I just want to like I wanna do make up, but I feel like make up is just a gimmick for me. I feeling on named The talk through my tutorials and I connect conversations is when I connect with women and Stevie was like Why don't you start a new series on your channel and you love to motivate people? Have why don't you do something called make up and motivate and sad instantly when he said that I felt this spark. I this fire in my heart, all of a sudden to get up and go further. And I was just like well I love that I immediately got up white. My tears went into my filming room and I just rolled the camera, and I said guys, I'm gonna start the serious call make up and motivate and tell you guys, what's really been going on the past three months, and while I'm

ready, I'm gonna, be doing my make up, because I feel it when I get ready and you may make up. This is kind of it. It's a therapeutic time for me when I'm getting ready, but it's not gonna, be so much focused on the technique. We're just gonna, about what's been going on and they make up is just a gimmick Sophie my first make up and motivate. That was the turning point for me because I honestly was crying in this video. Like everything now for me, it was like I was purging some things that needed to come out and I finally opened. Until my audience I was going through the blues. I had caused partum blues and I just told them to be- this with you guys. This is what I've been going through, and I cannot tell you how my body and responded after I did that video this incredible Just overwhelming amount of support suddenly came through. I was connecting with real women Mommy's coming out of the woodwork in telling me like I've, been going

through this in that, and suddenly it wasn't about the make up, it was about real life and work real women are going through and suddenly that sparked this desire and me that I felt like for the first time, I'm being an influence, are, I feel, like I've been blessed with this, form in this incredible audience to actually encouraged eminence fire them through my own struggles and through my data day of figuring out like a how do we good life, you know and Where everything for me. I realize my job now as an influenza. I needed to be the best version of myself whatever openly share. I needed to go on that journey and openly share My struggles, you, the challenges that I was facing, so that I could become the best version of myself and hopefully encourage other when

along the way to challenge themselves and together, we can all become better versions of ourselves. And that's when I tapped into a kind of this news design this just real life's design. It was no longer about my beauty. Came more. It's about my boys now- and I was just like why, the power of my boys and what I can do with it, and so that when our podcast kind of came about- and after we launched the good life, and we realise this growing audience and just people from all around the world. Where now connecting with my husband, as we were, sharing our real life day to day. Problems balancing business babies. You know all of that stuff and I we it's felt like. Finally, there was a platform where we could talk openly about our struggle, about our faith, which is so important to us that you know it's tough to do that. Sometimes, on its breath. You too, and issues crazy

because Jenna I felt like the podcast and just my Youtube Channel kind of how I've redirected my focus I've, We have seen this new growth and I'm sorry turning to shield There is hope in this, saturated market of lay all I got out, we really survivors influencers. It's just when you really tat into authentically being who you are everything just kind. Starts to to make sense and puzzle pieces start to fall into place and that's kind what happens for me after I had my baby girl. I finally tapped into I feel, like my purpose, which is something I've been on a journey the past six years, trying to figure out, and it just feels good I hope your loving this episode in I'll get right back into teaching, but first I want to say thank you to hello fresh. They are offering every gold digger eighty dollars off your first month when you go to hello, fresh dot, com, slashed gold, digger, eighty and use the code gold digger,

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kind of stepped in Euro and gave yourself that permission has, I think too, as brochures or business owners. It so easy to say: well this works, so I'm just getting he's doing this, but I feel like, if you're a true entrepreneur why Funding is not going to work forever, like you, are constantly evolving and changing and trying you things, and so I love that you kind of flipped. This script what you are known for but took your audience on that journey with you. That's amazing, yeah. I agree with you. I think what you just said about being open to change in an evolving. I feel like that's just key with life in general. You know you can't get comfortable. You know you almost you have to find comfort in discomfort and when you get comfortable in your life, that's when it's time

creates and challenges for yourself to kind of create some things that you know like. Ok, I need to be better in this area, but how can you be better if you dont challenge yourself right? I think we think of the word challenge. We try to run away from it. If it challenges me, I need to go there. Better route, because I think society now and even me during certain seasons of life, I've always I'd, run away from the things that made me feel uncomfortable. That's just naturally or wired, but I think it's when you finally push towards challenges and you walk towards those obstacles. That's when you start to. If you start to see the changes in your life and then that challenge becomes a habit now whether it's like say you want to work out more, it's gonna be uncomfortable. To begin being and you're, not gonna wanna do it, but when in sudden We start to become a habit and you can't live without it. That's when you know,

you really achieved and accomplish that challenge, and it's the same thing with professional. You know. Sometimes we try to take on as well to many things at once, but I think ideally the goal is to create one challenge for yourself. When you accomplish that challenge, then you move onto the next thing at business entrepreneurs. We kind of try to pack on everything on our play at one time and that's just not the right mindset, because ultimately, you're gonna led to burning out you're gonna end up going down a dead end and you're just knocking Give yourself the rest that you need in were to be able to actually see the things in your business that are going right are going wrong. You're just gonna, be this kind of hands stir in the wheels willing going going going, that you can actually reflect and then take a setback in strategizing kind of re operate some areas of your life in your business. So for me I just know It's just the power of the creating

those challenges, but to also be ok with not Will it all at once. You know society American dream right. Like you gotta. Do it all and you to bring yourself out and if you get you comfortable or you're, not prevent give every single day then you're not going to be successful, and it just goes. That's what I was saying like you know. I feel like truth success is when you can master tat balance between rest and hard work because if you're, not giving yourself rest? How are you actually going to be able to be a creator like my job requires so much created. So there has been seen in my life where I've had to tell my team like hey. I cannot help. All this stuff going on because creatively, I need to work on. My skill. And my skill is as an influence her. I need to be watering certain seeds for that creative flow, whether it's you don't coming up with unique creative content, but I want to put out in the next few months maybe some power

projects in the next five years, I want to launch the big things that organ require big work so right now. I need that time to be creative in to give myself margin in those areas life where I feel constantly like I'm being pulled in all different directions, and I think that one of them, was powerful things. Anybody can do is like don't let that scheme whatever it is for you whether you're a photographer or you are a creator or a business Whatever your skill is, you have to constantly water that I think that's the one thing that you have that nobody else has is your skill, and sometimes we forget to constantly nurture and water and work hard at perfecting that skill like exercising you know, you have to every day exercise that skill whatever it is for you, whether Europe musician or an entrepreneur, but if you're just constantly trying to keep up with

he nails and do a million things that skill is being neglected, and I think your skill is what you're gonna have now and it's what you're gonna haven't and ears when a instagram in all these different platforms start to change its like you got it just stay focused on yours so my skill requires that I rest, it's been so hard for me, because I don't give myself enough rest with the baby running around when I finally start to get these new ideas spark- and I start to see my life move in a direction that I wouldn't have seen move. If I was constantly on a day to day just trying to keep my head above the water. You know what I mean so I'm just season right now, we're I'm trying to figure out like our age. I need to have that balance between rest and hard work in it. Then this idea, I feel, like you might be the same. When you have a baby, you got no choice but

work. Smarter, not have you better get as much always napping, and so you no longer are just China's working working working you just like I'll, smarter with how I'm working- and I feel like that- something that everybody can do in their day to day life. It starts with your mindset, and these are all things that I feel like through our podcast, the good life I have been able to just grow and learn and because I am definitely not an expert when it comes to all this stuff. I have just been in a season, though, were unlike I, wanted just soak up as much with Jim here and is as much advice as I can and that's where podcast like yours, and so many others have encouraged me, because I need to get that stem from somewhere, because I don't have that big his knowledge on how to grow my business, how to works are not harder, so the guess that we ve been having even on show, in this past year its changed my life It changed my life in the way that I think, and I think nowadays were sold

strategy like? I have forced myself to not look at my phone in the morning and right before bed, which has been a challenge it. Our sister man, when you do that day, new really start to clear up your mind and in some great things can come from that We have very strict phone roles as while I know phones in the bedroom and things like that, because we know our tendencies in it so easy to get swept away and I to do less set. Actually doesn't get you anywhere so I love that ok, one of my favorite quotes- and I feel like you kind of touched on it. But I love how you say this because it so true, as you say, pretend There are a million people following you, because one day there will be an that's true for you, how can people put this advice into action? Because I want to hear your take on this because I believe in this so much work for a share. You know when I started my blog seven,

years ago, in my bedroom in Texas, I remember I was pulling all nighters to get content ready to go before I click that launched by an and I just remember those sleepless nights as a young. You know fresh. In college, trying to figure it out. I at the time was like I need to create content as if there's a million people watching, because this is going to become the content that one day people are gonna, go back on and they're gonna see. First of all, but second of all, I need you know that, like even if there's ten people watching my content, I need to treat it as if there's a million people watching, as I think, there's just this week a lot. Thus we dont give a hundred percent because we're like well, I'm gonna wait until I hit ten thousand Instagram followers I need to reach a certain number before our actually start to take myself seriously and I think that's bogus. I think you have to actually give it,

hundred and ten percent, as if everyone is watching you, because it does something for your creativeness. It does something for your energy- and it also just helps you- build a strong work ethic. When you tell yourself there's millions of people watching me right now and a kind of prepares you for that pressure, that's to come if you're gonna Excuse my french, but if you're gonna half ass it, you know what I mean How do you expect people to take you seriously in the beginning? You know if you're not taking yourself seriously in the beginning, so I think I always had that mindset going into it was like one day. This is going to become archives, content and it's going to change and it has and it's going to grow, but if you can go into it with that mindset of I'm going to give a hundred Percent, like there's millions watching, there's power in that I agree, I think, to a lot of people think they need wait until they have the eyes on them to start in its like no start like the eyes and the attention will come when you're being authentically yourself, but I feel like so many people hold back.

From that message that they want to share the way they want to impact hazardous waiting for the audience to show up in his like. If anything, you have to start now and I'll, tell you I didn't have overnight success and you know you always kind of when you're launching a business you're, just kind of hoping, maybe some then we'll go viral or I'll hit this crazy opportunity and I'll just grow million followers and fans overnight, and I mean. That's just not reality, and I don't think now. Looking back, I would have ever wanted that because, when you grow too clear too soon. You also don't know how to deal with that and here. So I think everything in baby steps that's really the wait. A girl is a steady, wins the race and the whole thing with building your views. Yes, it's a marathon, not spread. So what trying to erase race race, to the finish line like finding no short cuts, like you said, but it's like what's the right, You know what I mean like. If Europe we can assign the dotted line for yourself and say I'm gonna become my own boss. I know that you need

have seasons where your kind of in a desert and you feel like all my gosh, I'm just thirsty, and I feel like I'm just in this drought I don't know what to do. The thing: you're gonna seasons where you're just like well, I'm seeing this abundant amount of growth and its that sweeter because you're able to experience both the different types of active seasons in your life almost like both of those things are necessary in order to really happens, you're sure success. The unique since, where you're just being challenged and you're just like, I don't know why I'm in such a right, I don't know why. Things are growing at a why so many things are falling through and things are going as planned, because that's going to build up that muscle here. That must have your success and as an entrepreneur, its necessary to constantly go through as different types of seasons I feel like you're, the perfect woman to answer this last question. Why

would you say to if, after listening to this show right now in their thinking man, I feel like I'm out of alignment with what I need to be doing, or I feel like I've, a message on my heart that I need to share, but I'm not sure how it's going to go over it, There was someone that was feeling like you felt his on when you felt like ass. I like what am I doing? What would you tell them right now he added so good You know what I would say I would say, don't try the strategy eyes, don't Try do you know perfectly. Figure out? How can I share this message that on my heart- and I just say just do it just- your whether its through Instagram or its, through a specific platform where you feel the most connected with your audience. I say just do it, that's almost the hardest step, but it's the easiest step is just doing it and knowing that after you do, that to just kind of go with it for a while

allow yourself to just breathe and to take. In what others may be. Our feeling after you share whatever is on your hearts and being able to give yourself a little bit of grace a little bit of mercy and in being kind yourself in that process. Because once you share what's on your heart, I think there's a moment where you need to kind of just take a step back and see what happens with sea. Were they They're are in start to move and after you share that make it your mission to never compromise who you are for what you want to be, because, when you can stay true to really who you are and who I feel like God has made you to be. You start to tap into just the true entrepreneurs that you are, and you know, I'm in a founders club with so many other women who are in business

and I get together with them every month and I'll tell you having that support group of other women in my wife that I can share my dreams and my goals, and even my struggles is a mom with its been really healthy for me, and I didn't know, I need that until after I was part of it and so I encourage wherever you are wherever you, listening to this podcast, whatever city, whether it's a big city or a small city or a small town, find a community find a group of like minded individuals that you can get it other with every month to share your struggles. It can be professionally or personally or you can bring both into it. I have one for personal life, where I just had my girlfriends come over once a month, and we just talk about our life fears and then we always leave that meeting at our house kind of feeling, like our guys in the next month before we make

how are we all going to take on a new challenge and work towards that? It's more personal and then the founders club that on the part of its all women in business, so that separate meeting every month for me is just a time where I can be. Encouraged and inspired by other women who are so many steps ahead of me and business, and I can tell U I leave those founders club meetings feeling so inspired so encouraged, and I just encourage anybody out there to find that small group of women to kind of be together. I think nowadays, there's no competition, in female nature. You know a lot of women, just kind of feel like I can just I can deal with this myself. I can handle things on my own I'll. Take all of that pressure. I'll carry the way, whether your mom, businesswoman we try to take too much on our shoulders ray. I say, get together with other women and know that, like there is no competition, you can all.

Courage and inspire each other and even share some short cuts along the way to help you. But I know that you have your own individual, unique path, and I think That really is also key. Is beer self but find other women that will help you encourage you to continue being yourself instantiated that Yes, amen. All the praise hands, I couldn't agree, agree more dream is like my gold digger meet up so that no matter what city people tune in and they can like come together and have topics of conversation and stuff, but you know having a project tat go and see the baby girl is a little bigger. So, ok, where can everybody connected you tuning? Dear amazing, pod gas? Give us all of the places that we can get to see more of you well

yeah, if you guys, are still awake out there sits around. You ought to learn more and continue on, and you can go to my podcast, which is available on apple pie, task or the cot cast one apt. It's called the good life with Steve Answers on you can check that out. Were basically going on a week by week, journey and figuring out what does it mean to live a good life, so we dive into business. We dive into personal growth. We dive into kind of everything across the board, then. Obviously you can follow me on Instagram. My handle is just as on, I feel like beyond their job What's your name Instagram then you'll see kind of everything on their from like you to contact it's. U podcast, link all that. Like? If you go to my ip address design, you will be able to kind of spread and tap into all the other platforms to their so yea. I hope you, This will follow along. I love this community that you have of women who want to be entrepreneurs who

figuring out what it means to do it to do it well and I'm so inspired the agenda. We need to stay in touch girlfriend now right, we're coming to allay in a few weeks. So I'll, let you know and were in your city, is maybe we can meet up one hundred percent. I love. I love our England. They also and you're out here? Let me know: we'd love to host you guys and just maybe have dinner or something What about it? Susan, just so inspiring Phillip talked pivoting in authenticity and alignment on the show, but the way that she splain just those feelings the feeling like what you ve been doing, isn't working any more when you're looking at me making what is working for other people and its not working for you or what did you Would you enter a new season of your life and you're feeling compelled to share that side? Man this Episode is just so inspiring and I'm so thankful that she showed up in shared her heart because here's the thing

design- is known for many things. Her collaboration her sponsorships her influencers status, but what the thing she needs three known for his her heart and her mission to inspire people by showing up, just as she is because when she does that it gives all of US permission to do the same. I hope you walk away from today's episode feeling inspired and ready. You just listen in on your heart and what you should be sharing and and how you should be showing up, because the more that you come alive, the more you give permission for others to do the exact same, you so much for listening to this episode of the gold digger pod guest until next time keep on digging your biggest calls thanks for listening to the gold, digger podcast I've into the show notes for this episode and all past episodes at W W W dad gold, digger, podcast dot com. If you love the show share it with a friend the more the merrier thanks