The Start and Stop Business Model

I was the queen of the Start and Stop Business model.

I was a great starter and an even better stopper. 🙅‍♀️

I look back over the years and I can totally see what happened.

I mean, I moved to Nashville from the State of WV to be a songwriter. All I knew is I wasn’t giving up til someone gave me a fair shot. And I didn’t. I have 100’s of songs recorded and more awards than I would’ve been happy with that day I rolled into Nashville. 🎶

So, when I moved into the mentoring and coaching industry, I knew I could help people. And I did.

But what I didn’t expect was the pushback I got from my friends and colleagues.

My favorite message I got from a friend is this (verbatim): Congratulations on figuring out how to monetize what I give away for free everyday. 🙄

Back then, I could say I didn’t care, but it wasn’t true. I did care about what those around me thought. I mean, I just knocked down doors all over this town and became successful PURELY based on what other people thought about my work. 💭

Songwriters are the BEST at rejection. We live in rejection and celebrate the tiny wins. But wins are handed to you from others–artists who record your songs, other writers who write with you, publishers who sign you, etc. 

I was not prepared to win without the approval of someone else. I didn’t even know how.

And slowly, the whispers and passive aggressive jabs got to me. 😔

And I became a great starter and quitter.

So, Beautiful, if you’re in that spiral? If you keep starting and then lose momentum, and then you rinse and repeat? Yeah, it’s time to knock it off. It’s time to get some support. It took a champion to help me, and you need one, too. 💪

Quitting is not interesting.

It’s killing your self-esteem.

It’s ruining your work.

And your work is too important to get lost in mindset crap. 💩

It’s just too important.