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I thought I could afford one. She has since bought into the business
and is now my partner!

What is the biggest transition you’ve made?
When we are in traditional jobs and in school, we are taught to work
our way up one step at a time. When you work for yourself, there
are no rules and no limits. There is no reason why I should do a
magazine: I have no magazine experience; it is an outrageous move
to start a new magazine in the middle of a deep recession when
other magazines are going out of business. To me it is play. When I
was eleven years old once, playing in my room, I created a magazine
called Cool Girl by cutting out pictures from other magazines and
pasting them into my own.
And yes, I’m scared. But when I really set my mind to doing
something, the universe supports me. Miraculous stuff happens. You
are the one who taught me about the laws of attraction long before
anyone had ever heard of The Secret. I have no consideration that I
could fail. That just isn’t an option. I went from producing a 4-page
printed newsletter to a 124-page glossy magazine. I also made the
leap from charging $19,000 a year for mentoring business owners to
charging $100,000 a year. And I did it. I have ten clients at that rate
now. You don’t have to move up incrementally when you own your
own business.
Now is a great time for women to be going into business on their
own, because they can create the business around who they are and
their values. This is a great time for women because they are great at
communication, relationships, working with purpose, and honoring
their values. Many women take their hobbies and make them into
viable businesses.

If you could do anything differently now, what would you do?
I would have hired a life coach sooner, while still working in that job
I hated, and created a more moderate transition plan. It would have
helped to have had some savings, for starters. Also, I had no idea
how to get clients; I would have done a bit of research on how to do
that first instead of just jumping in. Ironically, that is what I started