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Chanel Rose Introducing Chanel Rose: Owner, Care Agency. comes in pretty much as long as you show up. Coincidentally, in most cases, the same amount As a 4th generation entrepreneur, Chanel of money is available if you outperform expecworked in consulttations. If you get sick, ing and fundraising there are systems in for political candiplace to provide a least dates for 15 years some income. and five years ago decided it was It was a rude awakentime to do it indeing when I learned that pendently! everything costs money-especially people’s What are time. And most of the some chalfree stuff is designed lenges you to get you to pay for have faced in it later, not to give you building your everything you need. business, and I really thought that how did you going into business overcome because people like me, them? they would be so happy to help me, and if they My first business know my track record of venture was a bust. success, they would supI decided to go into port me. Sometimes that the business with was true; more often, it exactly zero busiwasn’t. Looking back, ness acumen and it was pretty selfish and zero dollars. I fell somewhat offensive for prey to the fictitious me to expect people to notion that you can give me their resources grow a business time and time again from the ground up with zero operating capital with no end in sight. That was a mindset I had and zero business understanding. to correct immediately to succeed. Why did I do that? I had a decade of professional successes. At the time, I had raised For years I allowed myself to fail. I quietly quit over 6 million dollars for various political and and internally lost my confidence to try again. nonprofit campaigns. I had managed and won Once I realized how ridiculous I had been, I several statehouse political campaigns. I was just couldn’t get over the embarrassment and on a life high. went back to working for others again. I had all of the skills to be a great employee but none to be a business owner! I learned the main difference was, for one thing, when you are an employee, the money
In the interim, I started getting clients by word of mouth referrals. The more people that would call me help me go back to my first realization that I loved helping people and investing in
