Discovering Purpose in the Dark Places

Tiffany Young, Owner of the Pink Hotel in Stone Mountain, Georgia has a candid conversation with Empowering Lives Business Magazine on how she discovered her purpose in the midst of a dark time in her life.

I am Tiffany Young, Owner of the Pink Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia and we do parties for ladies and girls. Whether celebrating a birthday or having a baby, if I can sow a little spark of magic into your life by celebrating your special event – that’s what I do.

When I talk to women about starting a business, you either have to be one of two things – “You have to be rich, or you have to be angry.” When I came up with the name, I was in a very low place. I was in a hotel – a dirty hotel with my one-year old son, and I was sitting there crying saying, “Lord, how did I get here”? Just three years prior, I had two locations, TV shows, and celebrity clients. Now I’m in a hotel with my baby, waiting for a knock on the door that never came. So, I sat there…I took that little notepad that sits next to the phone in the hotel, and I started drawing. I was drawing what my business was going to look like, what a stage will look like, and drawing a hotel suite for myself inside my business vowing that I would never be without a roof over my head again. After my son had been exploring the room and all of the cabinets, I watched him sleep peacefully, while tears streamed down my face, I sketched out the building on those little pieces of paper. I scratched out the name of the hotel on the notepad, and I wrote, The Pink Hotel.

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Tiffany Young of The Pink Hotel

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