The craziest thing about looking at my situation now is realizing that never in a million years would I have imagined being here the moment I became a mom.
At 16, the moment your doctor confirms that you are in fact pregnant, it is immediately proceeded by the moment you genuinely believe your life is over. At least for me, anyway.
Despite so many people telling me to abort or to put my child up for adoption - I can only look back and contemplate the path I chose and thank my lucky stars that I was at least half-witted enough not to pay them any mind.
Being 22 years old, the founder of a company that was only officially registered four months ago (April 2014) and now having the opportunity I was only too hopeful to even dream of having in at least 10 years from now, it is in this moment that I look back to that day my doctor uttered the affirmations of pregnancy, and realize that if that never happened, then this wouldn't either.
I finally found the career opportunity in something I genuinely LOVE doing and I am--arguably--great at it.
I mixed my two passions together - business and artistic creativity - and turned it into something I could be proud of and something my son will be proud of me for creating. Although my son HATES the concept of me working all the time, what he doesn't understand is that this business has allowed me to work primarily from home to be with him. Sure, I have to run my ass around the GTA to suppliers and vendors and to meet up with customers and clients, but for the most part, I can be with him and play a more active role as a mom in his life.
I mixed my two passions together - business and artistic creativity - and turned it into something I could be proud of and something my son will be proud of me for creating. Although my son HATES the concept of me working all the time, what he doesn't understand is that this business has allowed me to work primarily from home to be with him. Sure, I have to run my ass around the GTA to suppliers and vendors and to meet up with customers and clients, but for the most part, I can be with him and play a more active role as a mom in his life.
Being a mompreneur means running a business and family separate from each other, but still connected as part of my lifestyle.
Being a mom gave me the customer service skills that my clients seem to love about working with me, and if it weren't for my caring and patient handle with the people I've had the pleasure of working with, I am certain 50% of them would have done business with someone else.
At the same time, being a single mom helped me to develop the hard ass head I have in dealing with the fair number of people who have been more of a bother to my business affairs than as assets in helping gain my company's success.
But the reward at the end of it, I mean the real reward of this business rather than the financial gain involved, is knowing that my work, my creativity, literally the wonderful ideas that come right from my head and produced into a material object of my making, are being seen, touched, and held by over thousands of people around the world. From the wedding banners in America, my escort cards and favor tags in Israel, my thank you notes in England, my table signs in Australia, my menus in Spain... the list goes on, but little pieces of somethings that I designed and made are being shared all over the world... and knowing that one day Matheson will not only understand but be proud of the fact that thousands of pieces created from the product of mommy's creativty is being spread internationally is really what I have to gain.
Thats the venture I seek.. as an entrepreneur with a business oriented mind set but as a mother with my son and my family as my number one priority - this is what being a mompreneur is... and this is what I love.
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