The Beauty of Success

Preface: An Invitation to Freedom: Unlocking the Entrepreneurship Journey

You are ready to be free and ask the hard questions to unlock that freedom. The only way to true freedom is to unlock and challenge the thing that has held you back. When you are ready, you are willing to do things that you wouldn't do before. And now you are willing to do things that you once were not ready to do.

—Julie Flanders (executive coach, mentor, and close friend), words spoken to me on September 1, 2022, during an executive coaching session

This is a divine season, and there is a divine energy surrounding this book. It is the journey, temerity, and tenacity that has taken me from intrapreneur to entrepreneur, back to intrapreneur, and ultimately living in my destiny as an entrepreneur. Throughout this journey, I have landed on the core pillars and truths that I know bring me freedom and ignite my path: community, mentorship, education, and capital.

To define each pillar separately would be to undervalue each of them; we must look at them as the sum of their parts and the source of my energy as a founder and voice in the world.

We are not meant to walk through life alone; we are meant to live in a community as a brain trust. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a brain trust is a “group of people who advise a leader.” For me, my brain trust is the core group of people I trust to collaborate, consult, and advise me in business. My ability to go from vision to execution is derived from the ...