A server and nursing student turned entrepreneur describes choosing to build a business instead of taking a conventional job, driven by an internal voice and the vision of a better future for their child, Caitlin. The core lesson: starting a business demands total commitment, not part-time effort.
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and okay, well, I'm gonna prove all those people wrong and I'm going to make this business successful, um, and do whatever I have to do to make it successful. Yes. And, um, I'm, yeah, I'm gonna grow this to bigger than even what I could have imagined. Um, and so, yeah, I, I just wish that there was someone there that also could have told me like, don't give up, you know, because I didn't really have that in my corner. I, I was the one in the back of my head saying, don't give up. I was picturing, you know, little Caitlin over here and You know, I didn't imagine, you know, me being where I was right then and there. And so, um, and just where I started, I mean, I was a server through nursing school. I worked at Chick-fil-A. Um, yeah, everybody starts somewhere. And so I think that was a big thing was, you know, do I keep going or do I give up and go back to like an 8 to 5 or go back to being a server? Um, but, and yeah, I feel like as far as like advice, I tell people, if you're gonna start a business. You have to give it your all. Um, if you don't give it your all, it's just not gonna work out. You can't say, oh, I'm gonna open a business and, you know, work on that business one day a week.