Tirlena L. shares how she built an interior design business and overcame personal challenges through an entrepreneur program. She discusses her path to achieving the American dream and what the business opportunity meant for her life.
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I had this dream that I wanted.
To design interiors for others because I had been designing them for so long.
And it was something that brought me joy as well as others. So I said, this is the life for me.
This is what I want to be.
In business with now. During the course of that time, my husband lost his job, my mother lost her job. And so something so beautiful as well happened in the meantime, which is I got pregnant right at the beginning. So at that point, I had the choice to either let go of my dream or continue. And what I did, what I decided at that moment, was to continue through the program.
I was able to make a business model, a way that I was going to approach my clients, do their. The whole process from A to Z with them.
And I still remember my first two clients.
We sit down and we talk about the budget, we talk about the style that they like.
And I'm just understanding all of this.
Information because of all the curiosity conversations that I had during the program.
This program gave me the courage to keep pushing through anything negative that happened, not only for myself, but to show my family, to show my stepdaughters, to show my son. My parents are so proud of me right now. And not that they hadn't always been proud, but it's the ability to achieve the American dream that they brought me to this country for. And seeing me take advantage of all these opportunities and make something happen for myself, that's. I'm so grateful for that.
