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I want to be very straightforward with all of you that money is like the blood that runs through the veins of a business. The more money your business makes, the healthier your business becomes over time. Let me be clear that it took me a while to fully understand that money is not always infinite because there was a time where I felt like I wanted to do nothing but travel and speak everywhere.
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Of course, that is not the case and it’s viewed by others as a sense of reckless spending. Even now, despite the fact that I learned how running a business works, I always have that feeling that I have something to prove financially. You see, I have a financial advisor and that financial advisor has said things to me and my family that we didn’t always agree with, but we had no choice to go along with what the experts said. Is it hard to swallow?
Of course it is!!
But when it comes to neurodivergents, we seem to have a hard time embracing the importance of managing finances. To some people, the fact that I incure travel expenses can turn some financially minded people off and again, it takes me a while to see things from their point of view.
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I mean think about it, there are some of us out there that feel we can either do whatever we want with our money or be afraid to spend it. Being an entrepeneur, I only put money towards things that are for “Going the Distance.” Still, I have a part of me saying that it isn’t enough to please the financial experts.
I always feel like that when it comes to the bankers, I always have something to prove to them as if to say “my business can make money and even though I’m capable, there are some of you out there that don’t see it that way.”
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Of course, there are probably some of you out there reading this that feel you have something to prove as well to the bankers. You could be anything: a public speaker/trainer like me, own a business like a bar or restaurant and feel the same way as I do.
Every day, I wake up and there’s that little side of me that feels that says to myself “how long do I have to prove financially that my business can grow and the naysayers can just shut up and leave me alone?” I always have that little tinge of fear behind me that one day “Going the Distance” will one day disappear because there were people from a financial perspective that didn’t see things the same way that I did.
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That’s why if you see me promoting my trainings relentlessly on social media, that’s because not only am I trying to get my name out there, but also to prove to the bankers that I am in it to win it…I’m in it to make money like everybody else and I’m a neurodivergent/developmentally different individual.
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Catch you all later!!
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