If the Shoe Fits ...

Hi, my name is Christie and I am a serial entrepreneur. In just under a decade, I have started and/or researched countless businesses that I was interested in running. I’ve been:

• A virtual admin assistant
• An event planner
• A business document creator
• A relocation consultant
• A residential space planner
• A small business consultant
• A writer
• A life coach

And that’s just the list of the things I actually did and generated income. I am still doing the last three on the list today. This list doesn’t even include the attempts or the mere ideas that I have had. But, why so many? Couldn’t I have just picked one and stayed with it? Um … no. What was wrong with me? Actually, nothing. 

The Relocation Consultant is the job that I stuck to the longest. I owned that business for six years, which proved to everyone (and myself) that I could start something and see it through to the end. You see, I knew when I started that business, it would end. Mostly though, I had made it my life’s work; what I would retire from when I was forty-ish. Deep down, I knew this was just “one of those things” I tried and it worked. I am surprised I stuck with it for as long as I did. 

To the outside world, everything was perfect. I had a successful business that I ran from home. I had a flexible schedule and could be there for my family at a moment’s notice. I was making good money and everything was going so well. Why on earth would I give that up? I struggled with that for a couple of years. I loved my work but I hated my work. Why? I came to the conclusion that it just wasn’t fun anymore. And like a kid at a play date when she gets bored, I packed my toys and went home. 

I love having my own business. Working for myself was the best thing I ever decided to do. And I know without a shadow of a doubt, I will always work for myself no matter what that work is. When I decided to hang up my relocation hat for good (along with the many other hats that came before it) and launch my new business (and therefore a new and improved me), I knew that I would eventually have to tell people. It has been hard for me to “come out of the closet,” so to speak, because I have done so many things and tried so many things and I am always talking about ideas that I have and businesses I would love to start. To the point where I thought that those who know me well would doubt me, criticize me, say, “Oh brother, here she goes again with another idea,” and I was afraid.