ep. 033 • Special Episode - Common Hardships in the First Year of Business

Chelsea: You're tackling your first year of business. Maybe it's that you're just getting started working with clients, or maybe you've been working with clients for a while and realize that now's the time you're ready to go all in. Whether you've got time working with henna under your belt or not, the way that you approach your first year of business in a very serious and intentional capacity, is so important. 

Inside of this special episode, I am sharing a lesson, which is no longer available. I'm sharing a lesson that's all about addressing some of the common hardships that are experienced within the first year of business, including some really tangible and easily applicable tips for how you can be the most successful possible. 

I'm highlighting for you some of those things that might not be on your radar, some of the traps, if you will, that are waiting `on the end for you to fall in. And I'm hopeful that inside of this episode, you'll be able to capture a number of gems that will keep you from some of the struggle, that I'd really like for you to be able to avoid. 

This lesson was actually delivered as a live class a while back and so you'll notice that we've got a couple interruptions from my littlest little, and I frankly didn't have the heart to cut it out because I'm a mom first. All right, without any further ado, I'm going to leave you with this lesson. I hope that you enjoy it, and I'm looking forward to hearing your feedback about what was your biggest takeaway. 

Welcome to the Hennapreneur podcast – the exclusive podcast of its kind dedicated to giving you an honest look at the realities of making a living as a henna professional.

I'm your host, Chelsea Stevenson, a tea-loving, shoe-collecting mother of three in constant search for the most popping pair of earrings and the perfect shade of red lipstick.

I'm also a professional henna artist and business strategist who went from barely being able to piece together a fluid design to being the owner of the most celebrated henna boutique in my city.

I'm on a mission to help henna professionals, to harness their skills and grow vibrant, profitable businesses that they absolutely love.

If you want to make more money with your art, you are definitely in the right place. Let's get to it!

 So today, today, we're going to be talking about common hardships that are encountered within the first year of business,

and I love talking about this because I feel like when you first start working for yourself, it's really easy to like romanticize about it. Everyone thinks oh, I'm going to start this business and it's going to be great. And I'm going to work for myself. And like the energy level is up here, we're like, we're going for it.

And we get really excited about the prospect of something new and something that's like within our control. And we love it. And that energy is great and loving it is great, and the positivity is great, but then you get in there and about three to six months in, it's " oh crap, like this is work."

And once that feeling starts to set in, then it's very common for certain things to pop up. And so I have a number of items, I've got one, two, three, four, five, six items that I'm gonna be touching base on for you today about common hardships found in the first year of business. Let's jump right in.

Okay, so first now I hope that you've been one of those good eggs has been watching videos as they come out, because this video is no longer available. But the first thing is you need to take the time to orchestrate, to create, to curate, whatever, to design a business plan for your business. In the first year, one, so many hardships, I should say, so many hardships can be avoided if you have a business plan in place because that business plan is your roadmap.

And utilizing that roadmap to get you from step A to step B step C is so— when I say so vital for your business— having the direction, having something to look back at to give you perspective, and having something to really compare yourself to, as you're going through the journey of your first year is so important and it's so valuable.

And if nothing else, it helps to keep you grounded and helps to keep you, feeling connected to what you're doing and helps you have your end goal in mind. And one of the things for myself, and one of the things that I recommend to my students is always to make sure that you have some sort of goal, some sort of objective, because then you can start to strategize and be very specific and intentional with the things that you do.

The worst thing would be to start your business off on a weak foundation. And included with that weak foundation would be not having goals, not having objectives, just being out there all willy nilly and not having a clear cut understanding of where you're headed or what you'd like to achieve.

The first mistake that I see, and the first key thing that you should make sure to do in your business, is to take the time to write a business plan. The second hardship that I see many small businesses encounter when they're in their first year of business, is the failure to identify the ideal client.

I'm going to be just very specific with you guys right now, because I don't know how many times in a day I talk about having an ideal client and I get a lot of questions. "How come my marketing isn't working? Or, what do I do, this person doesn't want to pay?" Or I'll get questions about, "how can I grow my client base, or how can I bring in more money or how can I—?" And always, I always come back to the same thing: well talk to me about your ideal client.

That is the foundation. And so if you don't take the time to identify your ideal client within your first year of business, it is going to be so much harder for you to grow. Though there's  some level of novelty within that  first year, which is something that we're going to talk about in just a minute as well. But there's that level of novelty that might keep people coming to you because you're new and you're fresh and you're excited, and people want to try you.

That is going to wear off. And not only will that wear off for the public, even for yourself, you're going to reach a point where you're like, I'm tired of dealing with these people. These aren't really the people that I want to deal with. And so if that is you, then you want to be sure to identify your ideal client early.

So if you are the type of person who, and especially if you're the type of person who wants to hit the ground running, like if you're in your first year and you're just wanting to test the waters and grow your skillset and make a little bit of cash in the process, then perhaps this isn't something that's so important to you.

If that first year is a timeframe that you want to use to just improve on your own person, the service that you're offering, and then I can understand if you're a little bit more lenient  in this way. But if you are wanting to treat your business officially, if you're wanting to do things really right from the beginning, then identifying your ideal client is going to be—.

If I had to rate, this would actually be the first thing. This is something that's included within your business plan. But taking the time to really get to know who that ideal client is, makes everything else so much easier that falls under that same umbrella of that business plan.

When you have a clear understanding of who your ideal client is, you know exactly where you can find them, how you need to speak with them. You understand what their value system is, how to engage with them in a way that feels authentic and that feels connected, and that resonates with them on a personal level, because you want to get that person to know and trust you.

And that will become very easy if you understand how they operate. And if you don't take the time to get to know your ideal client,  you will continue to have issues as it relates to what to charge and where to market, and how to market and why things aren't panning out in the way that you'd— this is why. I would say in all of the business consultations that I do and all of the one-on-one coaching that I do, and when I teach live classes, when I engage with people, when we identify a problem that's had, and we start to dig into that problem, that ideal client piece almost always comes up as being where the issue started. Okay? Don't, don't be lazy about this part. Put the work into this part, take the time to identify who that person is, take the time to get to know them, and then you'll be able to also address other things within your business. It makes making decisions within your business so much easier when you understand that person. Okay? So the third thing that I see a lot in that first year of business, that it is a common struggle because it's a learned skill, is the management of cashflow.

 It's really I think difficult for new business owners to get a grip on the fact that not all revenue is income. Like not all money that you make in your business is income for you to use.  If you were working for someone else, say you're working for whatever company and you're receiving a paycheck regularly, then you understand that when you get that check stub, the check stub is going to indicate that this is the gross amount that you made.

Let's say that's a thousand dollars. You have a thousand dollar gross amount that you made, and then you had to pay taxes and then you had to pay insurance and then you had to pay social security and all of those things. And so the check that you actually take home perhaps isn't a thousand dollars. Perhaps the check that you actually take home is,

I don't know, $600. And then when you get home, you have this $600 check and you guess okay, I've got $600 bucks this week, what do I do with it? And that doesn't mean that you then go to the mall and go shopping with that $600. No, you would then look at your budget, your personal budget and assess what bills are going to be coming next.

Say you have to pay your phone or you have to pay your cable, or you have to pay your water bill, or you have to pay whatever that is. And so it may be, or, even those flexible expenses. You have to pay for gas for your vehicle, or you have to pay for groceries. That cashflow, you understand that all of the money that you brought in

isn't expendable income. It's not all disposable to you. Some of that income, that say the $600 that's your net income, that still is going to be used in other ways to continue your wellbeing. Say at the end of the week, you're not then stuck with $600. That week you may actually have after all, after you pay whatever bills are due

at that point in time, you may have $200 that's actual income that you can use to go do whatever things you'd like to do. In our businesses, it's the same exact way. And what's really funny to me, and I shouldn't even say funny, it's just a common mistake is that new business owners will be so excited that, oh my gosh, I've made this money.

I saw clients this week and let's say this week I made the thousand dollars. I made a thousand dollars this week. So then what? That doesn't mean that you have a thousand dollars to just go and spend, you have to look at the cashflow within your business. Okay? Now that you've brought in that thousand dollars, what needs to be paid?

Is your insurance about to renew? Do you need to purchase new supplies? Do you need to put money into advertising? Do you need to, I dunno… Let's say you need to purchase something because you're doing a photoshoot. Whatever those expenses may be, you have to plan for them.

And of course you need to be setting aside money for taxes, and you need to be setting aside money for investment for your retirement, have a savings account for yourself. And then after you've taken those expenses out of the money that you've brought in, then you have that leftover amount, that profit, that's your income that you get to use.

And so more often than not, I'll find when I identify that there's issues within the financial structuring of a new business, many times it's because we overspend what we've made. Because we make the mistake in believing that everything we've made is actual profit and that's actual disposable income for us,

and it's simply not that way. When you're in business for yourself, you have to be aware of cashflow. You have to be aware of budgeting. You have to be aware that you have to reinvest in your business, which is something that, again, we're going to talk about in just a second. Management of that cashflow is super important.

And so if you are within your first year, or if you are starting fresh within your business, then you need to take the time to create systems that will help you to identify the cashflow for your business. That means documenting your expenses very well. The amount that they, you know, the obviously the amount for that expense, and then also when you can expect to pay it, and if it's something that's consistent or that's a regular expense,

know when that's going to be so that you can plan. If you fail to plan, whoo, it can be really hard for you later on, and you don't want to find yourself in the position where you're not able to— it could be something as simple as you're not able to participate in that festival that you love because you didn't plan ahead,

and now you don't have money for the fees. Or that you're taking fees, taking money from what would be income for your household. Now you have to use that income, use that money to pay the booth fee. You don't want to get into that sort of cycle. Don't Rob Peter to pay Paul, that sort of thing.

You don't want to have those fees on a credit card. Have that from within your business, and the way to do that is setting up and really understanding the cashflow for your business. So that is our third tip. So our fourth tip is, or a fourth common issue that I see is failure to understand that being busy doesn't necessarily mean that you're being productive.

And that's, it's not just with new businesses, that can be with people in general. So when you are looking at the growth of your business— yeah, did you have nommies? You have some nommies on your face—. When you are looking at your business and when you're assessing how healthy it is and when you're assessing how fruitful it is, a lot of us will look and we'll go, oh my gosh, but I'm so busy.

Like I'm so busy right now, things are great, I'm so busy! But then you sit back and you're balancing your books at the end of the month and you realize I was really busy, but I didn't make that much money. I was really busy, I was running around, but I didn't meet my sales goals. Or I was really busy and I missed that thing for my kid and when I actually look at what I brought in,

I should've gone. I should have gone to that game. I should have gone to, whatever that thing is. And I think for, especially for new businesses, treat your business as—. I try to be cautious of using the word balance. Oh my gosh, this network connection you guys are going to have to tell me, is this cutting out?

If it's cutting out, I'm like gonna have to figure out I'll have to go back and watch the video again and add in stuff. Okay. So you have to remind yourself that your business is a part of a bigger picture. If you build your business to take over your life, it will take over your life.

And later on, that's where regret comes in. I wanna pause and just say, do you realize that within the first year, right, it's estimated that about 75% of businesses make it through their first year? Which is great, that means in the first year you're doing all right. Around year two I think that the statistic is like somewhere around 65 to 69% of businesses will make it through the second year, which is still okay, fine.

But by year five, only about 50% of businesses actually succeed. So you've got a 50 50 shot, which isn't horrible, but it's also not great. It's literally, you can, you get to choose how you look at that. That glass empty, glass full sort of thing, like, you get to choose. But— yeah, glasses! You get to choose, you get to choose how you look at it.

So you get to choose how you perceive that. But for myself, that number was really scary. And the way that I choose to combat that in my own business is by making sure that I treat that business as a piece of my life, not as my entire life. And I don't allow my business the opportunity to get me into a headspace where I feel like I'm running.

If I feel like I'm a hamster on the wheel, I cut back. Because that means something's not going right. Something is off. And so don't allow yourself to fall into that place where you feel like, oh, I'm really busy, but then you're not productive. You're not actually— you need a wipe? Okay,

I've got one here—. Where you're not productive, where you're not actually achieving your goals, where you're not actually reaching those milestones that you'd hoped for. If you find that you're in that space, then you should take a step back and look at, okay, what am I really doing?

Where am I going? And that's tying back to the first piece that we touched on with that business plan. If you have the objectives clearly laid out for you, then it makes it easier for you to assess whether or not you're busy or you're productive, okay? And I think that,

particularly in the first year, because you want to get you want everything to be perfect, right? You want everything to be perfect. You want all the things that everyone else has and you want to do it as big, and as great and better even. And that drive is really important and it's valuable and there's a place for it, but that can also cause you, it can cause you to

buy into that busy-ness sort of lifestyle. That busy lifestyle versus a productive lifestyle.  If I can warn you away from falling into that trap then I want to.  That's why I wanted to be sure to include that piece in today's lesson, because it's so common. Not to say that you shouldn't do things. On the contrary, if you feel called to include a certain thing or to add a certain service or to reach out to a certain person or place, or if you feel in your gut and it is in alignment with your business plan, that this is what you need to do, then do those things.

I don't want you to warn you away from taking risks. Certainly, risks can be very good. What I'm saying is, don't allow yourself to— you get to build your business to be however you want it to be, okay? And if you build the hamster wheel, you will not get off of the hamster wheel.

That's what I want to say. That's what I want to make sure that I'm conveying here. So as you're building your business, don't build the hamster wheel. I found that for myself, yesterday I was very open with you guys about some of the personal struggles that I have, and I found that for myself and in creating my business— you want to talk? I hear you.

Yeah—. For my own business, choosing to include automation was important to me. Choosing to— you can see it. Yeah. Look, see there's cheekies. Yeah. Wow—. Choosing to include automation was important to me, choosing to invest in systems was important to me. Choosing to allow myself access to things,

and I say allow myself access... choosing to purchase things that bought me time was important to me, because I wanted to be sure not to build that hamster wheel. And so when I reach a point where—. Hey, can I help you? Hey, can I help you? You want to see Nadia?

There's Nadia. Okay, good—. So when I reach a point where I need that time off, or I need that space to myself or I need to be there for the ballet recital or for the soccer game or for foot massages with baby, then I can, and it doesn't damage my business to do. Okay? And as it relates to, to like the busy-ness specifically, the best way for me in my experience to assess whether or not you're busy or productive, is by taking the time to take inventory of one. What are you doing throughout the day? How long is it actually taking you to complete it? We can cuddle.

And then also, what does that, what's the end result? What are you actually getting back out of it? Are you achieving your sales goals? Are you achieving your marketing goals? Are you doing the things that you'd hoped to do by completing those tasks? Or did those tasks rack you up, an extra five hours that week and you don't have anything to show for it? If you don't have anything to show for it, then

just be cautious, okay? So I wanted to be sure to include that. Now we talked about just briefly with the, how many businesses can continue to exist after their startup. I mentioned the fact that by year five, about 50% of businesses will succeed. And I want to take that into my next tip or point number five, where one of the

common challenges that I see, is, it's an issue of mindset. Okay? Statistically, you should succeed in your first year of business. Especially because our business has, our industry is fairly low maintenance, it doesn't take very much to start. We don't have super high expenses when we start our henna businesses,

and so that's something that's very much in our benefit—. What's that? Nommies. You want  nommies? Why don't you go get an apple? Yeah, go tell brother for apple. No. Did you want to cut it mommy? Okay, mommy will peel it. Go get the apple. Go get the apple and tell brother mommy will peel it—.  So with mindset, it's common for us to, again, first to start off with this, yes, I can do this! I've got this, I'm going to win! Like, I'm here to be successful! And that's great, but those feelings tend to wane off. And when that happens, then that's when the feelings of self-doubt, and did I make the right decision, and do people even, do people like me?

Am I going to be successful, am I charging too much? Am I as good as...? All of those doubts  start to populate our head and that's when having control of your mindset is so important. I see, not only in new businesses, but I see even in older businesses, where a lack of self-confidence in your business it proves to be such a big issue that you're like destined to fail.

I'll preface by saying that some might feel like this is a little bit woo, and if that's the case, just bear with me and stick it out and then stick it out with me for the next couple of minutes. Okay? But I'm a firm believer in that you get what you put out, right? And so if you are the type of person who puts out positivity and who keeps their focus on success and on the things that you want to do,

and you treat those things like they're already done, then you're basically, you have no choice but to be successful. And that's been my experience. When I set my goals for each, for each month, for each quarter, I treat those things like they're already done.

Like it's done. I know that I'm going to, this is what I'm making income-wise. This is how many clients I plan to serve. This is how I'm doing it. And it's done. Like, it's not an option. And then I go chase after it, because I want it so badly for myself. And because I speak positivity to myself about, yes, I'm capable of doing it.

And! Then when those bad days come, when I'm like having a really rough time and I'm like, I don't know if I can make it. I don't know if I can make it for the rest of this workday, then I have a group of people. I've created a community for myself where I can go in and I can be honest and say, "look guys this sucks.

I'm having a rough day and I'm—" and I can get those feelings out. And then what I get back is nothing but positivity. What they give me back is nothing but you've got this, you can do this. You're amazing. And they feed me those things that I need to hear, that I wasn't able to give myself, okay?

And for us, when you have a statistic like that, that by year five, 50% of businesses are destined to fail, that's also 50% of businesses are destined to succeed. And you get to choose, you get to choose. And obviously not everything in life is like just, oh yeah, I think that I can do it,

so I'm just going to sit here on my laurels and watch it all happen. No, it takes hard work. It takes hard work, but if you do that work with the expectation that I can do this, I am capable. I offer an amazing service. I know that my skill set is just what my clients need. They're coming to me because I'm the expert.

I know that what I give is more than just henna. Get out of the mindset that "I'm just the henna artist, there's so many other henna artists out there." Do you know how quickly that turns into negative self-talk? "There are so many other henna artists in my city. Look at this one is doing that thing really well, and this one's doing that thing really well.

And this one, she's cheaper than me and this one, she could probably do the same design and a lot faster." Do you know how quickly, you see how quickly that can turn around and become something else that—? You don't want to be in that headspace! You have to identify within yourself what it is that you're actually offering to people,

and it's not henna. Henna is a commodity that can be found just about anywhere. And if your clients really wanted to do henna, if they really felt like it was just about henna, they would go to Amazon and buy henna cones and do it themselves. They're hiring you for a reason, so you have to identify what it is about you that makes you special, that makes you capable,

that makes you confident enough and the best choice. What's funny to me is that when I use the word best of course there are qualifiers for the word best. For example, like I have weird thoughts about the word best. And right now if you go on my social media, you'll see that I talk about how I'm the best in my city.

And that comes from, that's legitimate. Okay? The press has said I'm the best in my city. So I can say that, but that doesn't mean that I'm the best for everybody. Okay? And I think when it comes to mindset and how you treat your business, you have to be comfortable with the fact that you're not going to be the best for everybody, but you're the best for your clients hands down. And how, why? It's who you are and what you're offering.

And again, what you're offering isn't henna, you're offering something more than that. You're offering an energy exchange. You're offering an ambience you're offering an experience that supersedes the henna itself. The henna is just the means to the end, right? What you're offering is something that is different from that.

And I want you, if there were any affirmation that you could make for yourself, I would encourage you to lean into I'm the best. I'm the best. I'm the best at what I do. I do my best. I'm the best for my clients. I'm the best choice bottom line. And who cares if you're neighbors with the artist who is officially the best in your city? Who cares? You're best for the people who you're meant to serve, and they will see that,

and they'll want to engage you because of that. And so coming back to this common mistake of this mindset, where there's so much comparison and there's so much self-doubt and there's—. It can be a really, it can be a negative space. And if I can encourage you in any direction, it would be to avoid that.

And recenter the way that you view your business. Recenter the way that you view yourself as if you're set up for succes, and not only that, as if you've already succeeded. You are that 50% that's bound to succeed in your five. Okay? You have to treat it that way and then put the work in, put the work in as well.

It's not just here, you have to put the work in. But, if you put the work in and here you're still behind, you will block yourself from reaching that next level because you're not all there and you've not prepared yourself to take on whatever blessing, whatever success the universe, if you will, is willing to give you.

Okay? So there you go, that's my spiel. And I think, especially if you're one of the members in Hennapreneur PRO, you're going to get very familiar with hearing me talk about mindset, but it's such a common mistake that I couldn't not include it in today's lesson. Okay? And so the last mistake that I've got for you guys is the failure to choose to invest.

Okay? You will find, and this goes back to that cashflow thing, right? You'll find that many times new business owners will take the time to they'll just— they'll treat all revenue from their business as expendable income that's disposable, and then they won't take the time to like double back and invest.

And so when I talk about investing in your business, I'm not only talking about investing in your business by way of the products that you use or your booth set up. Like obviously you can invest in those things and that's fine, no harm, no foul. Like those are things that you need.

However, I'm talking more about investing in yourself. I'm talking more about taking the time to invest in classes that you need. If you don't know how to balance a ledger, take the time to hire an accountant or learn. One of the things that, at least in my own experience, this is very, this is anecdotal for me, but it's in alignment with all of the business owners that I keep within my own personal professional network. We're all doing these same things, and it's interesting to me because I don't see it so much in the henna community, and I wish that I did, is that we take the time to invest. I have a budget within my business that's for education and it's not so that I can sit in on classes on how to do

a particular, motif or something like that. No, I have a budget in my business. This is so that I can take classes on marketing. I can take a class on how to improve my Instagram. I can take a class on how to do whatever it is that I felt like I was lacking on. Then I make sure that I, within my business, put money aside, so when I see things come up, I can buy into those things that I need that help me as a person to do a better job at managing my business. And within the first year, you're in a position where there's so much information that you have to learn and it feels like you have to learn it very quickly.

And it's true that some things you'll learn with experience, but if you can avoid the hurt of of experiencing something negative because you take the time on the front end to learn from someone else's mistakes, to learn from someone else's successes, even, then do that.

And invest in books. Invest in, if it's not a class, go to the local library, invest your time. It doesn't have to be money. It doesn't have to be tangible money. You can go to the library. You can sit in on classes like these that are, they're free.

You can access them, it just requires your time to do. Do those things, invest in yourself and invest in your business, and then you'll see how things will improve. And then moving forward, when you do have a more solid cashflow, then you can choose to invest in more high level systems and things like that.

And that's fine. If you're wanting to build automation and so forth, that's fine as well, but don't I want to—, this is the final mistake that we'll talk about today, but it's that idea that you can't. Like, investment isn't even on our radar, honestly. That's what it's, I can't even say that it's like us blocking, it's the— we literally, it's not even on our radar to think about. We think, if I can do this paisley perfectly, and I can do it in three minutes or whatever, that I'm set.

That's great. But if you can be the best henna artist on the face of the earth, and if you don't know how to harness that skillset, you won't be successful. You will have a massive Instagram following and nothing in your bank account. And so what I want to encourage you is to take time to invest in yourself and not only, not only in the technical, how-to things, but take time to invest in yourself as a person as well.

Self-help books. Like they're a thing and it's a booming, billion dollar industry for a reason. Take time to invest in yourself. If that means that you're going for a walk every day, because you need those 30 minutes of quiet so that you can recenter your mind, do that. If you're the type of person that likes to meditate, do that.

If doing your nails and being like,  if that's therapeutic to you, do that and make sure that you make it a part of your routine. Again, we're not building the hamster wheel. You have to build sustainability into your business, and part of that is investing in time and in money and in effort and energy into your business.

But you, as a small business owner, you are your business as well. So make time and make a space within your lifestyle for you to take care of you as a person as well. And I don't think that we talk about that enough either, so I want to make sure that I, like, harp on it. Okay? So there we have it. So we've got our six common mistakes: the failure to create a business plan, failure to identify your ideal client effectively, failure to manage cashflow,

the failure to identify the difference between being busy and being productive, mindset, and then the sixth one is the failure to invest in oneself. I want to see you guys be a part of that—. We bit our finger.

I have to laugh because every time she gets excited about eating, she bites her finger. And it's so funny to me. It's okay. Can I kiss it? Let me see it. Which one? This one. Okay. I love it. I love it. I love it with your slobbery, slobbery fingers on my lips—. So now I want to see you guys be part of that 75%, that makes it through the first of the year.

And I definitely want to see you guys be part of that 50% that makes it past your five. And so I invite you to, one, to participate here, of course. And I invite you to share candidly about the challenges that you're facing, about the things that you've succeeded on so that the rest of the group can learn from your experience. And then also, since you can get support in the best ways, join us in Hennapreneur PRO. Tomorrow we have a group coaching call, which I'm really excited about.

And through that and you get access to the online courses, you have access to me. We've got group coaching calls that are not like this. It's not a live session. It is, literally we get on a video call and it's, we're in it together.

It's the bomb dot com, it's the bomb dot com.. I Invite you, join me there. And if you're not in the place yet to get there, I understand that too. I'm not going to be pushy about that. I'm just saying it exists and it's there for a reason, and I'm happy to help you out in whichever way it's possible for me to do. 

All right, I hope that you thoroughly enjoyed tuning into that bonus episode, if you will. That bonus lesson where we covered all of those common hardships found in the first year of business. Hopefully, this has given you a lot of food for thought as you're addressing your own business. And as you're identifying where perhaps you may have had some blind spots, as you're moving into taking your business more seriously or scaling it to the next level. 

Obviously, if you are interested in working with me, you're absolutely welcome to check out Hennapreneur PRO. And of course you are so invited to join us inside of the Hennapreneur community. And I'll give you a little bit of info about how you can do that here as we sign off. I appreciate you, I hope that this week treats you exceptionally well, and I'll talk to you guys next time!  

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