I am currently in the process of petitioning my Governor for a commuted sentence for a loved one. I am TWENTY years into this pursuit.
Over the years I have visited multiple prisons many times and HATE every single visit. LARGELY because when you are there — even as a visitor — you are subject to the domination of the guards. This goes against my very soul… as I am a self-governor. 
I do give a NOD to the laws of the land, as in “I know you exist,” but I FULLY intend to do whatever it is I want to do. (When you’re young, the adults call this “oppositional defiance.”)
Anyway, I have found it increasingly difficult to have my family released from prison… I know it will happen, and soon, simply because JUSTICE demands his release, and despite everything I STILL believe in justice.
But I have found an even worse prison… in the minds and hearts of too many women entrepreneurs:
The prison created
when we give OTHERS
responsibility
for the things
that we are CALLED
to give ourselves.
If you are looking to OTHERS for
permission,
approval,
acceptance,
belonging,
love,
worthiness,
safety, or
any. other. thing… .
Oh friend… this is a tough prison to escape indeed. And it is holding many women captive, even as you read this post.
What if you gave YOURSELF all of these things instead? What if you FULLY accepted and loved and approved of yourself? What if you REALIZED one day that you needed NO ONE’s permission to do ANYTHING? What if you woke up tomorrow and fully embraced your ABSOLUTE worthiness?
How might this change….
what you do with your time?
How you dress?
What you say — or no longer say?
What you tolerate…. and what you on longer tolerate?
What you CHARGE…
How long you keep the door open for people to “decide” whether they wanted to work with you, or not?
How you approach partners and pitches and opportunities?
How much time might you save when you no longer have to prove yourself, but just SHOW UP in the beautiful chaos of being YOU?
The truth is that I can DEFINITELY teach you the strategies and tactics of making a ton of money online and off. I can share the right words to say and the price points that are flying off the shelves right now. I can teach you funnels and sales pages and conversion techniques. I can help you package your work so that it LEAPS into people’s shopping carts and how to polish your voice so that you get the attention AND money you deserve.
And don’t get me wrong
I LOVE this stuff.
I geek out over it.
But if you do ALL of these things,
dotting every i and crossing every t,
but from a place of DISempowerment…
from a place of “Proving” and “convincing,”
you can do everything “right,”
and it will not work.
Or at least, not nearly as well,
and NEVER for the long haul.
(Feast or famine anyone?)
That’s why, through Women Who WOW, we build the WOMAN as well as the business. That’s why I show up for our members EVERY SINGLE MORNING with a piping hot shot of #EntrepreneurialEspresso… to remind them of the badass they are… to REMIND them of what they came to do… to get them MORE in touch with what makes them so unique and so determined and so ready.
We teach the other stuff, too. #OfCourse (Click here and scroll down to check out our library: https://www.bmichellepippin.com/meet-women-who-wow/)
But the business will NEVER outperform the woman at its helm. The business will always be crawling uphill
until the woman at the helm
DETERMINES to untether herself from the TYRANNY of other people’s opinions…
so she can FINALLY sprout wings.
No, it’s not for everyone.
But we MIGHT be for you.
Message me for details.
