Butch Femme Planet - View Single Post

ArkansasPiscesGrrl · 12-22-2011, 05:56 PM

Got a call this morning from someone I work with through my company. She wanted to tell me she had referred a client to me for my business. This man called, he runs the only minority-focused mental health/substance abuse service in a western state. He and I had a wonderful, 2-hr conversation about his company, and what I might be able to bring to it. I worked up a contract for him, sent it, and within 20 min it was signed and sent back to me! No quibbles about my charges at all!

So now I have a treatment facility in CA, one in WA, and in Feb I am due to take on a 3rd in CO! My company is growing by leaps and bounds!

I was telling my daughter today, as I took her to lunch to celebrate, that her brothers had both harped at me for YEARS that I should open my own business, that the fact that I have 25+ yrs experience doing what I do counts for a LOT, and that I would be awesome as a business owner. I was always too afraid before. But last summer, I walked through those huge fears (feeling scared and shaky the whole time, of course!), and pretty much faked the confidence till it started to come on its' own.

My daughter listened in while I spoke to this guy today, and she was so very proud of me. I was pretty proud myself. Could not get the grin off my face during lunch! Yeah ME! Not bad for a 59 yr old chick!

12-22-2011, 05:56 PM	#7011
ArkansasPiscesGrrl Member How Do You Identify?: femme Preferred Pronoun?: she, her Relationship Status: feeling pretty darned blissful right now! Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: central AR Posts: 856 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,594 Thanked 3,079 Times in 741 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	Got a call this morning from someone I work with through my company. She wanted to tell me she had referred a client to me for my business. This man called, he runs the only minority-focused mental health/substance abuse service in a western state. He and I had a wonderful, 2-hr conversation about his company, and what I might be able to bring to it. I worked up a contract for him, sent it, and within 20 min it was signed and sent back to me! No quibbles about my charges at all! So now I have a treatment facility in CA, one in WA, and in Feb I am due to take on a 3rd in CO! My company is growing by leaps and bounds! I was telling my daughter today, as I took her to lunch to celebrate, that her brothers had both harped at me for YEARS that I should open my own business, that the fact that I have 25+ yrs experience doing what I do counts for a LOT, and that I would be awesome as a business owner. I was always too afraid before. But last summer, I walked through those huge fears (feeling scared and shaky the whole time, of course!), and pretty much faked the confidence till it started to come on its' own. My daughter listened in while I spoke to this guy today, and she was so very proud of me. I was pretty proud myself. Could not get the grin off my face during lunch! Yeah ME! Not bad for a 59 yr old chick!