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Christy Wright: A 5-ingredient recipe for life balance
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Christy Wright: 3 reasons you should finally start that business
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My mom is the most amazing woman on the planet. When she was 34 years old, she suddenly had a baby to raise on her own (me). With only $64, she needed a job. So, she got scrappy and decided to use her baking skills to earn money.
She started out by renting a small showcase window at a candy store in downtown Nashville. She woke up at crazy hours and worked long nights. She hustled, pushed through fear and overcame it.
Now, over three decades later, my mom is still baking. Her beautiful and delicious creations have been part of thousands of birthdays, weddings and anniversaries some of the best moments in her customers’ lives.
Studies show that small startups that receive mentorship are more likely to survive the first five turbulent years that those that did not. For example, a person may be good in a certain craft but fail to monetise it simply because they have no business acumen. David Macharia, for instance, worked at a photo studio in downtown Nairobi but hoped to set up his studio in another part of town. “I was a good photographer but a poor businessman,” he says. However, chance meetings with accomplished photographers such as Boniface Mwangi changed his business outlook. “They told me to register a business name rather than do the work on an unofficial basis. That, they told me, would help in creating systems that would run the business even in my absence.” Macharia listened and turned his business from a freelance photographer running around on a bicycle in Kangemi to setting up Versatile Photographers. Among his highest moments was being selected to photograph President Barrack Obama in