So this episode is gonna be a little bit different to normal because I want to do
a reintroduction. Hello, my name is Carrie Green! My entrepreneurial journey
actually began back in 2005, when I was studying law at university, and I had
finished my first year of university, and had run out of money completely. And
I was like, "Great! I need to figure this out..." And I remember applying for
a job to sell ice cream at Cirque du Soleil, mostly just because I want you
to watch Cirque du Soleil, because I'd never seen it before... And then this
opportunity presented itself for me to start my very own online business,
unlocking phones. I was like, "I don't even know anything about phones. I don't
know what the heck unlocking is. But great, yeah, I'll do that!" And then
with a credit card, and a spending limit of I think about $40 a day, I got my
business up and running. It began to make money fairly quickly. And I was
like, absolutely blown away that a student, living in their student
accommodation, could with a laptop, be making money online. So when I graduated
university, I had a business that was actually making me around like 10,000
pounds a month. I got an amazing law degree. I remember being really stuck
between like, "Do I become a lawyer? Or do I continue with building a business?"
And really fortunately, I managed to get some work experience with the in house
legal team at Warner Brothers in London. It was an incredible experience. But
actually, what I found was that I felt suffocated. I didn't want to be told
what to do all the time. It didn't light me up. And I thought, "If this isn't
gonna make me want to be a lawyer, I don't know what will. I just want to
focus on building a business." So that's what I did. I gave up my place. And I
decided that I was going to focus on building online businesses. And so that
progressed. But as you can imagine, a business that was unlocking phones is
not exactly exciting. I was not remotely passionate about it. And so I was just
like, "What am I doing with my life?" It got to a point where it was making a lot
of money. And I was so bloody bored. Partly because the business was so
automated. I remember thinking, "What the heck am I doing in my life? What is
my purpose in life?" I just didn't know what to do. While rereading the E-Myth
by Michael Gerber, he has this chapter called Primary Aims. And in this
chapter, he says, "Imagine walking into a room, and sat on the chairs are your
friends and family. And as you get to the front of the room, you see a box.
And you realise you're in the box, and it's your funeral." And he says, "What
do you want people to be saying about the kind of life that you lived? The
kind of things you achieved? The kind of person that you were?" And I remember in
that moment, thinking, "I'm not being the person I want to be, I'm not doing
the things I want to do. I'm not living the life I want to be living. I
said, "In 10 years from now you will surely arrive. The question is where?"
Don't bloody know. I don't know I'm gonna arrive in 10 years. That's what I
was thinking. I don't know. And so I realised that if I wanted to live my
best life, I had to get clear on what that even looked like: what that meant.
What would be a really fun, cool place to get to in 10 years? In 2008, I'd had
this idea to create a platform to bring together women in business because I
felt isolated as a woman in business. Also, I just wanted to find other women
like me that I could connect with, and we could drink wine together, and we
could talk about our problems as entrepreneurs. That would be fun. And it
just didn't really exist. Often, when I went networking, it was just a bunch of
guys drinking beer. And I was like, "What the hell am I doing here? Like,
what am I doing here?" I started to realise that I had the power within me
to tap into my imagination, to start to paint the picture of the life that I
wanted to live. The things I wanted to experience. We get conditioned to be
realistic, and it can just really take over. And it definitely had for me. So I
created this mission, my Mission Success Challenge, and it was to see what would
be possible if I conditioned myself to success. How can my life change and
unfold and level, if I conditioned myself to success? If I started to get
clear on what my dream life looks like, what would be amazing things to achieve?
I recognised that I had this idea, that I'd been sat on for three years, to
build this platform for women in business. I decided that it was now the
time to do it. I decided that I wanted to be a millionaire. It had felt like a
joke, but I knew in my bones that I was going to figure out how to do it. I
decided that I wanted to build this business that I was passionate about,
that really excited me. I didn't know how I was going to do it or anything,
but I got committed that this was my life. This is what I was going to do. I
was going to make it amazing. When we decide something for ourselves, when we
truly decide, we truly commit with every cell of our being, it's insane how the
way unfolds. It's like Rumi says, "When we begin to walk on the way, the way
appears. When we begin to walk on the way, the way appears." And it's so true.
I think for so long, I'd been so tangled up in like, "I don't know how I don't
know how I don't know, I don't know, I don't know." You don't need to know! You
just have to trust that you'll figure it out and take that next step. And when
you take that next step, the next step appears and then the next step appears.
And then the next step appears. You don't need to know what's at Step 10 in
order to start on Step 1. I just started to network, get myself out there, start
connecting with people. And one thing led to another thing into another thing
into another thing. In 2011, I started the Female Entrepreneur Association. It
has become a huge platform with hundreds of 1000s of women from all over the
world. We have, at the heart of it, our membership, which is incredible, with
over 5000 amazing members. We've got so many freebies and free content, we've
got the She Means Business Show, that you're listening to, which goes out
every single Tuesday. We have our Carrie & Co store, where we sell inspirational
stationery for women, we have our planners that we sell every year, which
sell out every year, journals, dream books, manifesting pens, all sorts of
fun stuff. I've written my book, She Means Business, which was published in
2017. If you've not read it yet, I definitely feel like that's a great
place to start, if you want to learn more. So many lives have been changed.
So much impact has been had. And it's made millions. You know, speaking on
incredible stages around the world, becoming an international best selling
author, building a multi million dollar business. Again, I didn't know what I
was doing, I was terrified. I was worried that no one would sign up, but
it would be crappy, but I put it out there I had the courage to put it out
there. And it's now grown into a membership with over 5000 amazing
members from all over the world. I've been doing it for seven years now, it's
been absolutely incredible. It's generated millions and millions in
revenue, it's mind blowing.
For me, creating the success that I have has always been down to the inner work
that I have done on myself, that has enabled me to get to that next level of
success. For all of us, so much as on the table for what we can achieve, what
we can experience, the life we can live. There are no limits. But the problem is
that we don't think we can. We don't get committed to this idea that we can
create success. If you focused on doing the inner work, on really conditioning
yourself for success, on saying to yourself, "I am going to open myself up
to receiving the success and abundance I want. And I might not know how to do
this. But I'm committed to doing this. I am committed to living my best life, to
achieving amazing things and to creating these amazing experiences." Like if you
even just do that, what could you welcome into your life? How could your
life begin to flow with more ease? It will. And it will be incredible. Is
there something you're teetering on the edge of? Just take that next step. And
just commit with every cell of your being that you might not know how but
you are going to figure out. You are going to figure out how to bring it into
your reality. Open yourself up to be available for it, to allowing it into
your life. At the heart of FEA, that's what it's about. It's about getting
everyone to a place where you feel inspired, you feel in your bones that
you can achieve amazing success with your business, that even if you don't
know how, you know that somehow you're going to make it happen. That's what
it's all about. And not only is it about getting you to that place where you
truly believe in yourself, it's then about showing you the way: showing you
the practical steps to take to actually build a really successful business. And
we work with so many incredible experts to facilitate trainings and courses that
are going to help you in so many areas, like building your email list, and
whatever else. If you are listening to this now and you're really at an early
stage, where you've got a dream to do something, or maybe it's that you're
trying to get to a next level, I just want to say, you can do it. I want you
to believe in yourself. Because what's the point of not believing in yourself?
What if you just decided that, "Okay, this is my life. I live one life. I'm
ready to make this amazing. And if you think about what it is you want to
achieve, just start looking at yourself in the sense of like, you're already
there. You're already doing it. Commit to the vision. Commit. If you don't know
what the vision is yet, commit to the idea that you are going to live your
best life, that you are going to welcome success and abundance and joy into your
life. Open yourself up to it. Open yourself up to receiving what you want.
Allow yourself to receive the ideas, the inspiration, the guidance. You have to
choose it. Choose your dreams. Choose to live the most amazing life. And when you
choose it, it will begin to unfold. Like Rumi says, "When you walk on the way,
the way you will appear." So start walking on the way of your dreams. And
the way it will appear, little step after little step after little step. If
you've got any questions for me, or anything you'd like me to answer,
message me on Instagram @iamcarriegreen. Go to
femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/story. The whole goal and the aim here, with
the She Means Business Show, and with the Female Entrepreneur Association, is
to truly help you to have confidence in yourself, and to have clarity around
your vision, and to help you to realise that you can live an amazing life. And
that you can build a really successful business. And it's about showing you
how: How you can actually do it, how to build a successful business. But mostly
by helping you to recognise the value that you have in yourself, the value
that you bring to this world. And the fact that you have something to say, you
have something to offer, and it's really powerful. You have a voice and it's time
to use it. It's time for you to truly use it and to be louder than ever
before, and to create so much more success than ever before, and to take
yourself to that next level. And that's what I want to do. I want to help you to
get to that next level. Episodes come out every Tuesday. So definitely tune in
next week for more inspiration, to help you to build a business of your dreams
and to live the life of your dreams. But for now, enjoy the rest of your day, and
I'll see you next week. Bye!
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