My Mama, the Entrepreneur

This week, we finished an assignment where we interviewed an entrepreneur. I chose to interview my mother, and it was amazing to finally hear the details of her story and get to invest real interest in her life's work. I've always taken it for granted. When I was a kid, I was more irritated by how her business inconvenienced me than how it really helped us. My father decided a few years ago that he no longer had any interest in providing for the family, and that left my mother to carry the weight. She's done so admirably and with a miraculously positive attitude. It was such a blessing to be able to spend that time writing her story.

We learned a lot about pursuing dreams this week and we read an incredible talk called "The Challenge to Become." That helped me a lot to remember that as long as I'm becoming who I need to become, setbacks aren't the end of the world. I'm so grateful for this class and all that it's teaching me.

We also learned about entrepreneurship within companies and that really intrigued me, because I never realized it was possible to have an entrepreneur spirit and still work for someone else. But I learned from my mother that working for someone else can really help you build character and skills. All of this made me wonder what I can be doing at my place of employment to better both the company and myself.