Hi everyone!  I look forward to being in this community and getting to know you through our learning and community interaction & support!

A little bit about me… I’m going to start with growth edge…

I think my current growth edge is best described by the phrase ‘putting myself out there’.  I took the downsizing package offered by my corporate job in 2011, somewhat on faith and also following a strong internal feeling that I couldn’t stay there any longer.  I told my coworkers that my next step would be “doing something in energy medicine” (at that time I thought it would be something with Reiki or EFT).

I’ve spent years taking various courses and programs and trying stuff out.  It’s taken me a long time to realize that I’m a B2B business.  I am a Business Strategist for Churches & I offer courses and coaching to churches.  I recognize that I’m walking a line between crazy (are you kidding? is there money in that?) and brilliant/inspired (they could certainly use the help!).  However, doing this work feels like where I’m supposed to be.  My ideal clients are ministers and church leaders.  I currently have my very first client proposal being reviewed and (hopefully) approved.  To have a sustainable business, I will need to have a proven product(s) and to do effective marketing.

Regarding social media, let me just say very honestly that I’m not currently a big fan of social media.  It think it can be useful, but for me personally, to post something currently produces anxiety, so I continue to struggle in my relationship with it.  As a business owner, I feel like I “should” like social media and use it, but I have yet to fully embrace it.  (Probably related to my ‘putting myself out there’ growth edge!)  With that said, for social media platforms, I probably spend more time on Facebook than others… would like it if I spent more time on LinkedIn.   

At this point in time, I’m not really sure what kind of connections I’m looking for in this course community.  I think it might be with a smaller subgroup of people also in the Health & Human Services industry would be good.