I was asked over the weekend by one of my up line presenters from my makeup business to share my why with our team. The why am I doing this, why have I decided to start another business. This is what I shared with my team.

My why is quite complex really. I started this journey because I saw how much fun Kelly (my sponsor) was having. I thought it would be nice to have something that was purely for me. Now, I see it as an extra bit of income to bump up my money alongside my admin business. That is really picking up and I’m hoping to quit my day job within the next 3 months. If doing Younique alongside my admin business can keep me going, then that would be amazing! It has done wonders for my confidence as well. I wasn’t in a good place after losing my baby and being able to do something for myself has really helped me to get back my confidence. Plus I’ve been able to make some really amazing new friends and the support is fantastic.

So you can see that my reasons for beginning my new venture have developed over the last few months. I do see it as a nice extra bit of income, which enables me to have that bit of money which can be used for nice treats. Taking Maya out for a sweet treat, buying that new dress for myself, getting my nails done once in a while. Having that extra something which means that I can have a little bit of me time, it makes all the difference to my sense of self. In a lot of ways, starting my makeup venture has been about me getting back to being Kylie, instead of just being mum all the time. It has given me back the part of me which I had lost for a while after losing Theo.

My why for starting this business, my own Virtual Assistant business, this was about me taking back control of my career path. I started out my career in retail as a stop-gap whilst I was hunting for a job within the animal care industry.  That obviously did not work out as planned. Nearly 14 years later and I am finally changing my path to reflect what I now want to be doing. It may have taken me a while to realise what it is that I actually want to do with my career, but now that I have found something which I really am good at, something that I enjoy doing, I finally have my reason why.