One of the most important lessons we learned is that our lives and our businesses will teach us along the way. We don’t need to know everything on day one because the challenges we face on day will likely be ones we are already equipped to handle. As we overcome challenges we get better and better and as the challenges increase in difficulty so too does our ability to tackle them.

We asked members of the community that we admire to share important lessons their business or career has taught them and have shared some of those responses below.

Leah Stine | VA turned Copywriter

a thing if you are learning and evolving. I started my business almost four years ago, it has grown and evolved over the years to be what I really want it to be. This wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t felt that pang of failure throughout it. I had considered myself a VA for a long time, but in reality, I have always been a copywriter. I have been writing sales copy, marketing materials, blogs, and website content for over eight years. Read more>>

Shelby Barocas | Interior Designer

The ability to be resourceful, and always anticipate the unexpected. Given supply chain challenges, especially over the past two years, I’ve had to learn how to not only think ahead in terms of project management, but also learn to shift a particular vision I may have for a project, and work with what is most readily available. Read more>>

Michelle Day | Cake Decorator & Owner of Lucky Day Bakery

I have learned so much! Mainly that running a business is A LOT of work- it is so much more than creating a product. For me, it’s discussing an order with a potential customer, finding out what they want and don’t want, what fits in their budget, and having a vision that fits these parameters. Then I send an invoice and add them to my calendar. The week of I bake, cool, fill, frost, stack, decorate, clean and clean and clean, photograph and then box up their cake. Read more>>