I am a professional photographer specializing in senior portraits. I have been photographing for about 6-7 years now and my business has grown immensely this past summer. I also work full time at an office job to pay my bills. With working full time during the day and then shooting just about every evening this past summer, it has been both exciting and extremely exhausting. I felt like I wasn’t doing my best in regards to my business but was so burnt out from the constant schedule of “wake up, work, shoot, sleep, repeat.” I could see my dream of being a full time photographer becoming closer in reach yet slipping further and further away at the same time. I realized I would never truly be able to be full time as with my specialty my busy months end up being April through October and then pretty much a dead business November through March. With this realization, I knew I had to do SOMETHING.
As a person with a mental illness, it is not easy for me to work in a corporate setting, sitting at a desk all day. I have noticed with all of my other jobs that were similar to the one I have now, my anxiety tends to go through the roof, I am on edge and my depression sets in.
With that, I started to dig on the internet. Looking up things such as “Legit work from home jobs” or “how to make money working from home” and so on. After two or three weeks of being miserable and looking for options, I remembered something, I had a friend who was doing something from home. What was it? All I remembered was it started with an L. Quickly I messaged her on Facebook and told her to tell me EVERYTHING about it! We chatted briefly and then I had asked “How much does it cost?” and then she hit me with the bombshell “Between $5,000-$6,000″. I was like WELL NEVERMIND. But she insisted that it was doable and that we should get together to talk more.
Fast forward to about a week later, we met at Caribou and she introduced me to the world of LuLaRoe. I was instantly hooked. I wanted to do this. I didn’t care if I didn’t have the money, I needed to make this work. I spent the next few weeks learning EVERYTHING about LuLaRoe and doing intense research. Maybe I was trying to find something to tell me “No, this is too much money to risk a bunch of clothes on.” And let me tell you, I did find a few articles that weren’t too convinced with LuLaRoe and what the company had to offer, but the amount of people I had read about, joined their groups, heard their stories of success and freedom --- it completely outweighed anything negative I had read. This really wasn’t a scam. This was something I felt in my soul that I needed in my life.
So, long story short, my “WHY” is that I needed something to make my dreams come true. Being fashion lover and a person who really found herself through fashion, the company spoke to me. I am starting this journey to improve my quality of life, to provide a stable future for myself and my loved ones, to balance my mental health issues and take care of myself, to pursue my dream of being a full time photographer, to buy a house, to live comfortably, to help my mother, to make women feel AWESOME about themselves and love their bodies, and so much more.
**I would like to thank my best friend, Jordyn, for being there for me and helping me achieve this dream of mine, I wouldn’t be able to do this without you. I would also like to thank Dominic for telling me to “JUST DO IT!” and loving me no matter what crazy things I dive into, my beautiful mom for believing in me even though she thinks I’m nuts and taking too big of a chance, and everyone else who has been incredibly supportive. I am doing this because of you.**
