Lynn Terry, who I met about a year ago in person, has tagged me with the “25 Things” meme.
Lynn has been one of my most important mentors since I started with my online business 6 years ago. It was a blog post of hers that inspired me to launch my very first niche affiliate website. (It’s still online but I no longer own it.)
The success of that site, and the knowledge that following a proven system *works*, inspired me to switch my focus to affiliate marketing (instead of direct sales, which I was doing back when I first got started).
If you’re new to me (maybe a new Twitter follower from Blissdom? Welcome!), here are a few quirky facts about me so we can get more acquainted. I’ve done this meme already on my Facebook page, which had a more personal theme, but since this is my business blog I’ll focus more on being a work at home mom and internet marketer.
- I haven’t had a “job” in over ten years.
- The last “job” I had was a supervisor at Starbucks in downtown Atlanta.
- I worked until just a few days before my oldest son was born.
- I never went back.
- I have no education to speak of (high school graduate) and am self taught.
- I think it’s dangerous for a woman to be economically dependent and never will be again, no matter how my current circumstances change (I’m a divorced single mom who supports her family).
- I have Irish Traveler (tinker) blood and would love to live in an Airstream, traveling the country with my kids and working via a wifi connection.
- I am mildly agoraphobic, and could easily live in a small space (like an Airstream).
- I do not own a television set.
- But I never miss House (I watch it on my laptop).
- No matter how little sleep I got the night before, I cannot sleep late.
- I hope my kids never have a job. I want to teach them entrepreneurship.
- As long as that’s what they want.
- My kids are homeschooled. We have an eclectic style and do history, science and other subjects all together, Little House on the Prairie style.
- I am deeply religious and after school spend several years as a youth minister, but prefer to compartmentalize. I don’t mix business and faith.
- I’ve been single for over two years, but the divorce was only final weeks ago. I “didn’t believe in divorce”.
- Oddly, my ex initiated the proceedings, but I was the one who left him (for the fourth and final time) and just before signing on the dotted line, said he didn’t want the divorce. I, on the other hand, very much did.
- What does that have to do with business? Don’t know. (See #6)
- My oldest child has known how to brew coffee for several years now (he’s 10), and loves to bring me coffee in bed. It comes natural I guess. (See #2, 3)
- I think I have an awesome life. I am so blessed to be able to do what I do, from home, surrounded by my kids.
- I recently got my 2nd speeding ticket… the first one in 16 years!
- When I need to focus, I drop the kids off at my mother’s, head to Starbucks and write my brains out.
- I developed my first information product, Natural Mom Business Guide, one day when my internet connection stopped working.
- I am on a mission to help educate mom bloggers that they can make money and still have integrity and be true to their voice.
- Other than Twitter, I don’t do social media. But I do love Twitter. The other day my sister called me on the phone worried, because she hadn’t seen me on Twitter that day. LOL!
Thanks Lynn, that was fun! Now I’m tagging:
- Sarah and Mary Ellen from Moms Marbles (I think you guys need to write an ebook!)
- Nell at Casual Friday Everyday
- Jessica at Jessica Knows
