The Get Shit Done Summit led to The Art of Getting Shit Done then to Doing the Most The Misadventures of Entrepreneurship Podcast. But the most surprising and successful project created from the Get Shit Done Summit is my agency GSD Solutions.
The process of building my agency was far from simple.
After I shut down Illicit Mind I felt like a failure. I was in such a hard place spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically that I felt as though I didn’t deserve to be an entrepreneur anymore.
I had disappointed my team, my community, and myself. Maybe my dream of being a successful entrepreneur was just that… a dream.
September 2018 – May 2019 was the first time in my adult life that I wasn’t the CEO of a company. Sounds weird… almost arrogant even to write this but it’s my truth. From when I was 18 yrs old and I incorporated the Illicit Mind Clothing line being a CEO has been a key part of my identity.
My background as the firstborn daughter, older sister, teen mom, and designated responsible human in most of my friend circles along with holding various leadership roles in my community and school being HBIC was literally second nature to me.
Not being a CEO left me feeling naked. Little did I know that those 9 months were an essential incubation period for what was about to happen next in my life.
In the Fall of 2018, I held the very first 100% Online GSD summit. Dozens of people from all over the world spoke and attended. Having this event I realized the potential for leveraging tools and services in the virtual space could lead to having a great event experience. There were still a few kinks here and there but I was destined to resolve them.
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