Business Leader Role Models

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Twenty minutes on the timer left to go. That’s all the time I’ve given for writing my draft on this topic today. With some much-needed change of room lighting, I have one curtain open for sunlight to come through.

It’s still pretty breezy here in central Texas. It could be leftover wind from the gulf tropical storms, or new storms forming out at sea. I haven’t paid much attention to the forecast since the last hurricane hit the states. I mostly check to see if there’s any rain in the local forecast, in hopes to finally have our new pond full of water for the ducks to enjoy. Today, the sky is full of clouds of different shapes, and by the looks of it, I’m sure that it’s hot and muggy at this early afternoon hour.

I used to think about leadership a lot during school and college. Lately, thoughts of being a leader still come and go with work, but today I have to think back and start on a clean slate at the same time. I haven’t thought about what it means to be a leader as an affiliate marketer. But having an affiliate business should be no different when defining one’s self as a leader. Affiliate is a new market for me, and its time to make a new definition of a leader in this field.

Leaders can be defined by their area of study or professional career. But as an entrepreneur, I cannot be classified as a leader of a single definition, least I prefer not to be singled out. I have knowledge and experience in different topics and skills, and when defining a leader, most think of a single job. To clarify a leader-entrepreneur approach, it’s time to go back to basics.

BASICS: These are my leader role models

  • Parents
  • Donald Trump(Currently President of The United States and Commander In Chief)
  • Martha Stewart
  • Most of the hosts of the TV series, Shark Tank(these came later)
  • Emeril 
  • Anthony Bourdain
  • Montel Williams 

Dating my age, but times change and so do our interests in celebrity/business interests! These were my beginning leader role models.

Why They Were My Leaders

People often forgetting that we are always being watched and listened to. And being listened too is a big key factor in becoming a leader. People will listen when they see that your interests and skills are reflective of your work. They will determine whether or not if progress is being made in the field by your business methods. I used to watch shows, documentaries and even bought books published, just to learn about their lifestyle and business ventures.

I’ve read, watched, and witness my leader role models and saw their passion and drive for their careers, and how their actions moved them up to success. They never once shied away from hard work or making difficult business decisions.

I admired how each worked to see their plans through to the end. Throughout my own life, I had always worked at things no matter my struggles. And I had many struggles growing up. Not in the sense of coming from low financial status but finding my way through friendships and discovering what my purpose was on Earth.

Seeing that people can make a BIG name for themselves outside having to become an athlete of some sort, a doctor, or already being born into wealth, I knew there was never a reason to settle in life.

Most of my role models created their wealth, and this was appealing to me. I understood the process of creating something from an idea to materializing it to its final product.

Take, for example, Anthony Bourdain. He worked his way through the kitchen to learn and master the skills of the culinary world. Even Martha Stewart was cut-throat about learning her skills of baking and crafting and pushed her way to the top. 


Bumpy roads for these leaders: NO ONE IS PERFECT

I had to make a huge statement there. And one that should be reread many times. 

Why We’re All The Same

We all take risks both in life and business, and this group certainly took on both. Though creating happy family lives and successful careers didn’t always come easy. Many of my leaders have gone through multiple marriages, had children, and still found a way to build an empire. 


As we live life, we all experience love relationships. It’s one main reason why we are here, to love and experience and expand. Finding a balance in each area IS the learning process.

For me, I am now in the same boat as my leader role models. I saw my dream career, started to plan for the future, detoured and had an unsuccessful marriage (more about not seeing the red flags that it was doomed for commitment in future posts), had a beautiful child.

Because I chose motherhood, now my life’s work is to build more than a legacy only for myself. And one of the greatest awareness I’ve also realized is, what my story can offer to the community. How this life experience will shape my businesses moving forward.

All these experiences help boost a person as a leader. It allows you to connect even greater with team members and your customers. And the best place to work is from experience. 

But Do I Have To Work As Hard As My Role Model?


Yes. In more or less the sense you MUST work as hard as your role model(s). Due to all the advances with technology, everything has to be learned by you to be a leader. Leaders are not praised(credited) from work that assistants or ‘robots’ do, or the lack of not knowing and doing the work. (People will notice if you don’t put in 100% effort.)

Learning to be a leader means knowing how things work from start to finish. Some leaders attend college-like I did- and others choose to learn through other forms, like hands-on training.

Without knowing your field, you can not speak on the topic, let alone provide value for improvement. And value is important!

Gaining A New Learning Platform For Business

Attending college was my route to learning about my industry in a step-by-step method. Little did I know, I was to be pulled away from building my dreams for culinary expansion to experience marriage and motherhood. 

Despite having to be on my toes to keep my marriage together, I never quit exploring and researching behind closed doors of opening a business and drafting business plans. 

A few years were taken away from starting a business when the divorce and custody consumed most of my time and energy. 

This lead to redefining myself as a business person. The leaders above never let a divorce or custody case come between them and manifesting their dreams. The difference was that I was a stay-at-home-mom during the entire time I was going through this. I bonded with my son beyond what words can explain, and more so from the moment I knew I was expecting a child.

My views on how I wanted to run my businesses changed slightly. Going through custody visitation is an experience I’d never wish my readers to go through, even when dealing with an abusive ex-spouse. Every moment that I had between unjustified visitations, were moments I made sure counted towards the love I had within my soul for my son.

This set me on the course of deciding what was to be most important about becoming a businesswoman as a single mom. The answer: Time freedom.

To me, other parts of the business were easily manageable, but getting time to be with my son and family was key. I only needed a way to make this reality.

About the time after the divorce became final, I allowed myself to explore the option of working from home. I wasn’t feeling any spark at the offers that I came across. Mostly, it was just that: work from home. But on someone else’s idea. No thanks! I had my business plans to enforce.

Were my leader role models shuffling around for some other company, building someone else’s empire? HECK NO!

No one can ever be completely happy by selling and working for someone else’s business ideas while dreaming of being your own boss. It’s never going to work.

Trust me. I worked several small jobs and was never satisfied knowing I was not making progress in my own business. Don’t get me wrong, I was happily DOING my job, as my nature is to be service-oriented. But being an employee was not going to launch my career.

After Asking For Guidance From Above:

I found affiliate marketing to be the solution. Many programs out there today offer affiliate programs, but none other than the one I stumbled upon comes close to modeling the training I have been accustomed to.

It’s like taking a condensed version of college and sitting in class, all at the comfort of home. And then some!

Each leader found the inner strength to get out in the world to learn new skills about business and their products, and found mentors along the way. 

With my affiliate program, I have all these in one place. My affiliate leaders, my new leader role models (my up-to-date list), are online too. As a single mom who decided that time is the top priority, this checks off the box.

Like most of the people in my list, they branched out to other interests of business. Having multiple businesses is possible with the affiliate program I’m offering. Guided training is all-inclusive, with a vast area of fields of study for everyone, and the best part, I was able to have access to all the training upfront and ready when I had time.

As a leader, I couldn’t ask for more. Isn’t it time that you stepped into your role as a leader? Understanding who your business leader role models are can help define you as a leader in your career.

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Characteristics of A Parent Entrepreneur

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Do we dream of growing up to be parents and business owners at the same time? It’s rare. Not many people picture themselves running a family-owned business or just having a business and a family. But what if that path was your destiny to live? I’ve created a version of myself as a parent entrepreneur and listed out basic characteristics and possible traits other parents like myself, would have.

As always, I’ll never leave you hanging without going into detail of each characteristic in future posts, because it’s important to search for like-minded people who have an intertwined ball of interests too.

Its time to get moving with life the way you wanted in the first place. Having children along for the experience only makes for happier memories to be created.

I’ve looked at my past growing up, early adulthood, to now – building my (online)businesses- and put together a list of thoughts for becoming an entrepreneur parent, how being an entrepreneur can have positive influences when having children, and how our entrepreneur lifestyles can and will shape our children’s futures. I needed a mold to start and here’s what I came up with.

Not everyone’s path to being an entrepreneur parent will look the same, but some basic principles may be easy to spot.

Parent Entrepreneur characteristics:

  • Growing up with ideas for a new product or business venture.
  • Life took a different turn-still, not a business owner or entrepreneur, but often think about it, write’s notes, and stores them for “if there’s ever a day.”
  • Creating a financial nest for kids.
  • I wanted to be an entrepreneur- a new “job” as a parent.
  • Other sources of income.
  • Give work to a busy person.
  • A lifestyle that grows with a family.
  • Time freedom.
  • Homeschooling by an entrepreneur parent.
  • Enjoying products or services with children.
  • The service we give our children.
  • More ideas from kid products.
  • Homeschooling by an entrepreneur parent.
  • Building a family of ‘preneurers’.

What are some common phrases you’ll hear from parents these days?

  • I wish I could be a stay at home mom/dad.
  • I’m a stay-at-home mom/dad, but I wish my spouse had the same time freedom to be home with us…they’re always missing out.
  • We both have to work…
  • I don’t like daycare but…
  • I don’t have time to be with my kids for all their school activities.
  • My son/daughter is having issues at school and I can’t give them my full attention.
  • I wish my child was in a better school.
  • I don’t have time to make good home-cooked meals.
  • I just wish I could find work I can do from home and make my own hours!

Oh boy, that list of unfulfilled wishes can get to be a mile long-or two- if given the chance. Parents don’t want to feel they always have to sacrifice one area in their lives for another, just so you and your children can HAVE.

Family life doesn’t have to be this way and many parents are putting their foot down, and it’s not over who started the fight or isn’t sharing the fruit snacks. Parents, like myself, are finally buckling down and getting serious about making sure their family is happy, financially stable, and compromising time is no longer an issue.

With business, there’s always a sacrifice of time, but when you build your business online, hours are manageable. Read for yourself how others are gaining speed with their businesses here.

Do you see yourself in the list above? Think back to your dreams and how you can merge the world of business and family. There’s no one stopping you as an adult from having your dreams come true.

My Entrepreneur Lifestyle Vision

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As many people who’ve become successful entrepreneurs, they may get asked where it all started. Some may look back to their childhoods or from a point in life that triggered something within their spirit to venture out, become an entrepreneur and own boss. Some people, rather a few of my hero entrepreneurs, had early signs and start of their journeys from childhood.

I would like to think my journey started in childhood as well, but being an honest Texan, that’s only half right. Being the middle child, I was more an introvert in social settings and an extrovert around family. My entrepreneur practice was mostly done behind closed doors for many years and only making profits for school fundraisers. 

The World Is My Table


Until the time came to decide my college career course of action, I finally allowed my mind to shift and wander through all the possibilities of business that awaited. Food was certainly my career choice, and I envisioned all the areas I could venture into being an entrepreneur. I saw myself with the big hitters of the hotel and restaurant industry and made a plan from there. 

Not forgetting that small corner of introvert-ness, I wanted to start small to find my footing. 

The life I envisioned was to have many locations and markets within the culinary realms. I wanted to make a difference and have my imprint of ideas and tastes available to everyone that I could. 

There were no restrictions has to what I could do in the restaurant industry when I became the boss of my empire.

Along with several restaurant chains, I saw the freedom to travel and live without work and money restrictions. The future was bright. I could treat my family when we all needed time away from work. By being the boss, it meant creating financial and time freedom for all types of vacation. The pool of abundance was great and I saw the flow of creating as an easy task.  

Young Entrepreneurs Without Fins To Swim

Being a Capricorn and having a leader-type personality, work would always be a constant investment of time, as we like to stay busy, but I wanted to move forward with purpose and progress for society as well. 

As they say, when you find the time and financial freedom, you can work from anywhere(if you choose). For a culinarian entrepreneur, work and time freedom are simple moments for adventure, together! Places around the beach or in the mountains, entrepreneurs can nest anywhere around the globe. 

This lifestyle vision became my fule source to move through college and move towards being a new entrepreneur.  

Through work and college, I saw my culinary instructors and mentors moving from place to place, but never seeing happiness and satisfaction for all the hard years of training and working. What was missing? They had exciting lifestyles, that I wanted, on the outside but still, I continued to learn and observe the industry.  

Skills and training and no financial freedom

Each mentor I knew personally back then, only had half the recipe to live an abundant, entrepreneur lifestyle I wanted. Where were the financial rewards for all the hard work, training and coaching they’ve been through? 

During culinary school, I was constantly bombarded with the inspiration for business after business. To this day, they continue to flow. 

It wasn’t until I married and became a mother that things only got worse, in the sense my entrepreneur goals were put on hold. 


After divorce, all I had left to fall back on was the plans to be something big. I had to rewrite my outline for life and start again.

Finding My True Entrepreneur Mentors

When it came time to decide if I was going to work hard to make it as an employee while learning – and hoping to become an entrepreneur was going to happen right away – I was presented with an opportunity to learn about affiliate marketing.

Did I want to be a struggling single mom with a wish? No way! This was never my dream. (Not that struggling is ever anyone’s dream life.) I wanted to be a SUCCESSFUL single mom!

Slowly, I started to embrace the world of mobile connections and social outlets. A new me was emerging from taking the wrong road in life, and I found myself with a grand business just waiting on me.

I finally found the entrepreneurs who had all the pieces together, the career path, the time freedom, and even financial freedom! And they were showing me how I could incorporate it all.

I watched and read books about the amount of effort -time, training, schooling, work – was needed to become an entrepreneur. I had always been ready to put in the work. Only this time, years had passed and they were on to bigger things as technology grew and advanced.

Push the breaks! Build an empire with a laptop? I couldn’t believe my eyes. Was this now the world we were living in? I think I was still stuck in the kitchen with my chef knife. I always pictured business to mean loans, building or renovating buildings, and hiring staff.

After doing a quick search about affiliate marketing, and saw all the steps and learning process in that alone, I said no thank you.

Almost a year went by and I’m still asking the universe for a sign as to how to become this great entrepreneur of my time. And the funniest thing happened! The universe came in with not such a direct approach to affiliate marketing this time. I was lead to a spiritual mentor whom, you guessed it, was into affiliate marketing.

I sighed so heavy and said, “Okay, I’ll at least look into it.” Within moments I was on the path to starting my training on becoming an affiliate myself.

“If this is how you want me to start my new life, let’s start today universe.” And immediately after that acknowledgment, I began to feel whole once again. It had been years since I’ve felt free to manifest something good and right for my future. My little light within grew and flickered, and if it wasn’t contained within my soul, I could’ve started a fire.

Maybe not as dramatic as that thought above, but close enough. I knew my soul found its true calling.

What’s this mentor entrepreneur online program?

For all like-minded entrepreneurs without a clear path or no one to take you by the hand to show you how to create your business, all the training is sourced in one place. The web is full of programs that are not well structured. This affiliate training allows you to start out building the life you want and not by someone else’s terms.

Mentoring comes in from others who’ve used the program and became successful. Some didn’t even start this wanting to be an entrepreneur!!! (I couldn’t imagine this till I saw it for myself.)

All training is done at home with an internet connection. And, this is where I do most of my great brainstorming for business anyway.

Since I started with my affiliate training, I’ve opened up two websites.

“Yikes! Cassie was able to figure out technology enough for an online business??! “

Absolutely! I’ve managed to learn to build websites because the process is straight forward. And both websites are for creating and launching my businesses and building the financial freedom I’ve longed to have.

Access A New Lifestyle Here

What does it take to become an entrepreneur? What can launch your lifestyle the fastest? Try out an online digital business with an easy platform today.

Defining Myself As A Parent Entrepreneur

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Parents wear so many hats, wouldn’t you agree with me? And not to mention all the ‘job titles’ we have that can’t be filled as a ‘real’ paying job. In my earlier post An Entrepreneur Within you’ve read about what my own list of characteristics for an entrepreneur is, and today I’d like to discuss my list of a: parent entrepreneur.

This is a little more detailed than before of phrase descriptions of parent entrepreneurs. Perhaps because I’m a detail person or the parent in me is coming forward, that feels there should be a longer explanation per thought. Ready for the list? Here we go:

Characteristics of parent entrepreneurs:

  1. Memories of childhood ideas of products or services
  2. Creating a financial nest for your children
  3. Openly or secretly wanting to be an entrepreneur
  4. Create other sources of income
  5. Give work to the busy person – you are this busy person
  6. Wanting a lifestyle that grows with a family
  7. Time freedom
  8. Enjoying products or services with your children
  9. The service we give our children
  10. More ideas from kid products
  11. Homeschooling by an entrepreneur parent
  12. Building a family of ‘preneurers.

Now don’t lose your mind when reading this list. Trust me, there will be explanations to follow in future posts about each numbered item.

But what becomes of a person who has the life theme of entrepreneur and then becomes a parent? What I can tell you is that we simply don’t stop being an entrepreneur at heart.

Even when parenthood seems to consume your thoughts and time, other thoughts of business still flow parallel. And the business platform is what we need to focus on to fulfill our list and life’s purpose.

For me when I became a mother, my career goals were put on hold. However, my parenthood experience was, and is, so much different than the average mom or dad reading my post. Far more complicated than you can only imagine, and a road that’s taken me eight years to get back to being the entrepreneur I was destined to be. You simply have an easier task of becoming a full time parent entrepreneur at this moment.

I want to help you stay off the brakes and go for the chance to be the entrepreneur you too, were destined to become.

Until next time,

Cassie

An Entrepreneur Within

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If someone were to ask you to define yourself, how would you answer them?

If I asked myself this question, pretty sure I’d stumble around a bit thinking about what to say. Let’s ask this question in a way that defines my work: What characteristics would classify you being an entrepreneur? I formed a list, because I’m a list-maker kind of person, to answer this question.

The break down of characteristics, were formed in a bubble diagram and numbered in order to what I felt made up an entrepreneur’s persona. Perhaps this is even how a person develops into their life’s theme of entrepreneur, based of my list of characteristics.

However, I feel that entrepreneurs are born, but I’m not completely biased that one could be made into an entrepreneur. This possible theory is rather off topic and will be discussed at another time, but knowing we shall meet for another interesting post soon.  

I listed, basically, what kind of person would be worthy enough to call themselves an entrepreneur. The following is my list of what traits I hold as an entrepreneur. Later, I will go into each topic in depth as time goes on.

  1. Inventors
  2. Self-belief
  3. Hard worker
  4. Givers
  5. Passion
  6. Adaptable
  7. Motivated
  8. Organised
  9. Dedicated
  10. Product knowledge
  11. Risk taker
  12. Disciplined
  13. Connections
  14. Hard work – Not a typo for ‘hard worker’.
  15. Market knowledge
  16. Effective planning
  17. Service oriented
  18. Purpose

Reading over this list, you may or may not be able to connect to all of the traits. Or you may simply just feel very tired, trying to think how you’d manage fulfilling these tasks, and sensing this is a very busy person. If you know someone like this, a busy person, they could very well be an entrepreneur. Perhaps you check off each of the characteristics just like I do.

When choosing a career path, it’s important to have a plan and do the best you can to see the end result. This is will help you along the way and assist with focusing your time to reach your dream. As an entrepreneur, planning and time management is key always.

By taking a look at the list above, you have to determine how serious you are about becoming an entrepreneur and whether or not it is the right fit for you and any lifestyle improvements that you want.

Entrepreneurs evolve as often and as fast as the market, so having the will to move forward takes solid commitment.

To see that all these traits can come from one person alone, I knew that I found my open door when I discovered online marketing. Doors are always open and reopening through digital businesses. To define yourself today as an entrepreneur has never been so easy, and I’m taking full advantage of my life’s purpose.

If you check off all or most of the characteristics from my list, send me a message and let’s talk about your own purpose for a new lifestyle. If you’re missing some traits but know you can easily learn about them and move forward as an entrepreneur, then we can work together to find your inner entrepreneur strengths.

We cannot be scared of unknowns, the what-ifs, the lack of knowledge of using the digital economy to create a job that will lead to a new lifestyle, or even when we are not polished in every trait of a busy business person.

Life is about learning, doing, then teaching, and helping the planet move forward in unconditional love and understanding way. I know I’m needed, are you ready to be needed as well?

Until next time,

Have a wonderful day,

~Cassie

Bucket Lists For A Purpose

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New years fireworks

Who’s still talking about 2018 these days?


Hi, and welcome back to my site.

I’ll tell you my reasons for still continuing to talk about 2018 and the greatest new milestone I’ve reached to date.

It’s perfectly alright to reflect back on past years. But are you so busy in life, you can’t even recall everything that happened in the past year? Some days it’s hard to think back on what took place in 2018, because I’m busy with day to day activities in this new year. The only time to think about the past, is in the moment on those days.

When we think back, we view past memories whether they are happy moments or sad times. I would say my 2018 consisted of more happy memories than sad ones. Not to mention all the life milestones that happened for me alone.

As I’ve mentioned before I love lists.

Well, 2018 was no different and the new year was not about to escape from my pen and paper of becoming a new list.

I actually started my 2018 list the month before the new year. Turns out that my list became several sheets long. Front and back I’ll admit with much enthusiasm, too. However, this list was going to be different.

The list I created was something new I had never done before. For two main reasons mostly. One because I was entering into a new decade of age and second because it was a challenge list.  

I classify this list as a challenge because it was the first bucket list I’d ever thought to create. I’ve read a few samples over what the big deal was with having and creating a bucket list.

After some quick glances at so many forms and styles of bucket lists, I was rather bored with what I saw. Simply because my intention was completely different for creating one.

Vision boards, now those I enjoy very much putting together. So maybe I wasn’t as bored as I thought when I saw how passionately decorative people had created their buckets list. There is some masscreative boards out there.

Moving forward from talking arts and crafts in this post, I want to get back on topic with why I created a bucket list at this time.

Looking back, even at the pain

After many years of focus being an amazing mother and caring for my son twenty-four seven while dealing with our custody case, I decided to take a long look at myself. In the sense of my health and happiness.

I can easily say without a doubt, I was still glowing even after carrying my son for almost ten months, and as equally happy every day I spent with him after birth.

But who was seeing to my happiness and needs as a friend or partner?

I had many roles to play now being a single mom, that all my time and energy was just simply being ‘mom Cassie’ that I wasn’t focused on ‘free-and-independent-Cassie’.

Many parents who’ve gone through the process of divorce and custody, know to well the stresses and time taken away from yourself, to invest in everyone else. When is there time for you?

We do our best to avoid the ‘rat race’ of family court and attorneys juggling our cases, looking at making a decent living off of our broken hearts and one sided tales of who’s the favorite.

After a few years of not seeing much positive progress with family court for any type of defense, I had finally had enough. I told myself I allowing the race to continue by going right back, time and time again, when I could see the courts and attorneys making no effort to seek justice with me. So how was I to stop it all?

Your partner is the devil, and mine is a million Angels of God


When I found the strength to stop the madness, it was like new perspective hit again.

I took a moment to think about more than just how my son was being affected by the system.

How could I have not thought about my needs and happiness through all this? After all, my life was forever being changed too.

I had not had a moment to even digest the divorce fully, let alone be bombarded with court abuse too. It was time to heal and I needed to find myself again.

I spent a few years facing those moments of replaying past memories, past choices, and focused on what I wanted different moving forward.

It had been awhile since I’ve had time to sit alone and write. Most days my writing tools were with paint and crayons on colored paper with my son.

Let’s make use of the paper and create a list

The bucket list of 2018 was made in December before the new year. Remember, this list was for turning a new age and moving forward in life the way I wanted, now that I no longer had to seek approval for my dreams from a spouse.

How was I go to make myself happy and what was it I wanted to accomplish now as a divorce person?

Surely my life isn’t over and I certainly have the option to remarry. But it was as if I had another chance to start life again before that option comes again.

What was I considering starting over again? I had attained a bachelor’s degree prior to getting married, but I had not started on my career. It was a new state, new relatiosnhip, so starting out was completely fresh at the time. The hopes were to continue on the path of starting a career while married, but clearly the destructive marriage had other plans for my passions with culinary.

Knowing that I wanted career opportunities to be on my bucket list, not all the items had to be so serious and focused on work. These ideas and questions, certainly helped to form my list.

Setting aside time to write the 2018 list, I was feeling pretty good inside. Thoughts were once again being put to paper.

The following year was going to be centered around my happiness for once. As we often hear, ‘only you can make yourself happy’ is certainly true. People fail at making us happy, no matter what area of life you’re directing it toward. It’s just the human emotion driving some individuals and our perspective of wanted behavior received.

Taking happiness into my own hands again, I tried to focus on creating similar bucket list as the ones I searched for. Ones that had fun and exciting adventures on them.

Let me tell you, this list was pretty hard for a serious person such as myself to create. But eventually, I got the swing of things and realized I had turned the page to write the next to-do item down.

Oh dear…

Reading over my list so far, I immediately got overwhelmed trying to think of how I’d accomplish what I had so far. I took a moment to think…

I’m heading into a new decade, so why not stretch it over the next ten years?

And then the plan was set. I continued writing out my list, page after page.

Let the planning begin

When 2018 came, I made a post about my New Year’s resolution of taking charge of my happiness and nothing and no one, were going to stop that from happening.

Unlike most people who make a couple resolution’s, in fear of not accomplishing them for one reason or another, I continued to make posts that I was on track. Many of us tend to forget the resolution or not even try.

I have some unbelievable will power, and made good use of it when it came time for my yearly new years resolution.

I kept myself in check with creating my own happiness and even started to see that the universe had my back as well.

It was simply the laws of attraction working right before my eyes. Slowly but surely, items were being crossed of my bucket list and all of a sudden, I had an ‘aha!’ moment.

I forgot to mention that not only was 2018 about my happiness and a bucket list for a new age, but that most items on the list, I wanted to experience the same number as my age for the next decade. Another reason why I decided to stretch out the list for the entire decade.

I thought it would be a challenge to complete my list, but this little ole list is clearly no challenge for the universe to help me out and see it manifest.

Happiness is what I needed for both my soul and spirit, and as a human making it through life’s challenging moments.

The early months of marriage, happiness was slowly being sucked out me into a dark hole disguised as my spouse. Even adventure was being taken away from me. I wanted all that was taken, given back.

2018’s, new-age bucket list has brought back even more of my original spark from within than the years leading up.

It may take some time to get back what was lost, as it has for me, but don’t ever let that dark hole stop you from moving forward.   

As for my four page list, some items are not achievable without a hefty income. Here again, the human mind fears and questions of how we’ll reach these goals. But I’ve already told the universe what I want to do moving forward, by writing my bucket list, that it will see to it that all is accomplished.

Some of the smaller items on the list are easily being checked off one by one. It was just becoming fall when I had stumbled across affiliate marketing; again.

Have you ever had moments where you ask a question about how you’re going to move forward and an answer appears, but you ignore it? Well that happened to me.

It was several months later that affiliate marketing came back around as if to say: HERE I AM! I’M THE ANSWER YOU’VE BEEN SEEKING!

This time I listened to the nudge and jumped in. And was I taken for the surprise of a lifetime. Here was the answer and even then, more answers came once I decide to join to learn about affiliate marketing.

No doubt, I was hesistant about starting an online business because it was something I’d have to learn from the bottom up. But oddly enough, the excitement started to grow within me. I could just feel that this was the moment that was going to really change everything for me.

Expanding your abundance

Since we are currently in 2019, this year’s focus is on more financial abundance. I have the skills to power the will of inner happiness, so achieving this year’s resolution has a clear foundation to help create that goal, allowing me to be more focused and will be easier to achieve them.

One by one, the list is being marked off through the months. It’s only made me even more excited to see what the rest of 2019 will bring that couldn’t be fulfilled in 2018.

I can see some bucket list items coming closer and closer as I work on doing my part to manifest them into my reality with affiliate marketing.

I need to stay focused, see the path, and avoid the road blocks.

Don’t be afraid to make a list. As a matter of fact, unleash your creative mind and start a 2019 bucket list. Three months in is not too late.

Have fun and see your potential.

Until next time…

Chapter 2: Doors Are For Knocking On

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Perspective really matters

Looking at the world from a different object.
Perspective really matters

It’s amazing how with every new experience we go through in life, a new door of perspective opens up to us. I started to wholeheartedly open up to the new me and focus on my new life as a single mother.

As a parent, we ask ourselves so many questions about our parenting styles, our support we show and give to our children, the care and advice we give…but it seems like in our individual busy worlds, how often do we make corrections to our unique styles to build and shape our children into young, well educated and mannered people, who will become productive and happy citizens of our world?

I realized this was a big question for me to try to focus my attention and energy on, as I take my role as a mom very seriously. Our children are given one biological parent of each to be created, and I feel it’s our job, for both soul and spirit, to fulfill our roles:

to learn, do, and teach in such a way that progress is made.

For myself, I constantly have these thoughts at the forefront of my mind when I wake up, ready to start my day of being a mom.

It’s a less spoken phrase these days, “It takes a village to raise a child…,” but thinking of this phrase, for me, is both sad and happy. Sad to know that the village of family courts were anything but a village, and happy because I know my family saw to it that my son flourished regardless of any court outcome.

Being a like-minded planner has its downfalls too

brainstorming my ideas


For me, I was happy that we no longer had to live a scared and stressful life. But happiness doesn’t provide financial security without your side of committed work put in place.

Over the years, I had not been satisfied with jobs that were filling my need to be an entrepreneur. I constantly had nudges within my mind and heart to open up and branch out.

What did “open up and branch out” mean?

Basically, I was not in my life’s purpose. And if I put this together with the issue of correcting some of my parenting styles -such as figuring out how to work from home full time- then I knew I was not in the right job to accomplish being the ultimate parent for my son and the entrepreneur I longed to become.

When I asked where I needed to be for my career, I was overwhelmed with spiritual insights of what I should do. But as an entrepreneur, I wanted to run with every idea that came to me.

Talk about being at a fork in the road with making a decision! As it turned out, I didn’t want to make a decision and I certainly didn’t want to give up one idea for another.

I began to write everything down to try and form a business plan. Going back to my original mindset of having a building, I thought about piling all my ideas into one place.

The task of putting it together was getting too big to even brainstorm on my big dry erase board. When I’d turn my focus off from these ideas, something around me, or a dream at night, would pull me back to begin working on my dream future.

That is when I asked, out loud,

“What am I supposed to do with my talents and interests?

How can I create everything I want and not sacrifice each one?”

Though I could clearly see how each one so cleverly tied into the next, I waited patiently for my answer that would pull it all together.

I remember the day clearly, well maybe not the weather that day, but certainly the moment. Shockingly, I came across a system for potentially having an online business. After reading through the site, I knew I had to take a chance and move forward with learning more.

It was a big step, as I rarely rely on the internet – technology – for business solutions. I knew that I needed a change, and also recall that I asked for an answer to be given to me. Almost certain that this was not going to go away, I took that leap of faith.

Amazingly enough, I realize now, Spirit was literally telling me to have it all!

After all, what was it that I wanted? I wanted my chosen career path back that I loved being a part of, and I wanted to be able to be a financially independent single mother for my son. Whether married or single, don’t all parents want this for their families?

There was no better time than that moment to get things moving. After all, it was a learning experience to train me to embrace more technology than just a mobile phone.

At times, I didn’t feel ready to take the leap: that I still needed more education, or what if some other idea came to me? Education never stops and it certainly doesn’t stop the world from moving forward.

Bosses or the boss…time to decide

You be the leader from now on

My main goals for choosing an online business, centered around a few goals:

1) Having no lapse in transition for being a mom,

2) Married or not, having a job that won’t take me from family time, and

3) Being my own boss. As an entrepreneur, all these things needed to be checked off my “having a job” list.

Not only did I want a better life beyond separate households for my son, I wanted to calm my fears for what my future held. Looking back on the early years of motherhood and arrangements for custody, I had little time to look forward.

I had no time to allow in fearful thoughts of where I wanted my future to go. Not to mention, I’d never experienced fear on any level when it came to work on my career.

We all know we have to take just one step to move on if we want to see positive changes with our jobs. Like I mentioned before, trying to suppress the inner desire for a spiritual change in my career, never worked. The only thing that did happen was that I held onto the countless “what ifs.”

Before, I was always excited for the next step, the next project, the next life milestone to happen in my life. Those milestones, and the steps to get to them are what makes our lives an exciting roller coaster ride–the ride called life.

I embraced everything to the fullest. So what was debilitating about this business idea?

For starters, I needed to start taking the World Wide Web more seriously. I focused my energy on the positives of new reaches for business and with this step, I began to get myself back.

I saw the life I was trying to build with the old structure and it was the same life I was going to achieve by having an internet business now, but with much faster results and much large reach.

The realization is that nothing really changed about the end result. There was no change in the fact I still wanted my own brand and business. No change in achieving the financial freedom I’m going to create by being online, and certainly no change in my other job title as being mom full-time.

We create so many mental blocks when it comes to trying something new and seeking something new for a change, even when it’s for ourselves. It’s no different than deciding what we want for lunch and moving forward with that choice.

The other option is always going to be there, it’s just that you’ve made up your mind to do the feel-good option instead. We need to ask ourselves, “When am I going to choose the feel-good option for my job?”

Where will the positive choice come in to play to change your circumstances for a better life to happen?

I’ve stopped the what ifs and started to embrace them with solutions and motivational action to see my brand manifest.

From the moment of my son’s birth, I became a role model, a hero, and, more importantly, a success story of rising beyond my past circumstances.

As a parent, we need to be the first leader our children see and look to. My way of ensuring I keep these titles and being the only one he calls Mom, is to fulfill my life theme as an entrepreneur.

Will you take the step and live out your life’s purpose now? I hope you do, as this path is a beautiful one. Embrace it with me.

Thank you for being here…I’m Cassie Secor.

Until next time…

Chapter 1: Let’s Begin

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my story

A millennial with a different set of tools

Breakfast spread

For me, I don’t think of technology as a go-to solution for hardly anything that I do in life. Working hands-on with tangible products and maybe a little manual labor every now and then, suggests to me a definition of work and progress.

Early on in life, I set my focus on the culinary field. Keeping in mind one of my life themes is to be an entrepreneur, my visions didn’t include an online empire to grow my interests.

My dreams, in fact, my plans were brainstormed through the brick-and-mortar structure. I took classes on building my dream businesses from the ground up.

My building tools consisted of a chef knife and apron, not an internet connection from home.

The culinary industry is known for being service based. I had always envisioned my future establishments being person-to-person interactions for such a service. The thought of acquiring a service online was not the way I saw my career being built.

It’s always been so important to me to see with my own eyes that my customers were satisfied, whether or not that meant being the owner of my own company or indirectly through an establishment, for which I was simply the employee.

My passion was driven by my desire to create, plan, and bring to life ideas.

Every experience of the work I put forth always provided me with much joy and accomplishment. The full satisfaction was complete when customers would approach me before leaving to provide me with an immediate review of their experience.

The thrills of all the hard work and effort were how businesses grew. Like so many before me, we had believed, this was the only system that works for growing a business.

With how things are quickly changing in business, I was soon to get a lesson showing that there is more than one way to grow a business.

Breaking the chains to complete the cycle

Dissolving a failed marriage

One of the fastest tools out there for starting an internet marketing business was going to be my breakthrough answer for finally becoming an entrepreneur. Over the years of starting to enjoy my service-driven career path, I married and the birth of my son followed.

To my delight, we share the same birthday month. But talk about getting creative for cake ideas!

I had become a stay-at-home-mom for the time being, but there was little chance my dreams of still being a part of the culinary world coming to fruition. Being in complete awe of my beautiful son, how could I choose to go back to afternoon and evening shifts – like most chefs work – devoted to culinary creations and customer service? There had to be a way for me to create income from home and still be my son’s only trusted, provider.

I was fortunate enough to have, at the time, a spouse bringing in an income to support me being a full-time stay-at-home parent, and without a doubt, my son received a hundred percent of my attention and a wonderful start on the world of my delicious homemade food.

Little did I foresee, being a stay-at-home-mom had its repercussions.

After unsuccessful attempts to save a marriage on a path to nowhere, I settled back home with my son in Texas. After about two years of family court hearings to settle a bitter and unjust divorce in favor of my abuser, came another couple of years of more injustice for my son and myself.

The devastating conclusion of my custody case became something I had to fight with complete focus, not leaving much time for anything else.

During these years of losses and gains for both sides, I picked up small jobs here and there. I even took a class to help further my culinary education, should I return to the culinary field.

But no place really sat right within my passionate soul.

The years of abuse and the grueling custody battle began to affect my health and reflected in my appearance, and that down-home sweetheart I once used to be was forever changed.

Initially, I was devastated by the ending of my marriage, but I ultimately came to realize that the end of an abusive relationship was a blessing, and despite the awful experience, I received the greatest gift of all, my beautiful son.

Time and reflection heal, always

Time and reflection heal, always

When things were at their worst with my case, I had a moment where time stopped and I had a heart to heart with God. I asked for forgiveness for not putting faith first in a better outcome for the case and relying solely on man to rule.

After this turning point, an enormous transformation began to take hold within me.

I had grown up Catholic, but after seeing a new perspective on the ugly side of failed marriages and the legal system, religion no longer was good enough to pull me through.

I was shifting to a place of spirituality for the betterment of my soul, spirit, and as a human being who belongs on this Earth.

To be continued…