You might not want to make a million dollars. And that's fine. Don't feel like a loser if you do, if you have no desire to do it. But this is just to talk to those people who are just like, I am going to be a millionaire. How quickly can you make that? I don't know. Does that mean it's easy? No. It's like, how quickly are you willing to go through those rights of passage? The emotional roller coaster of entrepreneurship is intense but on the other side of it is freedom, financial independence and impact.
People ask me all the time, “Denise, how long does it really take to make a million dollars?”
For me, the magic number was five years.
Five years from starting my business to pushing over the threshold of $1 million in annual revenue.
But that’s not the whole story.
Because truthfully, I was waiting in the wings for years before starting my business. Listening and learning – gathering all the information I needed to be successful.
I didn’t wake up one day and think, “I’m going to make a million dollars!” and then five years to the day later had a huge check in my hands.
But maybe that could be your journey.
Today on the Chill and Prosper podcast, I share the struggles I faced when scaling my business, from my first try at nine years old to everything I have today.