222. Failure, Success, and Lessons I’ve Learned on My Entrepreneurial Journey

Jan 30, 2024

The podcast discusses the speaker's entrepreneurial journey, including their experience with selling handmade and wholesale products, creating Farmhouse on Boone, and replacing their husband's income with their blogging business. They also reflect on the skills they learned in early motherhood, their entrepreneurial family background, and the business lessons that have helped them succeed.

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Introduction

00:00 • 4min

An Entrepreneurial Journey to a Homestead and Debt Freedom

04:21 • 4min

Growing Up in an Entrepreneurial Family

08:44 • 4min

Early Years of Marriage and Home Learning

12:55 • 7min

Lessons Learned on the Entrepreneurial Journey

19:37 • 17min

Creating a Farmhouse Atmosphere, Making a Business Pivot, and the Profitability of Blogging

36:57 • 3min

Building an Online Presence

39:52 • 15min

Wrapping up and Resources for Starting a Blog

54:44 • 2min

In this episode, I am sitting down to respond to a listener’s question about my entrepreneurial journey. If you are familiar with my blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boone, you may not know that it took me years of trying various business ideas before I was successful in my blogging business. Today, I am taking you through that journey with me. Whether you are toying with the idea of starting a business or ready to pivot your existing business, may this episode inspire you to try new things and learn as much as you can along the way!

In this episode, we cover:

How my entrepreneurial journey led us to the life we have now
Recognizing the entrepreneurial spirit throughout my family members
The skills I learned in my early years of motherhood that laid a foundation for my future endeavors
My venture into selling handmade and wholesale products and the lessons I learned
How I created Farmhouse on Boone and started to see growth
How we were able to replace my husband’s income with our blogging business
The business lessons I’ve learned that have helped us get to where we are now

View full show notes on the blog + watch this episode on YouTube.

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