It must have been around February of 2006 when I said the faithful words to my fiancee. I don't know what to do, I know that I am supposed to be making these candles but If I don't have any money how am I ever going to be able to tell people what I do and why. He looked at me and ever so calmly said "don't worry, you are one person away from making your dream come true!" I don't know if I believed him or not in that moment but it was enough to keep me going!
One day while searching the internet under titles like angle investor, and small business investor, I came across a title called Key 4 Women. HMMMM what is this all about I though. I snooped around and found that there was a representative in my area. Her name was Jean Lynch and that sounded like a good name to me so I wrote her and email asking her if she could help me. She wrote back and told me that she would love to meet me.
Next came time to write the business plan I couldn't go sit in front of a bank with out a business plan. I had just finished writing a 30 page business plan for my fiancee and I for a restaurant we wanted to open and I wasn't in the mood to write another 30 pages nor did it feel like the "right" thing to do. So I did what any one would do....... write (as we like to call it today) a Fairy Business plan. It was about 10 pages and defiantly outlined how my business ran truly and soulfully, defiantly not how a bank would ever want to see a business run.
She put on her banker hat after we had connected on so many levels and told me that I was not ready to be in front of a bank referred me to two people that she though could help. I looked at her and told her that I already met with them and they did help me as much as they could. I then asked her to just put up the application for a loan she was my last HOPE. So very reluctantly she did.
I got a call the next day telling me that I had gotten the loan. I tried to contain myself I couldn't believe it. We both KNEW that there was no way I was to get this loan BUT there was divine intervention that day and I did for I knew what I was supposed to be doing but it was going to take one person to help me get there. That was the day that I really started to listen to what I was feeling on the inside about my business. If it feels right and like I am being "lead" to do something I act on it. If it feels wrong I trust that and move on to the next thing that feels right. It is what I like to call the Soulful way to run a business it is far from traditional.
I will post that "fairy" business plan that got me the unattainable loan from the woman who is now not only my banker but one of my best friends in life and in business.
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