So y’all last year was a lot, a lot- a lot. I moved into a new house at the beginning of last year, my consulting business really took off, started trading more, started staying at home a lot more which yielded into cooking more, and finding new hobbies. Then after my birthday, I kind of became unmotivated and depressed. It was a mix of feeling overwhelmed, stressed and discouraged with life and work. Then I started doing music again, so I found my spark again, but still was fighting getting out of a funk mentally.. then it became close to the end of the year and here we are now.

Going back and reading over my other blogs, I sound so young omg- I started writing these when I was 25. The last blog I did- I was saying how I just turned 28 and didn’t want to be BIG BOSS BRITT all my life and wanted to transition to my more soft life. Two years… I’m even BIGGER BOSS BRITT!! LMAO! The way GOD works!

But nah- all jokes aside. This year has brought me into my soft life, but has also really tested me business wise. We can probably talk about more of my soft life dealing with cooking, self-care practices, meditation, yoga, gardening and all that in another blog and m… 😅 BUT this blog- I want to really touch on this past year business wise. Yall I really fell into a depressed state and I don’t think I’ve ever been depressed before. So yeah, I wanted this blog to be very open, transparent and just real.

So as I said earlier, my consulting business really took off. Essentially, the business is centered around helping individuals become financially free. What that looks like is understanding there are certain laws that were passed by Congress before we were born that basically explains how we are all consumers. Because we are all consumers, there are certain CONSUMER laws that are in place to protect us against banks, debt and creditors. We can dive into this a different day, but if this did spark your curiosity watch The Hidden Secrets of Money. 

So nevertheless, my company started producing high performing results with people’s personal credit, business credit and allowing them to obtain whatever their heart desired from it. This includes cars, mortgages, 700k in funding (the most I’ve gotten one person), and the list goes on and on. Cool. Mind you- I really just fell into this space. So in falling into this business- I didn’t understand the importance of building out an effective and efficient system. At the time, we were probably 150-200 clients (ALL WORD OF MOUTH- 95% of my clients, even to this day, are referrals) with no system in place for real. WTF! So of course- now my workload is chaotic, on top of different energy transfers dealing with people venting to me about filing bankruptcy, child support, repossessions, needing money in 24 hours and the list goes on and on. Again- I’m sooo thankful that God has allowed me to find my purpose in life which is to help others, but when you have that role in life- you also can’t forget to help yourself as well so that you can be fully charged to  continuously help and pour into others and I forgot that.

So of course this led me to be super overstimulated, stressed, and overwhelmed which eventually led to my depression. Not wanting to let people down- I tried to continuously show up, but realized I needed to create and build out a system in order for anything to work.

What I learned in business is A LOT of people say they can do things to help you, but don’t do sh*t. I paid a lot of people THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS to help me put structure and systems in my business- only for them to not deliver. I try NOT to be that person, but due to my depression at that time- found myself becoming that person too.

I also think something else that drove me to my depression was my overspending.  Because God has allowed me to continue to be blessed financially time after time and I know 100000 ways to make money- I started to abuse it. I adopted the idea that I can spend my money however, whenever  I pleased because it was going to come right back to me anyways. (bad idea) Not realizing the bad habit I was creating, it eventually begin to show up in all areas of my life. Something that really helped me grow out of this and break this habit was reading Outwitting the Devil and structuring everything I spent by setting up different bank accounts: Operating, Pay Bills, Pay Yourself, Savings and Investing. From here, I went through every single last thing I pay for and boy… sickening. I either unsubscribed to all the unnecessary things or just did away with the things I didn’t need. (I still kept some, it’s a WORK in PROGRESS lol) THIS RIGHT HERE, WHEW! It really shows you how you are showing up and the stuff that you just get for no reason fr. Even with the business ordeal- looking back, I realized my intention was good because I wanted to scale my business and was trying to find strengths to my weaknesses, but the amount of money that was spent just for me to do it all myself anyways.. yeah no. 

So anyways- fast forward to mid-Octoberish- God told me to vent to my mom one day about my depression and everything. My mom is very by the book yall. VERY! When I started working in entertainment, she didn’t see it as a job and tried to place doubt in my journey. We have healed from it now and she has expressed that she thought she was protecting me because she hadn’t dealt with the type of industry I work in, but the reality is she was placing doubt in me instead. (Love my mommy to death though because one thing she taught me is accountability)
On top of me being depressed at the time, I had 8 employees that I had hired. Because it’s so many moving parts and so many clients and I didn’t have a system…. it was a sh*t show. My employees would lie about doing the work, and all type of things to where I had to fire everyone. So yeah- it was a lot. And this is my FIRST time going through this.

So after God placed something in me to be vulnerable with my mother about everything- I eventually decided to hire her to be my Supervisor to help with the workload & re-hire my whole team. I know if anyone is gonna go as hard as me, it’s my mom (that’s who I get my work ethic from- well my dad is hustler too so it may be equal). Because I’ve already done business with Ne, I brought her in as my Operations Manager. These two ladies have really helped me build & create my whole infrastructure for my business from 0 to 100000. MAN. I be soo thankful because reality is you NEED a team. Behind closed doors, there were days this past year where I wouldn’t sleep at all WEEKS at a time & would just stay up all night- praying, crying and working on my system, praying, crying & working on my system. I can’t even count how many times I wanted to give up and just say f this sh*t. But I knew if I could just get my system in place, I would be okay.

You think putting a system together is easy, but to build out individual SOPs for each role, make diagrams, visuals, workflows, forms, contracts, tutorials… that is no joke. You basically are creating everything to where a person can just go through all your steps, documents, processes and know and learn everything from start to finish without needing you. And yall I’m not going to lie- it was a sermon one Sunday where the pastor said God’s assignment over your life exposes your insecurities. So what that means is- whatever you are insecure about, God’s assignment is going to expose that the most because that’s the area you need him the most. That’s what made me accept my assignment is to help others, and SYSTEMS IS MY BIGGEST WEAKNESS AND INSECURITY and I lacked confidence in doing it!! It would be days where I wouldn’t want to do it, and would just stray away from it because the sh*t is soooo tedious! Man- we would spend 7-8 hour DAYS just at the dang computer, building out my system.. FOR WHAT!!! LOL!!! But I knew if I kept straying away from it- it would do nothing but hurt my brand.

3-4 months later… January 1st- my new system is flowing & moving. Whew. God. Faith. We’re still tweaking things, but the STRUCTURE IS THERE!!

It’s so crazy though because this journey has allowed me to apply this lesson far behind business, but in life. We often put our trust in outside people instead of putting our trust in God and utilizing the people inside of our OWN circle. We often lean on others to save us instead of leaning towards our own inner selves. God will test you to see who you really listen to. He will test your faith, your patience, your courage & your perseverance. It’s so crazy because this entrepreneurial life has really been more spiritual than anything. It has really pushed me to not give up so easily, not quit when it seems like sh*t is about to fall apart, have faith, and has taught me the more you TRY, the more it WORKS. YOU are your OWN cheerleader! So the REAL question is if you are going through something in your life where you are being tested or where the enemy is trying the f* out of you- Are you going to hold or fold??? I’m a true testament that there is the other side, you just gotta fight through it!!

What I’ve also learned this past year is dreams followed by failure, followed by lessons learned= SUCCESS. And again, not even just in business, but in life. So yeah yall- I wanted to speak on Business101 because I swear people did tell me to put my system in place before my business became booming and I didn’t want to listen. NEVER AGAIN- ALWAYS PUTTING MY SYSTEM IN PLACE FIRST BEFORE ANYTHING!!!

But that’s my Immense Consulting Group business spill- if you made it to the end of this, though, click here. I’m feeling generous, I’ll fix the first three people’s credit who fill out the Sowing Success Intake Form for free. Once you click on the link, watch the video, and follow the steps. When you fill out the Sowing Success Form, somewhere on the form, put CAME FROM BLOG. I charge a minimum of $1,000.00 for my services, so three people is generous; we’re still in a recession, and I have 11 people I have to pay every month. 😭 So consider this as a New Year’s gift to get your life in order!

But nah- I’m definitely going to write more blogs. I missed doing this frfr. Love Y’all!

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XOXO
BRITT