Welcome to the lavender lifestyle, the podcast on personal growth and lifestyle design.

My name's Eileen and I'm here to guide you to become a master artist of life.

Every Sunday you'll get new insight and inspiration on how to create your dream life.

After the episode, the conversation continues in our lavendare lifestyle Facebook group.

I can't wait to see you there. Life is an art. Make it your masterpiece.

Hey everyone welcome back to the lav and dare lifestyle it's Eileen

today's episode is perfect for those who are interested in the digital media

starting a business staying motivated and growing your following.

So with us today is Erica Ashley.

Erica is a leading millennial business and media

strategists and member of the Forbes Coaches Council,

featured in Forbes, nylon, Mind Body Green, Health magazine, Entrepreneur Before 25

and more. She helps her clients build freedom-based online businesses that

impact the lives of thousands of millennials and get featured in major media outlets.

Hello, Erica, thank you so much for coming on the show.

Hi, thank you so much for having me.

I'm so excited to be here.

Yeah, same.

So tell me, how did you get your start in the digital world? It seems like you got your start pretty young. I did. So I was in the ninth or tenth grade. I was about 15 years old and my space was a new thing at the time it was pretty much the only social network that existed and I knew how to code because my dad worked in IT and he did a lot of coding stuff so he taught me some basic things and I got my start in entrepreneurship and really online by designing my space layouts for girls in my school.

So on Monday they'd bring me 50 bucks and then I would have lunch money for the week

and on Friday they would have a nice customized my space layout.

Wow, wait I didn't even know you can customize a my space layout. Wow.

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