so welcome welcome welcome it's exciting to be here and thank you all for coming out at this odd

hour when amanda asked me if i could come i was like i can get there at 815 because my class

ended at 745 so thank you all for being accommodating at this hour.

What I want to share with you a little bit about is, since this is a women in business group, is my journey to entrepreneurship, which is very interesting because I was just thinking in college, was there even a women in business program? I had never heard of that. I was a psychology major, and I have no

business training, actually. And so it's interesting to be here with women who are excited

about exploring entrepreneurship or being in business. So I'll tell you a little bit about my journey and then also talk a little bit about

how being in business and opening a business is very similar to a yoga class.

How many of you in here have taken yoga before?

Oh, great.

So most of you.

How many of you would say your regular practitioners? Like you

practice once a week or so? A couple. Yeah. Most of you have just dabbled, right? Okay, great.

So my journey began in 1999, so I can't believe it's been eight years now. And I was living at 16th in You and I was reading the book The Artist's Way.

Are you all familiar with that book by Julia Cameron?

It's a really, really good book.

It's basically a 12-step program to unleashing your creativity.

And I was working as a paralegal at that time, trademark paralegal, somewhat creative, but not

feeling overly creative in my work, and contemplating how much longer I had to wait until retirement.

And when you're in your early to mid-20s thinking that way, it's like a death sentence.

It really feels that way.

So I felt that the book, The Artist's Way, was quite empowering because it talks

about finding, realizing that we're all artists, we're all creative, and then finding your

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