Hello, hello, everyone. This is Tanya Dalton, owner of Inquell Press, and I'm here to give you

another episode of The Weekender, a mini episode to help you end your week on the right note.

This week on the podcast, we talked about following your breadcrumbs, so I thought I would share my story with you.

For a long time, I described myself as the accidental entrepreneur. You see, I thought I was going

to be a stay-at-home mom. I never imagined in a million years I would ever possibly run a business. That idea seemed crazy to me.

And if you listen to episode zero of this podcast, you know my story, that I made a decision one

summer evening after a fateful phone call with my husband, that I was going to dive deep

into the world of entrepreneurship. And I loved it.

But for a very long time, I felt a little bit like a fraud.

Who was I to grow a business?

This wasn't the path I was destined for.

So why did I think I knew what I was doing?

And I believed this lie, that I was an accidental entrepreneur for years, only to find that I had been missing the breadcrumbs all along.

I discovered the patterns that led me to my life today, by accident, actually.

I was chatting with a new friend and telling her my story.

I was laughing and I told her how I'd been a teacher and that one time when my husband

had flown out of the country to go to Asia for three weeks, he came home to find that in his

absence I had gotten bored and I started sewing purses. I made quite a few and I brought them

to school where my fellow teachers asked me if they could buy them. So I sewed more purses,

and I brought them to school where the moms purchased them too. And by the time he came home

from his trip, I had already booked two home parties. And so, for a while, I sewed purses and hosted

parties. And then I didn't. And then when he was gone on another trip, I spent time walking through a craft store

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