The Founders Journey
I have been a serial entrepreneur my entire life, Although the reality is that my "companies" are much more often simply ideas that never achieved completion. Some of my early companies in college, including making craft hemp soap, toasted flavored hemp seeds, and brewing my own absinthe, we composed of extensive product development with no official launch.
My professional career gave me a completely full plate. I worked around the clock building consensus and support to legalize hemp farming, as a federal lobbyist. The non-profit job hardly paid a living in DC, so I would moonlight as an event photographer. By 2016, job to legalize hemp was mostly done - having been already been legalized for pilot programs and now adopted by the Senate Majority Leader. My photography career continued to grow, keeping me quite busy in between direct photography, part time work in the hemp industry, and ancillary activities.
But I hit a wall. Hard. I got burned out. I lost my passions and vision along the way.
Now more than ever, I need to pick up where I left so many ideas - the drawing board. I have spent thousands and thousands of dollars on an art studio lease, and hundreds of dollars on URL domains. I have spent countless hours reading, watching, and learning, about different ways to break through and gain independence.
As I used to say, "It's Never too Late!"