Renegades of Business: Entrepreneurs

An Essay of Entrepreneurship

It's hard to beat a person who never quits. Henry Ford. 

Entrepreneurs.

These people were my inspirations. These renegades that iconoclastically chose a life that was not promised, comfortable, or corporate. These true, peaceful, and powerful leaders that carved their own paths. 

My parents. My grandfather. 

So, ironically, I am an technically an insurance agent in an effort to help my family until they are able to retire.

I have to carry my own weight.

Walk the walk.

Confidence. 

Believing in yourself.

Leaping and praying a net will appear, one side terrified, the other, unwavering and unshaken in confidence that God, the Universe, this cosmic energy that appears to respond to me will undoubtedly have my back.

I will send a surge of energy out into the atmosphere, and I hope it will be mirrored back to me.

For me, it was about realizing my real mission and purpose, and as much as the lower-middle class country girl from rural Ohio in me wanted to flip the script and be the person to bring financial security to my entire family and ethically build a stable empire to protect not only myself, but those I love the most, and then I began to recognize that my mission really is to be big and boisterous and at times, a ridiculous caricature of myself in order to motivate the populace to peace and prosperity in whatever way I can.

In that way, Walt Whitman, right back at you: I am with you, I feel you, I will justify you.

If not you, then who? If not now, then when?

The time is now and the eras of these earthly ages have always demanded those who will stand up and lead, be great and bold, and at times egotistical maniacs who are corrupted along the path.

That is what I am interested in: actually manifesting my dreams and seeing if I can openly be honest about my intentions, be a wide open book, as stupidly vulnerable as that is, and see if I can emotionally connect to many millions of people on this world and see if I too can spark a significant internal shift like many of my greatest heroes and inspirations have done for me: Thich Nhat Hanh, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Walt Whitman, Chuck Pahlahniuk, Virginia Woolf, Robin Williams, Abraham Lincoln, our Founding Fathers.

The impact of these people made me want to capitalize them into the Greats of the ages. I wanted to be Great. That was what I wanted more than anything else in the entire world.

As a little girl, with the slashing and the Halloween's spent truly afraid of these teenage girls. I was afraid of what they could do to me.

The extremes of extraordinarily sheltered Catholicism and then of sitting in that dirty house, soaking up the screaming from the television.

As a result, I am extraordinarily sensitive to violence and horror movies. I regret seeing every horror movie I have ever seen, from the bottom of my heart.

Call me a renegade grandma, but I truly hope to help shift our society from desensitizing our people from pain and suffering.

I no longer believe in resisting, though the disharmonious chords of angst and rage at injustice roll in my stomach, I am learning to truly go with the flow.

I am learning that the people with true wealth and power will probably long stay that way, and that two of my greatest heroes were very successful in creating freedom for people by boycotting things that they did not believe in.

These people were courageous and their passion was contagious. Their hearts were relatively pure (as much as any imperfect human beings could hope to be) and they were violently killed.

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