Happy almost Fourth of July! This week I’m digging into something that’s been on my mind as we head into America’s 250th birthday: resourcefulness, and why so many of the things we assume are out of reach actually aren’t.
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In this episode, I talk about:
Why building a business is a lot like the frontier mentality this country was founded on: no map, no guidance, just moving forward and adjusting as you go
How I used university internship programs in my early business years to get real help without blowing my budget, and how that was a win for everyone involved
The photographer friends who shot my work for a fraction of their rate because they wanted to build their portfolio and see me win
A story from LinkedIn about a beauty founder who couldn’t afford a $25,000 photographer and got resourceful enough to find comparable work for an eighth of the price
The throughline: don’t talk yourself out of all the ways you can get help. Whether it’s asking, trading skills, hiring a VA, using Upwork, or reaching out to universities like I did, the help you need is almost always more findable and more affordable than you think.
Resource of the week: The Resourcefulness Audit
Before you decide something is too expensive or out of reach, try this. Grab the worksheet and list one task you’ve been avoiding, three places you haven’t checked yet, and one person you could ask this week.
Grab the worksheet here: Resourcefulness Audit and click File > Make a Copy to save your own editable version.
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xo, Natasha
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